Good afternoon, dear ones. I thought today we’d share our love for the attractive men and women who populate our TV screens. I think we’ve talked about general actor crushes before, but TV crushes are different. Oftentimes your attraction is at least partly tied to the character they portray, not to mention the sort of false intimacy that’s created by seeing this person every week.
Who’s mine, you ask? I’m going to cop out and confess to a tie: Joel McHale and Mike Rowe. My relationship with Joel McHale has actually gotten more serious since I started seeing him twice a week, on The Soup and Community. Mike Rowe, on the other hand, can be found just about everywhere but is probably best known as the guy from Dirty Jobs. Behold!
Joel McHale
Mike Rowe
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I’m a little overwhelmed by everyone’s love for The Fillion, since he is always and forever MINE, and I will fight to the death for him.
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To. The. Death.
I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
:)
I’ll break this down into categories since it’s a big list
Past TV show characters:
Spike from Buffy
Doyle from Angel
Piz from Veronica Mars
Mick from Moonlight
Harry Dresden from Dresden Files
Kolchak from Night Stalker
Doctor #9
Finn from Gilmore Girls
David from Roseanne
Hyde from That 70s Show
Current TV show characters:
Raylan from Justified
Gwaine from Merlin
Sammy from Supernatural
Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl
Abby from NCIS
Dr. Reid from Criminal Minds
Capt. Jack Harkness
Actors:
obviously all the aforementioned to some extent
Christopher Meloni
Neil Patrick Harris
Christina Hendricks
Mariska Hargitay
Michael Rosenbaum
Hugh Laurie
Conan O’ Brien
O my GOD. I forgot Oz from Buffy. I loved Oz. I might have loved Oz more than I loved Spike.
Also forgot Nathan Fillion and Jason Dohring.
Oh, oh, I have this one! David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin on the Man from Uncle!!! I had his picture cut out of a teen magazine on my wall when I was 13 or so. MAJOR crush! What a treat to see him on NCIS now!
He was DREAMY! I recently saw a picture from his U.N.C.L.E. days, and I was pleasantly shocked. Not that he’s not still a handsome fella, but he was something else when he was young.
Jack from Lost — what was his real name?
Anyway, everyone needs a good Jack in their life!!!!
I have crushes on way too many of the men mentioned here. But two that I absolutely love that I don’t see mentioned are Josh Gates on Destination Truth and Timothy Olyphant on Justified. My sister got me into Destination Truth recently and now I want to marry Josh Gates, even if he is a little bit of an ass sometimes. And even though I’m from KY, I definitely do not generally dig guys who wear cowboys hats and drawl, but oh my God, Olyphant is so hot doing both of those things.
I think most of mine have been covered here already. Vincent D’Onofrio, David Tennant, David Boreanaz, Joel McHale, Adam Scott, Nathan Fillion, Shawn & Gus (and Lassie), Mike Rowe, Jason Segel, Penelope and Dr. Reid from Criminal Minds, Abby, Tony, and McGee from NCIS, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Eric Millegan.
Hm. Quite a list there.
TV Actor crushes: Definitely Nathan Fillion
TV Character crushes: Weyoun (DS9), Hannibal (A-Team), Dan Connor (Roseanne), Mr. Darcy (AE’s P&P), Pam (True Blood)
Yessssss.
So awesome.
Weyoun? I get the rest of them, wholeheartedly on The Fillion and Dan Conner, but I’m confused by Weyoun. Quark, Morn, even Garrack or Gul Ducat I could see, but not Weyoun.
/geekery :D
I know, it’s weird … I think it was Jeffrey Combs’ voice as much as anything. Plus Weyoun was so deliciously pleasant yet evil! And I liked his clothes … and ears … and smile (which, yes, is smarmy).
Basically, I can’t explain the weirdness away.
I liked Daniel Dae Kim’s character on Lost and Abed on Community.
I just started watching Doctor Who, and I love it, and I have to say the ninth doctor is on my list. It’s the leather jacket.
From what I’ve heard, Rose Tyler is a bit of a… controversial character in the fandom, but Billie Piper is super, super hot. I want to be on that.
DB in anything, but especially as Booth.
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Thank you for this.