History YMMV / StarskyAndHutch

-->'''Hutch:''' Starsk, would you consider that a man who spends seventy-five percent of his time with another man has got certain tendencies?\\

* {{The Woobie}}: ''Both'' of them qualify. In the first season alone, Starsky gets injected with a poison that kills in 24 hours, gets shot in a hostage situation, loses his ex-girlfriend, and watches as an ex-con starts killing cops in his name. Hutch doesn't get quite the same level, but he does get forcibly addicted to heroin by a drug kingpin. And that's just the first season of four!

** Veronica Hamel, before she was [[Series/HillStreetBlues Claire Davenport]], was Hutch's ex-wife in
"Hutchinson for Murder One". [[spoiler:Hutch gets framed for her murder.]]

* EstrogenBrigade: David Soul's swooning fanbase, who propelled him into a second, even more lucrative, career as a pop singer, with a long string of slushy romantic ballad hits to his name.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: An iconic series in both France and Germany, and arguably even more successful in Britain than at home (David Soul just about lives in the UK now).

** It may have been bleeding over from the actors. If these [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAifiPz6u5c outtakes]] are anything to go by, Paul Michael Glaser would try to lay a kiss on co-star David Soul at every opportunity.

** Veronica Hamel, before she was [[Series/HillStreetBlues Claire Davenport]], she was Hutch's ex-wife in

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Owen Wilson definitely ''can'' sing, as shown in the part where he serenades Holly and Stacey on guitar. It's quite adorable and memorable.
* HilariousInHindsight: "Afternoon Delight" is featured when the titular duo drive back to the station after their visit to Big Earl (played by Will Ferrell)... after he made them do embarrassing tasks to extract information from him. The same year, ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' (featuring Ferrell) came out, featuring a memorable scene where the main cast sings that song.

* NightmareFuel: The Russian Roulette moment in the interrogation room. Even though it's played for laughs (Starsky doesn't ''know'' that the gun was loaded, for example), the absolute ''terror'' on the face of the suspect is felt by the audience too.

-->'''Hutch:''' What the hell is that midget you have back there [[ItMakesSenseInContext THROWING KNIVES AT ME AND MY PARTNER!?\\

-->'''Hutch:''' What the hell is that midget!?\\

** Lauren Tewes plays a conniving lawyer in "Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty," which aired less than a month before ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' debuted.

** "The Trap" features both Creator/PatMorita as the owner of a watch store and Anthony Geary as one of the villains, less than ten months before Geary made his first appearance as [[Series/GeneralHospital Luke Spencer]].

* {{The Woobie}}: ''Both'' of them qualify. In the first season alone, Starsky gets injected with a poison that kills in 24 hours, get's shot in a hostage situation, loses his ex-girlfriend, and watches as an ex-con starts killing cops in his name. Hutch doesn't get quite the same level, but he does get forcibly addicted to heroin by a drug kingpin. And that's just the first season of four!