the geeks shall inherit the earth
hey pal did you get a load of the nerd
pardon me
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
TV nerds for this list we’re looking at
the best and most popular nerds in
television history
these are the characters who are too
smart for their own good almost to the
point of obsession and may or may not
lack some social skills now grab your
pocket protectors and your thick-rimmed
glasses and let’s get nerdy we cannot
talk about this because someone might
hear us number 10 Lisa Simpson The
Simpsons look at me the value I didn’t
rank me oh I’m good oh so smart grimy
nerds have it tough in their youth and
this poor genius is a perpetual
eight-year-old I’ve got some textbooks
but without state-approved syllabi and
standardized testing my education can
only go so far with her 159 IQ sax
playing and attraction to all causes
great and small
Lisa rarely fits in even with her own
family my family never talks about
library standards and every time I try
to steer the conversation that way they
make me feel like a nerd instead she
focuses on her studies and generally
being a know-it-all she sometimes found
solace in groups like Mensa you want me
to join Mensa
oh that’s wonderful but Lisa is usually
ostracized by her peers in fact she even
researched why bullies are attracted to
nerds to try to get them off her case
and though she’s desperate for approval
Lisa stays true to herself like any good
little nerd should sit up straight eyes
forward no talking is that gum is that
gum is that gum oh yeah hmm
number 9 Elliot Reid scrubs I’m Elliot
le uh don’t do that introduced as a
cutthroat doctor who will step on her
peers to further her medical career
Elliot is soon revealed to be anything
but I know
it’s hard to believe but when I first
got to college I was a little bit of it
dork geek good I’m Sally who gave it
away for free dr. Reid is actually an
open wound of vulnerability and
self-doubt whose boot by being the most
studied in her class dr. Reid can you
help them out I’d say it’s a peer
mesenteric insufficiency though she
enjoys the acceptance of a close-knit
group of friends Elliot can lack social
skills embodying many of the worst nerd
stereotypes when she angers others
through ignorance or lack of
self-awareness I’m probably miss
hyper-competitive I mean it used to be a
big problem for me yes cute past tense
but with her intelligence and loyalty
she also represents the best of the
Nerds you know something I’m neurotic to
you because that would make me cell bomb
do you mean I thought that I’ve done so
much work alone gingy breathe breathe
later number eight Maurice Moss the IT
Crowd oh
wicked I know what this is it’s the new
Harry Potter I got the child edition and
the adult edition just to check that
there are no differences in the text as
members of Rhine home industries IT
department Maas and his cohorts are
underappreciated workers banished to the
basement to revel in anything but their
actual work compiling a playlist for a
role-playing game on hosting important
to get the right at loss okay I don’t
know what you’re talking about
lacking a filter Moss says exactly
what’s on his mind but if you really
want to arouse his anger just disable
the firewall on your company computer
unbelievable some Brainiac disabled his
firewall which means that all of the
computers on floor 7 are teeming with
viruses plus I’ve just had to walk all
the way down the motherfucking stairs
because the lift is broken again
obsessive uninterested in sports and
always prepared with an extra pair of
glasses or a spray bottle to cool his
left ear
what’s our our just water sometimes I’ll
get the hot air and this helps call it
down mas just seems to be your typical
IT guy and we love him for it I want to
go back to being weird
I like being weird where’s all I’ve got
that I’m a sweet style number seven Ben
Wyatt
Parks and Recreation start talking about
nerd stuff you know nerd culture is
mainstream now so when you use the word
nerd derogatorily means you’re the one
that’s out of the zeitgeist yes that’s
perfect just like that be incredibly
boring when Ben first comes to Pawnee
nobody could have foreseen just how vast
the depths of his nerdiness could be
we’ve got some documents over at
entertainment720 that seem really
complicated and I thought maybe you
could take a look at him because nerd
stuff probably really excites you
because you’re a nerd no of course yeah
no I’ll just put on my Star Wars pajamas
and sit in my mom’s basement pour over
