I’m with Ace on being skeptical about this. It’s just too perfectly 80s. It’s just seems it had to have been made as a parody of everything 80s and can’t actually be from the 80s. But there is evidence it actually is from back then (here’s apparently a photo of the main guy from it as he looks now). Anyway, here is The Karate Rap:
The parakeet is the part where I’m like, “This has to be a joke.”
They taught a bird KARATE! That’s friggin’ awesome man!!!!!11!
Well, “make my day” is a strong clue that it came out around 1983 when “Sudden Impact” was released.
I’m saying it’s real.
Also because it’s almost impossible to make special effects that lousy with modern video equipment.
Samurai Studios has an updated photo of Holly Whitstock Seeger as well, and has this to say about the video:
I’m voting it’s real, especially since they come right out and say it was meant to be funny. (David Seeger’s father was responsible for Milton the Monster and Fearless Fly, so I guess a sense of humor runs in the family.)
And yes, I am old enough to have watched Milton the Monster as a kid. “And now for a tincture of tenderness . . .”
REAL! The hair was awesome. No one could duplicate the 80’s hair. Most of the scenes only looked vaguely familiar. I did dry out in 1989. Had to get saved from something, at least I remember that.
At times, the music sounds like it’s from the Ghostbusters movie.
The video looks legit, except for the dog and parakeet look like flash animations that definitely are more recent.