# "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:** 6
**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 24, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/101 "2009-04-24T19:53:03Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > I can’t believe I’m the first to put in Penny from Lost in Space. > > Sure…she was several years older than me…but she was hot! I think someone already said Angela Cartwright. ---
**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 24, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/102 "2009-04-24T20:05:52Z")
Oh, and Susan Dey from _The Partridge Family_: [![](https://media.photobucket.com/image/susan%20dey%20partridge%20family/susandey05/1045511400_l.jpg) ](https://media.photobucket.com/image/susan%20dey%20partridge%20family/susandey05/1045511400_l.jpg) [![](https://media.photobucket.com/image/susan%20dey%20partridge%20family/susandey05/susan_dey-1.jpg) ](https://media.photobucket.com/image/susan%20dey%20partridge%20family/susandey05/susan_dey-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/103 "2009-04-24T20:40:10Z")
Both of Dempsey and Makepeace. Mostly, the shows I liked as kid have stood the test of time (even the A-Team has in a way, because I always knew it was fun trash), but I rewatched this show once and was mortified. I’ve rarely seen anything so bad in my life. But I loved it as a kid, and really loved both of them. > [@longPath](#): > > Haley Mills. [This](http://nogoodforme.filmstills.org/images/hayleymills2.jpg)Hayley Mills? I had a big crush on her as a kid - which was good for me, as she’s in some critically-aclaimed films as well as fun Disney stuff. I have an acquaintance who looks very much like her, and I’m sure she’s weirded out by me staring at her. Not that I fancy her any more, but the resemblance is just so uncanny. ---
**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 24, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/104 "2009-04-24T23:35:54Z")
I loved Hayley Mills in **The Moonspinners**. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/105 "2009-04-24T23:41:08Z")
James Mason as Captain Nemo in _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_, seen at age 10 at a kiddie matinee in the early '70’s. I attribute my life-long love of beards to him. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/106 "2009-04-26T00:58:32Z")
I’ve posted this before, but I was in love with Peter Pan from the Disney movie since as long as I can remember. I was also in love with the cartoon version of Robin from Batman. My first sexual attraction was toward Doc Holliday as played by Val Kilmer in “Tombstone.” ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/107 "2009-04-26T14:07:01Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > My first sexual attraction was toward Doc Holliday as played by Val Kilmer in “Tombstone.” After I got over Jordan Knight, I ran across Val Kilmer in “Willow.” How _you_ doin’, Madmartigan? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/108 "2009-04-26T17:12:47Z")
I first had some curious stirrings watching David Bowie in Labyrinth. The weird in me started early. 😉 I think it might have been more his voice than his tights, though. And my first age-appropriate celebrity crush was Atreyu, too. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/109 "2009-04-26T22:12:15Z")
Oh, I don’t know… the tights were pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/110 "2009-04-26T23:11:24Z")
My first big crush was [Flint McCullough](http://roberthorton.com/flint.htm), the scout on Wagon Train. He’s not my type anymore, but I adored him, and I adored Appaloosa horses for his sake. I had a cheap pot metal heart with my first name etched on the front. I got it at the local fair. I used to write his name on the back so it would be close to MY heart as I wore it. I had it BAD. That was 4th or 5th grade, I guess. Then The Man from Uncle came on, and I forgot Flint in favor of Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum.) Who still looks pretty good, btw. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/111 "2009-04-27T00:09:03Z")
