Silly Childhood Crushes
A couple of days ago, I was taking a little trip down memory lane and ended up thinking about all the various TV series I used to watch as a kid. The range was quite wide, from Doctor Snuggles to Knight Rider to Lovejoy. A strange mix of shows, or what?
This then lead me tumbling down the rabbit hole of old childhood crushes….Fictional, that is. I’m pretty sure I had a crush on the boy next door, and the door after that, but I can’t even remember their names now. All I remember is ”Ewww, girls! Cooties!”
Anyway, enough about my childhood traumas. Let’s get on with the crushes that I can actually remember. All three of them. Spoiler alert: the last one is going to leave you stumped.
Editor’s note: Yes, I was born in the ’80s.
1. David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider
I was about five or six and thought he was the coolest thing ever. I mean, come on, a man with a leather jacket and a cool car that could talk! What could possibly top that?! And that’s pretty much all I could understand about the show at the time.
To be fair though, I think I mainly wanted my very own KITT – the talking car. How cool would have that been?!
Nowadays, I’m not so keen on Hasselhoff, but I’d still take KITT in a heartbeat.
2. Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver
I just, basically, wanted to be MacGyver and make cool stuff out of nothing. Every time the theme song started to play, I ran off to fetch a pen, some gum and paper clips and pretended to build a bomb or something. I, still, have the same urge, whenever I hear the song.
The things that man could do with a paper clip. Exciting stuff for a six-year-old me and serious crush material.
3. Stephen Fry in Jeeves & Wooster
I have no explanation for this. Seriously, none. Except that I was a strange little girl.
All my friends were going gaga over the New Kids On The Block guys, and I had a crush on a British butler, who used phrases like:”Good heavens, sir.” Inexplicable.
In hindsight, I think this could explain all my current dating woes.
Consequently, to this day, the only celebrity sighting that has caused me to let out a tiny scream, was Stephen Fry in London. That should tell you all you need to know about me.
So how about you?
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Mitä yhteistä on Ihmemies MacGyverilla, Ritari Ässällä ja Jeevesillä?
Lapsuuden fiktiiviset ihastukset saattavat joskus hämmentää itseäkin.
~J~