It’s the day before my wedding anniversary, and so what better way to celebrate it than to write a blog post about women other than my wife that I am sexually attracted to.
First of all I need to get rid of Kerry. Hang on.
There, there’s no way she’s going to get her eyes past that.
So anyway, I was making my rounds this morning and I saw that Avitable had posted an excerpt from the movie Teen Wolf. I clicked play and was merrily lost in good clean nostalgia when suddenly, there she was. A vision of pure loveliness.
Boof.
Just in case you are not familiar with the seminal work that is Teen Wolf (1985) - Boof (played by Susan Ursitti) was the best friend of main character Scott Howard (Michael J Fox). As is often the way in such movies she was in love with Scott but he was too blind to see it. He choose instead to chase after some cheerleader or other, which was always completely baffling to me. I mean, she was Boof for goodness sake! Everything that a man could possibly wish for!
Scott was also, of course, a werewolf. But instead of running around eating people he chose to use his Lycanthropy to play basketball. If only Oz from Buffy the Vampire slayer had thought of that I’m sure life would have been a lot easier.
Obviously Scott eventually saw sense and got it together with Boof, and everything ended happily ever after. The whole thing was a pretty tried and tested formula for teen movies in the 80s. Teen Wolf wasn’t quite as pretty as Pretty in Pink or as wonderful as Some Kind of Wonderful. But it was a lot more wolfy, and that counts for a lot in my book.
And, of course, it also featured Boof.
If you had told my adolescent self that one day there would be a time that I had forgotten my borderline obsession with that her I would have just laughed in your face. But forgotten her I had. Which got me thinking about all the my other celebrity crushes that have now faded into the recesses of my memory:
- Six from Blossom - Although I had a thing for Blossom too. But if I had to choose it would be Six all the way. I just couldn’t stand to have Joey Lawrence as a brother-in-law. Whoa.
- Pheobe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Mmmmmm, Pheobe Cates.
- Boof from Teen Wolf - There is a joke here about hairy palms but I can’t bring myself to write it.
- Helen Slater from Secret of my Sucess - Another Michael J Fox co-star. That bloody midget gets all the girls.
- Jet from Gladiators - I liked it when she dueled with her pugil stick.
- Helen Hunt from Only You - I know there is a lot of bad feeling towards Hunt, but the film Only You was my first exposure to her and she was adorable in it.
Honorable mentions go to Power Girl and Jessica Rabbit, who both would have made the list if it were not for their absence of a corporial body.
So who were the subjects of your own teen crushes?
Helen Slater was also awesome as Supergirl.
I loved Winnie from The Wonder Years and Haley from The Wizard (who is now Jenny Lewis, part of the band Rilo Kiley).
Avitable’s last blog post..Nostalgia
How could I have forgotten about Six? I don’t think I ever got tired of her nineteen to the dozen style of speech :-)
I also had (have?) a bit of a thing for Jennifer Conneley, Alison Clarkson (aka Betty Boo), Sophie Aldred and Magenta DeVine.
PandoraCaitiff’s last blog post..Galactica
I’ve had lots of crushes ranging from Gary Numan, Lurch, a blond haired man who used to be in Metal Mickey, Ian McCulloch, Marc Almond, Morrissey, the goth boy who sat behind me in sociology and history lessons, the guy with the gorgeous hair who sat behind me on the bus, the one time bassist with the Cramps whose name escapes me but whose aura of sexual fabulousness I can still remember very clearly…….but my current crushes are:
DCI Gene Hunt and Detective Goren from Law and Order Criminal Intent, either one could take down my particulars any time.
PS Happy Wedding Anniversary too
Kerry has good taste… I never made it past David and Viggo myself…
Pheobe Cates was hot!!!
Winona Ryder. That was mine. LoL, cool post man!
I loved Michael J Fox, personally.
I can’t really think of any teen crushes I had, unless you count Joey from the New Kids On The Block.
Miss Britt’s last blog post..Because 27 is better than 12
Is there a guy who lived through the 80s that doesn’t have a thing for Phoebe Cates? I liked pre-mutated Michael Jackson when I was in elementary school, River Phoenix in middle school, and Christian Slater in high school. There were lots of others–I was a teenage girl, after all, but those are the first ones that popped into my head.
Tracy’s last blog post..A Very Belated Birth Story
corporal smorporal…Jessica Rabbit !!!!!
tatjana simic (Dutch model) got to be honest..she was hot.
Kylie Minogue..still hot!
But my teen years aren’t that far behind me ;)
Arjan’s last blog post..Noorderspel (Northerngame) 2008
oh and I love the baby film! I saw a baby today in a buggy who was just looking around without stretching a face muscle, no laughter, no funny faces, no crying..just staring. Very funny.
Arjan’s last blog post..Dexter the score (tv series, not Dexter’s lab)
My teen-age crush is also my middle-age crush.
Back in the day I never missed an episode of “21 Jump Street,” all the while pining after baby-faced Johnny Depp.
He was cute then, but now he’s HOT!!
Donna’s last blog post..News you can use.. or maybe not so much.
The little girl from Escape to Witch Mountain.
Ed (zoesdad)’s last blog post..Redirect
Kylie (of course)
Paula Abdul
Gloria Estefan
The big sister from the wonder years…
**sigh**
Xbox4NappyRash’s last blog post..ET phones home…
Er sorry didn’t get past Viggo either. I love dirty, haggard men who look like they need a wash.
David Ginola looked awful in that hair commercial, Sean Bean, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow - all gorgeous with a bit of sweat and grease.
How do you guys like your girls, clean and sweet or a bit grubby?
