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Another KNIGHT RIDER Teaser Shows Us More Of KITT!! And More KITT Talking ...
Merrick here...
NBC is airing a new spot for its forthcoming KNIGHT RIDER sequel/relaunch.
You can take a look at the teaser HERE.
Will Arnett is the new voice of KITT, but I'm a little confused. Is the KITT voice featured in this previous teaser (which sounds more like Arnett to me)...
...the same one used in the new teaser? I think it's the same...just processed differently.
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the Golden Globes next weekend.
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Don't want Bob Orci to own this TB, too.
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"...you want salsa or guacamole dip with that?"
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I hope the underwhelming response to bionic woman will motivate the creators to make a fun show with some humor and decent action. I really enjoyed the Knight Rider tv movie that USA aired about ten years go, I wonder if this show will take any of that story into account.
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poor design.
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to leap into Hasselhoff's body a year ago to stop this from being made
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..which would've been the only thing keepin me interested. Arnett's got a very distinct voice (part of the reason he's the voice of many major brands) and no amount of synthesizing could've made him sound like a completely different guy. Add that the celebrity of his voice would be a plus to the show, and NBC would be making a big mistake thinking otherwise.
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I guess they changed it to "Mike" since anyone familiar with Arrested Development would have cracked up laughing if it had been Michael. They need to do it just one time for the AD fans.
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Hollywood has become a living nightmare.
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What about Sheriff Lobo? Or, my Favorite, "BJ and the Bear?"
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Merrick trust me, I bet you a million bucks the voice in the new teaser is most definitely NOT Will Arnett. I wonder why they'd do that.
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Why the peek-a-boo black cloth? Is this going to be a hard R version?
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is definitely not Will Arnett.
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I guess they didn't want the car to have more personality and appeal than the star, which I can pretty much guarantee. Or maybe it is going to be Will Arnett and they don't care and this commercial is bs. Listen to the way he says "standard" to tell that it's a different guy.
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WTF???????
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we lost Journeyman for crap like this? Uh, NBC, pull yer heads outta yer asses, please.
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We've seen ZERO footage as far as I can tell. It could be great. Knight Rider is one of those shows that's way too revered and overrated. They're remaking it, get over it. It's not like they're remaking Seinfeld with a more culturally diverse cast.
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Well, technically it wasn't very nice. It's just an expression.
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Will Arnett makes everything better. Even The Brothers Solomon.
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Into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Sorry haters, I loves me this cheesy shit.
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the crime SOLVING boat
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So maybe he was doing a different voice for a different style commercial. Mimicking real commercials.
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I ain't watching otherwise. I was promised Will Arnett and I'd better get Will Arnett.
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Okay, yeah, that was not Will Arnett's voice, but, and I can't believe it isn't more obvious, they hired a voice actor just for the commercial because no one (in mainstream America) is yet aware or invested in Will Arnett as the voice of KITT. Fear not, plebians - He is the voice, just not in that one promo.
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...then dammit I want to hear it say, "Chicken fingers..with spicy club sauce."
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Kitt into a Segway. Or maybe they should pull their FUCKING HEADS OUT OF THEIR ASSES and give us back Arrested Development instead of green-lighting horse-shit that we've already seen.
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anyone remember that show?
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Jan 07, 2008 9:38:42 PM CST
Faster Knight Boat! We've gotta catch those starfish poachers!
by tallboy66
"Oh, no! They're headed for land! We'll never catch them now." "Incorrect--look! A canal."
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"There's always a canal"
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"Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat!!!!"
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"Tricks are what a whore does for money. Or cocaine."
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Sounds like he's trying too hard to sound cool.
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Honestly the only reason I would even make an attempt at watching this. And why Mike? Are they making the show hip and cool by removing the "Michael"? Why not just rename the main guy to Buzz or something?
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Knight Boat = Thunder In Paradise with Hulk Hogan......BROTHER!
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That was a neat show. I am really wondering about the Mike thing now. Did their PR have a meeting with them, and say "Ok guys, our surveys show that the kids of today will not watch a show with a talking car with a main character named Michael. They will however, watch a show with a talking car with the main chracter named Mike. If you name the character Michael you are dooming the show"
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'Nuff said.
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teehee...
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Much better than the old Kitt
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better have a perm, wear a members only jacket, and overact or it just will not feel the same.
