Knight Rider Was On Tonight

A couple years back Christy’s sister and her husband took us to a Toby Keith concert for Christy’s birthday. We aren’t big fans or anything, but it was playing and we thought it would be fun. Turned out to be the biggest ford commercial I had ever seen. He actually had the band set up around an F150 crew cab. Well, that concert was dethroned as the biggest Ford commercial by tonight’s Knight Rider. The new KITT is a Ford Mustang Cobra…thing. Pretty cool concept, questionable special effects and even more questionable acting.

So because it was a remake of really cheesy, but fun child hood show I thought it would have to have a cheese factor to be believable. Well they didn’t disappoint. It was silly cheesy and predictable, and a little off-putting in the beginning.  We meet a couple of the main characters as one of them is rolling out of bed with two women and the other is leaving her lesbian lover that she just met naked under a sheet…wow!  And for the record, every vehicle in the show was a Ford product! From the Mustang KITT to the old dump trucks on the road, all the non-fords were Ford owned (Volvo, Land Cruiser, Lincoln, etc.). Except one, the GMC Suburban the bad guys were driving when they were all together. For the record, it was the only vehicle in the show to get wrecked…and 3 people died in the wreck! No Fords were harmed during the filming of this commercial…er…uh…movie.

However, I still watched it all the way through. I was rewarded in the end by a special appearance by David Hasselhoff. Good stuff…