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This is the notion that nerds' interests can be tiered, and that what's on the lower tiers can make other nerds glad they aren't that nerdy. Sometimes expressed in the form of "You're the kind of nerd that other nerds would beat up and steal your lunch money". Often when Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork, the regular nerds will mock those nerds. This can also stem from the idea that Nerds Are Virgins doesn't apply to moderate or light nerds. The more nerdy you are, the more You Need to Get Laid. In Real Life, this can lead to Broken Bases accusing the other side of being more nerdy, but we don't need to note that here. Besides, articulation of such arguments tends to be nerdier than either side. A Sub-Trope of Everyone Has Standards. Compare with Boomerang Bigot and Stop Being Stereotypical. |
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Dork Tower has a running joke about furries being the absolute bottom rung of the gaming community. There's also... In one strip, Matt imagines strangling and screaming at an overexcited roleplayer who can't stop telling strangers everything about his character, because it makes normal people think all roleplayers are freaks like him. |
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In the pilot episode of The Oblongs, Peggy is explaining to Milo the social hierarchy at school and notes that not only are they behind the dorks, geeks, and dweebs, but the wild dogs on the soccer field and the boy who lactates as well. | |
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In Berserk Abridged, Guts, who is a Zack Cosplayer, thinks LARPing is too nerdy for him. | |
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In Shrek the Third, even the school nerds pick on class loser Arthur. | |
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Party Down: Roman, an anti-social science fiction nerd, earns the attention of a beautiful woman at a party who is also into science fiction. When he probes her interests, she says she likes dragons, and Roman immediately ditches her because she's actually a fan of fantasy, not sci-fi. | |
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The Simpsons: Comes up when Lisa and Marge visit a Brand X version of Ikea. When Bart accidentally reveals that he has a stamp collection in "Homer the Vigilante", even Lisa laughs at him. Lisa also laughs at Bart in "Boy-Scoutz 'n The Hood" when he accidentally joins the Junior Campers during a Squishee bender. In the episode "Grade School Confidential," Martin's birthday party comes to an end when the oysters his parents served, instead of cake, gives the other kids food poisoning, except for Bart who gave his to Martin's cat, and Lisa who faked getting food poisoning in order to escape the overtly educational theme of the party. In "The Last Temptation of Homer," Bart simultaneously undergoes several medical treatments (orthopaedic shoes, glasses to correct a lazy eye, salve for a dry scalp) that combine to make him look like a stereotypical nerd. When he turns up at school and is duly shamed by the mob, even Martin Prince gets in his two cents. |
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In the John Finnemore's Double Acts episode "Here's What We Do", the somewhat pretentious 18 year old Pidge is horrified to discover that while he was at Uni, his friend Gavin has got into Dungeons & Dragons. Less because he's got anything against the game itself ("Of course it's fun!") as because it cements their nerd status. (Later, when admitting that everything he previously told Gavin about what they're doing is a lie, he confesses to being in the university's Catan team, and not the squash team). | |
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In Back to the Future, even the eccentric, reclusive Mad Scientist Dr. Emmett Brown is appalled when he sees how nerdy and socially inept the teenage George McFly is. George himself laughed at Marty's "life preserver" with Biff and his gang, and was just as disturbed by Marty's guitar solo as the rest of the school. |
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In the pilot of Detentionaire, Cam gets shoved to the side by a Mathlete, which shows how low he is on the school's social totem pole. | |
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Total Drama All-Stars Rewrite: Haroldnote an awkward Napoleon Dynamite expy who takes great pride in his useless knowledge, Noahnote an antisocial bookworm with an extreme aversion to physical activity, Sierranote a Loony Fangirl of Total Drama unhealthily obsessed with Cody, and Samnote an overweight video game nerd with a self-deprecative sense of humour all express very low opinions of LARPing when Leonard is introduced in the four parter. | |
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The Cracked series After Hours is entirely about four geeks who sit around a diner discussing pop culture as Serious Business. Nevertheless one of them, Daniel O'Brien, is even geekier than the others and tends to get a lot of looks of mixed confusion/scorn/pity when he says something particularly nerdy. It's Self-Deprecation, of course, Dan is the show's writer. | |
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In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Canned", Rocko passes two comic book geeks, one of which is gushing about how he thinks the "elf wenches" in his favorite fantasy comic are way hotter than real women. The other geek responds "Wow... you're an idiot." | |
