# Your Celebrity Crush That Makes Others Say "WTF?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140 "2008-10-29T20:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/81 "2008-10-30T04:29:36Z")
Another one for Steve Buscemi. Others are Billy Bob Thornton and James Gandolfini. I have no idea why… ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/82 "2008-10-30T04:48:21Z")
I have a secret crush… no, desire… for [Officer Trudi Weigel](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=19412685). [Kerri Kenney-Silver](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448486/)really makes my balls constrict. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/83 "2008-10-30T04:59:18Z")
Lyle Lovett, although he’s not what one would call classicly good-looking. His face is all wrinkled up, and his kinky hair is taller than I am, and his grin is crooked like half his face doesn’t work … but I’d run away with him in a New York minute if he crooked his little finger at me. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/84 "2008-10-30T05:17:40Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Rowan Atkinson. Not Mr. Bean Rowan, but [Blackadder](http://bp3.blogger.com/_FhFQa1in5Gs/SCG0yFlEQzI/AAAAAAAABDw/RFKqwp8diZ4/s1600-h/Blackadder2.jpg)Rowan. Specifically, Blackadder II. Rawr. There’s something to that women liking mean guys meme. This was the season with the goatee, right? I wholeheartedly agree. > [@katie1341](#): > > Alan Rickman. I would watch him read out of the phone book. Sigh. Ditto on this one, too. I especially love him as The Sheriff of Nottingham. Snape, too. > [@Stauderhorse](#): > > I have such a crush on [Scott Bakula](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/s/scott_bakula/thumbnails/tn2_scott_bakula_3.jpg), but my friends think he’s unspeakably old. > > He’s only 54! I used to have a crush on him but then I got a boyfriend who looks like him, so no need to crush on Bakula anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/85 "2008-10-30T05:22:22Z")
So, legions of women are no longer crushing on Mike Rowe? Can I start washing under my fingernails now? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/86 "2008-10-30T05:24:42Z")
Lynne Russell. The original MILF. The news just isn’t the same for me anymore. My wife has called me on this a couple times, and I have akwardly shruged it off. And how bout that Illeana Douglas? Rowr! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/87 "2008-10-30T06:22:54Z")
> [@kasuo](#): > > [Zooey Deschanel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221046/). > > I wouldn’t kick her out of bed. Well, maybe, but have you seen her “act”? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/88 "2008-10-30T06:25:31Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Condoleezza Rice. If our tryst starts out by her kicking off those high-heeled, knee-length black boots she wore in Germany a few years ago… ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/89 "2008-10-30T06:58:34Z")
Its been over for a while, but I can beat all of you with…Ralph Nader.:o ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/90 "2008-10-30T07:08:13Z")
Adrien Brody. Don’t know how unusual this is. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/91 "2008-10-30T07:41:34Z")
Mine make people say _Who_ TF? Mostly because they’re well before my time. Miriam Hopkins, Veronica Lake, Virginia Cherrill. More along the lines of the OP (except for the celebrity part), I told my sister I had a crush on Letterman stooge [Stephanie Birkitt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Birkitt), and her reponse was a vehement WTF? I also had a thing for Jenna Elfman in the `90s, and found her looks to be very polarizing for some reason. Guys either think she’s gorgeous, or a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/92 "2008-10-30T08:43:52Z")
Jodie Foster, Sara Gilbert (I know, I know), Mary Stuart Masterson, Kristy McNichol (in the 70’s. I have no idea what she looks like now), Sissy Spacek, and don’t even get me started on Women’s Indoor Volleyball. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/93 "2008-10-30T09:08:32Z")
No one swears quite like Richard E. Grant in _Withnail and I_. I heart him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/94 "2008-10-30T10:40:12Z")
[Tina Fey](http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/tina-fey-tanktop1.jpg) Also: [Amy Sedaris](http://www.amysedarisrocks.com/images/interview/ilikeyou-interview.jpg) And probably the one who best fits the OP [Mary Lynn Rajskub](http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/45/14/0000034514_20061021002011.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![atlantic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@atlantic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atlantic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/95 "2008-10-30T11:01:25Z")
Wow … I completely underestimated the appeal of the Progressive chic with the tricked out name tag. I’m always paying more attention to the customer in that commercial - can’t figure out what else I’ve seen her in. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/96 "2008-10-30T11:27:14Z")
wow, I completely didn’t know so many others thought Seth Green was hot. all my friends think he’s goofy-lookin’. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/97 "2008-10-30T12:44:41Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Not one, not two, but three mentions of John Goodman? :eek: > > Okay, I am a longtime Whose Line fan, and Kathy Greenwood always makes me drool; a sweet yet silly petite woman always gets my attention. Not to be confused with **Kathy Griffith** , who always makes me upchuck a little bile when I see her on the tube. I’m pretty sure you mean Kathy _Griffin_. I could tell by your use of “upchuck”. Mine? Martha Plimpton. I’d insert a link but it’s really long and I don’t know how to do the link-to-text thingy anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Undine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e99b99/32.png) [@Undine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Undine)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/98 "2008-10-30T12:59:13Z")
Another for Alan Rickman… who cares that he’s older than my father? Also totally agree on Blackadder II. But that isn’t strange at all. (Ok, ok, none of my friends have seen it so they can’t say WTF.) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/99 "2008-10-30T13:38:36Z")
John Shea. (Who? [This guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790291/). Dude, Luthor on that Lois and Clark TV series? Yes, him.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/100 "2008-10-30T13:41:49Z")
[Matthew Gray Gubler](http://www.google.com/search?q=matthew+gray+gubler&hl=en&rlz=1T4RNWI_en___US221&sa=2) from _Criminal Minds_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140.md?page=6)