50 Fun Facts About Hard Cobra Kai

How did the creators pitch Cobra Kai to networks in 2017?

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and AMC all heard the pitch; YouTube Red greenlit it in August 2017 with Sony Pictures Television producing.

How many episodes did Cobra Kai run for across its six seasons?

It premiered on May 2, 2018 and ended on February 13, 2025, moving from YouTube Red to Netflix along the way.

Which season of Cobra Kai was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmys?

That was at the 73rd ceremony in 2021, after Netflix had picked the show up. Ralph Macchio also earned an Emmy nomination for the role.

Where did the world premiere of Cobra Kai's first season take place in April 2018?

A discussion with the three creators, Zabka and Macchio followed the screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Which veteran actor guest-starred in season one as Johnny's abusive stepfather Sid Weinberg?

Randee Heller also returned as Daniel's mother Lucille, and Martin Kove appeared in the season finale before becoming a regular.

Which Atlanta college site was among the season one filming locations?

Filming began in October 2017 and also used Union City, Marietta and soccer fields in East Cobb.

Season three's Okinawa scenes took two days. Where were season five's Mexico scenes filmed?

The Okinawa block was filmed on location in Japan in November 2019, along with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

The LaRusso family house in Cobra Kai, in Marietta, Georgia, once featured on which HGTV programme?

Season three finished filming in 2019, before Netflix acquired the series.

Which four Karate Kid Part II actors returned in season three as Bobby, Kumiko, Yuna and Chozen?

Elisabeth Shue also came back for a two-episode arc as Ali Mills that season.

Which two Karate Kid Part III actors guest-starred in season five as Mike Barnes and Jessica Andrews?

Alicia Hannah-Kim joined the same season as Kim Da-eun, and Dallas Dupree Young's Kenny Payne was promoted to series regular.

Season six's three-part release made Cobra Kai the first Netflix original to be released how?

Netflix announced the 15-episode plan on May 2, 2024. The season had been slated for December 2023 before the Hollywood strikes delayed it.

How many views did the first part of season six draw in its first four days on Netflix?

That was 1.1 billion minutes streamed and the top spot for the week of July 15 to 21, 2024, though Deadline argued the split release depressed early numbers.

Which Terry Silver-sponsored team faces Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai at the Sekai Taikai in Barcelona?

Lewis Tan played the team's leader, Sensei Wolf, who had lost his own dojo before Silver recruited him.

Which Cobra Kai season six fighter, played by Brandon H. Lee, dies after accidentally stabbing himself?

Kreese had spotted his potential while training abroad and taught him to channel his anger. The knife was an eunjangdo Kreese retrieved from a cave with a cobra.

Where does Terry Silver first find the fighter who leads his season-six team?

Silver's charges had been dropped because Stingray was an unreliable witness, but his reputation and most of his fortune were gone.

Which fighter must Kim Da-Eun kill in season six, per Kim Sun-Yung, to inherit the dojo?

She kills her grandfather instead after Kreese compliments her teaching. Kreese then hands the Cobra Kai dojo back to Johnny.

In the season six finale, what does Kreese ignite aboard Silver's yacht?

Silver had been plotting to abduct Carmen and Johnny's newborn daughter before Johnny's final fight with Sensei Wolf.

In Cobra Kai's flashbacks, in which year did Kreese begin special-forces training under Captain Turner?

Turner taught him Tang Soo Do. His teammates included a young Terry Silver and a man called Ponytail.

What was young Terry Silver's nickname on Kreese's Vietnam team?

Turner later tried to break Kreese before their fight over the snake pit by revealing that his girlfriend Betsy had died in a car accident.

Before the war, teenage Kreese worked what job in the San Fernando Valley?

The show gives him a birthday of October 2, 1946, an absent father and a mother who died by suicide, leaving him to fend for himself.

Why was Terry Silver written into The Karate Kid Part III in the first place?

Kove was tied up with Hard Time on Planet Earth. The film was Thomas Ian Griffith's screen debut; he had trained in kenpo and tae kwon do.

In season five, Terry Silver recruits new senseis from which country to expand Cobra Kai?

Among them was Kim Da-Eun, granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung, whose style influenced Cobra Kai. Tory confronted Silver over bribing the All-Valley referee.

In season six, a 1947 clipping in Mr. Miyagi's hidden box accuses him of what?

The box also revealed Miyagi had been a boxer and silent partner in a boxing gym. Silver later handed Daniel a file about Miyagi's own tournament past.

What is the sensei's full name in the franchise?

Pat Morita earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for the role. Cobra Kai uses archive footage and a briefly CG-altered body double to feature him.

According to the films, how old was Miyagi when he left Okinawa for the United States?

Born June 9, 1925, he emigrated despite the 1924 Immigration Act after unsuccessfully declaring his love for a woman promised to Sato.

