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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when Creator/SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when Creator/SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.start.
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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when Creator/SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.
* ShipSinking: The ShipTease that existed between Louis and Grace in the first season evaporated after Louis got written out of the show for the second season.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when Creator/SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.
* ShipSinking: The ShipTease that existed between Louis and Grace in the first season evaporated after Louis got written out of the show for the second season.
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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker. [[CopKiller Having murdered a Texas Ranger]], Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: "Honor Among Strangers": [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", Eagleton]] is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker. [[CopKiller Having murdered a Texas Ranger]], Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" Cleansing", to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.


* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assassin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]

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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assassin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil.pencil (see [[Recap/MartialLawS2E03ThisShogunForHire "This Shogun for Hire"]]). However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]

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* MST3KMantra: So Sammo DoesntLikeGuns? Maybe not, it's just that he doesn't get one. HandWaved as the brass being afraid things might get volatile if he had one. Don't think about it. Just don't.
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* MST3KMantra: So Sammo DoesntLikeGuns? Maybe not, it's just that he doesn't get one. HandWaved as the brass being afraid things might get volatile if he had one. Don't think about it. Just don't.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Walker. [[CopKiller Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Ranger]], Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung Creator/SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in part 2 of this {{crossover}}, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'', is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'', Strangers", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers" and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers" and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing", Strangers'', is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing" to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing, is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'' Strangers" and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing, Cleansing", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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* CompleteMonster: [RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing, is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.

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* CompleteMonster: [RightWingMilitiaFanatic [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing, is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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*CompleteMonster: [RightWingMilitiaFanatic Cliff Eagleton]], from "Honor Among Strangers'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'''s season 8 episode "The Day of Cleansing, is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist]] encountered by Sammo Law and Cordell Walker Having murdered a Texas Ranger, Eagleton sets up shop in Los Angeles where he proceeds to attempt to hijack a set of stinger missiles to bomb LA in order to remove "foreign" businesses. After being thwarted, he returns to Texas to initiate "The Cleansing", taking a group of trucks loaded with enough explosives to make the Oklahoma City bombing look tame, before driving them to foreign business centers and black churches, before detonating them all over the city in order to subjugate minorities and show them their "proper" place.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assasin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]

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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assasin, assassin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]



* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the start.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', ''Film/RushHour'', was doomed from the start.
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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.start.
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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.star.
* ShipSinking: The ShipTease that existed between Louis and Grace in the first season evaporated after Louis got written out of the show for the second season.
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* JustHereForGodzilla: It's pretty obvious that most of the viewers were watching the show solely to watch SammoHung kick ass and take names.

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* JustHereForGodzilla: It's pretty obvious that most of the viewers were watching the show solely to watch SammoHung Creator/SammoHung kick ass and take names.

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* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with ArsenioHall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.

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* JustHereForGodzilla: It's pretty obvious that most of the viewers were watching the show solely to watch SammoHung kick ass and take names.
* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with ArsenioHall Arsenio Hall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assasin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]

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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assasin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]]]
* SeasonalRot: The second season, when SammoHung was saddled with ArsenioHall to force the series to become a TV copy of ''RushHour'', was doomed from the star.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Sammo was once facing a man, claimed to be world's deadliest assasin, who had even killed two bodyguards with a pencil. However when Sammo started fighting him [[spoiler: it turned out that the guy didn't even know kung fu. He was just a crook, who had accidentally killed a man with improperly prepared ''fugu'' while trying to hide from the police, and pretended to be an assassin for the money.]]

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