Mr. Wheaton (SIR!),

I hate to break it to you, but C3PO wasn't actually the robot, either.

I used to watch that when I was a kid staying at my grandparents house...

I think R2D2 was, though

I just wish they hadn't cut up all the cars at the end of the series. I used to wish I could drive one of those things when i was a kid. Especially the hard top convertible ones...

Shut up, Jon! He totally was!

Crestfallen? Hell no! He's one of my favorite actors (no offense), and he always seems so prim and proper, that to realize he took on the roll of a CAR blew me away! -- and then I realized why I had a crush on a car :-)

Shhhh.... You're letting everyone know my secret identity! (tm)

I am JSc! Evil incarnate! Hard and crusty and unlovable!

And stuff....

Talk to KITT?!?!!?

I missed a lot, growing up in Cleveland...

We didn't even have the Rock Hall or good old Drew back then.

But hey, the Browns were good.

Heha my friend's father made an audio tape of KITT and played it in the car for my friend and her older brother and actually convinced them THEY had a talking car too.

Didn't C3PO introduce himself as "C3PO, Human Cyborg, relations."

If he's a cybernetic organism, then doesn't he have a meat brain with a partially or completely electronic body?

p.s. I wanted a KITT car, until everyone starting modding their cars like that... and we all saw how desperately uncool it was.

Don't you find that Mr. Baywatch looks micro thin in that picture? Was he on drugs?

Whew.

What a concept. A talking car.

I often wonder what my car would say back to me after listening to me talk to it for all the years I've owned it...

I, for some reason, never realized you were on the board of directors of SAG.

Holy bejeezus, I think I just passed a gallstone.

What does that entail, exactly? How does that happen? How much can you tell us?

You didn't ask KITT if he's ever tried to kill Dr. Ehrlich?!?

JsC=Jon?? *lower lip tremble* no... No.. I WON'T believe it.. I can't...

whoa... Ok, I'm done... Major sugar rush tonight... who knew there was that much sugar in grape juice??

Wil, WUSS!! Kidding, kidding... I could offer a comparison, but I don't have any... I'm just a boring person who wonders what you call it when you mix grape juice and vodka... I want to try it, but I want to know what it's CALLED first... help??

You know Wil, at least you had a chance to sit in the car--some of us kids could only dream about it.

WB started replaying all the old episodes a couple of years back at seven o'clock in the morning. I used to watch the beginnings to see if I could remember the episode before taking off to class.

You know what the sad thing was--when classes ended in June and I could actually go out on a Tuesday night and drink my ass off not having to worry about teaching with a hang over the next day, I actually got up and watched the damn thing with a bowl of cereal feeling like I was twelve again. Ahhh, the nostalgia.

is it a Purple Cow? I don't know. Let's ask KITT!

There were these two guys down the street from me when I was growing up who had a car painted to look just like the one in Starsky and Hutch. I was convinced it was the real deal for the longest time, and was devastated when my dad wouldn't let me accept their offer to take me for a ride in it...

Did you know?

Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in the name Wil Wheaton, you get this:

Wil on wheat.

Yes, you know that is funny. If you don't think that that is funny, then go eat some sausage on the new Bakula Bastard Rooster Roaster, much better than a crappy George Foreman grill that will break if you throw it into a toilet from a 7 story building! Remember, Bakula Bastard Rooster Roaster - you're rooster will be happy you chose the Bakula Bastard Rooster Roaster!

Grape juice + vodka = pretty rough.

Try some whiskey and orange soda instead. I don't know what it's called, but it's some smooth drinkin'.

Of course...looking back on it, that was probably a GOOD thing...

I have a partially meat brain

I keep it in the kitchen

with some fava beans and a nice chianti

mmmmmmm

Grape juice + vodka...

If you're feeling strapped but fancy, you could call it wine.

>>Didn't C3PO introduce himself as "C3PO, Human Cyborg, relations."

Actually, I think it was, "C3PO, Human/Cyborg Relations."

In other words, he was what my husband would call an Liason Officer. As a protocol 'droid, he could not only translate between the two cultures (would 'droids be considered to have a culture?) but between the languages as well. Given his skill in translation, he was also (as per the specs of the make and model) a human/human translator; quite a useful skill, given that HSR/pd's can be found on ambassadorial or governmental ships.

None of which pertains to the thread at hand. 8-D

thanks for clearing that up, whisper (;

Herbie the Love Bug would have taken care of Kitt in pretty short order, let me tell you what.

Yeah, but can he speak Bocce?

don't forget his Austrian cousin, Khitty Khitty Bang Bang. now THAT'S the car I wanted when I was little.

Is it just me, or did this entry get a whole lot longer...

I always thought that CP30 introduces himself as "CP30: Human-Cyborg Relations." As in he specializes in the relations between humans and cyborgs (i.e. he's a translator). But I could be wrong.

<soapbox>
Of course, it's hard for me to say. It's been ages since I've actually seen the movie, since I REFUSE to ever rent it again on video cassette - and because of this fact coupled with the fact that Mr. Lucas is evidently determined to never release the movie on DVD, I guess I'll never see it again... :)

Speaking of which, Wil: I don't know if you ever get a chance to rap with George Lucas, but if you ever do, do me a favor and tell him there are millions of screaming, teeth gnashing fans out here that would gladly pay $25 for a crappy, thrown-together-with-bailing-wire-and-bubble-gum DVD version of Star Wars NOW, and like $50 for a really-cool-ultra-extended-dance-remix version of same, sometime in the far far away future. He's like totally missing the boat here.
</soapbox>

BTW, Wil, that IS hands down the BEST PICTURE EVER.

Bob.

The question isn't so much if he can speak it...but can he play it? 8-D

Thank you JinL -- I didn't see two thirds of it my first time through either!

YAY!! I'm not the only one... /me dances

This has stayed on topic for too long.

So when's the next RFB broadcast?

DEWD, I totally have a pic of me sitting in KITT when I was a kid!!!!!

I asked....

Q:What is your favorite color?
A:Black

Q:Do ya ever get tired of running Michael around?
A:No, I don't ever get tired of anything. It's not a part of my program.

Totally, the answer to that last one was copped out...BUT STILL!!!

Out of EVERYTHING at Universal Studios, that is one of the most intact memories, the other was the A Team Van thingw here some big ass burly dude lifted it off of two of it's tires with his bare hands!! Oh yeah and the giant black phone and the Jaws ride....Ahhh!!! Back in the day!!

okay, C3P0 was always calling himself "human cyborg realtions" and a bot. anyway, who cares, it was a guy in a suit.

RFB is RIP, until I can get some technical support from the guys at Winamp who had hooked me up with a server there.

I've emailed them, but I haven't heard back, and I let my live365 account lapse. :(

Hey, Wil do you ever wonder how far around the world your posse reaches. I wouldn't mind knowing myself.

Personaly I live in Canada, Born in Holland.

That's a bummer, Wil.

Hey! I remember that setup. I visited universal waaay back, and I wanted to sit in KITT. But I vaguely remember the comment from my parents "We're not waiting in THAT line so you can sit in a car!" Looking back, the line was pretty damn long.

Art;
South Central Wisconsin currently -- MidWest (IN/MI/WI), USA my whole life.

I hope you get a lot of responses on this one, it would be great to learn where everyone is from!

I'm still jealous... Cedar Point wasn't even cool back then. We had the Berenstein Bears wandering around the park. They didn't talk at all, and they were definitely not as cool as KITT...

They are, I fear, missing out on a huge opportunity. Instead of Ask Jeeves, they could do away with the old duffer, and get the car to do the business. Ask KITT. Now we're running on gas.

Shame on you, Wil!

The answer was: "You'll shoot your eye out kid! Ho, ho, ho...."

Art--

Born in NJ, currently attending school in CT. USA all my life.

Good. We're still off topic....

Born in Milwaukee, moved to Cedarburg (15 miles north of Milwaukee) when I was in 7th grade, spent 3 years in Madison thinking I wanted to become a chemical engineer, spent another 3 years in Cedarburg attending UW-Milwaukee, and have recently moved to Columbia, SC for grad school.

Also, I'm on the cusp between Taurus and Aries, my favorite color is....

Flann--
(sorry to go completely off-topic)
Where are you attending? I'm also from NJ and going to school in CT next year. Big difference?

The Black Beauty can kick KITT's ass.

Art: Born down Wil's way, Santa Monica to be exact ... now living Somewhere in Northern California(tm).

Wil: did you just ask if *Herbie the Love Bug* could speak Bocce?

