There are some things you see as a kid that become a skewed fact that actually turns out not to be true at all, like your dad is the tallest guy in the world or your step-uncle is a fantastic kisser. This also applies to movies, where some detail sticks out for you and you turn it into a false assumption.

The Karate Kid (1984)

So Daniel-san is pissing his pants over the Cobra Kai while creaming them over Ali (Elizabeth Shue, not Muhammad) and wants to go to the big Halloween dance with her but knows if he shows up Johnny and the Cobra Kai are going to give him a wicked beat down. Daniel whines to the maintenance man that he would go to the dance if he went as the Invisible Man, so no one could see him. Apparently, neither Daniel or Miyagi are aware that masks exist, so Miyagi makes him a horribly inconvenient, gigantic shower costume. This costume is visible from space, and does nothing but draw attention.

INCONSPICUOUS!!

I mean, come the f*ck on. You don’t think the very first thing people are going to do when they see that costume is open the curtain to see who’s in there? Maybe in Japanese, “invisible” sounds like their word meaning “stick out like a sore f*cking thumb.” The only way this could have made Daniel more visible is if the shower curtain had his face on it. Look at the picture again. There are two dudes dressed up like Zorro right there. Big hat + mask + multiple guys in the same costume = nobody would have noticed you. Actually, he could have literally dressed up like the Invisible Man and it would have been a much better costume for anonymity.

We can still tell it’s you, Daniel. We can smell the piss and fear sweat from across the room.

The only thing that shower costume is good for is convincing a drunk girl to make out with you inside of it. That is, if you haven’t already pissed off everyone at the party by constantly bumping into them. Oh, and it’s also completely useless for looking around to see if the guys you’re trying to avoid are coming up behind you. It’s simply the worst costume in the history of ever all time.

And this is the best costume in the history of ever all time.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, that’s actually not why we’re here, since this is You Dumb Kid and not I Don’t Get It. When Daniel is dancing with Ali in the shower costume, talking about how much of a pussy he is, Ali reassures him with, “What goes around, comes around.” Shortly thereafter, Daniel stupidly hoses Johnny down with water while Johnny’s in a restroom stall “rolling a number.” How Daniel thinks this wouldn’t lead to a vicious ass-kicking is beyond me, but as he runs out of the party, he hands Ali the shower head off of his costume for some reason and says, “It’s coming around!” When I was a kid, since he gave her the shower head just as he said it, I thought he meant that he’s passing the shower head to her, and that she should pass it on to other people, so it “comes around.” That makes zero sense, but I wasn’t well-versed in idioms at the time. Anyway, Daniel got the crap beat out of him, as he deserved, and Ali broke up with him a few months later and he ended up even making people in another country hate him. His annoying pussy persona really “came around.”