Forgotten Heartthrobs of the 80s and 90s

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Here's a topic, these forgotten heartthrobs. Many of them were not heartthrobs nor have they necessarily been forgotten. And the outfits - my God! Discuss.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Eddie Furlong	3
#5	3
Brad Renfro (RIP SWEET ANGEL)	2
Dean Cain	2
Jason Behr	2
Corky (ahem Corin) Nemec	2
David Faustino (lol dat pic)	2
Dalton James	1
Doug Savant	1
Andrew Shue	1
DAMON PAMPOLINA GREATEST OUTFIT EVER	1
Erik Von Detten	1
Austin Peck	1
Harley Cross	1
Dieter Brummer	1
David Lascher	0
David Gallagher	0
Dee Caspary	0
DJ BOBO	0
Jesse James Richter	0
Jason Donovan	0
Harold Pruett	0
Jason Frank	0
Jamie Walters	0
Jake Patellis	0
Dr. Alban	0
Doug Emerson	0
David Charvet	0
Chase Hampton	0
Damon Sharpe	0
Andrew Keegan	0
Boyd Kestner	0
Bobby Ross Avila	0
Bobby Leslie	0
Bob Moffatt	0
Bobby Catalano	0
Blake Heron	0
Billy Warlock	0
Brandon Call	0
Brent Gore	0
Brock Pierce	0
Christian Oliver	0
Chesney Hawkes	0
Chris Schlatter	0
Chris Young	0
Chris Wolf	0
Chris O'Donnell (his inclusion seems sorta harsh imo)	0
C.B. Barnes	0
Brian Krause (lol that cat people movie)	0
Austin O'Brien	0

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/100-forgotten-heartthrobs-of-the-80s-and-90s

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago)

Austin Peck based on the (mostly hideous) pics here, though I haven't a clue who he is.

Scanning ahead, the 2nd half of this poll will find me revealing one of my more guilty pleasure crushes from my younger days, but we will get to that later.

― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago)

This is like, the most important poll ever.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago)

somebody has too big a Tiger Beat collection

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago)

I know nothing of these heartthrobs, but voted Dalton James for being named after not just one, but two gangs of outlaws.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago)

http://www.johnny-five.com/images/sc2/misc/j5_and_toronto.jpg

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago)

I can't help wondering how many of these guys are out of the closet now. Simple averages would require at least five of them and, given how show biz is in general, probably closer to ten or twelve.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago)

chris wolf looks like a young chris gaines. voted faustino obv. might've voted #5 if it had in fact been johnny.

― balls, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/UnN8U.jpg

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:59 (twelve years ago)

i also voted for grandmaster b

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago)

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/10/16/enhanced-buzz-10193-1334088731-5.jpg

i find this guy refreshingly down to earth

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago)

not just on earth but right next door

― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago)

voted for dean cain for all those shirtless episodes of lois + clarke

― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/11/16/enhanced-buzz-3951-1334176142-10.jpg

its a tuff call but i declare this photo the gayest of them all

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago)

i think i had that exact picture of erik von detten on my bedroom wall

― li'l sebastian, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago)

Brad Renfro has died?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago)

And didn't Doug Savant play they gay guy in Melrose Place? Which might explain "the gayest of them all" pic.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago)

Renfro OD'd a few years ago. :(

― Roz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:34 (twelve years ago)

That Bob Moffatt guy is a bit of alright! And still is, from the GISing Ive done.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago)

Oh wait, it seems I've mixed up Brand Renfro and Brad Dourif, who appears to still be alive. Still, it's sad to hear about Renfro too. :(

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago)

That explains things... When I looked at that Teen Beat pic, I was like, "How did that kid grew up to be Wormtongue?".