IIRC, KIFT (or whatever it was, in the movie Knight Rider 2000) could speak several languages. I don't remember which exactly.

You want the coolest car - like apart from KITT - the one in Automan that the little dude cursor 'drew' to specification.

*ponders* although it did not take to corners too well ...

and pity about it disappearing as soon as the toasters get plugged in ...

Tish

Art: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada... represent!

ooo - and the deLorien with the MrFusion upgrade :D

but he didn't talk :(

Tish

Oh shoot, Wil. I just posted a lengthy reply in yesterday's comments box when I meant to do it here.

OH well... it's late here (11:50 EST)... been at the workstation ALLLLL day....

Time to sleep, methinks.

I remember KITT from my childhood days here in New Zealand, I recall it was a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 2000, 1.8m (that's a childhood memory)
We had Automan here too, he was great :)

Goddammit, I hate being the baby of the board. All I remember of KITT is how it came in to Celebrity Deathmatch to save David Hasselhoff from John Tesh.

Goddamn bastard Tesh.

That was C-3PO, whom I was referencing earlier.

Chris: you get a cookie for catching the "A Christmas Story" implications of the post. I was very seriously trying to work in a "Little Orpan Annie Secret Decoder Ring" reference, but I just couldn't find a place for it.

Oh!

A-L-W-A-Y-S D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

hehehe

Ovaltine is so tasty. Good-for-you chocolate!

Wil,
Not surprising, considering the fact that I've watched the film at least 3 times EVERY Christmas for the past 8 years. What you could have worked in was a "But I didn't say fudge." reference. :):)

Seriously, was that whole 4-man bobsled team thing real? It's hurting my head.

Art: Ottawa, Canada: Where it was -29 Celcius with windchill today. Brr! And here I was just enjoying the global warming non-winter. : (

KJB,

Try Ghirardelli hot chocolate mixes! They mix with milk and are to die for!

Oh. But wait... Ghirardelli is kinda tough for the decoder ring, isn't it?

It's a code unto itself!

ooooo - Willy-babe - how much into character did you get while being Wes - I mean - did you smile for days if there was a script where Wes did something cool ???

that is my KITT-question for you...

Tish

Spacewriter:

I have tried those Ghiradelli mixes. They rule, but are not filled with lots of healthy vitamins and nutrients.

Hmm.... (too much potential).
Wil? Is this an imitation-leather interior?
If I lean on your horn, will it really explode with...sound?

heheheh couldn't RESIST!!!

hehehehehehe!!! Cool as HELL!

to Spacewriter and KJB...

three words (and three letters ...)

Dutch Drinking Chocolate - O M G !!!

Tish

Re: Ghirardelli mixes

Well, I don't rely on them for my daily health fix... that's what the collection of fruits and vegies is for . But, on a cold, blustery night, they do hit the spot, especially when consumed in front of a nice little log fire, and a bit of nice music playing in the stereo.

Even better if it's snowing out!

Ahhh, yes, but does this Dutch taste sensation still offer a decoder ring after all this time?

Methinks not.

haHA!

don't know that the Dutch have decoder rings ... maybe you get a miniture clog on a keyring or something ...

Tish

No, but if you get the good Dutch drink in Amsterdam, I'm sure they would have some nice OTHER goodies on offer. Forget the decoder pen. ;)

No decoder rings, but now they've got all sorts of cheesy commercials to get a new generation of kids to drink their Ovaltine!

I always thought it had a weird aftertaste, myself....

... with or without batteries?

*ponders*

Tish

They've got decoder doohickies! I've seen them on the can! Ovaltine is as goofy and subversive as ever.

Mmmm, More Ovaltine, Please!

Wil!

I thought I was the *only* person who remembered that about Universal Studios! I remember being freaked out about seeing KITT there just answering questions. To tell you the truth I can't even remember what I asked him.

As a side note, I also remember on that trip to U-Studios, I met some cheesey guys in Transformer suits. It sucked. The guy wasn't even a good Starscream. Remembering back on it, they actually looked like those corny robots from the Power Rangers.

Ok, off my memory lane trip. Time for bed.

Milo is crunchier...

and if you add it to icecream with a spoon of instant expresso - can keep you up for two days straight.

But I believe that the USA does not know of this... oh and has more vits then Ovaltine

:P

Tish

Off the subject here... but did anyone hear about that guy who is facing up to 20 years in prison for using the airplane bathroom during the last 30 minutes of the flight? The sky marshalls arrested him, and made the rest of the passengers put their hands on their heads until they were docked at the gate.

Does this worry anyone?

Guess he had too much Ovaltine during the flight

Kendoka, don't get me started. :)

I remember walking past KITT when I was 11 years old. I wanted to ask him if he ever gets tired of Michael sitting in there and stinking up the car when he passed gas. My mom pulled me out of the line when I told her my question. My mom always did hold me back.

*grrrrrs*

I used to be grateful that I didn't live in a police state...but now that the Prez is cutting funding to healthcare to fund his undeclared war, I'll probably die anyway. d:

Yeah, that's disturbing.

So is Yancy Butler, but in a different way.

Melli,

Isn't it like all mothers to suppress us just at the point of ultimate knowledge? You had the answer to THE question within your grasp when BOOM. Repression rears its ugly head.
P.S. do you realize that when I add an "S" to your name, you become Smelli?
Ooooh, the ironic goodness...

You know, Melli, you could totally do some sort of really offensive art installation that the right-wingers would want to ban, and you could totally blame your mom.

"This is an expression of my mother's repression of my need to ask about Michael Knight's farts"

Do I actually become Smelly or is it just smelli? I am concerned. When I add an "s" to Chris it just looks silly.
Am I the only one disturbed with Britney Spears Movie "Crossroads"? There are starving children in Africa and she gets to make a bad movie?!

Wil,
Isn't that just like a man. Blame the woman.

Wil, then when my art is banned everywhere and I am a starving artist I will have to run to my mom to feed me and clothe me... She would enjoy the irony in all that.

Hey, there were starving people in Africa when Mariah Carey made her bad movie and when Madonna made her 5 bad movies. What's the big difference?

Britney Spears gets to make bad movies because she is SatanSpawn (tm).

Heck, there are starving people in the United States, and the President is still pulling more money from everywhere to start trouble in other countries.

Difference is that I now want to make a bad movie.

I thought that was Adam Sandler's excuse.

Really now? To the best of my knowledge, Kitt was never equiped with the ability to smell. Unlike Data's emotion chip, they never did have an episode where Kitt was given a special device to smell with. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) However, if Mr Danials was stuffed under the dashboard or in the back seat with a mike during the filming, then there could be a problem.

Kitt would have been a fun car most the time, but not one I would want to make out in!

Yeah, but can he speak Bocce?

Posted by: wil on February 11, 2002 08:04 PM

Wow, Wil.

That took balls.

discussions on chocolate drinks, toilets, farts and modern art ...

all in all a good time

+++ QUICK POLL +++

(1) How many women think that Legolas (Orlando Bloom) is too sexy???

(2) How many men are sick of hearing woman harp on about 'the damn elf' ???

btw KJB & I have plans to kidnap him and start a male harem...

Tish

Why not? Did Kitt seem to you to be a back-seat driver type personality?

very true...(Michale is making out with a woman in the car)
KITT: Michael it would be wiser if you reached underneath the shirt to remove the bra.

I grew up in Columbus, Ohio.
No Cedar Point, No Paramount's Kings Island (but I did love pissing the Klingons off)- just OSU and COSI (interactive science museum).

So instead of a talking car, I spent the night with Jaws.
Yes the shark- the full length moveable shark from the movie.
Even touched it's lip.

What a night that was being only 10 years old and sleeping only 3 feet away from this creature.

Prolly explains why I'm so weird.. well in part.
^_^

-K

Personally, Tish, it was all over for me when I found out that the blond hair was a wig.

Hmm... Interesting MissKitty. I actually used to sleep with a blow-up plastic human-sized dinosaur that I used to...well... nevermind.

A wig, yes. But let's not forget, he had a mohawk underneath it.

my Knight Rider anecdote...

A few years back, I spent a year volunteering in a small mountain town in Ecuador. I had a chance to spend a week with an indigenous family who lived way out in the middle of nowhere (I mean the bus drops you off on the side of the road, then you hike for 5 miles into the backcountry, turn left at the cows, right at the chickens, you get the idea.) This community has virtually no contact with the outside world, save for hiking into town for the farmer's market once a week. Anyway, one family in this small community had a television set. So once a week, the whole village would gather at that family's home to watch their favorite program...none other than Knight Rider! All the girls had a crush on David Hasselhoff, and everyone thought that most people in the USA had cars like KITT.

