# Origin of "Germans love David Hasselhoff"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796 "2004-07-12T22:52:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/21 "2004-07-13T21:54:03Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > _Tutti Frutti_ 😃 > > Actually, when the various RTL incarnations throughout Europe started to re-run (re-re-run?) Knight Rider et al in the mid 90’s, me and my college mates made a point of tuning in to the German RTL Plus version. Why? Because in Holland, everything is subtitled. The Germans - they dub everything. _Everything._ Which to us easily-amused-neighbours-to-the-West is downright hilarious. > > I mean, a mere… > > - “Sei vorsichtig, Michael!” > > - “Mach’ ich, Kumpel!” > > …would have us in stitches for minutes. 😃 Charles Addams noticed something similar with his cartoons. He always felt that his best cartoons were the one’s which had _no_ caption. The Germans would, however, put “No Caption” beneath the cartoons which didn’t have one. Drove him nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/22 "2004-07-13T21:58:44Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Hasselhoff was on Baywatch? I didn’t notice. Actually, if my memory can be trusted, none of the lead actors had heads. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/23 "2004-07-14T01:45:18Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Charles Addams noticed something similar with his cartoons. He always felt that his best cartoons were the one’s which had _no_ caption. The Germans would, however, put “No Caption” beneath the cartoons which didn’t have one. Drove him nuts. Like they used to say in Zork, “'This Space Intentionally Left Blank.” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/24 "2004-07-14T01:49:51Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Oh, and the song _Hot Shot City_ is particularly good. Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/25 "2004-07-14T02:03:52Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > For those who wonder why I’m **astro** ’s _ex_-wife… :rolleyes: Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/26 "2004-07-14T02:49:23Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I still love MC Hammer! > It’s Hammer Time !!! > > …“Can’t touch this” Wouldn’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/27 "2004-07-14T03:24:11Z")
Last time I was in Germany, some of their prime time Satrurday night music shows made David Hasselhoff look like Radiohead, I tell you. They really love their _schlager_ and oom-pah music. It’s like going back to the 1950s, excpet our 1950s were never that bad. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/28 "2004-07-15T01:58:26Z")
> [@Usram](#): > > Last time I was in Germany, some of their prime time Satrurday night music shows made David Hasselhoff look like Radiohead, I tell you. They really love their _schlager_ and oom-pah music. It’s like going back to the 1950s, excpet our 1950s were never that bad. Just be glad there were no 1930s notalgia acts in Germany. 😛 I know, this post is useless… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/29 "2004-07-16T14:51:54Z")
I’m listening to an Australian radio station and the DJ just announced Herr Hassellhoff’s birthday tomorrow, calling him “the American actor and supposed singer.” ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796/30 "2004-07-18T14:38:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > … recently I saw **Dodgeball** and there was a bit with the German team kissing Hasselhoff’s picture … Did you miss this… David Hasselhoff was actually the coach of the German team, and admonished them for their loss by showing them the framed picture of himself and throwing it to the floor. 😃 Anyhoo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-germans-love-david-hasselhoff/254796.md?page=1)