confession
Watching I Love the 80's last night made me remember that I once - not too long ago - had a huge crush on Chris Jericho.
Maybe crush isn't even the right word. Stalkerish obsession, perhaps.
I'll have you know that admitting this took a lot of courage.
Oh, stop mocking me. You know damn well every last one of has had an embarassing crush. You're just not brave enough to share.
Or are you?
Comments
Sure, I had an embarrassing crush: John Smith in Pocahantes.
Yes, that's right.
The cartoon.
Posted by: Chrissy | October 23, 2003 10:29 AM
I don't have any crushes on wrestlers (and I've only been watching for about a year now) but every time I see Chris Jericho and The Edge, I want to draw giant Nordic warriors.
My favourite wrestlers are Gold Dust and Al Snow.
Posted by: PiscusFiche | October 23, 2003 10:30 AM
80's Strikes Back is fun to watch and remember. I hope that it come out on DVD.
But on a side note. Why is Mandy Moore on the show. She didnt live the 80's.
Fun note from last night: Trapper Keepers and "crack is wacked"
Posted by: Drew | October 23, 2003 10:35 AM
Wanted to add that my weirdest crush was probably on Ammon from the Book of Mormon. There was an Arnold Friberg painting of Ammon with rippling muscles about to start slicing the arms off of Lamanite bandits.
I guess that's almost the same as a wrestler.
(Yes, my childhood was strange.)
Posted by: PiscusFiche | October 23, 2003 10:40 AM
Dare I say, back in Junior High, Brooke Shields. Yes, sad, I know, but true.
Posted by: Val Prieto | October 23, 2003 10:45 AM
Dating myself here,but Susan Dey in the Patridge Family AND LA Law.
Posted by: mbruce | October 23, 2003 11:00 AM
Rowdy Roddy Piper. What can I say...a tough red-haired guy in a kilt...where the fuck do I sign up?!!
Posted by: Sekimori | October 23, 2003 11:03 AM
Chris Jericho looked very good in the 80s episode I watched last night -- much better without the crazy face hair. Yummy Canadian!
I confess I also have an irrational affection for Triple H... oh, his name is being floated around Hollywood as the new Conan. Interesting, n'est pas?
Posted by: Mariann | October 23, 2003 11:10 AM
Although this wasn't from the 80's and will definitely show my age, I used to have Tiger Beat pull-out posters of Donny Osmond and, the then cute, Michael Jackson on my walls.
Posted by: cardeblu | October 23, 2003 11:12 AM
I think you win (Jericho? Edge is so much hotter.), but I used to have the weirdest crush on Ted Raimi... even watched Skinner, because he was in it.
Posted by: Celeste | October 23, 2003 11:13 AM
i have a non-sexual crush on sam waterston, aka jack freakin' mccoy from law and order. awww who am i kidding - maybe it is sexual.
Posted by: Scott | October 23, 2003 11:14 AM
Hey, I wouldn't worry about having crushes on cartoon characters, if I were you. I used to have a crush on Lion-o from the Thundercats, as well as Aladdin and Speed Racer.
Nowadays, of course, I've tried to confine my crushes to real people. But then again, David from Lilo and Stitch is pretty hot...
Posted by: John S. | October 23, 2003 11:22 AM
John Boy Walton.
Posted by: Mrs. du Toit | October 23, 2003 11:42 AM
Man, Lion-O was HOT.
Posted by: Sekimori | October 23, 2003 11:43 AM
In the 80's? Juliet Anderson. That woman was HOT. (Yeah, she was a porn star. Ain't you supposed to have crushes on them?)
Posted by: JB71 | October 23, 2003 11:45 AM
Just Inger Stevens.
Posted by: Rick | October 23, 2003 11:46 AM
David Cassidy from the Partridge Family. I had a huge poster of him on my wall and used to stare at him while playing their record: "I can hear your heart beat . . . "
Posted by: Leishalynn | October 23, 2003 11:48 AM
I have no idea who these 80s people are.
