This was a genuinely clever ending. i've never forgotten it. From Michael having to reassume control to the idea of why KARR would turn away (utterly unexpected), this was above average for network TV at the time.
When you stop to realize that Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, also voiced a car that would easily fit in with the Decepticons, you know you're in for a wild ride.
Love how KARR turned into a completely different car going over the cliff. 80's tv was the best. From the repeated scenes in "A-Team" to this. Love it.
Knight rider season 1 episode 9 trust doesn't rust karr scanner yellow in the vimeo video has the first Knight Rider season 1 episode 9 trust doesn't rust karr scanner yellow in the new dvd or the bluray.
Can’t beat a bit of knight rider,or dukes of hazard , the fall guy ,street hawk , the A team and any others I forgot to mention,god I loved growing up in the 80’s - take me back
When I was a little boy, I used to have my own play sessions where Knight Rider teamed up with the Dukes of Hazzard. Every single moment i had both cars doing jumps to take down the bad guys😂🤣😆
to much sickness to accept this is the real paradise? without work and each day fun LEARN AND BE WISE each one can be god you never seen abc remember thats not the complete dream if you are in paradise you can change without smartphone or computer your rooms iff you believe in me you cant hear booms only one thing you have to do the knowledge on graves the cROSS on this its he WRITTEN BY GOD THINK TO MYSELF ITS YOU! many bibles cancled this words away but i HELLp to remeber at each day
Shows back then didn't have the enormous budgets of today to afford to actually wreck a Trans Am. TV shows were considered inferior and nothing more than a place for bad/B-list actors and hammy storylines. A Hollywood actor would have frowned upon ending their days on the small screen. Nowadays it's the other way around. TV shows are high quality, while movies are, well, less so.
@@TheDeathReincarnate correction, they realized the only reason people watched the Dukes of Hazzard was due to the flying car with the sound effect so they did the same thing of having a jump in every episode for ratings purposes.
Aaah, the days of escapist 80's tv. Entertaining but not much more! Who cares, better than the hoard of reality tv rubbish we have nowadays. A-team, Knight Rider, Airwolf etc, still the best. Thanks for the nostalgic upload 👍
That's what gave him the edge over K.A.R.R. Karr was only into self-preservation, so of course he'd turn away first. There's no reason for him to endanger his own existence.
@@Animeaddiction Nonsense. KITT should have turned to avoid collision. What happened there only makes sense if you speculate that Michael steered slightly right the last possible moment and KARR didn't see other option than turning right.
A bit of old news there, Pal. A real interesting piece of trivia is that they brought Peter Cullen back to play KARR in the 2008 reboot of Knight Rider.
he also did iron hide in transformers and was the narrator in the opening credits of voltron and and was also the voice of eorrh (the blue donkey) from Winnie the pooh.
Some awesome throwbacks right here. I remember having the toys and rolling them around talking like Kitt and Karr. This was CARS before CARS ever existed.
Love knight rider/the A-team/the fall guy/dukes of hazard plus other car related tv programs from the 1980s as they was the best times ever for action series programs of that time and era!!!!
The crash of KARR at 9:25 is actually footage from the ending of the horror movie ''The car''. The car (a modified Lincoln doesn't look much like KARR) but personality-wise they are very similar.
In the defense of Universal, when the show was first aired, that wasn't really noticed by most. I saw it immediately because I had seen the footage in the other movies. You would be surprised just how much "stock footage" gets around.
@@leontransit1652 I was totally about to say that!!! I paused it right as he jumped off the cliff and immediately recognized the scene! LMAO! ua-cam.com/video/fvJ8uq_qmu4/v-deo.html
it was from the movie "The Car" and the automobile used in that film was a 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III with a body designed ALSO by George Barris, Same designer for KITT!
The Knight Industries cars has always had shape-shifting abilities. Didn't you see the rebooted Knight Rider show? 😉😁 Unfortunately for KARR, there was a glitch in his programming, since Bonnie never got the time to finish the work on KARR. KARR was actually trying to change into a plane, but faulty programming planted by Bonnie and the damage caused by that first laser shot had a disastrous effect on his shape-changing abilities. The explosion was caused by KARR landing on a mine, hurling KARR several feet away and causing KARR to go into power saving mode. This is why we see KARR looking slightly different in the KITT vs KARR episode.
I really love how it looked like KARR exploded, but the next time we see him he's just buried under the sand... like FLAG never went out to pick up the pieces.
Which is a bunch of crap, since that would've been mistake #2 for FLAG. The 1st being, not having KARR dismantled after they were able to shut him down.
@@terrywest111 That would be absolutely correct, considering what it cost to build those cars. The book explains it alot better, but still fails to make sense. In the book, Devon tells Michael that After KARR was built. Wilton Knight was hassled by the government about the Technology, then there were the corporate type spies creeping around. & then Wilton himself was dying, then they had Michael to deal with after they found him in the desert near to death. So they started from scratch again. Which doesn't make sense, since it was all about time. So Yes i agree that they should've had some Whiz-kids like Bonnie reprogramming KARR.
@@dcdrew3 Exactly. As soon as they shut him down, they should have had people there working on KARR. KITT did a lot of good during his time. Imagine what could have been done with two super cars!
