sweep the leg johnny


sweep the leg johnny
Right when I got to the Darkroom I ran into two other dudes dressed up as Cobra Kai skullfaces! Wooooo!
sweep the leg johnny
...threw on a hoodie and ta-dow! Instant Halloween costume!
sweep the leg johnny
After finishing the black part, I filled in the rest with some white grease paint...
sweep the leg johnny
Then I got busy whipping together my own last-minute Halloween costume! I decided to make use of the awesome Cobra Kai t-shirt (sent to me courtesy of 80sTees.com) and dress up as Sweep the Leg Johnny! I grabbed one of Meredith's eyeliners (sorry!) and got to work!
sweep the leg johnny
When I got home that evening, there was a package waiting for me at the apartment! A few days prior, I'd gotten an email from a guy named Dave who does PR for a 80sTees.com. While browsing the web, he'd found a few entries where I joke about looking like "Sweep the Leg Johnny" from the Karate Kid and hooked me up with some sweet Cobra Kai shirts!
sweep the leg johnny
On Thursday night I stopped by that speak-easy bar in the Lower East Side (the one that used to be called the Lansky Lounge) and ran into Will McD! It's a running joke that we both look like the bad guys from the movie The Karate Kid, so here we are pulling our best impressions of "Bad Sensei" and "Sweep the Leg Johnny."
sweep the leg johnny
So if you've read my site in the past, you know that a lot of my friends give me shit for looking like Billy Zabka (aka - Johnny "Sweep the Leg" Lawrence) from the Karate Kid. "Cobra Kai! No mercy!" Well, for the longest time, I'd been hearing from Jonathon that he has a friend who looks exactly like...
sweep the leg johnny
...I MOTHERFUCKING STARRED IN THE MOVIE! Awwww, yeah. Sweep-the-Leg-Johnny, lemme hear ya!
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The first is Billy Zabka. You know, the guy who played Sweep the Leg Johnny in the Karate Kid (as well as the bad guy in like 20 other eighties movies including "Just One of the Guys" and "Back to School."



And the other celebrity people always tell me I look just like is....















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