Posted by: Mrs. du Toit | October 23, 2003 11:52 AM
Victoria Principal and Emma Samms. Ooohh, the adolescent commitment. I think I promised myself to ALWAYS love them, or something. Have seen both recently, and they've held up fairly well, but I'm releasing myself from the pledge.
Posted by: Squirrel | October 23, 2003 11:54 AM
Oh my I loved Sting, remember the guy with the face painted white. and the big scorpion on his suit? ahhhhh, even got the dumb plate, framed it, and no lie, it's still hanging on the wall, course it's behind something now, but I don't have to admit that, oh wait, I just did... :0)
Posted by: shortt | October 23, 2003 11:58 AM
Daisy Duke and Debbie Gibson.
Posted by: Tom | October 23, 2003 12:01 PM
I was kinda hot for Kim Wilde back when Kids In America came out. There's just something about a girl in a plain white t-shirt...
Posted by: MikeR | October 23, 2003 12:15 PM
The Rock.
Posted by: David Strain | October 23, 2003 12:22 PM
Hey, I wouldn't worry about having crushes on cartoon characters, if I were you.
coughKimPossiblecough
Posted by: Thlayli | October 23, 2003 12:25 PM
KimPossible is HOT.
Did I say that out loud?
Posted by: michele | October 23, 2003 12:31 PM
i SWEAR those shows are like crack for the couch potato. and the irony is, that even if you miss an episode, you KNOW it will be on again every fourth hour for six weeks.
but nope. can't drag ass from couch...
Posted by: The Mighty Jimbo | October 23, 2003 12:38 PM
In the 80s it was Prince cringe. Yes that skinny, sexually ambiguous shrimp. I have no idea what I was thinking......
Posted by: Oki | October 23, 2003 12:46 PM
Hey Tom, Tiffany could kick Debbie Gibson's a$$ anyday. I'd have taken her mallrat bad girl persona over goody 2-shoes anyday.
Posted by: Mark | October 23, 2003 12:47 PM
Taarna, the chick from Heavy Metal the Movie.
Posted by: CCat | October 23, 2003 12:55 PM
Wendy Nottingham (Helen Lenoir in "Topsy Turvy")
Posted by: Stephen | October 23, 2003 12:55 PM
Davy Jones from the Monkees. And that wasn't even my generation -- but I think MTV started playing the episodes in the late 80s or something, so I got hooked then. He was sooooooooooooooo cute!
Posted by: meep | October 23, 2003 01:24 PM
The early MTV VJ Martha Quinn. I am sure I'm not the only one, am I?
Do I want an answer to that? Hmmmm.
Posted by: arminius | October 23, 2003 01:51 PM
Johnny Depp, back in his 21 Jump Street Days.
Shut up.
Posted by: Jo | October 23, 2003 01:53 PM
I used to think I honestly had a chance with Jenny Garth on 90210. Today, I'm more realistic and have set my sights on Salma Hayek, the most utterly boinkable female celebrity out there.
Posted by: Ryan | October 23, 2003 01:56 PM
Not all pertain to the 80's, but here goes:
-David Cassidy (Partridge family reruns)
-New Kids on the Block (particularly Jonathan)
-Menudo (back in their hey-day(??), when Ricky Martin was part of the group.)
-Dylan from 90210
-Zach from Saved by the Bell
I think that's it...;-)
Posted by: Amanda | October 23, 2003 02:07 PM
Amanda, you were such a crush slut.
Posted by: Ryan | October 23, 2003 02:11 PM
Tawny Kitaen from the Whitesnake videos. The crush was revisited when she came out with the movie "Witchboard."
Ahhhh. Confession is good for the soul.
Posted by: DeeGee | October 23, 2003 02:23 PM
Leif Garrett. Wonder where he went!
Posted by: Jilly | October 23, 2003 02:25 PM
The early MTV VJ Martha Quinn. I am sure I'm not the only one, am I?
The subject is embarrassing crushes. I am not the least bit embarrassed about that one.
Posted by: Thlayli | October 23, 2003 02:28 PM
Robin Gibb. Oh, come on! It was the late 1970's--the BeeGees' disco heyday. And I was five years old, so the crush never got beyond the "oh, he's cute" level of thinking.
