# Olsen Twins to appear in Playboy upon turning 18 -- \*really?\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028 "2003-02-28T00:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/21 "2003-02-28T14:50:49Z")
I’m sorry, but the Olsen twins have the faces of gibbons, and there’s just no way around it. If you want to see naked monkeys, I’m sure there’s a zoo near you. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/22 "2003-02-28T15:03:18Z")
But **RickJay** , they’re _twins_! To quote from Annie Hall - “Think of the mathematical possibilities, Max!” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/23 "2003-02-28T15:20:15Z")
I believe Seinfeld said something about the natural order of the entertainment world where people like the Olsen Twins need to descend into the world of Heroine and Hardcore Pornography only to be discarded in the end by the side of the road. Does anyone have the exact quote? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/24 "2003-02-28T15:24:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Hey, it worked for Tiffany. > > Now where’s Debbie Gibson? Or the Bangles? \*\* The Bangles where on TV two nights ago. They’ve got a new album and are on the comeback trail. Susanna Hoffs reawakened the HUGE crush I had about her in the 80’s. God that woman is HOT. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/25 "2003-02-28T16:27:57Z")
We won’t see them naked in Playboy until desperate, that’s true. That’s because Playboy isn’t hip anymore. But these girls have been getting more risque each year (judging solely on their promotional photos and ads). I bet we’ll see them nekkid on the silver screen soon, definitely less than ten years. Their child actors, after all. Not many last long as adult actors. And Jodie Foster, they ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/26 "2003-02-28T16:56:13Z")
> [@](#): > > their child actors They’re, they’re, they’re:smack: ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/27 "2003-02-28T17:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*[Kid Rock]If there’s grass on the field, “Play ball!”[/KR] \*\* And again quoted on Weekend update (to the newscaster’s credit he followed it with a “ew… that is so wrong…”) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/28 "2003-02-28T18:11:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > \*\*But these girls have been getting more risque each year (judging solely on their promotional photos and ads). \*\* You don’t see many teenage girls then. They ALL dress that way now thanks to Britney Spears. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/29 "2003-02-28T18:24:44Z")
Add me to the list of straight guys who think the Olsen twins are kinda strange looking. Still, you’ll notice I did open up a thread about them appearing naked in Playboy, so who knows, I might have picked it up anyway, were it anything resembling true. Oh, and I spotted the Olsen twins at the first Dopefest I ever went to, to tie this waste of a post up in a nice bow. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/30 "2003-02-28T22:04:07Z")
Merlin Olsen has a twin? ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/31 "2003-02-28T22:47:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*Merlin Olsen has a twin? \*\* ::shudders:: two naked Merlin Olsens… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/32 "2003-02-28T23:24:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gundy \* > \*\*::shudders:: two naked Merlin Olsens… \*\* What’s worse is that they’ve supposedly shacked up with the Brimley twins! :eek: two naked Merlin Olsens getting sweaty with two naked Wilford Brimleys… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/33 "2003-02-28T23:51:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*Would they have to wait to take the actual photos untill they turned 18? If the magazine came out on their birthday then the photos would be of underage girls. (and therefore kiddie porn and you will have to put a sign in your yard and on your car and register with the local authorities) But if the pictures were taken a few days later you would be a normal red blodded american male. \*\* Pardon my imperfect memory, but there was a case such as you describe with (IIRC) the _Sun_, which claimed that one of its Page 3 girls was “17 today!” (or whatever the legal age in the UK for such things is). Some astute reader pointed out to the authorities that if the _Sun_ was publishing nude pictures on the first day they could legally do so, then they must have taken said pictures earlier – at a time when it was _not_ legal to do so. The tabloid eventually sheepishly admitted (presumably with corroboration) that the girl in question was, in fact, older than claimed by at least a year. And I think the Olsen twins look like those Norfin troll things. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/34 "2003-03-01T00:24:57Z")
Naked? Anyway, this guy made a web page with a countdown clock for this to happen, olsen twins in playboy countdown clock: [http://www.chasebrown.com/olson.htm](http://www.chasebrown.com/olson.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/35 "2003-03-01T00:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*What’s worse is that they’ve supposedly shacked up with the Brimley twins! :eek: two naked Merlin Olsens getting sweaty with two naked Wilford Brimleys… \*\* :barf: Thanks a lot, now I’ll never eat again! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/36 "2003-03-01T01:12:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*And I think the Olsen twins look like those Norfin troll things. \*\* Exactly. Especially when they were younger, like just after “Full House,” they were dead ringers for the troll dolls. They’ve grown out of that somewhat, to the point where they look like the fashionable friends of the cheerleaders. The friends who get to hang around the genuinely pretty girls because they have a lot of money or their own car or something. Count me in as one of the straight American guys who _wouldn’t_ spend any time or money looking for their _Playboy_ “spread.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/37 "2003-03-01T02:08:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*The Bangles where on TV two nights ago. They’ve got a new album and are on the comeback trail. > > Susanna Hoffs reawakened the HUGE crush I had about her in the 80’s. God that woman is HOT. \*\* I was always more a Michael Steele fan, myself. [Who’d have guessed she’d become Lt Governor of Maryland?](http://www.gov.state.md.us/michaelhome.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/38 "2003-03-02T02:25:20Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* \*\*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: Originally posted by Tuckerfan What’s worse is that they’ve supposedly shacked up with the Brimley twins! two naked Merlin Olsens getting sweaty with two naked Wilford Brimleys… > > :barf: > > Thanks a lot, now I’ll never eat again! \*\* Hmm, I think I see a new informercial on Wilford Brimley’s schedule: WB: Hi! I’m Wilford Brimley, did you know that a recent survey indicates that over fifty percent of Americans are over-weight? And if you’re like me, it seems that nothing you do gets those pounds off and keeps them off. Well, there’s no hope for me, but there’s plenty of help for you! I’m pleased to introduce my new appetite suppressant videotape: _Man Humpin’ to the Oldies!_ Over two hours of me and my lover, Merlin Olsen, along with our twins, showing each other love and affection like only four men can do! Act now, and we’ll throw in a copy of our video _Back Shaving Madness!_ You won’t believe what happens when Richard Simmons drops by! So call now! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/39 "2003-03-02T11:12:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*Hmm, I think I see a new informercial on Wilford Brimley’s schedule: > > WB: Hi! I’m Wilford Brimley, did you know that a recent survey indicates that over fifty percent of Americans are over-weight? And if you’re like me, it seems that nothing you do gets those pounds off and keeps them off. Well, there’s no hope for me, but there’s plenty of help for you! I’m pleased to introduce my new appetite suppressant videotape: _Man Humpin’ to the Oldies!_ Over two hours of me and my lover, Merlin Olsen, along with our twins, showing each other love and affection like only four men can do! Act now, and we’ll throw in a copy of our video _Back Shaving Madness!_ You won’t believe what happens when Richard Simmons drops by! So call now! \*\* Now more than ever, we desperately need that barfing smilie… :o / @ ---
**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:** [March 2, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028/40 "2003-03-02T14:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*What’s worse is that they’ve supposedly shacked up with the Brimley twins! :eek: two naked Merlin Olsens getting sweaty with two naked Wilford Brimleys… \*\* OK! Now that’s taking the joke just TOO DAMN FAR!!! :mad: 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olsen-twins-to-appear-in-playboy-upon-turning-18-really/158028.md?page=3)