Must read to believe.
It sometimes feels our VAL-pocalyse Now is unique. Surfing being everywhere, absolutely everywhere. Everyone, absolutely everyone, deciding that surfing is the thing to do later in life, paddling out on foam surfboards, turtle rolling them much.
Duke Kahanamoku reincarnated and spruiking Olympic surfing to everyone.
Everyone very excited.
But let us not forget thirty-odd years ago when surfing was lots of places too, including the hit primetime show Baywatch and let us not forget that the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater starred, appeared in 27 episodes, more episodes than all seasons of True Detective combined.
A robust run.
Running was, in fact, a hallmark of the show. Running in slow-motion, paddling in slow-motion, surfing in slow-motion.
Obviously sexy but that was not the reason for so much slow-motion as just revealed by Baywatch’s David Hasselhoff.
In an explosive new interview, Hasselhoff let slip, “[The slow-motion] came about organically because we had no money. We didn’t have enough financing to finish the show. So we found a way to fill the hour by shooting people in slow motion. We said, ‘Well, girls in bathing suits look good running in slow motion, let’s just shoot that.’ And we found out that the audience kinda liked it.”
Cost-savings.
Very cool.
I got my first boner watching these slo-mo scenes
Surf all day, work at night. Or off to some other place in Cen AM surfing w/no TV.
Rivaling Bo Derek’s beach slowmo in 10 quite impossible i reckon.
Don’t forget his name – Jimmy Slade
Prime time soft porn. I was too busy though off surfing to see much of it.
I really did miss my calling in life…I shoulda been a bay watch star
they could have shot me running, surfing, doing pretty much everything…and not had to waste all that time putting it in slow-mo
making me sexy may have proven a mountain too high to climb
The only thing my TV’s did in the 90’s was loop “Pump” and all the other surf videos. Too busy with life to watch nerd actors pretend.
That makes my eyeballs hurt!
I was stuck in Paris drydocked in 99, saturday afternoon after the 6th day of work finishing at lunch, I’d have lunch with my mrs. Then while she finished studying I’d watch baywatch in French and starting actually understanding french as the screenplay was so basic. It was agreeable to let the mind take it easy with the beach running scenes. I soon understood how it was so appealing to the world audience. The red swimsuits, the running, and Mitch the single dad,,,
Takes me back to when I became a Machado fan.