Full-On Geek Outtery

I may have told you this before, but a VERY successful screenwriter-friend of mine swears by this maxim:

Never Geek Out.

Oh sure, you can geek out on the inside when you meet someone you’ve always admired; but if you let your soft geeky underbelly show through, you’ll never be on equal footing with said admiree, so he or she will never take you seriously.

I keep this in mind all the time… usually while I’m geeking out on someone in the most embarrassing way possible.

I told you all about my multiple geek-outs over Caroll Spinney, yes?

Well, this time it was another kids’ TV star.

I was at a cocktail party filled with kids’ TV writers, producers, agents… a lot of them people I know and was thrilled to hang out with.

But one person kept catching my eye.  He looked very familar… and I finally figured out why.

He’s in Love Handel.

Yes, yes, I’m aware Love Handel is not only fictional but also animated, a band featured in Phineas and Ferb, but this guy was in it!  I swear!  He looked exactly like Bobbi Fabulous!

Turns out there’s a reason for that.  The man was Bobby Gaylor, who is not only a remarkably gracious, lovely, and hysterically funny human being; he’s also the visual inspiration for Mr. Fabulous.

And he writes for Phineas and Ferb.

And he does the voice of Buford.

Do I even need to tell you that geeking out quickly ensued?

My screenwriter-friend with the maxim would have hung his head in shame.  Not only did I gush all over Mr. Gaylor, but I quoted him back to him (as if he might by surprised by the things he had said), and even sung a few bars of There’s a Nerd-Sized Hole in My Heart.

Then I asked him to record a message to my daughter in Buford’s voice.  I am beyond grateful that the wonderful Mr. Gaylor not only didn’t have me removed from the party, he in fact did record the message to Miss M, who was thrilled beyond belief.

She thinks I’m the coolest Mom ever.

Oh, how little she knows…

I trolled for your geek-outtery stories back when I blogged about meeting Oscar, but it’s been awhile since then — any new ones?  I always love to hear I’m not alone…