# "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:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/21 "2009-04-19T15:27:32Z")
I liked Michael Jackson and Donnie Osmond. They were my age, and they were _hawt_! Gag. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/22 "2009-04-19T15:31:33Z")
Vince Edwards from Ben Casey. He was the shit. [Ben Casey - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Casey) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/23 "2009-04-19T17:25:52Z")
Bob Denver as Gilligan. Now that wouldā€™ve been more respectable if it had been when he was Dobie Gillisā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/24 "2009-04-19T18:24:12Z")
For me it was Jerry Lewis. Of course that was back in the early 50s, when he was partners with Dean Martin. And he was skinny. I then outgrew him and went on to Dick Van Dyke. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/25 "2009-04-19T18:25:15Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Bob Denver as Gilligan. Now that wouldā€™ve been more respectable if it had been when he was Dobie Gillisā€¦ Iā€™ll fight you for Maynard G. Krebbs. Death match, fer sure. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/26 "2009-04-19T18:26:01Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Bob Denver as Gilligan. Now that wouldā€™ve been more respectable if it had been when he was Dobie Gillisā€¦ Bob Denver was not Dobie Gillis; he was Maynard G. Krebs. Dwayne Hickman was Dobie Gillis. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/27 "2009-04-19T18:52:25Z")
Michael J. Fox. I think I was about nine or ten. I used to bug my mother to rent ā€œBack to the Futureā€ and/or ā€œTeen Wolfā€ every weekend. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/28 "2009-04-19T19:53:49Z")
Mine was the green Power Ranger, when I was seven or so. Missing an episode generally led to crying. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/29 "2009-04-19T20:03:44Z")
Sting, when he was still in the Police. I would have been 12 or 13. I also had up on my bedroom wall a magazine ad for some weightlifting or exercise machine with a delightful shirtless fellow, his face turned in shadow. He took up most of the page, and I cut off all the ad copy at the bottom, so there was nothing left but pretty muscles. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/30 "2009-04-19T20:16:31Z")
Valerie Bertinelli in the One Day at a Time TV show. I wanted her BAD. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/31 "2009-04-19T20:19:45Z")
Michael Landon, of Little Joe fame on Bonanza. Not that goody-two shoes Charles Ingalls. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/32 "2009-04-19T21:01:57Z")
Luke Skywalker. I was _all about_ Luke Skywalker. ---
**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, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/33 "2009-04-19T21:17:33Z")
Ironically Luke Skywalker was in an episode with Valerie Bertinelli on **One Day at a Time**. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/34 "2009-04-19T21:31:02Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Dyna Girlā€¦totally Dyna Girl. oh yes, my friend. oh yes. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was THE reason I watched Krofft Superstars. I was 5 or 6 I think. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/35 "2009-04-19T22:42:45Z")
The two guys from The Man From U.N.C.L.Eā€¦Robert Vaughn and David MacCallum. My son had a huge crush in the early 90ā€™s on the girl that starred in Aliceā€™s Adventures in Wonderland, [Elisabeth Harnois](http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/kubelsky/Adventures%20in%20Wonderland/?action=view¤t=AIW90.jpg) He would get up early every morning (without an alarm clock) just to watch her. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/36 "2009-04-19T23:16:08Z")
MacKenzie Astin, and River Phoenix (when he was alive, and about 16). ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/37 "2009-04-20T02:57:37Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Michael Landon, of Little Joe fame on Bonanza. Not that goody-two shoes Charles Ingalls. You can have Michael, Iā€™ll take Pernell Roberts. The other one who must qualify as my first famous or TV guy crush has to be James Garner (Bret Maverick). What kills me about that is, I looked up the dates of the show. I couldnā€™t have been more than four! At least when I fell for David McCallum I was a tween. ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/38 "2009-04-20T03:10:32Z")
Eddie Furlong. Terminator 2 started it (so around 10?), and I bought a box of those movie cards, that were like baseball cards, but with stills from the movie. Took any cards he was in and trashed the rest. Wrote him a few fan letters, in which I received a signed headshot that got kissed before bed every night, ran threw two vhs tapes of Terminator 2 from overplaying them, and then just died inside when he started dating his tutor who was twice his age, and I was I guess 5 years younger than him. Kind of glad I never got my dream, considering he has now screwed Paris Hilton and made a chubby mess of his career. And yet, my heart skips a beat when I come across a pic of him on blogs, no matter how bad he looksā€¦ Oh, and James Dean when I was younger (around 7), Rebel and Giant werenā€™t available at our local video store, and if they came on at 3 in the morning on tv, my mom would let me set my alarm and watch it and skip school the next day. Good mom, both of them only showed maybe 3 times a year, and East of Eden never played in our area. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/39 "2009-04-20T03:15:01Z")
I am surprised I have to be the first one to say this The original pink Power Ranger herself Amy Jo Johnson. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/40 "2009-04-20T04:29:43Z")
My three year old girl has a big crush on Prince Philip from Disneyā€™s _Sleeping Beauty_. She says Prince Philip is more handsome than Daddy, so it must be serious. So whenever Donald Duck comes on the Disney Channel, I make a point of asking her, ā€œis _that_ Prince Philip?ā€ and she glares at me and shouts ā€œNO!ā€, then refuses to talk to me for several minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594.md?page=3)