My first love was Hawkeye Pierce.
I’ve been flirting with Munch lately too. Is Homicide in reruns somewhere?
If we’re counting cartoons, Casper the Friendly Ghost was my kind of sensitive guy.
It’s kinda sad that guys like them are considered to be “absurd” celebrity crushes. (And no, I’m not trying to start up another SDMB discussion about how Asian men are castrated by the media.)
I want the Kashi Food commercial guy. He travels the world finding good things to eat. He is very woofy too!
Not right now, unfortunately.
I have a thing about average-sized for Yuko Ogura.
I can watch or listen to ANYTHING she does with rapt attention even if I don’t understand a word of it.
Except for the video of her FREAKING THE FUCK OUT over elephants. That… I cannot watch.
Everything else is a go, though.
Yuko Ogura: Ask for her by name!
(And please please please get her to send me a picture if you do!)
I’m mid-thirties, southern, and african, and I have a thing for Mercedes Ruehl. She’s hot.
My 31-year-old sister has a crush on Optimus Prime still.
Is it wrong for me to have a huge crush on Amy Roloff from The Learning Channel’s Little People, Big World?
I dig her, she’s smart and sexy.
I take serious issue with your assessment of this movie as “one of Disney’s worst animated movies.” Robin Hood is a very charming, entertaining and thoroughly clever movie, not just for kids but for anyone. I must have seen this movie a hundred times growing up, and I loved it each time. With so many recent shitty animated films under Disney’s belt, I can’t believe you’d single out this one over Hercules or Doug’s First Movie or Chicken Little or any of the other crap they’ve been shitting out lately.
As for my celebrity crush: my knees go weak for Daniel Craig. See, I have a thing for smart men, and anyone that ugly who was able to con EON Productions into letting play James Bond must be a genius.
As soon as I posted that, I realized that they weren’t “absurd” at all.
I was just thinking ‘celebrity crushes.’
Hey, at least they’re real and not cartoon characters!
You know… I just realized that he voiced Moe… thereby making Helen Hunt’s guest voicing on the Simpsons a case of ‘cast members more famous (arguably) sweetie agreeing to guest on his show and play his character’s love interest.’ 
Very occasionally there’ll be a two-parter L&O/Homicide on TNT when they show the Part 2 in Baltimore. Munch’s interactions with Clark Johnson were some funny stuff.
Reminds me of a story…one of my friends names her pets after favorite TV shows, like Xena and Buffy, and Cordelia for Cordel Walker, Texas Ranger. I told my mom this and she said, “How am I supposed to name my pet ‘Homicide:Life on the Street’?!?”
Which is why if I ever get a dog he will be named Pembleton.
Even though I need to arise each weekday morning at 5:45 am, I must stay up to see my crush Craig Ferguson . My local station doesn’t air his show until midnight, but I need my nightly fix. The thing is I could never understand MiMi’s obsession with Mr. Wick.
Oh lord, how I empathize with everyone in this category.
Crushes I was 95% certain I’m alone in liking (until I read this thread):
- Yes, I too loved foxy ol’ Robin Hood, from the Disney flick, as voiced by the scrummy Shakespearean actor Brian Bedford. I was like 7 when I first saw this cartoon, which launched my lifelong lust for British accents. We didn’t have VCRs back then, but my mom bought me the record (old skool vinyl, to you kiddies among us) and I proceeded to wear out not just one, not just two, but three copies by playing it every night before I went to sleep. I can still melt a little when I remember Bedford’s reading of “Faint heart never won fair lady!”
(Decades later, I remember watching an episode of Cheers and being shocked when the minor character of Rebecca’s first boss was introduced. The Voice! Sure enough, 'twas Brian Bedford who played “Mr. Stone.”)
BTW I stand with the others in defending Robin Hood. With funny songs by Roger Miller and voice acting by folks like Terry Thomas, Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, and my man Brian Bedford, how could it be less than wonderful? Maybe the animation was less than brilliant, coming as it did during Disney’s low phase, but even so it’s still better than The Aristocats, Sword in the Stone, and 101 Dalmatians. Hmph!
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Merneith, I’ll see your Hawkeye Pierce and raise you a B.J. Hunnicutt. How many other 13-year-olds would’ve been thrilled when their mom got Mike Farrell’s autograph??
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Dave Debusschere, part of the Knicks’ championship-winning team in the early '70s and one of the best rebounders/defensive players of the day. Also? Cute.
