# Confess your obscure and geeky crushes from TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772 "2008-04-03T06:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/41 "2008-04-03T19:29:31Z")
After nearly thirty years, I still have a geeky crush on [Gil Gerard](http://gilgerard.tripod.com/B16.htm), of _Buck Rogers_. Saw him at a sci-fi convention once. He was about twice the size he’d been in the old days, and he was still sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/42 "2008-04-03T19:31:47Z")
[Christina Hendricks](http://imdb.com/name/nm0376716/) as “Saffron” on Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/43 "2008-04-03T19:34:37Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] Sam Beckett & Al Calavicci from Quantum Leap [/QUOTE] Hey, you need to share that! I’ll even let you pick first but I want Al. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/44 "2008-04-03T19:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] [Amanda Pays](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Pays), the woman who played Theora Jones on the short-lived _Max Headroom_ TV show. She ensured that there was far less than max headroom…in my boxers. [/QUOTE] Wow - me too! She’s married to Corbin Bernsen, the lucky bastard. On _L.A. Law_, after Roxanne left him, he had a knockout brunette secretary who later joined Mackenzie Brackman as a lawyer. I still see that actress on other shows now and then. Oddly enough, she looks a lot like Amanda Pays, too. Then there was Erin Gray as the tough-but-hawt pilot Wilma Deering in the 1970s _Buck Rogers_, and Maren Jensen as Adama’s daughter Athena in the original _Battlestar Galactica_. Plus there was a c. 1975 Robert Conrad spy show in which he had a beautiful woman on his team - Marty, I think her name was? Ah, TV crushes…an American rite of passage. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/45 "2008-04-03T19:45:37Z")
I work in a business where the Weather Channel is on every morning. In my dreams [Nicole](http://www.weather.com/aboutus/television/ocms/mitchell.html) and [Heather](http://www.weather.com/aboutus/television/ocms/tesch.html) from the weather channel fight over me. Each morning I can tell that there is a little friction between the two. Most probably stemming from some comments one of them has made about adoring me. Hey its my dream I can do what I want ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/46 "2008-04-03T19:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] If animated characters count, my choice is Kim Possible! [/QUOTE] Do _non-fictional_ underage actresses count? Because I kind of have this tiny crush on an actress seven years younger than me- let’s call her Selena G…no, on second thought, let’s call her S. Gomez- and I don’t want Chris Hansen and/or Pedobear coming after me. Nothing sexual, mind you- I just think she’s cute. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/47 "2008-04-03T20:00:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Hey, you need to share that! I’ll even let you pick first but I want Al. [/QUOTE] As long as I can keep his red fedora. (not like that you perverts!) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/48 "2008-04-03T20:07:15Z")
Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/49 "2008-04-03T20:13:42Z")
I get to live out the glory of some of my crushes by… writing out nice… “exploding stuff!” scenes and gunfights for them. Damn. Maybe I should make a switch and start asking for smoochie scenes next season. DAMN. Me and my explosions. And gunfights. And murders. And things that go boom. ::: pouts ::: This is what specialized script writing and editing will get you, kids. You’ll get stuck writing about the things that blow up, and all the chases… but never the smoochies for your favorite characters and actors. _sigh_ Woe! Elly, scribe, glad to be back to work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/50 "2008-04-03T20:14:49Z")
Paula Hernandez (Indra Ové) and Harriet ‘Harry’ Eschenbach (Julia Bremmerman) - _Space Island One_ and Lady Penelope. F.A.B. indeed! I even liked her in the god-awful live action movie. But then she _was_ played by Sophia Myles, and what Dr Who geek didn’t didn’t drool over The Girl In The Fireplace? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/51 "2008-04-03T20:19:32Z")
[Bob Crane](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3077281792/nm0186314) , from _Hogan’s Heroes_. BEFORE anyone suspected he was Mr. Kink. He’s not obscure, but I also think Tony Soprano is seriously hot. I’ve only heard James Gandolfini speak a few words out of character and his mannerisms are very Woody Allen-ish, it’s so strange. So it’s not _him_, it’s T. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/52 "2008-04-03T20:24:05Z")
