Baywatching Nights: Kind of a Drag

Mitch must go undercover as a female impersonator. Also, he's dating two ladies named Cindy who may or may not be the same person.
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[@Tareltonlives]

"He died as he lived: pushing his singing career on everyone else and extremely insecure about his masculinity"

[@andrewollmann304]

“Lifeguards run on sand, P.I.’s run on everything.” Truly the poet of our times!

[@myflock000]

definitely

[@kamenanew9867]

The strangest part of that to me is he's doing the voice over as if he's running at the time, kinda huffy, and I'm like what..were you also getting a bit winded in...your head? Son of a mitch

[@othertalk3313]

... and Lifeguard P.I.s run on cocaine.

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

"More inept than offensive" might as well be the tagline of Baywatch Nights.

[@SereneDancer]

Mitch is being super insensitive kissing another man in front of Garner. Is this Marner's breakup?

[@LaNoLaCola]

No! It can’t be! Marner is the OTP!

[@stefanfilipovits21]

I don’t know how I’ve gone this long without hearing “Marner” before. Thank you ma’m. My life is now much richer and more complete.

[@rgoodwyn]

What Mitch and Garner have is so pure and strong that it can survive this. :)

[@stefanfilipovits21]

rgoodwyn truly their love burns with the fire of a thousand suns

[@Tareltonlives]

Eh, it wouldn't be the first time he's tried to get him jealous.

[@geekoborabora]

I don't know how anyone could POSSIBLY think Mitch's outfit is feminine. It's not even REMOTELY ecru!

[@stevegeorge6880]

You could start a cottage industry of manufacturing Baywatch nights GIFs and memes for the uninitiated and everyone else.

[@nakenmil]

Oh god, we need this. It's a goldmine that will not run out in decades!

[@Tareltonlives]

YES

[@Tareltonlives]

YES

[@stellamuka1087]

Wow a wig that stays with you even when you drown

[@cartoonkelly7924]

“Manly bunch of sausages in a trench coat” Shouldn’t he be a manly pile of burgers on top of femme-y chicken legs?

[@ralphyetmore]

...Ok. Mitch gasp-narrating in a scene where he's running. Is he narrating in the moment? Is this his inner monologue? Why does his inner monologue need air?

[@AllisonPregler]

I asked myself all of those questions

[@SereneDancer]

Garner doing the actual work while Mitch just stands around. Sounds typical to me.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

A white narcissist blathering about how misunderstood and unappreciated he is while a Black man has to do the dirty work for him and gets talked down to. Now, where have we seen that before?

[@kgjames3603]

Mitch being riddled with bullets right after singing had me in tears I was laughing so hard.

[@katiescarlett8108]

KG James same 🤣🤣🤣

[@elizabethsullivan1894]

I love that presumably Mitch decided to wait the entire rest of the night, through sunrise, to the next morning in his vest and suit coat just so he could talk with Garner about his bad date. "I'll always wait for you, man."

[@AllisonPregler]

I didn't even notice it was the same outfit, it explains one question but brings up many more.

[@elizabethsullivan1894]

@@AllisonPregler It also makes me wonder...how did Cindy get home? Did she walk home in her presumably fancy heels she wore to the theater? Or did Mitch drive her home in stony silence and decide "Eh, sure, I could go home and change, but instead I'll go back to the beach and wait for Garner instead in clothes that are clearly completely unsuited to our planned activity for tomorrow!"?

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Mitch is too "manly" to be emotionally affected by the play - than he spends HOURS on the beach sulking about his unsuccessful date like a toddler until he can whine to his BFF about it. WoMeN aNd ThEiR eMoTiOnS, amirite?

[@trevingrayek1671]

“Ever see Pointbreak? How ‘bout Point break you in HALF?!” Love it.

[@SalazarArtNation]

"Joke Time is now" that's basically my life motto

[@RosebudKane41]

Putting the scenes in the club on a dutch angle made it look kinda like the old 60s Batman show whenever a villains Iair was onscreen. lol

[@Tareltonlives]

HOLY THRILLER

[@Tareltonlives]

HOLY THRILLER

[@percyperanamus7432]

That wig glue staying on for the underwater corpse is how I know Baywatch nights is a work of fiction

[@AllisonPregler]

I can't 100% confirm but the wig doesn't really seem to match the hair and they never show the body once it's in the boat, so my guess is they hired a cis woman to play the corpse and just held up a wig she wasn't wearing.

