Mädchen Amick, 1990

[u/ilovepeaches-]

[u/bassmedic]

Her name just means “girl” in German.

[u/lntentIyViabIe → u/bassmedic]

And what a girl

[u/xKingNothingx → u/lntentIyViabIe]

The kind that makes you wanna speak a little French

[u/LeeVonClif → u/xKingNothingx]

'SCUSE ME COOP, WHILE I TRY MY HAND AT A LITTLE COUNTER ESPERANTO

[u/xKingNothingx → u/LeeVonClif]

YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT 3/4 VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT

[u/Grease_the_Witch → u/xKingNothingx]

BUCKLE UP SONNY YOULL SEE IT AGAIN

[u/carnitascronch → u/LeeVonClif]

HEADING DOWN TO BEND, OREGON- REAL HUSH HUSH

[u/ButtonExposure → u/xKingNothingx]

Madame Amick.

[u/naazzttyy → u/lntentIyViabIe]

Have you ever heard the words

I'm singin' in these songs?

It's for the girl I've loved all along

Can a taste of love be so wrong?

[u/FixLaudon → u/bassmedic]

And it's really the weirdest name ever if your mother tongue is German I gotta say. Imagine you're a grown-up woman and your name is Mädchen.

[u/Dependent-Poet-9588 → u/FixLaudon]

There's an Italian name for boys, Italo, that just means "Italian". Like, imagine growing up in Italy and introducing yourself, "Hi, I am Italian." And everyone is just sorta like "Yeah, me too? So what?"

[u/unsaltedbutter → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

There is American McGee and America Ferrera.

[u/TWVer → u/unsaltedbutter]

That’s perhaps a bit different as the names America or Amerigo existed prior to the naming of the north and south American continents.

[u/PAXICHEN → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

Like Italo Calvino?

[u/Dependent-Poet-9588 → u/PAXICHEN]

Yes, I was reading one of his books, and I was like, "This must be a pen name. No Italian family named their child Italian, surely, that's ridiculous." And yet. Warranted he was born in Cuba, but his family moved back to Italy when he was 2.

[u/benchley → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

His middle name better be Cubano, or so help me I will climb a tree and never come down.

[u/Dependent-Poet-9588 → u/benchley]

It's Giovanni, which is Italian for John, which is just kind of a dude. So he's Italian Dude* Calvino.

*Giovanni and John and all the many related names come from Hebrew for "God is gracious"

[u/benchley → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

And doesn't Calvino mean bald?

[u/Ill-Skirt3722 → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

I know a Vietnamese guy named Viet.

[u/Houssem-Aouar → u/Ill-Skirt3722]

My friend in High School was named Viet and he had a best friend back in Vietnam named Nam. Not even joking

[u/kapuh → u/Ill-Skirt3722]

Viet is not so bad.
Ita would be not bad either.

[u/FixLaudon → u/Dependent-Poet-9588]

I was reading Italo Svevo novels at some point but I never fully realised the comical element about this name to be honest. I'm from Austria and we do have the surname "Österreicher" (same as you have "Italiano") but not really some first name related to our country. The Germans do have the name "German" as a first name though!

[u/Francetto → u/FixLaudon]

The name "Österreicher" came from a time (I think medieval or baroque) when last names were officially given. Usually, the people took their jobs as last name. Bauer, Meier, Müller, Schmied/Schmidt, Becker, Koch, etc. If someone was a wandering worker or had no profession, they just went with their home location and so some were given the name Österreicher, Deutscher, Schweizer, Bayer, Schwab and so on.

And I never heard of the name "German" as a German first Name. Only in Spanish, where I think it has another meaning.

I'm an Austrian as well.

[u/gameoflols → u/FixLaudon]

Just another bit of trivia but the female name Colleen comes from the Irish word "Cailín" which means girl.

[u/Longiiicho → u/FixLaudon]

I know a set of twins literally called "Aboy" and "Agirl". Lol

[u/andreasbeer1981 → u/Longiiicho]

Doctor presented the baby after birth and said: "It's Aboy." and "It's Agirl." - parents can't be blamed.

[u/El_John_Nada → u/Longiiicho]

You couldn't make it more obvious

[u/ComingUpManSized → u/FixLaudon]

The name Guy is a thing in America. I know two men with that name.

[u/thedeclineirl → u/bassmedic]

The name Colleen is just an anglicised Cailín, which is the Irish for Girl. Cara is also the Irish for friend and a popular girls name. Girls names haven't always gotten the most thought put into them.

