alt Hacker NewsMaybe for people in the US. Internationally? I haven't watched a single episode of WTR, I don't know anyone who has, but everyone knows who Chuck Norris was.
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I'm Swedish and I was only vaguely aware Chuck Norris even had a career outside the jokes.
Seinfeld wasn't at all well known in Italy when I lived there, but WTR was.
As a gent born and raised in Texas, and has never seen the show - I am pleasantly surprised to see these comments about how popular WTR was internationally. If I had been asked to bet, I would have lost money on this one.
> Maybe for people in the US. Internationally?
It was big internationally. But the jokes made Norris known to a whole different generation than the one watching WTR.
I loved WTR as a child in Spain! (This was like 15 years ago tho)
Czechs love Chuck Norris and WTR. It aired between 1995 and 2012. The series is still occasionally rerun.
So Chuck Norris is an Anna Kournikova, famous for having been moderately famous and monetized ad infinitum?
It was extremely popular in Russian-speaking areas in the late 90s.
In Spain it was on the TV also for like a decade, and everybody knows who he is. Also in France.
Haven't watched it and first time hearing about it too. But I knew who Chuck Norris was.
It was quite popular in France.
It was very popular here (Czech Republic). Not prime-time popular, but popular enough.
Huuuuuuuuge in South Africa.
In France, it was popular enough that everybody knew Texas ranger before the Chuck Norris jokes.