Globalization at its best, folks. :-)

Wil-
God do I remember the good old days sitting inside KITT's magnificent "cockpit" asking him the most innane, assinine questions. And I was 12, at the time. I remember, KITT was sitting out in the open, and the Delorean from Back to the Future was sitting under a tarp for all to oggle. I even sat through the A-Team Stunt Show watching that badass van dodging bombs and landmines. I must say, it didn't get any better. Thanks for such a wild trip down memory lane. Ahhh....

hey - he had 'good hair' at least once! I have seen proof!

anyway ... we might have just as much luck in capturing the actual character as we do the actor ...

although I do have a sister living in London now... *ponders*

Tish

Hmm... I remember the Girl Scout sleepovers at COSI. I think the last one I went to was in 1985, and we got this run-down bus with an overactive heater that couldn't go over 45mph without feeling like it was going to shimmy itself to pieces right there on I-71...

Oh yeah, we also got snails to take home with us.

Britney Spears can make bad movies because she's smokin' hot.

Of course, that doesn't explain why I get to make bad movies.

She was just on Jay Leno out here, so if you're lucky you might get to see her in an hour or two.

You mean Wm Daniels voice in the play 1776 in the late 1960's was done offstage by... by a car?

Far out, man!

Interesting point, Wil. I guess the reason why you get to make bad movies is your unending quest for another anthopomorphized automaton that can speak Bocce..

The *binary* language of Bocce, no less.

Or was it the binary language of moisture converters...

crap.

It was the binary language of moisture vaporators, I think...

Shame on you, KJB. The answer is: "You'll shoot your eye out kid. Ho, Ho, Ho..."

Don't ask me why I remember that at 1:23 in the morning.. but I'm working on a paper, so there are lots of random bits of trivia popping up...

But Santa wasn't the only one who told him that, Chris... Didn't his teacher laugh at him while dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West in his little daydream?

DAMN MY EYES!

Stupid pack of wild dogs.

No turkey! No turkey leftovers! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey soup!

Deck the hars wis bowrs of horry
fah rah rah rah rah, rah rah rah rah

Actually, yes, while accompanied by his mother in a Jester's suit.

I'm so getting nailed for that.

You know it's a real shame that whole families can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.

Australian free-to-air has decided to start running Enterprise...

Dear God, or Q, whatever,

don't let them shove it to late night and then make me to the video store to see the end of the series, like DS9 and Voyage that free-to-air still have yet to finish.

oh, and a new series of Bab5 wont go astray either.

Ta much, I'll try and be good, well, yeah...

Tish

I loved the lamp... ("Fra-jee-lay...must be Italian!")

But I want to go to the Tashi Station to pick up some power converters!!

You'll shoot your eye out, kid

Ahh... the smell of ozone and the warm glow of electric sex shining in the window...

Yellow Eyes. Scott Farkus had yellow Eyes. So help me, Yellow Eyes.
--
I like the Wizard of Oz. I like the Tin Man.
--
My aunt Clara, who was laboring under the impression that I was not only 6 years old, but a girl.
--

All from memory, kids.

Gauntlet.

Thrown.

Whiny little punk.

Beep beep bleep wheee oooo!

Hey Wil! Second post in 2 days, I must be improving :)

This is one of the things I love about this site...because I can relive memories that I had forgotten all about!

I, too, got to sit in KITT, when an Auto show came to my hometown, Ottawa, Ontario, and they had KITT! I have a picture (somewhere) of my little brother and I sitting in the car, and...I remembered that I was SOOOO wanting to push the Turbo Boost button and test that bastard out hehe ;)

I didn't though :)

And he (yes, I refuse to believe it was an actor...it was just that they BASED KITTs voice on William Daniels because they thought it sounded good on St. Elsewhere!) talked to me too :)

Thanks again, Wil, for bringing me back down memory lane ;)

Jay

That's a scary gauntlet, dude.

"Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!"

might just be baby possums in the ceiling & walls, btw

wouldn't want to kill them, now would you

Last one:

"Ralphie! Tell us, son, what brought you to this lowly state?"

"It. Was.....Soap! Poisoning!"

And:

Sand people always ride single file, to hide their numbers. These tracks are side by side, and those blast marks are too precise for their weapons.

But if they [something something, cut me some slack, it's late], then they'd know that we gotthe droids from them, and that would lead them back...HOME!

Wait, Luke! It's too dangerous!

Daaa-dahhhh-da-dahhh-da-da-daaaa-daaaahhhhh....da-da-da-daaahhhh-da-da-da-da-da-da-daaahahhhhhh....

Good night, monkeys. See you tomorrow.

Hooo hooo hooo hee hee!

I had to post again...because with all this talk about Universal, I got another memory. When I was 6, my mother took me to Anaheim, and we went to Universal. I didn't get the KITT experience there, but...tell me SOMEONE remembers the BattleStar Galactica Space Battle part of the tour! :)

That was awesome :)

Jay

It's a MAJOR award!

Fra-gil-ay...it must be Italian!

I step up to your challenge, Mr. Wheaton.

"What do you want little boy?"
"Uhhhh uhhhh."
"How about a nice football?"
Football, what's a football?

"What is that thing?"
"It's a major award."
"It looks like a lamp to me."

My father, on the other hand, worked in obscenities the way other artists worked in oils..

He looks like a deranged rabbit.

Aww... it's a bowling ball, thank you dear.

I suddenly realized I was not about to be destroyed.

Hey, I'm from Wisconsin myself. I grew up in Wausau and then escaped to Madison when I was eighteen.

Wil,
If you're really interested in doing RFB, my husband and his friends have a server that they broadcast through and currently they only use it on Thursdays. If you wanted to shoutcast on their server, I'm sure they'd be willing to get you set up. Just a thought...

Steph

"Aaah! Go away! Go away, beastly things, shoo! Shoo!"

Make that a deranged Easter bunny.

Okay, Chris wins.

I have numerous memories of the BattleStar Galactica thingy...I'll write tomorrow about how I got to GO INSIDE IT!

YEAH!

YEAH!

:)

Night.

David Hasselhoff is actually planning a new Knight Rider series that will be called "Super Knight Rider 3000". This will be the 3rd attempt to bring KR back after the two failed attempts in the '90s.

Hasselhoff will return as Michael Knight, but he plays the older guy role, while some other person plays the driver of the new car. Hopefully William Daniels will return as the voice of KITT. IMDB even lists the upcoming series.

This site has some articles about it:

http://www.newknightrider.com

The Apocalypse is coming.

~300 mph

Apocalpyse? Nah dude this is so cool!!

Look at all the '80s stuff that is back in vogue. A new Knight Rider series, Mr. T commericials, ALF commercials, it doesn't get better then this. Heck there's even an A-Team and Greatest American Hero movie in the works!

But I pity the actor that tries to replace Mr. T as B.A. ;)

Funny how KITT would always accelerate, but never hit a top speed huh? Especially in super pursuit mode.

:)

I have nothing against KITT. It's that Hasselhoff dillweed I'm worried about.

Speaking of ALF... there he is!

I'm so pleased they've brought him back into the fold, especially into such a flexible genre as the 10-10-220 ads.

K, few things to say...

1) Melb Australia

2) Tish, don't trust the TV networks, you know they'll screw you, just like with DS9 and Voyager (but with Voyager no-one cared!) We've seen Enterprise to latest episodes, been getting them off the internet *cough cough*. If you want to know where, email me and I'll give you the details

3) Help required please?! WHERE can i find a mp3 file of the A-team theme song. I think it's been running practically constantly in my brain for the last few months and I want to know if it is, in fact, the A-team theme song.

4) You're a god damn blood sucking vampire Michael, ooh you wait til mom finds out!

5) Cherish - power convertors - Har!! :)

*sigh* Anyone else a dork like me and watch Star Wars like at least once a year?

firemage,

I have the A-Team song, but I honestly don't remember where I downloaded it from. Go to Stephen J. Cannell's website, and look in the "Fan Links" section. There are links to several fan made A-Team websites there, and one of them should have the A-Team song.

http://www.cannell.com

More like once a month, firemage.

Hi, I'm KJB, and I'm a dork.

Dorks of the world UNITE :)
Power to the people!! :)
Thanks John you are a legend!

----
Comb the desert!
Yes sir, combine the desert...

*LOL*!
I am such a dick! That was meant to read combing the desert!

Geez - can you tell I'm thinking its choc ice-cream and hot fudge dessert time???

"Found anything?"

"We ain't found shit."

Mmmm, hot fudge....