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Bobby in King of the Hill is geeky but Book Dumb so he does see some of Connie's study habits as nerdier than him. He also joins a group of wannabe wizards in "The Witches of East Arlen" but after refusing to drink dog's blood in their ritual and seeing them trying to cast a spell on him he breaks out laughing and admits he almost wants to give them wedgies. In "The Son That Got Away" Bobby was reluctant to follow Joseph and Connie into the Caves but decided it was better than hanging out with Randy Miller. |
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Stanley Howler from the Discworld book Going Postal is so obsessed with his pin collection, even the other pin collectors in Ankh-Morpork think he's "a bit weird about pins". Then Moist von Lipwig invents the postage stamp, and Stanley proceeds to obsess over those, inventing stamp collecting (and becoming incredibly dismissive about people who are "still" collecting pins). | |
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In Furthia High: Bruce calls Kale and Campy nerds for chatting online and reciting poetry, respectively, while talking about how his LARPing is much cooler than what they'll be doing. This is intended as Hypocritical Humor. Another time Bruce makes fun of a couple guys playing a TCG in the cafeteria, while wearing his LARP costume. |
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Total Drama: Cody inverts this — according to his online bio, the reason he thinks of himself as cool is because he hangs out with a bunch of friends even geekier than he is. Zig Zagged with Beth. Throughout the first two seasons she often seemed annoyed/disturbed by some of Harold's antics. At the end of the second season however she develops a crush on him, and Harold seemed to develop this attitude in regards to her. Noah also clearly finds Harold annoying whenever the two interact. The Ridonculous Race puts Owen in a position to meet Leonard. Owen may be jolly and friendly to everyone he meets, but seeing Leonard claim his robe has "cloaking powers" and say he's now invisible causes him to give up rather quickly. |
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The Big Bang Theory: When Sheldon and his arch-nemesis Barry Kripke have to settle a dispute, they go with a basketball match, since sports are the one thing that neither of them have an overwhelming advantage in.note This is three seasons before Kripke is revealed to be an accomplished fencer. They are so terrible at it that the guys cannot help but find them pathetic, enough to where they briefly empathize with their schoolboy tormentors. In "The Fetal Kick Catalyst", Leonard is interested in going with Penny to the Van Nuys Comic Con, even though he just called it sad. |
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In Static Shock, Virgil remembers villain Speedwarp as the nerd who all the other nerds at science camp would pick on. | |
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Gotham Academy: A flashback to The '80s shows that the school's tiny role-playing club (the Gilkey Warlocks) was mocked by the honor students, the chess club, the drama group and the choir. | |
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Penny Arcade: Gabe, one of the original Two Gamers on a Couch, is not happy about his son LARPing. | |
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In Ted, even the kid getting beat up tells John to get lost. | |
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Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf is practically a nerd except for the fact that he's in his mid-20s/early 30s, but is the first member of the team to throw out insults comparing his crew members negatively to various nerds. Even getting his negativity drained by an Emohawk and turning him into Ace Rimmer doesn't stop him from proclaiming Dwayne Dibbley (Cat with all his "Coolness" drained out of him) to be "so geeky he couldn't even get into a science fiction convention". | |
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Welcome to the Dollhouse: Dawn "Weiner Dog" Weiner sees some kids beat up some nerdy kid. She goes over to him, asking if he's okay. His response: "Get away from me, Weiner Dog!" | |
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Jason once tried to pull this on Eileen when she was cosplaying for a Harry Potter film, but that was just Hypocritical Humor since he thought his cosplaying for a The Lord of the Rings film made him cooler. They apparently compromised on the issue since later strips would show them attending movies in cosplay together. | |
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Inverted in the Teen Girl Squad episode "4 Gregs": When Dn'D Greg reveals he actually knows the rules to American Football, the other Gregs deride him for being too mainstream. | |
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commodoreHUSTLE includes this delightful exchange: | |
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Still Standing: The episode "Still Flunking" deals with Brian trying to learn to climb a military wall in order to pass gym class, and failing miserably. When informed that he must take square dancing as an alternative to pass gym, he balks at the idea and calls square dancing lame, even though he cried when his mom took him out of tap dancing. | |
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Rocket Power: In "Loss of Squid", Sam meets Oliver for the first time and is happy to have a friend who shares his interest in science and computers. However, Sam later gets bored of him because Oliver doesn't like sports or games, has no sense of humor, is afraid of any physical activity, and doesn't want to do anything else except study. At the end of the episode, Sam introduces him to the gang and tries to get him to play hockey. | |
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DM of the Rings had a roleplaying specific version in strip #10. | |
