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1	->''Everybody was kung-fu fighting!\
2	Those cats were fast as lightning!\
3	In fact it was a little bit frightening!\
4	But they fought with expert timing!''
5	-->-- '''Carl Douglas''', "Kung Fu Fighting"
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7	Chop Sockey is a rather disrespectful term referring to fight scenes with an East Asian (especially Chinese, mostly Hong Kong) martial-arts style, but is often (see examples below) used to describe the whole genre of [[MartialArtsMovie martial-arts films]]. They usually feature '''over''' exaggerated presentations of traditional fighting techniques, [[KungFoley dramatic sound effects]], and sometimes [[HongKongDub questionable dialogue dubbing]].
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9	This is also a parody trope where stereotypical aspects based on the MartialArtsMovie genre are played up as an AffectionateParody to {{Pastiche}}.
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11	Today, this trope can be found in everything from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' to Mountain Dew commercials to video games (e.g. ''Kung Fu Chaos'') to [[http://xkcd.com/311/ this XKCD strip]].
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13	ArtisticLicenseMartialArts is a SisterTrope. DragonsUpTheYinYang is a common visual motif.
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15	!!Parody examples include:
16	* ''Film/KungFuHustle''
17	* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', Steve Oedekirk's awesome tribute to martial arts flicks.
18	* ''Film/WaynesWorld2'', in a scene which has Wayne fight Cassandra's Cantonese father in a chop sockey kung fu fight. The stereotypical sound effects, dubbing and dubious wirework are all aped for the scene.
19	* ''Series/KickinIt'' alludes to [[LargeHam Bobby Wasabi's]] movies as being this.
20	* ''Film/KillBill'' Volume 2 has a DeletedScene in this style which has Bill facing off against the former student of a guy he killed and his handful of mooks.

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