some spreadsheets it sounds great
yeah what do you got the department’s
resident accounting nerd office
workaholic and unabashed writer of Star
Trek fan fiction Ben isn’t your
one-dimensional nerd hey are you busy
and writing Star Trek fan fiction does
not count
hahaha finished it last week what’s
going on he also loves calzones
spreadsheets and well fellow nerd Leslie
Knope all I have on my side is facts and
science and people hate facts and
science not to mention he invented the
cones of dunshire are the cones a
metaphor well yes I know anyone who
develops a game that’s basically a combo
of risk Settlers of Catan and something
with cones is a nerd in our books then
you roll three dice to see how many dice
you roll what up sixteen perfect lots of
choices okay each turn goes roll by
hatch I mean obviously this would be
much taller in the real game number six
any Edison community so the key to
winning this thing is when in doubt
agree with an esuite just everyone
should just have fun then again what’s
more fun than winning an absolute type-a
personality any more often than not is
the driving force behind any actual
academic work the study group she
belongs to accomplishes
she is quite the little go-getter and
that’s saying something
considering the other personality she
associates with like the incredibly
eccentric yet equally nerdy Abed nadir
just to EWTN’s mean there are tours ah
yeah sure
to our parallel Earth’s in different
galaxies or identical earths in parallel
dimension the latter one what does that
say about free will
Abed professor right yeah let’s begin
her drive to succeed actually caused her
to develop an adderall addiction and
fueled her breakdown it’s a serious
disorder but since this is a comedy show
you know it all works out
surrounded by misfits and miscreants at
Greendale Community College this
teacher’s pet has found the perfect home
for herself we just figured out we had
the same GPA in high school well mine
was higher if you consider my school’s
ranking well it sounds like you had a
lighter course load so well I was in a
lot of clubs
I got it 17 of them well I was actually
thinking about founding a Model UN here
at Greendale any interest number five
Leonard Hofstadter The Big Bang Theory I
am an experimental physicist at Caltech
the most of my research is with
high-powered lasers and oh I’ve just
gotten a big government grant to see if
they can be used to knock out incoming
ballistic missiles starting the show
with a PhD and the patience of a saint
Leonard though the most well-adjusted
and social of his group of friends is
far from your average Joe will use some
kind of nerd not some kind of nerd I am
the king of nerds
what does that mean it means if anyone
displeases me I don’t help them set up
their printer living in an apartment
that is stocked with any young nerds
dream assortment of comics toys
memorabilia and games this experimental
physicist also somehow manages to get
the girl to well that was fun living
with the brilliant Sheldon Cooper who
might have made this list where he not
more defined by his lack of social
understanding than his nerd Lee ways
bazinga
Leonard is the Kirk of his group the
holographic principle suggests that what
we all experience every day in three
dimensions they really just be
information on a surface located the
farthest reaches of our cosmos number
four chuck Bartowski Chuck no I I work
for the Nerd Herd yeah don’t you he was
a computer hacker but then a computer
hacked him there’s something there spy
Chuck yeah more or less yeah Oh soon
beginning this series as a member of the
Nerd Herd Chuck’s life takes a huge turn
when he becomes a human receptacle of
destroyed intelligence a database known
as the intersect
I want to intersect you I can’t I can’t
I can’t give you that oh you’ll find a
way I’m combining a lifetime’s worth of
knowledge about the minutiae of any
number of pop culture topics Zorica
members work the old text-based video
game well Bryce and I programmed our own
version of it back at Stanford using a
trs-80 wow you guys are really cool with
the ability to access the lost
information gathered by the CIA chuck is
a nerd of the highest order
I did it hi i defuse a real bomb
like what what if I was wrong don’t you
gonna see for number three dr. Spencer
Reid criminal minds yes I’m a genius a
genius born with a 187 IQ and an eidetic
memory I don’t believe that intelligence
can be accurately quantified but I do
have an IQ of 187 an eidetic memory and
can read 20,000 words per minute dr.
