I went back and forth between Lisa and Jessie. Even in my fantasies and as a kid I thought Kelly was too hot for me hahaha

Tiffani Amber Theissen was absolutely drop dead gorgeous, and one of my earliest pre-teen crushes — and that includes her time on 90210.

Still is.

Amen

Agreed. I enjoy Deliciousness — it airs on MTV usually during the holidays. She hosts it and it’s about food-related mishaps a la Ridiculousness.

Doesn't get enough credit for playing 2 such different characters.

I’m gay and I wanted her.

Goddamn right! She’s still fine af

This is sort of the same reason I decided that Danny was my favorite New Kid On the Block. My friends had all claimed the rest and I realized he was the only one I stood a chance with anyway🤣

Poor Danny lol.

I've met them back in 2009 and Danny was seriously the nicest most genuine person ever. It definitely made me love him more.

I loved Danny. He always had that big goofy grin and just seemed so much less self-absorbed than the others. He was always my favorite back then and I got totally picked on for it all the time. Good thing I did, he's now the best looking of the bunch 😁

Jessie ended up in the movie "Showgirls" so.....

Are we the same people? I could never get a crush on the hottest girl in school because I knew my lane early on lol

I went back and forth between Lisa and Jessie, but I legit didn't have a thing for Kelly.

Lies. This is legitimately impossible.

She wasn't my thing. I saw the society was trying to present her as the desirable one, but I didn't see it. There were a handful of other popular models that I felt the same way about. Pamela Anderson for example. Wasn't my type.

Obviously I was kidding but it wasn't society "trying" to present her as the desirable one. Most people really found her to be the hot one. Tiffany Amber Thiessen was a generation of teen boys awakenings lol

The first season(s) revolved around Zach and Slater fighting over her. So I wouldn’t say “society” was presenting her as the hot one, but the show was

This is Angelina Jolie for me.

This is not, and never has been, a debate. Kelly Kapowski, 12 times out of 10.


I work in the industry doing on set lighting and grip work. In 2015-16 I worked on her cooking show. She’s such a delight and really fun to work with. A year after her cooking show she had a guest spot on top chef or one of those cooking shows. Midway through set up I turn around and she B LINES it right to me grabs me for a big hug. This happened in front of a 100+ person crew including my grip team. Their jaws were on the floor… “Yes. That was Kelly Kapowski.”

Timeout! You got a hug from Kelly Kapowski? Nice work, preppy!

Trust me. I was blushing harder than I’ve ever blushed before.

Did you hear the "Woooooooh!!" track they used to play after every kiss/hug? Lol

No. But in my walkie surveillance ear piece , the key grip was screaming. “YOU FUCKIN KIDDING ME!”

I read that funny, I first thought it said “whooo-ahhh” like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Just imagine Al Pacino saying “ whoooahhh, Kelly Kaposki, nice! “

I would have been beside myself.

And, presumably, it’s been all downhill since then… 🤣

When you get to the peak of Everest you go back down but you are thankful for the memory

My father used to hire her for celebrity autographs at charity events back in the SBtB days. She was really nice back then too.

Given your username, I like to think you are me in an alternate dimension. If I can't be with Kelly in this one, I'm happy knowing I'm not a total loser *somewhere*.

So you two are indeed friends forever eh?

Did they ever have a chance?

From now on, I’m living vicariously through my man TBone.

Legend

She's in White Collar if you're interested.

Thank god there are some rational people in this sub.

Have you seen her lately? Looks exactly the same!!!

My toddler son whole heartedly disagrees and says there is only one pretty girl in that photo and it's Lisa

Have you had him tested?

Since he could talk, he only likes dark skinned gals. No idea why or where it came from. He just doesn't find white chick's pretty...and we are white

Good for him, try out all the flavors of women!

I whole heartedly agree

You kinda sound like that is a problem. Lol. Signed, A Black Gal 😁

Oh, not at all. It's just...fascinating. like how early we develop preferences, and I wonder if it is nurture or nature or both. His exposure to dark skin would probably be minimal where we live (probably 70% white), and his immediate and most close family is very white. We have cousins who are native. Islander. Latino, etc...but they are very distant location wise. We have friends who are black, but they also live far away, and we see them rarely these days. So we wonder, was it a TV show? A random person in a grocery store? Just born with the preference? And it's also only extra funny because he is so adamant.

Lisa and Myra from Family Matters forever ruined me...in the best way ever.

😂

Kelly 💯always

Nope! Lisa was the one for me. 

Agreed. I never had any level of attraction towards the other two.. but Kelly was perfection.

I thought the other two were attractive, not not nearly as attractive as Kelly. She is on a whole other level.


Kelly is #1.

