Team Knight Rider: Oil and Water, A Hard Day’s Knight, and Seed Review

Ten years ago all it took was one man and one

car to get the job done Now the foundation for

law and government has assembled five highly

skilled operatives and Paired them with the most

advanced state -of -the -art vehicles to take

on a new breed of outlaw They are team Knight

Rider Hello and welcome to Beyond the Night brought

to you by the GCI and I am one of your hosts,

Steve, John, and Mike. Joining me is Dio the

Music Man. Hello. Hello, hello, hello. So people

might be wondering over the last three, four,

five and a half, six and a half weeks, since

we released bi -weekly on Mondays now, why episodes

36 and 37 were very short. It's because they

were very, they were so painful we couldn't even

put them into words. No. Except like Crow. and

a couple of the other things, but it's like...

Crow was awesome. We had to give Crow its props.

Yes. We actually had to give Crow its props.

Crow was awesome, but the rest of them just got

awful. Yeah. It just... I mean, I see the relationships

and the friendships building between all of the

team character, between Kyle and Jenny, between

Jenny and Beast and between Jenny and Duke and

Eric and Trek and all this and all that, but

it's like... Okay, this is what pisses me off

about this show this show got 22 episodes the

show we'll talk about after this which is infinitely

friggin better got only 17 got Originally got

a 22 episode order and then he got cut back to

17 right when it really should have ended at

12 It should have you're right. Well, we'll talk

about that later. I get right my droid right

like this one got 22 and it was like, okay How

did you survive? Yeah. Especially if you think

about it, even in the 90s, you know, television

and tele... This is gonna eventually be an episode

on our flagship show here at GeekCast Radio Network,

on our flagship show called GeekCast Radio. It's

like, how does television, how do the TV networks

put out, like... I can think of one show... That

they put a whole lot of promotion. How do they

put all these promotions into stuff and spend

all this money and then only allow it to have

a handful of episodes and then just cancel it

and never do anything with it again? It just

boggles my mind. You know, I never saw a lot

of promotion for TKR. No, no, no, I know but

I'm saying like in general. No, I understand

what you're saying. I'm just I'm taking PC Okay,

I'm speaking from TKR's point of view though.

Oh, yeah I'm speaking of TKR's point of view.

We never saw a lot of promotion for TKR We just

knew it was coming out. Yeah, and that was that

because I remember like on Saturdays it would

air like every Saturday morning like around 11

or so or something like that and I'm like okay

team Knight Rider like you said when we first

started doing these or this this part of the

podcast I was like Okay, this is good. Okay team

Knight Rider. Maybe they've upped, you know,

maybe they're starting they're starting to work

as a team You know aren't doing different things,

but then You have five people doing, you know

driving five vehicles Why? But back I digress

You don't you we didn't see a lot of promotion

for this, but you're right in general I don't

know why TV networks do a whole bunch of of this

and then they all this money to get the promotion

up for a show like take The Christian Slater

show my own worst enemy. Yeah, he was a he was

he was a guy with dual personalities and They

spent all this money on this promotion and then

the show only got Maybe nine ten eleven episodes,

and then I think they dropped it didn't they

yeah? Yeah, they completely dropped it hell when

we even get to Knight Rider 2008 they spent all

this money and did all this stuff because Ford

Ford was one of the sponsors right And, you know,

they spent all this money, did all this stuff,

all this promotion, all this tie -in stuff. Oh,

go to this website. You can unlock certain secrets,

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And then, I

think after episode 12, it seems like Ford or

the advertising agency or whoever, like, dropped

the advertising completely on it. And it just

boggles my mind how they can do stuff like that.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't get it. But

anyway, we are going to get into the episodes

after this. It's a miracle more people were injured.

Kyle, I've run a scan of the burned out cars.

It seems the damage increases with the age of

the individual vehicle. All right, we'll keep

searching for a common denominator. Something

that can tell us what caused this. We passed

the gas station. That was pretty total. Beast

and I ran a check. Beast! Whatever hit the area

affected anything carrying gasoline within a

25 -mile radius. Check. Bring a sample of the

gas back to Sky 1. Looks like it ate through

the rubber on the fuel line. On the older models,

it's completely disintegrated the seals and hoses.

What did Erica find? The nearest 7 -Eleven? First

up today is oil and water. Exploding cars on

the freeway lead the team to a sinister inventor,

played by Andrew Steele, bent on sabotaging the

automotive industry. What if that's Christine's

brother? I don't know. Um, could be her husband.

Don't know. i'll look it up later but it all

kind of cool to know that yeah uh... i eat this

to me the whole time i was watching i'm like

okay kyle is james bond and the water guy well

whatever the hell his name is the guy with the

water car is is blowfelder will whatever james

bond really want to put it is felt like uh...

