Comments on: Daily Podcast: Why Isn’t KITT Gay?

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:41:29 +0000

Worst drivel there is, I watched the first tenminutes just to see what the car looked like, then went on-line and entered the contest to win a Shelby 500 KR (King of the Road not Knight Rider, gawd). If I’m lucky, I guess I’ll win a Ford Edge. It can corner like a Shelby, gets better gas mileage, and can transport four or more in comfort.

By: jerseydevil

jerseydevil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:50:30 +0000

carguy1964

Writers and producers please! let’s not drag our kids into this crap…where is our commen sense and morals!

wow – is that what you expect from TV? I don’t. Perhaps you would be less upset if you looked elsewhere for “common sense and morals”.

Drop the TV. for gods sake.

PS – you obviously haven’t been around many 10 year olds lately…

By: blautens

blautens — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:02:28 +0000

Didn’t watch the first series, and I didn’t really watch this one, except wife had it on (she fondly remembers the old show). The one part I did wake up for was when the debadged (with JC Whitney’s finest grille) Tahoe/Yukon slams into KITT.

So I gathered it’s one large Ford commercial. Are bad guys cars always going to be debadged GMs? They didn’t want a Ford Expedition slamming into KITT and crumpling, lest Ford look bad?

Wow – the branding decisions that must go into every show. Good thing it won’t last long…

By: carguy1964

carguy1964 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:12:17 +0000

Speaking of “Tots” and what not to say, durning a “prime time” show….was when Kitt asked that guy if he was a Homosexual…My jaw just about dropped..good luck explaining that to a 10 yr old..C’mon..was that really needed..Writers and producers please! let’s not drag our kids into this crap…where is our commen sense and morals!

By: kovachian

kovachian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:35:51 +0000

What the hell ever happened to the Koenigsegg supposing to be in a Knight Rider movie?! Jesus f***ing christ…

By: HEATHROI

HEATHROI — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:08:03 +0000

In Arrested Development, Will Arnetts characters name is Job even thought its said Gob.

the stairtruck. And the rock in the back seat of the mercedes.. funny days.

where was I…. Knight Rider. rubbish then. rubbish now.

By: Kevin Kluttz

Kevin Kluttz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:32:11 +0000

I had seen enough Ford Commercial up to the head-on. You mean they didn’t crash? What fiction. Extreme, out of this galaxy fiction. Like was said, that’s a really short stopping distance, and everyone knows Ford can’t do that. Even in their hour-long commercial.

By: wildcmc

wildcmc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:34:04 +0000

jerseydevil… lol
Nooooo. I dont have kids. But when I watched the original series I was a kid, so… I was just putting myself in that place. On the other hand, I also looked at my older brother’s xxx magazines at that same age too, so to tell you the truth… i have no idea what i meant by “and had no place in a family tv series”. forget i said anything.

Funny is also said “on the other hand” upthere.

By: jaje

jaje — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:27:22 +0000

Watch the middle Matrix version – all the cars / suvs / vans were GM products…only the semi and the Ducatis were not GMs.

Ford must have payed up the wazoo to get their Mustang and whore their other cars/suvs in this series (with the advent of Tivo and DVRs I hardly ever watch commercials anymore – almost never watch live tv unless it’s a sporting event). I’m amazed GM let them do it as this would be the best commercial GM could ever do for the upcoming Camaro. GM just does so many dumb things nowadays.

By: jerseydevil

jerseydevil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:23:22 +0000

wildcmc

and had no place in a family tv series

dear god, you invited tots to watch this nonsense? And you watched it expecting it to suck, and you invited young kids to watch it with you ANYWAY?

i cant tell you how happy i am that i threw my tv away a few years ago.

By: Chaser

Chaser — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:59:50 +0000

You guys need to look into torrents. Full show, great quality, no commercials…”Lost” is the only show I watch on TV and that’s how I do it.

By: Qusus

Qusus — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:53:28 +0000

I missed the show as well and when the previous poster linked that I could watch the episode online, I became genuinely excited… wow, I am a sad pathetic person.

By: wildcmc

wildcmc — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:19:24 +0000

Virtual Insanity !!!!

You are in Luck

go to http://www.nbc.com/Knight_Rider/video/episodes.shtml

you can catch the movie there!

