# First fictional crush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342 "2026-08-14T19:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/41 "2026-08-14T23:30:08Z")
Cathy Lane from the Patty Duke show. I’m not old enough to have watched the original (and Pakistan did not even have television at the time) but it was shown in reruns when I was in secondary school (age 10-14) and I could not wait to see her each week. I remember being really pissed at having to go to church on Maundy Thursday because I would miss an episode (no DVR or even VCRs at the time). It was the lifelong “brainiac” kink. Every girl and women I have loved have been Ivy League material. Mrs Mouse was in the newspaper for her GaoKao score and prior to meeting her I dated people who were destined to go to, were at, or graduated from, MIT, Dartmouth and Yale! ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/42 "2026-08-14T23:35:28Z")
All the girls on Petticoat Junction. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/43 "2026-08-14T23:59:54Z")
Ah, but years later, when that awful **LiS** movie came out, I got to have another crush — Judy “Rollergirl” Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/44 "2026-08-15T00:04:20Z")
Rainbow Bright ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/45 "2026-08-15T00:14:06Z")
Either Gadget Hackwrench, from Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers, or Mary-Ann, from Gilligan’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/46 "2026-08-15T01:07:25Z")
[Kim Novak](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051406/mediaviewer/rm3683817472/?ref_=tt_ph_1_1), _Bell, Book and Candle_. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/47 "2026-08-15T01:23:23Z")
Wendy Peffercorn from _The Sandlot_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/48 "2026-08-15T01:31:40Z")
Rod Walker, in Heinleins juvenile novel _Tunnel In The Sky_ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/49 "2026-08-15T01:46:10Z")
Another early one was Sally Fields from reruns of _Gidget_. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/50 "2026-08-15T02:03:02Z")
> [@CastletonSnob1](#): > > Dot from Animaniacs. I’ll meet your “Dot” and raise you,[Kimba the White Lion.](https://youtu.be/_tHt3igRO1A) ROFL! ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/51 "2026-08-15T02:05:47Z")
I’m an old man (74). I fell hard for Sally Field as Gidget! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/52 "2026-08-15T03:14:56Z")
Little Joe Cartwright Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip Bobby Sherman on Here Come the Brides Burt Ward as Robin ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/53 "2026-08-15T04:03:33Z")
[Athena (Maren Jensen)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Spacegirls/comments/1ms9dxh/maren_jensen_on_set_as_athena_in_battlestar/) from _Battlestar Galactica_, Fall 1978. Le sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/54 "2026-08-15T04:06:51Z")
My Beloved says Samwise Gamgee. Mine was Dr. Susan Calvin. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/55 "2026-08-15T04:19:06Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > …I think it’s generally acknowledged among all boys that Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) was hot! NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed her a few years before she died and reminded her that he had interviewed her _many_ years earlier, when he was a young reporter at the outset of his career (and completely smitten with her). He joked, “It was a very hard-hitting interview. I think my first question was, ‘Just what is it that makes you so _wonderful_, Miss Rigg?’” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/56 "2026-08-15T04:45:23Z")
Another for Wonder Woman. Also, Daisy Duke ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/57 "2026-08-15T05:17:23Z")
Jennifer of the Jungle (and all other characters played by Judy Graubart on The Electric Company). Hey, I was only 11 when that show came on. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/58 "2026-08-15T05:19:10Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Jaime Sommers (the Bionic Woman.) Same for me. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/59 "2026-08-15T05:36:30Z")
Bud Anderson from Father Knows Best (original run, I was young but precocious). Those t-shirts, those jeans! [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046600/mediaviewer/rm3677733376/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046600/mediaviewer/rm3677733376/) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342/60 "2026-08-15T05:56:01Z")
Billy Jack ( [played by Tom Laughlin](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=e0cc8f089a04fab1&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS691US691&sxsrf=APpeQnt11Rl0q86GLt3NXfXdVPXnQCs3AQ:1786773016110&udm=2&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8cqCQj_06QnZs315LoFmPf5XwGupRbMA_EXpw_ID0OLGA2F2lF3YKlTcom8PzYuF_sGHTcVP-t6TjB8kSLBhA4oMYFVi0wkv9qtlOn-wVIOMhc1f_j5i3XHDtYfPm_oxTYii6eQt1QWTif0R858DySnSIn5XgnPitD0IyiH2ZYq5qCIcV-sd_EvmcOqD-JptUoLKC6LQ&q=billy+jack&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLma2X-KGWAxXWB7wBHUNfCSwQtKgLegQIEhAB&cshid=1786773080273001&biw=1311&bih=609&dpr=1.56#sv=CAMSURoyKhBlLTBSdWtZajF0Y1BJNTVNMg4wUnVrWWoxdGNQSTU1TToOZzd2SWpJbUlSa1dGLU0gBCoXCgFzEhBlLTBSdWtZajF0Y1BJNTVNGAEwARgHIIyS7fYKSggQARgBIAEoAQ) ). I was five 🤷‍♀️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-fictional-crush/1032342.md?page=4)