Blast from the past....

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...1982, anyway. I was looking for something to watch on my Roku T.V., when I came across Knight Rider, a show that my then 12 year old self thoroughly enjoyed. Michael Long, a cop, is shot in the face in the pursuit of some baddies. He is found by a rich man's orginazation, who give him plastic surgery and a new identity: Michael Knight. They also soup up his car, a black trans-am that becomes the Knight Industrial Two-Thousand, or "KITT". The car is robotic (at least, that's the term they use on the show) and basically has a mind--and voice--of it's own. Probably just a simple mind like my own thinks of this as funny, but some of the conversations between the car and Michael Knight are chuckle-worthy. In the first episode, for example, Michael is driving the car around, and a couple of car thieves eyeball it. Michael stops at a convenience store, and leaves the keys in the ignition. Naturally, the two car thieves go for it. After driving down the road a bit, KITT takes over, speeding up and freaking the thieves out, and then drives them back to town, the police station, and ejects them both from the car via the eject seats. KITT then drives himself back to the convenience store as Michael comes out, and says something to the effect of: "Really, Michael, leaving the keys in the ignition! Not very wise!" In the episode I watched this evening. Michael Knight gets put in jail, and the cops put KITT in the impound lot. When Michael contacts KITT via his wrist communicator, asking, "KITT, where are you?" KITT answers, "I'm impounded, just like you are." Okay, I have a simple/odd/weird sense of humor--but I am enjoying my blast from the past.