@@dcdrew3 I don't think that was really possible at the time. Remember that KARR was in Laboratory 3 which was sealed off and completely dark. As soon as any power was engaged, it reactivated KARR, so it would have been impossible to work in that lab in the dark. I still don't understand how they did it. Was KARR supposed to be connected to some cables that shut him off? Because that goes against his & KITT's self sustained functioning. I know Michael deactivated KITT in an episode (maybe Killer KITT, I forget now) and he did it by pressing some buttons. But if that's what they did to KARR as well, then how could the flip of the power switch in the lab activate KARR? It was never explained and never really thought out. I think in KITT vs KARR it would've been nice if the episode was 2 hours like the Garthe/Goliath episodes & they should've shown a flashback scene with Ken Franklin, the predecessor to Michael that Devon told Michael about in Knight of the Drones who was killed by CJ Jackson who escaped in that episode. It would have been cool if they had Ken driving KARR in a flashback scene & tailing CJ and finding a connection between him and Tanya Walker's & Fred Wilson's crew, who around that time had been infiltrating Knight Industries. In that scene, KARR having been newly built and not fully aware of his capabilities, would desert Ken to preserve himself, leaving Ken to be unprotected when CJ pulls a gun on him & kills him. Wilton Knight, having realized the mistake in KARR's programming, blames himself for pairing Ken with a faulty piece of technology made by his company and shelves FLAG (including KARR) like Devon said he did in Knight of the Drones up until they find Michael 6 months later (Devon in Trust Doesn't Rust said how KARR was activated 6 months before they found Michael). The only slight contradiction made here is how Devon tells Michael in Knight of the Drones how Ken was killed several years before their conversation in that episode, so that several years would have to be about 2-2.5 years before that episode, which doesn't seem like several. Because any longer than that, and the 1982 model Trans Am that KARR & later KITT were based on would not have existed or been available to buy & modify (unless it came out in 1981 like most car models come out the year before the year of the model). Because we know from what Devon said in Knight of the Drones that there was no FLAG project progression between Ken's death and when they found Michael. I pointed this all out in another comment I made in the video of this same channel where KARR returns in KITT vs. KARR and mentioned how Devon mentions that FLAG was shelved until they found Michael but how it wasn't specified what that meant. Did Wilton look for prospective candidates before finding Michael Long shot in the desert by Tanya and find Michael Long to be an exemplary candidate based on his record? Furthermore, would Michael Long have even qualified prior to being shot, because he was an active lieutenant in the police force and Wilton had no clue or the luxury of fore/hindsight or expectations that Michael would leave his job & join FLAG? We do find out in Trust Doesn't Rust that Tanya Walker & crew were infiltrating Knight Industries at around that time & virtually ruined the company with secrets they stole, so my best guess is that stealing of secrets from Wilton by Tanya's group had already happened and Wilton was tailing Tanya and her friends during the events of Knight of the Phoenix and found Michael through following them from a distance. And that fateful night when he found Michael is when he immediately restarted FLAG because with Michael Long declared dead, Wilton would've had a pretty good feeling Michael would join FLAG with his former life now over. So with that sudden revival of the FLAG project, Wilton had no time to reprogram KARR, which would be dangerous if KARR were to suddenly activate and would perhaps be more time consuming to go through every line of KARR's code to see where the errors were than to replicate it and just add new code on top of it that would protect human life & would override the self preservation code by giving it a higher precedence/priority, which does exist in programming. Not to mention because of guilt from Ken's death, Wilton wouldn't want or trust KARR from that point onward and wouldn't want to put Michael with him. This would be similar to how someone who lives in a house where one of their family members died would want to sell the house and not want to live there anymore from the memories, etc. One additional thing I remember mentioning in that other comment I made in the KITT vs KARR video was how Ken's death & the guilt & grief it caused Wilton could also have been used to explain how Tanya & her group infiltrated Knight Industries, because Wilton seemed too smart & keen to allow something like that to happen, unless he took his eye off the ball & got complacent from being grief-stricken from guilt over Ken Franklin's death. I remember mentioning how all these threads of plot we got throughout the series could have been sewn together like a mosaic to create a nice grand story had they extended KITT vs KARR to 2 hours. I also mentioned in that comment how I always thought they should've explained how that part of the beach where KARR landed was once used by the military and how in my imagination, I always thought KARR landed on some live/unexploded ordinance or munitions (or a small vessel with some of that to explain the scattered debris we saw in the explosion) that blew a crater in the sand where KARR got stuck & the incoming waves and sand erosion buried KARR underneath. Or if not the military, then maybe it was something terrorists that Michael would have to go after in a future episode would've hidden there while planning their next moves. The explosion and/or impact with the ground would've also damaged his alpha circuits and disconnected the voice modulator cable. I remember mentioning how an added scene in that episode with John telling Mandy how the military used to use that area for operations and how there could be metals that are either precious or could be sold off as scrap metal to John's boss Eddie at the marine to bring them money, which the metal detectors would fall further in line with. I think that would've been a better reason for them to bring those than Spanish doubloons (did Spanish vessels ever make it out to the west coast/CA?).
Karr is misunderstood. He really was not evil it was not money or power that he craved. He only a temporary prototype built for testing , granted fully awareness, and is simply guilty of wanting to maintain his consciousness and have a fair chance to live. His character could have had more development because he could have told Kitt that he has the same fate awaiting him too as the humans would shut him down one day as well. That could have planted a major seed of doubt in KITT's mind causing him to act or do react uncharacteristic and unloyal much later on. #missedopportunity
@@sweetdaddy77 They kinda did with the Knight Rider 2000 movie. KITT was shut down and disassembled. Michael got recruited once again to fight crime and KITT was in boxes. Michael installed KITT into a 57 Chevy and he was none too happy about that. Eventually he was installed into a Pontiac Banshee prototype and then he was happy once again. Not a bad movie, not as good as the TV show was but much better than the reeboot with the mustang.
@SMBComix It was both actually. It restarted a long cancelled TV show (reboot) as well as kept in the same world and timeline (Sequel). I thought they did a great job there, but when the car could change into all these wild things, that is where they lost me. It lost the character charm of the first show.
This is my childhood right here😭😭wayy back in 2005 this used to show on the television and i used to be hooked to it from the time it begins to the time it ends😭i gotta say this is one of the best car show ever made
I don't think younger people understand just how cool the 3rd gen Trans Am looked when it came out. There was nothing else like it. Just compare it to the other cars you can see in this episode.
Perhaps among my most favorite scenes from 'Knight Rider'. My LMAO scene -- KARR activates the ejection seat to get rid of that jewelry thief's weight! :D
When Patricia McPherson left the show our hearts were broken a bit. The replacing April was just too dumb a blonde to be convincing. Patricia was what they said later about Gillian Anderson: IDDG, or Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Bonnie was unique, a great mechanic in times where men dominated most jobs, her charisma earned her the affection not only of Michael, Devon, KITT or the foundation, but also of all the Knight Rider fans who watched the series. 😍
Bumble Bee: And weren't you evil as a car? Prime: I said that's enough Bumble Bee! This discussion is over. Now let's go kick Megatron's butt! Bumble Bee: Ok Optimus! Optimus: Autobots roll out!
I loved this episode very, very much! Conversations between KITT & KARR really nice and at the climax Michael tricked KARR! Excellent job done by Michael!
