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10	->''"OK, now you've crossed over into the realm of '''supernerds''', whereby even '''regular''' nerds steal your lunch money and throw rocks at you."''
11	--> -- '''Ethan''', ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel -- [[https://cad-comic.com/comic/a-game-of-nerds/ "A game of nerds"]]''
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13	This is the notion that nerds' interests can be tiered, and that what's on the lower tiers can make other nerds glad they aren't that nerdy.
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15	Sometimes expressed in the form of "You're the kind of nerd that [[NerdyBully other nerds would beat up]] and [[DeadUnicornTrope steal your lunch money]]". Often when NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork, the regular nerds will mock those nerds. This can also stem from the idea that NerdsAreVirgins doesn't apply to moderate or light nerds. The more nerdy you are, the more YouNeedToGetLaid.
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17	In RealLife, this can lead to {{Broken Base}}s accusing the other side of [[NoTrueScotsman being more nerdy]], [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease but we don't need to note that here]]. Besides, articulation of such arguments tends to be nerdier than either side. [[noreallife]]
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19	A SubTrope of EveryoneHasStandards. Compare with BoomerangBigot and StopBeingStereotypical.
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22	!!References to nerd standards:
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25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* A zig-zagged/inverted example in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': Mikoshiba is a closet gaming otaku, and also helps Nozaki as a manga assistant, but keeps it a secret to maintain his "cool guy" image. [[LovableJock Wakamatsu]] is another of Nozaki's assistants, who's well known around the school as a basketball player. When they both find out that the other draws manga, Mikoshiba admits he was hiding it because he sees it as an EmbarrassingHobby. Wakamatsu tries to be supportive by admitting his own interest in manga and saying if Mikoshiba is an otaku, then so is he, but Mikoshiba yells at him for daring to call himself an otaku at that level.
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29	[[folder:Comic Books]]
30	* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'': A flashback to TheEighties shows that the school's tiny role-playing club (the Gilkey Warlocks) was mocked by the honor students, the chess club, the drama group and the choir.
31	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski Charlie Weiderman]] was such a big nerd in high school that even Peter Parker once picked on him.
32	** [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Weasel]] was also a classmate of Peter in ESU, and was said to be so much of a geek that even Peter wouldn't hang around him.
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35	[[folder:Fan Works]]
36	* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaAllStarsRewrite'': Harold[[note]]an awkward Film/NapoleonDynamite {{expy}} who takes great pride in his useless knowledge[[/note]], Noah[[note]]an antisocial bookworm with an extreme aversion to physical activity[[/note]], Sierra[[note]]a {{Loony Fan}}girl of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Total Drama]]'' unhealthily obsessed with Cody[[/note]], and Sam[[note]]an overweight video game nerd with a self-deprecative sense of humour[[/note]] all express very low opinions of {{LARP}}ing when [[spoiler:Leonard]] is introduced in the four parter.
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39	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
40	* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', even the school nerds pick on class loser Arthur.
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43	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
44	* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'
45	** Even the eccentric, reclusive MadScientist Dr. Emmett Brown is appalled when he sees how nerdy and socially inept the teenage George [=McFly=] is.
46	** George himself laughed at Marty's "life preserver" with Biff and his gang, and was just as disturbed by Marty's guitar solo as the rest of the school.
47	* Creator/RogerEbert described the title character of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' as "the kind of nerd other nerds avoid."
48	* In ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', Taber and various other patients taunt Harding for being a long-winded pseudo-intellectual, while Cheswick tries to back up Harding. However, Cheswick is so pathetic that even Harding wants nothing to do with him and straight out tells him NOT to take his side in the silly dispute.
49	* ''Film/WelcomeToTheDollhouse'': Dawn [[EmbarrassingNickname "Weiner Dog"]] Weiner sees some kids beat up some nerdy kid. She goes over to him, asking if he's okay. His response: "Get away from me, Weiner Dog!"
50	* In ''Film/{{Ted}}'', even the kid getting beat up tells John to get lost.
51	* Towards the start of ''Film/AboutABoy'', two of Marcus's nerdy-looking classmates tell him that they can't hang out with him anymore, because the bullies only pick on them when Marcus is with them.
