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Perhaps the thing I will miss most when Baywatch Hawaii goes off the air is… no scratch that. The thing I will miss most when Baywatch Hawaii goes off the air is Jason. The thing I will miss second most is Jason's hat. Number three on the list of things I will miss most when Baywatch Hawaii goes off the air is Baywatch.com, and not just because it features Jason and his hat. Most television shows' official sites are content to put up the occasional cast bio or bare bones plot summary. Not the forces behind Baywatch.com. They offer up games, a chat room, email and even the Baywatch modeling agency, featuring some of your favorite Popcrazy staffers.
The next stop on your tour of Baywatch.com should be the show summaries. This is my favorite part of the site, and by far the most entertaining. The summaries are worth reading just to see how the writers condense the convoluted and wandering show plots into two paragraphs. People with a good grip on the English language and its grammatical rules will laugh themselves to tears over the choices made by the summary writers. These people somehow manage to use the words "pooh-poohs" and "coterie" in the same sentence. They've inspired me to add "mucky mucks" to my vocabulary. It's especially amusing to read a summary of an episode that you have seen recently, and make note of the mistakes. You would think the writers would know enough about the show to be able to tell Jason, J.D., and Sean apart, but they just can't.
Baywatch.com is the perfect place to spend some time as you wait for next Sunday to roll around. It's an excellent way to get in touch with Baywatch fans around the world. You can have endless conversations about your favorite lifeguards and show episodes on the message boards. You can download screensavers and desktop wallpaper, and even watch videos if you're not stuck behind a firewall in your office. I'm sure Baywatch will exist on the Internet long after the show's cancellation, but I don't hold much hope that the official site will be around forever. So if you're going to miss Jason, his hat, or anything else about the show, be sure to visit Baywatch.com before it gets cancelled too. --Meredith Riley
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The first thing you're going to want to check out is the picture gallery. Each Baywatch character has his or her own gallery of half a dozen or so pictures, and each week a different cast member is featured. You can spend hours browsing through the galleries of past Baywatch stars, even Greg Alan-Williams as Garner. There's also an option to send pictures of the current cast as postcards to your friends. They have birthday cards and invitations, and after you send your card the site happily tells you that you have "spread some tropical cheer" with your card.
There are also several items on the Baywatch site that are supposed to be entertaining. There's the Beach Blast game that's pretty much impossible to play. The object is to guide a small boat through a series of giant, evil beach balls. You get extra points for running over various swimmers and surfers. It's impossible to control the boat with any accuracy, and I ended up careening wildly, bouncing around until I exploded. (The explosion was pretty cool.) Another "fun" feature is the Baywatch chat room. Allegedly, you can talk into your computer and cartoons of Baywatch characters on the screen will talk in your voice to other people who have too much software and too much time on their hands.
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