Encerar y pulir is the Spanish-language version of wax on, wax off, the instruction Mr. Miyagi gives Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid from 1984 while teaching him to wax cars. The scene became one of the film's most quoted lessons because the dull chore secretly trains blocking movements. In Spanish-speaking edits and memes, the phrase is reused whenever patience and repetition are the joke, keeping a forty-year-old film lesson alive in short-form videos.