Sandbox / Germans Love David Hasselhoff Wick Check

Issue: Germans Love David Hasselhoff is listed as the Inverted Trope to Americans Hate Tingle, which implies that the trope should be a work that is well-received outside its country of origin despite the poor/lukewarm at "home". In fact, a lot of the use seems to just state the first half and that "[work] is very popular in [foreign country]", which doesn't really seem noteworthy, especially if the work is released internationally and its foreign popularity is about as equally popular in its home country.

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Wicks checked: 0/70

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Wicks to check:

1. Non-Existent Fiction Recommendations
2. The Kinks
3. The Black Eyed Peas
4. Music
5. No One Lives Forever
6. Jumping Bomb Angels
7. Doc McStuffins
8. Mars Attacks!
9. Gangsta.
10. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
11. Orson Welles
12. Beowulf (2007)
13. Channel Hop
14. Anime & Manga
15. The Scrappy
16. Gundam Fighter
17. ER
18. Mari-Kari
19. Billy Robinson
20. Nujabes
21. Mortal Kombat
22. Crayon Shin Chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness
23. Bunnicula
24. Van der Graaf Generator
25. Supercar Gattiger
26. The Mr. Men Show
27. Taylor Momsen
28. Sesame Street
29. Disney Animated Canon
30. Love Live! Sunshine!!
31. Michiko & Hatchin
32. Ice Age
33. Donald Duck
34. Pepsiman
35. Ragnarok the Animation
36. Denver the Last Dinosaur
37. Sega Genesis
38. You Can Play This!
39. Digimon
40. The Book of Lies (1986)
41. Thomas & Friends
42. Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion
43. Bubblegum Crisis

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1. Pop: Burrows had better luck in his native UK, but not by much. He was part of yet another one-hit wonder group, The Flower Pot Men, who sang the 1967 hit "Let's Go to San Francisco". Earlier, he was part of its predecessor group, a two-hit wonder group called the Ivy League, although he joined a while after they stopped charting. Of the groups behind his American hits, only White Plains had continuous success in Great Britain^note Although the second Brotherhood of Man had three #1 hits, the incarnation with Burrows only charted once afterwards, scoring another top 10 with "Julie Do Ya Love Me", and their #13 song "When You Are a King" later became a beloved classic...in Israel, where it was covered into Hebrew by national legend Shlomo Artzi.
2. New Order
   • "Confusion" was really popular among breakdancers, who likely hadn't heard of Joy Division or Factory Records, to the point where it made the Billboard R&B charts and led to the band's U.S. deal with Quincy Jones' Qwest label, which mainly dealt in R&B.
   • Similarly, "Bizarre Love Triangle" has a cult following among the Asian American community as a dance song. This article posits that it's because of the Narm Charm and New Wave Music being The Moral Substitute for the more openly rebellious Punk Rock and Heavy Metal among the community, where being a fan of the latter genres could bring shame upon the family.
   • New Order established a cult following in the U.S. almost immediately due to club and College Radio play and the notoriety of their previous incarnation, Joy Division, which they would successfully ride to mainstream success through the 1980s, culminating in their stateside breakthrough with "True Faith" and Substance. The band is also one of the original wave of '80s alternative bands like The Cure and Depeche Mode to have maintained their popularity in the U.S. post-Nevermind, albeit mostly in urban areas where dance and indie music have prominent followings. The band's post-reunion tour stops have been mainly concentrated on the East and West Coasts.
3. Anthology Comic: Disney Mouse and Duck Comics are big in France with Le journal de Mickey (weekly), Picsou Magazine^note Picsou is Scrooge McDuck's French name (monthly), Mickey Parade (fluctuates between monthly and quarterly), Super Picsou Geant (bimonthly)...
4. Spooky Month: Outside of Sr. Pelo's native Mexico, the three countries where Spooky Month seems to be the most loved are the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Much of the fan art that Pelo tends to retweet on Twitter often comes from American, Japanese, and Korean artists above all others.
5. Space☆Dandy: It's also a successor to Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun, three Space Western anime that got much more popular in America when they aired on Toonami and [adult swim]
6. Real Life: The format was limited to deep-pocketed film buffs and industrial uses, though it was popular in Japan.
7. Film Actors: Not even Morgan Freeman was immune to this. After his role in the critically acclaimed Se7en, he starred in the 1996 movies Moll Flanders and Chain Reaction. Both were unpopular among critics and audiences alike, though the latter recouped its budget thanks to a decent overseas gross.
8. Death Angel: The band had moderate success in their home country, but they were huge for a while in certain Euro countries, such as France, Germany and the Netherlands.
9. DJMAX: Originally released on (as its title implies) the PSP in 2006, it saw success not only in Korea, but non-Korean countries as well. The work is already popular in its home country. No indication that foreign/international popularity is significantly higher.
10. "The Graduate" Homage Shot: For a trope based on an American film, this one shows up in a ton of Anime (especially ones from the '80s); obviously the movie went over big in Japan.
11. The Living Tombstone: He's an Israeli, but he has a huge following in the U.S.A. (probably because he's mainly known for making remixes of an American TV show and an American game).

