I'm not too surprised at a Knight Rider movie remake, but I am surprised they casted Hasslehoff. What, is it going direct-to-DVD in Germany?

This can only mean we're maybe three years away from the inevitable "KITT vs. The General Lee: Whoever wins, you won't care."

Oh PLEEZ.
KITT isn't fit to hold The General Lee's water pump.

I mean, DUHH!

As long as they keep the big alligator clips with antennas so KITT can electrify a fence, I'll be happy.

Any word on who'll do KITT's voice? I hear James Earl Jones is available now.

"I find your devil-may-care attitude towards oil changes...disturbing."

Is anyone talking bout an Airwolf movie? No. Cause Jan Michael Vincent didn't have the balls to say to the producers "It talks or I walk!' like David H. (that thing so should have talked. In, like, a sexy chick voice.)

Give Hasselhoff his due. A movie where Kitt doesn't talk? Dumbasses. H. knows the public, and the public wants talking, semi-sassy, crimefighting vehicles. Always has, always will.

Yeah, but this time Kitt will be a red Ferrari loaded with features like: Oxytocin air freshener, passenger seat with a pinpoint vibrating massage, drivers side controlled locks, Kitt will have a full music library including Pat O'Brien subliminal messages, coke dispenser. The Duo will be patrolling the rough and tumble world of University campuses, beauty pageants and if the first two fail to score him anything moonbat protest meetings.

I propose that forthwith we shall always refer to David Hasselhoff on this site simply as 'H.'

That could lead to some unfortunate misunderstanding should someone mention that he or she "was doing H" the other night...

If anybody here said that, I'd assume they meant haiku.

Why don't they ever bring back or remake good shows, like BJ and the Bear?

Now there's a concept I can't get enough of-- a man and his monkey.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

A Knight Rider movie? Heaven and Earth. Yet another show I never watched.

And Hollywood is confounded, CONFOUNDED, as to why they're losing ticket sales. Gee, guys, maybe it could be that, not only are you not producing ORIGINAL ideas, you're recycling BAD ones.

Later,
bbeck

AAAH, Garfield Dave, do NOT give them any ideas! :)

Did the monkey wear clothes?

I remember some chick talking about that show in a college English class and saying it was one of her FAVORITES. My teacher looked at her like she had 3 heads, lol.

Yep, I never saw that show, but I DO know who Stacks was thanks to that conversation.

Later,
bbeck

I'd pay good money to see a movie sequel to The Honeymooners, with Undead Jackie Gleason.

Especially if he was a vampire. No, scratch that, vampire's are too sexual for a fat man to play.
Maybe a zombie, and Norton shoots his head off with a shotgun at the end and has a three-way with Alice and Trixie.

Sorry, was that out loud?

I remember Mad Magazine doing a Knight Rider spoof way back when. Hasselhoff gets the girl in the end, as usual, and KITT demands a BMW "with really big headlights." Not sure why that came into my head just now, but whatever.

not only are you not producing ORIGINAL ideas, you're recycling BAD ones

Maybe you don't get it. It's a talking car that helps solve crimes. And it talks! (while solving crimes!!) How is that not perfect? One of mankind's basic myths/stories.

What, does world need more angsty, art house 'poor me, I feel disattached from my modern, cushy life' flicks? And even if it does, wouldn't they be a whole lot better with a minor talking/crime solving vehicle subplot? Wouldn't any movie?

A car that solves crimes and talks? Yes, please!

Ditto Ray. And Airwolf kicked ass, too (though it shouldn't have talked, in a sexy chick voice or any other. Stringfellow Hawke was hot enough for me). They'd better get rid of all the big feathery '80s hair on the eye candy, though. I didn't like that on my girls even back then.

Even Knight Rider was just a re-imagining of the original "My Mother The Car." Now, the talking car didn't so much solve crimes as become involved in madcap family adventures but it was basically the same idea. Oh, and it wasn't bulletproof.

What, does world need more angsty, art house 'poor me, I feel disattached from my modern, cushy life' flicks?

Egad NOOOO! Those have been done to death, too, Ray, and yes, a talking car WOULD improve all of those films. In fact, mass suicides at the end of those films would be even better.

Later,
bbeck

Nice quote "Dave at Garfield Ridge". That's one of my favorite all time movies. I don't understand why everyone hates Mallrats so much.

I want to know what happened to the rumored A-Team movie. The show that single handedly destroyed Jeep sales by proving how unsafe they were when driven by generic badguys.

As one who has pined all of his days for that delicious "dish" Trixie, one can only dream of the the possibilities of a four way with Trixie, Alice and Bud Fraley from Lucy. Be still, my heart!

A-team van > Miami Vice Ferrari > Dukes' General Lee > KITT > MacGuyver's jeep

They'd better get rid of all the big feathery '80s hair on the eye candy, though.

