David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff is an American actor and singer best known for the television series *Knight Rider* and *Baywatch*.
His music career achieved unexpected popularity in Germany, where he performed at the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The name sometimes appears as shorthand for inexplicable overseas fame or campy entertainment: He's huge in Germany—total Hasselhoff situation.
Years from eighty-nine backward
- nineties1990-1999
- retroEvoking recent past
- throwbackReturn to ancestral type
- vintageQuality from past eras
syndication · reruns · classic · memories · flashback · reminisce · era · childhood
Paid swimming supervisor
- beachSandy waterside margin
- rescueSave from harm
- swimsuitGarment for the pool
- slow-motionPlayback below normal speed
running · Pacific · Malibu · ocean · CPR · drowning · buoy · patrol
Cold War partition
- GermanyCentral European nation
- popFizzy drink, regionally
- concertLive musical performance
- albumUnified collection of recordings
tour · chart · ballad · hit · single · recording · stage · vocals
Sentient TV vehicle
- Trans AmPontiac performance package
- turbo boostCompressor-driven power increase
- GoliathBiblical giant warrior
- scannerDevice that reads data
eighties
Years from eighty-nine backward
vintage · syndication · reruns · classic · memories · flashback · reminisce · era · childhood · cult following
lifeguard
Paid swimming supervisor
slow-motion · running · Pacific · Malibu · ocean · CPR · drowning · buoy · patrol · syndication
Berlin Wall
Cold War partition
album · tour · chart · ballad · hit · single · recording · stage · vocals · synthesis
KITT
Sentient TV vehicle
- Trans AmPontiac performance package
- turbo boostCompressor-driven power increase
- GoliathBiblical giant warrior
scanner · T-top · crimefighter
fame
Public recognition, widespread
- starLuminous astronomical object
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- tabloidsSensational gossip newspapers
paparazzi · red carpet · cameo · SpongeBob · Dodgeball · viral · cheeseburger · meme · comeback · reality TV
- German cultureOktoberfest, Bavaria, Bavarian, Berlin, Munich
- SpongeBob SquarePantsSpongeBob, Patrick Star, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy Cheeks
- German AmericansGerman Americans, German settlers, German immigration, Ellis Island, Albert Einstein
David HasselhoffMeryl Streep
Daniel Day-Lewis · Bob Dylan · Leonard Cohen · Tom Waits · Tilda Swinton
David HasselhoffBill Murray
Larry David · Aubrey Plaza · ironic detachment · J.D. Salinger · Thomas Pynchon