Yes…it’s true. Danica McKeller (aka Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years) got hitched this last week to some undeserving jerk named Mike Verta. The chase is finally over. Mike Verta…whoever you are…you win. Congratulations.
I have to say…it breaks my heart a little. I mean, it’s not that Winnie Cooper was overwhelmingly attractive or charming. She wasn’t the Belle of the Ball or anything. No…what made Winnie Cooper so attractive to so many adolescent boys, was the fact that she was just unattainable enough. She was always juuust out of reach; the carrot dangling in front of all our faces. Everyone could relate with Kevin Arnold because every kid that ever went to junior high-school had a Winnie Cooper of their own. Ahhhhhhh yes. Man…it’s just downright sad.
On another quick note. To those of you who dare say that Topanga of Boy Meets World fame ever had anything on my girl Winnie…I say to you (with as much of a Southern accent as I can muster) “Topanga ain’t never had NOTHIN on no Winnie Cooper!!!” Wow…I think that I might have just successfully landed a quadruple negative.
Anyway…all of the broken hearted Kevin Arnolds of the world raise a glass. Here’s to the one that got away.
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My first crush was the mom from the movie ‘Vacation.’ Beverly Deangelo. Sarah thinks I’m sick for it. I’m really not. I’m totally normal. Super normal. Normal.
Still, I thought Winnie was ‘h’ to the ‘o’ to the ‘t’. Her name reminds me “the Pooh.” So I pictured myself coming home to Winnie (Cooper, not the Pooh), bringing her a big jar of honey, to her delight.
A boy can dream…