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{{quote|''We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the Hottest Woman in the World, but she wears glasses because she is also the Smartest Woman in the World.''|[[Michael Bay]]'s "Rejected" ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' [http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506 Script]}}

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{{quote|''We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the Hottest Woman in the World, but she wears glasses because she is also the Smartest Woman in the World.''|[[Michael Bay]]'s "Rejected" [[The Dark Knight]] [[http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506 Script]]}}

{{quote|''Damn right [[Most Tropers Are Young Nerds|we]] are.''|The original [[Nerds Are Sexy/Laconic|laconic definition]] of this trope.}}

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', Yuki seems to have a large "fanbase" ''within'' the story, exactly because [[Nerds Are Sexy]]. Kyon finds her appealing too, although not at the scale of [[Moe|Mikuru]].

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== Web Original ==

* College Humor has the skit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx6BupgRmI "I'm Such A Nerd,"], in which a nerd [[Geeky Turn On|happily discovers]] that the rather attractive girl he's dating is herself a giant nerd... who then promptly dumps him for not being nerdy enough.

* College Humor has the skit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx6BupgRmI "I'm Such A Nerd,"], in which a nerd [[Geeky Turn On|happily discovers]] that the rather attractive girl he's dating is herself a giant nerd... who then promptly dumps him for not being nerdy ''enough''.

{{quote|'''Girl:''' I thought he was different, you know, but he ''wasn't''. He...he couldn't even name all of the current Batman titles!}}

* [[Whateley Universe]]: brilliant inventor Spark is pursued by Reach throughout the story "The Big Idea". [[Hot Scientist|Genius inventor]] Bugs on the other hand, is regarded as one of the sexiest girls in [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Velma from ''[[Scooby Doo]]''. Played with in [[The Movie~~|The Movies~~]] (...[[That Came Out Wrong|not what we meant]]).

* Velma from ''[[Scooby Doo]]''. Played with in [[The Movie]]s (...[[That Came Out Wrong|not what we meant]]).

* Edd from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' has had the most girls crushing on him during the show's run.

* Steve Smith from ''[[American Dad]]!''. He manages to get dates with girls more popular than him because they find him cute. Something always happens to ruin it for him, however.

** Usually Stan or Roger.

* In the episode of ''[[Batman: The ~~Animated Series|Batman the~~ Animated Series]]'' where the Riddler reforms (or rather, [[Chronic Villainy|attempts to]]), he ends up with quite a few women fawning over him. Unless that's an example of [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]].

* In the episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' where the Riddler reforms (or rather, [[Chronic Villainy|attempts to]]), he ends up with quite a few women fawning over him. Unless that's an example of [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]].

* ''In [[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', Janine has a crush on nerdy Egon for his high intelligence. So do a handful of minor female characters.

* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', Janine has a crush on nerdy Egon for his high intelligence. So do a handful of minor female characters.

** Janine's crush was a holdover from the movie where she is quite blatantly hitting on Egon, and Egon is either clueless or doing a good job pretending he's clueless.

* Used in an episode of [[Robot Chicken]]. After seeing [[Cue the Flying Pigs|hell freeze over]] we are treated to a nerd dance around in his underwear, gleefully singing about getting laid. The hot girl in bed states, in a rather matter of fact manner, that she thinks nerds are hot.

* Used in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]''. After seeing [[Cue the Flying Pigs|hell freeze over]] we are treated to a nerd dance around in his underwear, gleefully singing about getting laid. The hot girl in bed states, in a rather matter of fact manner, that she thinks nerds are hot.

* Tecna from [[Winx Club]], though her boyfriend is even more of a nerd than she is.

* Tecna from ''[[Winx Club]]'', though her boyfriend is even more of a nerd than she is.