History Recap / KnightRiderS3E5KITTVsKARR

Or: "Trust Doesn't Rust II: The Wrath Of KARR".

A young beachcombing couple happens upon what looks like a car buried on a beach. It turns out to be, not just any car, but KARR[[note]]now voiced by Creator/PaulFrees, replacing Creator/PeterCullen[[/note]], the Knight Automated Roving Robot, KITT's EvilTwin who was supposedly destroyed [[Recap/KnightRiderS1E9TrustDoesntRust two years prior]]. But here KARR is, intact and fully operational. Not only that, but via a series of seductions, pacemaker disruptions, ATM manipulations and, eventually, outright extortion, he cons the kids into helping him in his quest for vengeance against KITT and Michael Knight.

* SpecialEffectsEvolution: In "Trust Doesn't Rust", KARR's voice box was depicted as just that -- just the voice box itself (and a couple of flanking lights), floating in the middle of a plain black panel with no mock dashboard. In this episode, they finally laid out the cash for a mock dashboard.

* PaletteSwap: KARR's scanner light has turned yellow by this episode. It's further invoked when KARR gets a paint job (white on bottom, making him look like an orca, or like Series/{{Airwolf}}).

* RammingAlwaysWorks: A given for this series, what with the indestructible supercar(s) and all.

A young beachcombing couple happens upon what looks like a car buried on a beach. It turns out to be, not just any car, but KARR[[note]]now voiced by Creator/PaulFrees, replacing Creator/PeterCullenyou[[/note]], the Knight Automated Roving Robot, KITT's EvilTwin who was supposedly destroyed [[Recap/KnightRiderS1E9TrustDoesntRust two years prior]]. But here KARR is, intact and fully operational. Not only that, but via a series of seductions, pacemaker disruptions, ATM manipulations and, eventually, outright extortion, he cons the kids into helping him in his quest for vengeance against KITT and Michael Knight.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: threatened, though thankfully never carried out: KARR kidnaps the girlfriend and threatens her, first with suffocation and then by baking her like a potato, in order to coerce the boyfriend's continued cooperation.

A young beachcombing couple happens upon what looks like a car buried on a beach. It turns out to be, not just any car, but K.A.R.R. -- you know, the Knight Automated Roving Robot, K.I.T.T.'s EvilTwin who was supposedly destroyed [[Recap/KnightRiderS1E9TrustDoesntRust two years prior]]. But here KARR is, intact and fully operational; and, via a series of seductions and pacemaker disruptions and ATM manipulations -- and, eventually, outright extortion -- cons the kids into helping him in his quest for vengeance against KITT and Michael Knight.

* Notable Trivia: Creator/PaulFrees provides the voice of KARR, replacing Creator/PeterCullen who voiced him in "Trust Doesn't Rust".

* PlotHole: As KITT points out, KARR '''exploded''' at the conclusion of his last apperance. And, apart from KITT's incredulity, absolutely no attempt is made to explain how KARR could possibly still be in one piece. [[note]]: The novelization of "Trust Doesn't Rust" does state that as KARR plummeted over the cliff, his indestructible shell remained "ridiculously intact", and that he exploded only because of an internal overload or power surge or some such -- which would still have left naught but a burnt, empty shell of a car.[[/note]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: After KARR is finally destroyed for good, [[spoiler:the camera pans across the wreckage... and settles upon the main computer processor, intact and still functioning]].

* LampshadeHanging: Upon first seeing KARR back in action, KITT voices the thought that likely shot through the minds of practically every thinking viewer: "But [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat I saw him explode]]! '''YOU''' saw him explode!"

* LampshadeHanging: Upon first seeing KARR back in action, KITT voices the though that likely shot through the minds of practically every thinking viewer: "But [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat I saw him explode]]! '''YOU''' saw him explode!"

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: See Lampshade Hanging, above.

* UnexplainedRecovery: KARR, as you may have gathered from the above examples.

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* PlotHole: As KITT points out, KARR '''exploded''' at the conclusion of his last apperance. And, apart from KITT's incredulity, absolutely no attempt is made to explain how KARR could possibly still be in one piece. [[hottip:note: The novelization of "Trust Doesn't Rust" does state that as KARR plummeted over the cliff, his indestructible shell remained "ridiculously intact", and that he exploded only because of an internal overload or power surge or some such -- which would still have left naught but a burnt, empty shell of a car.]]