just a really really cheap James Bond episode

today. I almost felt like this was another villain

of the week once again. It was. It pretty much

was because nothing tied into the overall arcing

story whatsoever. No. And I just, you know, the

plot was just so thin. It was very thin. it really

was it was very thin and it was like okay really

we're going to you're going to sit and we're

going to go through this how many villain of

the week and I know we've covered this before

and we've asked this question before TFG one

but how many villain of the week episodes can

you do throughout a series oh and not apparently

a lot apparently a lot because that's pretty

much all that this show is is villain of the

week or episode of the week or trope of the week

or whatever it's like just absolutely nothing

to this point okay outside of crow there's no

good we got to exclude row right You know, outside

of that, there's nothing here whatsoever. Uh,

it just isn't. I don't know, man. It just sucks

the life out of you, really. Alright, so we are

like, yeah, I can't even, you know, the fun,

the sad thing is I found no scanners on or off

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targets Washington DC landmarks for destruction

the team suspects one of its own to be a saboteur

Where have we seen this before yeah, I Just Where

have we seen this before I know I know just saying

it just Don't know man. It just it's it just

gets worse and worse and And folks we're not

joking No, we are not joking if you have not

seen any of these series this the show I mean

Outside of crow if crow is the only one that's

your favorite. You'll see why? Yeah, exactly

I'm serious if you have not seen team Knight

Rider Don't care if somebody's got like the whole

VHS collection, you know or whatever If you have

to rent it, you know or not not rent it But you

know buy it on iTunes just to see how horrible

it is Yeah You'll see why Yeah, I mean it's just

it's awful Yeah, it is very much so And there

was a point where I thought that there was some

sort of mystery and then it just They just explained

it away fairly fast and just They don't leave

you hanging. Oh No, that's they say that for

they save that for episode 22 They do they save

that in this episode though, there's no There's

no it's just boring Yeah, it's just it really

is this particular episode is boring. There's

Nothing you can come away with and say hey, that

was a good episode or hey, that was great or

hey, this is awesome You know, this is just I

wrote I'm just like, you know, I'm watching it

and I'm like, okay Next next show me something

good here. Come on. You can do better than this

And I mean, you know, and we're only talking

about the plot here, folks. We're not talking

about the acting or the stunts and all that stuff.

I mean, all that stuff is great in the show.

But just the stories are really, really bad.

How can Glenn approve this? I don't think he

had any control. His name's in it. Well, like

I said, executive producer has a lot of different

connotations to it. The other thing is, he's

credited twice as an executive producer, and

it says in the credits, Knight Rider, you know,

created by... Glenn A. Larson. Glenn A. Larson.

You know, Knight Rider characters and concept

created by Glenn A. Larson. So, I don't know.

I just have no idea. So we are oh No, we have

one episode left. I was gonna say let's go to

the ads but no Last episode coming Thanks for

stopping. We were on our way to the beach and

we can't figure out how to use the jag. Well,

I think I should tell you we're with the fire

department. And we might have to write you ladies

up for being such hot numbers. You guys are really

cute. Seed is our final episode today Duke and

track land on an island inhabited by beautiful

women Where they must stop a doctor planning

to poison the world's rivers with a deadly virus

Baywatch moment Couldn't decide whether I was

watching Baywatch Baywatch nights or Pacific

I know I know I just cuz I've seen all three

of them scenery. I'm like team Knight Rider doesn't

have hot chicks and in tight thongs. Come on

Yeah, I mean sure Jenny and Erica wear skimpy

clothing sometimes but not not that skimpy. Yeah,

not yeah you know, but it just oh My god, I didn't

know what the hell I was watching at first goes

like what is this a team Knight Rider episode?

Really? David actually get a credit for this

Don't know But you're right, you know, it's either

Baywatch Baywatch nights or Pacific blue Yeah,

pretty much. It's just it's it's just crazy the

plot It's alright. It's nothing special. I've

seen it a million times before with Other shows

where some Scientist wants to destroy the world

with a toxin I'm just meh Yeah, I don't know

what to say here. I don't because again, it's

one of these plots that go by the wayside Yeah,

it pretty much does And the funny thing is is

that it's just It goes by the wayside, I mean

They try I know they're trying to I don't know

what they're trying to do one minute. They they

try they keep on track They pulse, you know outside

of crow, which I know we've discussed They they

at least did something with that episode with

the rest of them. I Don't know man, I don't know

how to call it except just to say that I Couldn't

watch it. I watched it, but I could not watch

it again Yeah, no me neither. I just I can't

do it Team Knight Rider might kill this podcast

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We lost a lot of spare parts in the crash. I

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for this week Zero zero zero. Have we ever had

a triple zero on this show? I don't know. I mean

I've never we've never had a triple zero. Yeah

Yeah, I mean looking back on these and looking

back at the plot synopsises on teamnutrader .com

and looking back at and just remembering what

I watched it's like There's nothing interesting

about the stories that are told in these three

episodes whatsoever There are there's there's

nothing I mean if they had a better if they all

had better plots Yeah, you know, maybe they would

be interesting maybe The kit system could be

used, but there's just nothing there. Yeah, pretty

much. So what do you give the episodes? I triple

zeros. I just all three of them. I just cannot.

That's a sex toplet of zeros, people. I just

I cannot. I just know I can't no matter how hard

I try. And I think about it and I'm like, okay,

you know, and then I'm like, no, no, I can't

write. I cannot write these. These do not get

kit cars. I'm sorry. Yeah, no. All right. Thank

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Rider, those being Out of the Past, which is

a completely lie of a title. Yeah, it is. I just

looked at the description. It has nothing to

do with anything out of the past. Return of Mega

Man. When did Mega Man become Knight Rider's

fodder? Holy crap. Hello, Capcom reference! Yeah,

that's the name of the episode. And Angels and

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