“Get over here, now,” said Friend #1.
“Why?” responded Blake, understandably.
“I don’t have time to explain; just do it. It’s … awesome.” Friend #1 wasn’t big on details, and he hung up.
Not apparently big on details himself, Blake hopped on his bike like a good kid of the era and rode hard for Friend #1’s house. When he arrived, Blake went through the backyard screen door and walked straight into the kitchen.
And there, on a table in the breakfast nook, sat Andy Kaufman.
“I know you,” blurted Blake. “You’re Andy Kaufman!”
“Um, no, I’m not,” was the curt reply. “You have me confused with someone else.”
“No,” said a scrunched-up-faced, dismayed Blake. “You’re on Taxi. You play Latka.”
“Listen, kid, I’m not who you think I am, ok.” The tone was unmistakably annoyed and grumpy.
One can imagine Friend #1 having to turn away to conceal the ear-to-ear grin on his face at this point.
“But my parents watch that show every week, and I watch it with them and–“
“Kid! For the last time, I’m not Andy Kaufman,” blared out in a real “last straw” way, “and I really don’t appreciate you saying I am, so why don’t you just beat it.”
Defeated, Blake’s shoulders slumped. He ambled towards Friend #1 and moped out of the kitchen towards the living room, but just as he reached the archway exit …
“Thank you very much,” rang out Latka’s catchphrase in character.
Blake spun around. “I knew it!” He exclaimed. “You’re Andy Kaufman!”
“Yes, I am, kid,” he said, sliding off the kitchen table. “Now c’mere; let’s wrestle.”
After a presumed moment of hesitation, while Blake scratched his head (the situation wasn’t exactly stranger danger, but even in this time period, it must have felt more than a tad sketchy to have an adult ask a kid his age to wrestle), he and Andy Kaufman proceeded to the living room, where they wrestled.
Wrestling was a fascination of Kaufman’s. He wrestled women initially (crowning himself the Intergender Champion of the World) and then later professionally, leading to his famous feud with Jerry Lawler. (Warning: the following clip is full of sexism and homophobia).