Knight Rider - I've always remembered an episode where KITT was heavily damaged for some reason, in fact it seemed he was a total write off. Then Michael was introduced to KITT rebuilt and improved, with extra features such as the ability to become a convertable. Or did I dream it? Nobody I know seems to remember that happening.

Battlestar Galactica - Why on Earth did Universal mask out the top and bottom of the picture for the pilot epside's DVD release? That doesn't magically make it was a widescreen movie!!! Anyways, anyone heard further developments on the new Battlestar series that was approved a couple of years ago?

Back in the 80's in Bethesda Maryland there was this guy who drove an exact replica of KITT around. The interior, the steering wheel, the red light up front...everything. No, I never did see any chicks in the front seat.

Kman

HEY WIL:

I just want you to know what happened to the real "KITT" car...and no, that one you encountered at Universal Studios is *not* it, sorry.
I interviewed with David Hasselhoff and his wife to be their child's nanny way back when (in the early 90's, but who's counting anyways, eh?).

The interview was conducted in their home, at the time in Sherman Oaks, just off the 405 freeway (assuming that they, like most other showbiz folks, have since moved to more tonier digs, more secluded digs, or out of the city altogether), and get this, Wil!!

The fireplace mantle in the family room of David's home was the front end of KITT!!! I kid you not, seriously, and when David finally joined his wife towards the end of my interview, he was like a little kid, wanted to show it off for me, the buttons, the lights, the noise and all.

So there you have it, KITT's on fire, and I'm not.

MissMissy (to you)

Hey Bob Curtis... RE: George Lucas and his aversion to DVDs:

As far as I know, and this is all hearsay, George Lucas has personal reasons for not releasing things on the DVD format. Apparently he was developing a type of temporary dvd that would stop working after about 25 viewings, but was beaten out by the company that originally developed the permanent DVDs we have today. So Georgie is bitter about losing out to the DVD people, and has little to no incentive for releasing his catalogue of movies on their format.

I'm just annoyed that we won't see Indiana Jones or the original Star Wars eps on DVD any time soon. Grr. Boo, hiss!

Firemage: wheeeee! Lost Boys reference! You made my night!

I watched Tron for the very first time last night (I know, I know... I was a deprived child), and all I could see was the grandpa from Lost Boys (Barnard Hughes). "Something I never could stomach about Santa Carla, all the damn vampires!"

Well, him and the Dude ("Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!")... and the Scarecrow.

Question: am I the only one who forever associates Bruce Boxleitner with the "Scarecrow and Mrs. King"? Maybe it's wrong to ask this forum though, considering the enormous sci-fi contingent here. :-) Hey, I never got into Babylon 5 okay? I mean, the captain guy was the Scarecrow. How could I take it seriously? :-)

Oh yeah, Knight Rider was cool.

Especially the music.

Psst... as a current employee of Universal Studios (giving tours that no one cares about anymore, in fact), I can safely say that WATERWORLD is the main focus of the experience now. That, and uh... Big Fat Liar. Yup.
And I think KITT is gathering dust at the tram garage. I know Magnum P.I.'s car is. How the mighty have fallen. :-(

HuttonGirl > Too cool! Does it still talk? :D

Wil > I remember asking KITT two questions:

"What's your top speed, KITT?"
"I was last clocked at 320 miles per hour."
"Wow! How much memory do you have, KITT?"
"1000 megabytes of ROM, and 1000 megabytes of RAM."

Heh heh. That's it, KITT? (Well, that was back in the 80's.)

I too remember 'meeting' KITT at Universal Studios (are we THAT old?!).
When I went KITT was on a small platform in the middle of a small expanse of water (so that there wasn't a crowd preventing photos being taken!).
Although you couldn't hear what was asked, you could hear the answers, and about every other answer was "I turbo-boosted out here". Seems you weren't the only one who couldn't think of a question!

KITT never had a top speed though. At least never shown in any episode. KITT was always accelerating, especially during super pursuit mode.

RE: Battlestar (according to many sources)...

Fox was going to bring back the series with Boxey (did you know his adult name is Troy?) as the main character, and about a half-dozen young unknowns playing young Colonial warriors fighting Cylons.

The show was slated to ignore the original story line, ignore the original cast members (though Noah Hathaway was approached and "lunched" with producer Tom DeSanto to reprise his role as Boxey/Troy, Fox wanted someone else ), and jus' be a bunch of 20-somethings shooting at aliens, with soap-opera like relationships between cast members.

Fox was betting the store on director Bryan Singer, but when he left to do X-Men 2, Fox lost interest. And due to all kinds of ownership issues, it's doubtful that anyone else will pick up the show.

*cough*Bubblegun*cough*

I sure liked my KITT Pedal car... it had three buttons, one for the front red lights, and two that made the car talk.

it was really cool... then I got too big for it :(

Aw man...

So I go to bed at what is a decent hour for working people here in the Eastern Time Zone, and I wake up to find a new blog about Dr. Mark Craig's alter ego (the cool one, not that "Boy Meets World" crap.)

A whole new post regarding a shadowy flight into the world of a man who does not exist.

And comments... with references to 'A Christmas Story" and "Star Wars"...and "Battlestar Galactica."

Not just "Battlestar" but the Universal ride that I never got to go see.

And to top it all off, my first comment is relegated to the bin at number one sixty something.

Does anyone ever read this far down?

Anyone?...one...one...ne...e

Hello?...hello...ello...llo...lo...o

Echo...cho...ho...o

Now batting for the Dodgers...Manny Mota...mota...ota

Hmmm, maybe I should quit my job, relinquish my life and just stay here and monitor the status of the blog...

Anthony Daniels was the voice of C3PO. William Daniels was the voice of KITT (for those who have confused the 2).

And Wil, you wrote "But I totally chickened out, and, when I got up there, I froze, and asked, "What's your top speed, KITT?"
The sad thing is, I can't even remember what the answer was."

Actually Wil, the sad thing would have been if you HAD remembered what it was...

Oh yeah - http://www.knighton-line.com/ and http://www.markscustomkits.com/KITT-restoration.html

Firemage...Lost Boys ..that is the best..even
have the soundtrack...

NewYork,New Jersey,Florida,California,Florida
again..North Carolina..and finally Georgia!!

Actually there was no, one KITT. There were loads of them. I remember watching a show and the interviewer guy asked where the real KITT is kept at night, and the guy went on about how there was no one KIT and there is a Garage full of them where they blah blah blah blah blah.

OK, So if everyone AGREES Knight Rider kicked some serious ass, who all in here remembered it's competitor.....AirWolf

Ovaltine, why do they call it Ovaltine, shouldn't it be called Roundtine.

I loved Airwolf-at least the Jan-Michael Vincent/Ernest Borgnine version. That show had a cool theme song too.

One of the things I liked best about it was that the copter usually helped tell the story. There were some good episodes that didn't even feature Airwolf in it. Unlike that crappy short lived "Blue Thunder" (with Dana Carvey and Dick Butkus) series that seemed like it had to make sure there were X number of shots of Blue Thunder using it's machine gun.

I did the whole KITT Thing growing up. I was totally depressed when I found out that it was an actor playing the voice of KITT. (of course, I was like 9 when I found that out) :)

Airwolf was alright... more of a Knight Rider in the sky type of thing.

There's no way KITT could kick the A-Team van's ass. Granted KITT itself is technically superior, but with Mr. T or even 'Howling Mad' Murdoch at the wheel, David Hasslehoff wouldn't stand a chance.

my fav band, Johnny Socko wrote a song bout David Hasselhoff (aptly titled "Hasselhoff" .. it's on their third album, Full Trucker Effect. one of the lines is "not afraid of crying to my car, KITT. it brought all those memories screaming back.

http://www.johnnysocko.com

amellia

The only problem with Knight Rider & KITT (well, apart from the utterly terrible season with "Super Pursuit Mode", and Knight Rider 2000, and Team Knight Rider, and...) was that I am now completely unable to take "The Graduate" seriously. Or "St Elsewhere" but that's not quite as much of a leap.

I'm sure there is a cable tv network out there that plays all of these old shows for us children of the 70s/80s to reminisce over... but where?

I remember sitting in Kitt at Universal Studios. I don't know how many people asked "Where's Michael?" and got the same response - "He's back at the Foundation with Devon and Bonnie." I, being the Knight Rider nut that I was asked "How do you feel about Karr?" and got my illusions shattered when "Kitt" said "Who's Karr?" Then proceeded to tell me there was never another version of him made, completely ignoring the fact that Karr was made before he was. Sometimes you just can't trust a car.