[@MissAshley42]

That moment when you wonder how Allison didn't know about that song but then remember you're much older than her.

[@danstiver9135]

11:42 And here I thought I’d go my whole life without ever having the pleasure of seeing a David Hasselhoff upskirt shot. Thanks Baywatch Nights! 🤓👍

[@unclebuzzyschurchofgroove6190]

I could definitely have done without it, but I don't regret that it happened.

[@distance7721]

"Manly bunch of sausages stacked up in a trench coat" is perhaps the greatest descriptor I've heard for a character ever

[@wdfmidevil]

I want Alison to be the narrator of my life. Her strong sense of sarcastic wit comes out effectively, each time she sees something ridiculous

[@CartoonTriper]

surprising this episode didn't have the classic trope/cliche of "the guy who fall in love with the obvious drag"

[@mathieuleader8601]

worked well for Murphy

[@lanceturley7745]

Either that, or a gag where Cindy 2 doesn't recognize Mitch in drag and thinks he has another girlfriend.

[@LaNoLaCola]

One thing's for sure: more Baywatching Nights is never a drag. And Shippy had a cameo on the first season of Baywatch Nights?! If only Newmie had a guest role

[@AllisonPregler]

Oh man, Newmie's got a Baywatch Nights moment that is absolutely stellar

[@LaNoLaCola]

Movie Nights NOW I CAN'T FOR NEWMIE NIGHTS!

[@mackdebruin999]

Apparently, Gregory Allen Williams was in "Brightburn" this year, but I don't remember seeing him in the film. Was more surprised to see him in "Old School" the other day.

[@joshuamoore8560]

Ah, wonderful... the single funniest piece of editing I've seen yet from our dear Allison: the "Slo-mo Laughing At Mitch's Pain Montage featuring Skee'Los' Awkward Backup Dancer." I think I've watched that one bit 20 times by now and it JUST KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER! Ah...the schadenfreude, as the Germans would say.

[@mastermarkus5307]

Oof, Garner does not make a good Whoppi Goldberges.

[@AllisonPregler]

I really missed a Whoppi Goldberges reference opportunity, thank you for rectifying that

[@Tareltonlives]

Theodore Rex: "What?!"

[@Tareltonlives]

Theodore Rex: "What?!"

[@CorbCorbin]

😝

[@nemothenobody7859]

"Baywatch, use every part of the buffalo, Nights." LOL! Thank you, Allison!

[@wtharmon5050]

I'm sure this came up before (just joining Baywatching recently) but do you suppose THIS Garner is related to Witchcraft Garner? Because I'm here for the WitchWatch Extended Universe

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Garner always hangs out with Mitch. Are you saying Mitch Buchannon is Detective Lucy Lutz in drag? OH MY GOOOOOOOO...

[@dunes8817]

Duncan looks like a budget Rob Schneider here.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Holy crap! You’re so right. Demolition Man Rob Schneider! It’s uncanny.

[@MariktheGunslinger]

"CAROLINE KILLS SOMEONE!" Wait, I thought Stephanie died next season.

[@emkultra2349]

Asides from Newmie they all kill people

[@Nuked519]

Someday you'll find the lost footage that finally answers the "two Cindys" mystery.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

They should have dropped that chase scene entirely. It's completely nonsensical with the two different "Cindies". It's played as if that's how Mitch met Cindy Cry-Cry for the B plot. But he didn't - and it has no relation to anything else in the episode. Chase Scene Cindy should form a band with Random Foggy Fire Escape Staircase Saxophone Guy. Two completely different people with no connection were named Cindy by their parents... like probably hundreds of thousands of other Cindies around the globe. Riveting stuff! Who knows how quickly this episode was cobbled together. The editing of the "Duncan" scenes is horrible, Garner's magically changing clothes, etc. The whole thing looks like a desperate rush job to meet a deadline. I would bet serious money that they had the "foggy nighttime saxophone guy" footage lying around as a "contingency reserve", to insert it as a cross-cut into any given moody night scene they needed to pad out to get an episode to full length. Same with the footage of Lou singing on stage at "Nights" while Mitch and Garner drive around in the Nicky-Pine-mobile all night to supposedly "find Ryan", in episode eight (aka "I used to be the second pilot before they frankensteined me into a flashback episode"). I guess that's why Chase Scene Cindy had to stay in this episode, too. They needed the minutes of runtime as padding to run out the clock. I don't think I'm completely on the wrong track with this theory, but who the hell knows with "Budget Nights". The show was put together with duct tape, gum, and desperation.