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago)

Like most people who were at a British university at the tail end of the 90s, I've seen Chesney Hawkes play live. He does a full live set of original material, followed by The One And Only, which he is legally obliged to mime. He then played Alright by Supergrass. It was kind of preposterous.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago)

I have never even heard of most of these. Exceptions being Jason Donovan, Dean Cain, Chesney, and the two Eurodance guys who I would never have thought of in this category.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:45 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I can't imagine that even the teen girls of the 90s would've been like, "DJ Bobo, he's so dreamy!". Dr. Alban at least looks sorta cute.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago)

mmm, Edward Furlong. I also had an inexplicable thing for Dieter Brummer, but so did every other girl of my age.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago)

This list was definitely made by either a British or Australian person btw. A lot of these guys were never famous in the US. For instance I have no idea who Dieter Brummer is because we never got Australian soaps.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago)

Never got the Furlong love though my appreciation for him did grow a bit after he tried to liberate all the lobsters from a supermarket tank.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:41 (twelve years ago)

wow @ DJ Bobo

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago)

Andrew Keegan or Jason Behr

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago)

the clothes, the hair. the 90s is a foreign land.

― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago)

#5 ftw

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago)

lol yes! Poor Austin whoever that guy is.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago)

list is missing Devon Sawa

― Roz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago)

voted #5

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago)

because he is alive

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago)

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/10/16/enhanced-buzz-10193-1334088731-5.jpg

this is almost Robert Plant-level

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/LonB1.jpg

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago)

tucks to the left, just like Percy

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago)

aw Doug Savant was cute!

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago)

Corin Nemec. End of conversation

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/11/11/enhanced-buzz-14538-1334156990-55.jpg

I mean...come on

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5pdw6OXKU1ry2gweo1_400.gif

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago)

and don't forget

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/graphics/news3/IKnowMyFirstNameIsSteven.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago)

All of these are well before my time, and from shows I have never heard of? xp oh wait that's because they're Australian or w/e. So I'm just going to put this guy here:

http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/119/5a5a6bb1c1b6408a84452b474ac677da/l.jpg

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago)

Parker Lewis was awesome

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago)

The crush I had on Ryan Lambert, it was physically painful. I thought I would die because he was a person on tv and I was just a person.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago)

Yeah Laurel, it's more likely that they're after your time or foreign tbh.

I loved Corky Nemec. A lot. I vividly remember the "I know my first name is Steven" TV movie.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago)

Random stuff about the irl Steven kid - he was killed in a motorcycle accident the year that movie came out and his brother is the guy that murdered a woman and kids in Yosemite in the late 90s.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago)

Well I mean I'm only 36, I should know more heart-throbs from the 80s in theory! But I don't know hardly any of these.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)

xpost yeah that blew my mind when I found out about the stephen stayner/gary stayner connection -- what a messed up family, geez louise

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)

I honestly maybe know like a 10th of these (part 1 and 2 combined)

we should start our own list of our ACTUAL teen hearthrobs and not some saddo buzzfeed old lady's version

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago)

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they were awesome jeans, I miss them

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago)

so weird that Peter Andre is still a thing in the UK

http://2wongs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mysterious-girl-cover-of-peter-andre.html

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago)

oh no

why would they do that?!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago)

did he dress up as a voodoo priest for the video and chase a pale white girl around a building site?

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago)

noooooooooooo aggggh gross

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago)

(they wouldn't... it's this awesome duo who also did a bit on Lana del Rey that killed me live, although maybe you had to "be there" (pissed) because I heard it on the radio next day and it was less amazing)

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago)

kinder: actually I think I was thinking of Danny Newman (not yet in a soap but I was probably only pretending to know who he was while everyone else was going on about how dreamy he was), but Paul Nicholls is definitely another name I couldn't remember from my class's later TV Hits dissections, yes...

By number of hours spent passing notes back and forth about him in my first year of secondary school, Edward Furlong is the clear winner here.

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago)

watched none of his shows, but went with Jason Behr for his ears and pecs.

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago)

http://img.shirtlessdaily.com/2010/04/117.jpg

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago)

wait who is that

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago)

That would be Jason Behr's ears, but not his pecs.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago)

oh right he's the boy from Dawson's Creek

he done got hotter

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago)

I read this thread title as Forgotten Headbands of the 80s.