No no! Please, no! Feathery hair is... is... it's the foam on the beer -- the corona on the sun -- the killer whale on the distracted seapark handler!

Without feathery hair, even the thinnest, tawniest eye candy would look like a Seattle barista.

A Trannie Seattle barista.

Um... I rest my case.

No feathers, no no no!

I know someone who still wears the 70s Jan Michael-Vincent hair. I want to slap the crap out of him every time I see him.

"Live in the now!"

Later,
bbeck

Brak-- the A-Team van is cool, but K.I.T.T. is cooler. Here's the logic I used a few months back:

"Now, the A-Team van was sweet, but it's not like it had turbo boost, or could talk like Topanga's teacher. As far as I can tell, the only special abilities it had, other than looking bad ass, were the following:

1. The ability to avoid getting pulled over by police, despite no change in its appearance for five seasons.

2. The ability to store enough heavy weapons to arm Bulgaria. As far as I can tell, the only explanation for carrying all those guns, ammunition, and welding equipment is that the vehicle was a +6 Van Of Holding, or had some sort of temporal displacement going on, making it Dr. Who's Battlewagon Of Love.

3. It provided a stable gun platform for accurate "intimidation" shooting out the sidedoor and windows. Without that special "NBC Family Hour" automotive suspension, submachinegun bullets could accidentally hit a bad guy in the leg, or worse, the chest.

And let me tell you, there are no sucking chest wounds during the NBC Family Hour."

Oh, and I linked this oldie but goodie: the A-Team, as told in Lego form.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I'd give anything for a Knight Boat movie.

"The crime SOLVING boat!"

Look a canal!

Oh, there's always a canal. Or an inlet. Or a fjord.

Awww, c'mon Marc-- you know there'd be a canal.

There's ALWAYS a canal.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Dammit Brak, I'm too slow.

It must be the age. Or the mileage.

I remember Mad Magazine doing a Knight Rider spoof way back when.

So do I! Man was that a long time ago! Were you in love with Trixie and Bud Frawley too?

No feathers, no no no! ... "Live in the now!"

Ace, help us out here. Got a glossy of Ms. Richards in plumage somewhere in your stash?

Ah, you all beat me to the "Knight Boat" jokes.

"Look! An inlet!"

OK, this is going to seem like a dumb question.

Why did they want KITT to be quiet?

Admittedly, I was a little kid at the time, but I didn't watch Knight Rider to see H. Indeed, H was pretty much only good for getting knocked out and imperiled by the bad guys, forcing him to call for help into his calculator wristwatch.

Did the producers think the audience would fear that KITT couldn't really talk, that in fact Devon had imprisoned a midget in the engine block?

If the Knight Rider movie gets off the ground, I'm crossing my fingers for a Street Hawk flick.

Anyone ever see the supposed script for Mike Meyer's Sprockets movie? Came across it a couple of years ago. The plot revolves around David Hasselhoff kidnapping Dieter's monkey because Sprockets has finally beaten Baywatch in TV ratings. But it turns out it's not really David Hasselhoff, it's his evil twin brother Maurice Hasselhoff, who has pulled a Man in the Iron Mask and keeps David Hasselhoff captive. It of course ends with Dieter chasing down Maurice using KITT, kept in Hasselhoff's garage for the last 15 years.

The one line I remember is KITT's: "And I don't know why they made such a big deal about Ellen. I came out of the closet years ago. I was the first gay car on television, you know."

Found the link and actually bothered to get the quote above correct:
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/clarke/38/scripts/Sprockets.txt

Anyone ever see the supposed script for Mike Meyer's Sprockets movie?

Now THAT I would go see!

Later,
bbeck

Wait, I thought H's brother was Garth, driver of Goliath? I'm so confused.

Interesting story behind that Sprockets movie-- it spent so much time in development hell that Myers eventually said to hell with it and Lorne Michaels, and then went on to make a little movie called Austin Powers.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I'm simply not interested.

Unless KARR is going to be the villain. I could dig on that.

My only regret on an A-Team movie is that I'm fifteen years too young to play John "Hannibal" Smith. I have stolen SO much of my act from that guy.

Had a chance in college to buy a Ruger AC556 (the Mini-14's full-auto cousin and the team's standard weapon for some odd reason) that was actually used on the show. Didn't have an extra seven grand.

40 replies in a thread about Knight Rider??!

Now I remember why spending the mid-80's in a cocaine and valium induced haze seemed like a good idea at the time...

Below are my nominees for the 80s shows most deserving of the Hollywood big-screen treatment, especially since Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider have now been officially taken off the list:

10. Angie
9. Gimme a Break
8. Silver Spoons
7. 21 Jump Street
6. The Greatest American Hero
5. The Facts of Life
4. That's Incredible!
3. It's Your Move
2. Highway to Heaven

...and the one so obvious I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet...

1. Married...With Children

Fraggle Rock?