I grew up in the ‘90s so this, MacGyver, Star Trek TNG and the animated X-Men series were atop my tv shows. Man I miss that ‘80s/‘90s era. Was right on the cusp of modern era technology but we hadn’t yet lost our collective minds like today. Was a much simpler time…Miss them
Years later and now we see the imperfections on these old shows. Going thru a wall that was put up on a garage entrance you can see the open door above. Also the car falling off the cliff isn't the same car. Love it.
Yeah, and wasn't it kind of KARR to slow down(1:08) so that Michael could safely make the leap between cars! KARR had to decelerate from a whopping 20mph all the way down to 15mph! How convenient is it that KITT and KARR look exactly alike, so that the studio didn't have to spend any money to come up with a new vehicle!
The first episode with KARR was voiced by Peter Cullen but in the last and final episode, KARR was voiced by Paul Frees and I think I prefer Paul’s voice even though I’m a huge Peter Cullen fan! Paul Frees had a seriously maniacal voice which fit KARR’s personality a bit better in comparison to Peter Cullen. Either way, both voice actors did a fantastic job!💪🏻🤘🏻
@@billionairelivesmatter Well they were obviously filming Knight Rider on a tight budget and were probably rushing to get the editing completed in time before the episode was due to air. Probably didn't have time to completely observe the footage to see which was the best take for that close up shot at 1:46.
I’m glad they gave KITT the “KARR-esque” voice modulator display in later seasons. Looks so much better. I was always fascinated with that thing as a kid. Odd that the show never gave an explanation for where KARR got a yellow scanner or gray bottom in his second appearance. At least I think he was sort of two-toned but that was 20 years ago last time I saw it.
It was mainly to let the audience know which car was KARR and which one was KITT. There was complaints from this episode that it was hard to tell which was which. He was two toned, the lower parts were silver the upper was black. The scan bar changed to a yellow/green color too. Also he was a bit more sadistic, possibly due to the damage from going over the cliff... If memory serves, someone found him buried and dug him up, repaired the damage and off we go again.
Yes in 3rd season Kitt vs Karr it says the salt water had caused his scanner to change to a yellow. And Karr says he wants to alter his image as a disguise. Thats where the silver came from
@@jrag1000 No, it was the car from the movie THE CAR ... they stole the scenes directly from the movie and spliced them into this show. I think it was too expensive for them to ACTUALLY use one of the Knight Rider cars and perform the stunt.
Man this was more than I ever could of expected. Came here for a couple laughs and came away favorably impressed. They could of got more mileage out of KARR but thats show biz. That stunt which ended at 1:25 was pretty impressive
You know Peter Cullen again did KARR in the reboot of Knight Rider. 6:36-in other words, “you’re too fat, buddy!” 9:18-Bonnie and Michael lying to each other is my favorite part in this episode 9:44-“aww, c’mon and just kiss, already, we all know you wanted to do it”
Lol only noticed that..... Immediately. I mean WTAF they didn't even try! Also love that the brackets they use to tow the car for action scenes are clear as day. Oh well still a great show!
At the end of the episode, KITT has a deep philosophical moment, "Being one of a kind, is a very familiar feeling.". Now that KARR has been destroyed, KITT feels he is the only one.
@@kevinallen7776 they should have written in what happened to Bonnie and how April came on board and why April disappeared with no mention of what happened to her
@@kevinallen7776 April was too short. Rebecca Holden was only about 5'4". I met at a car show in the mid 80's, talked to her for a while. Very nice girl, asked about going out for coffee. Then her husband showed up. :(
@@justina249 Bonnie went to that tech university for further studies, remember? That same episode is where we learned that Michael was not to be the original driver of KITT. 50 points to the first person that can put a name to the guy that was to originally be KITT's driver! I have it, and won't give it away, timer is on, 30 minutes....
It was borrowed footage from the Universal archives from a 1977 movie The Car about a demonically possessed Lincoln. Which looks NOTHING like an 80s Firebird . Lazy editing
@@Cosmosity53 I noticed that too. The Car and Knight Rider are both properties of Universal Studios. I have picked up on sound effects from The Car in other movies.
i grew up in the early 2000's but i was introduced to this show thanks to my dad and ever since then i look back on these episodes with fond memories and i gotta say it was sad that KARR only showed up twice in the show how great would it have been if Garth and KARR met it would have been amazing to see the originals meet their "doubles" together edit: that moment when KARR drives off of the cliff was a scene taken from "the car" how ironic
9:26 That's a clip from the ending of the horror 1977 movie "The Car", if u slow down at 9:25 ya can clearly see the car. Almost the same thing happened to Duel with The Incredible Hulk in the episode called "Never Give a Trucker an Even Break" with the difference that they used almost the whole ending of the film. It wasn't a suprise to know that Spielberg (director of Duel) was very upset to see the footage reused. Also, The Car (1977) was a modified (and demonic) Lincoln Continental Mark III designed by George Barris, who also designed KITT
This was a genuinely clever ending. i've never forgotten it. From Michael having to reassume control to the idea of why KARR would turn away (utterly unexpected), this was above average for network TV at the time.
Kitt: "KARRS my brother."
Police officer: "he's committed grand theft from a warehouse."
KITT: "He's adopted."
lol
"I have an army."
"We have a KARR."
Nice!!!
That's one way to put it was a good 👍 answer
@ 8:00 On your left!
When you stop to realize that Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, also voiced a car that would easily fit in with the Decepticons, you know you're in for a wild ride.
It's a good thing Op wasn't given this form. :P
Oh look, it's KARR aka Nemisis KITT!
@@Jayteaseepiirturi in the early 2000's reboot, K.A.R.R was given a robotic form
Optimus Prime vs Mr. Feeney lol
I was suspecting that too. So cool.
"-This conversation is not productive." = my new getaway line.
Practice your fade out too. Yeah good idea
I just used that line on a very disagreeable psychobitch :)
😅🤣🤣
Say that to a cop when you roll down the window
If I get a girlfriend that’s my line to get out of arguments
Love how KARR turned into a completely different car going over the cliff. 80's tv was the best. From the repeated scenes in "A-Team" to this. Love it.
Karr turned into THE CAR!
@@fergnasty69 I see what you did there!
@@fredmontgomery9436 they used the footage from the movie!🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️
@@fergnasty69 correct.
I thought I might have been tripping out when I saw that so I noticed it too
Before Optimus Prime Peter Cullen was K.A.R.R
Peter Cullen to me is one of the greatest voice actors of all time.
And coincidentally, Optimus Prime later plays chicken with another truck. He plays chicken against Motormaster, the leader of the Stuntacons.
