History Main / NerdsAreSexy

[[caption-width-right:234:And by little, she means "[[BigDamnKiss French]]."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' -- Double D has had more girls go after him than any other male character on the show. To name a few:
** Marie Kanker -- Double D's usual StalkerWithACrush.
** Sarah -- Ed's sister who has a PrecociousCrush on Double D.
** Nazz -- She kissed him on the cheek in ''The Day the Ed Stood Still'' and pulled him into a dance in ''May I Have This Ed?'', and he's shown to be the only boy Nazz seems to really like besides Kevin.
** May Kanker -- She and Double D had a lot of ShipTease in the Valentine's Day-special, but to be fair, they only fell in love because they were struck arrows fired by Cupid-Sarah and Cupid-Jimmy. Although at the end of the special, it's implied that Double D ''may'' in fact still like May, and he ends up keeping the card she had given him when they were under the spell of the Cupids.

** Ray himself counts. His TallDarkAndHandsome appearance, [[SmartGuy intelligence]], and love for ''Series/DoctorWho'' were all reasons Felicity listed as to why he was practically the perfect man.

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-->''(The back cover summary describes Wendell as being nerdy.)''
-->'''Wendell:''' I must take exception to this "nerdy" label that's been so callously applied to my character.
-->'''Danny Dragonbreath:''' Oh, relax, Wendell. Girls totally dig nerds.

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* After finding out about this, ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'''s Jason Fox once tried to make himself as un-nerdy as possible because GirlsHaveCooties.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Shiniez}}'', Ally and Alan are complete geeks over fighting games, and both are sexualised. Ally even attends conventions and cosplays. Moreover Lisa speculates that all practitioners of BDSM are in a way nerds, because (as the comic shows) the advanced stuff uses so much thought and attention to be done safely you naturally have to be an enthusiast type.

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* ''Website/CollegeHumor'' has the skit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx6BupgRmI "I'm Such A Nerd,"]], in which a nerd [[GeekyTurnOn happily discovers]] that the rather attractive girl he's dating is herself a giant nerd... who then promptly dumps him for not being nerdy enough.
-->'''Girl:''' I thought he was different, you know, but he ''wasn't''. He...he couldn't even name all of the current Batman titles!

* The inhabitants of WebSite/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', Janine has a crush on nerdy Egon for his high intelligence. So do a handful of minor female characters.
** Janine's crush was a holdover from the movie where she is quite blatantly hitting on Egon, and Egon is either clueless or doing a good job pretending he's clueless.

* Winston Dunsworth from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' had this appeal InUniverse in the episode "A Bad Case Of Diary-Uh!" with teenage girls who attended Vicky's high school.

* Charlie, the AmbiguouslyBrown IT guy from the series of AT&T wireless [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9cKYaOrTM network commercials]], who finds a way to make cheesy pick-up lines his own.

%% If it's a matter of you finding a nerdy character sexy, it does not go here!

* Charlie, the AmbiguouslyBrown IT guy from the series of AT&T wireless network commercials, who finds a way to make cheesy pick-up lines his own.

* ''Film/TheGirlNextDoor'''s diffident, gangly Klitz (Paul Dano) is a member of the protagonist's clique of nerds, but meets a porn star who finds him highly attractive and it is hinted that he becomes one himself.

* The ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Crusade" is when we first met Lois Lane. After Martha says "Trust me, that can happen to the best of us" about falling for a "farm-boy type", Lois replies "Not me, give me a nerd with glasses any day of the week".

* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': Fitz and Simmons both have their {{Adorkable}} moments, and each one is attracted to the other's intellect. At one point they compare their growing desire for each other to the concept of "the singularity in transhumanism".

* Malcolm [=McLaren=]'s song "Algernon's Simply Awfully Good At Algebra"
* The whole point of "Geek and Gamer Girls", a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJmYKN_1QE parody of Katy Perry's "California Gurlz"]] by Team Unicorn. For that matter it's pretty much the whole point of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Unicorn Team Unicorn]]

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'': Felicia Greenhill had been carrying the torch for the socially awkward Yang Wenli ever since she first met him.

