We all have them. An ‘uncool’ song that gets to us, some offbeat movie that you can’t see enough, a snack that others may turn their nose up at and so on. I’m talking about guilty pleasures. Those items or happenings we turn to for a laugh, smile or just to feel good. They may or may not make sense. Doesn’t matter. So here are some of my personal guilty pleasures.
POOP SCENES IN MOVIES– Call it juvenile, immature, call it dumb, but anytime in a movie when someone has to unload their bowels in a furious hurry, I crack up. I’m talking about clips like Jeff Daniels in “Dumb & Dumber”, “American Pie’s” Finch being stuck in a poopy mudslide while in a girls bathroom or the infamous bad Mexican food puke and crap scene at the bridal shop in “Bridesmaids.” Forgive me.
LOVING THE MONKEY BOY When watching the movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, if Steve Martin playing Ruprecht the Monkey Boy doesn’t crack you up, then we have nothing more to talk about.
OF COURSE YOU CAN GO TO THE BATHROOM RUPRECHT.
For another pleasure in the gross-out category, there’s my watching the TLC series “Dr. Pimple Popper.” It makes no sense that I find normal bare feet disgustingly impossible to look at but can easily watch Dr. Sandra Lee squeeze gooey custard from her patients’ cysts, lipomas and other skin growths.
EAR CANDY- Anytime I’m in a mood to hear some bubblegum music from the past, I turn to You Tube and Debbie Gibson’s hit “Only in my Dreams.” That song is the quintessential 80’s pop song, there are none that come close to it.
DEBBIE GIBSON’S LATE 80’S DEBUT ALBUM WAS A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF CONTEMPORARY POP MUSIC.
SAY YES TO JESS And when I’m looking for a pop song with some country twang, I turn to Jessica Simpson and “Come on Over.” Former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo once described his former lover Jessica as being “sexual napalm.” I guess we’ll have to take his word for it.
JESSICA SIMPSON TURNS THE TABLES ON A BOOTY CALL WITH ‘COME ON OVER.”
ATKINS ANYONE? I’m a Rob Lowe fan. Although I’ve never tried the snack foods from the Atkins Diet people, I like seeing actor Rob Lowe doing TV pitch work for those treats. Lowe is a great choice to rep Atkins peanut butter snacks and other meals. Four years short of 60, the guy still looks youthful and keeps things light and easy when talking up the eats. While many dismissed Rob Lowe as a lightweight ‘pretty boy’ I never did. I get the impression that Rob ‘got it’ and never took his reputation too seriously. Also, he’s over 25 years sober, been married to the same woman (four years older than him) for almost 30 years and they’re raising what appears to be two normal and happy sons. If you ever want to see the former “Parks and Recreation” star at his sinister best, check out the movie “Bad Influence.” And you’ll find Rob Lowe at his creepiest best as the Liberace’s plastic surgeon in “Behind the Candleabra.”
If you want to see another star not take themselves so seriously, try the “Funny or Die” clip starring former “Baywatch” hottie Nicole Eggert. I was never into “Baywatch” but she won me over with a return to her lifeguard gig. A couple of years ago Nicole jumped into the “Me Too” movement claiming actor Scott Baio had sex with her when she was underage, this in spite of previous statements she made about being of legal age when first having adult relations. But let’s drop that and dig on the ‘Funny of Die’ bit.
NICOLE EGGERT RE-VISITED HER “BAYWATCH’ DAYS IN THIS FUNNY OR DIE CLIP.
There are plenty of movies I enjoy watching again and one of them is “Magic Mike” (yeah, yeah, the male stripper film). To me the night club/dance scenes are the dull ones but the story away from the club is worth seeing. I especially like how “Magic Mike” closes out with a yet to be acted upon romance that is about to start up. (And don’t cry ‘spoiler alert’ on this one, you’ve had eight years to see the damn movie)
So those are some of my secret little enjoyments. Silly and fun for me yes, and a little dumb. I humbly plead “Guilty!”
NEXT BLOG- Another round of ‘Have You Evers.’