Kullen also does the predator sound effect.
Peter Cullen is a legend
Before Optimus Prime - he was Venger in D&D
Knight rider season 1 episode 9 trust doesn't rust karr scanner yellow in the vimeo video has the first Knight Rider season 1 episode 9 trust doesn't rust karr scanner yellow in the new dvd or the bluray.
"Why are you lying to each other?" cracked me up.
Its Optimus Prime vs Mr. Feeny
Trust Doesn’t Rust:Optimus Prime vs Mr. Feeny
Not to mention, Optimus Prime vs. John Adams or Optimus Prime vs. Dr. Mark Craig
OMG. That's funny.
Fun fact, for the Knight Rider remake, Peter Cullen went full Optimus Prime when he voiced KARR. KARR also literally transforms into a mech.
@@handsome4922 mann i loved that episode too they should have made kit do the samething
Can’t beat a bit of knight rider,or dukes of hazard , the fall guy ,street hawk , the A team and any others I forgot to mention,god I loved growing up in the 80’s - take me back
little house on the Prairie
Airwolf 😁
@@paulzy5192 Airwolf ruled all
Simon and Simon, Rip Tide, Jake and the fat man, China Beach. The 80s had it all for TV shows.
When I was a little boy, I used to have my own play sessions where Knight Rider teamed up with the Dukes of Hazzard. Every single moment i had both cars doing jumps to take down the bad guys😂🤣😆
I will never be to old to watch this
Facts
06:15. Love the casual, chilling cops on the side lines in the background. They do not seem to concerned.
They were busy watching (and acting in) a real life Knight Rider episode......but tryn' to be cool about it!
Not to mention, if they did try to challenge KARR, they'd be going against a sentient weapon.
"I have to be here, I'm the only one that can calibrate the laser" "Oh no the calibration must be off"
Yes, that was your job.
you failed Bonnie 😂
Exactly. She was really useful
You failed so we will replace you with someone else next season....
@@pl5624 but only for one season, then will let you come back after to do 2 more seasons after you've learned to calibrate things lol
Just poor aim....TWICE !!! WTF!???
I was watching this scene when I was eight years old - somewhere in middle 80's. I still remember KITT and KARR until now :)
to much sickness to accept this is the real paradise?
without work and each day fun
LEARN AND BE WISE
each one can be god you never seen
abc
remember
thats not the complete dream
if you are in paradise you can change without smartphone or computer your rooms
iff you believe in me you cant hear booms
only one thing you have to do
the knowledge on graves the cROSS on this
its he
WRITTEN BY GOD
THINK TO MYSELF ITS YOU!
many bibles cancled this words away
but i HELLp to remeber at each day
Me to i was 10 yers see this movie i m 43 yers i have 5 boy now im from Saudi Arabia
KARR: No! NO! I went off the clift and turned into a white 1957 Chevy
(look real close at the bit where you see the car first come off the clift)
Oddly enough that wasnt a belair.. it was that Custom Lincoln that was used in the movie The car
@Potwheelz It was the 1971 Lincoln Continental. Footage from The Car (1977), courtesy of Universal Pictures.
Shows back then didn't have the enormous budgets of today to afford to actually wreck a Trans Am. TV shows were considered inferior and nothing more than a place for bad/B-list actors and hammy storylines.
A Hollywood actor would have frowned upon ending their days on the small screen.
Nowadays it's the other way around. TV shows are high quality, while movies are, well, less so.
I know i know, that always irritated me, but i guess was done to save filming costs at the time.
Lmao!!
Love how turbo boost always somehow lifted the car into the air allowing it to jump over obstructions.
Back in the first episodes, it was an actual speedboost, but they phased that out in favour of fancy jumping.
@@TheDeathReincarnate correction, they realized the only reason people watched the Dukes of Hazzard was due to the flying car with the sound effect so they did the same thing of having a jump in every episode for ratings purposes.
The reason KARR swerved away at the last moment was because it had self preservation in it's programming. It didn't want to damage itself.
It damaged itself
@@thomaspayne6866 yes, because it was inferior AI. Obsolete 1980s tech😂🤣😆
But KITT was made to protect the driver no matter to damage itself
That what Michael thought.
KARR and the impeached Trump have something in common : egoism.
KITT: Michael, Bonnie why are you lying to each other? 😂😂
Classic!!!
I remember watching reruns of Knight Rider when I was younger this was on of my favorite episodes
Mine too.
forget reruns i watched it as it aired every wedensday night on channel 9 @ 5:00pm
Aaah, the days of escapist 80's tv. Entertaining but not much more! Who cares, better than the hoard of reality tv rubbish we have nowadays. A-team, Knight Rider, Airwolf etc, still the best. Thanks for the nostalgic upload 👍
I give K.I.T.T. a kudos for trying to look out for Michael. K.I.T.T. was just following his function to protect human life, especially Michael's.
That's what gave him the edge over K.A.R.R. Karr was only into self-preservation, so of course he'd turn away first. There's no reason for him to endanger his own existence.
@@Animeaddiction karr clearly explodes there right but then he still returned later and was more dangerous and meaner than ever
@@Animeaddiction Nonsense. KITT should have turned to avoid collision. What happened there only makes sense if you speculate that Michael steered slightly right the last possible moment and KARR didn't see other option than turning right.
@piotrmalewski8178 Nope. Michael locked KITT out with override. You even see him say to KITT, "Oh no, you're not!"
@@Animeaddiction Just read my comment again and understand this time.
You'll never see a stunt like that jumping from car to car today, it would just be some elaborate cartoon.
One Turbo Boost was Enough 🗿💯
1:14 The technology in Michael's boots are pretty dope. Changing colors and stuff...😁
It's the Knight Rider magic! 😁😁
Bonded polymer boots
I love and miss every second of the 80s. What fantastic memories I have of this show, how innocent I was and how the world was infinite.
Cant find such 80's simple thrill in 2019.
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faisy100 baby driver or atomic blonde?
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A stack of cardboard boxes had those guards totally flummoxed.
Yeah, bamboozled and hoodwinked too! 🙄
Not to mention they were out of the way of the boxes and then walked behind them on their own lol
They looked empty
04:40. They must have taken a nap. No noise, yelling, etc while the thief sorted through the jewels.