52	* Cass from ''Film/TheGamersHandsOfFate'' is a dedicated RPG and board game player and initially utterly dismissive of CCG players. His playgroup straight-up calls him out on this, since if anything they're a better fit for his playstyle. He later refuses a LARP invitation as beneath his dignity, which royally pisses off his new friends who consider it the highlight of their annual Gencon trip.
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55	[[folder:Literature]]
56	* When Creator/DouglasAdams revealed that the question which produced the Ultimate Answer [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy (42)]] was [[spoiler:"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"]], somebody pointed out that the math actually did add up... if you use base 13. Adams responded, "[[SelfDeprecation I may be a sad individual]], but I don't make jokes in base 13."
57	* Stanley Howler from the Literature/{{Discworld}} book ''Literature/GoingPostal'' is so obsessed with his pin collection, even the other pin collectors in Ankh-Morpork think he's "a bit weird about pins". Then Moist von Lipwig invents the postage stamp, and Stanley proceeds to obsess over ''those'', inventing stamp collecting (and becoming incredibly dismissive about people who are "still" collecting pins).
58	* In the ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'', Johnny and his friends are pals because they don't fit into any of the school cliques, even the uncool ones. Wobbler in particular is described as "He ''wanted'' to be a nerd, but they wouldn't let him join", and Johnny reckons ''[[RailEnthusiast trainspotters]]'' are cooler than Yo-less.
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61	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
62	* Comedian Jackie Kashian had a bit about this, concerning Civil War re-enactors.
63	-->"Do you know how far into the Dork Forest you have to go before you find the Civil War re-enactors? You have to go past the Star Wars fans, the Star Trek fans, the people who collect Beanie Babies. You have to go past ''Harry Potter himself''."
64	* Arnold Rimmer from ''Series/RedDwarf'' is practically a nerd except for the fact that he's in his mid-20s/early 30s, but is the first member of the team to throw out insults comparing his crew members negatively to various nerds. Even getting his negativity drained by an Emohawk and turning him into Ace Rimmer doesn't stop him from proclaiming Dwayne Dibbley (Cat with all his "Coolness" drained out of him) to be "so geeky he couldn't even get into a science fiction convention".
65	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Buffy fails to get on the cheerleading squad early in Season 1, her mother suggests that she join the yearbook staff. Buffy responds, "Have you ''seen'' the people that work on the yearbook? ''Nerds'' pick on them."
66	* Some of the Krelboyne kids in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
67	-->'''Dabney:''' I know you think I'm a mama's boy.
68	-->'''Malcolm:''' No, Dabney, the ''mama's boys'' are getting together and laughing at you. With their mothers!
69	* From ''Series/TwoOfAKind'':
70	-->'''Mary Kate:''' Dad, you know those kids who blow their nose and then spend just a little too much time looking at it in the tissue?
71	-->'''Kevin:''' Yeah...
72	-->'''Mary Kate:''' Well, even ''they'' won't talk to Ethan!
73	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
74	** When Sheldon and his arch-nemesis Barry Kripke have to settle a dispute, they go with a basketball match, since sports are the one thing that neither of them have an overwhelming advantage in.[[note]]This is three seasons before Kripke is revealed to be an accomplished fencer.[[/note]] They are so terrible at it that the guys cannot help but find them pathetic, enough to where they briefly empathize with their schoolboy tormentors.
75	--->'''Leonard:''' You know all those terrible things [[TheBully bullies]] used to do to us?
76	--->'''Raj:''' Yeah?
77	--->'''Leonard:''' [[SincerityMode I get it]].
78	--->''(Raj nods in agreement.)''
79	** In [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS10E6TheFetalKickCatalyst "The Fetal Kick Catalyst"]], Leonard is interested in going with Penny to the Van Nuys Comic Con, even though he just called it sad.
80	--->'''Leonard''': But it's not pathetic; that's where I draw the line.
81	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Cisco Ramon, the GadgeteerGenius, had no friends in high school as he was apparently such a nerd that 'even the nerds hated [him]'. It's no wonder that he was so happy to get a job working for Harrison Wells at STAR Labs, since he was finally in an environment where nerdiness and genius was celebrated.
82	* ''Series/{{QI}}'': In the "Invertebrates" episode, this was the reaction to the panelists learning about the Worm-Charming Festival (which failed to charm any worms):
83	-->'''Alan Davies''': At least when you go trainspotting there are trains!
