# David Caruso is the new David Hasselhoff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252 "2006-04-04T14:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/1 "2006-04-04T14:24:09Z")
No, seriously. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/04/television.csimiami.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/04/television.csimiami.reut/index.html) It’s only a matter of time until he starts releasing albums. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/2 "2006-04-04T14:27:42Z")
He’ll never sing to a crowd of 1,000,000 like The Hoff did. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/3 "2006-04-04T14:38:30Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > It’s only a matter of time until he starts releasing albums. I can absolutely see him doing a Shatneresque kind of thing, The total lack of irony could really work for him. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/4 "2006-04-04T14:41:09Z")
_squint_ Lucy…in the sky! With Diamonds! _sunglasses ON_ ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/5 "2006-04-04T14:41:43Z")
Evidently, the key to producing an international smash TV show is to make it insipid and obvious, but set in a really pretty, sunny locale. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/6 "2006-04-04T15:35:15Z")
This is the perfect place to share this David Hasselhoff music [video](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2433520?htv=12). Presenting “Hooked on a Feeling” by David Hasselhoff. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/7 "2006-04-04T17:14:04Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > This is the perfect place to share this David Hasselhoff music [video](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2433520?htv=12). There IS no perfect place to share that video … except Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/8 "2006-04-04T18:04:52Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > There IS no perfect place to share that video … except Hell. Come on! Look at him dance! In a really weird, incomprehensible way, I like that video . . . ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/9 "2006-04-04T18:06:47Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Come on! Look at him dance! > > In a really weird, incomprehensible way, I like that video . . . Sometimes if I’m having a bad day, I’ll watch that video. I can’t not laugh at it. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/10 "2006-04-04T20:29:23Z")
The song Hot Shot City is particularly good! Read the [reviews](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000070S1/sr=8-4/qid=1144182345/ref=pd_bbs_4/102-8529026-7216126?%5Fencoding=UTF8). ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/11 "2006-04-04T21:27:41Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > _squint_ > > Lucy…in the sky! With Diamonds! > > _sunglasses ON_ Precisely why he is superior to DH. He takes his sunglasses OFF! …and, he puts them ON!! What the hell has Hasselhoff ever done to compare to this? He gets into a car; he gets out of it. He runs down the beach; he runs up the beach. No comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/12 "2006-04-04T22:05:28Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > Precisely why he is superior to DH. > > He takes his sunglasses OFF! > > …and, he puts them ON!! Like that’s all DC does?!? What about that looking-off-into-the-distance-and-putting-his-sunglasses-on thing? What did Mr. Hairy Chest ever do to compare to that, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/13 "2006-04-04T22:10:26Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Come on! Look at him dance! > > In a really weird, incomprehensible way, I like that video . . . My computer isn’t allowing me to play it. Maybe it’s trying to protect me! ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/14 "2006-04-04T22:48:51Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > Like that’s all DC does?!? What about that looking-off-into-the-distance-and-putting-his-sunglasses-on thing? What did Mr. Hairy Chest ever do to compare to that, huh? Oh, yeah, you are absolutely right there. It was my own fault for getting so caught up in the sunglasses on/off thing that I forgot, completely, about the even more angst-driven-passion-play-in-three-seconds that DC is an absolute master at…and then puts his sunglasses ON to boot. Mea culpa! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/15 "2006-04-05T02:53:43Z")
So will Caruso be in the sequal to Eurotrip? That movie is hilarious just for his cameo… ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-caruso-is-the-new-david-hasselhoff/351252/16 "2006-04-05T03:10:12Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > This is the perfect place to share this David Hasselhoff music [video](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2433520?htv=12). > > Presenting “Hooked on a Feeling” by David Hasselhoff. > > Enjoy! God in heaven. No wonder the French are rioting.