Hawk’s running joke: ‘You kinda look like Tony Hawk’

We just couldn’t let this stuff go …

Tony Hawk is a skateboarding legend. He’s the star of a popular and long-running video game series.

He has appeared in one of the “Police Academy” movies, an episode of “The Simpsons,” a “Weird Al” Yankovic music video and scads of commercials.

He has been a household name for decades.

But somehow at the same time, nobody seems to know who he is, writes Chuck Schilken of the L.A. Times.

Hawk took to Twitter on Wednesday night to relate his latest encounter with someone who kind of knows who he is. This one was with a woman handling the paperwork for him and two of his children at a COVID-19 testing site:

“Woman looking over papers: “okay...

and Kadence... Hawk? Are you guys related to Tony Hawk?” he tweeted. “Me: yes

“Her: “Are you pulling my leg?”

“Me: no, we are all directly related to him.” To be fair to the woman, Hawk was wearing a mask at the time (presumably one of the facemasks we’ve all been wearing to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, not the elephant costume he wore as a contestant on “The Masked Singer”).

And she was probably way too busy to realize that “Tony” is usually short for “Anthony.” But this kind of thing seems to happen to Hawk all the time. And he loves sharing the stories on Twitter.

Tweet from Hawk: “TSA agent checks my ID, looks at me, looks at ID, looks back at me quizzically and loudly says ‘Tony Hawk’s my favorite skater’ Me: ‘I’ll tell him.’ ”

Another: “At Disneyland with kids, waiting in line for churros. Girl in front of me: ‘You look like Tony Hawks’ Me: really? Her: ‘yes’ Me: Is that good? Her, nonplussed: ‘I guess so’

And one more: “At a drive-thru, waiting on my order, looking at phone. Guy at window: ‘you kinda look like Tony Hawk’ me (turning towards him, assuming he is in on the joke): ‘haha, cool’ Him (looking disappointed): ‘well, from the side you do. Here’s your food.’ ”

At least sometimes he is recognized: In 2018, a flight attendant noticed four skateboards in the overhead bins and asked jokingly, “Is Tony Hawk on this flight or something?” Upon looking down and seeing him, the attendant said, “I guess he is.”

Anthony, Keegan