David Hasselhoff Got An Awesome Souvenir From The Spongebob Movie

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Fun fact: The amazing scene in The Spongebob SquarePants Movie where David Hasselhoff appears from frickin’ nowhere to save the day was written and put into the script before Hasselhoff had even agreed to do it, they were just that keen to get him in the movie and knew that he’d probably say yes because he’s fucking David Hasselhoff. Also, in return for agreeing to do the movie he got one of the best souvenirs ever. 

As noted in the image above, to film some of Hasselhoff’s scenes, specifically the one in which he’s swimming while Spongebob fights a bounty hunter voiced by Alec Baldwin on his back, a specially made prop styled to look exactly like David Hasselhoff was used. A sentence that is oddly only the second most odd thing in this article thanks to the existence of this image.

It feeds on screams.
It feeds on screams.

Along with being fucking terrifying this prop was eerily lifelike to the point David Hasselhoff himself commented on the fact they got every mole and freckle right and that even its skin felt oddly like his own, leaving us with the sneaking suspicion that the crew harvested the skin used for the prop from gloriously sun-kissed hobos.

The 12 foot, nearly 1000 pound prop along with being worshipped as a God in some parts of Germany, cost in excess of $100,000 and, for the entire duration of filming was kept inside Hasselhoff’s actual house, where it’s rumored he pointed it out of his window to scare the shit out of his neighbours.

After filming wrapped, Hasselhoff casually asked the crew what they were going to do with his giant rubber avatar, the crew, who clearly hadn’t thought that far ahead, shuffled their feet for a moment before asking Hasselhoff if he’d like to keep it, since it was already in his house. Hasselhoff readily agreed and ran back to his room where he drafted a contract to sign ownership of the prop over to him permanently, the fact that David Hasselhoff personally drafted a contract so nobody could take this thing away from him probably says a lot about his ego, but we honestly don’t care because it’s hilarious.

Hasselhoff kept the model in his house for several years, for no real reason other than he thought it was funny and enjoyed that it freaked people out when they saw it. A few years later Hasselhoff auctioned off the prop, because apparently there’s only so much enjoyment you can get out of an anatomically correct giant-ass rubber model of yourself. Who knew?