for once, Stuffy gets the gir instead of Scruffy....

ROFL. This sums up the appeal to me in few pithy words.

Re: LDH. I do think she's pretty but it's more that I like her dramas and her acting and her presence - even when the drama itself was inferior (Hello Miss), her innate charm (to me, fine if others don't see it) made it much better than it could have otherwise been.