Origin of "Germans love David Hasselhoff"?

[Tuckerfan]

@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.

[Cervaise]

@JThunder

Hasselhoff was on Baywatch? I didn’t notice.

Actually, if my memory can be trusted, none of the lead actors had heads.

[Snooooopy]

@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.”

[Snooooopy]

@Number

Oh, and the song Hot Shot City is particularly good.

Hi, Opal!

[Lord_Ashtar]

@twickster

For those who wonder why I’m astro’s ex-wife… :rolleyes:

Ouch.

[Miller]

@astro

I still love MC Hammer!
It’s Hammer Time !!!

…“Can’t touch this”

Wouldn’t want to.

[Ximenean]

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.

[syncrolecyne]

@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…

[Skywatcher]

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.”

[Beauty_Personified]

@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…