― The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago)

http://edwardsheridan.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sq-loverboy-mike-reno-bandana-son.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago)

oh right he's the boy from Dawson's Creek

no. Roswell?

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago)

WHADDYA MEAN NO

Behr picked up a recurring role as the character Chris Wolfe in The WB's series Dawson's Creek. While filming the show in North Carolina, Jason read the script for a pilot called Roswell High — later shortened to Roswell — and felt an immediate affinity for the lead alien, Max Evans.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago)

meh, recurring roles don't count

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago)

*blows raspberry at you*

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago)

is Michael Pitt "from Dawson's Creek" too?

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago)

yes wtf

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)

anyway who died and made you arbiter of what tv shows I associate actors to? ;)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago)

I think it was Ernest Borgnine

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago)

lol

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago)

I totally think Michael Pitt = from Dawson's Creek.

Neighbours and Home & Away list need the guy who played Brad Willis and the guy who played Alan Fisher.

Seeing Dieter Brummer just reminds me how weird it is that Melissa George and Isla Fisher got to be proper famous-ish. And Guy Pearce, obv.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago)

Isla Fisher especially. I couldn't stand her on H&A, and I was all D: when she became a thing (briefly) here

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago)

Isnt she only famous cos she's shacked up with Borat tho?

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago)

Also yes this list is so not made by an Aust person because I srsly havent heard of 3/4 of these guys or shows, and also the list is missing

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m88pwhukXL1rc3cjyo1_500.jpg

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago)

Ah, Wheels. Sigh.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago)

<3 Marcus Graham <3

swoon

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago)

Corin Nemec. End of conversation

synchronize swatches!

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago)

I have very fond memories of Parker Lewis. I wonder if it's anywhere near as good as it is in my head.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago)

man, come to think of it, the nascent FOX Sunday-night sitcom lineup was p classic overall: Simpsons, Married.. w/ Children, PLCL & Get a Life. I think Herman's Head might have been in there at some point as well.

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago)

While the necklace and hat are atrocious, Nemec looks like he's aged pretty well overall.

http://www.thescifiworld.net/img/zocalo/facts2005/corin_nemec_13_big.jpg

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago)

Sadly the same can't be said for some of the others cited as particularly dreamy

http://goranlejla.blognownow.com/uploads/eddie_furlong_2008_01.jpg

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago)

Yeh Corin Nemec was in Stargate tv show a few years back iirc -- Mr Veg started getting mad at me bc I'd only watch the episodes/scenes he was in and then leave the room, lol

God, Edward Furlong rip yr hottness

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago)

Holy shit is that what Furlong looks like now!? D:

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

...tbf he's still attractive so I feel a bit bad going "ugh he fat", but.. yeah.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

No it isn't the weight it is just . . . everything. NAGL.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

Yeah having GISed a bit more, he's def lost it. Smack and all, jesus thats just sad.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/NGDlK.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2225269/Terminator-2-star-Edward-Furlong-arrested-domestic-violence-spat-LAX.html

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago)

yeesh

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago)

caution: uncontained throbbing may lead to tachycardia

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/aTBBa.jpg

"Terminator 2" actor Edward Furlong has been charged with beating up his girlfriend ... the second time he's been accused of a domestic violence attack in less than a month ... TMZ has learned.

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, the alleged domestic dispute took place on November 21st ... the day before Thanksgiving. Furlong is accused of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition.

― Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago)

his downfall has been happening for so long it's almost not news anymore, lol

maybe he just likes to spread out his fuckedupness over a period of years

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago)

seems like he's pretty much king of douchebag island now

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago)

it's like a distant, even seedier echo of the continuing lohan adventure

― Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago)

it's more like a seedier version of that creepy X-Files dude and his creepy teenage wife.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago)

Doug Hutchison and Courtney Stodden.

(rinses brain with bleach)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago)

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