It says something about me as a person, I’m sure, or about the significance that popular culture and television had in my life growing up, but I’m actually finding it a little weird to now discover that Peter Cullen, the actor who voiced Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon show also voiced Knight Rider‘s K.A.R.R..
I’m sure there’s crossover fanfiction potential written all over that.
Speaking of the Transformers, by the way, one could do a lot worse that to check out Jim Cleaveland‘s informative retrospective of the cartoon and comics series in this premiere issue of Kaleidotrope. I’m just saying.
I did not know that…
But didja know that William Daniels, the voice of KITT, was John Adams in “1776”? As much as I love that movie, I have to admit it would be even better with turbo boosts.
I saw 1776 for the first time recently, and that was really strange. It was like Knight Rider does Quantum Leap.
Well, I’ve seen Daniels in other things, so I don’t think I’d find that quite as weird. Still, what wouldn’t be better with the occasional turbo boost?
There’s just this strange part of my brain that’s now thinking of Optimus Prime and K.A.R.R. as the same “person”…