{"id":2207,"date":"2012-11-20T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2012-11-21T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:24:52","slug":"slammin-sammys-stunt-show-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/knight-rider-2\/slammin-sammys-stunt-show-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Slammin’ Sammy’s Stunt Show Spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Knight Rider: Season 1, Episode 5: Slammin’ Sammy’s Stunt Show Spectacular<\/strong><\/p>\n

I imagine the biggest challenge for the writers of Knight Rider<\/em> was to come up with weekly crimes that could be solved by driving around in a car for forty minutes. I like to think that in their office, there was a whiteboard with the word CAR written on it. Underlined. Maybe with an exclamation point after it. And they would stare at the word CAR!<\/span>, sometimes for hours, trying to draw fresh inspiration.<\/p>\n

Here in Episode 5, they seem to already be scraping the bottom of the CAR!<\/span> barrel. The plot revolves around a stunt car show, which takes place in a parking lot and features a couple of AMC Gremlins driving on two wheels and jumping small ramps. The stunt show has been partially bought by a shady businessman who plans to close the show and develop the parking lot into something more profitable, which, judging by the stunt show, would be just about anything. Naturally, no one is more concerned about the fate of a small-town stunt show than the multi-billion dollar Knight Foundation. After Bonnie fits KITT with improved boosters and the ability to oxygenate his interior — two things I can’t imagine him ever<\/em> needing — Michael decides to join the stunt show to make sure the shady businessman doesn’t do anything shady.<\/p>\n

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Those aren’t models: they really went and crashed a Gremlin.<\/p><\/div>\n

The businessman does something shady that results in Slammin’ Sammy getting injured while doing his show-stopping car jump through a ring of fire four feet off the ground. Michael auditions his driving skills for Sammy’s daughter, who is naturally hot (at least 80’s hot), and he becomes Sammy’s replacement. The shady businessman worries that Michael’s awesome two-wheeled driving could save the show and decides he needs to meet with an accident as well. His goon tries to sabotage KITT’s undercarriage, but KITT deflates his tires, threatening to crush the goon, who runs away.<\/p>\n