My Favorite Awkward Boys!
I decided to do a fun post with pictures and lots of quotes and actually make a big, organized post for once!
Anyway, I always love nerdy, awkward guys, and they amuse me so much, so I thought I'd compile a list of my favorites as Jezebel.com recently had a post in which they graded John Hughes Movie Boyfriends (Ferris Bueller got the highest mark of course), so I will start with the 80s archetypes with John Hughes and John Cusack. Mostly I was just amusing myself with pretty pictures and adorable quotes.
Ok, so I have a total thing for red heads, It should be pretty obvious I love Anthony Michael Hall, but there's also Rupert Grint, and of course Drake Bell. Anthony Michael Hall defined the geek for the John Hughes oevre, and although I find Farmer Ted very endearing, I prefer Brian Johnson from the Breakfast Club. Brian seems more self-aware, and comfortable with his geekiness. Farmer Ted can be very clingy and insecure, where Brian just seems more laid-back, yet still sensitive
so that's Farmer Ted/The Geek and here are some of my favorite quotes from him
The Geek: This information cannot leave this room. Ok? It would devastate my reputation as a dude.
Samantha: No problem.
The Geek: I've never bagged a babe. I'm not a stud.
The Geek: Do you know how many times a week I go without lunch because some bitch borrows my lunch money? Y'know, any halfway decent girl can rob me blind, because I'm too torqued up to say no.
And Here is Brian Johnson
The most famous lines in The Breakfast Club are credited to Brian, but he also babbles about things..like what clubs he's in, what he brought for lunch, and he's just generally shy. I don't know why I find babbling so much, but I do. Also, Bender calls him a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie, which is just awesome.
Bender: Dork,
Brian: Yeah?
Bender: You are a parents wet dream, OK?
Brian: Well, thats the problem.
Bender: Look, I can see you getting all bunged up for them making you wear these kind of clothes. But face it, you're a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie. What would you be doing if you weren't out making yourself a better citizen?
Andrew: Why do always have to insult everybody?
Bender: I'm being honest, asshole. I would expect you to know the difference.
Andrew: Yeah well he has a name.
Bender: Yeah?
Andrew: Yeah. Whats your name?
Brian: Brian.
Andrew: See?
Bender: My condolences.
Now one may argue that Anthony Michael Hall always played the same character, and one can definitely say that about Michael Cera (although I am super excited for both Youth in Revolt and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World as they are very different roles) but I don't care because I love them so much.
I do love Arrested Development, but George Michael Bluth is totally not the best character on that show (my Fav is Tobias). I totally love Paulie Bleeker because he is so earnest and sweet and he still has a friggin race car bed!
I love the interaction between him and Juno, and I think this is my fav:
Juno MacGuff: Yea, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom I can think of so many cooler things to do that night. Like, you know what Bleek? I might pumice my feet, uh, I might go to Bren's Unitarian Church, maybe get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice, you know? Cause all those things, would be exponentially cooler than going to prom with you.
Paulie Bleeker: You're being really immature... You have no reason to be mad at me, I mean, you know, you broke MY heart. I should be royally ticked off at you. I should be really cheesed off, I shouldn't want to talk to you anymore.
Juno MacGuff: What? Cause I got bored and had sex with you and I didn't want to like marry you?
Paulie Bleeker: Like I'd marry you! You'd be the meanest wife ever, okay? And I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, and then 'The Blair Witch Project' was coming on Starz and you were like 'I haven't seen this since it came out and if so we should watch it' and then 'but oh, no, we should just make out instead la la la'
Juno MacGuff: You just take Katrina the douchepacker to prom. I'm sure you two will have like a real bitchin' time.
Paulie Bleeker: Well, I still have your underwear!
FYI My screenwriting teacher just told me that Soupy Sales was a kids show back in the fifties, so that is actually yet another pop culture reference. but, the way he says la la la is just too precious.
He's really sweet as well in Nick and Norah's infinite playlist, and he wears hoodies!! I have such a weakness for hoodies! And glasses.
Oh my gosh I did redheads and I almost skipped Ron Weasley!
