Here's Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy) talking about the Gracie Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSSt5OQ4zHc&feature=player_embedded#at=0
In Brazil we call those MMA wannabe's "pit boys" (Pitbull + Playboy. "Playboy" in brazilian portuguese is a slang for rich and snob guys). They really give a bad image to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA in general in Brazil, a country with a tradition of great MMA fighters (well, UFC was created by the Gracie family anyway). Funny thing, I'm brazilian, but I've never trained BJJ. I've trained Wushu (with a Chinese master in my hometown Curitiba), Shotokan Karate and little bit of Muay Thai. But I do respect BJJ a lot. I love to re-watch the original no-rules UFC with Royce Gracie. That was so much better than the boring UFC that we have now...
So is that what the movie "Red Belt" was all about? I went to Brazil in the late 1980's and the rage in the town I was in seemed to be Jeet Kun Do (spelling?) or Bruce Lee Kung Fu since they had a local dojo.
Being from the San Francisco bay area, I have no idea why Jeet Kun Do hasn't become as big as one might think. I believe there remains to be one of the original Jeet Kun Do academy in Oakland, but you never hear much about it. Thats kind of a shame IMO.