2000-02 comedy series that aired on the FX Network, which was more or less a satire of
Baywatch. It focused on world-renowned lifeguard Notch Johnson (played by Timothy Stack), who was to this show what
David Hasselhoff was to the original.
Howard Stern was the show's executive producer.
The show poked fun at the genre in general, particularly the non-stop T&A and sexual content, by cranking it
Up to Eleven.
This show provides examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Mayor Massengil is this towards Chip.
- The Ahnold: Chip Rommel, the lifeguard played by Roland Kickinger, was a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kickinger eventually played the young Schwarzenegger in the made-for-TV Biopic See Arnold Run, and also appeared in Terminator Salvation.
- The Beautiful Elite: Just as much as the genre it was ridiculing.
- Black Best Friend: Jamaica
- Bring My Brown Pants
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mayor Massengil was dropped from the show when the actress playing her became pregnant.
- Double Entendre
- Double Standard: Rape—Male on Male
- Dumb Blonde: B.J.
- Fanservice: Lots and lots and lots...of fanservice.
- Genius Cripple: Professor Milosevic, an expy of Stephen Hawking.
- Hello, Nurse!
- Imagine Spot
- Informed Attractiveness: In a deliberate parody everyone on the show apart from Kimberlee regards Notch as the hottest guy on earth. Meanwhile the viewers can plainly see that he is out-of-shape, pasty white, middle-aged and balding.
- Naked People Are Funny
- Only Sane Woman: Kimberlee, who was the only one that seemed to realize how goofy everyone else on the show acted.
- Raging Stiffie: Chip gains one while the gang went through a nude beach. Of course, we don't see it, but Notch tells Chip to stop bumping into him even though he's only a feet away.
- Teeny Weenie: Notch
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: You wonder how a great guy like Tim Stack can play someone as revolting as Notch Johnson.
- Virgin Power: B.J. is emphasized to be a virgin.
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