Work is not popular in home country, but well-received elsewhere

1. We Are the Night: According to Box Office Mojo the film made 2,4 million dollars. Almost half of that gross (circa 1 million dollars) came from the Russian release, which is more than any other country. It made far more money in Russia than Germany.

Simply states that work is popular in foreign country, without reference to local popularity

1. Arthur: The show is much beloved in Israel and has won five awards. Pretty sure it's won awards locally as well.
2. Krush Kill n' Destroy: The Playstation port was inexplicably popular in Indonesia during the age when Playstation 1 was the most played console, as a competitive multiplayer game. Doesn't indicate that it's significantly more popular than in its home country
3. Unexpected Character: Clarice, a one-off character from the 1952 Chip 'n Dale cartoon Two Chips and a Miss, is a rare meetable character, partially due to her popularity in Japan.
4. Challenge of the GoBots: The show really took off in France, and they imported Japan's Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos to be its sequel, in spite of the blatant Art Shift and different allegiances for many of the characters. Doesn't say that it's more popular in France than in its home country.
5. Keijo!!!!!!!!: According to Crunchyroll's statistics, this show was the most watched Fall 2016 simulcast in nine states in the United States and fifteen countries in Europe. All it shows is that the Anime is very popular overall, with no indication that it's more popular abroad than at home.
6. Heidi: Heidi is a classic in the German-language sphere as well as the world, but it is notably popular in Japan, Italy and Turkey.
7. CHiPs: The series was very popular in Mexico, thanks to the great voice acting work in the dub, and also Erik Estrada's performance.
8. Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: An In-Universe example. Pikachu, a Kanto-native Pokémon, is quite popular in Alola.
9. Scream 4: In Brazil, the fourth film is often considered the best one.

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Unclear

1. Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: Playing baseball in the garden. May often not include the Son-Doesn't-Like-It bit. For some reason, American media tend to depict this as iconic stock image of Dad and Son genuinely having a splendid time together. Might have something to do with baseball being more popular in the US than in many other parts of the world. Isn't modern baseball developed in the USA? If so, then this doesn't count.
2. Iris (2009): Iris was big in South Korea alright, but the series is one of the biggest imports to have ever hit Japanese soil. Doesn't really say that it's a bigger hit in Japan than it is in South Korea, in which it is already popular. It only notes that it's a bigger hit than other foreign series.
3. WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings.Other: Juliane Snekkestad, a Norwegian female model, stopped answering fan questions via social media in 2018 after fans responded to a statement of hers with abrasive and transphobic-homophobic remarks: "Actually, I am a boy in a female model body." While she never actually claimed to be transgender, some people on social media took it to mean that. It proved quite controversial in her native Norway, and in the United Kingdom where she is popular.
4. Anime.Stitch: Several other experiments also appear due to the whole Japanese love Stitch phenomenon.

Multiple Categories

1. Phantom of the Paradise:
   • One of more amazing examples of this. While the film only did extremely modest business in the rest of North America, it became a massive cult phenomenon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, playing for 21 straight weeks in its original run. A "Phantompalooza" convention was even organized in the city. A documentary about the whole craze, The Phantom of Winnipeg, debuted in 2019. Correct.
   • It also proved to be a hit in France, where they appreciated the homage to Gaston Leroux's work.
   • Also a huge hit in El Salvador, with "Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye" even topping the pop charts there.
   • The film was also popular in Japan and the aesthetic was highly influential for numerous Japanese works, most notably with Apocalymon and Beelzemon in Digimon, Purple Haze in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Griffith's "Femto" garb in Berserk. The Trigun manga also has a page where Knives wears a similar getup and pointy mask and plays the piano as a possible homage to the film.
2. Drawn Together
   • The show is very popular in Latin America, to the point that reruns are still shown on their Comedy Central feed to this very day. The amazingly done dub is one of the main reasons of this. Probably correct, even if it doesn't make reference to local popularity.
   • The show also had a small but loyal German fanbase. Misuse. The popularity in the foreign country must be huge, not simply a cult following.
   • While Captain Hero tends to be a divisive character in the English-speaking fandom, the Latin American fandom totally loves him and often consider him the funniest character of the series, mostly due the perfomance of Gerardo Reyero.