rant · moment 9 of 15
Cobra Kai's Homeless Dojo Season
from Private Prison Penthouse | The Tim Dillon Show #312 · #312
4 min
Tim describes (mockingly) a new season of Cobra Kai featuring a dojo made up of homeless people who learn martial arts to fight the kids, calling the concept tone-deaf, and riffs on martial arts as a possible solution for homelessness.
- Cobra Kai is adding a third dojo this season: all homeless people in Los Angeles.
- Tim describes the homeless dojo plot: kids fight the unhoused people, then the homeless learn karate and beat up the kids in return.
- Martial arts is positioned as the pathway for homeless people to get housing and get sober instead of more funding or police enforcement.
- Tim finds the premise tone deaf—having a whole season where homeless people are forced to fight each other.
- One new homeless character is a war vet with Iraq flashbacks; Michael Arrusso teaches him to quiet his mind before he fights the kids.
- Tim argues that lack of discipline is probably why many of them are homeless in the first place.
- In Cobra Kai's defense, martial arts is a great organizing principle for structuring life and giving homeless people free karate lessons isn't the worst idea.
- The show took a nosedive around season three and is now over; the Stranger Things kids are 38 years old and divorced twice.