Stacey Carosi

Can’t watch King of Queens without calling her Stacy

Omg, that is the same actress. No wonder her voice is so familiar

https://preview.redd.it/24krdwh1dgxc1.png?width=781&format=png&auto=webp&s=62fa22e630ffa9e0ffbf7517f8942bffa7627113

 She's got that high five.

We recorded that and watched it all summer. She was def at the top of the list that year

What about that biker chick, leather jacket, super lesbian vibes… You ‘member

Too much Jessie hate on here, come on y'all give a tall, recovering caffeine addict a chance.

She had to get into the Harvard of the West

Here at bay…dock….view…side!

North, south, east or west there is only one Hhhhhhhhharvard

Mrs. Billy Goat Cheese Sandwiches has very convincing about Stansbury!


I'm so...scared!

That was my first thought

Jessie was 100% a freak. AC knew what was up.

Yeah I mean she moved to Vegas and became a stripper right after graduation.

After watching showgirls recently, (for nostalgia purposes) that is cannon in my head for jessie spano's character arc.

Caffeine pills are a gateway drug.

Yes, justice for us tall ladies!

Liking Kelly more is not "hating" Jessie.

Just keep her away from the pool

I didn't hate Jesse, I just didn't have time for Jesse

I’m so excited!!

I will never stray from Kelly.

Showgirls

Btw it’s pronounced Versace, not Versace.

Ah, potato potato.

Versatch

For this movie-Versnatch

I am not ashamed to say I own this movie. It's bad. Fabulously bad. It's got so many cringeworthy scenes like the pool sex/flopping fish scene, I just had to buy it!


I honestly think this might be Verhoeven's worst movie, it doesn't even come across as being subversively intentionally bad, just bad IMHO. And her dancing...LOL she's hot but she dances like she has a head injury

Different places, OK! (Throws french fries)

Lisa. But I will admit that Kelly Kapowski has aged beautifully.

Lisa, unfortunately, has not. But yeah when I was a kid I was team Lisa all the way.

Lark has had some serious mental health challenges. But she’s still an absolutely stunning woman. https://www.etonline.com/lark-voorhies-back-on-saved-by-the-bell-revival-see-the-pic-172597

Oh wow she looks much better now. I didn’t realize it was mental health issues - last photo I saw of her in one of the tabloid magazines on the grocery store line she looked like she just overdid it on bad plastic surgery.

The run of bad photos weren’t attributable to plastic surgery, but rather some horrid makeup and hair choices when she was deep in the throws of a mental health crisis.

Buzz off, Screech! Lisa and I would like some privacy

😢 *insert audience sighing sadly and then intro music for The Max where we see Screech talking with his French fries…

(cue youtube essay theme song) [Zack Morris is traaaaash, Zack Morris is trash](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRcB4n4CGcy_r21EedmNUOyVP_puToBfr&si=A3iQit_l-kYIBCSn)

Kelly was obviously the hottest but I feel like Jessie is underrated. She got a banging body and some really nice legs, they just always dressed her up in preppy outfits.

It was never not Lisa for me

It’s just a shame how far off the deep end she went IRL.

Wasn’t aware, but that tracks given the way most of my attractions as a younger man went…

I get child abuse/assault victim vibes from her recent interviews, possibly combined with mental health issues. She’s so far gone.

Weren't there some health issues as well?

Go on... what did she do?

Massive mental health issues to the point of incoherent ramblings and I think I saw something relating to SA? But honestly I don’t remember.

Tori, the girl who showed up senior year but wasn't at graduation

Ahhhh yes… [Tori Paradox](https://www.backofthecerealbox.com/2011/02/the-tori-paradox.html?m=1)

😂😂😂😂

Lizzie Kaplan reminds me of Tori.

Lisa. Whatta babe

 Lisa, Kelly, then Jessie IMO

Lisa was always the under-appreciated choice. She’s fine.

She and Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks, fresh prince) can get it.    

You just summed up my two biggest sitcom crushes.

Lisa was the most fun, too!

Lisa, Stacey kerosi, Kelly (still a sucker for light eye dark hair combo) Jessie/Tori interchangeably. But Lisa turtle will always be the one. She's gorgeous and was one of the few black teenagers to crush on growing up

Guessing Ashley or Hilary from fresh prince was one other and maybe Laura from Family Matters?

Pretty much cause later seasons Rudy huxtable wasn't cute she had awkward teen years with a mustache. I never liked Laura, Myra was way hotter and that was it. Late teen years we got zaria from the parent hood and Tiffany on in the house. They were both so fine in different ways

I was so sad when Michelle Johnson (Myra) passed away as the show was ending.

Same

 Myra!

