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Knight Rider is so bad it's good. mullets. shoulder pads. terrible dialogue. hasslehoff's character "Michael"'s most significant acting in the pilot was the part where he got shot in the face.
It's so awful I'm laughing. They go on and on about their fancy "microprocessors" and "silicon valley" and I'm over in 2022 just like ... wow. just.. wow.
And the car.. the car talks. and drives itself. and it's a trans am. and I'm thinking "google would never go for that"
It's absolutely ludicrous.
I remember seeing a couple of episodes when I was a kid, but it wasn't this funny. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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When I was 18 I wanted a car with that Cylon-like roving red light on the front grill.
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And now.. you have one! 
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I always assumed that the Cylon "roving eye" was why they could never shoot straight ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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70's television might even be worse. I think you'd enjoy The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. Sci-fi author and gadfly Harlan Ellison was also a TV critic during that time, and they're collections of his columns. Some of them are hilariously irreverent.
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I remember getting into arguments with my brother when the show first aired, over whether KITT was real or not. He wanted KITT to be so damn real. I was in the 4th grade when that show came out.
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Got something better on TV right now: A Bell 222[^] playing the part of a secret attack helicopter.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It was very secret: they painted it black so it was stealth.
Gawd, but the props on 80's TV were terrible ... and the plots, mostly.
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Tell me about it! I've been watching a few episodes of Quincy M.E. recently. I keep shouting "Check the DNA! Check the DNA!" at the screen. 
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Quit now: "Quincy" is a gateway show - studies show it inevitably leads to watching "Murder she wrote" and then there is no nope of recovery ...
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"Murder she wrote", you say? Googling it now ...
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Never missed an episode 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It was much better than Quincy.
Don't know when it came out but I am hooked on Midsommer Murders.
ed
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Given the death rate there (395 murders, around 581 deaths in total and an additional 164 attempted murders) Midsommer is hardly a safe place to live.
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It's been updated. The new series is called the Chicago Murders, and it's a reality show. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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sad, but so true. Chicago is currently the most dangerous city in America. I know 3 life long residents of Chicago that have moved to other States in the last year because of the murders and crime.
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Or the property taxes, which have gone ballistic.
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Actually that would be Memphis, or Detroit depending on which rubber ruler you use.
Chicago doesn't even make the top 10.
Detroit, MI
Memphis, TN
Birmingham, AL
Baltimore, MD
St. Louis, MO
Kansas City, MO
Cleveland, OH
Little Rock, AR
Milwaukee, WI
Stockton, CA
Certain people like to lie about Chicago because it's what some people want to hear, so they are more inclined to believe it. It's manipulation through confirmation bias - really popular among the propagandists these days.
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I wonder if I'll be living long enough to see the series of the 2020s described in a manner similar to how the 70s and 80s series are described in this discussion 
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I'm going to live forever--- Or die trying. -- "Stephen Wright".
ED
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If you're as young as your avatar looks - probably. Otherwise, no. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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trønderen wrote: the series of the 2020s
Have they made another one? Or are you thinking of the 2008/9 series[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And TV has only grown worse since. 
May I recommend some of those things with lots of sheets of paper... whatchamacallem... books.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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