BAYWATCH (1996)
Thomas Edward ''Cowboy'' O'Hara
''I am the first person in the history of Baywatch to ever drown,'' Watson says proudly of his guest spot in the season 6 episode ''The Incident.'' ''People died on Baywatch, but no one ever drowned because the Coast Guard didn't want to be a part of it. My character actually drowned because Yasmine Bleeth couldn't get her butt off the lifeguard stand to come save my ass.* Cowboy was actually in other episodes in flashbacks, these great slo-mos where I was like, 'Save me, lifeguard. Saaaaave meeeee....' That was the first comedy I did.'
*Technically, as this promo shows, Cowboy drowned because he had been drinking and setting off fireworks with his buddies on a boat, which caught fire and sank, and Caroline (Bleeth) hadn't known how many men were onboard.