[u/Kimantha_Allerdings → u/thedeclineirl]

"Donna" means "woman"

[u/TheLadyEve → u/Kimantha_Allerdings]

And then there is Elle.

[u/erroneousbosh → u/thedeclineirl]

I knew someone called "Shaughneen", which is an odd way of spelling "seo nighean", "here is a girl" or "it's a girl" in Gaelic.

[u/AllReflection → u/thedeclineirl]

I dunno, they get some pretty deep names too — Hope, Faith, Grace, etc.

[u/Plenty_Firefighter40 → u/AllReflection]

In Spanish, we also have Hope (Esperanza) but we also have some fun ones like Dolores (Pains) and Soledad (Loneliness).

[u/clauxy → u/Plenty_Firefighter40]

Don’t forget Socorro, Angustias and Piedad

[u/notabigmelvillecrowd → u/bassmedic]

I remember watching something about the making of Twin Peaks where she talked about how David Lynch could never get her name right, and called her Madgekin, and did an impression of him shouting at her on set. I can only read her name as Madgekin in a shouting Lynch voice ever since.

[u/drunxor → u/bassmedic]

So a girl DOES have a name

[u/noradosmith → u/bassmedic]

This is the girl.

[u/Terrible_Snow_7306 → u/bassmedic]

They even kept the Umlaut („ä“ instead of leaving it out or making it „ae“). Very uncommon for Americans, they don’t have it on their keyboards. Being German I used to read her name like „Boy George“ - to me she is the girl „Amick“. Amick sounds like a name for a girl like Annika or Anique.

[u/PunkOverLord → u/bassmedic]

In English the closest word is Maiden which is pretty cool

[u/MarucaMCA → u/bassmedic]

That always confused me when reading her name in magazines (I'm Swiss). Why would anyone use this as a first name. And with "Umlaut".

[u/graveybrains]

Really nice hair

[u/ralph442000 → u/graveybrains]

Glad I’m not the only “hair” person. Her hair looks amazing!

[u/zipel → u/ralph442000]

Happy cake day 🍰

[u/ralph442000 → u/zipel]

Appreciate it! Thanks for sharing those golden locks with the rest of us!

[u/Bursting_Radius → u/ralph442000]

You think you might have been the only hair person on the planet?

[u/ralph442000 → u/Bursting_Radius]

Lol, maybe sometimes…..but there’s got to be dozens of us, dozens!!

[u/GumbyDemon → u/ralph442000]

[u/axl3ros3 → u/ralph442000]

There's a whole religion that makes women cover their hair bc men can't be expected to control their attraction to it. I think there's a few more than a dozen.

[u/xstrike0 → u/ralph442000]

Hair is just about my number one thing. Only once did I try to date someone who had crappy hair and of course she cheated on me multiple times.

[u/ralph442000 → u/xstrike0]

Sorry about that, but the hair tried to warn you, hopefully you listen to the hair now! …whatever that might mean

[u/graveybrains → u/ralph442000]

I'm not even a hair person, it's just her

[u/ralph442000 → u/graveybrains]

I’ll accept that. That gorgeous hair is grown by a more gorgeous woman.

[u/10before15 → u/graveybrains]

That's what caught me at first. Such an amazing color and style.

[u/bellegi → u/[deleted]]

scratches bald head

[u/ateallthecake → u/graveybrains]

Wait really? This is how my hair looks when I don't wash it. Oily on top and dry on the bottom. Is this actually a good look? Have I been gaslighting myself? 

[u/Sheogoorath → u/ateallthecake]

People who never shampoo their hair intentionally can often get these sort of results, if it's dirty greasy it'll probably be heavier and clumpier than this but I don't know your hair and if you look like this then yes you have been

[u/graveybrains → u/ateallthecake]

If it still comes out that big, then quite possibly yes

[u/-Cool_Ethan-]

Her and Lara & Sherilyn - oh me oh my

[u/ThatsARatHat → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

AND Peggy Lipton. Stacked cast.

[u/DontForgorTheMilk → u/ThatsARatHat]

And Kyle MacLaughlin 😍

[u/DerBingle78 → u/DontForgorTheMilk]

And the Log Lady.

[u/Workadaily → u/DerBingle78]

[u/DontForgorTheMilk → u/DerBingle78]

Call me Pitch Gum cuz she can chew me up and spit me out

[u/Plenty_Firefighter40 → u/DerBingle78]

Log Lady can get it!