84	-->'''Johnny Vegas''': That's the best thing - the trainspotters are sitting on a hill going "Losers! Get a life!"
85	* ''Series/PartyDown'': Roman, an anti-social science fiction nerd, earns the attention of a beautiful woman at a party who is also into science fiction. When he probes her interests, she says she likes dragons, and Roman immediately ditches her because she's actually a fan of ''fantasy'', not sci-fi.
86	* In one ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit involving the Spartan Cheerleaders, the eponymous cheerleaders decide to pep up a chess match with their routine. One member of the chess club takes umbrage at this:
87	-->'''Glen''': You two are ''freaks!'' Do you know how far you've fallen when the ''chess team'' makes fun of you?
88	* In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "Frasier's Reunion", Frasier complains that every five years, his high school reunion coincides with his life being a mess, and he ends up sitting with "the most pathetic people there".
89	-->'''Niles''': The chess club?
90	-->'''Frasier''': Worse. The chess club's barbershop quartet!
91	-->'''Niles''': Oh, the Checkmates.
92	* ''Series/StillStanding'': The episode "Still Flunking" deals with Brian trying to learn to [[GymClassRopeClimb climb a military wall]] in order to pass gym class, and failing miserably. When informed that he must take square dancing as an alternative to pass gym, he balks at the idea and calls square dancing lame, even though he cried when his mom took him out of tap dancing.
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95	[[folder:Music]]
96	* In the Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Genius in France": "And I forgot to mention/I'm not even welcome at the Franchise/StarTrek Convention."
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99	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
100	* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
101	** During the summer camp arc, Eugene Wu was the first nerd that Jason and Marcus couldn't stand. This was less because of his interests and more because of his InsufferableGenius behavior.
102	** Jason once tried to pull this on Eileen when she was cosplaying for a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' film, but that was just HypocriticalHumor since he thought his cosplaying for a ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' film made him cooler. They apparently compromised on the issue since later strips would show them attending movies in cosplay together.
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105	[[folder:Radio]]
106	* In the ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresDoubleActs'' episode "Here's What We Do", the somewhat pretentious 18 year old Pidge is horrified to discover that while he was at Uni, his friend Gavin has got into ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Less because he's got anything against the game itself ("Of course it's ''fun''!") as because it cements their nerd status. (Later, when admitting that [[spoiler: everything he previously told Gavin about what they're doing is a lie, he confesses to being in the university's ''TabletopGame/{{Catan}}'' team, and ''not'' the squash team]]).
107	-->'''Pidge''': People like us cannot do ''Dungeons & Dragons''. If we're going to remain in that crucial third quartile of popularity -- not popular, but not bullied -- we've ''got'' to keep people like the D&D lot below us.
108	* Zig-zag: a radio sports talk show described fantasy football as Dungeons and Dragons for guys who used to beat up guys who played Dungeons and Dragons.
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110
111	[[folder:Video Games]]
112	* ''VideoGame/BackyardSports''' [[TheSmartGuy Dmitri]], a nerd who loves statistics, thinks Reese, who is a nerd who plays ''way too many'' video games and collects ''way too many'' stamps and action figures, is ''way too nerdy''.
113	* The Nerd Clique in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' won't let Petey into their group, claiming that he's too weird.
114	* In ''VideoGame/Destiny2'', Ikora Rey is the [[TheArchmage Warlock Vanguard]] and, as you'd expect, [[TheSmartGuy is far from uneducated,]] but even she gets exasperated by [[InsufferableGenius Asher Mir's]] overuse of {{Technobabble}}, and tells him to get a translator. In a later mission, she also rifles through Asher's theoretical notes and laments how she prefers ''[[BadassBookworm applied]]'' research.
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117	[[folder:Webcomics]]
118	* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' had a roleplaying specific version in [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=653 strip #10.]]
119	-->Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on ''[[TheRoleplayer roleplaying]]''. When the dorks need to feel superior, ''this'' is the guy they denounce as a dork. Honestly. The only person worse than him is the DM himself.
