Knight Rider

[topaz]

"What's Knight Rider?"

"It's a really cheesy TV show from the 1980s about a talking car."

"That says that it's starting in September."

"Apparently it's a really cheesy TV show from the 1980s about a talking car that they're reviving in September."

"It's a show about a talking car, Quinn.  Sounds like something you'll like."

"You should know that in 1982 the idea of a talking car was really cool."

"Yeah.  Now it's just normal."

Comments

[dbang.livejournal.com]

OMG I loved that show!

[maebeth.livejournal.com]

speed buggy!
I never saw knight rider. But I used to a make cardboard models of cars while I watched speed buggy.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I totally did too. The truth shall set me free.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

SPEED BUGGY! Holy smokes, how could I have forgotten that show?

[ctseawa.livejournal.com]

Lets hear it for cheesy shows with bellbottoms, hair, and teeth!

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was such a Knight Rider fan back then.

I remember once going to an auto show and they had the "KITT" car there. I noticed something very interesting. On the TV show when they showed the car shifting or braking by itself it was an automatic transmission. The car at the auto show had a clutch.

[catya.livejournal.com]

Hee :) I almost names my car "Kit" but settled on "Smart Girl" instead. (the nickname for the heinlein car)

Not that her name gets used much. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yep, that sounds about right.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

What! No "Gay Deceiver"?

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Whatever one thinks of the book, it is hard to beat a car that can fly, teleport, and take you to Oz.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

"remember when cameras didn't have displays on the back and you had to WAIT for the pictures to come back from the 'printer'?"

[(Anonymous)]

i think it's possible that that name is outdated :)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I agree. I had little patience for the book (or, really, for any of Heinlein's ongoing immortal incest fantasy universe) but that car was wicked awesome.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I can only stretch my credibility so far with these kids about what life was like in the old days.

[wotw]

Ummm. This is the first I've heard of Knight Rider, but
isn't this just a ripoff of the first great talking-car
series, "My Mother the Car"?