# Iconic live-action TV nerds before TBBT

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780 "2015-05-11T15:42:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780/81 "2015-05-14T13:50:56Z")

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How has this thread gotten so long with no mention of Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds? That guy is nerd personified!

ETA: I’d love to see him in a confrontation with Sheldon Cooper. And both their mothers.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780/82 "2015-05-14T14:02:17Z")

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I know they both came later, but Penelope Garcia on “Criminal Minds” has nothing on Huck from “Scandal”, who has all those same skills and more and is a psychotic torturer/murderer too.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780/83 "2015-05-20T22:23:25Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> Ross Geller from \*Friends \*fits most of the stereotypes.

I’d have named Chandler as the nerd in _Friends_. He’s even less successful with women than Ross, has a boring nerdy job (compared to Ross’s cool nerdy job), and remember how excited he was about his new computer?

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**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780/84 "2015-05-21T03:21:44Z")

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The entire male cast of the show [Dweebs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweebs_(TV_series)), and maybe Skippy Handlman from Family Ties.

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**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:** [May 21, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-live-action-tv-nerds-before-tbbt/719780/85 "2015-05-21T12:07:37Z")

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> [@breezman](#):
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> The entire male cast of the show [Dweebs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweebs_(TV_series)), and maybe Skippy Handlman from Family Ties.

I don’t, I think Skippy was more of a dork. Or, if we’re playing [“Geek, Dweeb, or Spaz!”](https://vimeo.com/15432053) dweeb?

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