"Are you man enough to eat tofu?"
Order of Knights of the Holy Tofu
STOP using DHMO! It kills innocent lives!
The rest of the deviations were pretty turdy, yes - although the series had a few moments. Huang Yaoshi's entrance to Returning Cloud Villa was probably the best done out of all the adaptations I've seen. And that Huang Rong/ Li Ping bit really meant a lot to me. You just knew that she would end up teaching Huang Rong the animal thingy after she rejects her request to teach her the first time saying "I only teach this to my future daughter-in-law".
ROCH: Gon Sun Zhi and Guo Jing, Golden Wheel Monk and Ouyang Feng
DGSD: Xiaoyao Pai Elders and Xiao Feng
Two sets of characters from LOCH who *could* have met, but never did, were the Gong Nam 7 Freaks and 1 Deng's four disciples. This would have been an interesting meeting because both groups featured martial artists who also doubled as scholars (Chu Chung and Chu Tze Lau) and woodsmen (Nam Hei Yan and the former Dali guardsman who became known only as "the Woodcutter"). Chu Chung and Chu Tze Lau shared a surname as well as a love of scholarly subjects, and although Chu Tze Lau's martial arts outclassed Chu Chung's by a wide margin, they might have had a more evenly matched competition in scholarship.