Geeky Turn On: Difference between revisions

'''Luke:''' It is so hot that you know that.|''[[Joan of Arcadia]]''}}

** On the other hand, Nami is ''definitely'' shown to be this way with him. When he first surprises her and starts talking Arm Slave jargon, her overwhelmed reaction pretty much equates to "What a man."

* The first ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' Drama CD shows that, back in high school, Kotetsu Kaburagi and Tomoe Amamiya (the future Mrs. Kaburagi) were rather antagonistic towards each other... until she saw him trying to come up with a superhero name for himself.

'''Tomoe:''' Oh my God, that's ''awesome.'' }}

== Comic Books ==

* Yorick being attracted to girls with obscure interests is a bit of a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Y: The Last Man]]''. A shining example is when he, upon learning that that a woman named her boat after the ship in ''[[Kurt Vonnegut|Sirens of Titan]]'', [[Engaging Conversation|instantly proposed to her]]. Yorick's sister Hero [[Lampshade|lampshades]] this when Beth (not that Beth, the other one) starts rattling off side notes about the Swiss Guards that kidnapped them both in the name of the Catholic Church.

* ''[[Spider-Man]]'':

** This is actually sort of how Peter and [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Kitty]] in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' started going out. Or at least, it's how they flirt.

'''Peter''': Well, I'm sure it won't be the last time. }}

** The Ultimate version of Mary-Jane Watson. Which, considering her mainstream counterpart is a cheery, party-girl/glamour model, is a bit of a surprise. And of course, [[Heroes Want Redheads|she's a redhead]].

* Mikaela in the live-action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' films manages to make both Sam and Leo fall for her with her detailed knowledge of cars and engineering. But then, that pales in comparison to her other assets.

* In ''[[17 Again]]'', two characters fall madly in love with each other when they discover that the other speaks Elvish. Cue the following exchange:

"I'll bring the long bow." }}

* Commander Galloway in ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' is very thorough and very book-smart. She also rants.

'''[[Tom Cruise|Kaffee]]:''' Wow. [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|I'm sexually aroused]], Commander. }}

* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', Flint falls for Sam when she starts showing off her geeky side, and he eventually convinces her to embrace it.

== Literature ==

* Early on in Jim Butcher's ''[[The Dresden Files|White Night]]'', Murphy quotes ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' at Harry. He responds with the second half of the quote, and then:

* Admiral Alexander didn't realize his feelings for [[Honor Harrington]] until she embarked on a passionate defense of new weapons systems proposed by her on a board headed by his archrival.

* The title character of ''[[The English Patient]]'' realizes his attraction to Katharine Clifton when she reads aloud from Herodotus' ''[[The Histories|Histories]]''. The [[Love Triangle|story she reads]] probably doesn't hurt.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'''s Mulder has lots of those.

** Witness:

'''Mulder''': I just got very turned on. }}

** Or the one from "Chinga":

'''Mulder''': Marry me. }}

** This one from "War of the Coprophages":

'''Mulder''':Scully...what are you wearing? }}

** Also, in "Kill Switch", [[The Lone Gunmen]] were turned on by Invisigoth's programming expertise much more than by her actual hotness (of which there was a plenty).

** In Season 2, when Jeremy and Natalie have broken up, Jeremy is over at a bar one night, and becomes attracted to a woman named Jenny because she corrects him about the parallelogram he's trying to make, and she's turned on by the fact he works at "Sports Night". Subverted again when it actually doesn't go anywhere (though nothing to do with the geeky turn-on; he finds out she's a porn star).

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'': The [[Dueling Hackers|hacker battle]] between [[Playful Hacker|Garcia]] and Kevin<ref>who is played by [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander]]</ref>, as can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtbN_VHXVA here]. (Note that this is before they'd ever met face-to-face.)

* In the last episode of season 5 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Anya comes up with some very helpful suggestions to win the day. Xander's worshipful comment of how hot smart girls are prompts [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] (now gay) Willow to remark somewhat wistfully, "You couldn't have figured that out in tenth grade?"

* On ''[[Angel]]'':

** Cordelia's taste in men is wide-ranging. She's been turned on by financial analysis, Xander's goofy wit, and pretty much everything Wesley said before their disastrous first kiss.

*** The financial analysis bit is a particularly noticeable version of this trope.

'''Cordelia:''' "Is anybody else getting warm? Do that 'tax breaks,' FHA and PMI part again." }}

* Not stereotypically geeky, but in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', Alfredo Aldarisio becomes intensely attracted to Olive when she asks if he's ever felt like all the oxygen left the room. She's talking metaphorically, but he has a phobia of the Earth literally losing all its atmosphere and everyone floating into space, and feels that she's a kindred spirit.

