# "Awkward best friends" that aren't

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 5, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691 "2013-07-05T04:52:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691/21 "2013-07-07T06:09:09Z")

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> [@epbrown01](#):
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> I’ve give you Willow, but Kaylee was never presented that way. She was less glamorous than Inara and Zoe and knew it, but seemed comfortable in her own feminine wiles.

Yeah, but she couldn’t get a date 'twasn’t run on batteries.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691/22 "2013-07-07T06:58:52Z")

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> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#):
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> [Let’s just get it over with.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHomely)

I call her Hottie Betty.

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**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691/23 "2013-07-07T07:58:06Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> The movie \*\*\*The Truth About Cats and Dogs \*\*\*was based on the assumption that Uma Thurman is every man’s dream girl, every man’s idea of perfect beauty… while her pal, poor Janine Garofalo is the smart and funny but fat ugly and girl that no man would ever be interested in.
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> In reality, while I certainly DO find Uma Thurman attractive, she is NOT classically beautiful. She has very irregular features.
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> And Janine was neither fat NOR unattractive.
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> I don’t think most straight men would have found EITHER of them unappealing, which sort of undermines the whole premise.

I’ve always had a thing for Janeane Garofalo. 🙂

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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-best-friends-that-arent/662691/24 "2013-07-07T11:29:29Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Yeah, but she couldn’t get a date 'twasn’t run on batteries.

The only available men on the ship were Simon, Book, and Jayne (if, like Kaylee, you were a Mal/Inara shipper). Remember that she met Mal by sleeping with his previous mechanic just to see Serenity’s engine (though that led to her taking his job); that’s hardly in line with the typical “can’t get a date/scared to talk to boys” persona the thread is about. In fact, the line you quoted, said in front of everyone, is further evidence that Kaylee was hardly a demure shrinking violet.

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