AirWolf!!!! OMG! I loved that show. I had the biggest crush on Jan Michel Vincent! And now, in real life, I have Apache helocopters flying overhead just about everyday. It makes me think of AirWolf for some reason...

Jan Michael Vincent WAS a hot item..
Much better than Hasselhoff (spelling?)..liked
the car much better.

Next topic?

Ok, I had to get in on this....

Not to be too technical, but Wil, it was

"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE", Ovaltine? A crummy commercial! Son of a bitch!

And the queen mother...

"I want a Red Ryder carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time!" *deep breath*

and one of my faves..

"My father wove a string of obscenities, that to this day, still hovers over Lake Michigan."

SONS A BITCHES! BUMPESES!!!!!!

Ok. I'm done.

The best thing about Knight Rider was Devin a.k.a. The Captain, Edward Mulhare from TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir fame!

Ahoy!
KITT was a tacky piece of junk. KITT lied to
me..he said he was real! He's not damnit!
My mates buy rubbish cars then put KITT lights
on the front that flash in red dots from side to side like that

..
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
..

They say it makes their cars look good but I
know its to satisfy Knight Rider fantasies
We all know the universal studios mock up
but where's the real one? some scrap heap? or hanging on some freak's bedroom wall?..we as loyal K.Rider fans have a right to know! rust in peace KITT! WE love u! Well, no actually

ps David Hasslehof has silly hair

That was -29 Gaea? It didn't feel like it in Ottawa. I personally thought that it was just right. Alas, I don't remember much of night rider, but Where is spongebob? You promised.
Please?

That was -29 Gaea? It didn't feel like it in Ottawa. I personally thought that it was just right. Alas, I don't remember much of night rider, but Where is spongebob? You promised.
Please?

Does anybody remember the K.I.T.T. Kit promo poster/car diagram that NBC put out? I still have mine!

Sorry for the double click.

Oh, and to answer the how far does Wil's posse go? I'm from Wisconsin (Proud to see the Cheesheads are totally representin' here!) now living just down the road from Uncle Willie (I'm sorry, may I call you Uncle Willie? Being new, I don't want to overstep my bounds) in Sunny San Diego.

And, damn, I almost went to the ComicCon. Now I REALLY wish I would have.....

V

KARR - Knight Automated Roving Robot. the "superior prototype" to KITT - Knight Industries Two Thousand, also known as the "inferior production model". Ah yes. All that is lodged in the back of my brain. Oh god.

As is Goliath, the truck covered in the same stuff as KITT (except for a weak spot, natch). And Garth Knight, otherwise known as Hasselhoff with the patented Beard of Evil(tm).

Great days. Here in the UK there are a few cable/sat/DTT channels devoted to old and cheesey shows; UK Gold & UK Gold 2 (less cheesy) , Bravo and Sci Fi spring to mind. Currently this means that Airwolf, Knight Rider, The A-Team, The Bionic Woman, The Time Tunnel and Fantasy Island are all kicking around.

Hey,
What was it with the 80's and vehicles? Must've been the trickle down effect of Reagan's Star Wars Program. Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider, and Airwolf.
Ahhh, the eighties, I am glad they're coming back. No more o the dank 70s and downer 90s grunge. The makers of That 70's Show are coming out with the 80's show and it's gonna be hilarious seeing spiked hair and frost eye shadow all over again!

Does this mean Wil's going to come back in style?
Did you audition for That 80's show?

Gosh, I used to love Airwolf too. A-Team, Knight Rider (now I have the theme going thru my head, thank you very much). And, my favorite cartoons were GI-Joe (A real American Hero), Go Bots and TRANSFORMERS (more that meets the eye. Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons). All my friends thought I was weird cuz I didn't get into Strawberry Shortcake (I just liked to smell the dolls) or any of the other "girlie" things. That, and I played with Star Wars action figures....

Memories, light the corners of my mind.....

Vickie

omigosh you just named all the crucial formative television shows of my 80s youth!!!

Do you remember the episdoe of GI Joe where they kill off that huge slimy thing that eats everything in it's path by leading it through the APPLE ORCHARD - since apple seeds have CYANIDE in them!! "Knowing is half the battle."

hhhaaaha. : )

I heard they are making a Knight Rider film. Is this true?

Yay! I wasn't the only girl who loved those shows.

But, I did watch the Dukes of Hazard because John Schneider was soooo dreamy. And, I thought that the General Lee was the greatest car in the world. That, and ROSCOE P COLTRANE.....and Flash.

Knight Rider was THE stuff, well except for maybe MacGyver. I think that would be a close match.

And I'm not the only one who had a crush on Roscoe P Coltrane!!!!

Yeah, and did you always try to get in your parents car THE DUKES OF HAZZARD way when they weren't looking??!! : )

John Schneider getting in his car that way was like his superpower move, like wonder woman's powerturn...

I never got into strawberry shortcake. It was probably too domestic for me.

I remember my family taking my baby brother to the Buffalo Car Show to see the KITT car (I was probably 14-15 or so, he was 4-5). Somewhere, my mom has pictures...

If you get the Ovaltine with the blue label, it's much better.

I believe you're thinking of DIVX, which I felt was doomed from the start. Disposable movies? Riiiiiight.

Oh hell yeah - goin through the window when Mom wasn't looking. I just couldn't slide across the hood. I mean, how could you not love a show that has a character named Cooter?

I would play with the SS dolls - only because I liked how they smelled. Give me Transformers anyday....

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL - I HAVE THE POWER!!!!

Let me explain, no there is too much. To sum up:

I'm from Texas, Houston to be exact. Haven't seen any other Texans listed...that's odd. There's ALWAYS people from Texas.

I once stayed home from school sick and saw the first part of a two part G.I. Joe. I had to go back to school the next day and I was crushed...I had to know if Dusty (I think that was his name) woke up from his coma. (Two parter with a character in a coma in a children's cartoon???I love it!) This was before the handy dandy VCR was in every room in our house so I made my mom watch it and tell me what happened when I got home from school.

I always liked Luke Duke much better. I always go for the underdog...and Tom Wopat was not hyped like Schneider was. And no, I'm not talking about the Bonnie Franklin loving variety.

I also used to get up at 6 am one summer so I could watch reruns of the Hardy Boys...starring Parker Stephenson who was in Baywatch with Hasslehoff who starred in Knight Rider with KITT...six degrees of separation, KITT version. I'd then go swim laps in the neighborhood pool and come back to watch Battlestar Galactica.

Good times.

Jenn

I liked the fact that in the 80's growin up watching shows, there was always a GOOD guy and a very clear BAD guy. Pretty cut n dry, nice and simple for young minds. Refreshingly simple, in today's ethical climate.
I remember the first time I saw an episode with the X-Men. I was like, these poor kids! They gotta learn the rules *first* before they can BREAK em!

Hey remember Thunderstar??

I mean, ThunderCats!!

ACK!! He-man!

Remember Dungeons and Dragons? I rarely got to watch it cause it scared my lil sisters, but I love it.

And what about...

Thunder

Thunder

Thundercats

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

whee!

Thunder, Thunder, Thunder Cats!

The 80s. Gotta love 'em, gotta hate 'em.

Remember Garbage Pail Kids?

The classics always come up.

What was that one about the people flying through space and they had to play the electic guitar to make it work? Something with birds in the name, I think...

Dang, I remember COLLECTING and trading those Garbage Pail Kids!! We'd like collect two hundred of them and then they'd come out with another series and we'd collect those too.

Yep, I had tons and tons of them!

And Jenn, I'm drawing a blank on your show.

Back to reading about CGI scripts (I too am teaching myself web design - for work.)

ymous_annon: It was only -29 if you were in a really windy area like waiting for a bus at Hurdman Station (brr). The straight temp was around -18 I think. I like having seasons but once winter gets below -15 I've had enough. I was born in July and I love the summer.

Brrrrrrrr. I remember the few days a year it would get that cold in WI. No one went anywhere. Hence, the large number of babies born the end of September/beginning of October......

I remember when I went with my friend back in... 91-93?

We sat in Kitt and while she laughed her ass off, I asked Kitt all kinds of questions about how much of a slut was Hasselloff and did Kitt ever get any?
I remember we went back and the car said something like "I remember you... skedaddle!!" even before I had gotten started again. Wonder how often the guy behind the curtain got those kinds of questions... :P

I may have been a girl but I certainly had a one track mind as well *evil grin*

Herbie the Love Bug! Man, I remember when I was a kid, I entered some contest where if you win; they would bring you a go-cart replica of that car. I SO wanted that! It was hell on the other kids at school when I didn't, the only thing left was to beat up the kids that asked me about it.

