What annoys you about Knight Rider?
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This was told to me by a friend....years ago...and that friend of mine wasn't the type to say hoaxes. But in any case, I would like to hear from others here what their opinion is...if its just a prank story or real. I would definitely be interested in hearing it.Lost Knight wrote:AIDS in Sesame Street?!? Say it ain't so!
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Starying off-topic, but just to clear up the Sesame Street rumor: Sesame Street added an HIV-positive muppet to its show in South Africa. Children there are confronted with the issue far more than American children are, so the government wanted to help teach them a little more about the disease and about tolerance.
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2002/091702.shtml
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2002/091702.shtml
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AHHH!!! thats horrible. i know i havent seen the show in a long time, but there's no way they would do that here. i do remember hearing that they were going to introduce a character that had AIDS on the South African version of sesame street, because of the AIDS epidemic there. maybe thats where you heard the rumor from. wow i know way too much about kids showsHondaSiR wrote:I remember vaguely the storyline of Sesame Street...didn't the network kill off Ernie's character (by acquiring AIDS)? If so, then who would be the person who would have given it to him? Who was the one person who always shared the same room with him at night and who always was his companion during the day? Bert! I wonder if the kids watching the show made the easy connection.LadyV2000 wrote:I remember hearing a while ago that some people wanted to take Bert and Ernie off Sesame Street for the same reason. i mean COME ON!
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Ahh, so that's where it all started. It is kind of hard to imagine a Sesame Street scenario involving such heavy topics such as death and AIDS. Thanks for the info, Michael.Michael Pajaro wrote:Starying off-topic, but just to clear up the Sesame Street rumor: Sesame Street added an HIV-positive muppet to its show in South Africa. Children there are confronted with the issue far more than American children are, so the government wanted to help teach them a little more about the disease and about tolerance.
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2002/091702.shtml
Yup, the South African version is probably what my friend was thinking about, not the US version. I guess the problem there regarding the disease is well out of proportion now to warrant such programs. Such a sad reality.LadyV2000 wrote:AHHH!!! thats horrible. i know i havent seen the show in a long time, but there's no way they would do that here. i do remember hearing that they were going to introduce a character that had AIDS on the South African version of sesame street, because of the AIDS epidemic there. maybe thats where you heard the rumor from. wow i know way too much about kids shows
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The thing that bugged me was. Why not just tell KITT to turboboost instead of using the button. Use the button for emergency use only.
Any time you would see KITT use his t-tops. One time they were in hot pursuit and the t-top was activated and it just moved up like the 200 mph he was hitting would not rip the top off Indesructable shell or not. Then in another episode he activated the top and the drivers side just moved toward the passenger side like a moonroof. you dont see it moving over just disappearing.
It was the 1980's and Michael Knight was taking on the biggest and baddest criminals in the era. They were so bad he needed a multi million dollar, indesructable. The coolest car on earth but..... he never had a gun. All these baddies would be armed to the teeth and michael was unarmed. Just did not make any sense.
Let's not forget 90% he was in California, everyone around him would be wearing shorts, shortsleeves, miniskirts. And here this grown man driving up in a black car with a longsleeve shirt and a black coat. And NO BODY looked at him like "idiot"
It is tv ..... but even with all these questions I still love this show......
I also loved Dukes of Hazzard--even though it even had more questions than KR
Any time you would see KITT use his t-tops. One time they were in hot pursuit and the t-top was activated and it just moved up like the 200 mph he was hitting would not rip the top off Indesructable shell or not. Then in another episode he activated the top and the drivers side just moved toward the passenger side like a moonroof. you dont see it moving over just disappearing.
It was the 1980's and Michael Knight was taking on the biggest and baddest criminals in the era. They were so bad he needed a multi million dollar, indesructable. The coolest car on earth but..... he never had a gun. All these baddies would be armed to the teeth and michael was unarmed. Just did not make any sense.
Let's not forget 90% he was in California, everyone around him would be wearing shorts, shortsleeves, miniskirts. And here this grown man driving up in a black car with a longsleeve shirt and a black coat. And NO BODY looked at him like "idiot"
It is tv ..... but even with all these questions I still love this show......