In the spirit of full disclosure, at the risk that I’ll never be able to live it down, I’m pretty sure that my first celebrity crush was[this little guy](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Flipper&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=).\* In retrospect, I can see that he had many fine qualities to his credit – that he was courageous, smart, a strong swimmer, socially and sexually unthreatening\*\* to little girls like myself (for sure, he never used harsh language and he wasn’t “grabby”), always saved the day in a heroic way, and, with his gorgeous eyes and wide, toothy grin, was as cute as the Dickens. I don’t remember all that much of what I thought and felt towards him in that formative period of my life, except for wanting to be able to jump in the water and join him for a swim… and hug him and kiss him and probably ride on his back for a few laps. :dubious: A true devotee to his cult, I caught his show on daytime reruns and wore his T-shirt throughout my toilet training period\*\*\*… and FWIW, I’ve admired swimmers ever since. 😃 But moving on a bit, a few years later I had my first real (or at least species-appropriate) crush – for [Rudolph Mantooth](http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&ie=ISO-8859-1&sa=1&q=Rudolph+Mantooth&aq=f&oq=), co-star of _Emergency!_. Come to think about it, the paramedic heroes of that show were basically the walking bipedal equivalents of Flipper, although the 'Tooth had great hair when he let it grow long… and a toothy grin, appropriately enough. - I suppose it could’ve been worse. Comix artist Robert Crumb went public years ago with the nugget that he had had a childhood sexual obsession with Bugs Bunny, or at least Bugs when he was in drag. (The Wagnerian music probably helped.) \*\* Although there is something very Id-like and priapic about a playful dolphin, don’t you think? Hmm, come to think about it, I never did go through a pony/horse phase like most other girls did… \*\*\* As family photos attest, I wore that tiny T-shirt a lot, until it was more raggedy than my Raggedy Ann doll. A tender mercy indeed, that most of us don’t really remember our toilet training. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/112 "2009-04-27T00:22:30Z")
One of the earliest would have been the middle daughter on **Petticoat Junction** , I remember being jealous when she got married on the show. Also around that time, Maryanne from \*\*Gilligan’s Island \*\*and Agent 99 from **Get Smart**. Later on Laurie Partridge and Marcia Brady. ---
**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 27, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/113 "2009-04-27T03:50:37Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > In the spirit of full disclosure, at the risk that I’ll never be able to live it down, I’m pretty sure that my first celebrity crush was[this little guy](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Flipper&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=)… They were both mammals, but their friends warned them it would never work. Interspecies romances: next on _Geraldo_. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/114 "2009-10-31T04:20:44Z")
Two young crushes (I’m talking about five) that I remembered from a work conversation last week: [Susan Richardson](http://www.eightisenough.com/09007d.htm) of “Eight Is Enough” fame. So that’s where I got my lifelong love of redheads! And this has to be the most obscure. Remember the 80s kid’s science program on PBS, “321 Contact”? They had a segment on teenage detectives called the Bloodhound Gang and I loved the lead detective Vicki. I just found out her name was Nan-Lynn Nelson. [Here’s an episode here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4273oOYy7s) ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/115 "2009-10-31T05:59:00Z")
[David Yost](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3341851904/nm0949128) as [Billy the blue power ranger](http://www.ranger-retrocenter.com/viewing-globe/albums/01-mmpr1/VIEWINGGLOBE-mmpr1-3-676.jpg) when I was like 7. My friends used to tease me, but then I was vindicated in high school when they all admitted they had crushes on him too. I still think he was pretty smokin’. I also thought Bill Nye was cute in a geeky sort of way. Again, still do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/116 "2009-10-31T06:30:24Z")
Kristy McNichol. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/117 "2009-10-31T08:57:57Z")
When I was six, I loved Davy Jones. I ran into him in person about twenty years later, and it was both disappointing and embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/118 "2009-10-31T10:56:47Z")
Zombie Threads rise from the grave on Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/119 "2009-10-31T12:01:26Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Mine was the green Power Ranger, when I was seven or so. Missing an episode generally led to crying. Aw! Mine was the pink one! But I liked her better as Suzie Q. Even after I got older, it broke my heart when I found out she absolutely hated being a Power Ranger. Your guy has been five different ones, and [even came back for one of the newer series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Oliver). ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594/120 "2009-10-31T14:29:05Z")
The earliest one I can remember is Lara Jill Miller from Gimme a Break. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mommy-isnt-he-just-dreamy/493594.md?page=7)