Meanwhile, eight other houses with actual commercial trucks parked in their driveways skate off scot-free without warning.

Fun times…

Not sure whether this was before or after the cheeseburger to the…uh…fascia, but I think the paint took some serious buffing out. The owner said they buffed it to the point where the black paint came off the door locks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3Pko-E-no

I wonder what the KITT replica owner thought when Hoff smashed that wet cheeseburger onto the T/A’s nose!

Hee…yeah, I liked the “KITT, get me out of here” moment, too. Good stuff. As for Gilbert Gottfried, I think he should stick to doing voiceover for CGI ducks.

I hadn’t seen any of the promo ads for the event so I didn’t see the sticking scanner! Ha, that’s almost like an homage unto itself. That used to happen in the old days because they used a series of mechanical relays to control the firing of the lights, and those things were prone to sticking after working overtime. Nowadays most scanner makers use MOSFETs instead, I would think.

Gilbert Gottfried was definitely the worst, though. Not only were his jokes not funny, but he kept driving them into the ground.

I did notice the different scanner on KITT, but I figured that was a style choice of the owner. However, I also noticed they used the regular LED scanner on the promo commercial for the event (where, just like in Knight Rider, the bulbs kept sticking at various points).

They did go a little nuts rigging the fog lights when the car spoke, but I guess since the audience couldn’t see the vox-box, they wanted to give them some kind of indication that it was the car talking — in case there were some really sheltered people out there who had no idea what KITT is or sounds like. I did like that they did actual close-ups of the vox-box for the benefit of viewers at home, though, like the studio shots of the dash they filmed for the actual series.

Some people on the Knight Rider Online boards were actually complaining because the KITT replica’s scanner didn’t look “authentic” and used a too-smooth LED-based design that was more like the 2008 KITT’s scanners. The owner of the replica then showed up and responded that he wanted to use his authentic halogen bulb-based scanner, but that leaving the thing on for the 4 or 5 hours it took to film the roast would have lit it on fire! LOL…they use intense, brake-light grade 55W halogens in the authentic scanners so they show up good in the daytime, and they can’t be run continuously due to the intense heat those filaments generate.

You’re right about the end being kind of uplifting especially after all the grungy snarking (Christ, was Gilbert Gottfried on crack?). Apple thought Hasselhoff actually has a pretty good voice considering all the ribbing he takes for his singing career. I don’t think it’s his voice so much that makes people cringe as the gouda-grade extreme cheesiness of all his songs. “Looking For Freedom” was the only one I could tolerate, but upon digging up a copy of it last night for review, it hasn’t aged well…at all.

I never saw the Shatner roast, although I heard that it was nothing but Gay Sulu jokes (what with George Takei being there and all). Which reminds me, seems we were closer to the mark than we thought all those years ago with those “It’s naked time, Captain!” jokes.