Ah, that felt so much better.

I loved growing up in the 70-80's. All the great shows. And the cartoons. I remember getting up on Saturday morn @6am and watching cartoons til noon. Most of the cartoons on now are crap. Does anyone rememeber the show Powers of Matthew Star with Peter Barton?
btw...I reside Minnesota.

underdog

KJB you suck... Yancy RULES!! (loved her in Mann & Machine + Drop Zone)

A-Team.... imagine my surprise when on exploring the ms Maasdam (went on a Caribbean cruise a few weeks ago, my first) I disocvered that this was also "Dirk Benedict's first caribbean cruise" His fan club had managed to organize a tour group on the cruise... I didn't see him til I walked by him in the immigration lines on the last day but my SO pointed out the pictures of him with his fans in the photography booth, and man he looked wacked out. Either he's sick or he's seen too many nights of booze or coke is what my SO said and I had to agree. He did seem slightly better later on but he's no longer as photogenic as he was in the days of Face...

I forgot to put what Kitt answered to my questions... mainly I was trying to get an answer and he kept sidestepping the issue... re: Hasseloff and re: himself, something about not being capable of it? Well duh but I was a typical teenager yukking it up anyways.

I bet if I tell my friend, Remember When... she'll pee her pants laughing just remembering....

Man I miss those days...

Hey Wil,

Oy Vey, i used to have to watch Knight Rider every single Friday when I babysat this little bratty kid named Bradley. I guess he'd be around your age now (ugh!). After Knight Rider (I thought David Hasselhoff was sooooo gorgeous) I'd be subjected to the Incredible Hulk. Gawd, I hated that show. There was too a guy in the R2D2 get-up, I think it was Kenny Baker (I think, that was a long friggin' time ago).
And to the person who asked, that Legolas guy is totally a cutie pie. Somehow I always pictured Aragorn MUCH more handsome though. I can't wait to see who they cast as Faramir.

She-ra!!

I remember that it was that show that I figured out that you could tell what parts of the scene would animate because it'd be colored differently than the rest of the background. They did some kind of "where's waldo" every episode which is what got me thinking about it...

but Thundercats was WAYYYY better... (but that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, considering my net identity) Drooling Mumm-RA! I'm impatient for it to be released on DVD. Anyone remeber Silverhawks? I loved the theme song for it and would watch it cause it shared the hour with Thundercats in the afternoon.

now fess up... anyone masturbate while watching these shows (any of the ones mentioned here or above)? I know I did but mainly I didn't need an excuse... I was a horny bugger.

Powers of Matthew Brady?? No.... Underdog, yes.

SILVERHAWKS! That's the one I was referring to earlier. That show was trippy!

Ummm...sorry, Megalion. Can't help ya there...

On the subject of shows that spawned action figures, though... I SO wanted to have He-Man and She-Ra and GI-Joe and Star Wars action figures... what did I get? My Little Ponies!!!

OK, so I DID play with the MLPs, but usually it involved taking them down the street to use them as battle stallions for the He-Man and GI-Joe action figures that the boys had....

Oh wait... I DID get some Buck Rogers action figures... AND the ship! (Thank goodness for that one uncle who realized that I wasn't one of those froo-froo type girls...) I have no idea where they are now, though. Prolly worth something.

I had a crush on Witchy Poo.

Oh yea I remember My Little Pony... I got one of those too and it wasn't too bad...

Everyone learned though NOT to give me dolls... I wouldn't play with them (except Barbies.. go figure)

Trying to remember the name of the show but there was another really cool cartoon where it was like Transformers except that it was 5 mechanical cats manned by 5 people that could assemble into one big "man" machine for super ass kicking.
I got a toy that was the black cat (leader that was always the body & head) and I was excited at first but it was a disappointing toy and was the toy that really soured me on the "merchandising" because all it did was just walk forward... you couldn't manipulate it like the transformers/gobots.
What fun is that? this block of plastic that walks forward... sure it LOOKS like the cat but back then it wasn't enough for me.

Ever since then I've looked at the toys in the toy stores with a super critical eye to how well the toy matches up to the show (or whatever).

I also miss the saturday morning Ewok cartoons. But I'm reaching back to an even younger age for that.

Your right, that was the best picture ever!

As far as I know, they still have Kitt sitting there near the food court right out side the castle theatre. (Where the Conan show was back in the day.)

At least, Kitt was still there back when I worked at the Castle Theatre on "Beatleguse's Rockin' Graveyard Review" about... Heh, wow, that was like 5 or 6 years ago... Huh.

The Beatleguse show isn't there anymore I hear, so Kitt may also be in moth balls. (Damn kids have no sence of history.) But at that time, he was still there, but you couldn't sit in him. Which made me sad.

Magalion!!!!

How could you forget VOLTRON???!!!

That's like forgetting G-Force or Robotech.

Unforgivable, turn in your Geek card and blazer. ;)

Since this topic has really taken off, and spawned numerous 80s discussions, I have made a new forum in the Soapbox, called "The 80s".

Have fun.

VOLTRON! OMG!!!!

Easy.... 4 straight years of clinical depression will turn anyone's brain to mush.

But thanks much for the Name... I'm gonna go right over and add that show to my list right next to Thundercats (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com a mass petition site for requesting tv on dvd)

Hmm what about the old cartoon, Dungeons & Dragons?? I remember liking that show though I have to confess that I can barely remember much of it. That was another saturday morning must watch for me.

I used to make Silver Hawkes action figures out of my GI Joes. Tin foil paper, man! Of all the shows, I liked GI Joe a bit better. Thundercats always scared me for some reason.

Think it's because I'm a dog person?

so did you like the Pound Puppies then? *evil grin*

Ermm... no. I think that was on cable. Either way, I never saw much of that except for a single episode my sister had on take. Oh my god, she played it all the damned time. *bangs his head against the wall*

Oh memories... Gotta talk about this with my therapist.

Oh how convient! That site just added "Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors" which is the Sat Morn Cartoon that always made me think later of my first exposure to anime

Anyone remember that? I can't remember it clearly enough now to say for sure if it was anime or not. If it wasn't though... it was heavily influenced by it.

Bugger... I don't feel like going to the soapbox since I'm supposed to be working and that'll really get me distracted...

Remember Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch????

Anyone remember the Bionic Six?

Ovaltine rules!

Okay, now that I got my pointless comment out of the way...going back to A Christmas Story...

The kid who got his tongue stuck to the pole—he also played in The Toy and Kid Co.—started doing non sexual roles in porn movies. He had one sexual role in one movie, can't recall the name right now...apparently, people who watched it for him where disappointed because you couldn't see all of his equipment. He had...problems, on the set.

I liked that mannequin leg lamp... that was the thing I remembered best about that movie.

just thought i'd add to the 'saying where we're from' conversation.

I live in Nottingham in England, and don't see a lot of the things that you are all talking about.... although i have been to Universal Studios in Florida!!

Just thought I'd add that..... and no, i don't know Robin Hood! (I always get asked that!LOL)

Love Donna

just wanted to know, seeing as we're talking about the old things we used to watch, if anyone remembers the gummi bears?? with their gummi berry juice?? or am i totally sad?? LOL

I am a fuel-injected, suicide machine!

I'm hotter than a rollin' die! Step right up and watch the kid ride a rubber road right to freedom!

You should see the damage bronze...metal damage, brain damage...you listening bronze? I am the Night Rider!

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The Night...Rider...that is his name. Remember him when you look at the night sky.

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Hm? What? What's everyone looking at? What do you mean "off-topic"?

OK-now I'm freaked...there's another Jon here?

We can do a lot of damage to each other...

right...... i'm off to watch toy soldiers, cos it just started on cable!!!

nice shorts wil!!

LMAO

On the way home for lunch today I saw a Thundercats sticker on a Gran Prix Pontiac.

I heard a voice inside my head say, "Don't look back, you can never look back."

I kid you not.

Yea Donna I rmemeber them... they were the first main show of the Disney Afternoon and also the first show to get bumped out.

I used to watch the Disney afternoon a lot since I didn't like anything else what was on at the same time and thundercats was long gone by then...

Ducktales... Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers... Talespin... Darkwing Duck

www.markscustomkits.com

Get yourself a *real* *live* KITT :)

Jenn-LOVED the Henley reference!

I'm not reading all 90,000 of these comments, just posting one of my own.

I used to think Knight Rider was the coolest thing in the world! I LOVED that show. David Hasselhoofensteininator was sooooooooooooo hot.