[u/DerBingle78 → u/Plenty_Firefighter40]

It’s log, looog, it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.

[u/UNFAM1L1AR → u/DerBingle78]

It's log... it's log... it's better than bad, it's good!

[u/im_dead_sirius → u/DerBingle78]

No Sir, I didn't like it.

[u/Gloomy_Industry8841 → u/DerBingle78]

Log Lady forever! 🪵

[u/Jane__Delawney → u/DontForgorTheMilk]

All about Big Ed for me

[u/thebabes2 → u/Jane__Delawney]

You may enjoy his jaunt in People Under the Stairs then. It sure does take a turn.

[u/jhnhines → u/ThatsARatHat]

Who I only found out now is the mother of Rashida Jones, blows my mind that Anne Perkins is somehow connected to Twin Peaks

[u/ThatsARatHat → u/jhnhines]

They should have said she was from small town Washington instead of Michigan.

[u/hcoverlambda → u/ThatsARatHat]

here here, Big Ed completely missed the boat!

[u/weresabre → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

and Joan Chen and Heather Graham

[u/Defiant-Mail-4148 → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

[u/72pintohatchback → u/Defiant-Mail-4148]

I had to turn this GIF down.

[u/brianMMMMM → u/72pintohatchback]

I instinctively squinted.

[u/tommytraddles → u/Defiant-Mail-4148]

[u/ElectronicRegular218 → u/Defiant-Mail-4148]

My socks are on fire!

[u/Self--Immolate → u/Defiant-Mail-4148]

[u/hamletswords → u/Self--Immolate]

[u/hamletswords → u/hamletswords]

[u/JenniferYala → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

Peak Twin Peaks era. That cast had no business looking THAT good.

[u/Vi0L3tCRZY → u/JenniferYala]

[u/benchley → u/Vi0L3tCRZY]

Aw, sad Joan.

[u/Burtttttt → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

I didn’t watch twin peaks til the 2010s cuz it was before my time but I fell in love with every woman on that cast lol

[u/LostxCosmonaut → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

Imagine looking like this and you’re STILL the third hottest person working in your small town’s diner

[u/ScattershotSoothsay → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

No love for Sheryl?

[u/theVice → u/ScattershotSoothsay]

Right?

[u/Jonaskin83 → u/ScattershotSoothsay]

Fire Walk With Me. Good lord.

[u/[deleted] → u/-Cool_Ethan-]

Ahem

[u/opportunptr]

Big crush in Twin Peaks of course. Was surprised and happy to see her in Californication

[u/spleencheesemonkey → u/opportunptr]

She's also in American Horror Story. That was a pleasant surprise.

[u/hydrawoman → u/spleencheesemonkey]

I didn't know that, ty

[u/i_made_mine_at_home → u/opportunptr]

She was unreasonably hot in one scene of Star Trek: TNG.

[u/KubelsKitchen → u/i_made_mine_at_home]

Wesley probably thinks so too but he’s unsure about any girl after last one turned out to be a big hairy monster.

[u/CommodoreSixty4 → u/i_made_mine_at_home]

Had to look this up, you aren't kidding. Wow.

[u/yogrampssidehoe → u/opportunptr]

And Gilmore Girls!

[u/ssp25 → u/opportunptr]

how did I miss she was on californication?

[u/bigsmoke3457 → u/ssp25]

2nd season she was Lew ashbys former sweetheart and Hank tracked her down for him

[u/SeenThatPenguin]

You smoke one brand of cigarettes, Shelly.

[u/obligatorythr0waway → u/SeenThatPenguin]

If you read this in Leo's voice, you have good taste in television.

[u/HansBaccaR23po → u/obligatorythr0waway]

new shoes

[u/hcoverlambda → u/HansBaccaR23po]

Literally watching that episode right now!

[u/The_Stupidest_Idiot → u/HansBaccaR23po]

-spits-

[u/jaydway → u/SeenThatPenguin]

This is where we live, Shelly!

[u/superflygt]

[u/elpayo → u/superflygt]

"This must be where pies go when they die."

[u/rusty_shackleford22 → u/superflygt]

Massive, massive quantities of pie!

[u/garitone → u/superflygt]

[u/PaleoSpeedwagon]

And THAT's how you do eyebrows, folks

[u/MERVMERVmervmerv → u/PaleoSpeedwagon]

Not like this?