In The Next Karate Kid, Miyagi goes to Arlington for a commendation of which Japanese-American WWII unit?

There he meets Louisa Pierce, widow of his commanding officer, and ends up training her granddaughter Julie.

Which state does Daniel LaRusso move from to Reseda in the original 1984 film?

His mother Lucille had taken a job at a computer firm. In Cobra Kai he owns the Valley's most profitable car dealership.

William Zabka earned an Academy Award nomination in 2004 for what?

The short, shot in the Czech Republic and Poland, premiered at Sundance. Zabka had no karate training before The Karate Kid.

Which band's 2007 video starring Zabka as a washed-up Johnny foreshadowed Cobra Kai?

'Sweep the Leg' featured cameos by Macchio and Kove. Zabka and Macchio later played themselves in a 2013 How I Met Your Mother episode.

In which How I Met Your Mother episode did Macchio and Zabka appear as themselves?

Zabka was revealed as a clown wiping off his make-up at Barney's bachelor party and became a recurring character on the sitcom.

Ralph Macchio was how old when he first played 17-year-old Daniel LaRusso?

Two years earlier he had played 16-year-old Johnny Cade in The Outsiders at age 20. He was born in Huntington, New York.

Before Cobra Kai, Xolo Maridueña played Victor Graham in which NBC drama?

Born Ramario Xolo Ramirez, his first name combines the names of two uncles. He went on to star as Blue Beetle for DC.

Martin Kove was a regular on which 1980s police series, playing Detective Victor Isbecki?

He also appeared in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Kove quit a job as a substitute maths teacher to act, on Sean Connery's advice.

Tanner Buchanan (Robby Keene) earlier played Leo Kirkman in which political thriller?

Buchanan was born in Lima, Ohio, to two industrial engineers.

Mary Mouser took over which recurring role on Scandal in its fourth season?

She also voiced Eloise in Eloise: The Animated Series and played Lacey Fleming on Body of Proof.

Chozen Toguchi is the nephew of which character from The Karate Kid Part II?

In the 1986 film he challenges Daniel to a fight to the death and is spared. Yuji Okumoto's Cobra Kai comeback was widely praised.

Which Hawaiian island stood in for Okinawa in The Karate Kid Part II?

Filming ran from September to December 1985, starting in Los Angeles. In the story, Ali has just dumped Daniel for a UCLA football player.

In The Karate Kid Part III, what business does Daniel use his college fund to open for Miyagi?

Miyagi makes him a partner. Across the street Daniel meets Jessica Andrews, visiting from Columbus, Ohio, who already has a boyfriend.

Where does Silver send Kreese for a holiday at the start of Part III while he plots against Daniel?

Silver, a toxic-chemical magnate and fellow Green Beret, then hires national champion Mike Barnes to torment Daniel.

Karate Kid: Legends (2025) introduces which young lead as kung fu prodigy Li Fong?

Jackie Chan returns as Mr. Han and Macchio as Daniel. Li moves from Beijing to New York and befriends a pizza-shop owner's daughter, Mia.

Who directed Karate Kid: Legends?

Rob Lieber wrote the screenplay. It is the sixth film in the franchise and follows both the 2010 remake and Cobra Kai.

Which Will Smith production company was an executive producer of Cobra Kai?

James Lassiter and Caleeb Pinkett were the Overbrook executives. Smith had produced the 2010 Karate Kid remake starring his son.

In which season did Peyton List and Vanessa Rubio join the main cast?

List had recurred as Tory since season two and Rubio as Carmen since season one. That season pitted the dojos against each other with the loser to disband.

Which subscription service greenlit Cobra Kai in August 2017 before it moved to Netflix?

YouTube Red (later YouTube Premium) picked up the show; seasons one and two launched there in May 2018 and April 2019.

How many views did Cobra Kai's free first episode rack up in its first 24 hours online in 2018?

Episodes one and two were posted for free, and the premiere racked up 5.4 million views in a day.

Which Next Karate Kid character did the creators consider bringing back in a plot about a stolen necklace?

Josh Heald said a Julie Pierce storyline was drafted, but Hilary Swank never returned before the show ended in 2025.

Which two actors were promoted to Cobra Kai series regulars in season two, alongside Martin Kove?

Bertrand (Hawk) and DeCenzo (Demetri) became regulars in season two, when Paul Walter Hauser and Peyton List joined the cast.

Which Kurosawa regular did the studio originally want to play Mr. Miyagi in the 1984 film?

Toshiro Mifune was the first choice but did not speak English; Pat Morita won the part with a second, bearded audition.

Which actor was the studio's first choice to play Johnny Lawrence before William Zabka was cast?

Crispin Glover was first choice; Zabka, a wrestler with no karate training, won the studio over with an aggressive audition.

'You're the Best', the Karate Kid tournament song, was originally written for which film?

Sylvester Stallone rejected it for Rocky III in favour of Survivor's 'Eye of the Tiger'.