LA Law was an interesting mix: Harry Hamlin/Susan Dey (Hot/Hot), Michael Tucker/ Jill Eikenberry (Troll/Hot), Corbin Bernsen/Susan Ruttan (Hot/Not), and everybody else in permanent mix-and-match mode.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander was always an interesting lab specimen. Every woman on the show was out of his league except for Willow, but as his “hotness” stock gradually dropped, hers gradually rose.
Boston Public: Remember Joey Slotnick’s character? The ultimate shlub, who kept getting inadvertently paired with smoking hotties. When he dumped Rashida Jones for a student, it was totally believable. Scott Guber’s sad-sack love life was likewise entertaining.
That is a good picture. I was hoping, though, that the link would be to something that proved my statement wrong, but alas it was not a list of the sexiest doctors on tv.
A google search for “John Stamos sexiest” comes back with 38000+ hits, while “Parminer Nagra sexiest” returns fewer than a thousand. The first google search turned up this EW article that states Stamos is “two-time Sexiest Man Alive.”
While Parminer Nagra is neither ugly nor even average, “quite pretty” isn’t really in the same league as “sexiest man alive.”
You spelled her name wrong. “Parminder Nagra sexiest” instead garners 33,600 hits.
Just their names, though, will tell you that there’s just more hits for Stamos, period. 262,000 for Parminder Nagra. 1,150,000 for John Stamos. So let’s do the math… 1.15 millon divided by 38,000 = 1 in 30 hits being about his sexiness. And 262,000 divided by 33600 = 1 in 8 hits being about her sexiness.
Ha, great point. I should know better than to count google hits anyway.
The two-time Sexiest Man Alive datapoint is the more compelling one anyway. The Sexiest Women Alive lists that I’m aware of don’t usually start with Nagra; names like Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel top those lists.
You guys are way off base talking about ER. Maybe Clooney is hotter than Margulies. Maybe Stamos is hotter than Nagra (although I sure as heck doubt it… Parminder Nagra is SCORCHING hot). But all four are way-above-average. E.R. is definitely a show where all the people are far more beatiful than normal people in real life.
The stereotype is not “9.2-level-hot guy goes out with 9.8-level-hot woman”, it’s “average looking schlubby somewhat overweight guy with beer belly goes out with TV-actress-hot woman”. And I think the real culprit is the well known fact that ALL women on TV are hot (with very few execptions), while only MOST men on TV are hot.
See, if I didn’t hear people say that it never would have occurred to me. The guy is just standard boring average to me. And the comment about Grey’s Anatomy in the OP just has me all kinds of confused, because I can only think of one guy on that whole show I would think of as hot, while some of them are actually flat-out ass-faced ugly (like Patrick Dempsey… eww!!!)
I know that my taste isn’t typical of the mainstream but sometimes I really have to be told that someone is generally considered attractive. For a while I thought that people were being sarcastic when they said Hugh Grant was attractive. It took me a while to realize they were being serious.
This is the very assertion I’m challenging with this thread. Examples, please.
Your ER comment reminds me of an actual exchange on the show. Patient is waiting to be seen, then Maura Tierney shows up to examine him. At some point she calls a nurse over, so in pops Linda Cardellini. At that point the patient says: “Damn, how many hot blondes you got in here?”
Also, I’m going to have to ask for some sort of comparison scale on some of these responses. If Parminder Nagra is “SCORCHING hot,” how would you rate, say, Jessica Alba?
As mentioned previously in the thread, I would say things like According to Jim, Lucy Louie** and The King of Queens. Sitcoms starring a schlubby male comedian.
Hot in a slightly different way. More pinup/model hot, less seems like someone who, if I met her, I would just trail around behind her like a puppy dog.