What t.v. characters started off the series being the ‘hot’ one, and then, over the course of the series grew old, or fat, or ‘not hot’ somehow?
I can think of a good one. Mrs. Brahms on “Are You Being Served?”. She started the series with a character that was supposed to be ‘the hot one’. Over the course of the series, which lasted many years, she was no longer able to really pull off being the hot one.
Are there any other good ones?
Ross on *Friends *was hot in a confident, geeky, anthropology doctor sort of way. After his third divorce, he got just plain annoying (the Holiday Armadillo was cringetastic.)
I always wondered if the writers did that on purpose, to show Ross’s relationship failures affecting his self-esteem.
“Facts of Life” inflation.
Dana Scully.
Blaire? Was she the ‘hot’ one? I think she was just the rich one.
See, I want the character to have supposed to have been the ‘hot’ one.
I don’t want to just think up hot actors that lost their looks over time…the character has to have been ‘the hot one’ in the cast.
I used to think when “Friends” started that Courtney Cox was fairly pretty and at least normal sized.
By the end (until she was pregnant) she was painfully thin.
Damn. That’s two votes for ‘Friends’, and we are only 6 posts in.
Loretta Swit’s “‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan” in MAS*H? The original movie character was a sex symbol; I’m not so sure how hot Swit was (or was supposed to be) when she started playing the character, though.
Delta Burke on Designing Women.
Fonzie on Happy Days.
Delta Burke is a good one! Fonzie? Did his looks change significantly over the course of the show?
The Scriviner, I had heard that about Hot Lips before, and I never was a M.A.S.H fan. I decided just now to google some pics. Wow…that is quite the transformation she underwent.
Christa Miller (Jordan on Scrubs) has had some serious plastic surgery over the course of the show. It has NOT improved her looks.
Henry Winkler had to switch to a black TV shirt to try to hide his increasing gut. It did not work. Winkler was never right for that part, but it became painfully obvious by the end.
Maybe not “hot”, but Dana on SportsNight, perhaps. By the end of the show, she was pretty much irrelevant in the romantic context of the show.
Not to hijack, but the classic opposite example of this: Steve on Family Matters (even if you don’t count Stefan).
A classic example is Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke. She was pretty attractive at the beginning of the series but by the time it ended she was looking a little worse for the wear.
Marc
Whaaaa?? Steve Urkle was not hot! Neither was Stephan…I don’t think. I had stopped watching alltogether by then. But, no. He wasn’t hot. You cut that out.
Jonathon Frakes as Riker on Star Trek: TNG started out as the younger “hot” guy, obviously intended to be the Lothario of the series. But he really chunkified over the course of the series and definitely became less attractive.
Depending on what you mean by “by then”, that could be the problem. Steven first turned himself into Stefan in season 5, and Steve only turned into what Laura wanted in the last season. Probably not typically “hot”, though, just a transformation from completely undesirable to desired.
Megan Mullally from Will and Grace, and Leah Remini from *King of Queens * are two who come to mind immediately. I’m sure I can think of some more.
Oh, Donal Logue from *Grounded for Life * seemed to get worse, but he was always hot to me so I guess that doesn’t count.
Never mind. I let the window sit too long and posted after it was no longer relevant. :smack:
Holy crap you aren’t kidding. She was totally edible early on, but became a chunker later.
I’m going to thrown in Candace Cameron from Full House. As a younger guy, I thought she was the shit…then she got fat.