This thread is hilarious! 😂
If KARR sounds familiar its voice actor Peter Cullen who later voiced Optimus Prime in Transformers. Small World
And Coran and Commander Hawkins in Voltron.
i always thought that was him.
A bit of old news there, Pal.
A real interesting piece of trivia is that they brought Peter Cullen back to play KARR in the 2008 reboot of Knight Rider.
So he's famous for voicing two cars that's pretty cool actually
he also did iron hide in transformers and was the narrator in the opening credits of voltron and and was also the voice of eorrh (the blue donkey) from Winnie the pooh.
Some awesome throwbacks right here. I remember having the toys and rolling them around talking like Kitt and Karr. This was CARS before CARS ever existed.
I like K.I.T.T. better than K.A.R.R.
Love knight rider/the A-team/the fall guy/dukes of hazard plus other car related tv programs from the 1980s as they was the best times ever for action series programs of that time and era!!!!
The crash of KARR at 9:25 is actually footage from the ending of the horror movie ''The car''. The car (a modified Lincoln doesn't look much like KARR) but personality-wise they are very similar.
I thought I was the only one that noticed that shit!lmao!
The second part of the footage was of a pickup truck from some movie or other heading into the drink.
Well, it sure as hell wasn't an '82 Trans-Am. 😂
In the defense of Universal, when the show was first aired, that wasn't really noticed by most.
I saw it immediately because I had seen the footage in the other movies.
You would be surprised just how much "stock footage" gets around.
@Richard Kopel, I don't know the movie, but I noticed it wasn't KARR's car that crashed
I remember my mum brought me michaels watch for my birthday all those years ago best series ever
Wow, KARR turns into a different model when going off the cliff. I guess it has shapeshifting powers now.
They actually used footage of “The Car”
@@leontransit1652 I was totally about to say that!!! I paused it right as he jumped off the cliff and immediately recognized the scene! LMAO!
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@@leontransit1652 Where did they take the 2nd part of that scene when it hit the ground from? That's what I don't know.
it was from the movie "The Car" and the automobile used in that film was a 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III with a body designed ALSO by George Barris, Same designer for KITT!
The Knight Industries cars has always had shape-shifting abilities. Didn't you see the rebooted Knight Rider show? 😉😁
Unfortunately for KARR, there was a glitch in his programming, since Bonnie never got the time to finish the work on KARR. KARR was actually trying to change into a plane, but faulty programming planted by Bonnie and the damage caused by that first laser shot had a disastrous effect on his shape-changing abilities.
The explosion was caused by KARR landing on a mine, hurling KARR several feet away and causing KARR to go into power saving mode.
This is why we see KARR looking slightly different in the KITT vs KARR episode.
6:03: When you're stuck in an argument where no one wins.
I really love how it looked like KARR exploded, but the next time we see him he's just buried under the sand... like FLAG never went out to pick up the pieces.
Which is a bunch of crap, since that would've been mistake #2 for FLAG. The 1st being, not having KARR dismantled after they were able to shut him down.
@@dcdrew3 I thought that maybe they thought they could reprogram him.
@@terrywest111 That would be absolutely correct, considering what it cost to build those cars. The book explains it alot better, but still fails to make sense. In the book, Devon tells Michael that After KARR was built. Wilton Knight was hassled by the government about the Technology, then there were the corporate type spies creeping around. & then Wilton himself was dying, then they had Michael to deal with after they found him in the desert near to death. So they started from scratch again. Which doesn't make sense, since it was all about time. So Yes i agree that they should've had some Whiz-kids like Bonnie reprogramming KARR.
@@dcdrew3 Exactly. As soon as they shut him down, they should have had people there working on KARR. KITT did a lot of good during his time. Imagine what could have been done with two super cars!
@@dcdrew3 I don't think that was really possible at the time. Remember that KARR was in Laboratory 3 which was sealed off and completely dark. As soon as any power was engaged, it reactivated KARR, so it would have been impossible to work in that lab in the dark. I still don't understand how they did it. Was KARR supposed to be connected to some cables that shut him off? Because that goes against his & KITT's self sustained functioning. I know Michael deactivated KITT in an episode (maybe Killer KITT, I forget now) and he did it by pressing some buttons. But if that's what they did to KARR as well, then how could the flip of the power switch in the lab activate KARR? It was never explained and never really thought out.
I think in KITT vs KARR it would've been nice if the episode was 2 hours like the Garthe/Goliath episodes & they should've shown a flashback scene with Ken Franklin, the predecessor to Michael that Devon told Michael about in Knight of the Drones who was killed by CJ Jackson who escaped in that episode. It would have been cool if they had Ken driving KARR in a flashback scene & tailing CJ and finding a connection between him and Tanya Walker's & Fred Wilson's crew, who around that time had been infiltrating Knight Industries. In that scene, KARR having been newly built and not fully aware of his capabilities, would desert Ken to preserve himself, leaving Ken to be unprotected when CJ pulls a gun on him & kills him. Wilton Knight, having realized the mistake in KARR's programming, blames himself for pairing Ken with a faulty piece of technology made by his company and shelves FLAG (including KARR) like Devon said he did in Knight of the Drones up until they find Michael 6 months later (Devon in Trust Doesn't Rust said how KARR was activated 6 months before they found Michael). The only slight contradiction made here is how Devon tells Michael in Knight of the Drones how Ken was killed several years before their conversation in that episode, so that several years would have to be about 2-2.5 years before that episode, which doesn't seem like several. Because any longer than that, and the 1982 model Trans Am that KARR & later KITT were based on would not have existed or been available to buy & modify (unless it came out in 1981 like most car models come out the year before the year of the model). Because we know from what Devon said in Knight of the Drones that there was no FLAG project progression between Ken's death and when they found Michael.
I pointed this all out in another comment I made in the video of this same channel where KARR returns in KITT vs. KARR and mentioned how Devon mentions that FLAG was shelved until they found Michael but how it wasn't specified what that meant. Did Wilton look for prospective candidates before finding Michael Long shot in the desert by Tanya and find Michael Long to be an exemplary candidate based on his record? Furthermore, would Michael Long have even qualified prior to being shot, because he was an active lieutenant in the police force and Wilton had no clue or the luxury of fore/hindsight or expectations that Michael would leave his job & join FLAG?
