# "Kung Fu" nitpick: Why does Caine walk the Earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585 "2012-02-02T21:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/21 "2012-02-04T03:45:36Z")
I think he was wandering the Eath in search of the one-armed man who really killed the prince. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/22 "2012-02-04T04:23:37Z")
“Mister Kim-Chee, don’t make me angry…” ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/23 "2012-02-04T22:54:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why does he [walk the Earth](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/WalkingTheEarth)? Per your link, it’s a trope. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/24 "2012-02-05T19:52:42Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Since he killed a member of the Chinese royal family, there’s a prince on his head. Caine walked into a doctor’s office with a prince on his head. “Can I help you?” asks the doctor. The prince says, “Yeah, get this guy off my ass.” Hey, it was there. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/25 "2012-02-05T20:07:51Z")
Just be thankful it didn’t last another season or they would have introduced his homeless cousin Oliver to wander along with him. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/26 "2012-02-05T21:04:44Z")
The show would inevitably have become _The Kung-Fu Scrappy-Doo Hour_. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/27 "2012-02-06T03:35:15Z")
…or eventually he would have met his and the skipper’s evil doppelganger in the desert somewhere, find a cursed tiki idol, get locked up in a Ghost Town Hoosegow by Zachariah T. Brown, fall into an abandoned Goldmine and meddle in Hank the caretaker’s business, and have a final Grand Finale showdown with Buddy Hinton, only to be saved at the last minute by the Harlem Globetrotters. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/28 "2012-02-06T03:42:01Z")
To be found dead in a Thai hotel closet from auto erotic asphyxiation? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/29 "2012-02-06T04:25:59Z")
That would still be better than the self-aggrandizing “Dinner with David Carradine” extra in the series DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/30 "2012-02-06T13:27:21Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > We call it Prince, it’s really just a squiggle. But one drawn by an artist formerly known as… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/31 "2012-02-06T17:41:53Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > From a writer’s standpoint, it’s because it makes for a much more interesting show. > > Also, did you not think of him as Cain, who slew Abel? > > Gen. 4, 10-12. Emphasis mine. > > Yes, the victim was a prince, not his brother, but it makes for a nice tie-in. Let’s not forget that he was “marked” by his ritual burn scars. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585/32 "2012-02-06T18:49:45Z")
Stop arguing! It’s like a damn mutiny in here! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kung-fu-nitpick-why-does-caine-walk-the-earth/611585.md?page=1)