In 1986, Ruby-Spears produced an action cartoon created by (and starring) Chuck Norris: Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos. If it was still 2005, that’s all I’d need to write. That’s also about all I’d be able to write. It almost vanished from existence as soon as it had aired (apart from a 1989 VHS release), making it very difficult to find any information or footage from the show.

Thankfully, the guys at Adult Swim managed to track it down in 2006 and re-broadcast all five episodes, albeit at 5:30am. So now it’s out there and it’s fairly common knowledge that it really does exist. There’s still no DVD release, but at least it’s all over YouTube now if you can’t find it on Adult Swim.

Is it worth watching though? Well yeah, of course it is, especially when you have drinks and friends around. But I’d have to say that it’s nowhere near as awesome as you’d expect the result of a Norris/Ruby-Spears collaboration to be. It has a lot of great moments, but they’re interspersed with a ton of dialogue and slow scenes that kind of bog it down. This show should have been wall-to-wall illogical karate action!

In fact, here’s how I think it should have turned out: