JOHNNY KARATE 5 KARATE MOVES TO SUCCESS HOW TO
Ben teaches about geography and how to get from Pawnee to D.C. This segment includes a little something called the Boring Buzzer, which is greeted with giggles from all the kids in the studio except that one nerdy kid with the glasses who will one day grow up to be just like Ben. Next we move on to Learn Something with Professor Smartbrain, a.k.a. When Ron thanks Andy for being like a son to him, Andy pulls up the graphic for “hug moment,” but Ron quickly vetoes it. Johnny even has Five Karate Moves to Success: Make something, learn something, karate-chop something, try something new even if it’s scary to you, and be nice to someone.įirst up: Make Something with Carpenter Ron! Andy asks Ron how he’s doing Ron says, “My contract is very specific I do not have to answer that question.” Never change, Swanson. The structure of Andy’s show kind of reminds me, in spirit, of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls: It’s all about learning, trying, helping, and having fun. Looks like this is something that happens with alarming frequency, as Andy already has a long, boring disclaimer, complete with graphics, ready to roll. No big deal! April’s Animal Corner just morphs into one of our other favorite segments, Loose Animal in the Studio.
Andy took it out to play hide-and-seek and he couldn’t find it.
(Or should I say, April Ludgate-Karate-Dwyer.) But she rallies for one last visit to April’s Animal Corner, where we discover that the Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula is missing. “It’s the capital of the entire world.” Already it’s clear that April is even more angsty and uncomfortable than unusual. Even Garry gets something sort of important to do!Īndy announces that it’s his last show because he’s moving to Washington. The best part of this is seeing how Andy makes space on his show for all of his buddies, and all of their roles are so in keeping with the roles they play in his real life. Looks like a job for Burt Macklin, FBI! “The peace in Iraq will be canceled if they don’t get this guitar back.” Donna is on the scene, playing “The Chief,” who tells Johnny that he’s the best agent she’s ever seen - “and I’ve worked with James Bond.” It’s worth, literally, 900 million dollars.
We begin with a mystery: Someone has stolen Johnny Karate’s guitar. Hey, as Johnny Karate explains, it’s all about learning, music, animals, fireworks, water skis, and, above all, ice cream, pizza, ninjas, getting stronger, sharks versus bears, and, above all, KARATE. (The gold standard here is 30 Rock with its perfect Queen of Jordan episodes.) Johnny Karate is not only everything I have dreamed Andy’s educational show for kids would be and more, it is also a show I think I would have watched had it, you know, actually existed when I was a kid (or ever). While it’s the classic Parks we’ll remember and truly miss, there’s something so fantastic about a show that has developed such a self-sustaining, bizarro internal universe that it can support an entire episode framed as a show-within-the-show and not lose the audience in the process. So there could not have been a more appropriate night for Parks and Recreation to step aside for half an hour and leave us, in its place, AN ENTIRE EPISODE of The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show! Even if you were working from home today, you’re staying in pajamas all day and eating grilled cheese and tomato soup for lunch. There’s nothing like a snow day like today to make even the most grown-up grown-up feel like a little kid.
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