Divided into three parts, “Cobra Kai” season 6 brings the best “Karate Kid” project thus far to a conclusion — although not essentially the top, given the creators’ acknowledged want to arrange a spin-off centered on beloved “Karate Kid” sensei Mr. Miyagi (the late Pat Morita, with Brian Takahashi enjoying the character’s youthful iteration in “Cobra Kai”). The present is thought for honoring its previous normally and the actors from the unique “Karate Child” film trilogy specifically, and the ultimate season is not any exception. The primary episode of “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 2, titled “Benvinguts a Barcelona,” encompasses a touching tribute for Chad McQueen, who performs Johnny Lawrence’s (William Zabka) fellow Cobra Kai scholar Dutch in “The Karate Child” (1984) and its 1986 sequel, “The Karate Child II.”
McQueen died on September 11, 2024 at age 63, whereas “Benvinguts a Barcelona” was launched simply two months in a while November 15. That signifies that the present paid tribute to the actor the primary likelihood it received with a credit card displaying a picture of McQueen’s character with the actor’s identify, years of delivery and loss of life, and the time-honored slogan: “Cobra Kai by no means dies.”
Scheduling conflicts prevented Chad McQueen’s look in Cobra Kai
Chad McQueen’s Dutch is without doubt one of the few notable characters from the primary three “The Karate Child” motion pictures who would not seem within the present-day timeline of “Cobra Kai.” When his outdated Cobra Kai good friend group of Johnny, Bobby (Ron Thomas), Jimmy (Tony O’Dell), and Tommy (Rob Garrison) reunite within the season 2 episode “Take a Proper,” we discover out it’s because Dutch is in jail. Collection co-creator Josh Heald advised TV Line in 2024 that there have been quite a few makes an attempt to deliver Dutch again within the combine, nonetheless:
“We love Chad McQueen a lot. We had been so lucky to have met him and sat down with him, and we explored many occasions the potential of bringing him onto the present. We tried to drag it off in season 2, and the schedules did not work out. He wasn’t in a position to be there with the remainder of the OG Cobras as they type of had their motorbike trip for the Tommy episode. We tried once more creatively serious about one thing throughout season 5, and the manufacturing schedule was simply so insufferable that we appeared once more into, ‘How can we deliver him into this world?’ As a result of Dutch is such an essential character to us.”
Because it stands, McQueen’s Dutch receives his “Cobra Kai” laurels solely via flashbacks and anecdotes. Tragically sufficient, the actor is not the one member of the unique Cobra Kai crew who’s acquired a credit tribute both. The rationale the gang will get again collectively in season 2 is Tommy, who’s coping with a severe sickness and passes away earlier than the episode’s finish. Sadly, Rob Garrison himself died in 2019 at simply 59, and acquired a tribute card very like McQueen’s within the “Cobra Kai” season 3 opener, “Aftermath.”
Divided into three parts, “Cobra Kai” season 6 brings the best “Karate Kid” project thus far to a conclusion — although not essentially the top, given the creators’ acknowledged want to arrange a spin-off centered on beloved “Karate Kid” sensei Mr. Miyagi (the late Pat Morita, with Brian Takahashi enjoying the character’s youthful iteration in “Cobra Kai”). The present is thought for honoring its previous normally and the actors from the unique “Karate Child” film trilogy specifically, and the ultimate season is not any exception. The primary episode of “Cobra Kai” season 6 half 2, titled “Benvinguts a Barcelona,” encompasses a touching tribute for Chad McQueen, who performs Johnny Lawrence’s (William Zabka) fellow Cobra Kai scholar Dutch in “The Karate Child” (1984) and its 1986 sequel, “The Karate Child II.”
McQueen died on September 11, 2024 at age 63, whereas “Benvinguts a Barcelona” was launched simply two months in a while November 15. That signifies that the present paid tribute to the actor the primary likelihood it received with a credit card displaying a picture of McQueen’s character with the actor’s identify, years of delivery and loss of life, and the time-honored slogan: “Cobra Kai by no means dies.”
Scheduling conflicts prevented Chad McQueen’s look in Cobra Kai
Chad McQueen’s Dutch is without doubt one of the few notable characters from the primary three “The Karate Child” motion pictures who would not seem within the present-day timeline of “Cobra Kai.” When his outdated Cobra Kai good friend group of Johnny, Bobby (Ron Thomas), Jimmy (Tony O’Dell), and Tommy (Rob Garrison) reunite within the season 2 episode “Take a Proper,” we discover out it’s because Dutch is in jail. Collection co-creator Josh Heald advised TV Line in 2024 that there have been quite a few makes an attempt to deliver Dutch again within the combine, nonetheless:
“We love Chad McQueen a lot. We had been so lucky to have met him and sat down with him, and we explored many occasions the potential of bringing him onto the present. We tried to drag it off in season 2, and the schedules did not work out. He wasn’t in a position to be there with the remainder of the OG Cobras as they type of had their motorbike trip for the Tommy episode. We tried once more creatively serious about one thing throughout season 5, and the manufacturing schedule was simply so insufferable that we appeared once more into, ‘How can we deliver him into this world?’ As a result of Dutch is such an essential character to us.”
Because it stands, McQueen’s Dutch receives his “Cobra Kai” laurels solely via flashbacks and anecdotes. Tragically sufficient, the actor is not the one member of the unique Cobra Kai crew who’s acquired a credit tribute both. The rationale the gang will get again collectively in season 2 is Tommy, who’s coping with a severe sickness and passes away earlier than the episode’s finish. Sadly, Rob Garrison himself died in 2019 at simply 59, and acquired a tribute card very like McQueen’s within the “Cobra Kai” season 3 opener, “Aftermath.”
