YMMV / Scooter

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "The painted cow!" and "Skippy, the rains won't come" lines from the song "Nessaja".
  • In terms of album tracks, "Last Minute" - the rendition of "Hava Nagila" on "Our Happy Hardcore" is certainly one.
• Broken Base: An amount of fans wishing either more of jumpstyle music covered in recent albums. Others don't want to hear one more song of it.
  • The band's fanbase are divided into three camps whenever a new album is released:
    • Those who love it (often because they are devoted to the band rather than liking the music itself)
    • Those who hate it and think the band have 'lost it' on a certain album - varies as to which (often because the band have gone for more poppy sounds, and they were listening to Scooter as an alternative to that sort of music)
    • Those who praise them for making songs in a currently trendy style (but don't necessarily say whether it was any good or not)
• First Installment Wins: In this case, not the first album, but the "first chapter", also known as the "happy hardcore" era. Most fans of the band will refer to this era in glowing, often nostalgic terms.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • As mentioned in the trivia page here, the band's quite popular in the United Kingdom and Russia, but chart positions suggest quite large Hungarian and Norwegian fanbases, too.
  • Their Irish fanbase is large enough that when they released "Back In The UK", there was a separate version of the single called "Back In Ireland" exclusively for that market.
• Growing the Beard: H.P.'s vocals on the tracks on "And the Beat Goes On" largely amount to the occasional shout, akin to DJs getting an audience pumped up, and even then, most of the tracks were instrumental. On their second LP "Our Happy Hardcore", he started rapping whole verses, most notably on its' lead single "Back in the UK". He'd do this more and more as time went on. On "Wicked", H.P. even sang a couple of tracks, "Don't Let it Be Me" and "Break it Up". This somewhat set Scooter apart from the typical dance projects of the time.
• I Am Not Shazam: "Scooter" refers to the band as a whole, not just H.P. Baxxter.
• Memetic Mutation: The line "Siberia, the place to be" from "The Logical Song" has long been ironically remade by (chiefly British) listeners as "[British town], the place to be", with the implication of making an unexciting place sound like an exciting place.
• Sampled Up: "When I Was A Young Boy" is musically identical to Scooter's Loop! remix of Prince Ital Joe and Marky Mark's "Babylon", except that the the drums are heavier and all the lyrics were replaced by new ones from HP (though the mid-section does featured small, pitched up snippets of the original female vocals). "Babylon" is an obscurity with Marky Mark's musical career largely seen as a curio, whereas "Wicked!" is generally seen as one of Scooter's greatest albums.

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