Kung Fu Kintae Continues to Deliver Comedic Goods

Episode Three Commentary

After three episodes, EA Gray’s web-cartoon, “Kung Fu Kintae” continues to prove it’s one of the most promising works of animation currently on the Internet. With its “Parappa the Rapper” inspired look, “Code Monkeys” and “South Park” type of humor and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” length, the show would be a perfect fit on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim stable of animated sitcoms.

While the third episode wasn’t as strong as the first two, it continues to induce laughter through the best means possible: in as many different ways it can. With a new villain added to Kintae’s ever-growing rogues gallery, the show continues to get deeper and more polished as well. If that wasn’t enough, another awesome fight scene proves that Gray is able to get more out of his work than you’d think.

As a result, this show has a tremendous amount of upside. Truth be told, it’s quite possible we haven’t seen the best of it yet.

Aside from references to porn star Lexington Steele, Final Fantasy VII, Dragonball Z and Star Wars in this episode, KFK in general spends a lot of time making fun of accents and cultural stereotypes, including those of Asian, Middle Eastern and even Bostonian persuasion. The end result is a show that, much like “South Park,” makes sure no one is safe.

Add in that and a level of weirdness and ingenuity unlike any other work of animation [the scene where Chucky Chan is on the toilet bowl is proof positive of this] and KFK continues to prove it’s a worthy and lovely way to kill some time.

Toilet humor doesn’t usually come this witty and polished.

Simply put, if you grew up with anime, Star Wars, late-night cartoons and video games in your life, this show is for you. Gray makes no effort to hide from his geeky roots and has crafted a work that takes the best from all of his cultural and artistic influences.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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