Viper

Let's talk about Viper.

Have you ever heard of Viper? Do you like it? What's your favorite Viper-related moment?

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Yes, I watched it way back when. I remember none of it.

Fight smart, not fair.

Oh. Perhaps you should watch this to refresh your memory.

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All I remember is the theme song.

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God, that was so bad.

What makes you say that? I thought at least the first 12 episodes had decent writing.

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Quite possibly. I saw them in Dutch syndication, in an era when commercial television was in its infancy in The Netherlands. Networks had a habit of showing episodes out of order, switching between time slots every three weeks, and showing reruns at completely random intervals, so I have no idea what episodes I've been watching. It was also around that time that I was beginning to become somewhat genre savvy, so it may just be my memories of disliking the show, rather then it actually being bad.

To me, it was just another in a long line of "a person with exceptional X skills and his Y, and they fight crime" shows, like Mc Guyver was "a person with exceptional improvisation skills and his swiss army knife, and they fight crime" and Viper was "a person with exceptional driving skills and his car, and they fight crime".

Maybe I just watched it at - for me - the wrong time.

Sure, I saw Viper. Not the best cheese NBC had to offer (Pretender takes that crown).

Even as a kid I didn't see the point of that snake skin. Obviously, you can't camouflage a car . In fact, I don't remember them ever doing that — it just did a computer effect, made the car look creepy for a sec, and then you were done.I guess it looked cool, but it was a pointless kind of cool.

It's a bad idea to base a whole show around a vehicle anyway.

edited 18th Oct '11 11:20:19 AM by johnnyfog

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Stephen King could do it well, but the car would be the show's Big Bad.

As for Viper... yeah, I watched that back in the day. Liked it a lot, too... had no idea it was popular enough to have a page here, though. That's awesome that it's a blue link.

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I am literally the only person on TV Tropes who has edited that page.

Well, actually, someone else moved my Americans Hate Tingle note to the YMMV page. Aside from that, though, it's all me.

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Well, then, you are Made Of Win. Here, have a cookie.

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More like I just have too much free time and I obsess over the stupidest things.

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Okay, I honestly didn't notice until I was skimming through my Viper folder exactly five seconds ago, but

Bryan Cranston played the villain of Season 1 episode.

holygodwtf this show is now 1000000% better than it already was.

Teens dress as Batman to catch pedophiles; cops not impressed