Iconic live-action TV nerds before TBBT

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.

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.

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?

The entire male cast of the show Dweebs, 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!” dweeb?