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On Phineas and Ferb, even Baljeet considers Irving to be a nerd. Another episode has a sci-fi and fantasy convention, fresh off a war between the two fandoms, unite in mocking a teenage fan of the kiddie character Ducky Momo. |
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In Destiny 2, Ikora Rey is the Warlock Vanguard and, as you'd expect, is far from uneducated, but even she gets exasperated by Asher Mir's overuse of Technobabble, and tells him to get a translator. In a later mission, she also rifles through Asher's theoretical notes and laments how she prefers applied research. | |
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The Flash (2014): Cisco Ramon, the Gadgeteer Genius, had no friends in high school as he was apparently such a nerd that 'even the nerds hated [him]'. It's no wonder that he was so happy to get a job working for Harrison Wells at STAR Labs, since he was finally in an environment where nerdiness and genius was celebrated. | |
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In the episode "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the kids are playing like they are characters in The Lord of the Rings, but Cartman then makes fun of kids who are playing like they are in Harry Potter. | |
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In the SheZow episode "Friend or Faux", a nerd compares SheZow's fight with Tara to a specific event that happened in a specific comic. Another nerd tells her that she really needs to get a life. | |
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Potter Puppet Pals puts it pretty bluntly. | |
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In the Downtown episode "Night Shift", a group of nerds quickly get exasperated with one of their members who is so socially inept, he thinks 'laid' is the name of a Star Wars character. | |
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Some of the Krelboyne kids in Malcolm in the Middle. | |
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He also accuses Sunset Overdrive of trying way too hard to be like this, setting out to be a game that's deliberately silly and weird and wacky while also mocking the "nerds" who would, despite its protestations, probably make up most of its target audience. | |
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Cass from The Gamers: Hands of Fate is a dedicated RPG and board game player and initially utterly dismissive of CCG players. His playgroup straight-up calls him out on this, since if anything they're a better fit for his playstyle. He later refuses a LARP invitation as beneath his dignity, which royally pisses off his new friends who consider it the highlight of their annual Gencon trip. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd thinks this way of sports nerds, as revealed in the Atari Sports episode. Even more so towards the title character of Lester the Unlikely. | |
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In Doppelgänger, nerds form an entire clique. Even they consider Victor too nerdy to join them. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick, who portrays herself as an obsessively geeky shut-in, delights in mocking squealing fangirls and people who write bad fanfiction. She also works a few obligatory swipes at LARPers into her Labyrinth review. That said, the Chick (as opposed to Lindsay Ellis) is a Closet Geek in denial about her own nerdiness. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! younger Cosmo, who is apparently the biggest loser in his school, gets beat up by every clique group, even the nerds, and Luther. In the episode "Shelf Life" Mr. Crocker makes the class do a 500 page book report over the summer. Elmer says it sounds like fun which nobody takes kindly to, not even Sanjay! |
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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taber and various other patients taunt Harding for being a long-winded pseudo-intellectual, while Cheswick tries to back up Harding. However, Cheswick is so pathetic that even Harding wants nothing to do with him and straight out tells him NOT to take his side in the silly dispute. | |
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In one Ctrl+Alt+Del strip, Ethan says that Lucas had "crossed over into the realm of supernerds, whereby even regular nerds steal your lunch money and throw rocks at you" over his excitement on having discovered the A Song of Ice and Fire CCG.note This was a few years before the television series. | |
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What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Velma's opinion of Gibby is that he's too geeky, even for her. | |
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Backyard Sports' Dmitri, a nerd who loves statistics, thinks Reese, who is a nerd who plays way too many video games and collects way too many stamps and action figures, is way too nerdy. | |
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In one Saturday Night Live skit involving the Spartan Cheerleaders, the eponymous cheerleaders decide to pep up a chess match with their routine. One member of the chess club takes umbrage at this: | |
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FoxTrot: During the summer camp arc, Eugene Wu was the first nerd that Jason and Marcus couldn't stand. This was less because of his interests and more because of his Insufferable Genius behavior. Jason once tried to pull this on Eileen when she was cosplaying for a Harry Potter film, but that was just Hypocritical Humor since he thought his cosplaying for a The Lord of the Rings film made him cooler. They apparently compromised on the issue since later strips would show them attending movies in cosplay together. |
