Who was your first TV girl crush/OTP

[cabenson]

Okay everyone. After a volley of comments with aqua_blurr, I was wondering something. Who was your first TV girl crush or OTP?

I had two TV girl crushes at the same time. First there was ISIS, the teacher-turned-ancient-goddess-super-heroine. Joanna Cameron STILL looks hot!!

Next came Jaime Sommers aka The Bionic Woman. I loved her! I wanted to BE her! I STILL want to be her.I received a Bionic Woman doll/action figure (with removable bionic parts) for Christmas one year. I can't tell you how many times she saved Barbie's ass when Barbie got liquored up and drove that camper over a cliff. And the post-rescue loving. Yes, H/C started with me at the fragile age of...eight. So my first OTP would be The Bionic Woman and Barbie...because having the Velvet and Chrissy dolls make out was just plain incestuous.

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[mikee-pm.livejournal.com]

mine was linda carter - wonder woman.
i'll try to remember more.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Who doesn't love a brunette in glasses that can change into a super-hero costume by twirling around. I watched that show ALL THE TIME!! including a few years ago when it popped up on Sci-Fi.

Excellent choice, Mikee!

[aqua-blurr.livejournal.com]

cabenson, even as a child, you had fabulous taste. My problem answering this is that I don't know who/what came first.

I mean, I know my ElectraWoman/DynaGirl OTP enthusiasm came before my Judy/Miss Johnson OTP since I only watched Room 222 in syndication because DynaGirl was on it. However, I also have very clear memories of my Sabrina Duncan action figure rescuing Sweet 16 Barbie (the one with the white polka dots on pink dress) from many, many nefarious villains portrayed by Ken, GI Joe, Mr Octopus, and Paddington Bear. But who came first? And, yes I believe I nearly peed my pants when I got that Sabrina doll. But which came first?

And maybe Emmy Jo beat them all out, time-wise. Oh, holy moly, what about Valerie Bertinelli or young Jodie Foster ala Eddie's Father? And if cartoons count, well, then I've got to include Daphne, Wonder Woman, and the female character on Thundar the Barbarian (okay, I know that's stupid, but she was hella cute even if I can't recall her name).

So who was first? Everything I watched I watched on re-runs, so tvtome can't help me.

Okay, I'mma have to go with ElectraWoman/DynaGirl for my first OTP.
And Emmy Jo just edging out Jodie Foster on the time line, but the really big crush would probably have been Miss Johnson. Wow, I never got brown-eyed student teachers like that in my school.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

And to think Electra Woman became a Daytime Dive! Talking about dolls...did you have the "Dawn Dolls"? I always got busted putting them in...certain poses. Perving in my youth, what can I say.

[aqua-blurr.livejournal.com]

OMG, I had to google Dawn dolls, and then it was like a whole chunk of forgotten childhood emerged from the depths of my aged brain. I made cardboard furniture for them since Barbie's stuff was too big. I upholstered the frelling furniture! I was probably about two years too young to get pervy with them. *tsk*

[whispers] And I have to admit that, while channel surfing one day, I ran across Dr. Marlena Evans on Days, and thus began my soap opera love. [/whispers]

[barely audible] It continued through HS and even to this day: Leann Hunley's Anna DiMera, Finola Hughes' Anna Devane, Crystal Chapelle's Olivia.... It dawns on me that I like good hair and full lips. [/barely audible]

[bluepoet.livejournal.com]

If cartoons count, Scarlet on "G.I. Joe" was my first. She was kinda badass, and I liked that. Real people...first I can remember really digging was Chelsea Fields on this show "Nightingales" that didn't make it to a second season. OTP is tougher... In print, Dawn/Mary Ann from the Baby-Sitters Club books. First good TV OTPs that come to mind are Angela/RayAnn from "My So-Called Life" and Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi from "Star Trek:TNG," but I could have had an OTP before them. (And, to be honest, Cruser/Picard was as good of an OTP for me as Crusher/Troi cuz I just lusted after that Dr. Crusher.)

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Who didn't have a crush on Dr. Crusher. She was my first red-head crush, then Scully came and knocked me on my ass.

[bluepoet.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm...I hear that. Too bad Crusher was in the 24th Century, or she and Scully could have been my OTP!