[Barbara Feldon](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2006/11/08/2003371976.jpg), Agent 99 from **Get Smart**. And Jan Smithers, of course. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/53 "2008-04-03T20:31:28Z")
[QUOTE=Elenfair] I get to live out the glory of some of my crushes by… writing out nice… “exploding stuff!” scenes and gunfights for them. Damn. Maybe I should make a switch and start asking for smoochie scenes next season. DAMN. Me and my explosions. And gunfights. And murders. And things that go boom. ::: pouts ::: This is what specialized script writing and editing will get you, kids. You’ll get stuck writing about the things that blow up, and all the chases… but never the smoochies for your favorite characters and actors. _sigh_ Woe! Elly, scribe, glad to be back to work. 😉 [/QUOTE] Hm. It never occurred to me that script writing was that specialized. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/54 "2008-04-03T20:38:26Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] And Jan Smithers, of course. [/QUOTE] You and 80% of the male Dopers out there. And me. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/55 "2008-04-03T22:29:22Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Hm. It never occurred to me that script writing was that specialized. [/QUOTE] Not very often. (ETA= I should say: it’s becoming more common – but that’s another discussion for another time 🙂 ) Sometimes, however, you’ll find that writing teams have someone who will be particularly good with specific topics of specific themes. Often, we’ll bounce bits of dialogue or scenes their way. Me, I blow shit up. 😉 I also do a lot of consults on very specialized topics and, being a scribe, over the years it has meant writing chunks of scripts or, more often than not, polishing scripts for accuracy. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/56 "2008-04-03T23:08:41Z")
[Sutton Foster](http://youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I) is so hot. She’s so flippin’ hot. She’s like a curry. I want to tell her how hot she is, but she’ll think I’m sexist. She’s so hot, she’s making me sexist … bitch! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/57 "2008-04-04T01:14:30Z")
re: Kim Possible [QUOTE=OneCentStamp] I’ve said this before, but in my dreams, Ron totally gets to hit that. [/QUOTE] After season 4, I think he does. I mean, where do you think they’re going in the flying car at the end of the “Graduation” episode? 😉 As for TV crushes, I still like Alton Brown. Mmm… If we’re counting animated guys, I have recently developed a crush on Renji from “Bleach.” Plus there’s Ed from “Fullmetal Alchemist” 'cause I like guys with long hair. But he’s 15, dammit! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/58 "2008-04-04T01:14:40Z")
[Jason David Frank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_David_Frank) I had a crush on him during the original series even though I was in college and really too old to be watching Power Rangers at the time. Imagine my surprise when fast forward to 2004 my 6 yo son is watching Power Rangers: Dino Thunder and there is Tommy Oliver all grown up! Nice! Why yes, we have the whole series on DVD…why do you ask? Oh, and [Peter Davison](http://peterdavison.s5.com/), the Fifth Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/59 "2008-04-04T01:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] In the first season or two of _Babylon 5_ there was this really hot bridge officer – or whatever you call that station command center where Sinclair/Sheridan gives orders like Kirk in his chair – at any rate, she was always there and looked incredibly yummy in her form-fitting ass-hugging uniform – I think she had red hair – she only had lines on rare occasions and I never recall hearing her addressed by name, so I don’t even know how to begin finding out what actress played her. How obscure and geeky is **that?** 🆒 [/QUOTE] Probably [Marianne Robertson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731949/). She was in twenty episodes of _Babylon 5_ variously as “Tech #n” or “Dome Tech” during season 1. I made a spreadsheet with all of the principals checked off to show which eps. they were in, plus all of the credited roles, plus the writers, plus the directors. I think I got your geek trumped. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772/60 "2008-04-04T01:30:56Z")
David Krumholtz (Mr. Universe from _Serenity_, and Charlie Eppes on _Numb3rs_). OhmyGodsuchadork. _shame!_ **Elenfair** , is it kosher to say which show you work on? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-obscure-and-geeky-crushes-from-tv/443772.md?page=4)