Well, this is just all kinds of awkward…We never would have taken Babs Walters for the cougar kind, but the 80-year-old television icon couldn’t stop batting her eyelashes at Zac Efron, 21, on Monday’s The View.

Paging, Baby V-Hud!

The former High School Musical hunk dropped by the morning gabfest with his Me & Orson Welles co-star Claire Danes in tow and Barbara somehow thought it would be the perfect time to get all googly-eyed about Zac’s killer abs. Brain Bleach, please!

This isn’t the first time the chattiest women in daytime have revealed their utter inability to “get” the seriousness of rape. We all remember Whoopi’s famous defense of Roman Polanski’s drugging and stautory rape of a 13-year-old girl; apparently, it wasn’t “rape rape.”

A federal lawsuit filed last June accused the conservative daytime commentator of lifting content from a book written by self-published Cape Cod author Susan Hassett on the digestive disorder celiac disease. Hasselbeck’s book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, was featured on several best-seller lists this year.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed the lawsuit last week after Hassett’s attorney declined to pursue it due to lack of evidence.

Tempers flared between the ladies of The View on Thursday morning as the gals cackled about Carrie Prejean’s controversial appearance on Larry King Live last night. In case you missed it, the former Miss California — and recently-outed amateur porn star — removed her microphone and threatened to walk off the show after Larry asked her why she settled a lawsuit with pageant organizers.

Check out what happened when the former Miss California came face-to-face with the ladies of The View on Tuesday.

The actor who played Gandalf in the hit trilogy was a guest on the when host Whoopi asked: “Are you coming back in Harry Potter?”

Sir Ian, 70, closed his eyes, paused, and said: “I don’t play Dumbledore – I play ‘Lord of the Rings.’”

Whoopi apologized immediately.

The chatfest co-host came armed with a photo of her newborn son Isaiah for the rest of the hens to coo over, but that wasn’t the picture that caused a controversy.

When sending out a different picture of her new son to family and friends, Elisabeth was horrified to realize she was showing the clan more than she bargained for. “You know when your baby smiles for the first time — I reach for the iPhone and take the photo. No wonder why he is smiling — because my nipple is in the photo!” she explained.

“It’s worse than drunk dialing. It’s embarrassing.”

Isaiah is Elisabeth’s third child with husband Tim. The couple also the parents of 4-year-old daughter Grace and son Taylor, born last year.

Drats!!

The conservative — and often controversial chatterbox — took maternity leave from ABC’s feminine gabfest two days before giving birth to her third child, Isaiah Timothy, with NFL player husband Tim Hasselbeck on Aug. 9. Elisabeth’s return ends more than a month of appearances from celebrity guest hosts, including La Toya Jackson, Kate Gosselin, and Heidi Montag.

“I’ve lost my political opposite,” said co-host Joy Behar.

“The other people were nice, but they weren’t her,” Whoopi Goldberg added.

Speaking of his arrest on The View Monday, the Oscar-winning actress insisted she believes the incident wasn’t rape in the strict meaning of the term.

“It was something, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape,” she said. “He went to jail and when they let him out he was like, ‘This guy’s gonna give me 100 years. I’m not staying.’ We’re a different kind of society, we see things differently. Would I want my 14 year old having sex? Not necessarily, no.”

During an appearance last summer, Heidi and her then-boyfriend Spencer Pratt were chastised for their infamous onscreen antics on their MTV reality smash by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who told them: “You better get yourselves together or you’re going to be in the street. You’re going to have to take responsibility. You’re too old now. Last year it was cute. Now you’re adults.”