On Sunday night NBC showed the TV pilot movie for the newly revamped Knight Rider, known in Germany as Schnelles Automobil des schrecklichen Mannes. (Important: Make sure that you are shouting when discussing the Knight Rider using the German language.) Yes, that Knight Rider: The one that featured the harrowing adventures of one Mr. David Hasselhoff as the perfectly coiffed Michael Knight, a special agent equipped with special chest hair for the mysteriously nondescript Foundation for Law and Government, and his forever–faithful sidekick, KITT, a talking, robotic, and utterly gay 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am, as they traveled across the our fair country—or at least southern California—fighting crime, attending the theater, and helping people (usually Gary Coleman) with their personal problems, much like that other contemporary NBC program, The A–Team (known in France as L'équipe de l'A). Or so I have heard. Sorry about that previous sentence containing more than 100 words. Anyway, this new Knight Rider is quite different from the old show: it has much higher production values and uses a new Shelby Cobra Mustang as the talking homosexual car. Yes, it is a two-hour car commercial. Enjoy!
More to come on the return of this national treasure.
3 comments:
All true, but didn't your heart leap just a little bit at the end, when Hoff vaporized from thin air at the cemetery?
My heart leaped out of my rather manly chest and into the middle of the room. It made quite the mess.
The Stefanator informs me that it was called Knight Rider in Germany, and that he avidly watched it with all his compatriots at a young teen, although he doesn't share the general German fascination with David Hasselhof. The Quick Automobile of the Horrible Man?
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