Reid’s vast potential for information
gathering seems to have been equally
divided between criminal profiling and
learning things like magic do you
think’s why I can’t get it do you ever
ask anyone out no that’s why I can’t get
a day prone to obsessing about anything
that catches his fancy he uses his
better than average brain capacity to
become an expert on a multitude of
things that escape the notice of most
people when I was between him at the
door when he asked me to move
hyper-vigilance it’s not uncommon in
post-traumatic stress disorder
all in all he’s a great example of the
best aspects of nerdom as well as some
of the awkwardness and social ineptitude
associated with it you know why he
always introduces me as dr. Reid because
he knows that people see you as a kid
and he wants to make sure that they
respect you number two bill haverchuck
Freaks and Geeks hi if you were to thumb
through a yearbook from the 80s you’re
bound to come across a couple of kids
who are the spitting image of Bill don’t
judge a book by it’s cover tall and
gangly with thick glasses and greasy
hair he seemingly can’t be bothered to
put any thought into his appearance I
can hear everything you guys are saying
instead he focuses on just getting
through the day and the TV he loves
especially the Bionic Woman I’m Jaime
Sommers a Bionic Woman highly relatable
and instantly lovable there’s something
about Bill that just makes you want to
protect and befriend him this my mom
always put a note in my son bears face
your mom doesn’t write the note on the
bag
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
this may come as some surprise you jack
but I was kind of a lonely nerd in high
school and if I remember correctly you
were good deal more uh-huh oh and by the
way why are you apostrophe re means you
are
why do you are means your that’s why
they had to get rid of the professor he
was the only one who could have spotted
the fakes
you’re confusing acceleration with
velocity you feel it when you first
start going faster but once you’re up to
speed you don’t even notice I mean right
now we’re on a planet that’s spinning at
a thousand miles per hour
number one Steve Urkel family matters I
love that snort when this character
debuted on Family Matters partway
through the first season
the sitcoms title might as well have
been changed to the Steve Urkel show and
no ear the earth man is here a classic
nerd both in looks and in brains circles
got the thick glasses suspenders and
love of cheese to prove his geek cred
klutzy and full of catchphrases from
Canada today this lovable nerd is the
neighbor you can’t get rid of who
happens to be inventing god knows what
in his basement you’ve activated your
new nuclear device in minutes until a
really big boom boom okay Steve will let
you keep the accordion as long as you
bust out the Urkel dance every once in a
while watch your fingers up to the sky
and pop goo you know way up high spin
and defend jump
bash it off with our laughs and snorts
oh do you agree with our list I love it
who’s your favorite TV nerd for more
nerd tastic top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
what if we dissolve the trust yes
you just crack your case I’m just doing
my job
hey pal did you get a load of the nerd
pardon me
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
TV nerds for this list we’re looking at
the best and most popular nerds in
television history
these are the characters who are too
smart for their own good almost to the
point of obsession and may or may not
lack some social skills now grab your
pocket protectors and your thick-rimmed
glasses and let’s get nerdy we cannot
talk about this because someone might
hear us number 10 Lisa Simpson The
Simpsons look at me the value I didn’t
rank me oh I’m good oh so smart grimy
nerds have it tough in their youth and
this poor genius is a perpetual
eight-year-old I’ve got some textbooks
but without state-approved syllabi and
standardized testing my education can
only go so far with her 159 IQ sax
playing and attraction to all causes
great and small
Lisa rarely fits in even with her own
family my family never talks about
library standards and every time I try
to steer the conversation that way they
make me feel like a nerd instead she
focuses on her studies and generally
being a know-it-all she sometimes found
solace in groups like Mensa you want me
to join Mensa
oh that’s wonderful but Lisa is usually
ostracized by her peers in fact she even
researched why bullies are attracted to
nerds to try to get them off her case
and though she’s desperate for approval
Lisa stays true to herself like any good
little nerd should sit up straight eyes
forward no talking is that gum is that
gum is that gum oh yeah hmm
number 9 Elliot Reid scrubs I’m Elliot
le uh don’t do that introduced as a
cutthroat doctor who will step on her
peers to further her medical career
Elliot is soon revealed to be anything
but I know
it’s hard to believe but when I first
got to college I was a little bit of it
dork geek good I’m Sally who gave it
away for free dr. Reid is actually an
open wound of vulnerability and
self-doubt whose boot by being the most
