Question: who played bobby in can't buy me love
Answer: Having few options , save for telling her mother the truth , Cindy reluctantly agrees to Ronald 's proposal : he will give her $1000 to purchase a new suede outfit , and she will help him look `` cool '' by pretending to be his girlfriend for a month , even though she already has a boyfriend named Bobby ( George Gray ) who is away at his freshman year at the University of Iowa .