Line #26 YMMV/StarskyAndHutch


1	!!TV Series
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3	* EstrogenBrigade: Creator/DavidSoul'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.
4	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: An iconic series in both France and Germany, and arguably even more successful in Britain than at home (Creator/DavidSoul just about lives in the UK now).
5	* HarsherInHindsight: The season 2 episode "Starsky's Lady" hits harder when you learn Glaser's wife and daughter both died of AIDS.
6	* HoYay: A Costco-sized bucket of it. If old-school slash fanfic writers weren't writing for Kirk and Spock, they were writing Starsky and Hutch. One of the show's distinguishing characteristics is the "close" friendship between Starsky and Hutch. Despite the fact that both characters are very much ladies men, viewers and critics were all but convinced they were gay. Dave and Paul's incredibly good working relationship probably didn't help matters. Of course, they completely LampShade this during outtakes by randomly making out with each other if one of them forgets or screws up a line.
7	** Outtake Narrator: "For years the boys struggled hard against their popular image as two French-kissing primetime homos."
8	** Lampshaded in "Death in a Different Place":
9	--->'''Hutch:''' Starsk, would you consider that a man who spends seventy-five percent of his time with another man has got certain tendencies?\
10	'''Starsky:''' ...yeah, sure, why not? You mean that was the case between John and--\
11	'''Hutch:''' No, no. That's the case between you and me.
12	** It may have been bleeding over from the actors. If these [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAifiPz6u5c outtakes]] are anything to go by, Creator/PaulMichaelGlaser would try to lay a kiss on co-star Creator/DavidSoul at every opportunity.
13	* RetroactiveRecognition:
14	** Norman Fell appears in "Shootout" as a sad-sack comedian.
15	** Creator/JohnRitter plays an armored car driver in "The Hostages."
16	** Steve Kanaly plays one of the villains of "Silence" a few years before being cast as Ray Krebbs in ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
17	** Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos plays a kidnapper in "The Psychic."
18	** Creator/JeffGoldblum guest stars in "Murder on Stage 17" as a director.
19	** Lauren Tewes plays a conniving lawyer in "Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty," which aired less than a month before ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' debuted. In fact, Spelling decided to cast her in ''The Love Boat'' because he liked her on ''Starsky and Hutch''.
20	** Creator/DannyDeVito plays a bookie in "The Collector."
21	** "The Trap" features Anthony Geary as one of the villains, less than ten months before Geary made his first appearance as [[Series/GeneralHospital Luke Spencer]].
22	** Philip Michael Thomas appears in "Quadromania" as a taxi dispatcher and DJ.
23	** Creator/KimCattrall guest stars in "Blindfold."
24	** Creator/MykeltiWilliamson's first credited role was as a juvenile delinquent in "Black and Blue."
25	** Creator/JeffreyTambor appears in "Cover Girl" as a photographer.
26	** 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.]]
27	* SeasonalRot: The general agreement is that each season is worse than the last, with the most dramatic dip in quality between the third and fourth seasons.
28	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Many fads of the era are referenced, such as biorhythms, [[CompanionCube pet rocks]], and {{disco}}. There's also the funky background music, the polyester outfits, Starsky's huge boat of a car, and the moustache Hutch grows for the fourth season.
29	* TheWoobie: ''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!
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31	!!Film
32	* AngstWhatAngst: The hot blonde cheerleader played by Brande Roderick shows a hilarious lack of grief for the death of her criminal boyfriend. Then again, she was too busy taking her clothes off for everyone's benefit.
33	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Huggy Bear, as played by Music/SnoopDogg.
34	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A suspect's son is a FREAKING ninja.
35	-->'''Hutch:''' What the hell is that midget you have back there [[ItMakesSenseInContext THROWING KNIVES AT ME AND MY PARTNER]]!?\
36	'''Chau:''' That's no midget, that's my son!\
37	'''Hutch:''' LIAR! ''(hits Chau with his gun)''
38	** In the interrogation room, when Chau tries to smoke, Starsky just takes the cigarette from his mouth and rubs it between his hands.
39	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/OwenWilson definitely ''can'' sing, as shown in the part where he serenades Holly and Stacey on guitar. It's quite adorable and memorable.
40	* HilariousInHindsight: "Afternoon Delight" is featured when the titular duo drive back to the station after their visit to Big Earl (played by Creator/WillFerrell)... 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.
41	* HoYay: It wouldn't be faithful without adding a few batches of this in.
42	* MemeticMutation: "Do it!"
43	* NightmareFuel: The RussianRoulette 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.
44	* OneSceneWonder: Two words- "Two Dragons".
45	* SignatureScene:
46	** Hutch singing "Don't Give Up On Us", which also pays homage to David Soul, the original Hutch from the series.
47	** The climatic car chase.

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