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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9840315" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I did watch the first season a while ago.  I think I kind of swallowed the premise that the tournament was a local culture phenomenon at the time, that Daniel had traded on that youthful fame, and that once he opened his dealership(s?) his face on billboards helped keep him a visible local celebrity. It seemed implied that he had done a bunch of TV interviews and locals all knew broad strokes of the story of the original movie, and that his TV ads and sales gimmicks (like the free bonsai with purchase) memeing on his original fame kept the story alive.  It looked to me like the car dealership(s) was why he was so well-off.I did get the sense that karate in general had continued as much more of a thing in this parallel reality, of course.Googling a little, it sounds like he got his start on his dealership in 2002 after Mr. Miyagi left him his collection of classic cars?  So 18 years passed between the tournament and Daniel resurrecting the story for advertising?</blockquote>