# The Prettiest/Handsomest Teens in TV History **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076 "2009-05-20T15:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076/101 "2009-05-22T16:50:14Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > ::: looks at pic :: > > Sorry. That photo inspires no desire in me to throw her down and shag her silly, or even to see her without the dress. She’s not ugly; she’s just…ordinary. To each his own. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076/102 "2009-05-22T20:46:38Z")
**Skald the Rhymer** said: > [@](#): > > I’m not quite so vehement in my dislike of her, but I don’t see the big deal about Trachtenberg either. In my case I expect that it’s partly because she still looks like a little girl to me. A SKINNY little girl. It’d be like lusting after my youngest niece; not only could I not do it, but I tend to be suspicious of any adult who does. No accounting for taste. You don’t seem to be saying she actually reminds you of your niece, just that she looks young and skinny. You emphasize skinny. That is perhaps the biggest distinction. Some of us like that. ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076/103 "2009-05-22T22:40:24Z")
I like skinny girls, as well. Katrina Bowden from the OP is waaay skinny, but she is also freaking gorgeous. Michelle Trachtenberg is just bland to me, and I only brought her up because so many people think she is so smoking hot. I think Jessica Alba is kind of bland, but I can see why people think she is pretty. Can’t see it in Trachtenberg. But like it’s said, to each his own. I agree that Tuesday Weld owns this thread. That’s just about the prettiest girl I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076/104 "2009-05-22T22:49:04Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Hayden Panetierre? Why did I read this as “Hayden Planetarium”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![p4poetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@p4poetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p4poetic)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076/105 "2009-05-23T07:19:52Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > Will Friedle, oh, yeah. Not quite so much toward the end when his hair got all floppy, but when he was younger, yeah. **Rider Strong didn’t do it for me, though.** > > Fred Savage was good-looking as a young teen. Not so much nowadays (I mean, he’s fine and all, but not nearly as striking as he was as a child). Really? Not with that amazing head of hair that he had to keep brushing back from his face? Not those lips? I’m shocked I tell you, _shocked_. :eek: The only flaw was that he had an ever so slightly but still noticeable gap tooth. Still, it did not hinder is _‘zomgg!!!11 shawn hunter is soooo cute!’_ -ness. Poor younger Savage brother Ben. He always gets screwed over. He was cuter when he was younger. Still, Fred was a little better looking at that age. > [@garygnu](#): > > I went to a taping of _Boy Meets World_ and there was a family (three generations) that the audience-host-guy called the Stalker Family. They’d been to every taping and knew things about the cast like birthdays, middle names, and other things that made one wonder about their collective sanity. I will make no further comments than. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-prettiest-handsomest-teens-in-tv-history/497076.md?page=5)