[@franciscobrisolladeoliveir9596]

*sees title* Oh no. *sees description* OH NO!

[@andersthecrow6588]

Oh god! oh man! oh god! oh man!

[@BigEOT3]

[Cindy #2:I must go now, my Planet needs me.]

[@Shiirow]

someone should tell Mitch, that monologuing while running probably isnt the best way to use that oxygen. save it til later.

[@lowenergyvideos4658]

I bet at the time they thought this was "progressive" Ahh the 90s, first time the decade had its heart in the right place but stilllllllllllll couldn't get the execution down right XD

[@megb7758]

Mitch, 'i dont get it, i was witty, charming..' Voiceover, '-humble. Why didn't she like me?' 'He died as he lived pushing his singing career on everyone else' LMAO

[@Chwineka]

I love the implication that they cut plot details for time but kept in the blues-y outro.

[@thewraithwriter22]

I do like how Mitch is out of breath in his voice over in the beginning

[@Wingless-]

I did it. The entire playlist in one sitting. It upsets me knowing that I'm definitely going to do it again....

[@AllisonPregler]

Oh wow! Hats off to you lol

[@Wingless-]

@Knock Out I wish I kept track. I started late in the evening and ended in the morning!

[@laragallahue7127]

I got just off nine hour flight and new baywacth nights! Allison you just made my day

[@mikekz4489]

The drag queens would have been better off going to Malibu and hiring Jim Rockford.

[@HiperPivociarz]

You know, I was gonna rag on Cindy number 2 for judging Mitch for not crying at a play, and seemingly being homophobic/being outraged for Mitch doing drag, but then she seems to have reevaluated her beliefs, accepted that her boyfriend does drag, and showed her support by dressing in drag herself. Now I kinda love her.

[@Tareltonlives]

Like a lot of his girlfriends, she's too good for him

[@unclebuzzyschurchofgroove6190]

I struggle to believe that this episode exists.

[@Jayfive276]

6:15 - You could make up for this by giving Todd in the Shadows a nudge to tell him to cover "I Wish" on his One Hit Wonderland series :)

[@Arrowdodger]

Glad I rang the bell, this was a welcome surprise in my notifications.

[@Tareltonlives]

Mitch: ♫I wish I could catch the murderer, I wish I had a burger♫

[@VermillionBrain]

Between this episode and the Knight Rider one, anyone else getting the feeling that Hasselhoff just REALLY has a thing for the movie Psycho? Maybe this was to make up for not getting to go into the house on KR?

[@teasecondaccount]

Wait, is this why Zac Efron had to dress in drag in the Baywatchh movie?

[@fanofpink]

I didn’t realize how much I need Mitch in drag until I saw this episode!!!!

[@starsiegeplayer]

"Point break you in half!" That really got me XD

[@anasnow6635]

Garner's wig looks less Whoopi Goldberg and more Bruce from The Dead Zone.

[@SsnakeBite]

Wait, we were supposed to think Cindy #2 was supposed to be a man at the end, there? She's about as convincing as a Drag King as Mitch is as a Drag Queen.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

What the ham sammich is going on in this freakin’ episode?! My god! Hasselhoff’s performance in Jekyll and Hyde was less horrific than seeing him in very cheap drag with a Nixon mask on.

[@mathieuleader8601]

things are about to get tricky with dicky

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Mathieu Leader I shudder as I picture the possibilities

[@charleshetrick3152]

I worked at JCPenny for two years, that “I Wish” song was played on a loop in the young men’s section so much I can sing it 35 years later.

[@brendakrieger7000]

love that noir sax player on the steps🎷

[@Tareltonlives]

The critics are raving! "More inept than offensive!"

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Talk about ineptitude... I watched the full episode and The Hoff does pretty much the same weird grimaces on stage as "Dahlia", that he did as the awful "mime" on the promenade. What a range and variety Hasselhoff has in his "acting toolbox". True master thespian, that man!

[@OldSchoolCurt]

That’s not A&W joke made me laugh my ass off! 😃

[@joneilou5]

Every time you mentioned Cindy #2 I thought about Audrey 2 from Little shop of horrors

[@culwin]

A random Skee-Lo appearance in my Baywatch Nights? Whaaaaaa?

