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{{quote|''"You don't even need them! You just think they make you look a bit clever."''|'''The Doctor''', to '''himself,''' ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who (TV)/2007 Ci NS Time Crash/Recap|Time Crash]]"}}
 
Usually, only people with [[Blind Without'Em|vision problems]] go to the trouble of getting a pair of glasses. But sometimes, we have a character who dons a pair of spectacles even though they have perfect eyesight. The [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] are just there to make the character look [[Smart People Wear Glasses|smart, sophisticated]], and/or [[Meganekko|cute]]. However, whether they really do make the wearer smart, sophisticated, and cute is variable.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'': The special episode "Time Crash", where the Doctor teases his own past self for wearing glasses he doesn't need in order to look "a bit clever". Ironically, the Tenth Doctor himself is practically infamous for his use of the brainy specs. The fact he has worn them in not only his fifth and tenth incarnations, but also, at least once in a [[Television Tie in Novel]], his eighth, which were pretty much his [[Older Than They Look|youngest-looking]] incarnations, rather suggests he might not really need them and just wears them to give himself more gravitas. Out of universe, [[David Tennant]] (the Tenth Doctor) has said that he wanted to have his Doctor frequently wearing glasses in order to give glasses-wearing kids a heroic role-model.
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', in the flashback in "Arrivederci, Fiero," it's shown that Ted wore spectacles. When they accidentally break, however, he says they were merely "decorative."
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': Rimmer dons specs in the episode ''Holoship'' after illegally enhancing his intelligence with a mind patch.
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** Mind you Homer actually seems to be farsighted and has been shown wearing half moon spectacles while reading.
* It's been debated in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' fandom whether or not Charles Foster Ofdensen's glasses are functional or just there to both accentuate his cleverness and make him seem more harmless than he really is (which isn't at all. He's the [[Badass Normal]]).
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', during a [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum]] plot, Beezy dons a pair of glasses even though he has perfect eyesight. Heloise apparently needs hers to read, but in one episode she puts them on before giving advice, probably to appear smarter.
* Later episodes of ''[[Re Boot]]'' had Dot adopt a pair of [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] while working as Mainframe's COMMAND.COM. In earlier episodes she would wear them inconsistently with the implication that she didn't ''need'' them, she just ''liked'' them.
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'' Brian tries to show [[The Hills|Lauren Conrad]] how smart he is by taking out glasses to read. When she asks when he got reading glasses, he says he always wore them. She points out she knows they aren't real as she can see the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' logo.
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