# Most absurd celebrity crush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930 "2006-05-08T18:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/101 "2006-05-11T13:37:31Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > Not right now, unfortunately. I keep running across _Homicide_ reruns on the Sleuth channel, especially on the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/102 "2006-05-11T14:36:40Z")
I’ve never heard of the Sleuth channel. Is it a premuim channel? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/103 "2006-05-11T14:40:39Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > I’ve never heard of the Sleuth channel. Is it a premuim channel? I believe that it’s only availible on digital cable or satilllite services. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/104 "2006-05-11T14:54:13Z")
We have DirecTV, but I just checked their site and it looks like they don’t carry it. Oh well. I have the first 5 seasons on DVD anyway, but it would be nice if the show were more widely available. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/105 "2006-05-11T15:50:19Z")
I find myself distressed. Munch – and I thought I was the only one! :eek: I’m 26, he’s fictional, it can never work. But I obsessively tape SVU just so I can get some Munchy goodness. I plan on Netflixing Homicide so I can see what all the fuss is about. My downstairs neighbor looks just like Christopher Meloni. And he does tai chi on his balcony. With his shirt off. 😃😃😃 I wanted to BE Maid Marian. It was my favorite Disney movie when I was a girl. Robin Hood’s voice is just marvelous, and he was one of my first two movie crushes. My second was the rather darker sort of fear-crush on Jareth. “Just do as I say and I will be your slave!” While I got the strange silly ooginess-vibe out of that, I was a little surprised she didn’t take him up on that… 😛 I did adore Jeremy from The Secret of NIMH, but who didn’t? Still, the one fictional character I’m completely and utterly in love with is not YET in a movie or TV show. Commander Sir Samuel Vimes is my secret lover. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/106 "2006-05-11T19:47:46Z")
> [@Little Plastic Ninja](#): > > I plan on Netflixing Homicide so I can see what all the fuss is about. Have you never seen it? You are in for a treat. It is somewhat stylized but I don’t think it will look corny at all, the way some shows have aged. Brilliant characters and plotlines, albeit with more soap opera than, say, L&O. Interesting camera work, keeps moving. I hope you like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fatmac98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@fatmac98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatmac98)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/107 "2006-05-11T19:51:24Z")
Kari the chick from Mythbusters really sparks something for me. . . and I can’t help but wonder with lust what’s under Foxy Love’s tail on Drawn Together. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/108 "2006-05-11T21:17:07Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Have you never seen it? You are in for a treat. It is somewhat stylized but I don’t think it will look corny at all, the way some shows have aged. Brilliant characters and plotlines, albeit with more soap opera than, say, L&O. Interesting camera work, keeps moving. I hope you like it. 🙂 Hm. The lack of soap opera-ness in L&O is one of the reasons I like it – as much fun as Munch and Fin are, for example, I really don’t care to hear about their personal lives in every episode. The constant UnStabler arc in SVU leaves me a bit cold. Still, more Munch is NEVER a bad thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/109 "2006-05-11T22:29:53Z")
After **Serenity** , I was really working myself up for a crush on Catherine Bell. But then I found out she was another friggin’ Scientologist, so forget about it. So I guess I’ll go with Kari, too, until someone better comes along. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/110 "2006-05-11T23:00:55Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > After **Serenity** , I was really working myself up for a crush on Catherine Bell. But then I found out she was another friggin’ Scientologist, so forget about it. > > So I guess I’ll go with Kari, too, until someone better comes along. Catherine Bell wasn’t in Serenity, unless you’re thinking of something other than the Joss Whedon movie based on the Firefly TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/111 "2006-05-11T23:15:13Z")
> [@E. Thorp](#): > > Sequential thread alert! > > **Most absurd celebrity crush > Dead actresses** > > She died in 1985 before I’d even heard of her, but I’m still leaving the light on for [Louise Brooks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks). I hadn’t heard of her byt she is pretty. Reminds me of Isabella Rossellini in [Death Becomes Her](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/) . Also a fox ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/112 "2006-05-11T23:38:09Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Catherine Bell wasn’t in Serenity, unless you’re thinking of something other than the Joss Whedon movie based on the Firefly TV series. Looks like she was in [JAG](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004738/) though. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/113 "2006-05-12T01:09:08Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Lately, I’ve been crushing on Tanya Memme from A&E’s “Sell This House”. I’m not sure there’s a hotter woman on television. Yeah, I’m with you on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/114 "2006-05-12T02:10:59Z")
Catherine Bell appeared nude in the ‘The Brunch Club’ episode of _Hot Line_ (1996). ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/115 "2006-05-12T03:54:43Z")
> [@BigBadVoodoo Lou](#): > > Catherine Bell wasn’t in Serenity, unless you’re thinking of something other than the Joss Whedon movie based on the Firefly TV series. By gosh, you’re right. Wonder where it was I saw her. It wasn’t Jag. Brain…exploding. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/116 "2006-05-12T05:28:04Z")
Okay, so I found this thread because I was searching “Alice Cooper”… I’ll say it loud and proud- I’m a Sickthing and I like it! Heck, I’m listening to his radio show right now. I’ll also throw in another vote for foxy Robin. Coincidentally, I’ve just spent about an hour searching for an old children’s book on Robin Hood. Weird. Anyway, the movie came out when I was twelve and I saw it seven times at the old Columbia Theatre in New Westminster. Had the record and finger puppet book too. For years I could recite large chunks of the dialogue from memory. I still know the songs. Uh, and, um, Tim Curry. What?! Guys in makeup… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/117 "2006-05-12T12:13:17Z")
> [@Little Plastic Ninja](#): > > Hm. The lack of soap opera-ness in L&O is one of the reasons I like it – as much fun as Munch and Fin are, for example, I really don’t care to hear about their personal lives in every episode. The constant UnStabler arc in SVU leaves me a bit cold. > > Still, more Munch is NEVER a bad thing. 😃 It’s interesting soap opera, though, and done in the same excellent style as the rest of it, so I don’t think it will bother you too much. Seeing Munch bemoan the loss (through divorce) of his latest (in a string of many) wife Gwen is a kick. Especially since that’s my real name. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/118 "2006-05-12T14:24:35Z")
In the 60s, I used to read “Buz Sawyer” in the newspapers comic section. I was in love with his wife (Christine?) ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/119 "2006-05-12T14:34:55Z")
Super Nanny. Unlikely, but true. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/120 "2006-05-12T15:13:55Z")
I’ll second (third, fourth…) foxy Maid Marion and Christina Ricci’s Wednesday Addams (I was only two years older than her at the time) and add some more absurdities: Daphne from _Scooby Doo_ Penelope Pitstop from _Wacky Races_ (the accent, oh my!) Judy from _The Jetsons_ Josie and the rest of the Pussycats Jennifer Connelly as Sarah in _Labyrinth_ Obviously I led a sheltered and cartoon filled childhood. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930.md?page=7)