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Really wondering.. I cannot remember any that have been. Some do ok their first two years, but all die out very quickly.
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New commercial does not sound like Arnett at all :( I hope they let him use his cool voice instead of the fake car commercial voice that just made me throw up a little in my mouth...
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Now that would rock.
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im assuming everyone knows its not michael knight, but his son, also named michael....has anyone thought maybe he likes to be called mike and not michael ?i would assume a sophisticated artificial intelligence would keep calling him "michael" against his will because all the lame knight rider of the 80s fans want him to.....i thought we passed all this with transformers but i guess not....the 80s are gone, get over it
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the line above should have read, that a sophisticated AI would NOT keep calling him "michael" against his will....sorry...
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Frasier and Angel come to mind right away. Do the 300 CSI/Law and Order shows count as spin-offs?
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The Jeffersons (from All in the Family)Facts of Life (from Diff'rent Strokes)Good Times (from Maude)Mork and Mindy (from Happy Days)Laverne and Shirley (also from Happy Days)Fish (from Barney Miller)I'm sure there's tons of others, but I'm tired...
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From Love, American Style.Okay... so I'm old. >:(
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Jan 08, 2008 12:50:10 AM CST
And isn't Fantasy Island a spinoff from The Love Boat?
by theghostwholurks
I forget.
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Maybe the voice does too? It seems weird to have a KITT that changes colour and model, even weirder if the voice changes too.
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also from Happy Days. What a cash cow.
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but that would be like Lost.
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The processed sound in the teaser is better in my opinion. It doesn't sound as cool.
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Just like him.
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And why is everyone upset he might not be the voice? Is he usually pretty good? Shouldn't we be more interested in having William Daniels be the voice? Or complaining that the Cobra GT is totally wrong for KITT and that it looks completely shit?
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We don't know if there are any Top Gear watchers, but the GT500 Shelby got ripped. Note the comment on the video page about the Veyron
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Make it sound rather silly. "Bim bam bom."
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Kitt's supposed to sound like a smug know-it-all, not a regular dude.
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See, it a muscle car in England is like a bull in a china shop. Tight roads, but in the US, driving environment is a bit different. Top Gear is fun and all, but it all accounts for taste and they are not very scientific about their tests.By the way, getting ripped apart by English standards is about as worrisome as a rainy day in the US.
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You douchebag.
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Especially with that ugly looking car they used for KITT this time.
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Will Arnett from Arrested Development. Wikipedia it for starters, or check IMDB.
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He was Dustin Hoffman's father in The Graduate for Pete's sake. Dusitn Hoffman!
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...where'd the lighter fluid come from?
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Lets remake the New Monkees. C'mon it'll be fun!
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That crazy driving frog guy from youtube.
"be ba dee ba dee ba DE BA DEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
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Why not My-Kell?
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Ignorance is quite funny. In my office, I am the only American. I often find assumptions of many different cultures quite humorous and have had some lovely debates with people of many cultures.The point I was making was, look at the environment the Shelby was being tested unfairly by Top Gear, which in the current "Knight Rider" Talkbacks has become somewhat of a holy context in which to judge the show.
I watched that particular episode of Top Gear, and my comment made reference to calling the Shelby, "a hippo". Hence, if this constitutes a "ripping", which I hear similar schoolyard banter between many of my English counterparts. Also, the testing of the horsepower of the governed engines was a fallacy.So sir, Steve "Capt. America" Rogers, you demonstrate not only an assumption, but are a paradigm. Another Talk-backer that makes a crude comment about something they don't know anything about. -
Is it too late for me to reschedule?
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maybe its a different voice because its actually KITT's evil twin brother KARR?
think about it. -
I did think it was a little bit weird that suddenly KITT had a goatee.
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you don't have to yell Michael i'm all around you.
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the transam had class. This one looks like it should have 50 cent's voice and be trying to keep its stable of dodge neons and Saturns in line.
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...the new KITT runs on "Dong Tea". Is that enough Arrested Development references? Should..should I go on?
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is kitt still going to turn into a robot?