I am so happy to have found so many people who love Ron and Hermione even though there are some (Mal!) who would like him dead. But Rupert is definitely super gorgeous, and Ron is just so sweet and funny and sometimes quite clueless I can't help but love him. In honor of Half Blood Prince coming out, I am including my absolutely favorite part of the book:
'Slug Club,'" repeated Ron with a sneer worthy of Malfoy. "It's pathetic. Well, I hope you enjoy your party. Why don't you try hooking up with McLaggen, then Slughorn can make you King and Queen Slug --"
"We're allowed to bring guests," said Hermione, who sor some reason had turned a bright, boiling scarlet, " and I was going to ask you to come, but if you think it's stupid then I won't bother!"
Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, so that he need not have been sitting here with the pair of them. Unnoticed by either, he seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it by the noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he could still hear every word of their conversation.
"You were going to ask me?" said Ron, in a completely different voice.
"Yes," said Hermione angrily. "But obviously if you'd rather I hooked up with McLaggen ..."
There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel.
"No, I wouldn't," said Ron, in a very quiet voice.
Harry missed the pod, hit the bowl, and shattered it.
"Reparo," he said hastily, poking the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back together again. The crash, however, appeared to have awoken Ron and Hermione to Harry's presence.
The Ultimate "sensitive guy" at least for teen movies though is generally considered to be Lloyd Dobler. Now I hesitate to add him to this list, as he is awkward, but he is not a dork. but he's Lloyd Dobler and I must.
How could you hate anyone that leaves messages like this for you: "Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."
Now I move onto the sarcastic, awkward, not nerds, more geeks type of guys. The type who read comic books and wear ironic tees. They don't so much babble, so much as speak really, really fast
Oh Seth Cohen. How I love you. The OC had some great dialogue, and Seth's was definitely the best. Josh Schwartz said he was basically modeled on himself, and he's a funny dude.
Some random yet classic Seth lines:
Seth Cohen: (to Ryan) Summer's right over there, look. Wait, don't look. I mean you can look, but don't look like you're looking.
Seth: Oh wow, I should really learn how to knock. Just in case there's a threesome going on. In the bathroom.
Seth: You guys really wouldn't hurt me. Because that would be so clichéd. they pick him up I guess you're fans of the cliché then.
Luke Ward: What are you looking at, you queer
Seth: quietly Yeah, well at least I don't shave my chest. Luke: What did you just say?
Seth: I said you look good in a sweater vest. It was a compliment.
Then there is Xander Harris.
I love Xander, as well as Spike. When Xander and Spike get together, amazing things happen
Xander Harris: Also, sometimes I'll say something about Anya and Willow will get this look, this, um, What-The-Hell-Do-You-See-In-Her look.
Spike: I know that look. A lot of people never really got Dru, you know.
Xander Harris: Well, she was insane.
Then there is the running Joke about the time Xander was cursed with Syphillis in the fifth season by a Shumash tribe. I just happen to find STDs hilarious (the gonorrhea outbreak episode of Degrassi is one of my favorites) and Xander + STD= immature giggle fit
Xander: Hey, can we come rocketing back to the part about me and my new syphilis?
Anya: It'll make you blind and insane, but it won't kill you. The smallpox will.
Buffy: First Thanksgiving on my own, and we all got through it.
Xander: And you know what? I think my syphilis is clearin' right up.
Buffy: And they say romance is dead. Or maybe they just wish it.
And then I will finish with David Healy because this is getting super long.
I really love Johnny Galecki on The Big Bang Theory, and my uncle actually was in "The Opposite of Sex' with him, but David is definitely my favorite. His exchanges with Darlene are one of my favorite parts of Roseanne. I couldn't find any searching online, but I did find this
David: Alright, um. See, uh, boys who have boyfriends, do things with their friends that a boy who has a friend who just happens to be a boy would probably never do.
DJ: I don't understand.
Mark:Yeah, me neither.
David: See, when two men love each other, they uh, like everybody else, they like to share each other's feelings for one another through...beautiful expressons of, uh, physical love.
DJ: How do they do that?
Mark: Hey, if a guy's comfortable with himself, he isn't afraid to talk about this. Ya fruit.
David: Okay, uh. See, one guy will ...uh...um, he and the other guy will, uh...see what they do is uh...oh god! I don't know what they do! Leave me alone DJ!
As I am sure you all noticed, I did not include Josh Nichols, but that is because I don't think I can appropriately sum up my love for him. I hope this wasn't too long, but I did have fun going over the quotes!