By: wildcmc

wildcmc — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:14:42 +0000

I watched it with the firm belief that it was going to suck. But then while watching i got into it. It was much much better than the Knight Rider 2010 back in the 90’s.
My problems with it are a collection of all the ones you guys just talked about: Fords everywhere… except for the vehicle that was gonna get destroyed which was a GM Suv (funny how that 2 people died inside that GM suv and the contrast with the Edge braking just in time in front of the big ol semi at the beginning).
The threesome in the beginning did not add anything to the story. Same with the lesbianism that served no purpose, and had no place in a family tv series. An Idea… lets get Jack from Will and Grace to Drive the new Goliath! It’ll be sazzy!!
Also very funny how in the middle of the movie, while traveling to vegas, KITT travels 600 miles in 3 hours in its “super mode” and when they arrive to the casino, the bad guys are already there. that was hillarious!
Also kind of funny the way they kept bringing up the existence of a second KITT to build excitement of a possible KARR revival.
On the positive side, I liked how they use Vegas as part of the setting for the new pilot. The original pilot in 82 also took place in Vegas
One of the things that would have made it for me would have been that somebody would have used the semi dissasembled Trans Am at the old man’s house(ex kitt) to go from a place to another (maybe instead of the Mike’s mom’s ELCamino looking car)
Besides that, the pilot was ok. Ford needs to step down a little. Its looking kind of like American Idol with all its ford’s plugs.
At a distance…. and with a little imagination the Mustang looked like the old Trans Am.

By: supremebrougham

supremebrougham — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:31:52 +0000

FWIW The original KITT was voiced by William Daniels, of “St. Elsewhere” and later, “Boy Meets World” fame.

By: Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:30:30 +0000

Although TTAC hasn’t once posted on the new Knight Rider TV series– why would we?

Your not as fun as Jalop?

After reading what was written hear (I missed the show myself. Car show+hooters+a bit of random driving)), I’m sorry I missed it. A GT500KR, Lesbians, and the Hoff…damn.

By: Donal Fagan

Donal Fagan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:59:15 +0000

The best thing about the original Knight Rider was that KITT sounded like John Adams.

KITT: “I am obnoxious and disliked.”

TTAC: “Yes I know.”

By: Nopanegain

Nopanegain — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:06:30 +0000

With this show so goes a piece of my childhood into a piece of garbage.

With the old Kitt, at least the interior designers were allowed to go hog wild with a plethora of Cyberdyne-digital gauges. The new Kitt’s dash is so spartan than that the four massive stock HVAC dials remain. What a waste of cockpit space for what could be better used for “Surveillance Mode” or “Jamming Radar”

Sajeev once wrote in an article about a vehicle that looked like KITT while going into maximum breaking mode. Now when Kitt goes into max speed mode he looks like a shopping cart, with the double-decker spoiler and all…

PS- where is turbo boost button? Sajeev, they are taking away all of our good memories from the 5th grade…

By: threeer

threeer — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:57:34 +0000

At the last minute, Will Arnett backed out of the voice-over for KITT (gee, he does voice over for the GMC commercials…go figure). So Val Kilmer is actually voicing the car. And yeah, the first 15 minutes were not necessary (two women with the lead character and the lesbian agent? Puh-leeze)…the rest was an orgasmic ad for all things Ford. At least the old KITT could outrun vans. As campy as the original was, this new version was abysmal. How many more product placements could we have? And KITT transformed into a six cylinder Mustang?? How tragic…

By: partsisparts

partsisparts — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:56:29 +0000

I didn’t know my Edge could keep up with my neighbor’s Shelby! I am going to ask him to race for pinks this weekend!!!

By: KixStart

KixStart — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:38:05 +0000

It’s like a bad accident on the highway, you can’t help but look. I watched. I admit it.

Gawd, it was awful. Even The Hoff was worse.

Quasimondo, it’s worse than you thought, it was TWO hours out of our lives.

By: Steve_K

Steve_K — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:16:38 +0000

Transformers is such an awesome movie, it would still kick butt even if all the Autobots turned into Aveos. Besides, all the bad guys were non-GM, just like in real life! Ba-da-bom-ching!

By: blankfocus

blankfocus — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:16:02 +0000

I love Arrested Development and that’s why I know that Will Arnett had to drop out of this show/movie because he did a GM commercial back in the day. Kitt’s voice is actually Val Kilmer.

By: TriShield

TriShield — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:11:05 +0000

The film stuck to the original and successful cult formula quite well. It had bad lines and acting, lots of tire-smoking car porn and ridiculous stunts. Even the Hoff reprised the role that made him famous, even if only for a few minutes. It also managed to be somewhat entertaining, moreso than I thought it would be. Too bad GM wasn’t willing to donate a black Corvette ZO6 for the lead role. Or maybe they were smarter than that.

By: William C Montgomery

William C Montgomery — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:40:52 +0000

Not familiar with Will Arnett? Haven’t you ever watched Arrested Development – the single greatest TV comedy of the last decade (don’t try to give me Curb Your Enthusiasm) – in which he played “Gob” Bluth II? Sadly, I guess nobody watched that show…