Baywatch’s new bad girl drops into town at the same time as Johnny Danger, a drunken stunt man who likes hanging out with kids.
Baywatching: Wet ‘n’ Wild
Baywatch’s new bad girl drops into town at the same time as Johnny Danger, a drunken stunt man who likes hanging out with kids.
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Wait, Hobbie is still 13? Even with that one year age regression I thought he’d be older by now.
I dunno…I think perhaps Baywatch’s one positive quality may be that the show is an equal opportunity exploitation and negative stereotype promoter for both genders. I don’t know any guys who look or act like the shallow, faux macho, sculpted oily pecs with no shirt wearing D-bags on this show.
That of course doesn’t justify any of the negative female stereotypes, it simply makes it easier to believe the producers and writers were just shallow and lazy, not malicious.
They never really know what to do with Hobie’s plots, do they? Either he gets a random one-episode crush or some pedo’s after him. Tough going!
Back when this show was the silly pop culture phenomenon that it was, the running joke for late night comics and people generally mocking the show was: “Hobie, stay away from that pier!” or “Hobie, didn’t I warn you about drinking down by the pier?”
If we had internet memes back in the mid-90’s this would have been a big one.
Oh, the drama. All the forced drama. We need all this drama for our season finale, even if it seems very contrived. Johnny Danger should change his name to Stranger Danger.
A couple of times you said ‘sexual assault’ when I think it was just sexual harassment. Doesn’t sexual assault usually entail rape or molestation? Both are wrong, but on very different levels. I’m glad you brought up the fact that men are sexually harassed too and often don’t report it. You really don’t see that being covered very often on shows, and when it is, it’s usually in a comedic manner where the guy is the butt of the joke. One of the “it’s funny when it happens to a man” tropes, it seems.
I see Baywatch is tackling serious issues in its usual manner, which involves completely fucking it up.
My understanding is that sexual assault is any unwanted sexual contact, which would include kissing and groping. I’m not sure unwanted kissing is always labeled under sexual assault, but in some cases it is, and she most definitely kisses Matt without asking.
Ah, that’s a fair point.
Great video as usual.
Allison, you were just done with voicing your displeasure with the negative effects of the false accusations plot, and you immediately went into the “every guy who hangs around kids must be a child molester” narrative. Because inter-generational friendship — what’s that? Men who just like children — they don’t exist! Every male ever who’s friendly to a kid is a dirty pervert just waiting for a chance to strike! It’s not like the episode didn’t already portray him as a horrible influence and a criminal, who’s carelessness almost got the kids killed.
I see what you’re saying man, but any strange adult–male or female–who just wants to hang out with kids they don’t know and drink beer with them is a little suspect to me.