I suppose that I see it as a show where I learn something about how the more current audience sees geek culture and nerds. But, somewhere along the line from where I got the perception of geeks and nerds and where people in the United States to perceive it got different; somewhere between high school and when I finished college, it got shift, mixed up, and underwent some type of inversion to put it in a way. Before finishing high school, I was part of a geek and nerd community that resembled Bart's sister during about the first 3-5 Seasons of the Simpsons, Steve Urkel, the characters on Toxic Avengers and Class of Nukem High, and a movie franchise that was literally called Nerds (e.g. Revenge Nerds); I suppose Goonies was a little that way too; if you look at it, those bare no resemblance to this show at all, but, I've only seen clips or screencaps on a couple of occasions (e.g. I hear this about it and I'm aware of the show, of course, I just didn't watch it, essentially for no particular reason; it's not an indication of like or dislike for the show, just no particular reason, except, maybe, a primary reason, is I lack access to the network that broadcast it; I certain would follow a character from the show who was in Charmed, as I watched that show, but, I didn't follow her to the show, even though I did intend to to a certain degree); as someone else said, I virtually catch nothing or no sitcoms in recent years, dating back to 2000, really, 1995, when I finished high school and started college; from 2002 going forward, largely what I've watched is national news, and a break now and then would be WWE; since 2016, I no longer even have cable.
This show actually sort of resembles my second stint in college and starting my career. Essentially, this show is sort of teaching me that I'm basically out of touch with how current social arrangements works (e.g. how people automatically see things where I just don't get it, as the pun goes), as compared to say the days of Family Matters and Toxic Avengers, where this show is what's being called or perceived as geek now; but this show is more closely related to what we once thought of as the cool or normal crowd/people; now, I can't separate the geeks from the non-geeks; I guess it's some type of subtle difference that most socially adept people realize and can tell, but I just no longer get; but, for me, it's just different types of normals: you have what's called the geeks now or the people that have their hobbies and careers, back in those days, business people, or athletic people, etc; thus, for me, this show really doesn't display a geek and nerd culture that I grew up and learned about; just some bizarre twist, almost as if someone shifted the time stream on me, while I was almost totally focused on my academics, and I was left out of the loop for a large part, where I remember the prior reality and time stream, but no one else does. For me, this show more represents something akin to 'want to be' geeks and nerds; the real geeks and nerds are the Bart's sister and people from Toxic Avengers, Steve Urkel, etc; I guess, a culture where if you pretend something is real long enough it becomes as good as the real thing; that basically describes the current culture in the US, for one.
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