We do find out in Trust Doesn't Rust that Tanya Walker & crew were infiltrating Knight Industries at around that time & virtually ruined the company with secrets they stole, so my best guess is that stealing of secrets from Wilton by Tanya's group had already happened and Wilton was tailing Tanya and her friends during the events of Knight of the Phoenix and found Michael through following them from a distance. And that fateful night when he found Michael is when he immediately restarted FLAG because with Michael Long declared dead, Wilton would've had a pretty good feeling Michael would join FLAG with his former life now over. So with that sudden revival of the FLAG project, Wilton had no time to reprogram KARR, which would be dangerous if KARR were to suddenly activate and would perhaps be more time consuming to go through every line of KARR's code to see where the errors were than to replicate it and just add new code on top of it that would protect human life & would override the self preservation code by giving it a higher precedence/priority, which does exist in programming. Not to mention because of guilt from Ken's death, Wilton wouldn't want or trust KARR from that point onward and wouldn't want to put Michael with him. This would be similar to how someone who lives in a house where one of their family members died would want to sell the house and not want to live there anymore from the memories, etc.
One additional thing I remember mentioning in that other comment I made in the KITT vs KARR video was how Ken's death & the guilt & grief it caused Wilton could also have been used to explain how Tanya & her group infiltrated Knight Industries, because Wilton seemed too smart & keen to allow something like that to happen, unless he took his eye off the ball & got complacent from being grief-stricken from guilt over Ken Franklin's death. I remember mentioning how all these threads of plot we got throughout the series could have been sewn together like a mosaic to create a nice grand story had they extended KITT vs KARR to 2 hours.
I also mentioned in that comment how I always thought they should've explained how that part of the beach where KARR landed was once used by the military and how in my imagination, I always thought KARR landed on some live/unexploded ordinance or munitions (or a small vessel with some of that to explain the scattered debris we saw in the explosion) that blew a crater in the sand where KARR got stuck & the incoming waves and sand erosion buried KARR underneath. Or if not the military, then maybe it was something terrorists that Michael would have to go after in a future episode would've hidden there while planning their next moves. The explosion and/or impact with the ground would've also damaged his alpha circuits and disconnected the voice modulator cable. I remember mentioning how an added scene in that episode with John telling Mandy how the military used to use that area for operations and how there could be metals that are either precious or could be sold off as scrap metal to John's boss Eddie at the marine to bring them money, which the metal detectors would fall further in line with. I think that would've been a better reason for them to bring those than Spanish doubloons (did Spanish vessels ever make it out to the west coast/CA?).
"One shall stand, One shall fall" would've fit perfectly as a line for KARR
Karr is misunderstood. He really was not evil it was not money or power that he craved. He only a temporary prototype built for testing , granted fully awareness, and is simply guilty of wanting to maintain his consciousness and have a fair chance to live.
His character could have had more development because he could have told Kitt that he has the same fate awaiting him too as the humans would shut him down one day as well. That could have planted a major seed of doubt in KITT's mind causing him to act or do react uncharacteristic and unloyal much later on. #missedopportunity
They could have definitely drawn out that plot.
Blame the programmers...
@@sweetdaddy77 They kinda did with the Knight Rider 2000 movie. KITT was shut down and disassembled. Michael got recruited once again to fight crime and KITT was in boxes. Michael installed KITT into a 57 Chevy and he was none too happy about that. Eventually he was installed into a Pontiac Banshee prototype and then he was happy once again. Not a bad movie, not as good as the TV show was but much better than the reeboot with the mustang.
@SMBComix It was both actually. It restarted a long cancelled TV show (reboot) as well as kept in the same world and timeline (Sequel). I thought they did a great job there, but when the car could change into all these wild things, that is where they lost me. It lost the character charm of the first show.
In Kitt vs Karr there was no dialogue between Kitt and Karr. Only Michael and Karr. I was highly disappointed
9:30 Ahh! Nothing like that 80's cheesy explosion sound effect to top all that cheese. I love it! 🤩
Watched this as a kid... Guess it's one of the reasons I like fast cars and pretty girls...
@Three Eighty-Six Soccer moms.
i like pretty cars and fast girls.
Corny show, but one of the best TV show theme songs ever.
All theme songs in the 80s were great. Even the catchy jingles in ads too
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Just a typical 80's show I'd say :P
This is my childhood right here😭😭wayy back in 2005 this used to show on the television and i used to be hooked to it from the time it begins to the time it ends😭i gotta say this is one of the best car show ever made
Peter Cullen voicing Kaar again in the 2008 series was so awesome to hear
With my vocal chords and personality tied behind my back, I can out voice him.
The only bad thing was that they gave little prominence to KARR, only a reference to Transformers and they immediately destroyed it.
I don't think younger people understand just how cool the 3rd gen Trans Am looked when it came out. There was nothing else like it. Just compare it to the other cars you can see in this episode.
it still looks good today
Perhaps among my most favorite scenes from 'Knight Rider'. My LMAO scene -- KARR activates the ejection seat to get rid of that jewelry thief's weight! :D
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I think Bonnie was my first celebrity crush - I don't think I was even 9 yet. 😱
Lol same
When Patricia McPherson left the show our hearts were broken a bit. The replacing April was just too dumb a blonde to be convincing.
Patricia was what they said later about Gillian Anderson: IDDG, or Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Yup same here too
April or Bonnie, April.... or.. Bonnie.
Bonnie it is.
Bonnie was unique, a great mechanic in times where men dominated most jobs, her charisma earned her the affection not only of Michael, Devon, KITT or the foundation, but also of all the Knight Rider fans who watched the series. 😍
"Michael and Bonnie why are you lying to yourselves " I died😹😹
I just noticed they reused the cliff jump footage from "The Car" (1977) at 9:25. Mind blown.
I saw
if you watch the episode involving the ranchers...they used the superman dam blocking footage
yes they also used the same engine noise from the car as well did you notice that lol
Even more mind blowing is that another episode they reused footage from Superman the movie in a rockslide sequence
Both Kitt and karr battles were the greatest ever
It’s Optimus prime’s former life.
Bumble Bee: Prime, is it true you were once a car?
Prime: ...Yeah we don’t talk about that.
Bumble Bee: And weren't you evil as a car?
Prime: I said that's enough Bumble Bee! This discussion is over. Now let's go kick Megatron's butt!
Bumble Bee: Ok Optimus!
Optimus: Autobots roll out!
"I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message:
We are here. We are waiting.
We do not forgive. We do not forget.
Expect us."
