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In TV land, it seems, intelligence isn't just a matter of being able to learn quicker, reason better, and understand more easily. The '''TV Genius''' is what you get when intelligent characters conform to an unintelligent person's idea of how an intelligent person acts. A '''TV Genius''' bears [[Improbably High IQ|an impossibly or immeasurably high IQ]], never uses a short word [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|when a sententious alternative might elicit advantageous conversation]], and has the full package of exaggerated traits and strange behaviors Hollywoodland associates with "big brains". This is especially obvious when [[
While intellectuals often do have interest in obscure topics, the '''TV Genius''' is inexplicably baffled that other people have different interests than themselves. Their only pastimes will be [[Genius Book Club|reading thick tomes]] and [[Smart People Play Chess|playing chess]]. They will frequently rattle off statistics and calculations to [[Ludicrous Precision|implausible degrees of precision]]. These may be relevant to the plot at hand but not their assumed field of study; statistics and math articles are like Playboy magazines to these folks.
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