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== ComicsComic Books ==

* In [[The Simpsons (Comic Book)| comic booksbook version of ''The Simpsons'']]: The school was once ruled by those with a high intelligence and strict attendance, which meant nerds were the bullies. Jimbo was targeted aboutby them, before becoming the bully he’s known today.

* Even the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)| Legion of Substitute Heroes]] wasn’t willing to include Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin| as the name suggest]] his main power is [[Detachment Combat| removing his arms to use as clubs]].

* ''[[Ted (film)| Ted]]'': John is even told to get lost by a bullied classmate.

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': When [[Douglas Adams]] revealed that the question which produced the Ultimate Answer [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|(42)]] was {{spoiler|What is six times nine?}}, somebody pointed out that the math actually did add up... if you use base 13. Adams responded, "[[Self-Deprecation|I may be a sad individual]], but I don't make jokes in base 13."

* Stanley Howler from the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' is so obsessed with his pin collection, even the other pin collectors in Ankh-Morpork think he's "a bit weird about pins". Then Moist von Lipwig invents the postage stamp, and Stanley proceeds to obsess over ''those'', inventing stamp collecting (and becoming incredibly dismissive about people who are "still" collecting pins).

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* When ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'': When Buffy fails to get on the cheerleading squad early in Season 1, her mother suggests that she join the yearbook staff. Buffy responds, "Have you ''seen'' the people that work on the yearbook? ''Nerds'' pick on them."

{{quote| '''Dabney:''' I know you think I'm a mama's boy.<br />

* From ''[[Two of a Kind]]'':

{{quote| '''Mary Kate:''' Dad, you know those kids who blow their nose and then spend just a little too much time looking at it in the tissue?<br />

'''Kevin:''' Yeah...<br />

* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Arnold Rimmer maybe an [[ExtravertedExtroverted Nerd]], but he even believes that Dwayne Dibbley “so geeky, he couldn't even get into a science fiction convention”.

{{quote| Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on ''[[The Roleplayer|roleplaying]]''. When the dorks need to feel superior, ''this'' is the guy they denounce as a dork. Honestly. The only person worse than him is the DM himself.}}

{{quote| '''Ken''': The geeks beat you up in school when the jocks were finished with you, didn't they...<br />

* In ''[[Berserk Abridged]]'', Guts, who is a [[Final Fantasy VII|Zack]] [[Cosplay|Cosplayer]]er, thinks [[LARP|LARPing]]ing is too nerdy for him.

* Yahtzee of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' describes ''[[EveEVE Online]]'' players as "the nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people", with an appropriate series of illustrations.

{{quote| '''Graham''': They're LARPers. It's like what Jer does with the dice and the bits of paper, except the people Jer hangs out with look down on these guys.}}

* The ''[[Cracked.com]]'' series ''[[After Hours (web animation)|After Hours]]'' is entirely about four geeks who sit around a diner discussing pop culture as [[Serious Business]]. Nevertheless one of them, Daniel O'Brien, is even geekier than the others and tends to get a lot of looks of mixed confusion/scorn/pity when he says something particularly nerdy. It's [[Self-Deprecation]], of course, Dan is the show's writer.

** He also appeared never wanting to play {{spoiler| ET: The Extraterrestrial – Atari Game}} as seen as the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9GM-a7lR0 Spielberg Games]. This was before a team of research [[Hilarious in Hindsight|actually found the cartridges in a New Mexican Desert, just as plans for film about it was in production]].

* In the web video series called ''[[Doppelgänger]]'', Victor isn’t allowed to join a clique of nerds.

{{quote| '''Lisa:''' ''(picks up a pencil holder)'' Ooh, I want to get the krünk.<br />

'''Marge:''' Mmmm, you don't want something that overshadows the pencils. ''(holds up another pencil caddy)'' How about this pöpli?<br />

{{quote| '''[[Behind the Black|Nelson]]:''' Stamp collection? Ha ha!}}

** Lisa also laughed at Bart when he accidentally joined the Junior Campers during a [[Drunk Onon MaltsMilk|Squishy bender]]

{{quote| '''Lisa:''' The few. The proud. The geeky.}}

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' younger Cosmo, who is apparently the biggest loser in his school, gets beat up by every clique group, even the nerds.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Meg Griffin may as well be the black sleep of the family, but even she won’t date Neil Goldman, a classmate who’s a geeky outcast like her.

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the kids are playing like they are characters in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', but Cartman then makes fun of kids who are playing like they are in ''[[Harry Potter]]''.

* ''[[Total Drama]]'' [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] this--accordingthis—according to his [[All There in the Manual|online bio]], the reason [[Cool Loser|Cody]] thinks of himself as cool is because he hangs out with a bunch of friends even geekier than he is.