I also loved Dukes of Hazzard--even though it even had more questions than KR
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Getting back on topic (after being sidetracked by Sesame Street), I would say that the thing I hate so much is that it only lasted four seasons. Being a long time fan of the show, its hard to hate anything about something that you love. Given the blooper scenes and goofaws...being a fan, you learn to look beyond its weaknesses and faults. I am proud to say that if the show annoys me in any way, it has to be its short four season lifespan.
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Yeah that always cracked me up. All these nasty criminals would always let some dude in cowboy boots kick the gun out of their hands and then they'd get knocked out with one or two punches. Michael must have had fists of steel or something!kywolverine708 wrote: It was the 1980's and Michael Knight was taking on the biggest and baddest criminals in the era. They were so bad he needed a multi million dollar, indesructable. The coolest car on earth but..... he never had a gun. All these baddies would be armed to the teeth and michael was unarmed. Just did not make any sense.
And what's with all these armored cars and trucks with pop-out machine guns and rocket launchers??? Who would actually NEED something like that? If you want to kill someone, there's much easier ways to do it than chasing them around in a death car. LOL
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Well, that's '80s television for ya! As for the Turbo Boost button, the whole idea is to have manual control. K.I.T.T. could think for himself but only if Michael permitted him to. You could then ask, "Well since KITT could drive himself, why did Michael drive or why was there even a steering wheel?" Again, because the idea is to give the "pilot" manual control.kywolverine708 wrote:The thing that bugged me was. Why not just tell KITT to turboboost instead of using the button. Use the button for emergency use only.
Any time you would see KITT use his t-tops. One time they were in hot pursuit and the t-top was activated and it just moved up like the 200 mph he was hitting would not rip the top off Indesructable shell or not. Then in another episode he activated the top and the drivers side just moved toward the passenger side like a moonroof. you dont see it moving over just disappearing.
It was the 1980's and Michael Knight was taking on the biggest and baddest criminals in the era. They were so bad he needed a multi million dollar, indesructable. The coolest car on earth but..... he never had a gun. All these baddies would be armed to the teeth and michael was unarmed. Just did not make any sense.
Let's not forget 90% he was in California, everyone around him would be wearing shorts, shortsleeves, miniskirts. And here this grown man driving up in a black car with a longsleeve shirt and a black coat. And NO BODY looked at him like "idiot"
It is tv ..... but even with all these questions I still love this show......
I also loved Dukes of Hazzard--even though it even had more questions than KR
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that is so true. i've seen the goof ups but i just ignore them or laugh them off. i also know that show isnt real either but that doesnt stop me from imaging that maybe somewhere there's a beautiful black trans am out there with a super intelligent computer in it.HondaSiR wrote:Getting back on topic (after being sidetracked by Sesame Street), I would say that the thing I hate so much is that it only lasted four seasons. Being a long time fan of the show, its hard to hate anything about something that you love. Given the blooper scenes and goofaws...being a fan, you learn to look beyond its weaknesses and faults. I am proud to say that if the show annoys me in any way, it has to be its short four season lifespan.
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Micheal Shouting "Yeah" all the time, Mainly after a Turbo boost
Micheal's "Moody" look when driving, It always makes me crack up laughing
KITT's "Prissyness" can get on my nerves sometime, Cause for a high tech computer He whines an awful lot
The lack of KARR episodes, He is seen ...What.... Maybe Twice?, Why not do a Two parter or a recurring Story arc?, After all he's the evil twin
Micheal's "Moody" look when driving, It always makes me crack up laughing
KITT's "Prissyness" can get on my nerves sometime, Cause for a high tech computer He whines an awful lot
The lack of KARR episodes, He is seen ...What.... Maybe Twice?, Why not do a Two parter or a recurring Story arc?, After all he's the evil twin
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[quote="AtariKnight"]Micheal Shouting "Yeah" all the time, Mainly after a Turbo boost
Come to think about all the hero car shows that jumped cars, like the Dukes of Hazzard after they would jump something they would look behind him. I guess that would be another one of those 80's things. Because me if I jumped something I would stop my car get out and look and make sure my car (indestructable of not) was still in one piece.