* ''[[The West Wing]]'' does this a ''ton'':

** Discussed by C.J. and Toby:

'''Toby''': Well, when don't I? }}

** Or the scene where the President admits that he loves when his wife goes into Doctor mode.

** Or "Process Stories," when Bartlet, Leo and Bruno Gianelli all flirt with their womenfolk using data from that night's landslide election victory.

'''Abbey:''' Hon, this is like, [[Lampshade Hanging|nerd hot talk]]?<br />

'''Bartlet:''' ''(handing her a drink)'' Who's your commander-in-chief?<br />

** In the second half of 20 Hours for America, Mallory (Leo's daughter) admits to Sam (with whom she has some [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] from the first couple of seasons) that she was "weak" after hearing a speech that Sam wrote.

* ''[[NCIS]]'': This happens every now an then when McGee [[Techno Babble|Techno Babbles]] something or other, be it hacking, codes, or cracking something with super geek powers. Abby makes a comment along the lines of, "And it's completely getting me hot"/"Sometime I think I love you". Abby is a master manipulator of this trope too.

'''McGee:''' That’s er, er, a nickname for a bundle of receptors in the firewall. That regulates the flow of energy throughout the system. See when stimulated correctly it sends waves and waves of rhythmic pulses ''(Gibbs can't even look at McGee at this point)'' waves, waves that er that hypercrank the er transfer speed, er, that digitised infor- Abby? }}

* Obligatory ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' example: Kirk falls for Edith Keeler ("City on the Edge of Forever") not when he sees how pretty she is (and this is Joan Collins, after all) but when he hears her enthusiastically discussing the possibilities of space travel and atomic energy. {{spoiler|And then [[Ho Yay|Spock gets very very jealous]].}}

* From ''[[Castle]]'':

** "Vampire Weekend". They're investigating the murder of a comic artist.

'''Castle''': That is the sexiest thing I've ever heard you say. }}

** And from "Suicide Squeeze":

'''Beckett''': You should hear me say [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"fallacious."]] }}

* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'', both Topher and Bennett end up essentially [[Squee|Squeeing]] over each other's technological knowledge and aptitude.

* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Ted considers a woman being a ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan a big turn-on. When he and Barney are hitting on a pair of girls together, and one of them compares the blizzard outside to [[The Empire Strikes Back|the planet Hoth]], Ted tells Barney, "Dibs."

* From ''[[Caprica]]'':

(Commence making out) }}

** Unfortunately, that one is a subversion since a): Zoe never liked the military and ''hates'' military technology and b): she ''is'' [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual|his top secret military robot]]. Although she really did like him, she was still using him.

* ''[[Peep Show]]'': "She knows about cubits, she's uncomfortable in her own skin -- she's one of me!"

* In ''[[Bones]]'', after Angela has described a complicated procedure:

'''Sweets''': That's really disturbing. }}

* Henry and Jenny's mutual attraction is built on these in the web series ''[[We Need Girlfriends]]''.

* There was an ''[[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]'' sketch with a phone sex line for nerds. There was a ''[[Star Trek]]'' girl, a ''[[Star Wars]]'' girl, a ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'' girl and a Dr. Who girl (among others), all of them knowledgeable on their topic.

* On one episode of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', [[Official Couple]] Ben and Leslie are overheard role-playing as political figures.

'''Ben''': Well, Maggie Thatcher, our countries have always had a... ''special relationship''. Let's see if I can't do something about that for you. }}

* Fargo and Holly on ''[[Eureka]]''. Of course, when you have a character portrayed by [[Felicia Day]], you gotta figure it's going to be on the horizon.

* Francis in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' proposes to Peach after [[But Thou Must!|having the player confirm]] statements such as "My first love was an anime character" or [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|"I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played"]] as "true".

* Following [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YhUx9CoI exchange] between our two engineers from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'':

'''Ken''': I love it when you talk dirty. }}

* In the third ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game, Bentley admits to being sweet on Penelope after she makes a NASA reference.

== Western Animation ==

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" combines this with an [[Insult Backfire]]. The Central Bureaucracy inspector Morgan Proctor finds out that Fry is a slob, and in her own words...

'''Fry:''' [[Insult Backfire|(bashful) Oh, stop!]] }}

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''Lisa's Wedding'' (set in the future) Lisa and Hugh are reading a book together to decide who could read it faster:

'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations". [they make out] }}

* The same thing happens in an ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' episode, but this time within a (perhaps slightly) [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]].