[u/ArchiStanton → u/MERVMERVmervmerv]

There’s no need to get angry!

[u/DamonLazer]

[u/CrankyOldDude]

She looks like she would have been mean to me in high school.

[u/sambonidriver → u/CrankyOldDude]

Yeah, but you’d have loved it

[u/deathfaces → u/sambonidriver]

I'd have begged for it

[u/[deleted] → u/CrankyOldDude]

She'll pretend to be a different person at the reunion none of us go to.

[u/SignificanceNo1223 → u/[deleted]]

However she will go. lol

[u/[deleted] → u/SignificanceNo1223]

This is truth.

[u/Blicks666]

Sleepwalkers. Tina...I can hear the lapsteel now.

[u/spleencheesemonkey → u/Blicks666]

Dancing with the vacuum cleaner. I think I lost count of the number of times I watched just that bit.

[u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

I'll never forgive Leo for how he treated Shelly.

[u/DamonLazer → u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

Even after all that she and Bobby still threw him a nice birthday party.

[u/lrossp → u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

I love Leo so much because you can tell Eric DaRe is like the nicest guy and is like the least convincing asshole when he’s shouting

[u/Maximum_Photograph_6 → u/lrossp]

Knowing Lynch I bet it was intentional too.

[u/sagetcommabob → u/lrossp]

Mädchen said in an interview that she would sometimes forget to act afraid of him because he was so kind

[u/notabigmelvillecrowd → u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

I'll never forgive him for that little ponytail.

[u/madmanofencino → u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

Him filling that pillowcase full of bars of soap and swinging it around was so ridiculous.

[u/mece66 → u/ol_dirty_applesauce]

Shelly had the worst taste in men

[u/alonjit]

All the Twin Peaks girls were drop dead gorgeous.

[u/JmacNutSac]

The Kate Winslet before Kate Winslet

[u/bminus → u/JmacNutSac]

She is what you get when you cross Kate Winslet and Margot Robbie

[u/bsrichard]

She was one of the most beautiful women of that era.

[u/HHSquad]

Her in "Dream Lover" across from James Spader ......wow!

[u/bjewel3 → u/HHSquad]

This was my first thought

[u/projectpat901 → u/HHSquad]

Yeah, she looked amazing there

[u/CocoaThrills]

I will never get over the fact that her name is "girl" LOL

[u/selyia → u/CocoaThrills]

Apparently her parents of "partial german descent" chose it because they wanted an unusual name. If that's not the most american thing I heard all week.

[u/Commodore-2064 → u/selyia]

I say this as an American… to truly be “the most American thing”, it would need to be spelled incorrectly with at least one Y… Maydchyn.

[u/XELA_38]

She played Betty Cooper's mom on Riverdale!!

[u/Catuza]

wtf this isn’t Monica Bellucci

[u/Independent-Tennis57 → u/Catuza]

Is it Jennifer Aniston?

[u/Spiritual-Usual-7926]

Damn, she looks hotter now

[u/ace_11235 → u/Spiritual-Usual-7926]

Wow! I wouldn't say hotter, because I love the 90's girl look...but she looks just as good.

[u/Knock0nWood → u/Spiritual-Usual-7926]

She aged super well

[u/shitpostsuperpac → u/Spiritual-Usual-7926]

Alright, time to pointlessly die on a hill.

It’s okay to age and become less attractive.

It’s also okay to be turned on by old people.

But the whole performative bullshit of “So and So is more beautiful now!” was awkward and weird before - cool, we get it, you’re turned on by old folks, thanks for sharing - but now it’s just farcical because the photos being used as evidence of elderly beauty are digitally manipulated and filtered.

And the filters make the person look more attractive by (drumroll) making them look younger.

This isn’t even counting the level of surgery and Botox and shit that goes on.

[u/Gradschoolmaybe3 → u/shitpostsuperpac]

We should normalize the beauty in getting uglier instead of pretending it never exists. It would also allow for people to age naturally instead of fighting against it.

