American Flops That Are Insanely Popular In Other Countries

This should be known as The Hasselhoff Effect.
American Flops That Are Insanely Popular In Other Countries

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People from other countries are just like us, we get that. What we don't get is how objectively mediocre things from the U.S. become wildly popular in other countries.

Our thanks to incetcan2 for tipping us off to this particular phenomenon.

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