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  • In general, always loved the stunts they did with KITT. Poor by today's standards perhaps, but impressive for the times.
    • Can't forget the Turbo Boost.
    • Or the "Super Pursuit Mode". Depending on whether you look at it as Narm or Narm Charm.
      • Even more-so when in the episode "Deadly Knightshade", KITT goes into Super Pursuit Mode at night, which KITT emits red lights from his undercarriage, making it look even more awesome.
    • KITT's immunity to bullets however is a genuine point for him.
  • A rather humorous moment in "Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular", a mysterious figure appears at one point in an attempt to sabotage KITT. When he can't get the hood open, he attempts to do some damage from beneath the undercarriage. KITT won't have any of it and keeps pulling forward and back to mess with the guy until he decides to deflate his tires, while the man is still underneath.
    KITT: If I were you buddy, I would get out of there before you get yourself trapped.
    Saboteur: (gets out from underneath KITT's undercarriage and flees) Who said that!
    KITT: (re-inflates his tires) Really, some people are too much.
  • When KITT played Matador against a bull in "Not a Drop to Drink". Also counts as a Funny Moment.
  • In "No Big Thing," Devon is arrested in a small town on bogus charges. He overhears his cellmates talking about breaking out and offers to come up with a solution, if they let him come along. When it's pointed out that he "doesn't look like the prison break type," he agrees— adding that the SS thought the same thing, which allowed him to break out of two German prison camps in the war. His cellmates agree, Devon executes the breakout and even works in a Dukes of Hazzard leap with the getaway truck. This being a man who's, up to this point, been a very stoic, serious character.
  • The legendary Peter Cullen guest spotting on the show as the Evil Twin car KARR.
    • Near the end of "Trust Doesn't Rust", after the laser fails, Michael defeats KARR by beating him at a game of chicken.
      Michael: Remember Zenonote  and that immovable object thing? We're about to find out the answer.
    • Michael Knight used psychology to defeat a Nigh-Invulnerable robot. Throughout the episode, two things are repeatedly stressed: One, KITT's primary programing is the preservation of human life while KARR's is the preservation of his own life; Two, that KITT and KARR are structurally identical and thus it's even chances, in a head-on collision, if one, the other, both, or neither will survive. Michael gets KITT and KARR into exactly that situation, and KITT can't take the chance that he (and thus, Michael) will be destroyed, so tries to take over, Michael overrides. KARR comes to the exact same conclusion and swerves to evade them. . . but failed to notice the cliff he was now caroming off of.
  • The episode "Inside Out" opens with Michael and the crook he'd apprehended off-screen fighting inside KITT. Michael puts an end to the struggle by having KITT open the sunroof... and hitting the eject button.
  • In "The Topaz Connection", KITT manages to outpace a luxury private jet headed from Las Angeles to Las Vegas.
  • Once again Michael handles someone holding him at gun point in "Short Notice", this time by making excellent use of KITT's ejector seat.
    Michael: How about some music?
    Donny: You're a condemned man, you want music? That's fine with me.
    Michael: (smiles, just before hitting the passenger eject button)
  • After Michael and KITT's thrashing at Garthe's hands in part one of "Goliath". It's satisfying watching Michael push Garthe's Berserk Button at the craps game, sure KITT fixed the dice (in a rather cheesy fashion) but it was still awesome.
    Garthe: In the end you will lose, in the end you're gonna be mine!
    Michael: Now it's time to cash in huh? Say hi to your mom.
    • From the same episode, when Michael punches out Garthe in one hit after a brief tussle.
  • The end of the episode "Blind Spot". When Michael pulls the villain out of his wrecked car expecting him to try and fight back (like they always do). Instead, just as he pulls back for the punch... the guy falls over backwards. And the look on Michael's face says, "that was rather anticlimactic".
    • Also counts as a moment of funny.
  • The finale of "A Good Knight's Work". When KITT slams into an apartment window... three floors off the ground.
  • Devon, April and Klaus get one in "Goliath Returns". While being held captive by Garth, they orchestrate their own escape by using the synthetic fabric of a shirt, broken glass from a lightcover, and the melamine of the ground-down clay buttons on Devon's jacket to make an explosive to blow open the door! The questionable science and fact that the escape was thwarted a few feet further down the corridor in no way make this any less of a show of geeky awesomeness.
    • Also worth mentioning in this scene: After they blew the door off its hinges, Devon kicked the door open.
    • In the same episode. April's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Garth.
      April: You might as well know what I think about you and your destiny. Your destiny is to never have a woman who wants you for yourself. Never have a man who respects you for what you are. Your destiny is death. And if you don't believe me just go take a good look in the mirror. There are holes where your eyes should be. And behind them there's nothing but blackness.
  • In "Knight of the Drones". When Michael and KITT face off with the robotic drone cars. By skiing between two missiles being launched from both cars across from each other.
  • When Michael threatened Byrock in "Junkyard Dog" after they pulled KITT up out of the mud.
    • KITT was pretty badass himself after he got over his fears and PTSD.
  • In "Sky Knight", Bonnie among a group of hostages inside a bunker with an apparent doomsday weapon. Amazingly, having spent the episode as a flighty rich woman, Mrs. Swanson gets right into the kidnapper's face.
    Mrs. Swanson: Young man...you are an animal...If you're trying to frighten me, you're failing. I'm well over 70 years old and have been prepared for death for quite a while. You would only be advancing the schedule by a season or two and not creating anything of awesome originality. In my eyes, you remain an animal.
    • She tops it when the bad guy goes on a huge rant about the "revolution" he's going to start and her response causes everyone (even a couple of the guy's own goons) to laugh.
    Mrs. Swanson: I think if I manage to live through this, I shall require a rabies inoculation.
  • From "Killer KITT", after recovering from some Faceā€“Heel Turn reprogramming. KITT goes and beats up the guy responsible.

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