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Childhood celebrity heros

baggles
by baggles

Posted: Feb 12, 2008 in Music, Movies, TV and Celebrities

Tags: TV, celebrity, Hero, childhood, punky brewster

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Punky Power!!!

We all looked up to/ emanated someone we saw on tv/heard on the radio as kids. Who was your celebrity "hero" as a child?

Mine was most definetly Punky Brewster. I actually went for days calling myself Punky and not answering to anything else.

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kimikokopuffs

She-Ra was boss. (Or He-Man, before the Princess came along).

kimikokopuffs on Feb 12, '08 at 09:09 AM
kathrynbelt

The Spice Girls - originally. Then I started the Boy Band obsession with N Sync. What ever they said/did was law baby. Very sad times.

kathrynbelt on Feb 12, '08 at 09:11 AM
joe.shearer
kimikokopuffs wrote:
She-Ra was boss. (Or He-Man, before the Princess came along).

Hulk Hogan.

My son LOVES He-Man right now. I have some of the old DVDs and it's his absolute favorite. He runs around with his "magic sword" (actually a Ringling Bros. Circus flashing light-up sword) stuck down the back of his shirt and often pulls it out and says "By the Power of Greyskull!" I also just showed him the He-Man/She-Ra movie (though he'd already seen the Christmas Special).

joe.shearer on Feb 12, '08 at 10:10 AM
kimikokopuffs
joe.shearer wrote:
Hulk Hogan. My son LOVES He-Man right now. I have some of the old DVDs ...

Oh, my sister and I (and later my bro, but we didn't let him play with us much) had the swords down the back of our shirts. God bless Battle Cat. Such a wimp when not a bad ass.

kimikokopuffs on Feb 12, '08 at 12:04 PM
joe.shearer
kimikokopuffs wrote:
Oh, my sister and I (and later my bro, but we didn't let him play ...

Is it me, or did He-Man and She-Ra have a bit of a potentially unhealthy relationship? Watching "The Secret of the Sword," there was almost disappointment in his eyes when She-Ra told him she was his sister (he didn't know on account of Hordak stealing her when she was a baby, and she found out before him because the Sorceress spoke to her through her sword).

Anyway, they just kind of looked at each other funny at times. It got creepy sometimes. And they always made it a point to call each other "sis" or "brother" with this smirks on their faces, as if they enjoyed calling each other that. And they were awfully touchy-feely with each other.

I'm telling you. Go back and watch it. Plus, when She-Ra rescued He-Man on her flying unicorn, he sat in the back and there seemed to be quite a bit of...uh, thrusting going on there.

joe.shearer on Feb 12, '08 at 12:26 PM
caralyn

My two brothers and my sister would set up faux obstacle courses American Gladiator (the original!) Style with couch cushions in our living room. Ahhhh...Nitro...

Then again, I also remember the four of us sticking our toes down into the cracks of the couch, tensing up stomach muscles and flying, one arm out, superman style.

Man, we were weird kids...

caralyn on Feb 12, '08 at 12:29 PM
URBAN

BRUCE LEE as KATO on the Green HORNET was the man !

URBAN on Feb 12, '08 at 01:09 PM
MMorris
joe.shearer wrote:
Is it me, or did He-Man and She-Ra have a bit of a potentially unhealthy ...

I think someone watches a little TOO much He-Man and She-Ra! LOL

I loved Punky Brewster, along with Wonder Woman and Daisy Duke.

MMorris on Feb 12, '08 at 01:16 PM
joe.shearer
MMorris wrote:
I think someone watches a little TOO much He-Man and She-Ra! LOL I loved Punky ...

Ha! I don't think I can deny that, but having that grown-up perspective changes things a little bit too. Actually, at the beginning of that movie, Prince Adam and Bow (the red-headed dude with the porn mustache and the bow and arrow) also shared a horse ride that had more than a little homoerotic connotation to it.

joe.shearer on Feb 12, '08 at 01:48 PM
baggles
caralyn wrote:
My two brothers and my sister would set up faux obstacle courses American Gladiator (the ...

We did the same thing with the Gladiators!! We had twin beds right next to eachother and would throw pillows, stuffed animals and blanks into the space between. Then we'd each stand on a bed and try to knock eachother off into the "pit".

Its a little suprising we never cracked our heads open. But it was super fun!

baggles on Feb 12, '08 at 02:18 PM
aLLENiMAGERY

personally, i was always the leader of the Thundercats: LIONO.

aLLENiMAGERY on Feb 14, '08 at 07:52 AM
mjrocks40

I just knew I was going to grow up and marry David Cassidy...HA!

mjrocks40 on Feb 14, '08 at 07:42 PM
Sewer_Harpy

Okay...I finally stopped laughing long enough to post this. Kimiko and Joe, you'll appreciate this more than anyone, but everybody should get a kick out of this P.S.A.

bad touch in Eternia

s.h.

Sewer_Harpy on Feb 14, '08 at 09:03 PM
Rebelle

I'd have to say Janet Jackson. While all my friends were obsessed with Madonna, I was trying to recreate every dance move she did. And if we are talking 1st to 3rd grade - it was Micheal. No one can front on how amazing the Wiz and Thriller were!!

Rebelle on Feb 14, '08 at 10:08 PM
Allison

I worshipped Madonna, and my parents hated her... little did they know the supernova she would turn into!

Allison on Feb 18, '08 at 07:35 AM
musicjunky1967

I grew up idolizing Batman, Captain Kirk, James Bond, & my Dad. I even wrote all of them down in the 2nd grade when I was asked who my heroes were.

musicjunky1967 on Mar 02, '08 at 11:12 AM
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