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Spider-Man: Charlie Weiderman was such a big nerd in high school that even Peter Parker once picked on him. Weasel was also a classmate of Peter in ESU, and was said to be so much of a geek that even Peter wouldn't hang around him. |
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In Pixie Trix Comix, both Jung and Ramona, who are pretty hardcore geeks if not overly nerdy, are entirely willing to pick on Aaron, whose geeky and annoying behavior does take him into Asshole Victim territory. | |
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At the end of the Danny Phantom episode "Lucky in Love", the nerd calls Danny, Tucker, and Sam "losers". In the early seasons, Tucker himself hates being called a "nerd" and "Techno-Geek". In one episode, he has gotten sick of it, but by the end, he starts to like being a "Techno-Geek". |
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In the The Proud Family episode "Twins to Tweens," Penny's life gets altered by Al Roker to where Bebe and Cece are teenagers and are much more popular than Penny, making her the outcast of the school. Penny then tries to hang out with the resident super geek, Myron. However, Myron (despite crushing over Penny in the main reality) rejects her outright even calling her a "nerd" as he leaves with his girlfriend. | |
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In the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, Johnny and his friends are pals because they don't fit into any of the school cliques, even the uncool ones. Wobbler in particular is described as "He wanted to be a nerd, but they wouldn't let him join", and Johnny reckons trainspotters are cooler than Yo-less. | |
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Yahtzee describes EVE Online players as "the nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people", with an appropriate series of illustrations. | |
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A variation in Mac Hall here. It claims when nerds arrive at a con, each one finds someone even worse than themselves in order to feel better about themselves. | |
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In The Looney Tunes Show, there's a flashback to everyone's high school days, and we find out that even Pete Puma and Marvin Martian, established losers in this particular continuity, refused to sit with Daffy. | |
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From Two of a Kind: | |
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The Nerd Clique in Bully won't let Petey into their group, claiming that he's too weird. | |
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QI: In the "Invertebrates" episode, this was the reaction to the panelists learning about the Worm-Charming Festival (which failed to charm any worms): | |
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This is a common theme in Codename: Kids Next Door where nerds have superhuman powers that set them apart from other kids (like turning into zombies if you steal from them). In any case, nerds are quick to compete with other nerds over their talents, like in one scene where a nerd calls another one dumb when he doesn't know that he can't catch cooties from his sister. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the kids are playing like they are characters in The Lord of the Rings, but Cartman then makes fun of kids who are playing like they are in Harry Potter. There are a few episodes in which the kids are playing out a fantasy and look down on the Star Trek kids. |
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A zig-zagged/inverted example in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun: Mikoshiba is a closet gaming otaku, and also helps Nozaki as a manga assistant, but keeps it a secret to maintain his "cool guy" image. Wakamatsu is another of Nozaki's assistants, who's well known around the school as a basketball player. When they both find out that the other draws manga, Mikoshiba admits he was hiding it because he sees it as an Embarrassing Hobby. Wakamatsu tries to be supportive by admitting his own interest in manga and saying if Mikoshiba is an otaku, then so is he, but Mikoshiba yells at him for daring to call himself an otaku at that level. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When Buffy fails to get on the cheerleading squad early in Season 1, her mother suggests that she join the yearbook staff. Buffy responds, "Have you seen the people that work on the yearbook? Nerds pick on them." | |
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee describes EVE Online players as "the nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people", with an appropriate series of illustrations. Another time he mentions he isn't as into a franchise as others and says, "This is where the big nerds get to pick on me" with an illustration of a hulking figure with big coke-bottle glasses and nerdy incisors picking him up. He also accuses Sunset Overdrive of trying way too hard to be like this, setting out to be a game that's deliberately silly and weird and wacky while also mocking the "nerds" who would, despite its protestations, probably make up most of its target audience. |
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In the Frasier episode "Frasier's Reunion", Frasier complains that every five years, his high school reunion coincides with his life being a mess, and he ends up sitting with "the most pathetic people there". | |
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Weasel was also a classmate of Peter in ESU, and was said to be so much of a geek that even Peter wouldn't hang around him. | |
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