studied in her class dr. Reid can you
help them out I’d say it’s a peer
mesenteric insufficiency though she
enjoys the acceptance of a close-knit
group of friends Elliot can lack social
skills embodying many of the worst nerd
stereotypes when she angers others
through ignorance or lack of
self-awareness I’m probably miss
hyper-competitive I mean it used to be a
big problem for me yes cute past tense
but with her intelligence and loyalty
she also represents the best of the
Nerds you know something I’m neurotic to
you because that would make me cell bomb
do you mean I thought that I’ve done so
much work alone gingy breathe breathe
later number eight Maurice Moss the IT
Crowd oh
wicked I know what this is it’s the new
Harry Potter I got the child edition and
the adult edition just to check that
there are no differences in the text as
members of Rhine home industries IT
department Maas and his cohorts are
underappreciated workers banished to the
basement to revel in anything but their
actual work compiling a playlist for a
role-playing game on hosting important
to get the right at loss okay I don’t
know what you’re talking about
lacking a filter Moss says exactly
what’s on his mind but if you really
want to arouse his anger just disable
the firewall on your company computer
unbelievable some Brainiac disabled his
firewall which means that all of the
computers on floor 7 are teeming with
viruses plus I’ve just had to walk all
the way down the motherfucking stairs
because the lift is broken again
obsessive uninterested in sports and
always prepared with an extra pair of
glasses or a spray bottle to cool his
left ear
what’s our our just water sometimes I’ll
get the hot air and this helps call it
down mas just seems to be your typical
IT guy and we love him for it I want to
go back to being weird
I like being weird where’s all I’ve got
that I’m a sweet style number seven Ben
Wyatt
Parks and Recreation start talking about
nerd stuff you know nerd culture is
mainstream now so when you use the word
nerd derogatorily means you’re the one
that’s out of the zeitgeist yes that’s
perfect just like that be incredibly
boring when Ben first comes to Pawnee
nobody could have foreseen just how vast
the depths of his nerdiness could be
we’ve got some documents over at
entertainment720 that seem really
complicated and I thought maybe you
could take a look at him because nerd
stuff probably really excites you
because you’re a nerd no of course yeah
no I’ll just put on my Star Wars pajamas
and sit in my mom’s basement pour over
some spreadsheets it sounds great
yeah what do you got the department’s
resident accounting nerd office
workaholic and unabashed writer of Star
Trek fan fiction Ben isn’t your
one-dimensional nerd hey are you busy
and writing Star Trek fan fiction does
not count
hahaha finished it last week what’s
going on he also loves calzones
spreadsheets and well fellow nerd Leslie
Knope all I have on my side is facts and
science and people hate facts and
science not to mention he invented the
cones of dunshire are the cones a
metaphor well yes I know anyone who
develops a game that’s basically a combo
of risk Settlers of Catan and something
with cones is a nerd in our books then
you roll three dice to see how many dice
you roll what up sixteen perfect lots of
choices okay each turn goes roll by
hatch I mean obviously this would be
much taller in the real game number six
any Edison community so the key to
winning this thing is when in doubt
agree with an esuite just everyone
should just have fun then again what’s
more fun than winning an absolute type-a
personality any more often than not is
the driving force behind any actual
academic work the study group she
belongs to accomplishes
she is quite the little go-getter and
that’s saying something
considering the other personality she
associates with like the incredibly
eccentric yet equally nerdy Abed nadir
just to EWTN’s mean there are tours ah
yeah sure
to our parallel Earth’s in different
galaxies or identical earths in parallel
dimension the latter one what does that
say about free will
Abed professor right yeah let’s begin
her drive to succeed actually caused her
to develop an adderall addiction and
fueled her breakdown it’s a serious
disorder but since this is a comedy show
you know it all works out
surrounded by misfits and miscreants at
Greendale Community College this
teacher’s pet has found the perfect home
for herself we just figured out we had
the same GPA in high school well mine
was higher if you consider my school’s
ranking well it sounds like you had a
lighter course load so well I was in a
lot of clubs
I got it 17 of them well I was actually
thinking about founding a Model UN here
at Greendale any interest number five
Leonard Hofstadter The Big Bang Theory I
am an experimental physicist at Caltech
the most of my research is with
high-powered lasers and oh I’ve just
gotten a big government grant to see if
they can be used to knock out incoming
ballistic missiles starting the show
with a PhD and the patience of a saint
Leonard though the most well-adjusted
and social of his group of friends is
far from your average Joe will use some
