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Danica McKellar

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Favorite Otps/Pairings: Kevin Arnod & Winnie Cooper (The Wonder Years) “Once upon a time, there was a girl I knew who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes...When she smiled, I smiled. When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that ever happened to me that mattered in some way had to do with her. "

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The Wonder Years, pilot episode (1988)

According to Entertainment Weekly, behind the scenes another romance was beginning, too: "I had a total crush on Fred [Savage]," McKellar told EW 35 years later. "It was that little-kid crush where it's so innocent and so intense. It's not a little thing - you're like, 'I'm in love!' "

When it came time to film the kiss — which, in the episode, takes place just after Winnie learns that her older brother was killed in combat in Vietnam — she recalls, "I was so excited, jumping out of my skin. I was trying to remain calm and play the scene correctly, but I was about to have my first kiss ever. It was my first kiss in real life."

Of course, it wasn't what you'd call a perfect moment: "After we had our first kiss, the entire crew erupted into applause. And it was just so humiliating. Like, I'm trying to have a private moment here!" (Also, as Savage told EW last year, "Our moms were sitting up on a hill above us looking down. I remember being so nervous about that.")

Still, the then-preteen McKellar and Savage shared a sweet, and ultimately short, romance of sorts. "At that point, [when we filmed the kiss], I kind of thought he might have a crush on me too, but I didn't know," the actress recalls. "Later on, he actually wrote me a love letter in real life, and we wrote each other a couple more letters. But then that was kind of it. When we came back to do more of the show, things quickly devolved into this annoying brother-sister relationship."

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Debbie Gibson + Danica McKellar while filming the video for No More Rhyme (1989)

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winnie cooper from the wonder years (1988) is a demigirl (headcanon)

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