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* "Coach" Ernie Pantusso in ''[[Cheers]]'' is a geography savant, even making up mnemonic songs about countries.
* One episode of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' featured a very Rain-Man-like autistic savant character, right down to being able to count spilled toothpicks quickly and accurately. He was employed by a courier company to help track packages with missing or damaged barcodes, and when he was off work, they had to bring in at least ten people to do his job.
* Kyle in ''[[All the Small Things]]'' displays symptoms of high-functioning autism, being unable to relate to most people, saying very little, and [[Literal
* Rom, a recurring Ferengi on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', goes beyond basic idiocy to the point of being [[Too Dumb to Live]]. Somehow he is an extremely capable engineer and at one point, even able to spout technobabble on the level of Spock and Data. His skills seems to have been honed by the Ferengi's natural skill with mathematics and the years working as Quark's personal repairman for anything and everything.
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'' Kelso is able to perfectly calculate how much money they'd make from a Kegger in relation to how many people showed up and paid for beer.
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