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    The Definitive "Hot Or Not" Ranking Of '90s Heartthrobs

    Featuring everyone you ever crushed on, ever.

    by Julie Gerstein, Summer Anne Burton, Arianna Rebolini, Katie Heaney, Joanna Borns, Jessica Misener

    Jonathan Taylor Thomas

    All Girl Productions

    "That baby face is a gift that keeps on giving."

    "I was so in love with JTT. I was, like, DEPRESSED about JTT."

    "Like depressed he couldn't be yours?"

    "Yes. I literally cried."

    Luke Perry

    Fox

    "The word 'unf' was invented for Luke Perry."

    "Even WITH and maybe especially with the drug rug on."

    Bill Pullman

    Twentieth Century Fox

    "Bill Pullman is super hot."

    "You mean DAD HOT."

    Leo DiCaprio

    Twentieth Century Fox

    "I like pretty boys."

    "I think my attraction was 90% hair, 10% blueness of eyes. Nothing else matters."

    "I liked him on Growing Pains and then never again."

    "I hate Titanic. I hate Romeo & Juliet.

    "I hate how wide his face has gotten in his thirties."

    Usher

    Dimension Films

    "I was obsessed with Usher."

    "Dreamy. Adorable. Talented. Total package. Then and now."

    "I saw The Faculty on opening night all for Usher."

    Mark Wahlberg

    Universal Pictures

    "HOTTEST when he was in I Heart Huckabees riding a bike in his firefighter uniform. I mean he was hot but so empty, like, unimaginable as a boyfriend. Now he is totally husband material. Oh god, I just said husband material. Kill me."

    Dave Coulier

    ABC Photo Archives

    "All of my friends were hot for Uncle Jesse, but Coulier would have been such a good boyfriend IMO."

    "Stamos wants BJs, Coulier wants to make out for hours."

    "Uncle Jesse was so hot and now he's shilling yogurt and it's so depressing."

    Dodger

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    "I had a crush on Dodger from Oliver and Company."

    "Cool guy."

    "He reminds me of Jeff Bridges."

    Ethan Embry

    Paramount Pictures

    "He was my ultimate."

    "That smiiiiiiiile."

    "He just seemed like a guy who would make you a really good mixtape."

    Justin Timberlake

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    "I have almost no memory of my own life but I do remember watching Disney Channel in my parents' basement and seeing NSYNC performing 'I Want You Back' in an ad for a concert special and watching JT, like, turn around and smile at the camera, and me being like, 'I UNDERSTAND SEXUALITY.'"

    Jared Leto

    ABC

    "Duh."

    Alec Baldwin

    timburton.wikia.com

    "Partial sweater."

    "Piercing stare."

    "No thank you."

    Rock-a-Doodle

    Samuel Goldwyn Company

    "I was very into Rock-a-Doodle."

    "Who is that?

    "A really hot male chicken.

    Edward Furlong

    TriStar Pictures

    "Was anyone else attracted to Edward Furlong but didn't want to be? I remember watching Pet Cemetery and thinking, What is this feeling?"

    "It is really intense, right?"

    Breckin Meyer

    Paramount Pictures

    "Breckin Meyer would be the type of terrible boyfriend who you'd invite to dinner at your parent's house and he wouldn't show up because he was at the skatepark with his bros."

    "He would have subsisted on Slim Jims."

    Edward the Tank Engine

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    "'Edward is a kind engine, who is always keen to help a friend in need.' —His Wikipedia page. That's what I like in a man/train."

    "Thomas was kind of a player."

    Freddie Prinze Jr.

    Warner Bros.

    "So hot somehow in spite of the weirdness and pointiness of his hair."

    "He always seemed so boring to me, like a slightly more charismatic Carson Daly."

    "Like, kind of a tool."

    "The part in She's All That when he does the, like, pseudo-moving 'I am more than the sport I play' slam poetry thing makes me want to die of secondhand embarrassment."

    "For some reason I couldn't get past just how bad of an actor he was that he just made me uncomfortable."

    "FPJ was like a human golden retriever."

    Brendan Fraser

    Warner Bros.

    "Brendan Fraser was hot in, like, Tarzan in a very base way but other than that I find him too pillowy."

    "He's a potato."

    "Def a potato."

    Seth Green

    Columbia Pictures

    "I feel like I might have legitimately had a crush on him."

    "Hard no."

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    NBC Universal

    "He reminded me too much of my best friend's little sister."

    "Why else would you watch 3rd Rock From the Sun? French Stewart? NO."

    "JGL should have joined Hanson."

    Hanson

    mtv.com

    "Sorry, the middle one was a hottie and that was never age-appropriate for me to say. Probably even now."

    "I pretended to think they were hot but I found their hair appalling."

    "I genuinely thought all the Hansons were girls the first time I saw the 'MMMBop' video."

    Jason Biggs

    Universal Pictures

    "I think he totally epitomized that '90s guy who shopped at Aeropostale and was an average dork."

    The guys on Baywatch

    NBC

    "Hottest guy on Baywatch was Hasselhoff's kid."

    "Who became a meth head or something."

    Brian Austin Green

    Fox

    "Nope."

    "Pass."

    "Creep vibe."

    "I felt like he would put his entire tongue in my mouth. It scared me. He was too lustful."

    "I feel like his closet only had vests in it."

    Scott Wolf

    Fox

    "Not into it. Looks like an assistant high school basketball coach."

    Jaleel White

    NBC

    "Now? Yes. As Urkel? Nope."