** Subverted with [[StudentCouncilPresident Tatsuya]] [[CharClone Yuuki]] who's the typical popular guy in school. Howeve, his fangirls see his Gunpla obsession as his only major flaw... that is [[DoubleSubversion until he pulls off]] a [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp Gunpla Battle]] against the protagonist's model kit.

* In ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'', Larisa's sudden [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/10/24/0319-larisa-is-not-aware-of-the-ladder-theory/ attraction]] to Landon seems like just a joke, [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/05/21/0378-a-walk-through-the-park/ it's not.]]

** Adam is sexy and a ClosetNerd, but when some girls found out he had nerdy hobbies [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/397 it made them like him more]].

%% Nerdy characters that you personally find sexy do not belong !!!

* In Webcomic/SandraAndWoo Larisa's sudden [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/10/24/0319-larisa-is-not-aware-of-the-ladder-theory/ attraction]] to Landon seems like just a joke, [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/05/21/0378-a-walk-through-the-park/ it's not.]]
* In {{Shiniez}} Ally and Alan are complete geeks over fighting games, and both are sexualised. Ally even attends conventions and cosplays. Moreover Lisa speculates that all practitioners of BDSM are in a way nerds, because (as the comic shows) the advanced stuff uses so much thought and attention to be done safely you naturally have to be an enthusiast type.

* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. After seeing [[CueTheFlyingPigs hell freeze over]] we are treated to a nerd dance around in his underwear, gleefully singing about getting laid. The hot girl in bed states, in a rather matter of fact manner, that she thinks nerds are hot.

** Later {{lampshaded}} when even Tara and Willow, both lesbians, find Giles singing "[[TheWho Behind Blue Eyes]]" incredibly sexy.

* WhateleyUniverse: brilliant inventor Spark is pursued by Reach throughout the story "The Big Idea". [[HotScientist Genius inventor]] Bugs on the other hand, is regarded as one of the sexiest girls in SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy.

* Hephaestos in ''ThaliasMusings''. Also all of the Muses, Thalia included, Athena, Apollo, and Aglaia are very smart and well educated. But being gods they also are exceedingly attractive.

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Daisy Duke, in the 2005 TV remake/prequel ''The Beginning'', where she wears thick glasses, large sweaters and baggy pants, and her hair in a bun. She is also very shy and mousy. Underneath it all, as everyone sort of sensed, was this blooming butterfly, to put it mildly. When she takes a job at the Boar's Nest, the nerdy Daisy emerged from her cocoon and what a babe she turned out to be. Needless to say, her social skills improved 1000 percent and she was soon asked out by every guy in Hazzard County. (Alas, this is non-canon for true Dukes fans, as the original series bible has Daisy always being popular ... in fact, getting crowned prom queen at Hazzard High School.)

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Daisy Duke, in the 2005 TV remake/prequel ''The Beginning'', where she wears thick glasses, large sweaters and baggy pants, and her hair in a bun. She is also very shy and mousy. Underneath it all as everyone sort of sensed was this blooming butterfly, to put it mildly. When she takes a job at the Boar's Nest, the nerdy Daisy emerged from her cocoon and what a babe she turned out to be. Needless to say, her social skills improved 1000 percent and she was soon asked out by every guy in Hazzard County. (Alas, this is non-canon for true Dukes fans, as the original series bible has Daisy always being popular ... in fact, getting crowned prom queen at Hazzard High School.)

* ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'': if you do the Tomari romance, Cousin starts out finding him "cute", then nearly melts from raw hotness when he gets his glasses back.

** Although Umino is a more stereotypical nerd, in a manga chapter featuring a princess who looked just like him but turned to be really beautiful without her glasses, Usagi Rei and Ami wondered if Umino would look hot without them too, this was confirmed by WordOfGod.

* Alice from ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' thinks so. See [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/217 this]] strip.
** And Adam from the same strip actually ''is'' a sexy nerd (although he usually hides it - being a gaming nerd, not being sexy). See [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/397 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Whereas the previous incarnations of [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Velma's]] character were HollywoodPudgy, ''"Mystery Incorporated"'' slimmed down her figure and portrayed her as being sexually attractive. Shaggy even dated her[[note]]until they broke up, due to Scooby's jealousy[[/note]] and had to admit she was the one thing he'd choose over food. And for a BigEater like Shaggy, that's literally saying a mouthful!