1:15 Micheal’s boots magically turn from black to tan. 😂
1:46 ghost legs on back window 😂
Bcroft 68 you’re forgetting the car that drove off the cliff was white not black too.
Zombiehunter115 No, I didn’t forget. I was pointing out and laughing at just one of the many errors. 😂
So, amateuristic mistake nr 4 in this outtake.
I loved this episode very, very much! Conversations between KITT & KARR really nice and at the climax Michael tricked KARR! Excellent job done by Michael!
'You always liked her better' What? Are you out of your mind, man?! 🤣
KITT has never liked anyone better! You are his buddy! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I grew up in the ‘90s so this, MacGyver, Star Trek TNG and the animated X-Men series were atop my tv shows. Man I miss that ‘80s/‘90s era. Was right on the cusp of modern era technology but we hadn’t yet lost our collective minds like today. Was a much simpler time…Miss them
"No, no, nooo!" 😂
Years later and now we see the imperfections on these old shows. Going thru a wall that was put up on a garage entrance you can see the open door above. Also the car falling off the cliff isn't the same car. Love it.
Not to mention numerous scenery changes as KARR turbo boosts over KITT.
Yeah, and wasn't it kind of KARR to slow down(1:08) so that Michael could safely make the leap between cars! KARR had to decelerate from a whopping 20mph all the way down to 15mph!
How convenient is it that KITT and KARR look exactly alike, so that the studio didn't have to spend any money to come up with a new vehicle!
And if we notice they reuse this same car falling clip throughout the whole season and above
@@Lcgmatheus
Really? They recycled that scene over and over in different episodes? I could see maybe once, but beyond that it's pretty lame. 😒
Also in some of the driving scenes you can see the blue and green screen used for the scenes .
Most of the 80's TV shows are better than nowadays. Also, Patricia McPherson is insanely beautiful and charming.
I love the chemistry he has with David Hasselhoff. 🥰
I know it
Patricia McPherson was a beautiful and talented actress her chemistry with David Hasselhoff was great.
80s shows always sprung for exciting score music.
Present Day...not so much
I remember this episode. I loved all of the 80s television shows because they were wholesome family shows
I guess that the reason KARR could come back is that he fooled them with stock footage from the 1977 movie The Car 🤷♂️
KARR was much better when they gave him the yellow light bar.
Zoomer30 The only thing is that they never explain it.
But I guess sitting in salt water faded it?
@@Legitcar117 hah, good thinking man! never thought about it like that., that could very well be the reason for it :D
CHUUMPASS as far as change in his voice, I don’t know
Nah, Green bar KARR was the coolest KARR
And he magically gets a license plate with his name on it......
I love how the cars just jump over things with no ramp lol
Turbo boost
The ramps are really well hidden for those stunts
The first episode with KARR was voiced by Peter Cullen but in the last and final episode, KARR was voiced by Paul Frees and I think I prefer Paul’s voice even though I’m a huge Peter Cullen fan! Paul Frees had a seriously maniacal voice which fit KARR’s personality a bit better in comparison to Peter Cullen. Either way, both voice actors did a fantastic job!💪🏻🤘🏻
Surprising they have 2 different voice actors for K.A.R.R. in Knight Rider.
All I hear is Optimus prime 😳
@@risco1974 Peter Cullen was the first one who played K.A.R.R. in Knight Rider before Paul Frees.
But what if someone had the same demanding force of Cullen's KARR but the maniacal style of Frees.
Fricking shivers man.
True. Cullen is great but Frees had a more sinister tone that lent to the revenge angle of the second KARR episode.
HAHA 1:46 it's footage from Michael being on top of KARR, since you can barely see Michael's foot on the rear window, but he's actually driving KITT
Mm oi
Hoje ou no
Must've been quite a complicating sequence to shoot that they forgot to shoot a close up shot on KARR there without Michael being on his rooftop.
8p x
@@AndrewChapman It looks like an editing mistake. They didn’t need that shot, but it’s there. How’d that get missed?
@@billionairelivesmatter Well they were obviously filming Knight Rider on a tight budget and were probably rushing to get the editing completed in time before the episode was due to air. Probably didn't have time to completely observe the footage to see which was the best take for that close up shot at 1:46.
Wow the memories growing up watching this show and so many other cool tv shows at that time.
Kcaaww
I’m glad they gave KITT the “KARR-esque” voice modulator display in later seasons. Looks so much better. I was always fascinated with that thing as a kid.
Odd that the show never gave an explanation for where KARR got a yellow scanner or gray bottom in his second appearance. At least I think he was sort of two-toned but that was 20 years ago last time I saw it.
It was mainly to let the audience know which car was KARR and which one was KITT. There was complaints from this episode that it was hard to tell which was which. He was two toned, the lower parts were silver the upper was black. The scan bar changed to a yellow/green color too. Also he was a bit more sadistic, possibly due to the damage from going over the cliff... If memory serves, someone found him buried and dug him up, repaired the damage and off we go again.
Yes in 3rd season Kitt vs Karr it says the salt water had caused his scanner to change to a yellow. And Karr says he wants to alter his image as a disguise. Thats where the silver came from
Explanation is simple; producers of the show had their brains burnt by cocaine. That's why scripts were so bad..
well in this episode Karr didn't fly off the cliff, that was a blue and white 19 57 chevy
@@jrag1000 No, it was the car from the movie THE CAR ... they stole the scenes directly from the movie and spliced them into this show. I think it was too expensive for them to ACTUALLY use one of the Knight Rider cars and perform the stunt.
"We're gonna stop that car one way or another..."
Next moment:
*Hurt in a car? Call William Mattar.*
Peter Cullen did a great job with KARR's voice.
Fun fact: Peter Cullen did Optimus Prime in the original Transformers.
@@amymartin4435 Yes and he also did the intro about the man who doesn't exist.
@@user-or4dm1fv3f No, that was Richard Basehart (The actor who played Wilton Knight).
09.26 (the 'jump') that's not a Black Trans Am.... Its a Grey unknown car
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@@chrisdavidson911 Great finding!
1977 "the car"
@@chrisdavidson911 Very well spotted indeed :D
chris davidson, excellent work.
Man this was more than I ever could of expected. Came here for a couple laughs
and came away favorably impressed. They could of got more mileage out of KARR but thats show biz. That stunt which ended at 1:25 was pretty impressive
"Mileage out of KARR".