120	* In one ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' strip, Ethan says that Lucas had "crossed over into the realm of supernerds, whereby even regular nerds steal your lunch money and throw rocks at you" over his excitement on having discovered the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' CCG.[[note]]This was a few years before [[Series/GameOfThrones the television series]].[[/note]]
121	* The hierarchy is referenced in [[http://www.weregeek.com/2009/12/07/ this page]] of ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}''. Despite this one instance, though, the comic in general averts this, showing all forms of Geek as people out to have harmless fun (who also may or may not be monsters of some kind).
122	* ''Webcomic/DorkTower'' has a running joke about furries being the absolute bottom rung of the gaming community.
123	** There's also...
124	--->'''Ken''': The geeks beat you up in school when the jocks were finished with you, didn't they...\
125	'''Matt''': The math club developed a special 'take a number' system just for me!
126	** In one strip, Matt imagines strangling and screaming at an overexcited roleplayer who can't stop telling strangers everything about his character, because [[StopBeingStereotypical it makes normal people think all roleplayers are freaks like him]].
127	* A variation in ''Webcomic/MacHall'' [[https://www.machall.com/comic/marcon-review here.]] It claims when nerds arrive at a con, each one finds someone even worse than themselves in order to feel better about themselves. %% Old url was http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2002-05-26 - keep it handy in case it changes again, for this one has the date.
128	* In ''Webcomic/FurthiaHigh'':
129	** [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20080414 Bruce calls Kale and Campy nerds]] for chatting online and reciting poetry, respectively, while talking about how his {{LARP}}ing is much cooler than what they'll be doing. This is intended as HypocriticalHumor.
130	** Another time Bruce makes fun of a couple guys playing a TCG in the cafeteria, while wearing his LARP costume.
131	* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': Gabe, one of the original TwoGamersOnACouch, is [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/05/23/nipping not happy]] about his son [=LARPing=].
132	* In ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix,'' both Jung and Ramona, who are pretty hardcore geeks if not overly nerdy, are entirely willing to pick on Aaron, whose geeky and ''annoying'' behavior does take him into AssholeVictim territory.
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135	[[folder:WebOriginal]]
136	* In ''WebVideo/BerserkAbridged'', Guts, who is a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Zack]] {{Cosplay}}er, thinks {{LARP}}ing is too nerdy for him.
137	%% * The trope represents a common joke in ''Website/SFDebris'' reviews.
138	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, who portrays herself as an obsessively geeky shut-in, delights in mocking squealing fangirls and people who write bad fanfiction. She also works a few obligatory swipes at [=LARPers=] into her ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' review. That said, the Chick ([[WatsonianVersusDoylist as opposed to Lindsay Ellis]]) is a ClosetGeek in denial about her own nerdiness.
139	* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'':
140	** Yahtzee describes ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' players as "the nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people", with an appropriate series of illustrations.
141	** Another time he mentions he isn't as into a franchise as others and says, "This is where the big nerds get to pick on me" with an illustration of a hulking figure with big coke-bottle glasses and nerdy incisors picking him up.
142	** He also accuses ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'' of trying ''way'' too hard to be like this, setting out to be a game that's deliberately silly and weird and wacky while also mocking the "nerds" who would, despite its protestations, probably make up most of its target audience.
143	--->'''Yahtzee:''' As is the sandbox way, ''Sunset Overdrive'' introduces a number of NPC factions who give us our missions, and all of them seem to be nerds: engineering students and [=LARPers=] and the like. It's another thing that comes across as desperate. "Look at the nerds! We're not nerds, we're cool! Video games are cool and not nerdy!" I didn't say they were ner- "Good, 'cos they're not! Let's all laugh at the nerds and their funny nerdy ways! Fa ha ha ha ha ha!" Except let's ''[[DudeNotFunny not]]'' laugh, ''Sunset Overdrive.''
144	* The [[http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z167/Great_WhiteSnark/geekchartbig.gif "Geek Hierarchy"]] chart by Creator/LoreSjoberg, originally published at the Brunching Shuttlecocks humor site, analyses the trope.
145	* ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle'' includes this delightful exchange:
146	-->'''Graham''': They're [=LARPers=]. It's like what Jer does with the dice and the bits of paper, except that the people Jer hangs out with look down on these guys.
