Guilty Observation

And all things lead back to Adam Carolla. Okay, in order to get the whole story, I have to start with today's Podcast. He has told this story before, but now I've connected the dots. Apparently his junior high school girlfriend grew up to be an actress. He finally said her name and some of the movies she had been in. We'll she's no Joyce Hyser, but she did play the chick in Teen Wolf Too.

First thing on my resume: Did it with Jason Bateman.

Hey, that was one of my guilty pleasures as a kid. I recorded off of TBS and watched it a thousand times. Of course I memorized the edited version. Same thing happened with Ferris Bueller ("It's not a piece of tin!") and Vacation ("Who do I look like? Christopher Colombo?"). Supernatural aspects aside, it was just one of those teen movies here you root for the geek to get the girl. But Teen Wolf Too was different. You want the geek geek boy to realize the hot chick isn't really for him, unlike the geek girl that's been in front of him the whole time. (Totally different. Much like the plot of this movie and it's predecessor. Boxing in college is not the same as basketball in high school.)

The point is this sent me on a internet voyage through pictures and reminiscing about other movies in the same vein. You know, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Zapped!, My Boyfriend's Back; movies I should have never wasted the original hour and a half to see, let alone countless that I used watching again and again (My dad would ask me if I though the ending would change.). The voyage ended with me spending more time than I would like to admit watching Just of the Guys on YouTube at work. Good lord, that movie is awful. It's not even in the top three of William Zabka being the bad guy movies. (That would be The Karate Kid, the first few minutes of The Karate Kid, Part II, and Back to School.)

I come home and waste even more time watching My Best Friend is Vampire. I had the biggest crush on Robert Sean Leonard. I love and (and for obvious reasons hate) Dead Poet's Society. And now he's Wilson on House. Granted my attracted as switched to a different doctor on that show, but I digress. So I'm watching this horrible excuse for a movie and see Kathy Bates in a small role. Holy crap. I guess Academy Award winning actors have to start somewhere. And that when I noticed it. My Boyfriend's Back had Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Buffy the Vampire Slayer had Hilary Swank (and Ben Affleck if you watch closely). There's probably more but I don't want to force connections by hunting for them. They should be organic.

I actually mentioned to my boyfriend that the whole Joyce Hyser fading into obscurity gives me hope for Megan Fox doing the same in twenty years. Lack of talent (and if you don't believe me, watch the movie without the scene with her boobs) will eventually result in fewer roles. And the background people will emerge to the top of the A list. Or at least that's my theory.