Fictional Geeks

I forgot about George from Seinfeld. He must be the ultimate fictional geek. Really messed up. But he gets it from his dad. Will never forget the episodes with his dad shrieking "Serenity now! Serenity now!" whenever he got stressed, which was often. On the Nighty Night front it's made by Coogan's production company Baby Cow. I don't know anything more except that I want to see it but can't as the BBC won't let me have BBC3 - despite having paid towards it as a jolly licence fee payer should. It looks good on the trailers. I can see the trailers. Oh yes, the trailers are absolutely free free free I tell ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Serenity now!!

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I'm not sure that I would call Alan Partridge a geek. I understand a geek to be a socially challenged techie - happier with his computer code than with people - and that is not AP. The classic geek is the 'bacteria' man on the adverts at the moment. So, a geek in fiction - I'm not sure there is one.

I like that lad in "Gregory's Girl" who's only interested in making pastries and strudels.

The Duke of Edinburgh.

Isn't NEO from the Matrix films meant to be a geek at the beginning? he's not a favourite though I find the films boring.

Gareth from the office has got to be up there. Ross from friends, Seinfelds side kick, Ron in HP, actually many, many male geeks but can't think of a female one. Off topic, did any one see the new sitcom from the makers of Alan Partridge last night. Very bizarre, very funny, utterly tasteless.

Ooh no, what was it called?

S'called Nighty Night on BBC3 (if you have it) at 11pm Tues. Was truly hilarious with a female Alan Partridge type (she's a hairdresser with a dark side) - can't think of the actresses name but she was brilliant. Also Angus Deaton and the woman who plays Lynne in AP. It didn't say it was written by Steve Coogan and Armando Ianucci or whatever he's called but the papers billed it as by the same team and you can see the same humour throughout.

There's a beguiling female geek in "Aunt Dan and Lemon" by Wallace Shawn. She never goes out, and collects different coloured fruit juices which she stores in test tubes all round her room on special shelving. * I actually know a female geek in real life. She comes back from holiday in exotic places and all she can do is go off on monologues about marine biology or geological structures. She is pretty, but is to flirting what drystone walls are to terrified hares. One day I told her I liked her top, and she replied - and I totally believe her - that she has no idea what to wear and relies on her husband to advise her on what looks nice. "He likes me in flimsy things," she said, with genuine incomprehension. She once set up some disco lights in my house for me, which is the sort of thing she likes to do. Absurdly, she's French.

fotherington tomas from Molesworth because he is a sissy and plays with dollys. Sid Hutchen's from James Ellroys novels (I think Ellroy had other geeks but I can't recall their names). Quoyle from The Shipping News is arguably a geek. Philleas Fogg has a lot of Geek characteristics but seems to avoid it somehow. Tobey Macguire plays a lot of geeks very well, but my favourite geek, without a shadow of a doubt, is Willow. As a computer programmer and sci-fi fan most of the people I know are geeks, nerds or worse. [%sig%]