In Which I Reveal My Tomboy Fixation
I informed Tony that he was tagging me for this meme because I really need the distraction. I must stop being so dour. I have to find my funny and snap out of this. A mindless meme might be just the ticket.Hell, I might just do them for the rest of the month. A Month Long Meme of Memes. Hmmm.
Feel free to play along in the comments (or tag yourself).
My Top Ten Fave TV Characters (in no particular order)
Miles Drentell from Thirtysomething - While I truly loved all the characters on TS, ad exec Miles Drentell was one of the most compelling characters I’ve ever encountered on a TV drama. Complicated and hard to understand, he manipulated and mindf*cked Michael and Elliot relentlessly and yet, you missed him when he was gone.
Buddy from Family - Man…I fricken loved that show. I had a total girl crush on tomboy Kristy McNichol who played “Buddy”. I seriously thought she was the coolest thing on TV during that era. And when Leif Garrett was on as her boyfriend…hoooo boy!
Rayanne Graff from My So-Called Life - Rayanne was the wild, crazy, irresponsible girl that the rest of us wished we could be for a day…or night. Her character was fairly complex for a teen TV drama and despite her being a major screw-up, you had to love her.
Bill from Freaks and Geeks - Unfortunately, this awesome but short-lived show was critically acclaimed, which seems to be the kiss of death on American television and thus it was only on for one season. All the characters were great but I loved Bill, an awkward, gangly, geeky high school freshmen in the late 70’s.
Ned from Ned & Stacey - Ned (Thomas Haden Church), pretty much a major asshat, was also one of the funniest fricken characters on TV. EVER.
Jo Polniaczek from Facts of Life - Another tomboy type that I admired, Jo was really pretty and she didn’t take any sh!t. ’nuff said.
Dr. Perry Cox from Scrubs - Funny, funny, funny…I love Dr. Cox!
Alan Shore of Boston Legal - I don’t watch this show regularly anymore but I still maintain that Alan Shore is one of the best written characters on television. Complex, enigmatic, irreverent, brilliant and funny; even when he’s bad he’s good.
Charlies Angels - Oh man…I could never choose. I was always torn between classy Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) foxy Jill (Farrah Fawcett) and brainy Sabrina (Kate Jackson). So perfect in my nine year old eyes; they drove bad ass cars and wore kick ass clothes and they ALWAYS got the bad guys *sigh*
Jordan Catalano of My So-Called Life - Jared Leto as brooding bad boy that doesn’t talk much. And those eyelashes… Hello? Do I really need to explain this one?
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And if I may toot my own horn ever so briefly….
I wanted to BE Rayanne, and date Jordan Catalano! My husband said no to both names when I was pregnant and wanted to use them. Bah humbug!
One of the women in a writing mentorship program I was in wrote an episode of “My So Called Life”. How cool is that?
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I think a lot of yours are mine too…I love Dr. Cox
MILES DRENTEL! Oh man, he was the frigging greatest character on TV. I LOVED to hate him. Then he showed up on another show, but I can’t remember what it was called. The one with Sela Ward, I think. He played Miles again, and oh man, he was evil!
My favorite was Elliot on St Elsewhere. He just totally cracked me up. Loved that show!
Yay for your PP Award. Long overdue…you write great stuff here!
I agree with Mommy off the Record, you really have so many great things in your blog.
Indeed, I link you previous post, about organic food, in my blog entry: Go Organic!.
I hope you don’t mind, IzzyMom :).
Thanks so much!
Congrats on the PP award Izzy!! Your writing is awesome! And I love the Halloween design btw!
I did the same meme and “Benny Hill” was one of my fave. Can you believe it?!
my favorite tv characters
I loved Ned and Stacey! Cool meme.
Lisa
Great post! Some of my favorites too!
How I loved My So-Called Life. Love love love. Every aspect of that show absolutely rocked.
I’d forgotten about Ned and Stacey! That was a great show too. Little secret crush on Ned - I guess I like the asshats (but thankfully didn’t marry one).
i liked Rayanne…
until she slept with Jordan.
i will never forgive her.
I sooo wanted to have the sex with Joran Catalano!!! I still do, but only if he takes off the eyeliner.
Sid and Nancy is one of my all-time favourite movies — I’m going to have that little ditty stuck in my head all day. I love that part of the movie, especially when Johnny Rotten scrunches his face up and imitates the exec singing.
Congrats on the PP award!!
Oh — and I really like the Hallowe’en/fall look.
Jo Polniaczek - too funny. I liked Tootie and Natalie - they were cool.
Jo was always my favorite too. Way better than that stuck-up Blaire and Tootie…well, let’s admit it. The skating could get on your nerves after a while.
God I forgot about Family. I loved that show. …and Kristy McNichol (not in that show) made me NEED to experience sex in a boat house (Littel Darlings.)
I loved Rayanne! And Buddy! Don’t forget Johnny Gage from Emergency. And that blonde guy (bygones!) from Ally McBeal.
Love the new look.
Totally forgot about Family…
Never watched Ned and Stacey…
I am so with you on the Charlie’s Angels…
So sheltered of a life from TV do not know most of the other shows…
and what a cool song… I loved it!!!
And congratulations on the award!!!!!
Jordan Catalano, Rayanne Graff? I loved that show! And the Kristi/Nancy tomboy thing? I had crushes on them, too in my pre-pubescent years! :)
Congrats on the award! Although I didn’t comment on that particular thread, I did enjoy that piece you wrote.
Ah, the song!Thanks for playing name that tune - loved it! Love Callie too - George is gonna blow it.
Kate Jackson baby…Kate Jackson.
I had a “Buddy” crush, too. Remember the episode when she was supposed to ‘do it’? Being a virgin at the time, I was completely intrigued.
Little Darlings is still one of my favorite movies. I was so dissappointed Tatum O’Neal (Ferris?) didn’t get to sleep with Mr. Callahan. Armand Asante was so hot then.
rayanne! whoo-boy I so feared for her… but wanted to be her, but just for a moment, to taste the abandon.
And, jordan. sigh. could he be more beautiful. i just loved that he adored angela.
My So-called Life– my first DVD collection ever purchased.
Oh, I loved St. Elsewhere!
I had such a girl crush on Rayanne.
Ohmigosh! I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who actually watched and liked Boston Legal, like you I’m not a regular viewer anymore, but I absolutely LOVE Alan Shore. And I could never describe him any better than you already have so I won’t even try. I just love the man. Ok, now I’m craving a Boston Legal fix. Thanks a lot, Izzy! ;)
Last year I got the DVD box-set of Freaks and Geeks- I love that show!
I had an 8:00 bedtime that prevented me from ever being able to watch “Family”, except for the occasional bedtime pardon, but what a great show it was, too.
My So-Called Life rocked, yet another “brilliant, but canceled” show.
I love this meme- I keep meaning to tag myself on this one, but I don’t think I can limit myself to 10. Suckled on television, dontcha know.
OMG, I think you are the 2nd person that I have ever heard liking 30-something. I totally loved that show. When the professor (blond guy) died at the end of the series it was if he was my best friend. I was THAT into his character. And, he was hot.
Sid and Nancy is a classic isn’t it? A modern Romeo and Juliet story.
I was totally for team Catalano, not that dorky guy who had a triple minor.