One the coolest/cheesiest things for me, and it never dawned on me till I got older was the "infrared restraints" I believe it was called. I mean at that time we (american society) was just starting to push seatbelts. So in an effort to make the series seem safer for the public and still keep the cool look of seatbeltless jumping because even when Kitt faced Computer problems IE quicksand, goliath, tank episodes Michael never got stuck in his infrared belts LOL
Come to think about all the hero car shows that jumped cars, like the Dukes of Hazzard after they would jump something they would look behind him. I guess that would be another one of those 80's things. Because me if I jumped something I would stop my car get out and look and make sure my car (indestructable of not) was still in one piece.
One the coolest/cheesiest things for me, and it never dawned on me till I got older was the "infrared restraints" I believe it was called. I mean at that time we (american society) was just starting to push seatbelts. So in an effort to make the series seem safer for the public and still keep the cool look of seatbeltless jumping because even when Kitt faced Computer problems IE quicksand, goliath, tank episodes Michael never got stuck in his infrared belts LOL
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Indeed, you would figure with all of his sophisticated gadgets, he could turbo boost himself out of any situation... That has always been quite awkward.Knightwolf wrote:The one thing that always annoyed me was the fact that Kitt could not lower himself down from an automotive lift. If he can open doors, and spin the dial on a safe, why couldn't he lower himself down from an automotive lift.
Other than that I will always love the show,
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T-Tops are Glass roofs. It has two glass parts which can be removed. In some episodes you would see Kitt with the T-Tops off.
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How about K.I.T.T.'s inconsistent surveilance mode. This happened a lot, but off the top of my head, the end of Goliath Returns part I episode when they use a parachute after going off the cliff. There were trucks approaching with armed men in them and Michael steps out of KITT to wrap up the parachute. Why doesn't KITT tell him not to get out? Also the one they just played on Sci-FI with Jason Bateman. When he has kit stashed in that tent or whatever it was, he hears a noise, and leaves KITT to check it out, and it was the two bad guys and KITT didn't do a damn thing.
Also, the same stock footage used over and over, like someone mentioned earlier.
Also, the same stock footage used over and over, like someone mentioned earlier.
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always when kitt turbo boosts, for example
season 2 episode "Custom Kitt"
when they turbo boosts over the train.. Micheal looks back, and there is a diffrent view outside the trunkwindow
it was always like that
not sure if anyone already wrote this but who cares
well time to sleep now, its 5am here in sweden...
sleep well
season 2 episode "Custom Kitt"
when they turbo boosts over the train.. Micheal looks back, and there is a diffrent view outside the trunkwindow
it was always like that
not sure if anyone already wrote this but who cares
well time to sleep now, its 5am here in sweden...
sleep well
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Too much overacting and seeing the stunt doubles!!!
It bothers me about how David is so overacting his role as Michael in some episodes, But at least he has good enthusiasm.
I hate seeing the stunt doubles so much that I am now reediting most of the episodes to not have to see these pain in the butt people.
The stunt guys have gotten some good stuff done, but it looks awful when you can see them upclose and tell for sure that it's not David.
Also the different ways you see the inside of the car when KITT is suppose to be driving himself. Sometimes with a guy ducking under. Universal should of spent more money now in digitally erasing those errors.
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I hate seeing the stunt doubles so much that I am now reediting most of the episodes to not have to see these pain in the butt people.
The stunt guys have gotten some good stuff done, but it looks awful when you can see them upclose and tell for sure that it's not David.
Also the different ways you see the inside of the car when KITT is suppose to be driving himself. Sometimes with a guy ducking under. Universal should of spent more money now in digitally erasing those errors.
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For me it is the semi truck that had the mobile repair unit for KITT. The inside was clearly a set and looked far bigger than the actually semi would be inside. When Michael would drive in there would only be a few inches of clearance between the car and the wall of the truck. All of sudden he gets out of the car and there is all this space to walk around in.