Son of the Beach | |
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Genre | Situation comedy |
Created by | David Morgasen Timothy Stack James R. Stein |
Starring | Timothy Stack Jaime Bergman(season 3) Leila Arcieri Roland Kickinger (season 1-2) Kimberly Oja Lisa Banes |
Composer(s) | James Verboort |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 42 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | David Morgasen Timothy Stack James R. Stein Howard Stern |
Producer(s) | Tim Andrew Scott McAboy Gil Wadsworth |
Camera setup | Film; single-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) |
The Howard Stern Production Company Loch Lomond Entertainment Fox Television Studios |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | FX |
Audio format | Dolby Surround 2.0 |
Original release | March 14, 2000 | – October 1, 2002
Son of the Beach is an American sitcom that aired from 2000 to 2002 on FX. The series is a spoof of Baywatch, with much of the comedy based on sexual double entendres, puns, innuendo and the like. A major running gag portrayed the studly David Hasselhoff character as a balding, middle-aged, pot-bellied and out-of-shape man who is nonetheless seen by all the other characters as highly fit and attractive. Radio talk show host Howard Stern was one of the executive producers.
The show centered on the adventures of Shore Patrol Force 30 (SPF 30, a pun on the term Sun Protection Factor), led by the pasty, out-of-shape, clueless lifeguard Notch Johnson (Timothy Stack). The rest of his patrol consists of B.J. Cummings (the dumb, Caucasian, big-buff lifeguard in season 3 becomes big chested blonde pregnant woman), Jamaica St. Croix (the dumb, African-American, big-chested lifeguard), Chip Rommel (the dumb, hunky, muscular male lifeguard who is an obvious parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Kimberlee Clark (the smart but flat-chested female lifeguard and of the series). Many of the plots revolved around silly action genre clichés and movie parodies, with many of the feature roles played by actors and celebrities such as Jason Alexander, Mark Hamill, Alan Thicke, Erik Estrada, Gary Coleman, John Salley, Joey Buttafuoco, Patty Hearst, Adam Carolla, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, George Takei, Gilbert Gottfried, Walter Koenig, Pat Morita, Anson Williams, Christopher Darden, Maureen McCormick, Lee Majors, David Arquette, Neil Patrick Harris, Musetta Vander, Angelica Bridges, Ian Ziering, RuPaul, and Dweezil Zappa.