Anyway, I always love nerdy, awkward guys, and they amuse me so much, so I thought I'd compile a list of my favorites as Jezebel.com recently had a post in which they graded John Hughes Movie Boyfriends (Ferris Bueller got the highest mark of course), so I will start with the 80s archetypes with John Hughes and John Cusack. Mostly I was just amusing myself with pretty pictures and adorable quotes.
Ok, so I have a total thing for red heads, It should be pretty obvious I love Anthony Michael Hall, but there's also Rupert Grint, and of course Drake Bell. Anthony Michael Hall defined the geek for the John Hughes oevre, and although I find Farmer Ted very endearing, I prefer Brian Johnson from the Breakfast Club. Brian seems more self-aware, and comfortable with his geekiness. Farmer Ted can be very clingy and insecure, where Brian just seems more laid-back, yet still sensitive
so that's Farmer Ted/The Geek and here are some of my favorite quotes from him
The Geek: This information cannot leave this room. Ok? It would devastate my reputation as a dude.
Samantha: No problem.
The Geek: I've never bagged a babe. I'm not a stud.
The Geek: Do you know how many times a week I go without lunch because some bitch borrows my lunch money? Y'know, any halfway decent girl can rob me blind, because I'm too torqued up to say no.
And Here is Brian Johnson
The most famous lines in The Breakfast Club are credited to Brian, but he also babbles about things..like what clubs he's in, what he brought for lunch, and he's just generally shy. I don't know why I find babbling so much, but I do. Also, Bender calls him a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie, which is just awesome.
Bender: Dork,
Brian: Yeah?
Bender: You are a parents wet dream, OK?
Brian: Well, thats the problem.
Bender: Look, I can see you getting all bunged up for them making you wear these kind of clothes. But face it, you're a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie. What would you be doing if you weren't out making yourself a better citizen?
Andrew: Why do always have to insult everybody?
Bender: I'm being honest, asshole. I would expect you to know the difference.
Andrew: Yeah well he has a name.
Bender: Yeah?
Andrew: Yeah. Whats your name?
Brian: Brian.
Andrew: See?
Bender: My condolences.
Now one may argue that Anthony Michael Hall always played the same character, and one can definitely say that about Michael Cera (although I am super excited for both Youth in Revolt and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World as they are very different roles) but I don't care because I love them so much.
I do love Arrested Development, but George Michael Bluth is totally not the best character on that show (my Fav is Tobias). I totally love Paulie Bleeker because he is so earnest and sweet and he still has a friggin race car bed!
I love the interaction between him and Juno, and I think this is my fav:
Juno MacGuff: Yea, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom I can think of so many cooler things to do that night. Like, you know what Bleek? I might pumice my feet, uh, I might go to Bren's Unitarian Church, maybe get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice, you know? Cause all those things, would be exponentially cooler than going to prom with you.
Paulie Bleeker: You're being really immature... You have no reason to be mad at me, I mean, you know, you broke MY heart. I should be royally ticked off at you. I should be really cheesed off, I shouldn't want to talk to you anymore.
Juno MacGuff: What? Cause I got bored and had sex with you and I didn't want to like marry you?
Paulie Bleeker: Like I'd marry you! You'd be the meanest wife ever, okay? And I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, and then 'The Blair Witch Project' was coming on Starz and you were like 'I haven't seen this since it came out and if so we should watch it' and then 'but oh, no, we should just make out instead la la la'
Juno MacGuff: You just take Katrina the douchepacker to prom. I'm sure you two will have like a real bitchin' time.
Paulie Bleeker: Well, I still have your underwear!
FYI My screenwriting teacher just told me that Soupy Sales was a kids show back in the fifties, so that is actually yet another pop culture reference. but, the way he says la la la is just too precious.
He's really sweet as well in Nick and Norah's infinite playlist, and he wears hoodies!! I have such a weakness for hoodies! And glasses.
Oh my gosh I did redheads and I almost skipped Ron Weasley!
