There doesn't need to be something in the show that's specifically geared toward nerds since the whole show is for nerds.
Skipping over "Bones" (Fox, 2005), "Criminal Minds" and "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS, 2005), we arrive at "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS, 2007), whose remarkable rise in popularity has tracked the most significant change in American popular culture as a whole: the rise of nerd taste, from its stereotypical techie-Trekkie manifestations like "Big Bang" to more bookish expressions like "Game of Thrones".
I have been a version of nerd my whole life, and while the versions have shifted, my primary sense of self is of a very emotional, heart-on-sleeve super-sensitivo who covers for it in different ways, like, through a devotion to work and Type-A Excel-documentation and shopping and joking around like I'm a tough guy.
Still, the more you work with a Media Center PC, the more one question haunts you about the whole concept: What kind of nerd would watch television at a desk?
Catering to the impatient cosmopolite or nerd was the whole point of starting Mr. Greenberg's half of the store, the side with the antiquarian books.
They've maintained a consistent--if moderate--popularity for nearly 2 decades now & are now elders to a whole generation of smart, earnest "nerd rockers --Barenaked Ladies, Harockers --Barenakedezerockers --Barenaked
"So Michael, king of comics, doctor of all things awesome, drill sergeant to anyone in the kitchen, the cutest nerd in the whole wide world, the cheesiest texter and the best friend and partner anyone could ever ask for... What do you say?" Dave's signs read.
With their lab coats and glasses, gimmicks and gross-outs, these guys have invented a whole new genre: "Jackass" for nerds.
The first "Cosmos," to which Tyson pays loving tribute in the season premiere, helped create a whole generation of earnest science nerds, and we can only hope that the new version does the same.
The German producer isn't just essential in maintaining standards in the neurofunk space, he was also a major part in developing the sound in the first place– his catalogue in the genre extends as far back as 2004, when today's musical landscape was but a gleam in the eye of a few northern European music nerds with a whole lotta plug-ins and a whole lotta time.
