The New Knight Rider Show Airs Tonight, Consider This Your Warning
If you watched this past February’s Knight Rider relaunch/TV movie…may god have mercy on you, because you’ve suffered enough. I watched it, and that shit was terrible, from the utter lack of acting skills by the faux-Dane Cook lead, the 5th-grade creative writing class-level plot, and an utter lack of special in their special effects. Still, NBC?because they are evil, and are trying to wipe out joy?ordered a full TV season of the show, and retooled it in some fashion that I don’t hate myself enough to find out by watching tonight. I do know that KITT now transforms from a car to a slightly different car, which…uh…is lame, and is something they did in the first series anyways, if you watch the above video. I also know that same confused yet smug jackass is still the star of the show, so it has that going for it. Any brave souls who dare to watch, please let me know in the article’s comments. I won’t let your suffering be for nought.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.