I am so happy to have found so many people who love Ron and Hermione even though there are some (Mal!) who would like him dead. But Rupert is definitely super gorgeous, and Ron is just so sweet and funny and sometimes quite clueless I can't help but love him. In honor of Half Blood Prince coming out, I am including my absolutely favorite part of the book:
'Slug Club,'" repeated Ron with a sneer worthy of Malfoy. "It's pathetic. Well, I hope you enjoy your party. Why don't you try hooking up with McLaggen, then Slughorn can make you King and Queen Slug --"
"We're allowed to bring guests," said Hermione, who sor some reason had turned a bright, boiling scarlet, " and I was going to ask you to come, but if you think it's stupid then I won't bother!"
Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, so that he need not have been sitting here with the pair of them. Unnoticed by either, he seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it by the noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he could still hear every word of their conversation.
"You were going to ask me?" said Ron, in a completely different voice.
"Yes," said Hermione angrily. "But obviously if you'd rather I hooked up with McLaggen ..."
There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel.
"No, I wouldn't," said Ron, in a very quiet voice.
Harry missed the pod, hit the bowl, and shattered it.
"Reparo," he said hastily, poking the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back together again. The crash, however, appeared to have awoken Ron and Hermione to Harry's presence.
The Ultimate "sensitive guy" at least for teen movies though is generally considered to be Lloyd Dobler. Now I hesitate to add him to this list, as he is awkward, but he is not a dork. but he's Lloyd Dobler and I must.
How could you hate anyone that leaves messages like this for you: "Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."
Now I move onto the sarcastic, awkward, not nerds, more geeks type of guys. The type who read comic books and wear ironic tees. They don't so much babble, so much as speak really, really fast
Oh Seth Cohen. How I love you. The OC had some great dialogue, and Seth's was definitely the best. Josh Schwartz said he was basically modeled on himself, and he's a funny dude.
Some random yet classic Seth lines:
Seth Cohen: (to Ryan) Summer's right over there, look. Wait, don't look. I mean you can look, but don't look like you're looking.
Seth: Oh wow, I should really learn how to knock. Just in case there's a threesome going on. In the bathroom.
Seth: You guys really wouldn't hurt me. Because that would be so clichéd. they pick him up I guess you're fans of the cliché then.
Luke Ward: What are you looking at, you queer
Seth: quietly Yeah, well at least I don't shave my chest. Luke: What did you just say?
Seth: I said you look good in a sweater vest. It was a compliment.
Then there is Xander Harris.
I love Xander, as well as Spike. When Xander and Spike get together, amazing things happen
Xander Harris: Also, sometimes I'll say something about Anya and Willow will get this look, this, um, What-The-Hell-Do-You-See-In-Her look.
Spike: I know that look. A lot of people never really got Dru, you know.
Xander Harris: Well, she was insane.
Then there is the running Joke about the time Xander was cursed with Syphillis in the fifth season by a Shumash tribe. I just happen to find STDs hilarious (the gonorrhea outbreak episode of Degrassi is one of my favorites) and Xander + STD= immature giggle fit
Xander: Hey, can we come rocketing back to the part about me and my new syphilis?
Anya: It'll make you blind and insane, but it won't kill you. The smallpox will.
Buffy: First Thanksgiving on my own, and we all got through it.
Xander: And you know what? I think my syphilis is clearin' right up.
Buffy: And they say romance is dead. Or maybe they just wish it.
And then I will finish with David Healy because this is getting super long.
I really love Johnny Galecki on The Big Bang Theory, and my uncle actually was in "The Opposite of Sex' with him, but David is definitely my favorite. His exchanges with Darlene are one of my favorite parts of Roseanne. I couldn't find any searching online, but I did find this
David: Alright, um. See, uh, boys who have boyfriends, do things with their friends that a boy who has a friend who just happens to be a boy would probably never do.
DJ: I don't understand.
Mark:Yeah, me neither.
David: See, when two men love each other, they uh, like everybody else, they like to share each other's feelings for one another through...beautiful expressons of, uh, physical love.
DJ: How do they do that?
Mark: Hey, if a guy's comfortable with himself, he isn't afraid to talk about this. Ya fruit.
David: Okay, uh. See, one guy will ...uh...um, he and the other guy will, uh...see what they do is uh...oh god! I don't know what they do! Leave me alone DJ!
As I am sure you all noticed, I did not include Josh Nichols, but that is because I don't think I can appropriately sum up my love for him. I hope this wasn't too long, but I did have fun going over the quotes!