2006-08-20 23:19:59 · 20 answers · asked by bearos3000 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
The "woo-woo" sound--get this--comes from the fact that the Knight 2000's scanner light is the same as the Cylon's scanner light in "Battlestar Galactica" and it had a "woo-woo" sound. Interesting, huh?
First things first, though. KITT was the computer and the artificial intelligence programming, the Knight 2000 was the car (or roving robot). That may help to make this explanation clear.
Both shows were made by Glen A. Larson. According to his interviews, he just happened to like the Cylon prop and recycled it, simple as that. The whooshing sound is the sound of the scanners--on an articulated belt--moving back and forth scanning behind the protective glass enclosure. It showed that the car was "thinking", which would probably be lost if the mechanism was quiet. (Incidentally, the sound can be turned off. In "Silent Mode", the scanner has no sound.) The conspiracy theorist think, however, there is another answer. Prior to "Knight Rider", there was a Galactica spin-off called "Battlestar Galactica: 1980" in which the fleet finally makes it to Earth and found out that it is severely lacking. The theory is that KITT is the reprogrammed CPU from a crashed Cylon Rader, scanner and all. Of course, Glen A. Larson denies that completely.
Hope that helped.
2006-08-21 02:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by hotstepper2100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best guess would be that it functioned somewhat like a heartbeat. In one episode when kit died or when he was badly damagd the "woo-woo" noise faded away same as the wierd light that it goes along with. And when he was fixed the "woo woo" noise came back.
2006-08-21 06:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by gillamacs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how dare you make a mockery of any thing the "hoff" was in.. the car made the woo woo noise because the hoff's hair was so bushy when the wind blew it made a rustling noise so the sound editors have to dub in incidental noises such as the woo woo.
2006-08-21 06:31:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is his long range scanner, the same source of that red light that goes back and forth. Curiously, the same light was used in the visor of the Cylons (Battlestar Galactica), is KITT the ancestor of the future Cylons?
2006-08-21 06:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Onny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was like a scanner.
Off the subject: something funny happened recently.. the Hoff was waiting for a flight & got totally wasted in the first class lounge. Whilest in his seat before take-off, the flight attendant was instructed to take him off the plane & when she asked him if he was drunk he said, 'dont hassle the hoff!' ... I thaught that was classic. He did actually get off the flight & was escorted to a hotel room until he was sober & he got another flight.
2006-08-21 06:29:13 · answer #5 · answered by Claude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was his way of venting frustration from having to spend so much time with David Hasselhoff inside him! Poor KITT!
2006-08-21 20:30:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasnt until the final episode that they found out it was actually a whole family of owls nesting underneath the bonnet.
2006-08-21 06:26:34 · answer #7 · answered by bobby t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the show's producers thought it sounded cool.
2006-08-21 06:24:20 · answer #8 · answered by JeffE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know the answer to that apart from maybe for effect...
but then u could ask the director if you feel the question really needs an answer...Duh!
2006-08-21 06:27:43 · answer #9 · answered by Dr answer to stupid questions 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was high technology in 1985... and Michael's jacket was stylish
2006-08-21 06:23:34 · answer #10 · answered by The Voice of Reason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