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Series: Knight Rider
Episode: Season 3, Episode 5
Title: 'K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R.'
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Recapper: Scooter007
Episode: Season 3, Episode 5
Title: 'K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R.'
Previous: Halloween Knight
Next: The Rotten Apples
Recapper: Scooter007
Or: 'Trust Doesn't Rust II: The Wrath Of KARR'.
A young beachcombing couple happens upon what looks like a car buried on a beach. It turns out to be, not just any car, but K.A.R.R. — you know, the Knight Automated Roving Robot, K.I.T.T.'s Evil Twin who was supposedly destroyed two years prior. But here KARR is, intact and fully operational; and, via a series of seductions and pacemaker disruptions and ATM manipulations — and, eventually, outright extortion — cons the kids into helping him in his quest for vengeance against KITT and Michael Knight.
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- Notable Trivia: Paul Frees provides the voice of KARR, replacing Peter Cullen who voiced him in 'Trust Doesn't Rust'.
Tropes peculiar to this episode:
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: KARR crashes into FLAG's semi-truck-cum-garage.
- The End... Or Is It?: After KARR is finally destroyed for good, the camera pans across the wreckage... and settles upon the main computer processor, intact and still functioning.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: threatened, though thankfully never carried out: KARR kidnaps the girlfriend and threatens her, first with suffocation and then by baking her like a potato, in order to coerce the boyfriend's continued cooperation.
- Faux Affably Evil: Whilst threatening to squish Devon Miles between his front bumper and a computer console, KARR addresses him as 'Mr. Miles'.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: KARR tries to invoke this trope, by invading FLAG's mobile truck unit, stealing a laser the heroes had intended to use against him, and turning this against Michael and KITT. It ends up being played straight (against KARR, that is) when KITT is equipped with a laser mirror which reflects the laser right back at KARR.
- Lampshade Hanging: Upon first seeing KARR back in action, KITT voices the though that likely shot through the minds of practically every thinking viewer: 'But I saw him explode! YOU saw him explode!'
- Motive Decay: KARR's previously established motivation (self-preservation at all costs) is still present, but is downplayed in favor of Card-CarryingRevenge.
- No One Could Survive That!: See Lampshade Hanging, above.
- Palette Swap: KARR's scanner light has turned yellow by this episode. It's further invoked when KARR gets a paint job (white on bottom, making him look like an orca, or like Airwolf).
- Plot Hole: As KITT points out, KARR exploded at the conclusion of his last apperance. And, apart from KITT's incredulity, absolutely no attempt is made to explain how KARR could possibly still be in one piece. note
- Ramming Always Works: A given for this series, what with the indestructible supercar(s) and all.
- Special Effects Evolution: In 'Trust Doesn't Rust', KARR's voice box was depicted as just that — just the voice box itself (and a couple of flanking lights), floating in the middle of a plain black panel with no mock dashboard. In this episode, they finally laid out the cash for a mock dashboard.
- Unexplained Recovery: KARR, as you may have gathered from the above examples.