David Hasselhoff — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

In Its Notorious Season Season, Baywatch Nights Shamelessly and Ineptly Ripped Off The X-Files as It Pivoted Nonsensically to Supernatural Mystery

In a desperate bid to stay on the air Baywatch Nights turned into an X-Files clone in its second season.

It did not go well.

The First Season of the Notorious Spin-Off Baywatch Nights is Pure Kitsch Joy

Celebrate Christmas in Malibu with this excerpt from The Joy of Trash on the mind-meltingly cheesy first season of Baywatch Nights, which manages to be even more ridiculous than the year that followed, which took a bizarre, notorious turn into The X-Files territory.

Literary excerptNathan RabinApril 14, 2023Lou Rawls, Angie Harmon, David Hasselhoff, Baywatch, spin-offs, The Simpsons, Chief Wiggum

The 1978 Star Wars Knock-Off Starcrash Has Sex, Country-Fried Robots, Christopher Plummer and a VERY Young David Hasselhoff

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the glorious madness of the 1978 Star Wars knockoff Star Crash, starring Marjoe Gortner, Christopher Plummer and Baywatch Nights star David Hasselhoff in his first major film role.

The Genre-Hopping Madness of Baywatch Nights

Did the notorious Baywatch spin-off Baywatch Nights go too far in its genre-hopping madness or did it not go far enough?

The Big WhoopNathan RabinOctober 26, 2021The Joy of Trash, Baywatch Nights, David Hasselhoff, Angie Harmon

This Looks Terrible! Baywatch Nights Season One: "Pursuit"

I had so much fun writing up the second season of Baywatch Nights for The Joy of Trash that I decided I would delve into its almost as bonkers first season as well. And I had a blast! It’s like the fourth segment of the “Simpsons Spin-Off Spectacular” except that it’s real !