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First of all, apologies for not getting this to you all sooner! Your patience is deeply appreciated and I hope this list is worth the wait. There are some nightmares on here. This poll is for the first 20 characters and our top honorable mentions. The 21st character is going to be a surprise weirdo. Definitely make sure your list is either in the order you think is the most fuckable OR you can focus on prioritizing the ones you want to make SURE we talk about. Either is a fine methodology!

So, this poll is theoretically public and anyone could get acccess to it if the link is shared. As such, I would ask your help in keeping the link private. Feel free to do the poll with your spouse, your friend, your grandma, whoever! Just please don't share the link anywhere.

Secondly, you will notice that there are a few characters not on the list, most notably, the insurance spokespeople like Flo, Jake, and I guess Doug the Liberty Mutual guy??? My rationale was that they're regular humans without a real gimmick and probably won't be as much fun to talk about as some of these other characters. I think they might appear intriguing on the surface, but I don't think they'll yield as many hot takes as some of the others will. Yes, I completely agree that Flo and Jake are extremely attractive people who are pleasing to gaze upon, but if fuckability is what we're ranking, I think they're just not going to be as much of a treat to hear about as the Red and Yellow M&Ms or whatever.

That said, if there is an outcry about this and it feels absolutely crucial that one normie make the cut, I will use the top nineteen characters from this poll and we'll have a second vote on which insurance human ya'll have the most boner curiousity about. If you have strong feelings that we need a normie, let me know in the comments!

If there's a character I've left off, I apologize! The poll can't be edited at this point, alas. But in the case of some characters, like the WB frog, or the Hamburger Helper glove, it felt like there are things even I can't try to wrap my mind around and I guess I have to draw the line somewhere. I fully acknowledge that I probably should have drawn the line several nautical miles before THIS episode, but look, I got thoughts about Chester Cheetah and that's just a fact.

I'm not sure when this episode will come together. As the calendar looks right now, it may be in the August or September slot. I know that's a ways off, but I'll have another extremely bizarre opportunity for your boner engagement this Spring and a fun thing I'd like to do with your thoughtful votes and hot takes.

As ever, I send my deepest affection and most ardent eggplant emojis to each of you for your aid in this most unnecessary endeavor. Your willingness to peer into the void with me and ask it "hey, babe. You dtf?" never fails to fill my heart with glee! 

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Comments

Kris Newton

You left off Hamburger Helper Hand?! I have so many questions about the erotic possibilities of a disembodied hand-with-a-mouth, and this podcast was my only chance of getting answers!

Hard Choices

...Buddy, I am punishingly close to writing some sort of horrifying tiny fanfic about this. I think the results would make us both deeply uncomfortable. Not like, sexually, just with the universe as a whole. It would be like seeing your reflection in a glass storefront give a shrug. Just a small but deeply potent moment of objective reality bending before it snaps back into place. Did you see it? Did it really happen? Moreover, do you actually want to know if it really happened? Can you carry such knowledge within a human consciousness? If you want a 500 word fic and feel like this is worth having to roll for sanity, I am prepared to embrace the abyss in this quest.

Kris Newton

Of course I want that fanfic! How can I say no? Honestly, when I was first thinking about this, a scenario began to take form, and I'm very curious whether our minds are going to the same place.

Joe Flood

I feel like the McDonaldland characters could have their own episode. Birdie, Mayor McCheese, fry guy polycule...

Hard Choices

Joe, that is a HELL of a take on vampires and I am deeply intrigued. Kris, you have struck the deal. I will have it by February 16th, in time for the full moon closest to St. Valentine's day. It seems both suitably auspicious and haunted for this accursed undertaking. For it to be a 500 word fic, I don't think I can probably capture as much as one might hope. I think I may go for atmospheric over hyper-specific, with startling moments of texture that will upset all of us.

Hard Choices

I AM SO WITH YOU ON THIS! I think the issue is that some of the characters are very childlike and that's just a hard pass. I could do it in a fanfic or something where there was opportunity to deeply contextualize the whole thing with like three pages of exposition, but for a show that doesn't have a lot of context I feel like I have to keep it firmly on the side of characters that feel fully adult or make complete sense as adults. I realize this is a weird line to walk, but I have to sort of trust my internal sense of what feels okay to guide this. That said, Mayor McCheese (definitely an adult) SCREAMS powerbottom to me for some reason.

Hard Choices

That said, there is a world in which they're all early 40's, jaded gen X-ers struggling with corporate America and dealing with bad decisions, relationship infidelity, casual drug use, lack of creative fulfillment, addictive personality traits, their own pasts, AND I WOULD READ THIS FANFIC. I'm not prepared to write it because it would need to be like 18 pages, BUT I WANT IT TO EXIST. I would be very scared to read it though, probably.

Joe Flood

A friend and I spent a couple hours on a road trip rebuilding the world. Mayor McCheese totally got his nephew Mac a job in the police (working his way up to Big Mac), in a city plagued by child kidnapping (Hamburglar). What does it mean that people eat hamburgers? Just thinking it out in ways it wasn't meant to be examined. We were not stoned, I promise

Hard Choices

This is an extraordinary and beautiful use of both your time. I am in awe of this work of genius.

K.F.T.

Am I the only one that's surprised that Julius Pringles wasn't on the list? Though aside from that I have very strong feelings about Chuckie Entertainment Cheese being on the list. He gives me the awful vibes of Matthew McConaughey's character from Dazed and Confused. Definitely too old to be hanging round kids.

K.F.T.

P.S. Kinda disappointed that Flo wasn't included (definite commercial crush) but it's understandable.

Hard Choices

I forgot about him!!! Apologies for the oversight! And yes, I feel you about Mr. Cheese. But I see him as a somewhat tragic figure too? I dunno. Worlds within worlds.

Ian Parlaman

You've mad some hard choices with this list already, so I don't want to throw down too many mascots I want to fuck, buuuuuut the green M&M is the most fuckable M&M by a country mile.

Hard Choices

You are 1000% in the right on this. My thinking was really that the yellow and red ones are the most iconic. That's not necessarily the most useful metric, but it's a factor, I guess? These lists are very weird! You are completely correct though. The green M&M is a babe and has everything going for her to be a top tier Hard Choices pick. THAT VOICE!!!!