147	* The {{Website/Cracked}} series ''WebVideo/AfterHours'' is entirely about four geeks who sit around a diner discussing pop culture as SeriousBusiness. Nevertheless one of them, Daniel O'Brien, is even geekier than the others and tends to get a lot of looks of mixed confusion/scorn/pity when he says something particularly nerdy. It's SelfDeprecation, of course, Dan is the show's writer.
148	* ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' puts it pretty bluntly.
149	-->'''Ron''': Even I look down on you, Neville. ''Me''.
150	* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd thinks this way of sports nerds, as revealed in the Atari Sports episode. Even more so towards the title character of ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely''.
151	-->'''AVGN:''' This 'nerd' makes me look like Creator/CharlesBronson! ''[[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]]'' could beat the shit out of this guy!
152	* In ''WebVideo/{{Doppelganger}}'', nerds form an entire clique. Even they consider Victor too nerdy to join them.
153	-->''The nerds won't even tolerate me!''
154	-->''Ironic, yes, but still it really hurts.''
155	* Creator/{{Seanbaby}} once posted an old ''Nintendo Power'' letter on his website, in which a group of college students discussed how they spent Spring Break playing Gameboy... and the editor's response was "You know, Gameboys also work ''outside''." Seanbaby couldn't let the chance pass:
156	-->"When a guy whose hobbies include 'play-by-post games' looks up from his Dungeonmaster's Guide and tells you you're a geek, you know you're finished. You might as well knock your own lunch tray out of your hands and save us all the time."
157	* Inverted in the ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' episode "4 Gregs": When [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dn'D]] Greg reveals he actually knows the rules to UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball, the other Gregs deride him for being too mainstream.
158	-->'''Fantasy Greg:''' [[UsefulNotes/FantasySports Fantasy football]] still counts as fantasy!
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161	[[folder:Western Animation]]
162	* This is a common theme in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' where nerds have superhuman powers that set them apart from other kids [[OurZombiesAreDifferent (like turning into zombies if you steal from them).]] In any case, nerds are quick to compete with other nerds over their talents, like in one scene where a nerd calls another one dumb when he doesn't know that he can't catch cooties from his sister.
163	* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Lucky in Love", the nerd calls Danny, Tucker, and Sam "losers".
164	** In the early seasons, Tucker himself hates being called a "nerd" and "Techno-Geek". In one episode, he has gotten sick of it, but by the end, he starts to [[ProudToBeAGeek like being a "Techno-Geek"]].
165	* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', Cam gets shoved to the side by a Mathlete, which shows how low he is on the school's social totem pole.
166	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' episode "Night Shift", a group of nerds quickly get exasperated with one of their members who is so socially inept, he thinks 'laid' is the name of a Star Wars character.
167	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' younger Cosmo, who is apparently the biggest loser in his school, gets beat up by every clique group, even the nerds, and [[JerkJock Luther]].
168	** In the episode "Shelf Life" Mr. Crocker makes the class do a 500 page book report over the summer. Elmer says it sounds like fun which nobody takes kindly to, not even Sanjay!
169	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Wishbones", when Billy's dad Harold finds the wishing skull, he wishes he could live his high school years again because he believed he was one of the popular kids, he approaches the jocks and the cheerleaders who beat him up, he then tries the bullies with the same result, then he attempts to befriend some nerds but even they beat him up and stuff him into the garbage can just like everyone else.
170	* Bobby in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is geeky but BookDumb so he does see some of Connie's study habits as nerdier than him. He also joins a group of wannabe wizards in "The Witches of East Arlen" but after refusing to drink dog's blood in their ritual and seeing them trying to cast a spell on him he breaks out laughing and admits he almost wants to give them wedgies.
171	** In "The Son That Got Away" Bobby was reluctant to follow Joseph and Connie into the Caves but decided it was better than hanging out with Randy Miller.
172	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', there's a flashback to [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether everyone's]] high school days, and we find out that [[spoiler:even Pete Puma and Marvin Martian, established losers in this particular continuity, refused to sit with Daffy]].
173	* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Peggy is explaining to Milo the social hierarchy at school and notes that not only are they behind the dorks, geeks, and dweebs, but the wild dogs on the soccer field and [[LactatingMale the boy who lactates as well]].
174	* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' even [[BollywoodNerd Baljeet]] considers [[LoonyFan Irving]] to be a nerd.