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I know you're being partly facetious, but I agree that part of the "personality" of the original KITT was that he used My-Kell's full name. Now, I'll say right off that I'm not watching the new show, simply because being mid-30s I have no interest. And based on what I'm seeing / hearing about it, the differences are just marked enough that it really isn't the same Knight Rider anyway. It's a new guy, new car, new model / make car, new car voice, etc. and could be given a new title for the show.
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Starring Cube Gooding Jnr and Ice Cube , with Tommy Lee Jones as the dad. It Could work ..
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If the Trans Am still was made. Sorry, but most american made cars of this generation are shit. Unless of course, they get a viper. But whatever.
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With Will Arnett saying "Hello Michael" will make me laugh every time just because Arnett will always be G.O.B. from Arrested.
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I think it's funny to see the Michael vs Mike arguments on this thread. My name is Michael, I sign my name as Michael, I introduce myself as Michael, I prefer Michael, I am Michael. But 95% of the people I know call me Mike. The only people who call me Michael are my immediate family, my wife, and my mother-in-law. Everyone else has decided they will call me whatever the hell they want. And they want to call me Mike. So I guess what I am saying is maybe the new Michael goes by Michael too but the car is just an asshole.
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NightHawk!
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Klutch Cargo - Target Bagdad
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Electra Woman: The Search for Dyna Girl (Shown on the LOGO Channel Only.)
Night Man: Frequency of Evil
H.R. Pufnstuf - (Live Action Murder Mystries akin to 'Murder She Wrote'.)
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Thundarr The Barbarian: Jurassic Park Survival
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Space 1999: Timewarp to 2999
Galactica: The Boxi Years
You know... there probably IS some Doofus at NBC thinking the SAME stuff up and making a mint doing it... Jeez... all my College for Nothing...
Thank God my Boot Jets can get me outta here! -Stark
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NightHawk! … Fireball XL-5: The Search for LOST Island …. Klutch Cargo - Target Bagdad …. Tales of the Gold Monkey Part Duex…. Electra Woman: The Search for Dyna Girl (Shown on the LOGO Channel Only.) …. Night Man: Frequency of Evil …. H.R. Pufnstuf - (Live Action Murder Mysteries akin to 'Murder She Wrote'.) …. The New 'Danger Island': Chango's Revenge …. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: PETA …. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: CSI …. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Miami …. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Criminal Intent …. Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: New York …. Thundarr The Barbarian: Jurassic Park Survival…. License to Kill - One Shot: Tila Tequila …. Space 1999: Timewarp to 2999 …. Galactica: The Boxi Years …………… You know... there probably IS some Doofus at NBC thinking the SAME stuff up and making a mint doing it... Jeez... all my College for Nothing... Thank God my Boot Jets can get me outta here! -Stark
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Holy shit?!?! Let talk about BATMAN!
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Jan 09, 2008 10:32:54 PM CST
Enough with the "I wish he said Hello Michael" crap...
by thewingkongexchange
KITT says "Mike" since he's referring to Mike Tracer, Michael Knight's estranged son.
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the Ford Motor Company.
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Jan 10, 2008 3:02:23 AM CST
Can we have a smackdown between KITT and the Bionic Woman
by the podosphere
that ends in a nuclear explosion obliterating them both?
Belay that. This is '08. No hate in '08.
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Screw it! The Batmobile stomps the bejezus out of any KITT, made the Black Beauty eat its azz and Automan and the Autocar ain't even close! (Stark Industries is currently working on the 'Iron Viper' inc: Front End Repulsors, Stealth Mode, War Machine Rockets AND a fully stocked friggn' Minibar!!! Hear's to peace! -Stark
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Im still waiting NBC *sigh*
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Does anyone remember a TV series called Hard Time on Planet Earth which starred Martin Kove? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096606/
The new voice of KITT sounds like the little orb named Control that used to follow around Kove on that show. -
Why name him Mike at all... It is Michael, or something else. Hello Dave...Hello Chris...Hello George... Hello Johnny would have been even better...Mike is too short and stupid a name for a computer car to be saying...
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They changed KITTS catch phrase " Hello Michael" thats like remaking terminator 2 and have him say " Be right back "
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they are actually gonan call him Mike Knight? that sounds so lame.
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they are actually gonan call him Mike Knight? that sounds so lame.
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Mike Knight sounds more like a porn star
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I'd actually like it if The Terminator said, "Just a sec, guys" instead of "I'll be back"
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