kind of nerd not some kind of nerd I am
the king of nerds
what does that mean it means if anyone
displeases me I don’t help them set up
their printer living in an apartment
that is stocked with any young nerds
dream assortment of comics toys
memorabilia and games this experimental
physicist also somehow manages to get
the girl to well that was fun living
with the brilliant Sheldon Cooper who
might have made this list where he not
more defined by his lack of social
understanding than his nerd Lee ways
bazinga
Leonard is the Kirk of his group the
holographic principle suggests that what
we all experience every day in three
dimensions they really just be
information on a surface located the
farthest reaches of our cosmos number
four chuck Bartowski Chuck no I I work
for the Nerd Herd yeah don’t you he was
a computer hacker but then a computer
hacked him there’s something there spy
Chuck yeah more or less yeah Oh soon
beginning this series as a member of the
Nerd Herd Chuck’s life takes a huge turn
when he becomes a human receptacle of
destroyed intelligence a database known
as the intersect
I want to intersect you I can’t I can’t
I can’t give you that oh you’ll find a
way I’m combining a lifetime’s worth of
knowledge about the minutiae of any
number of pop culture topics Zorica
members work the old text-based video
game well Bryce and I programmed our own
version of it back at Stanford using a
trs-80 wow you guys are really cool with
the ability to access the lost
information gathered by the CIA chuck is
a nerd of the highest order
I did it hi i defuse a real bomb
like what what if I was wrong don’t you
gonna see for number three dr. Spencer
Reid criminal minds yes I’m a genius a
genius born with a 187 IQ and an eidetic
memory I don’t believe that intelligence
can be accurately quantified but I do
have an IQ of 187 an eidetic memory and
can read 20,000 words per minute dr.
Reid’s vast potential for information
gathering seems to have been equally
divided between criminal profiling and
learning things like magic do you
think’s why I can’t get it do you ever
ask anyone out no that’s why I can’t get
a day prone to obsessing about anything
that catches his fancy he uses his
better than average brain capacity to
become an expert on a multitude of
things that escape the notice of most
people when I was between him at the
door when he asked me to move
hyper-vigilance it’s not uncommon in
post-traumatic stress disorder
all in all he’s a great example of the
best aspects of nerdom as well as some
of the awkwardness and social ineptitude
associated with it you know why he
always introduces me as dr. Reid because
he knows that people see you as a kid
and he wants to make sure that they
respect you number two bill haverchuck
Freaks and Geeks hi if you were to thumb
through a yearbook from the 80s you’re
bound to come across a couple of kids
who are the spitting image of Bill don’t
judge a book by it’s cover tall and
gangly with thick glasses and greasy
hair he seemingly can’t be bothered to
put any thought into his appearance I
can hear everything you guys are saying
instead he focuses on just getting
through the day and the TV he loves
especially the Bionic Woman I’m Jaime
Sommers a Bionic Woman highly relatable
and instantly lovable there’s something
about Bill that just makes you want to
protect and befriend him this my mom
always put a note in my son bears face
your mom doesn’t write the note on the
bag
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
this may come as some surprise you jack
but I was kind of a lonely nerd in high
school and if I remember correctly you
were good deal more uh-huh oh and by the
way why are you apostrophe re means you
are
why do you are means your that’s why
they had to get rid of the professor he
was the only one who could have spotted
the fakes
you’re confusing acceleration with
velocity you feel it when you first
start going faster but once you’re up to
speed you don’t even notice I mean right
now we’re on a planet that’s spinning at
a thousand miles per hour
number one Steve Urkel family matters I
love that snort when this character
debuted on Family Matters partway
through the first season
the sitcoms title might as well have
been changed to the Steve Urkel show and
no ear the earth man is here a classic
nerd both in looks and in brains circles
got the thick glasses suspenders and
love of cheese to prove his geek cred
klutzy and full of catchphrases from
Canada today this lovable nerd is the
neighbor you can’t get rid of who
happens to be inventing god knows what
in his basement you’ve activated your
new nuclear device in minutes until a
really big boom boom okay Steve will let
you keep the accordion as long as you
bust out the Urkel dance every once in a
while watch your fingers up to the sky
and pop goo you know way up high spin
and defend jump
bash it off with our laughs and snorts
oh do you agree with our list I love it
who’s your favorite TV nerd for more
nerd tastic top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
what if we dissolve the trust yes
you just crack your case I’m just doing
my job
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