Jump in my car, i wanna take you home
About 3.5 weeks ago, my friend Jennie emailed me the video to the David Hasselhoff song, “Jump in my car”, a cover of a 1970’s hit by the Australian band, the Ted Mulry gang. The email was entitled “An Auditory Root Canal”. Well I’ve passed on the video to some friends and it seems to have a life of its own. David Hasselhoff is not just popular in America, but popular amongst 20-30 year old males. I guess the germans were on to something.
I was in Chicago (again … yes I know) for Kristin’s birthday on Saturday and the guys in the group insisted on listening to the song over and over and over on our 12 mile canoe trip.
Anyways, lets analyze some of the finer aspects of this video that have made it so popular:
- Kit, the famous talking car from Knight Rider
- Attractive women
- A great storyline — A man desperately begs a woman to get in his car so they can hook up, only to kick her out when he finds out that she lives too far away
- A lack of attention to details — Hasselhoff clearly tells the women they should get in his car to avoid the rain, yet he’s clearly driving a convertible and he definitely doesn’t put the top up once the woman is in his car.
- Hasselhoff wearing a T-shirt that reads, “Don’t Hassel the Hoff”
- And of course the famous line when the woman is asked to leave his car:
Woman: “But I though you were a really nice guy”
Hoff: “Well I aint …. yeah, get out of my car!!”
As of this blog entry, the obsession with this song has been passed on to at least 5 people in both Chicago, IL and Washington, DC.
Anyways, if you want to check out the video, you can see it on youtube (which I’ve embedded here):
