# cassandra peterson (elvira's) boobies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133 "2004-10-19T23:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/21 "2004-10-20T13:47:07Z")
Oh, hell. Disregard the last post. I conflated **Fiver** ’s post with **bienville** ’s and thought you were asking for a cite on his breasts being bigger. I need to go back to bed. 6:30 is way too early to be conscious. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/22 "2004-10-20T18:09:01Z")
still waiting on a cite… didnt she appear on some tv show back in the day like thats incredible or something? my roommate and i definitely remember something like that… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/23 "2004-10-20T19:20:51Z")
I think Real People did a segment on her once. That was the first time I’d seen her out of her Elvira guise. Quite a hottie. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/24 "2004-10-20T21:58:39Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Hmmm…wonder how much she wants for it. > > Whoa, that doesn’t sound right…I mean, I want it for me! For me! Hehe, I was thinking I could use a couple outfits like that myself… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/25 "2004-10-20T23:22:06Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > I think Real People did a segment on her once. Yes, they did. This is perhaps my first clear memory of sexually stimulating imagery from when I was a child on the threshold of adolescence. They had a shot of Cassandra in street clothes, not the Elvira getup, walking down the street. She was, um, unencumbered beneath her blouse. Bobbledy bobbledy bobbledy. Young me, staring at the TV: :eek: _“Why can I not look away? Mind… is… controlled…! Spock!”_ Bobbledy bobbledy bobbledy… The visual is seared into the very cells of my brain. I also clearly remember the way the show was organized, with Byron Allen and Skip Stephenson regularly promising the studio audience throughout the hour that Elvira would be arriving soon, and the camera cutting to the front rows of men waving their fists and cheering lustily. So, anyway, yeah. They real, yo. (Not saying she hasn’t had 'em tightened up or whatever as she’s aged. Haven’t followed her career closely enough to know. But at the time, they looked like water balloons wrestling under her blouse.) ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/26 "2004-10-21T04:24:00Z")
A couple of internet searches turned up quite a list of porn sites, but nothing that might be helpful…well, at least not for finding out if her boobs are real or not. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/27 "2004-10-21T04:29:16Z")
I should have used google’s site search: Nothing to do with boobs, but: From [this site](http://www.elvira.com/articles/chicoerarticle.html): Holy crap, she was in a Fellini movie! > [@](#): > > Most would never think it to look at Elvira, but Peterson revealed that 35 percent of her body is skin grafting. At just 3 years of age, little Cassandra was burned by an overturned pot of boiling Easter eggs, resulting in the fusion of her eyelids and loss of most of her hair. When we spoke in February, she estimated having undergone seven to 10 surgeries in her life to deal with scarring that has keloided. “The costume’s designed so that it’s strategically placed. All the good parts show.” She has found inspiration in the pain, however. “A lot of things happen for a reason, and I have this strange feeling that without being burned, I don’t think I would have been Elvira.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/28 "2004-10-21T05:17:07Z")
OK, this is so sad. I’m a gay male, so the hotness of Elvira and her legendary boobs was completely lost on me. But I grew up in Los Angeles in the late 70s-early 80s, and I was obsessed with Elvira ever since she first appeared on Channel 9 way before you schlubs (;)) got to see her all over the country on the networks. Elvira is the queen of camp, or she was, before her entire appeal became the boob value alone, and her comedy declined. Now that she’s 55, I sincerely hope her career contines well past the point where she attracts a large percent of the viewership simply because she’s hot. She is, or was, hysterically funny, and I fear her popularity surge was based on sex appeal alone. I want to see her flourish as an old, Vampira-ish hag. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/29 "2004-10-21T05:59:23Z")
Also remember this: if it weren’t for Elvira, there wouldn’t be shows like _Mystery Science Theater 3000_. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/30 "2004-10-21T14:55:02Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > Also remember this: if it weren’t for Elvira, there wouldn’t be shows like _Mystery Science Theater 3000_. Oh, geez. Elvira was only the latest in a long, long, long line of “[horror hosts](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3257/WWing.html)” stretching back to [Vampira](http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/vampira2.html) in 1954. Vampira even sued Elvira for stealing her act. To say that we couldn’t have had _MST3K_ without Elvira is like saying we couldn’t have had cars if not for the Ford Taurus. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/31 "2004-10-21T15:40:15Z")