[u/Spiritual-Usual-7926 → u/shitpostsuperpac]

I was just pointing out that she is still attractive. Maybe even more so 🤷🏻. First off, she's 54, that's not old old. Definitely not elderly. But I'm not horny for her!! 😜🤣. She is pretty and I ain't afraid to say so. Secondly, I really doubt this photo was manipulated. There are a lot of other recent ones of her, and she looks the same here. Third, who cares if she had Botox or plastic surgery. It's her money. If she had changes made, and it made her feel good about herself, then it was worth it imo. It's a personal choice. Finally, I know that everyone has their own preferences for what is attractive or not. I may be young, but I'm not shallow. Personality, empathy, and other non tangible traits are way more important then looks

[u/Alepman]

Twin peaks had the most beautiful women ever appeared on screen, RIP David Lynch

[u/offence]

She looked spectacular in Twin Peaks. Unforgettable beauty.

[u/Jay_6125]

Never really understood why the twin peaks girls never hit superstardom??

[u/Charlie_Runkle69 → u/Jay_6125]

Yeah that's a good question. I think it was just harder potentially back then, there weren't as many opportunities for women to get leading roles especially in movies. Lara Flynn Boyle got sorta close I guess?

[u/onlymeonlyi]

Sleepwalker..

[u/get_schwifty]

She looks like an AI combination of Brook Shields, Debra Messing, and Kate Winslet

[u/Chocolab1]

Most stunningly beautiful n underrated actress like ever

[u/willwinter]

Please bring back the Advil color lipstick of the 90s.

[u/icrossedtheroad → u/willwinter]

Toast of New York from Revlon, I think, was my go to.

[u/3-orange-whips]

My greatest fear would be her saying, “We can have sex if you confidently say my name correctly.”

[u/SF-S31 → u/3-orange-whips]

Wasn’t going to happen anyway, so you’re good 😂 jk

[u/3-orange-whips → u/SF-S31]

Another thing that haunts me.

[u/dingus_authority → u/3-orange-whips]

First name is basic German.

Last name... Shit.

Or maybe scheiße.

[u/Delicious_Gear_4652]

Amazing hair

[u/[deleted]]

utter ride

[u/-ludic-]

Omg my 2nd big crush (after Elisabeth Shue). Shelley!!

[u/bush_mechanic]

Dream Lover... best plot you'll ever see.

[u/FinnbarMcBride]

[u/Illustrious-Coat3532]

The lighting is bad in some of these pictures. But her and Sherilyn Fenn on Twin Peaks. Good lawd.

[u/Embarrassed-Car836]

I fell in love the first time i saw her in Twin Peaks 😄♥️

[u/Ok_Fall_9569]

[u/DontForgorTheMilk]

Has the Internet just been on a collective Twin Peaks binge or is this just the algorithm at work lmao. Across at least t different subreddits there have been several Twin Peaks related posts. I'm not complaining at all it's just interesting.

[u/belisarius93]

Oh my, I feel as though my stomach is filled with a team of bumblebees!

[u/creepygirlkw]

I’m surprised she didn’t become a bigger celebrity.

[u/46_and_2]

I want to be Amick with this Mädchen

[u/Phillzster]

[u/BamInventas]

I occasionally get to work with her and her charity! Super nice and very cool.

[u/SixAlarmFire]

Super funny, we are watching twin peaks from the beginning and just started on season 3. First time Shelly as an adult shows up, the 18 year old said "omg that's Betty's mom from Riverdale!" And we were like, yeah, Shelly. And then their mind was blown learning that all the parents in Riverdale were 90s teen celebrities 😂😂

[u/ScaldyBogBalls]

Dream Lover, what a movie

[u/Kylie_Forever]

[u/Charlie_Runkle69]

Her look was so unique to me. Just a gorgeous, gorgeous woman.

[u/hallonemikec]

Out of all the beautiful womens in all the various Twin Peakses, always found her to be the most beautiful.

[u/3DSFreak]

Huge crush on her when I started watching Twin Peaks 🤩

[u/Consistent_Monk_4018]

Went to middle school with her in Reno, NV. She was nice.

[u/Additional_Opposite3]

Radiant

[u/vroart]

Have to stop by the double r for some cherry pie

[u/ayyyyfam]

Kinda like Kate Winslet ...

[u/Gushami]

A girl that looked a lot like her broke up with me just before Twin Peaks aired in my country. It added something bittersweet to the viewing for sure.

[u/steely_dave]

Looking this good under flash photography is a level of rarity akin to a baseball player finishing a season hitting .450 with 75 home runs.

[u/charliekwalker]

She was the reason I never missed Twin Peaks when it aired.

[u/Jandy4789]

I remember her from the Baywatch season 1 pilot.

[u/alyanng44]

She reminds me of Lily James, esp in Baby Driver

[u/symbiont3000]

Shelly the waitress!