The best story every told in six words…
No, not this… I mean “The Knight Rider“!
Actually, what I’m referring to is this tidbit from the Knight Rider Online Wiki:
Brandon Tartikoff, youthful head of programming at NBC, once gave California magazine this version of the creation of Knight Rider: It seems he and one of his assistants were discussing the problems of casting handsome leading men in the series, because many of them can’t act. Why not have a series, he mused, called “The Man of Six words,” which would begin with the guy getting out of a woman’s bed and saying “Thank You.” Then he would chase down some villians and say “Freeze!” Finally the grateful almost-vitims would thank him, and he would murmur, “You’re welcome.” End of show. In between, the car could do the talking. The series that made it to the air as Knight Rider was scarcley less preposterous than that, but it was played with such a twinkle in the eye that viewers–especillay kids–made it one of the hits of the 1982 season.
That said, I still think my car looks cooler than KITT. Even (especially!) the new one. Heck, it’s not even as hot as Bumblebee from “The Transformers” movie… 
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