175	** Another episode has a sci-fi and fantasy convention, fresh off [[FandomRivalry a war between the two fandoms]], unite in mocking a teenage fan of the kiddie character [[PeripheryHatedom Ducky Momo]].
176	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' episode "Twins to Tweens," Penny's life gets altered by Al Roker to where Bebe and Cece are teenagers and are much more popular than Penny, making her the outcast of the school. Penny then tries to hang out with the resident super geek, Myron. However, Myron (despite crushing over Penny in the main reality) rejects her outright even calling her a "nerd" as he leaves with his girlfriend.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': In "Loss of Squid", Sam meets Oliver for the first time and is happy to have a friend who shares his interest in science and computers. However, Sam later gets bored of him because Oliver doesn't like sports or games, has no sense of humor, is afraid of any physical activity, and doesn't want to do anything else except study. At the end of the episode, Sam introduces him to the gang and tries to get him to play hockey.
178	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Canned", Rocko passes two comic book geeks, one of which is gushing about how [[PerverseSexualLust he thinks the "elf wenches" in his favorite fantasy comic are way hotter than real women]]. The other geek responds "Wow... you're an ''idiot.''"
179	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'' episode "Friend or Faux", a nerd compares [=SheZow=]'s fight with Tara to a specific event that happened in a specific comic. Another nerd tells her that she really needs to get a life.
180	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
181	** Comes up when Lisa and Marge visit a BrandX version of Ikea.
182	-->'''Lisa:''' ''[Picks up a pencil holder]'' Ooh, I want to get the krünk.\
183	'''Marge:''' Mmmm, you don't want something that overshadows the pencils. ''[Holds up another pencil caddy]'' How about this pöpli?\
184	'''Lisa:''' Mom, no! Everyone at school picks on the pöpli kids - even I do. ''[Under her breath]'' I just hate them so much.
185	** When Bart accidentally reveals that he has a ''stamp collection'' in "Homer the Vigilante", even Lisa laughs at him.
186	--->'''[[BehindTheBlack Nelson]]:''' Stamp collection? Ha ha!
187	** Lisa also laughs at Bart in "Boy-Scoutz 'n The Hood" when he accidentally joins the [[ScoutOut Junior Campers]] during a [[DrunkOnMilk Squishee bender]].
188	--->'''Lisa:''' The few. The proud. The geeky.
189	** In the episode "Grade School Confidential," Martin's birthday party comes to an end when the oysters his parents served, instead of cake, gives the other kids food poisoning, except for Bart who gave his to Martin's cat, and Lisa who faked getting food poisoning in order to escape the overtly educational theme of the party.
190	** In "The Last Temptation of Homer," Bart simultaneously undergoes several medical treatments (orthopaedic shoes, glasses to correct a lazy eye, salve for a dry scalp) that combine to make him look like a stereotypical nerd. When he turns up at school and is duly shamed by the mob, even Martin Prince gets in his two cents.
191	--->'''Martin Prince:''' Your appearance is comical to me!
192	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
193	** In the episode "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the kids are playing like they are characters in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', but Cartman then makes fun of kids who are playing like they are in ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
194	** There are a few episodes in which the kids are playing out a fantasy and look down on the ''Star Trek'' kids.
195	* In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', Virgil remembers villain Speedwarp as the nerd who all the other nerds at science camp would pick on.
196	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
197	** [[CasanovaWannabe Cody]] [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this -- according to his [[AllThereInTheManual online bio]], the reason he thinks of himself as cool is because he hangs out with a bunch of friends even geekier than he is.
198	** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig Zagged]] with Beth. Throughout the first two seasons she often seemed annoyed/disturbed by some of Harold's antics. At the end of the second season however she develops a crush on him, and Harold seemed to develop this attitude in regards to her.
199	** Noah also clearly finds Harold annoying whenever the two interact.
200	** ''WesternAnimation/TheRidonculousRace'' puts [[BigFun Owen]] in a position to meet [[{{LARP}} Leonard]]. Owen may be jolly and friendly to everyone he meets, but seeing Leonard claim his robe has "cloaking powers" and say he's now invisible causes him to give up rather quickly.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': Velma's opinion of Gibby is that he's too geeky, even for her.
202	[[/folder]]

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