[@VCMarilyn]

makeup for dark skin black people was a very difficult thing to match. It was always too light and would never blend right. That's why makeup brands are praised for having many shades for black people because we're not just one shade of dark. but still when I walk into a drug store and I can't find a thing I have to go to real make up store.

[@AllisonPregler]

Oh man I'm sorry, yeah it sucks that shades for darker skin are still harder to come by.

[@chavesa5]

That Caroline teaser has me on the edge of my seat. Been itching for a Caroline episode for a while.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Garner and Ryan are gonna be pissed when they find out Mitch drove the company car on the beach and got sand all over the undercarriage.

[@quinnzyker6521]

Mitch ate his last burger

[@maugos]

That's the weird thing about "progressive" stuff. You look back at something like this and think 'That really wasn't very good' but at the same time think 'at least it was SOMETHING.'

[@trevingrayek1671]

maugos Same problem applies to Friends. A striking lack of minorities for a show taking place in the most racially diverse cities in America.

[@mastermarkus5307]

I mean... I don't know if this was meant to be "progressive" as much as it was giving a scenario wherein they could play "Mitch in a dress" for comedy. Still, along the same lines it's really weird to watch this stuff back and realize that people were just like... okay with it, or even laughed at it. Watching most comedies involving gay people from the early 2000s and earlier generally give me that uncomfortable feeling. I think that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" might be one of the worst of all time, especially since it tries to turn the whole thing around at the end and have the writing suggest that it's actually pro-gay rights after being extremely insensitive and homophobic throughout. (Film Brain has a sort-of old, but good video on that movie, if anyone's interested.)

[@BloodrealmX]

@@mastermarkus5307 " I don't know if this was meant to be "progressive" as much as it was giving a scenario wherein they could play "Mitch in a dress" for comedy. " Or, you know, David 'I'm totally self-secure' Hasselhoff in a dress for the production team's amusement.

[@Tareltonlives]

WHAT I hope this leads to another spinoff: Cindy Nights. Garner's trying to get Mitch to come out in the open about his feelings for him, but Mitch's got an iron closet I'll give them credit for actually treating the drag queens with respect Here comes.....THE NIGHT CLUBBER! I'm just glad Mitch is the bait instead of Rian for once Um, Cindy 2, he's constantly hitting on Rian and Garner. You didn't have a chance in the first place. I love how even undercover, Mitch has gotta sing "He died as he lived: pushing his singing career on everyone else and extremely insecure about his masculinity" "♫Fillin time, fillin time, credits credits fillin time!♫" Eh, I like this more than "Profit and Lace" .

[@bronco5591]

My guess is Hasselhoff was unavailable while making Nick Fury which was totally worth it

[@mathieuleader8601]

JD Salinger's son was Captain America

[@gabrielpelletier6202]

I can't believe you didn't mention the killer's pseudonym: THE BAT PUNCHER!

[@Arrowdodger]

this episode seems to be even more sloppily put together than most Baywatch Nights episodes, and that's saying something.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Seriously. Baywatch Nights was never True Detective when it came to its cases. It was never even modern SVU. But this episodes case is especially slap-dash and rushed.

[@JustJohnny]

Damn, was that Skee-lo? Guess I should have kept listening. lol

[@HiperPivociarz]

It's 3 episodes of Baywatch Nights until Eddie returns! HOSANNA!

[@FaustTheThird]

That opening song is a banger though.

[@JLE8811]

This episode was definitely a result of the Birdcage

[@henrygvidonas9573]

The Robin Williams movie was released in March 1996, this episode first aired in December 1995. So that's not possible, chronologically. I don't know, the original play "La Cage Aux Folles" and the super-successful 1978 French movie based on it had an influence, maybe? It's still one of the most successful foreign-language films ever in the US, according to Wikipedia. It won a Golden Globe and was nominated for three Oscars, including for "Best Director". Director Édouard Molinaro and Francis Ford Coppola who was nominated for "Apocalypse Now" lost to Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer"). No shame in that loss, I'd say! Plenty of TV shows did rather uninformed and stupid drag episodes in the 1990s, even before "The Birdcage". Some of them meant well, most didn't. And they pretty much all helped to cement the stereotype that all drag queens are gay and/or transsexual in the public conscience. Conversely, that also perpetuates the false notion that trans women are just gay men who like to dress like women for some "icky" reason, to this day.

[@pseudonymous9153]

Mitch Von Malibu walked so Maddy Morphosis could run.