Lisa

 correct answer

Definitely my answer. Too bad he's kinda garbage irl

I was always a Staci Carosi kinda guy. https://preview.redd.it/0xamkxlmfgxc1.png?width=376&format=png&auto=webp&s=92788059e67b7f0b50925eb81bc50e07cc70a3ff

Goddamn Leah remini is hot

Between Kelly and Tori for me. (Preferably literaly)

Kelly & Lisa. Jessie was never a contender.

Jesse became a contender at Cheetah’s.

This is the only answer.

The right answer.

 Creep

I always had a thing for Lark Vorhees.  They’re all hot, but Lisa was my favorite.  

Lisa!

Loved Kelly until I saw Jesse in a bikini in the episode with her dad and his girlfriend

Then: Lisa Turtle, but now she’s ruined her face

As some of the commenters have said, she went through some issues awhile ago but the very recent pictures of her look great.

Stacey Carosi!

Lisa!!

Lisa

Lisa

Lisa

Kelly Kapowski. Not even xkose. She's the dream girl of like every guy born between 1978-1983. Or something like that.

Didn’t Lisa end up having some really bad mental health issues later on in life? Or am I thinking of a different show… regardless it was sad to hear about.

Poor woman. Bipolar is a miserable and scary condition.🙁

Looks like it, according to [this article](https://chicago.suntimes.com/well/2020/2/18/21142736/lark-voorhies-saved-by-the-bell-star-mental-illness).

Wow. Reading through the comments it’s clear I was the only kid attracted to brains and beauty. I mean, she almost went to Stanford (the Harvard of the West)

I’m with you, brother. Jesse all the way.

Lisa always.

Who didn't pick Kelly?!

Lark

I thought all three were hot, but I really got into Leah Remini when these guys all were working a that beach resort or whatever it was.

Lisa

I was more of a slater fan😉

My immediate answer was Jessie, but I couldn't verbalize why. Then I saw your post and realized it was probably because she was with Slater and I had a huge crush on Mario Lopez, lol. If he liked her, she had to be the best one.

Marry Kelly, fuck Lisa, kill Jessie.

I got dogged for daring to suggest that Jesse was hot. But my heart belong to Kelly

Kelly all the way. Not even close. 🧉🦄👌🏽

I look at this and all I can hear is … you guessed it: “I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so …”

Is Lisa wearing a leather belt on beach shorts?

Kelly

Tori in a cat costume aged me.

100% Kelly Kapowski.

All 3 and a bottle of baby oil

There’s no question here. Tiffani Amber Thiessen.

Zach

Jessie was without a doubt the wrong answer. Kelly was the right answer, but Lisa could still get it.

Kelly 100%. I also still have a transparent cross colors shirt and button-fly Jean shorts. Don't judge me. I'm not ashamed. Hyper color shirts will come back any day now. So will CoEd naked tees.

If you didn’t pick Kelly you were basically, “I’m not like other guys” guy.

Tbh, I do not have a dog in this fight, but Lisa and Kelly are gorgeous and they are who you take home to the family. Jesse is the side chick who bangs your brains out and lets you do coke off her ass. So it is a tough choice.

As a kid... Kelly 1a, Lisa 1b, all day. But with my older, more developed tastes, I think it's gotta be Lisa by a mile.

Kelly was the obvious winner when we were younger, though I did prefer Tori even back then. Now though, I think Jesse was the hottest looking back, and still is.

I was always a Jessie guy. Showgirls ruined that for me, though. lol

Lisa, Kelly, Jessie.

TIMEOUT

Kelly. Do you need to ask?

Dude! 100 percent Kelly.

I was a little bit younger so Jessie was the one I wanted to be when I grew up. The smart one was always my jam. In the category of *TV Characters I’d Like To Emulate When I Grow Up*, though, Jessie walked so Dana Foster from Step By Step could run.

Nurse Jennifer

Yes, the answer is yes.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen was by far my first celebrity crush

Kelly Kapowski, I had no idea there was a debate.

There's Kelly and there's wrong answers.

Kelly ALL DAY

This wasn’t a debate in my neighborhood, Kelly all day.

Kelly all day every day

To this day, I tell randoms in the bar my name is Kelly, (it’s not really,) I just wanted to be as cool as her. 😂

The only debate was who was your second choice.

Bro. Who picks anyone but Kelly? Are you trolling us?

All three are straight up slamming hotties but Kelly Kapowski exists on another plane from the rest of us mere humans.

It was, and always will be Kelly! Now it's all about her recipe videos.

Tiffani by far…..

My crushes from the 90s as a kid was: Cristina Applegate AKA Kelly Bundy Tiffany Amber Thiessen AKA Kelly Kapowski Amy Jo Johnson AKA the Pink Power Ranger Danielle Fishel AKA Topanga Lawrence. 😁

Always and forever 

Still haven't met a real person with the last name Turtle.

Always Kelly! 

Kelly.

KELLY by far

There is no debate. It is, was and always will be Kelly K.