Now, when I watch it, I think "wtf? what is this sh*t?" It's soooooooooooooooooo corny!

Plus, David Hasselhoofensteininator had done Baywatch & kind of ruined Michael Knight for me. Yeah, Mitch was sexy! hahahahaha :P

Laurie

I know what you mean Froggy... I think I'd like KnightRider more now (still have respect for it I mean) if David hadn't gone on to Baywatch... but hey the guy's got to make a living since I think his singing career didn't take off here (though he was a hit over seas but I don't think he wanted to move to Japan!)

Live Long and Prosper

In this endless sea of comments I have just this
to say..wil you have created a monster with all
this remembering going on here..OK ..another
thing..I collect and sell action figures..my fav
is 3 3/4 GI Joe...Snake Eyes rules.

Just wish there was one of Spudnuts out there
somewhere....sighs wistfully.

bluecat/redblanket said: "Just wish there was [an action figure] of Spudnuts out there somewhere....sighs wistfully."

Oh, don't give me any ideas.

That knight rider picture is the best, I remember when I was at school many years ago, a rapper came out with a rap and the under tune was the kightrider theme tune, we took that tune, recored via a dictaphone out head of sixth forms pet sayings, then someone sliced and siced it so it was our head of year rapping over the knightrider theme tune. We got into a lot of trouble for that one especiallt since we played it at full volume on the last day of school for the whole school to hear it. Neither the head of sixth form nor the head teacher were much impressed!

We thought it was very funny and so did the rest of the pupils at my school.

Knight Rider rules though, I wanted, and still do want, KITT as my car. The best car in the world, although the off shots of knightrider (ie team knightrider and knightrider 2000) sucked. I also was a big fan of the a team and airwolf. There was also thunder in paridice with hulk hogan, thundercats, Terrorhawkes, He Man, She Ra.

Of course there was UFO and Battlestar Gallatica (who had Dirk Benadict in it who played Face in the A Team, and in the later seasons Barry Van Dyke who was in late seasons of Airwolf), I could spend hours going down memory lane talking baout programes I watched as a kid but I'm wondering how many you guys would know 'cos I'm from England so I'm thinking yu wouldnt have had some of the programes we had.

Does anyone remember a program that was with puppets, and there was an evil woman and she had like a matalic scorpion over her eye. I can't remember wehat it was called but it's something like Star Fleet or something???? Someone tell me what it was called cos it's driving me up the wall, but before anyone says it, it wasn't terrorhawkes 'cos that was Jerry and Sylvia Anderson thing, This Star Fleet thing was not an Anderson production.

Wow this has to be the worlds longest post, if you got to the end of this without getting bored, congradulations!!! Either that or you need to get a life :-)

Art: I'm from Durham, England

Spike
9.20pm GMT

SA still won't load for me. I get the AutoSearch message from IE when I try and load it. What am I doing wrong?

Jenn, the mere mention of Thundercats sent my mind thundering back to the 80's. I so wanted to be Cheetarah! I used to run up and down the garden so fast thinking I was approaching cheetah-like speed (not likely in Hi-Tec trainers!). What a geek. I won't even go into those sunny afternoons galloping around pretending to be Champion the Wonder Horse. I hope my baby son hasn't inheirited my tremendous dorkiness!
Art-I am from Ayr in Scotland but currently staying in a village just outside it called Tarbolton. From my window I can see sheep, fields, and never-ending rain.

There couldn't have been that many good things around in the 80's role-model wise, or else why was I running around pretending to be a cartoon cheetah/person or a well-trained chestnut horse? Or was it just me?Hmmm...

HOW CAN YOU FORGET CITIES OF GOLD!!!!

man, that show was cool... that and Ulysses of course

Tish--

Milo is the BEST stuff ever! It beats out Ovaltine by a long shot!
Heheh, I brought a tin of it back from Ghana with me...
Kate

For obvious reasons I am posting here.

Remember when you had to look up your name when you were a kid and see what it meant? And you had to ask your parents why they named you what they did?

Well my mom told me it was because of some stupid soap opera star in the late 70's.

I always tell people I'm named after the white haired guy, Devon, on Knight Rider.

I get awesome responses from people about it.

another one for ya........

TRANSFORMERS!!!!

Wow, didn't realise that I loved so many programmes in the 80's.... at the end of the 80's I was only 10!!

But that is one of the programmes that sticks in my mind... I just thought the voices were really cool!! LOL

I really should get something for this problem I'm developing!! LOL

Alright peeps!

Jessica,
Vodka (lots), grape juice (for colour) and Baby Duck is a Purple Jesus Punch. for a more refined taste subsitute 4 Aces (wino water) for the grape juice. Serve well chilled so you don't have to taste it on the way down or up as the case may be.

Canadian 0812

I saw William Daniels on Broadway in "1776" back around 1972 or thereabouts (and in the video ever since it came out).

To hell with KITT.

William Daniels is - and always will be - the definitive John Adams. :-)

ADAMS: I feel like such a fool.

FRANKLIN: That's good for you, John.

The other Jon:

Yes. There is, in fact, another Jon. Short for Jonathan.

Cheers.

I've been lurking around for the past couple of months and first have to say, Wil, great job with the site....two thumbs up!

Anyway, back to the regularly scheduled program...
I remember those days of Universal Studios and I actually got to sit in KITT......I really wanted to ask him some questions but my brother hogged all the questions. Oh well, I'm pretty much over that but I have to say that it had to be one of the coolest things I ever did :-)

Speaking of the 80's, anyone else remember the show Airwolf? Had to be one of my fave shows next to Knight Rider, Transformers (Robots in disguise!), Thundercats, and Voltron.......dude, the 80's had the best shows!!!

Jon: My god, I actually DO remember Bionic Six--I used to really like the villain on the show because he just didn't seem to take the whole villain thing that seriously.

I'm so late with this... Oh well.

A part of my soul died when KR was taken off the air, but it was reborn the day I touched KITT at Universal Studios. KITT really talks! It's not an actor! It CAN'T be an actor! It just can't be.

William Daniels is just a cover and Speed Racer LIVES! The truth is out there.

Gail!! Get out of my head!! " I so wanted to be Cheetarah! I used to run up and down the garden so fast thinking I
was approaching cheetah-like speed."

Hey Jon,

Mine's short for Jonathan also.

How do we know we're not the same person?

I *know* we can have some fun with this somehow ; )

So's mine.

'nuff said.

Just did a little research on the whole Super Knight Rider 3000 movie.... It looks like it is due out in October of 2002, same as the new Star Trek Movie...could October be any better :-)

is ne1 else here watching Stand by me on Bravo? i'm gonna cry at the end :(.

Actually, Mr. Daniels did not play KITT...KITT played Dr. Erlich on St. Or-Elsewhere...

And, yes, Wil, I *have* no life...

Where *is* Spudnuts, anyways?

Oh, and BTW...
Allergies WANK.

thank you.

GAAAHHHH!!! Mr Belvedere did the voice of KITT??? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Well, thanks for ruining my memories of Knight Rider Wil.

Where is that D@mn line from:
"Fuck! Even in the future nothing works."

Not Mr. Belvedere...Mr. Finney (spelling?) from Boy Meets World.

Thundercats, She-Ra, He-man, Lady Lovelylocks, My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite...

Was the Bionic Six that family who had amazing powers, and the mom was psychic or something, and they sang a song on their parent's anniversary:
"Happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy Aaaaaniversary!"?

I'm going nuts.

"I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!"

Being off-topic is good Twitch. :-)

His only weapon... 600 horses of fuel-injected vengeance.

Oh yeah baby.

Thank you Mandy! I was starting to wonder if that went completely over everyone's head. And, hey, Mad Max was released in '80, wasn't it? I love my new Aussie dialogue DVD!

"Bubba... Johny... whooh..."

1979 I think.

Loving that new DVD. I wonder what other DVDs have an Australian language track. Guffaw!

Gods- I was about to freak that no one mentioned Voltron.

But FOR GODS SAKES!!!

What about Danger Mouse?

Also an early 90s shout out to the Tommorow People- Brittish Science Fiction rocks.. thankfully the New Zealander's picked up the ball with show's like "The Tribe"

Nick kicked soo much ass for kids.
Damn the Cartoon Network for building up soo much good cartoonage and then tossing it away!
(I really didn't expect them to show Sailor Moon SS and Stars though- But I'm grateful for Cowboy Bebop- Showtime should freaking pick up Trigun.. opps too much Anime stuff pouring out- my bad)

-K
Power and Chaos!
Big Fire!

I wondered if anyone was going to mention the tribe, now theres a program that rocks.

