# Cute or Sexy Nerds **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035 "2009-01-13T04:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/21 "2009-01-13T19:28:29Z")
Conan O’Brien is pretty nerdy. And hot. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/22 "2009-01-13T19:29:13Z")
David Krumholtz ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/23 "2009-01-13T19:48:53Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Confession time - > > [Stephanie Courtney](http://amazon.imdb.com/name/nm0183960/) who plays the dorkiest pitchwoman on TV - Flo - the Progressive Insurance girl. > > I think Flo is hot. > What the hell is wrong with me? You want the short list or the long list? There are groups for people like you. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/24 "2009-01-13T19:52:28Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first one to mention: Chloe O’Brian from 24 Janine Garafolo from…anything, but particularly her character in 24 this season Pam from The Office Michelle the Band Camp nerd from American Pie (althogh Allison Hannigan was mentioned) also, more obscure, but Mariel Hemmingway play a nerdy ant scientist in Delerious with John Candy. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/25 "2009-01-13T19:52:47Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > That guy [Kyle Ensley](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TK58i1cn2Y) who auditioned for last season’s AI and got as far as the chair. My God, it’s a real-life Kenneth from “30 Rock.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/26 "2009-01-13T20:12:58Z")
Leila Dunbar, from _Antiques Roadshow_. She’s the teeny gal with the big hoarse voice who does 20th century collectibles. It would be such a kick talking vintage cars or 78 records. In bed. With a woman. Anne Kornblut, the petite brunette _Washington Post_ writer sometimes seen on MSNBC. She lives at the intersection of Smartest and Cutest Girl in the Class, and wears lots of red. Mary Gross. Adorskable bang-haired gangly goof from 80s _SNL._ Carol Burnett, circa 1960s. There was something arousing about how very physical her comedy was, how she used her face and body so freely, even though she wasn’t show-biz pretty. Elaine May, circa about that same time. Sandy Dennis, ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/27 "2009-01-13T20:38:28Z")
**Carolyn Faye Fox** ; local restaurant scribe, and inveterate punster on the NPR show _Says You!_. I can’t find any good pictures online, but trust me. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/28 "2009-01-13T20:40:42Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > I can’t believe I’m the first person to mention Kari from Mythbusters. DAYUMN! Dibs. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/29 "2009-01-13T21:17:03Z")
Do cartoons count? I will always love Daria. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/30 "2009-01-13T21:18:29Z")
Now to me Stephanie Courtney and Sandy Dennis are (or were) pretty women. I wouldn’t call them nerdy simply 'cause they’re too attractive. I’m surprised no mother has chimed in with Steve “Blues Clues” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/31 "2009-01-13T22:33:55Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Now to me Stephanie Courtney and Sandy Dennis are (or were) pretty women. I wouldn’t call them nerdy simply 'cause they’re too attractive [Sandy](http://www.sandydennis.org/pics/Ryan.jpg) really walked the line between pretty and awkward. I can’t decide, sometimes, when I see her photo or a film she made. All I know is I find her very appealing. Some people can’t stand her. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/32 "2009-01-13T23:27:46Z")
Kirsten Dunst. Her best friend growing up was _Carl freakin’ Sagan’s daughter!_ The _only_ way you get nerdier than that, is by _being_ Sagan’s daughter (or Bill Gates’ or Steve Jobs). ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/33 "2009-01-14T00:07:12Z")
[Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/OUT18677008.jpg). Especially Jemaine, for me (he’s on the right in that pic). ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/34 "2009-01-14T00:10:04Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Nerd couple- Willow Rosenberg & Wesley Wyndham-Price. > > (Alyson Hannigan & Alexis Denisof, of course.) I’m not sure about Wesley. Of course, he’s the poster boy for skillful character development, but he’s not really a nerd on Angel (well, not after the first season, I should say). He’s not sexy as a nerd, and intensely sexy as a non-nerd. Willow never stops being a nerd, and is sexy either way (though I don’t think she ever realy knows how beautiful she is). Now Fred is inarguably a nerd and arguably hot. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/35 "2009-01-14T00:11:14Z")
Rachel Maddow counts as a nerd, right? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/36 "2009-01-14T02:45:16Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > Rachel Maddow counts as a nerd, right? I don’t know but she may count as a man 🙂 If you think so then it counts ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/37 "2009-01-14T03:39:28Z")
[Danica McKellar](http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2007/08/14/danica-mckellarx-large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/38 "2009-01-14T04:14:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I can’t believe I’m the first person to mention Kari from Mythbusters. DAYUMN! You mean like [this](http://www.superficialgallery.com/Celebs/albums/albums/Kari%20Byron/filename-0178.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/39 "2009-01-14T06:39:29Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Do cartoons count? I will always love Daria. I hope so. That way I can add [Uryuu](http://www.flickr.com/photos/25319328@N04/2547159546/)[Ishida](http://www.flickr.com/photos/25319328@N04/2547159796/) from _Bleach_. (Lots of cute guys in that anime.) ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035/40 "2009-01-14T07:07:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You mean like [this](http://www.superficialgallery.com/Celebs/albums/albums/Kari%20Byron/filename-0178.jpg)? I also have an obsession with Kari, that is the single issue of Maxim I have. My gf was poking through a bookcase and found it then dropped it spine first on the coffee table. She saw what it opened to, flipped a couple pages then said “well that makes sense”. She put it back like it was a technical book I use at work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-or-sexy-nerds/481035.md?page=3)