Posted by: Anne | October 23, 2003 02:54 PM
(seeing as most of my embarrassing crushes predate the 80's...)
Valerie Bertinelli -- starting about the second season of One Day at a Time, when they started easing up on the 'tomboy' gimmick (and not really ending until shortly after the Van Halen Disappointment...)
(Of course, Bonnie Franklin weren't half-bad neither...)
Posted by: Ferro Lad | October 23, 2003 03:06 PM
Tracy Austin. what? she was hot.
Posted by: jim | October 23, 2003 03:14 PM
Ooh, I forgot about Valerie Bertinelli. I think I sprouted one of my very first erections because of her. Or maybe I just had to pee really bad. It's so hard to remember sometimes.
Posted by: Ryan | October 23, 2003 04:09 PM
Going back to the late 70's... Kristy McNichol.
Posted by: Chris | October 23, 2003 04:20 PM
hmm. i can't think of any embarassing ones. Any Gibb? When "Shadow Dancin'" came out? I think i was like, 9.. maybe 10?
Otherwise, there was Charlie Sexton, John Taylor, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise (especially in "the Outsiders". More recently an ongoing crush on Gary Oldman, Chris Cornell, Todd Lewis from the Toadies... aw, hell, it's ALL embarassing.
Posted by: pril | October 23, 2003 04:34 PM
In the mid 70's, Kristy McNichol...I was young and she was and is real cute.
Posted by: Ratherworried | October 23, 2003 04:51 PM
Hey, Tom, I got your back on Debbie Gibson. (Although I do remember seeing a hilarious slashfic with Debbie and Tiffany as ninja assassins.)
I also crushed hard on that guy from The Beastmaster and Matt Dillon.
Posted by: Dave | October 23, 2003 05:03 PM
Samantha Fox, the boucny, busty British Pop singer from the late 80's.
Posted by: Adam | October 23, 2003 05:10 PM
Nicole De Boer. I had a crush on her since Beyond Reality. Took awhile to let go of that minor dose of insanity. Obsession hurts.
Posted by: Kong | October 23, 2003 05:28 PM
Kim Richards... not sure if it was late 70s or very early 80s, but it started when she played Jim Rockford, I mean, James Garner and Mariette Hartley's "daughter" in those cutsie Kodak commercials. I thought this can't be the girl from "Escape from Witch Mountain" (took me weeks to find out that it was; this was the dark ages, before internet search engines)... Loved her smokey voice especially.
Really hot in "Tuff Turf" with James Spader... What?! Y'all have never heard of the classic movie "Tuff Turf"?! Dropped off the face of the earth after that; just another child actor that couldn't make the transition to adult acting. Of course, maybe she invested her money well and decided to retire early; I'd have loved to retire at 21.
Posted by: JFH | October 23, 2003 06:01 PM
Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue
Gah.......
Posted by: Jen | October 23, 2003 06:35 PM
Susanna Hoffs, but I guess that doesn't count since I'm not embarrassed by it?
(googles)
Nope, run her up the flagpole and I'll still salute.
Posted by: Nick | October 23, 2003 09:05 PM
Crushes on cartoon characters?? I got ya beat...
"Race" on Johnny Quest (The original ones) That's how old I am.
And here's an obscure one -- I don't even remember his name except it was Jeb something-or-other. It was on "Baa Baa Black Sheep", and he played the underaged teenaged Corsair pilot, opposite Robert Conrad.
Posted by: doctorfrau | October 23, 2003 09:48 PM
Cartoon? How about Daria. She wants my body.
Posted by: chris | October 23, 2003 11:09 PM
Megan McArdle
Rachel Lucas
Virginia Postrel
James Lileks
Posted by: Joel | October 23, 2003 11:12 PM
Michael Moore - he's progressive!
Posted by: h | October 24, 2003 10:20 AM
Sammy Hagar during his Van Halen years. Strange but true.
Posted by: Scheherazade | October 24, 2003 10:50 AM
Can't believe no one mentioned Rick Springfield. What's wrong with you people!!!!
Posted by: pia | October 25, 2003 05:54 AM