History Main / GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff

See also PeripheryDemographic, {{Japandering}} and CulturalCringe. AlienArtsAreAppreciated is the SpeculativeFiction version. MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales is this trope crossed over with ActuallyPrettyFunny.

The trope is named for Norm Macdonald's punchline during his "Weekend Update" sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', which he'd go out of his way to include. Creator/DavidHasselhoff, the ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' actor/producer, who was popular in Germany for his work as a singer in the late 1980s/early 1990s, particularly for being in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, which was being in Berlin at the fall of the wall promoting his new album via a concert tour, which included a popular song he had changed to be about peace and togetherness; he has had seven albums go platinum there. (His popularity has since waned, however, though Dirk Nowitzki, flag-bearer for Germany in the 2008 Summer Olympics and NBA star, claims he hums Hasselhoff songs at the free throw line)

'''Creator/DonRosa:''' It feels like a gigantic practical joke, as if you all got together one day and whispered ”Let’s make him think he is famous”.

%%->''"...Which once again proves my theory: Germans Love David Hasselhoff."''
%%-->-- '''Creator/NormMacdonald''', [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]

->''"...Which once again proves my theory: Germans Love David Hasselhoff."''
-->-- '''Creator/NormMacdonald''', [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]

Also known as '''Big in Japan'''. A version of the EnsembleDarkhorse, where interest in a character (or an entire work) is sparked by an audience well-divorced from the production source, particularly if the show is released in other countries. Places with [[ValuesDissonance different cultural baggage]] often hook onto different characters, whether or not these are the ones pushed by the story. This is even more of a gamble when one character's personality and motivations have a direct tie to the culture of origin.

->''"...Which once again proves my theory: Germans Love David Hasselhoff."''
-->-- '''Creator/NormMacdonald''', [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]

[[caption-width-right:227:He's American.]]

[[caption-width-right:227:[[DontExplainTheJoke He's American.]]]]

In case you're wondering, the equivalent on the German translation of TV Tropes is "Americans Love Music/{{Rammstein}}".

The opposite of AmericansHateTingle (where something that's popular in its home market becomes loathed abroad, usually by getting a particularly vehement and widespread Hatedom in one specific country) and the inversion of NeverAcceptedInHisHometown (where something is popular in any place other than its original country/city).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff/{{Experiments}}

->''"[[RunningGag ...Which once again]] [[CatchPhrase proves my theory:]] [[TropeNamers Germans Love David Hasselhoff.]]"''

A version of the EnsembleDarkhorse, where interest in a character (or an entire work) is sparked by an audience well-divorced from the production source, particularly if the show is released in other countries. Places with [[ValuesDissonance different cultural baggage]] often hook onto different characters, whether or not these are the ones pushed by the story. This is even more of a gamble when one character's personality and motivations have a direct tie to the culture of origin.

->''"[[RunningGag ...Which once again]] [[CatchPhrase proves my theory:]] [[TropeNamer Germans Love David Hasselhoff.]]"''
-->-- '''NormMacdonald''', [[SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]

->''"I'm Emilie Autumn and I am here to spread the plague to you and your country. We're kinda like David Hasselhoff; where we're big in Germany, but nobody else cares."''
-->-- '''EmilieAutumn''', [[http://www.shrednews.com/chat-with-emilie-autumn/ "Secrets from the Asylum" interview]]

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff/Toys

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff/ProWrestling

A version of the EnsembleDarkhorse, where interset in a character (or an entire work) is sparked by an audience well-divorced from the production source, particularly if the show is released in other countries. Places with [[ValuesDissonance different cultural baggage]] often hook onto different characters, whether or not these are the ones pushed by the story. This is even more of a gamble when one character's personality and motivations have a direct tie to the culture of origin.