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Kung Foo Rooster!

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Kung Foo Rooster! was a moderately popular kid's TV show produced by Toon Penny, and started a few years before Wizbits. James Langomedes did a brief stint as the director of Kung Foo Rooster. It detailed adventures of a rooster known in US as the "Jyutping," a rooster who was also inexplicably skilled in the martial arts. Although James Langomedes only lasted for three episodes before Toon Penny dismissed him for offenses which have been sealed by California's highest courts, this experience was the bulletpoint on his resume that would eventually land him on the Wizbits project. It is also worth noting that those three episodes with Langomedes' name on them enabled the short-lived, post-syndication "James Langomedes Power Hour" in which Kung Foo Rooster and Wizbits aired back-to-back on weekday afternoons.

Kung Foo Rooster appeared in the Wizbits Christmas episode, An Elemenstor Xmas: Magic Mistletoe, in which he appeared at the end to deliver a crudely pasted-in moral that heavily features toys and the importance of always buying the newest ones. In the yearly reruns of the show, the final line ("...and if you got a toy a year ago, it's basically trash. Throw it away and demand a new one!") is usually cut.

In its last years of production, Kung Foo Rooster featured occasional crossovers from the Wizbits, but it is believed that these crossovers were actually unlicensed, since the Wizbits character names were changed and since James Langomedes had long since departed the Kung Foo Rooster project. No mention of this change is made during the shows, and most people don't go into it too much, because it provides yet another set of names for the Wizbits themselves. The Kung Foo Rooster appearances are considered canon by almost no one, even including the people who insist that everything is canon, even fan fiction. It is interesting to note that Alton Longsword, founder of the Warrior Chefs of Battal, had as his final humiliation being brutally beaten by of all things, a rooster. Because the rooster is never named, it's not clear if it was in fact, the Kung Fu Rooster, but the fact that he was afraid of said rooster says a lot.

The character name-changing caused a major flap between the Rooster people and the Wizbits people. The Wizbits action figures were pulled from any store that sold the Rooster action figures in some American cities (Dover, CO and Brownsville, KY). This caused a small riot at some stores where parents were looking for both figures for stocking stuffers. Later, when both shows were in syndication under the "James Langomedes Power Hour," both companies put aside their differences in the interest of squeezing a few final pennies from their dying franchises.

Notes

If you call, he will come for a poultry sum,

He's the Kung Foo Rooster: one cock who's ready to rock!

He's the dude who's Chinese food!

Always cares to be nice and good!