I see what you did there
Didn't he come back (despite exploding!) anyway, or is this his second appearance?
@@johnpotts8308he came back later
I like this episode. An you picked good music at the end. Thank You Loader.
You know Peter Cullen again did KARR in the reboot of Knight Rider.
6:36-in other words, “you’re too fat, buddy!”
9:18-Bonnie and Michael lying to each other is my favorite part in this episode
9:44-“aww, c’mon and just kiss, already, we all know you wanted to do it”
Did anyone notice that - at the instant KARR went over the side - it actually looked like a ‘57 Chevy (or some similarly aged antique)?
LOL yup you're right
That was actually the ending from an old 1977 movie "The Car" which was a customized lincoln mark III spliced in.
Lol only noticed that..... Immediately. I mean WTAF they didn't even try! Also love that the brackets they use to tow the car for action scenes are clear as day. Oh well still a great show!
It was a clip from the movie The Car!
@@INFAMOUSLSG You win the daily double!👊👊👊👊👊👊
The 80's was the best era with tv shows
Nah, WONDER WOMAN, SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN were better
since everyone does a KITT replica I mean EVERYONE!
I'd rather do the 2nd version of KARR with the silver bottom & yellow scanner light
Me too.my brother and I always talked about that he kitt it I do karr or vice versa
Exactly they look to much alike
The silver bottomed KARR was the best looking KARR
There are a few of those out there
@@dougc190 ल
Lore + KARR vs Data + KITT in the most anticipated crossover ever.
anyone notice at 9:20 the scene of KARR jumping off the cliff is from the 1977 movie "The car" and not actually KARR?
9:26 the footage is from 1977 the car
I just saw that, too.
the moment Michael almost kissed Bonnie thou !!!!
I know it should have been Michael marrying Bonnie that would have been a great back story to the ,2008 Knight rider but they fucked that up
Did they get it off in the back seat, time to test the suspension...
I KNOW! The writing in this episode was epic top to bottom. Bonnie loved her some Michael.
I found this channel and have been grinning for the the last hour since😂😂❤ it. Member berries Thank you for putting these out there.
80's was where it all started...😀🌪️
4:20 love how the cops/guards just willingly walk into the adhoc trap made for them 😂
And are also apparently unable to climb up a few boxes either!
KARR: Yes, I see. It is the inferior production line of copy.
KITT: I heard that, KARR, and you haven't seen anything yet.
Prototype. You keep using that word, KARR. I don't think you know what it means....
At the end of the episode, KITT has a deep philosophical moment, "Being one of a kind, is a very familiar feeling.". Now that KARR has been destroyed, KITT feels he is the only one.
Little did KITT know, there was RIDE.
It's funny you can still see legs and boots flying in the wind as Karr rounds the second bend at 1:46 seconds
i like how at the end the car that went off the cliff was not the same car as karr hahahahaha
I'm glad KARR's red light was changed from red to yellow to distinguish himself from KITT.
And also when he received a two tone paint job as well as his own 'KARR' licence plate.
@@AndrewChapmanHe always had the KARR plate.
The end had me dying, No noooooo right off the cliff, & it was a different color car 😆
Sooo everyone just gone ignore the fact that Michaels hair when he got back in the car was absolutely perfect curls in all .
Stunt double was used.
No vehicles were harmed in the making of this series of shows...
Oh, quite a few where, Including a dozen Trans Ams that where acquired in late Season 1 due to a train derailment.
Like how at 1:15, michael footwear magically changes😂
8:04 - FIAT 131 Mirafiori Coupe (T-Stop taillights)
3:25 Kitt is in hot pursuit doing a blistering 27mph
had to get to the gas station first lol
"This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!"
Well, of COURSE he liked Bonnie better, who wouldn't?
Sorry id rather april
@@kevinallen7776 they should have written in what happened to Bonnie and how April came on board and why April disappeared with no mention of what happened to her
Boners for Bonnie
@@kevinallen7776 April was too short. Rebecca Holden was only about 5'4". I met at a car show in the mid 80's, talked to her for a while. Very nice girl, asked about going out for coffee. Then her husband showed up. :(
@@justina249 Bonnie went to that tech university for further studies, remember?
That same episode is where we learned that Michael was not to be the original driver of KITT.
50 points to the first person that can put a name to the guy that was to originally be KITT's driver!
I have it, and won't give it away, timer is on, 30 minutes....
80s nostalgia, back when cool shit like this was the best..... can I go back pleeeeaaassse?
At 1:46 from the inside view of Bonnie inside Karr, it still shows Michaels legs through the back window after Michael already got back inside Kitt.
I came here to see if anyone else noticed that same thing!!
Cars doing 30 mph in framerate x2.5, those were the 80's, i love it!
9:23 c
Karr had a Stunt Double😁
It was borrowed footage from the Universal archives from a 1977 movie The Car about a demonically possessed Lincoln. Which looks NOTHING like an 80s Firebird . Lazy editing
Ended too soon, Stop short of Bonnie & Michael ALMOST Kissing, they both stopped short & said NAAAAAA! before pulling back, 😂🤣
That wasn't Karr going off the cliff! Look closely it was from the movie the Car!!😂😂😂
A creepy movie
I noticed too. Is this show much deeper than it gets credit for?
They used the same sound effects from The Car too
@@Cosmosity53 I noticed that too. The Car and Knight Rider are both properties of Universal Studios. I have picked up on sound effects from The Car in other movies.
It was a universal show borrowing footage from a universal movie.
And yet KARR returns in another episode. The Timex of Evil Robot Cars of the 80’s!
Love it.
i grew up in the early 2000's but i was introduced to this show thanks to my dad and ever since then i look back on these episodes with fond memories and i gotta say it was sad that KARR only showed up twice in the show how great would it have been if Garth and KARR met it would have been amazing to see the originals meet their "doubles" together
edit: that moment when KARR drives off of the cliff was a scene taken from "the car" how ironic
9:26 That's a clip from the ending of the horror 1977 movie "The Car", if u slow down at 9:25 ya can clearly see the car. Almost the same thing happened to Duel with The Incredible Hulk in the episode called "Never Give a Trucker an Even Break" with the difference that they used almost the whole ending of the film. It wasn't a suprise to know that Spielberg (director of Duel) was very upset to see the footage reused.
Also, The Car (1977) was a modified (and demonic) Lincoln Continental Mark III designed by George Barris, who also designed KITT