# Hottest of the televison geek girls. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272 "2009-11-28T21:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/81 "2009-12-01T19:45:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You’re just miffed cuz Kaylee’s kicking the butt of your choice! 😃 If the poll was “Kaylee or Chloe” (or “Jewel or Allison”) with no other restrictions, I’d have voted for Kaylee/Jewel. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/82 "2009-12-01T19:47:55Z")
Fair enough. Let’s blame **Skald** for causing the problem in the first place. Although a Kaylee/Chloe catfight would be… I’ll be in mah bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/83 "2009-12-01T19:54:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Although a Kaylee/Chloe catfight would be… Over in about 4 seconds\*! 😃 \*(Same with my bunk time…) ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/84 "2009-12-01T20:10:53Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Simon’s a doctor, not a geek. He’s certainly no Big Damned Hero, but he did also charge into a federal facility to rescue his sister - geeks stay in the ship and push buttons. Okay, we might have to agree to disagree on the definitions we’re using of the term ‘Geek.’ To me, a geek can be a hero, definitely does not need to stay out of danger, and ‘push buttons’. Simon is a geek character, in my opinion, because: - He’s very smart. - He’s interested in a subject (medicine) to the point of routinely overwhelming casual interest in his pursuits with enthusiastic explanations. - He’s socially awkward and exhibits the characteristics of a ‘fish out of water.’ Note that in Simon’s case, this is relative - as has been shown many times, in the sort of culture he grew up in, he is much more socially smooth and comfortable. That doesn’t stop him from becoming a geek on ‘Serenity’ or the outback planets. I think I’d even consider Simon’s obsession with his sister’s welfare, his sacrificing a rich doctor’s life to save her from the Academy, to be somewhat geeky - it was a kind of romantic and naive adventure that somehow more or less worked. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/85 "2009-12-01T20:20:58Z")
If you are going to bring up real life geeks… …then my vote (sorry Mythbusters Kari) is for that extremely hot Cosmologist babe that they use as an expert on the Science show ‘Universe’. Holy smokin smokey smokes of a smoke…she is hot! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/86 "2009-12-01T20:32:20Z")
I’d go for Emma Caulfield (Anya) over Alyson Hannigan (Willow) on Buffy, and Tamara Taylor (Cam) over Emily Deschanel (Bones) on Bones, Morena Baccarin (Inara) over Jewel Staite (Kaylee) on Firefly. I guess that tells me that I don’t really think the geeky girls are hot simply by nature of being geeky girls. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/87 "2009-12-01T20:50:20Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > If you are going to bring up real life geeks… > > …then my vote (sorry Mythbusters Kari) is for that extremely hot Cosmologist babe that they use as an expert on the Science show ‘Universe’. Holy smokin smokey smokes of a smoke…she is hot! [Amy Mainzer?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Mainzer) OMG YES! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/88 "2009-12-01T20:56:14Z")
> [@MeDrewNotYou](#): > > [Amy Mainzer?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Mainzer) OMG YES! Sorry, but I callled [dibs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504330&highlight=Mainzer) on her back in January. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/89 "2009-12-01T21:00:30Z")
When I saw the title I thought of that girl from Mythbusters, but that aint fictional and she isn’t on the list. So I went for Emily Deschanel on the basis that I have no idea what she looks like, but her last name is Deschanel so she must be Zoe’s sister, and therefore probably hot… Aaaaand having just googled her name. Can I take my vote back? ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/90 "2009-12-01T21:03:54Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Sorry, but I callled [dibs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504330&highlight=Mainzer) on her back in January. I noticed no one else in the thread said anything, so I call second dibs. Hope you don’t have any… ‘accidents.’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/91 "2009-12-01T21:26:20Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Okay, we might have to agree to disagree on the definitions we’re using of the term ‘Geek.’ > > To me, a geek can be a hero, definitely does not need to stay out of danger, and ‘push buttons’. > > Simon is a geek character, in my opinion, because: > > - He’s very smart. > - He’s interested in a subject (medicine) to the point of routinely overwhelming casual interest in his pursuits with enthusiastic explanations. > - He’s socially awkward and exhibits the characteristics of a ‘fish out of water.’ Note that in Simon’s case, this is relative - as has been shown many times, in the sort of culture he grew up in, he is much more socially smooth and comfortable. That doesn’t stop him from becoming a geek on ‘Serenity’ or the outback planets. > > I think I’d even consider Simon’s obsession with his sister’s welfare, his sacrificing a rich doctor’s life to save her from the Academy, to be somewhat geeky - it was a kind of romantic and naive adventure that somehow more or less worked. Your definition of geek fits my own. **chrisk** ’s usage seems to more closely match what I think of as a nerd. To wit, Wil Wheaton is a geek. Wesley Crusher is a nerd. Along similar lines to your explanation for Simon: Kaylee is absolutely a geek, because… -Kaylee is extremely smart - so innately talented at fixin’ ships that she diagnoses Serenity’s engine troubles mid-coitus, despite never having been onboard a Firefly-class ship before that day. -She’s interested in a subject (mechanic work/ engineering) to the point that she spends her one chance to go to a fancy-schmancy rich-people ball talking engines with a bunch of old men. -She’s (sometimes) socially awkward, both in the common geeky way of being tongue-tied around her crush, and at the aforementioned fancy party. Part of this comes from the fact that she and Simon are from opposite social strata, but if his strain of foot-in-mouth disease when placed in “lower class” situations qualifies him for geekhood, so must Kaylee’s similar condition when placed in “high class” situations. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/92 "2009-12-01T21:56:46Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > So, wait, this is a poll about womens’ hotness…except it’s not and it’s all about the characters? Why bother posting pictures? The question is essentially “If these were real people, which one would be hotter?” Not only only do the actresses not act like the characters in real life, they often don’t dress like them, and how you dress is quite important to how hot you are. For example, I seriously doubt you’d say [this pic](http://www.weblo.com/asset_images/large/Blond_pauley_perrette_Pau_489cbc39e82aa.jpg) is of Abby Sciuto. This is also the reason why the Hoshi pic is cheating–the character doesn’t dress like that. That’s her evil counterpart. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/93 "2009-12-01T23:02:30Z")
[http://www.allocine.fr/series/galerievignette\_gen\_cserie=443&cmediafichier=18972211.html](http://www.allocine.fr/series/galerievignette_gen_cserie=443&cmediafichier=18972211.html) Penelope Garcia from criminal minds-----Oh baby!!! ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/94 "2009-12-01T23:07:55Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She’s another I consciously left out. But that’s mostly because I didn’t know her name, or the character’s name, or the show’s name, and the last time I put “blonde girl on that show with that guy from Chicago Hope,” into the Google search box, Sergey Brin came to my house and laughed in my face for, like, 20 minutes straight. > > Also, she’s not actually hot. Sending out level 14 Death spiders to your location scald, you are done!!! bwahahahahah ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/95 "2009-12-02T00:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Sending out level 14 Death spiders to your location scald, you are done!!! bwahahahahah Whoa, so now we have competition for the position of Overlord of Deadly Killer Arthropods? Bugfight! ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/96 "2009-12-02T15:55:09Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Sorry, but I callled [dibs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504330&highlight=Mainzer) on her back in January. FINE! {you bastard} She is a bit young for me anyway. I’ll take the older one that they use as an expert on The Universe. She isn’t nearly that hot…actually closer to plain…but she looks fine, around my age and is extremely enthusiastic about Cosmology. Amy Mainzer looks like she could be a bit stuck up but this ohter woman looks like she’d be fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/97 "2009-12-02T17:46:50Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > Tina Fey, not hot!?, your eye doctor called and said that you are nuts! (Tina was WAY hotter as Sara Palin than Palin was). > > Unclviny Agreed! See [here](http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/tina_fey200901) and [here](http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqhzc5VMJK1qzza9co1_400.jpg). Hubba hubba! ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/98 "2009-12-03T09:25:39Z")
I voted Jewel for her cuteness and warmth of spirit. Close were Amy, Emily, and Allyson. Emily is probably the closest to actually “hot” though. Amy was on Angel and Dollhouse, not Bones. So who wants to do a hottest of geek boys? ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/99 "2009-12-03T10:58:22Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Also, she’s not actually hot. Pistols at dawn, sir, pistols at dawn. Kirsten Vangsness has got it going on. Big time, tall tower, full power. > [@melodyharmonius](#): > > For the record, this is about “geek” girls - not “nerdy” girls - and there is a difference. > > Also, I think Pauley Perrette (who I did vote for, Penelope Garcia notwithstanding) as Abby is hawt - but Pauley Perrette, MA in Criminology, as Abby is sooo much hawter. My sentiments exactly! Knowing that Pauley actually knows stuff (and is a humanitarian too) only ratchets up the hotness factor big time. Jewel Staite is nice and all, but all she seems to know about in her personal life (via her Twitter) is food. Her entire life is eating in restaurants. Boring! > [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > The hottest true geek on TV, even hotter than Kari Byron is [Olivia Munn](http://www.oliviamunn.com/) from G4’s Attack of the Show. Olivia Munn does have the geek cred, and upping said cred is that she’s now shtupping Captain Kirk. Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/100 "2009-12-03T14:06:31Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > So who wants to do a hottest of geek boys? Easy one. I’m a straight-as-an-arrow dude, and I’d switch teams for Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame. Not a traditional geek, sure, but his self-deprecating humor and smarts mark him as a geek at heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272.md?page=6)