Gail’s last blog post..My dog’s gone!!
(sigh)…. oh I’m sorry, was somebody saying something?
Harrison Ford in heartbeat. I had a huge crush on Rick Springfield too.
Hygiene Dad’s last blog post..Feeding Frenzy
Oh my, where to begin. I was such a dreamer as a kid (late 70’s, early 80’s).
Ed, that little girl from Escape To Witch Mountain was Kim Richards. When she grew up she became quite yummilicious. Is that a word?
I also had crushes on:
Melissa Gilbert (Laura, on Little House)
Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary, on Little House)
Kami Cotler (Elizabeth, on The Waltons)
Phoebe Cates
Brooke Shields
Tracee Talavera (1984 Olympic Gymnast)
Katarina Witt (German figure skater)
Clare Grogan (Altered Images, Gregory’s Girl)
Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero)
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Lisa Bonet (Denise, on The Cosby Show)
Maureen McCormick (Marcia, on The Brady Bunch)
Barbara Feldon (Agent 99, on Get Smart)
Diana Rigg (Emma Peel, on The Avengers)
Uh-oh, now it looks like I was a teenage freak. Yeah, I probably was.
I had forgotten about Boof. She was quite the hotty… and if she’d do it with a wolf you know she loves the canine.
I also had a huge thing for Six (Jenna Van Oy… and there is actually a video of her stripping on MetaCafe somewhere from a movie), Melissa Gilbert, Soleil Moon Frye, and I had it for Elisabeth Shue bad.
NYCWD’s last blog post..House Special Lo Mein
I think we should leave this post at the top for a while. Or perhaps I can amend the header picture.
Oh, happy anniversary babes!
Hmmm, teenage crushes… yep, agree with Miss Britt about Joey from New Kids (I know, I know!), and with Tracy about River Pheonix and Christian Slater. Also, Johnny Depp who’s definitely still up there. These days, I still think George Clooney has a little something, and agree with Kerry about David Tenant.
Oh, and happy anniversary to you both! It’s also 4 years to the day since I met Tony at another friends wedding… he bagged the bridesmaid!
I had an inexplicable crush on Molly Ringwald when I was a kid. Oh, and Teela from Masters of the Universe. I was okay with the fact that she was a cartoon.
Holmes’s last blog post..If BushCo decides to invade the Island of Sodor
I was all bout some Deborah Foreman from Valley girl. Ahhhhhh.
So sorry, but I didn’t get past Viggo either. He wants me, he just doesn’t know it.
My own personal list of teenage crushes…
Sigourney Weaver - yeah, I know…that shot of her in “Alien”, seen bending over from behind with her bum cleavage peeking out from above the hemline of her briefs, was the subject of many an adolescent fantasy…
Sally James - Tiswas in general went a long way towards warping my sexuality for good; and the sight of Sally being doused in baked beans played no small part in this…
Marilyn Monroe - an obvious one; however, Marilyn’s routine with her guitar on the train in “Some Like It Hot” was more than enough to make me a life-long fan…
Penelope Pitstop - the sexiest cartoon glamourpuss of them all! As a friend of mine said, ‘It was the way she cried “hay-elppp!” - I was more interested in helping myself…
Kerry, wot no Christopher Eccleston - when did he get relegated?
Avitable - I always thought Winnie was sort of funny looking.
PandoraCaitiff - Sophie Aldred! How could i have forgotton Ace!
Morticia - Lurch? Why does that not surprise me?
CamiKaos - Naturally, she married me after all.
Jason - About as hot as they come.
Joe - She was rather nice in Heathers.
Miss Britt - I think Joey counts
Tracy - i can certainly see Christian Slater’s appeal.
Arjan - Never been much of a Kylie admirer myself.
Donna - Check out Bon Bon’s blog, she has a picture of him looking decrepit.
Ed - I don’t think i’ve ever seen that, but a few people have mentioned her so she must have had something about her.
Xbox4NapyRash - Again with the Kylie, must be something about living in Holland.
Gail - Dirty haggard men who need a wash - just about sums me up. Although not in a good way unfortunately.
Kerry - No nothing. move along, nothing to see here
Hygiene Dad - Harrison ford? It was the whip wasn’t it, admit it.
Phil - you dirty little bugger. That list is longer than our phone book.
NYCWD - I came across that video when I was looking for a picture of her. i watched it, but only in the name of research you understand.
Helen - I can forgive Kerry her crushes seeing as though they are al on fine figures in geek culture.
Holmes - i’ve always thought Molly Ringwald’s name sounds like a social disease.
Trey - I have no idea who that is unfortunatly
Momo Fali - I think you’ll have to join the back of the queue.
Luis - Hey-elppp indeed.
Grandma - I know, i think she’s got a bit of a thing for Time Lords. It’ll be Tom Baker next.
No room for Thora Hird on your list then ?
Gary’s last blog post..Goodbye, goodbye, we’re leaving you goodbye…
Teen crushes?
Carol Decker from T’Pau.
Jackie Wright from Grange Hill.
Other than them, and Mia Sara (?) from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I can’t remember. You caught me in feeling old mode… memory’s given up.
There were definitely others though.
Rol’s last blog post..Demob Happy
What a fantastic way to end a post - pic of David and Viggo. Lovely…
Bec’s last blog post..Glide Through Air
Phoebe Cates, especially in a picture spread from one of mums magazines where she was wearing lots of lace and a leather mini - sigh.
Elf from Dungeons and Dragons
Tegan(Dr Who assistant)
Jenna (Blakes Seven, who appeared much less attractively in Emmerdale some years later)
Gillian’s last blog post..Transapathy, it stops here