Right then. For your delight and delectation, I've bravely volunteered to guide you through the top 20 viral videos - featuring David Hasselhoff. Yep, it's a one-hoff VVC special....
Disclaimer: I had a crush on him when I was eight and a massive Knight Rider fan. I had the car and everything. But then I also had a crush on Howling Mad Murdoch from the A team.
He's big in Germany, but even bigger on the internet. What is it about David Hasselhoff that works, exactly?
Among the videos of drunken burger munching and cheestastic power tunes this chart is harbouring some truly dreadful crimes against music.
The 1991 "hit" Do the Limbo dance"... well, you can imagine. And then there's the unbelievable Hooked on a feeling and Secret Agent Man, which I can only assume was recorded before Auto-Tune was invented. All of it hovers rather uncomfortably between his apparently vast ego and extreme self-parody.
Really. Don't watch any of them.
Halfway through the Pingu rap I broke my VVC rule: I caved in and quit. I just couldn't take it anymore! What have I unleashed?
There's a dark side to all this Hoffmania. Somehow the audio version of the drunk/burger incident seemed more troubling than the full video version - as you'll see if you watch the puppet tribute.
This chart weirdly juxtaposes that quite revolting drunk burger scene with his former glory in the Pipex advert which, rather sadly, is probably the best thing he's ever done. It all sounds a bit unfortunate, given his dribbling performance a short while later.
"You know the internet's been good to me. If it wasn't for all these Hoff emails and appreciation sites I'd just be that guy with really great pecs. But I've got a lot of Hoff to share with the world..."
"I am David Hasselhoff. King of the internet!"
Guardian Viral Video news chart for news: compiled by viralvideochart.com.
1 David Hasselhoff drunk
The short version.
2 David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff: Jump in my car OK, so the car's quite cool.
3 David Hasselhoff: Hooked on a feeling
Not what green screen was invented for.
4 David Hasselhoff drunk falls off wagon EXTENDED VERSION
If the first wasn't enough.
5 David Hasselhoff - Du
I assume the crowd is screaming for him to stop, but can't be sure.
6 Starcrash Hasselhoff lightsabre battle The hairstyle that knows no bounds.
7 David Hasselhoff: Looking for freedom The single that started it all, in 1988. Free montage of Kitt's stunts with every video. One day I too will have a car with a big "Turbo boost" button on the dash.
8 David Hasselhoff: Live in Berlin Dug out of the bowels of some horrendous archive somewhere. Nice jacket.
9 David Hasselhoff: Secret agent man Albert Broccolli turns quietly...
10 David Hasselhoff drunk - extended David The Puppet version! That has to be the ultimate tribute.
11 David Hasselhoff: Pipex advertisement His finest hour.
12 David Hasselhoff: Crazy for you "You will walk the shores of wonderland / I will write I love you in the sand / We will wander hand in hand." [Choke]
13 Hasselhoff crying Blink and miss it.
14 Wendy's satisfaction commercial (featuring Hasselhoff) Way too cool to be a real ad.
15 Pingu dance rap by David Hasselhoff Is nothing sacred?
16 Re: David Hasselhoff drunk Not pretty.
17 La Hora Chanante - Testimonios - David Hasselhoff Amazing. Stunts like you have never seen. Ish.
18 David Hasselhoff: Limbo Dance Yep. It's bad.
19 David Hasselhoff in Confrontation Hammy is not the word. I'm sure it's the performance of his career.
20 The making of David Hasselhoff's "Jump in my car"
No! It destroys the magic.
There were more, but I had to leave it there...
Source: Viral Video Chart.
Compiled from data gathered from 15.00 on Thursday 2 August 2007. The Weekly Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately two million blogs.
