Spoilers

“The Hit Car”

The Greatest American Hero is a fun show. It is a quintessential 80s silly action/comedy. It was never going to win any Emmys, but it was a good time just watching the TV.

I do like how the show has taken some time to set up the relationship between Hinkley and Maxwell, and they made it fairly antagonistic. The two main characters are actually quite a bit alike which is why they do not work amazingly well together. Yet, they overcome that challenge to catch the criminal at the end.

The drug dealer Johnny in this episode is pretty dumb. There is no way that he would act the way he did. Why would he be in this hit car that he owned and not some secondary hit man? All because Maxwell dumped some spaghetti on his clothes?

Again, at this point, the joke is how Ralph cannot control his super suit and the basic storyline of the episode is not that important. It is just giving Ralph some chances to fly into things or crash into the water.

That joke would not be able to be maintained for too long so I do hope they develop something more than just Ralph’s crash landings.

The super speed bit was a funny addition and I know, as we see in the opening credits, invisibility is coming.

The Greatest American Hero is fun and silly. Sometimes that is good enough.