The Lubbock Babes from Just the Ten of Us!

I haven’t paid homage to the late 80s and early 90s sitcom jewel Just the Ten of Us as much as I should have. My favorite Just the Ten of Us character, Wendy the mega slut played by Brooke Theiss, was HSOTD a million years ago and so was Heidi Zeigler. But beyond that, NOTHING. I can’t believe it has taken me this long to pay tribute to The Lubbock Babes, the pop girl group sensation from JTTOU. My late 80s-self would slap the skin off of my face if he could.

In case you’re uneducated in the subject of glorious American 80s sitcoms and have no idea what JTTOU is, JTTOU was a spin-off of Growing Pains that followed Mike and Carol Seaver’s gym coach after he gets fired and moves to California with his wife and eight kids. In the show’s first season, the focus was on the coach, but ABC quickly realized that nobody cared about his ass and the true stars were the four older daughters. So in the second season, the four older Lubbock daughters got most of the screen time.

The older Lubbock daughters were made up of the STAR Wendy, Cindy the dum dum (played by Jamie Luner from Melrose Place and Savannah), Marie the goody goody and aspiring nun (played by Heather Langenkamp from Nightmare on Elm Street) and Connie the free-spirited smarty. To bring in more money for the family, they started a girl group called The Lubbock Babes and brought some true star power to their town by performing at a local restaurant.

A while ago, a Just the Ten of Us fan put together the “Best of The Lubbock Babes” video and that person really deserves saint status. Behold,  the original Spice Girls!

Just the Ten of Us was canceled in 1990 after only 3 seasons.

We, as a people, have waited long enough for a Lubbock Babes reunion tour. Now is the time. Then again, maybe it’s best if they don’t do a reunion tour and stay living in our hearts forever, because I don’t think there’s an arena big enough to hold all of their millions of fans and those who couldn’t get tickets to their sold out tour would riot in the streets. Either way, The Lubbock Babes 4Eva!

Ciara (30)
Rylan Clark (27)
Gillian Zinser (30)
Katy Perry (31)
Josh Henderson (34)
Mehcad Brooks (35)
Mariana Klaveno (36)
Bat for Lashes (36)
Rosa Mendes (36)
Persia White (43)
Craig Robinson (44)
Adam Goldberg (45)
Adam Pascal (45)
Chely Wright (45)
Nika Futterman (46)
Mathieu Amalric (50)
Michael Boatman (51)
Tracy Nelson (52)
David Furnish (53)
Chad Smith (54)
Nancy Cartwright (58)
Helen Reddy (74)
Marion Ross (87)
Barbara Cook (88)

Pic: FameFlynet

Mark this day on the calendar: October 24th, 2015 – the day we talk about Channing Tatum’s poo whispers. And the person we have to thank for such a milestone is Jake Johnson, aka Nick from New Girl. Jake filmed a thing with People where he talked about a Flashback Friday moment. Instead of going for the obvious, aka the day he became a top-shelf DILF (don’t judge my choices), he dug a little deeper. Which is to say, he dug deep into Channing Tatum’s colon and told the tale of the time he let his messy farts roam freely on the set of 21 Jump Street. Jake, who played the principal of the school where Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill pretend to be teenagers, said that the loveable stripping doofus kept ripping hot farts during the filming of his first scene. He also apparently cupped his farts and threw them in Jonah’s face. Here’s Nick from New Girl talking about it:

Why does absolutely none of this surprise me? OF COURSE Channing Tatum is the type who would blast butt wind at work. And OF COURSE he would laugh while trying to catch the stank in his hands and push it into someone’s face. I’m more shocked that Jake’s story didn’t end with Channing making a makeshift bed on set, pulling the entire cast and crew into said bed, farting so hard the ripple off his asslips bends space and time, and then yanking the duvet over all their heads so he could give everyone a dutch oven.

Last week, professional cool cousin Jennifer Lawrence wrote a long essay for Lenny about how pissed off she was about the Hollywood wage gap. Thanks to the Sony hack, JLaw discovered that the numbers on her paycheck for American Hustle were a lot smaller than those of the guys she worked with, and that made JLaw frown harder than the time she released a massive pizza burp and there was no one around to hear it. Now the director of American Hustle and JLaw’s upcoming film Joy, David O. Russell, is chiming in with his thoughts. Because just like their dramatic on-set screaming matches, David O. Russell always has to get the last word.

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During a recent interview with HuffPost Live, perfect human (put down your hands, it’s not up for discussion) Terry Crews admitted that he and his wife Rebecca King-Crews, who is sort of giving me later-in-life Amber Rose vibes above, went on a 90-day sex fast. Yes, by choice. They chose not to hump on each other. For a whole 90 days. I know, I don’t get it either. Terry says that they both put CLOSED signs over their crotches to get closer to each other without secretly wondering if “Hi honey, how was your day?” is code for “I’m ready to bone if you are.”

“90 days – no sex, all relationship, all talk, all cuddle. I found that at the end of that 90 days…I knew who she was, and it wasn’t about ‘Let’s go out because I know I’m gonna get some sex later.’ It was like, ‘Let’s go because I want to talk to you. I want to know you’.”

Awww, that’s actually sweet. One day I hope to get to the point where I’m on a date and the person I’m with says “I want to talk to you” instead of “For the love of god please shut up about Pumpkin Spice Peeps. I DON’T CARE.” And I don’t know if this is a thing that exists, but can we nominate Rebecca King-Crews for a Congressional Medal of Coochie Determination or something? Because I don’t know how she was able to last 90 days. That’s some next-level dedication. If I was married to Terry Crews, I’d be calling that shit off after 36 hours.

Speaking of, here’s Terry Crews looking fine as hell at a charity event last week, because why not. I’ve also included some pictures of him posing on the red carpet with his hero wife. I don’t know how you did it Rebecca! No really, how did you do it. Waitmates? Was it Waitmates?

Pics: Wenn.com

In the event you were looking for a definition for the word “Shameless“, I think I can help you out. Dennis Hof, the dude who owns the Nevada brothel where Lamar Odom was found unconscious and Pimp Mama Kris’ biggest competition for the person who is being the most tacky during this whole ordeal, has once again opened his mouth and coughed up a pile of stink. You would have thought he had gotten it all out during that appearance on Nancy Grace, but apparently not.

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