El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Fits the original premise:
Originally Posted by IMBDB
According to Brandon Tartikoff, the head of programming at NBC during the 1980s, the inspiration for the series came about when NBC executives started complaining about the problems of casting handsome leading men in TV series, because many of them couldn't act. Tartikoff and his assistant came up with a concept for a TV show called, "The Man of Six Words". Each show would begin with the leading man getting out of a woman's bed and saying, "Thank you." Occasionally, throughout the show, the leading man would say, "Okay," when receiving orders from his boss. Then he would chase down some villains and say "Freeze!" Finally, when the people he had saved from death would thank him, he would say, "You're welcome." For the rest of the show, the car would do all the talking. Although Tartikoff had meant the pitch to be a joke, the NBC executives liked the idea of a TV show about a man with a talking car, and approved it for development.
And I refuse to watch the video. It's violating my childhood!
Man, you ain't kidding. That premise was pretty much executed exactly as written. I know how you feel though. Despite my bagging on the Hoff, I loved that show when I was a kid. That and the Dukes of Hazard. I can't really watch that video through either. I've seen both in re-runs though and their almost too silly to watch. I think I'll just leave them alone and leave my childhood memories intact.
