S01.E04: Kung Fu Guy

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Willis and Lana get closer. Willis uncovers family secrets. Fatty finds a new role at the restaurant. 

Premiere Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024     Hulu     

[arc]

Kung Fu Guy (Willis' brother) has his flashback scenes in 4:3! (Meanwhile, the show itself is in 16:9 and that weird club scene a few episodes ago that felt like a commercial was in Cinemascope or something.)

The Crab Rangoon joke was funny, but doesn't make a lot of sense. It's super inauthentic Chinese food and I could see why Fatty has never heard of it, except he was a cook (?) before having to move into being a waiter, so surely he would have known everything on the menu. I'm also thrown by the phone doing a busy signal when it should be a dial tone. Intentional mistake? The thing about a show so weird is that you can never fully believe anything was an actual mistake. (... but the PC in the Tech Guy room misspelling "permanently" is probably a genuine mistake.)

Also, the show kinda snuck it in, but while the computers on the main bullpen of the police precinct are old green monochrome CRTs, Tech Guy's office has a 16:9 flatscreen or two.

... and now Willis and Lana are full on doing video editing! This show is so meta. Video editing of the show that preceded "Black & White", to be precise. And ho boy, KFG was a 100% Bruce Lee homage. Love it.

I'm completely at a loss to figure out what was going on with the brother. Was he set up? Was he actually evil? (I mean, I think he probably wasn't.) But it's so hard to square him being seemingly actually ignorant of who the Painted Faces were and then he was also their boss as well? Bonkers.

[edhopper]

I feel that his brother, who was a real person in Chinatown (maybe) became a TV character, and fell victim to the whims of the writers and Networks.

Is he gone because he was cancelled?

[shapeshifter]

On 11/24/2024 at 5:28 AM, arc said:

The Crab Rangoon joke was funny, but doesn't make a lot of sense. It's super inauthentic Chinese food and I could see why Fatty has never heard of it, except he was a cook (?) before having to move into being a waiter, so surely he would have known everything on the menu

I guess Fatty The Angry Waiter not knowing an inauthentic Chinese dish could imply he is *just* a character.