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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6120825" data-attributes="member: 3400">I enjoy most of the geek comedies out there and, despite the OP's opinion, I think they're actually doing us all a service. They're normalizing the presence of geeks and nerds in the mainstream. They're moving from the side oddball character like Urkel to the central characters of the shows.There's been some discussion in the media watchers lately that have been analyzing the sea change currently going on in the US about gay marriage. For a while it looked like the anti-gay marriage side was steamrollering over gay marriage supporters everywhere, but suddenly there are now, what, 9 states that have legalized it and the military ban on homosexuals is gone. And one factor people have been looking at is the appearance of gay characters and personalities in mainstream television shows. From Jodie Dallas on Soap to Will Truman on Will and Grace and Willow Rosenberg on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Captain Jack and Ianto on Torchwood, and the daily talk show juggernaut that is Ellen DeGeneris, out and about homosexuals are becoming normal elements of the public sphere right before our very eyes. And the same will be/is happening to the geeks of The Guild, Big Bang Theory, Eureka, and Warehouse 13.</blockquote>