I was thinking about programmes I used to watch as a kid, does anyone remember MASK. I loved ulesses ( how ever you spell it!), there was gummy bears and care bears, my little pony (skinny and boney), Batman and Robin (really cheesy), Brick a Brack, the list is endless.

I dont suppose anyones remembered the name of that programm I meantioned in my last post.

Spike

WOOHOO!!!

Comment #274!!!

Who cares about being 1st, it's ALL about the last

WORD.

I'm confused. If KITT wasn't real, how did he answer everyone's questions at Universal Studios? Did they stuff William Daniels in the trunk?

Wait wait wait...KITT isn't there anymore?

BULLSHIT!

I remember sitting in KITT at Universal, and it made my day. I also one time sat in the actual Back to the Future DeLorean. They forgot to lock it or something, so I was chillin' in the Marty seat, flux capacitor and all.

Then some guy ran over and told me to get out of it. But hell, it wasn't like it was gated off or something.

Showing my age here (and beating a dying horse... er... thread), but, while I recognise a bunch of those mentioned, in my time it was Super Friends ("Wonder Twins Power, activate!" "Form of... a wombat!"), Hong Kong Phooey (Number-One Super Guy!), Scoobey Doo, of course Bugs, Daffy and the gang, Spiderman, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Fat Albert, The Flintstones, The Pink Panther, and Speed Buggy. Whew!

And "word" out to Bill Bixby, as the Hulk and the dudes from "Emergency!"

Check out: http://www.yesterdayland.com/

---

"...and there he was trying to scream without a face."
[points to listeners plate with fork]
"You going to eat that?" -- Goose

"Mad Max" is porn for car junkies...

Dang! "Logan's Run", "The Man from Atlantis", there all here! What a cool site!

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/primetime/pt1158.php

i've just been flicking through the channels on SKY digital and ......... OH MY GOD!!!

CAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVEMAN!!!!!

I loved that show..... along with Dungeons and Dragons (anyone else think Eric was mega cute!!!?? LOL)I used to want a unicorn like the one they had on there!!!

Over and out!

i've just been flicking through the channels on SKY digital and ......... OH MY GOD!!!

CAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVEMAN!!!!!

I loved that show..... along with Dungeons and Dragons (anyone else think Eric was mega cute!!!?? LOL)I used to want a unicorn like the one they had on there!!!

Over and out!

oooops, sorry for the double post!!!

Does anyone remember a show from the early 80's that had an elf that could shoot his bow really, really fast. He got new arrows when a crow would fly by and drop a feather, which would change into arrows when it hit the ground. I'm wondering if it was Wizards and Warriors, but I can't remember...
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/primetime/pt1391.php

I just have two words for you all : Hanna Barbara

> Where is that D@mn line from:
> "Fuck! Even in the future nothing works."

That line is from the Mell Brooks movie "Spaceballs"

> He got new arrows when a crow would fly by and
> drop a feather, which would change into arrows
> when it hit the ground. I'm wondering if it was
> Wizards and Warriors, but I can't remember...

I don't remember anything like that from the show "Wizards and Warriors", which I used to watch religiously with my parents. (Did it used to come on after "Amazing Stories" or that time travel show with the kid?) But the crow dropping a feather for new arrows thing sounds familer...

Don't think anything like that happened on V...

my roommate's name is michael knight. really! honest! i swear! :o) of course, he's SO sick of knight rider references...

I remember that! Don't tell me KITT isn't there anymore! I will be so crushed!

They also had the BTTF2 Delorean there that you could pose with. I have a picture of me with it somewhere.

Oh, and that link didn't work for me? I wanna see the pic!

William Daniels rocks!

Let me repeat that:

WILLIAM DANIELS ROCKS!!!

Do yourself a favor. Run out to your favorite video rental store and find: =="1776"==. His performance as 'John Adams' (against Howard DeSilva's 'Ben Franklin') is utterly hysterical. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

And yes, I'm aware Brent Spiner reprised the role on Broadway. I don't wanna diss Data, but (judging from the album) it ain't even a close comparison -- Daniels *owns* that role.

Megalion,overwhelmingly glad that it isn't, I mean, wasn't just me that did that! I suspect you didn't keep playing with My Little Ponies (secretly, until now that is) until you were 17. See, I bet that you were NEVER that sad!
There's a band in Glasgow called the Cheetarahs, but IMHO they don't live up to the magnificance of that name!
I run more like Bagpuss than Cheetarah now *sigh*

I went to US and talked to KITT when I was a kid.. I asked him how old he was, but my brother thought he would be a smart ass and catch the guy running the car, so he asked him to flip up his lights.. Lo and behold the lights flipped up.. Those US people thought of everything..

I always remember when KITT came to Australia and I was so overjoyed by the thought of being able to go and talk to the car. It was one of those experiences I dont think I will ever forget. The old polaroid shot of me sitting in KITT is one I keep. Then when I went to US in the late 80's there it was at Universal. I sat again and it was like an old acquaintance.
Somehow the magic goes as you get older and to top it off the next time I went in 97 for my honeymoon I was all excited about showing my new bride. It was gone and the universal magic just lessened that little bit more.

Miscellaneous comments on previous posts:

C3PO did not introduce himself as "C3PO, human cyborg, relations." He introduced himself as "C3PO, human/cyborg relations." He is not a meat popsicle.

I have to agree with RavinDave: William Daniels fans need to see the film version of the musical "1776", made in 1972. Difficult to find, but someone always broadcasts it around the 4th of July. Remember Ken Howard as "The White Shadow"? He sings, too.

But I'm sorry: AirWolf would leave nothing of KITT but a grease spot on the tarmac.

Sweet damn. First you get me all nostalgic about the cylon space ship and now you get me all nostalgic about KITT and what's more being crestfallen when I found out it wasn't the voice of the car. This is getting scary. The next post I read better not be about my life too or I'm sueing you and taking my life back!

It's funny reading all the comments! I'm 18 Years old and I just have to say one thing: Since I was a young boy I love Knight Rider, exspecially KITT! If i should get rich, I'll by a Ford Mustang just like KITT, i'm sure !!!!

I've got an old photo of KITT parked on that platform overlooking the pond.

Last I heard, KITT was sitting in a storage lot, fully exposed to the elements. And the birds have been none too kind. Sad, really.

As for KITT vs. (anything), I've ran multiple simulations in the past. With exception for one opponent, the battle always seems to go down the same. KITT faces off his opponent. The opponent strikes first, delivering a tiny amount of damage. KITT returns the strike, usually with a full frontal assault. BAM! The opponent is nearly toast with a 70%-95% destruction count. KITT charges again and delivers a KO blow. The end. Even Airwolf went down in a blaze of...fire.

So, who is this mysterious opponent that my battle engine says can defeat KITT, over and over and over? Sadly, it says Herbie, The Love Bug can...and with ease, to boot.

Then again, this is the same battle engine that says the Enterprise can blow the Voyager to pieces and still only require a day's worth of repairs in Dry Dock. (Well, there was that one battle where Voyager was only 2% intact and Janeway plows through the ^0%+ Enterprise's saucer section at Warp 1 for some firey results. I suspect one Voyager room had life supports left. Though, who survived??? Probably Janeway, with her 158 victories and 1 loss track record.) And, when I asked it what numbers to play for the lottery, it eventually replied (Took a couple hours to kick out the results) "DONT PLAY". I look at the results this engine produces and ponder if today's computers aren't already AI smart and just haven't yet bothered to say, "Hi."

This message thread deserves a link in The Big List of Knight Rider Sites. ( http://www.knightrider.8m.com )

I am a big Knight Rider Fan.

night rider rules i am currently bilding k.i.t.t. for my own pleasure with all the effects except turbo boot
and super pursuit mode bummer
complete with the voice cool huh!!!! k.i.t.t. is awsome let u know when its finished e-mail me

I remember watching knight rider when i was a kid in the 80s. I have allways wanted to have this car but never thought that when i got older and had a good paying job that i could build the car of my dreams.Well being 25 know me and my friend who does autobody helped me with this convershion lets just say having a hard top car converted to a t-top car can be kinda spendy but fun to do to a 1984 trans am. I hope to see knight rider back on nbc and get this tv show passed on to the new generation of younger viewers. Having my car at car shows and just driving it around town is really fun,having the scanner on and seeing people my age and younger kids allways look twice and usually ask does the car talk. As long people still build thtse cars knight rider will bearound for a wile

I am john I fell in love with Michael the first time i saw him he is so cute his cock is big i bet i love you michael knight will u suck mine if i suck yours :)

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