History YMMV / KnightRider

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: When a character hears KARR talk, he cracks a joke about "Where's [[Series/CandidCamera Allen Funt]]?" KARR replies "Who's Allen Funt?" which is what 90% of people watching the scene today would ask.

* TheScrappy:Reginald "[=RC3=]" Cornelius III's arrival in the final season is not regarded as a highpoint.

* TheScrappy: RC3's arrival in the final season is not regarded as a highpoint.

** In the episode with KARR, the "No! ''NO''!" that KARR gave right before [[spoiler:he crashes into the beach after Michael overrode KITT to play chicken with KARR, knowing the latter would veer out of the way due to self-preservative programming, sending it off a cliff and to a rather [[MadeOfExplodium explosive demise]]]]. On paper, even excluding the SpecialEffectFailure, it's clear that KARR was supposed to react with [[BigNo a combination of fury and fear]] to [[spoile:him flying off the cliff and smashing into the ground]]. But, given how Peter Cullen delivers the line, [[DullSurprise it comes off a little too subdued]], making it seem KARR is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GYOsi8gqo&t=9m29s annoyed]]'' more than anything else.

** In the episode with KARR, the "No! ''NO''!" that KARR gave right before [[spoiler:he crashes into the beach after Michael overrode KITT to play chicken with KARR, knowing the latter would veer out of the way due to self-preservative programming, sending it off a cliff and to a rather [[MadeOfExplodium explosive demise]]]].

** In the original series, a lot of turbo boost shots very obviously ended badly for KITT's StuntDouble.

** Close-up shots of KARR's speech indicator/voicebox in "Trust Doesn't Rust" reveal that it's mounted on a blank silver panel rather than in the dashboard. This is corrected for "KITT vs KARR", by mounting in a version of KITT's dash that was no longer in use.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: When KITT the 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am became a 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby [=GT500KR=] in the new series. [=KI3T's=] transforming abilities ripped straight from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' were this as well, if you didn't think they were [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome.]]

** Crossed with SpecialEffectFailure, while most of the {{undercrank}}ing used to depict KITT going at fast speed is admittedly pretty subdued, the one used to depict him climbing several stores of a multi-store parking garage to save Michael in "KITT the Cat" goes beyond the point of parody. The fact that him climbing the stores appears to be depicted via footage of him climbing the same store being replayed over and over again doesn't help again.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode of "Deadly Knightshade" from the original series, when KITT is asked about what his ideal partner is, he describes an AI car that is red and a convertible. When it comes to the spin-off series, ''Team Knight Rider'', one of the AI controlled vehicles happens to be a Ford Mustang, red in color and it's a convertible.
** And in "Many Happy Returns", when Michael is [[PulledFromYourDayOff pulled in from a day off]] to retrieve an stolen experimental hovercraft, he protests Devon they have the police and [[Series/{{Baywatch}} lifeguards]] to tackle that kind of thing (The title refers to it being the fourth birthday of his new life as Michael Knight)!
** Speaking of ''Baywatch'' - if you thought that the first TV series starring David Hasselhoff to have ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' Playmates pop up, in "Knight of a Thousand Devils" you get Kathy Shower, a pre-''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'' Dona Speir, Marlene Janssen[[note]]Billed as Marlene Slieter[[/note]] and Venice Kong. (Shower is the only one whose role isn't basically just eye candy. Shower plays [[spoiler: one of the baddies.]]

* {{Narm}}: In the episode with KARR, the "No! ''NO''!" that KARR gave when [[spoiler:Michael overrode KITT to play chicken with KARR, knowing the latter would veer out of the way due to self-preservative programming, sending it off a cliff and to a rather [[MadeOfExplodium explosive demise]]]].

*** This is true of the whole show, as there are times where some driving scenes that were reused, including some scenes where KITT was driving by himself. For example, in Season 1's "A Nice, Indecent Little Town", they reused footage of KITT breaking Michael out of jail from the pilot episode (including the lead up to the point where Michael lands on KITT's hood).

** And naturally, the show was an early hit of fledging commercial television in Germany.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: People often see KITT drive up into the semi while both are moving at highway speeds on the show, and it was long thought that this type of stunt would be impossible. But Mythbusters did the same thing with a car similar to KITT and a semi truck moving at highway speeds, and not only did it work, it worked *exactly* like it was depicted in the show (save for the part about the trailer being BiggerOnTheInside)[[note]]The reason it works is because when the car hits the ramp, it's inertia keeps it moving at the same speed, forcing the tires (whether they are connected to the drive train or not) to quickly slow down[[/note]].

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: When KITT the Pontiac Trans Am became a 2008 Ford Mustang [=GT500KR=] in the new series. [=KI3T's=] transforming abilities ripped straight from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' were this as well, if you didn't think they were [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome.]]

* ValuesResonance: The beginning of the episode "KITT vs. KARR" feel this way, especially if you view John as going through a midlife crisis, a cool car with beautiful girls complimenting him on the car.
--> '''John:''' Where were you when I was 17? I thought the days when a hot car would make me feel good again were over.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: ''Knight Rider'' is often stereotyped as a kids' show because it has one hero and his super cool super car, but the first season itself is loaded with episodes about politics, corrupt police, framed murder charges, a lover implicated in soliciting crime and the murder of a sleaze magazine owner- plenty of murders in the first season. The pilot is surely not for kids. (In its initial run on US TV it aired opposite ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' - which aired first run at 9PM on Fridays, opposite ''Series/{{Dallas}}'') Plenty of gunshots fired in the show actually hit — and a few kill. Contrast that with ''Series/TheATeam'' which has only two casualties in the whole run and almost none of the shots fired by the heroes hit.