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** Cordelia's follower Harmony on the other hand is genuinely dumb.
** Another funny aversion of the trope is the episode Doppelgangland, where Willow is asked to "tutor" one of the jocks. After running across Vampire Willow, he decides to do his homework himself.
* Holly Fischer from ''[[The OC]]'' (especially in her later appearances when she is leader of a pack of young brides and very much the stereotypical [[The Brainless Beauty|Brainless Beauty]]). To a lesser extent Luke Ward, though he was a bit deeper than the usual [[Jerk Jock]]. Summer Roberts very much fitted this trope at the start of the series, but evolved into more of a [[Genius Ditz]] as the show progressed.
* Subverted in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Claire is very popular at school, but she's also quiet, thoughtful and complex, and smarter than she pretends to be.
* Initially played straight on ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]''—the normal kids keep several metres away from the gifted kids at all times, and the most popular kids aren't all that bright. A later episode [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] this when Malcolm met a another gifted boy who was the most popular person in his school and was invited to several parties a week. Also, as time went on, Reese, the stupidest boy in the school, ended up even less popular than Malcolm.