Sergeant Hans Hasselhoff

Does anyone remember Hogan's Heroes? I love that series. Sergeant Hans Schultz had two catchphrases, "I see nothing! Nothing!" and the nearly identical "I know nothing! Nothing!" I read a great turn of these phrases this weekend, in an article about David Hasselhoff's German popularity, which peaked when he had a number 1 song in Germany and Austria. He also performed "Looking for Freedom" at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989, a month after it fell. Apparently Hasselhoff felt he never quite was appreciated as highly he should have been in Germany for this gesture, and publicly complained about being overlooked at least once: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museukm at Checkpoint Charlie."

So it was with great pleasure that I read that someone later taunted the dissatsified Hasslehoff at a Brian Wilson concert he was attending in 2004. The person zinged the former Knight Rider star by shouting, "You are nothing without your robot car! Nothing!"