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

i grew up watching the CBC, so of course, mine was

Mrs. Emma Peel
loved her
loved her outfits
loved her car
loved her voice
loved her

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

mmmm...leather!!

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

Ooo! I thought of another one, and she wasn't a rerun at the time.

Pamela Sue Martin (Nancy Drew)

i think she was pre-Peel (my tastes refined as I grew)

[detective-tatas.livejournal.com]

Dana Scully.. when i was about 8.

She used big words i didn't understand and she wore one of those name tag i.d things, so really i was doomed.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

She was a crush for me when I was twentysomething...till Xena.

[speshulduck.livejournal.com]

Clearly Deanna Troi was the hottest woman on television when I was a kid, and I was extolling her virtues as my first girlcrush the other day. That doesn't make me as young as it used to, does it?

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

You're still younger than me so shut yer hole ;)

And may I say, Deanna Troi...great choice!

[say-revolution.livejournal.com]

Bloody fuck, this is embarrassing, but I think my first TV girl crush was Brenda from 90210. My older sister watched that show and I idolized her;and even though I wasn't allowed to stay up that late, I'd sneak downstairs and catch most of the episode until my mom eventually noticed me. I thought Brenda was the coolest. But then, I did rock the leggings-and-baggy-shirt look far longer than any of my classmates. I'd sit there during school assembly in floral-print stretch pants, debating whether I wanted to kiss Brenda or BE her.

:kills self:

To be fair, we had shit television shows when I was a kid and I didn't watch much TV anyway. I had way better real-life girl crushes, I swear. And my taste in TV girls has improved drastically, as has my fashion sense, so it's all good.

But unfortunately, I DO have to kill you now. All of you.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

I swear. And my taste in TV girls has improved drastically, as has my fashion sense, so it's all good.<i? Good to know. Brenda Walsh...ewwww. But, I support your bravery in admitting this in front of the entire harem ;)

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

ok. before ktla here in los angeles became a wb station, it was one of those independent stations (i.e. no big conglomerate owned it). when i was a kid, they used to show old movies, musicals, etc. on saturday afternoons and sunday mornings. i would be glued to my tv on those days watching "movie for a saturday afternoon" and "movie for a sunday morning" with
tom hatten as the host. he would sit in this leather chair next to a movie projector & intro the movie and give little facts and trivia when they did come backs from the commercials. anyhoo, picture me at 8 or 9 and i see the harvey girls for the very first time.

judy garland heading west, mail order bride, yadda. then she stops at a town and becomes a harvey girl when things go afoul w/ the dude she's gonna marry. there's trouble at the local saloon 'cos the girls (and the saloon owner) didn't like the idea of this restaurant trying to "civilize" the rootin' tootin' town. out walks angela lansbury as teh hott saloon girl chick vying for the heart of dude who she thought "loved" her, but is really in love with judy garland. see gov's little eyes pop out of her head and her jaw go slack at the sight of a young ms. lansbury in a wonderfully clingy and shoulder baring saloon girl outfit. see gov hoping that ms. l. wins that guy right from ms. garland's goody-goody nose, but is disappointed when ms. garland wins the dude in the end. ::sigh:: young angela lansbury ::sigh::

see gov also think, "omg! slash potential in the harvey girls!!!" between the garland character and the lansbury character as she types this post...

as for OTP, it was rick hunter and lisa hayes from robotech, although rick was a complete ass and i honestly think that lisa would be better off w/ a woman. preferably miriya.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Angela Landsbury. I first sw her in Bedknobs and Broomsticks...at the drive-in when I was about 6. And I can imagine the slash between JG and AL.

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

they showed the harvey girls last night on TMC. it's like the universe is giving vague hints about something....

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

I'm with maroukian on this: Emma Peel. When I was but a wee holyinnocent, CBS late night used to show The Avengers on occasion (along with a lot of schlocky murder mystery stuff), and I would sit in wide-eyed wonder at the screen, my little small-town American eyes amazed that a woman could be so smart, so pretty, so sophisticated, so cool, and so utterly and deliciously encased in leather.

So yes, Emma Peel made me gay.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

So yes, Emma Peel made me gay.
WAIT!! You're Gay?! ;)
I feel the same way about The Bionic Woman...but I always tell my mom that it's her fault I'm gay since she refused to breast feed me.