# "Mommy, isn't he just \*dreamy\*?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594 "2009-04-19T04:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/1 "2009-04-19T04:06:21Z")
So asked my 6 year-old daughter when Legolove, er, Legolas in the LOTR movies killed the elephant thing. “I just _love_ his long, golden, elven hair.” Of course, she’s talking about Orlando Bloom. What was the first movie/TV/music star crush that you (or your kids) had? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/2 "2009-04-19T04:20:05Z")
Dr. Ellie Satler(sp?) on Jurassic Park. She could run away from Velociraptors any day of the week for me. As long as she wore her little Paleontology short-shorts… ---
**Author:** ![Varrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Varrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Varrius)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/3 "2009-04-19T04:24:55Z")
My daughter must have watched Titanic about 472 times. She was 10 and had it pretty bad for DiCaprio. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/4 "2009-04-19T04:35:49Z")
Kelly LeBrock. The hot babe from Weird Science. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/5 "2009-04-19T04:37:51Z")
Heh. Mine was Lisa Whelchel, when she was on the _New Mickey Mouse Club_. I was absolutely electrified to see her grown up on _The Facts of Life_. Today, I’m just mortified. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/6 "2009-04-19T04:43:21Z")
Chuck Barris, watching _The Gong Show_ after school around age 11. And around the same time, Steve Martin via SNL and cassettes. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/7 "2009-04-19T04:55:14Z")
Elvis, when he was making movies in the 60s. My mom said when I was about 3 or 4, I would bat my eyelashes at anything with sideburns. I also thought Orlando Bloom was dreamy in LOTR. I was even going to name my cat Orlando _Plume_, because he had a fluffy tail. But my husband put his foot down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/8 "2009-04-19T06:06:37Z")
Simon Cowell, on the second and third seasons of American Idol. I was about 14, and I remember thinking “Oh, this is what people mean when they say they’re sexually attracted to someone!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/9 "2009-04-19T06:12:45Z")
Kristi McNichol, back in the 70s when she was on _Family_. Which was twice ironic, as I turned out to be gay and she turned out to be a lesbian. What really hurts is that I repeated that particular irony with my junior high school girlfriend…we both came out to a mutual friend within about two weeks of each other. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/10 "2009-04-19T06:49:05Z")
Do I have to be the first to say Princess Leia? At 6 years old, I had convinced myself that I was going to marry her. Not Carrie Fisher. Princess Leia. The name Carrie Fisher meant nothing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/11 "2009-04-19T07:12:18Z")
When I was seven I had the hots for **Joy** from the **The Bugaloos**. I thought she was the most beautiful creature in the universe, she could even fly!! [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bugaloos.com/barris-joy3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bugaloos.com/barris-joy3.html&usg=\_\_rVaOX7XumHDQGuwUJmihfrIpqUA=&h=471&w=471&sz=71&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=txeN\_5tfTvHuRM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djoy%2Bbugaloos%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bugaloos.com/barris-joy3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bugaloos.com/barris-joy3.html&usg=__rVaOX7XumHDQGuwUJmihfrIpqUA=&h=471&w=471&sz=71&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=txeN_5tfTvHuRM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djoy%2Bbugaloos%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/12 "2009-04-19T07:21:39Z")
When I was four or five, I remember watching Mary Poppins and thinking Bert was kind of hot. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/13 "2009-04-19T08:00:47Z")
Probably the iconic Farrah Fawcett poster. Or maybe that was just because all the guys were saying they loved her. If not that then Erin Gray in Buck Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/14 "2009-04-19T10:30:30Z")
Kind of a toss-up. Annette Funicello in Mickey Mouse Club or Haley Mills. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/15 "2009-04-19T12:39:03Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Kristi McNichol, back in the 70s when she was on _Family_. Which was twice ironic, as I turned out to be gay and she turned out to be a lesbian. What really hurts is that I repeated that particular irony with my junior high school girlfriend…we both came out to a mutual friend within about two weeks of each other. Yeah, I loved me some Kristi McNichol as well. I also had a thing for [Holly](http://www.landofthelost.com/), of _Land of the Lost_… ahhhh, the sublime joys of older women! (I was 7, 8 when the show came out, the lovely Holly was around 12 or so). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/16 "2009-04-19T13:42:05Z")
I guess I was a late bloomer. I was about fifteen or sixteen. Now, this was before videos and VCRs, so movies got re-released to theaters. It was 1970, and I saw Peter O’Toole in _Lawrence of Arabia._ I thought the angst was so cool. Now I’m just mortified. After that it was Tom Selleck. And I still have the hots for him, all these years later after _Magnum, P.I._ ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/17 "2009-04-19T15:17:52Z")
Michael Jackson… :o I was 8-9 years old and he was dreamy. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/18 "2009-04-19T15:21:10Z")
Sorry, Laalune, you must have mistaken this for the “Share your most embarrasing secret” thread. 😉 Though if you’re talking about the “Off The Wall” Michael Jackson (1978-79), a lot of the girls in my school (fifth grade) had a thing for him as well. So it might not be that embarrassing. However, if you’re talking post 1988… yeah, I feel your embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/19 "2009-04-19T15:26:22Z")
🙂 Well, it wasn’t really a secret. I went around telling everybody how great he was (this was in the early 90’s). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/20 "2009-04-19T15:26:57Z")
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