> [@masonite](#): > > Elvira is the queen of camp, or she was, before her entire appeal became the boob value alone, and her comedy declined. Now that she’s 55, I sincerely hope her career contines well past the point where she attracts a large percent of the viewership simply because she’s hot. She is, or was, hysterically funny, and I fear her popularity surge was based on sex appeal alone. I want to see her flourish as an old, Vampira-ish hag. Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate the comedy. A relative gave me a copy of the Elvira movie a few years ago. I’d seen it in the theater, but much was lost on me. Oh, I got all the boobshots and dirty jokes. But it’s only with many years of watching cheezy films that I now see that the movie is bad on purpose. The best example is the Flashdance scene. While it would have been simple to edit the scene so that it really did appear that Elvira was performing all the gymnastics herself, it’s editted to make it abundantly clear that she isn’t. During one close up of her face, she actually winks at the camera, acknowledging the joke. There have been Elvira model kits, an Elvira action figure, and the Elvira comic book is still published. I am rather fond of the Elvira’s big boobs. But, I greatly respect Elvira’s big brain. I still want that issue of Penthouse she appeared in back when she was Cassandra Peterson though. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/32 "2004-10-21T15:43:57Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Didn’t pay any attention to her boobs, it would have been like ogling my great grandmother (who, though I loved her dearly, I once had the misfortune of seeing naked). I don’t know. I thought your great-grandmother’s boobs were quite lovely. /runs ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/33 "2004-10-21T15:55:54Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Yes, they did. This is perhaps my first clear memory of sexually stimulating imagery from when I was a child on the threshold of adolescence. They had a shot of Cassandra in street clothes, not the Elvira getup, walking down the street. She was, um, unencumbered beneath her blouse. > > Bobbledy bobbledy bobbledy. > > Young me, staring at the TV: :eek: _“Why can I not look away? Mind… is… controlled…! Spock!”_ Wow, I saw that too, and I totally forgot about until your post. I must have been about the same age, too. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/34 "2004-10-21T16:11:30Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I still want that issue of Penthouse she appeared in back when she was Cassandra Peterson though. I’ve seen photos that were probably from that session–the color, lighting, gauziness were per the '70s Penthouse standard. Let’s just say she has a lovely figure. :eek: A natural redhead, too! The woman is just overall gorgeous. However, more “modern” guys might say she was a little plump. Twas the style, boys. (I’ve given up on the guys who would say she was disgustingly obese and couldn’t she do something about that sickening mass of pubic hair?) I recall reading that when the factory that made her bras (off the rack, so to speak) went out of business she bought up all the remaining stock and had to have the ones that were the wrong size altered. Without that particular brand and style she’d be out of business. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/35 "2004-10-21T16:46:36Z")
I’m 22 which, I suppose, makes me one of those “modern” guys you’re talking about and I didn’t think she looked even the least bit plump in the pictures I googled although I admit I am one of the types that prefers a more kempt garden. Even still, it’s not like she had a 'fro down there so it didn’t detract from her beauty at all. The guys my age that insist that all women should be size zeroes and think anyone with any extra pounds is automatically fat really annoy the hell out of me. Again, while I admit to preferring thinner women myself, curvy, vivacious, zaftig, or whatever word you want to use them women are _hot_. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/36 "2004-10-22T14:52:00Z")
Not ‘plump’ as much as ‘plush.’ Not ‘over-stuffed’ but comfortable with things to hold onto. No knotty calf muscles, no visible bone structure, no risk of lost fertility because she was starving herself. Built like a woman and not like a skinny boy. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/37 "2004-10-22T17:02:13Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > Oh, geez. Elvira was only the latest in a long, long, long line of “[horror hosts](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3257/WWing.html)” stretching back to [Vampira](http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/vampira2.html) in 1954. Vampira even sued Elvira for stealing her act. > > To say that we couldn’t have had _MST3K_ without Elvira is like saying we couldn’t have had cars if not for the Ford Taurus. Speaking of Vampira, I have to admit I prefer Tim Burton’s girlfriend Lisa Marie (who portrayed Vampira in the Burton film Ed Wood) to Elvira. Anyone know if Lisa Marie’s boobs are real? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/38 "2004-10-22T17:43:02Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Wow, I saw that too, and I totally forgot about until your post. I must have been about the same age, too. Cool! I’m not the only one. Made quite an impression, didn’t it? 🙂 > [@dropzone](#): > > Not ‘over-stuffed’ but comfortable with things to hold onto. Agreed. I like my women to have handles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/39 "2004-10-22T19:41:25Z")
Yeah **masonite** , _Movie Macabre_ was required viewing in our house, everybody including my parents loved it. Let’s face it, _The Conqueror Worm_ is not exactly Vincent Price’s best film. But it was hysterical to watch Elvira dissect it before the commercial breaks! And even though we are in our (late) 30’s, my brother & I will still imitate the “bong-bong-bong-bong” of the gong-banging guy in the Rank logo! The weekly series was MUCH more fun than the movie IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133/40 "2004-10-22T20:51:01Z")
Hijack > [@EJsGirl](#): > > Let’s face it, _The Conqueror Worm_ is not exactly Vincent Price’s best film. Not his very best, no. But it did feature a reasonably decent performance from Price. His tendencies towards hamminess were more curbed than usual, leaving a decent portrayal of creepy, cynical evil. IMHO :). I’d buy that one on DVD. Then again I own both of the very over-the-top Dr. Phibes films, so there is no accounting for taste ;). - Tamerlane [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cassandra-peterson-elviras-boobies/270133.md?page=3)