[@maltoNitho]

6:08 *pauses video to go listen to I Wish* What an awesome blast from the past

[@jdm42989]

Been binging these for a week or so and can’t believe I’m almost caught up! Bay watching is such a fun idea keep it up!

[@karahughes21]

Garner's makeup was 'corpse' or perhaps 'zombie'. Another episode where I nearly spat my coffee all over my laptop!

[@Tareltonlives]

"Hey David, how about adding more Baywatch cast members to this show?" 10:13

[@saintdane05]

I wish the noir aesthetic of this episode was kept around. Some of those shots just look fantastic. Shame about the rest of it.

[@LixiaWinter]

But did Mitch notice it was a different Cindy?

[@brendakrieger7000]

Thanks. Strong Knight Rider vibes😹

[@Mishomish0]

Ok I've been binging on Baywatching for days... And I still need more!!

[@ChigoIEbere]

We're getting closer and closer to Bash at the Beach. Cannot wait to dig into that one

[@funnypicturescomics]

Millenials have NO IDEA how much cheese passed for entertainment between 1995 and 1999...LOL!

[@whitefox411-gamer7]

"Cindy only exists for one reason, to remind everyone Mitch is straight." In French accent - "Five minutes later" Mitch dressed in his best suit in the most expensive sports car he can be alone with another man and talking to him about awakening his feminine side. Right.

[@cmbeadle2228]

Am I the only one surprised Baywatch never really tried for another plot around lgbt issues, what with its constant attempts to launch bids for emmies on hot button issues and the incresed visibility of the issue at the time? It would obviously be either a bit naff or a total train wreck, but it surprises me I guess we never got a plot about Mitch's never before seen distant relative transitioning or CJ's lesbian best friend or something.

[@AllisonPregler]

While they loved Emmy grabs, they definitely went for the safer options. The AIDS episode was pretty bold for Baywatch though, even if they did a common tactic of making sure to note the character was straight. Which isn't to say straight people don't get AIDS, only that the reason it was such a dicey subject at the time was because it was heavily tied into the gay community. If they'd actually talked about that, it would be better than either time they brought up gay people at all (and this episode doesn't even technically mention them being gay, it's just assumed by the audience). BTW the only other time I recall Baywatch bringing up gay people was a girl on girl kiss to make someone jealous.

[@mathieuleader8601]

a better idea would be Mitch getting knocked out by a wave whereby Mitch enters a distaff universe with peoples genders swapped and Mitch meeting Michelle Private Eye.

[@Tareltonlives]

It's funny that this VERY dated 90s show is more accepting of Drag shows than some people today

[@chriswade8949]

How did you not know about Skee-Lo!!!!I’m 6.7 and it was my jam! And yes I went to the prom with my cousin

[@armywalaby]

"he died as he lived"

[@facesofevildead]

Been waiting for a new video!! Keep'em coming!!

[@Diamondelle84]

Been waiting for this episode

[@HiperPivociarz]

Cindy II is the actual mother of Hobbie II

[@MforMovesets]

After the quality goes dooooown~ 11:00 "I knew it" is the actual funny part of this scene.

[@berpipo]

the reason Mitch looks so boxy is beacuse he took his ex-wife that he totally moved on from as a model.

[@mathieuleader8601]

A PI that's a box for hire

[@nakenmil]

I can't unsee that now.

[@Tareltonlives]

This is the closest Baywatch Nights gets to an interesting premise for a mystery IMO. I dunno, you could do something with celebrity obsessions and impersonators and such

[@owmyboring3408]

So basically, Someone is trying to kill Dr. FrankenFurter in a weird parody of Psycho? Also, you say Whoopie wouldn't wear that, BUT she did work as a police officer with a talking dinosaur so, it may not be out of the bag.

[@CorbCorbin]

Drag Madonna, looks more like Drag Gwen Stefani in 90s Madonna gear.

[@nightwingjosh8491]

around 4 minutes in, is garner wearing sly hutcherson's hat?

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I wonder how many of the drag queens in this episode were played by actual drag performers.

[@jamesmason7979]

It feels like this episode was being written as it was filmed. Then parts were rewritten and they had to do reshoots.

[@funnypicturescomics]

I'm glad you watch all these episode of BAYWATCH NIGHTS....So I don't have to! Ok..seriously...Love your videos...I watch them all.

[@dramonmaster222]

Wow! I do NOT remember this eps. This was hilarious!