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Um, speaking of crushing on cartoon characters … at least Robin Hood was a fox. What about falling for an animated rat? Yep, Jeremy from Secret of NIMH, I’m lookin’ at you.
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Jem Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird (the book, primarily). He was the brother I always wanted but also kinda the crush I always dreamed about. What a little sweetie.
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Martin Short from his SCTV days. God help me.
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Graham Chapman (yeah I know, gay and dead; for a less absurd version of this crush, see Michael Palin, below)
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Peter and Edmund from Chronicles of Narnia (only the books). Yeah, I’m way too old for them, but I figure … they’re not real! That’s gotta make it okay, right? RIGHT?
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In the “might not be absurd except for the fact that they’re, um, dead” category: John Payne (in Miracle on 34th Street), Leslie Howard, Gordon McCrae, Howard Keel (in Kiss Me, Kate), Errol Flynn, and probably many other great film stars I’m forgetting.
Crushes I know are shared by others, but still feel … weird:
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Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Sigh! I’m pissed off with Bill a lot of the time, but the man is still amazingly charming and sexy. I forgive him way too much. Now, Al? Brilliant, self-deprecating, charming, compassionate, progressive, and handsome. Totally rules my world. (Hopefully literally in 2009, heh.)
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Michael McKean. Hilarious, attractive, and intensely talented in a multi-hyphenate kinda way. Chris Guest too, but there’s something more remote about him IRL.
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Kirk Douglas. Michael Douglas now, but Kirk Douglas in his hayday was … oooh my.
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Michael Palin, for being smart, nice, well-rounded, funny, talented, and um rather attractive in his younger days.
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Jake Weber. He’s gotten more popular thanks to costarring in Medium, as well as the earlier role in Dawn of the Dead’s remake, but I’ve lusted for him for ten years, ever since spotting his self-loathing, guilt-ridden, doomed character in the doomed CBS series American Gothic.
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Similarly, Gary Cole. He wasn’t always Mike Brady … to me, he’ll always be the intensely sexy and evil Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The guy knew how to rock a leather vest like nobody’s business.
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Fictionally, Snape and Lupin from Harry Potter. Yep, more guilt and self-loathing, which apparently turn me on. I am sick. Alan Rickman and David Thewlis’s portrayals are kickass.
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Tobias Beecher, from Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. Guilt? Check. Self-loathing? Check. Gay? Well, apparently. Check. Hits all my marks, so he’s gotta be included.
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Of course, sometimes guilt isn’t accompanied by self-loathing. That’s where the ne plus ultra of absurd crushes comes in: Chris Keller, from Oz (as played by Christopher Meloni). Why so absurd? Let’s see. Unrepentent serial killer. Gay. Sadistic. Oh, and dead. And yet all this doesn’t matter, as the guy is what they mean when they say “teh sex.”
And I’m a pretty normal person in real life. Honestly!
Without getting too far into the list of all the animated females I’ve crushed on - I’ll just say that I’ve a weakness for animated redheads.
So, I share the admiration shown in this thread for Ariel for Little Mermaid, and Kari Byron.
(What? You don’t think they’re equally impossible for me? I sure do.)
Jill Hennessey has been a long-time crush, and when we start getting into old b&w movie stars I’d really, really go for some Ann Sheridan.
For a while I had a monster sized crush on Winona Ryder. Then things came out that I’d be the sane one in such a pairing. No thank you.
Jennifer Connolley is another I’d just love to spend a few hours chatting with, over dinner. Not saying I’d turn down anything more, but as she’s rather happily coupled, I don’t think it’s likely.
I started to quote some of your words, then realized I had a bunch of stuff to say!
(bolding mine) I wonder if that’s where I got my love of them, too.
You can add my vote to this. What a completely charming movie. I love the fight in the middle, and he’s talking to her about getting married. “London! Paris! Rome!”
While I didn’t have a crush on him per se, he was pretty intriguing and interesting.
Sense of humor is definitely at the very top of my list, so you can add me to Michael Palin, as well as Graham Chapman.
And of course I have a great big crush on both Batman and Nightcrawler, Batman barely edging out the latter.
Will he bark with a post-stroke stammer?
I started watching “Criminal Minds” for Mandy Patamtkin and Thomas Gibson. I’ve ended up with a crush on Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Dr. Spencer Reid. He’s nerd personified, but I love him.
Her voice is what does it for me. << swoon >>