Ashton Kutcher's Beauty & the Geek: TV's Most Popular Combo

Sorry, but, I’m SO over all these shows, reality and otherwise, that pair of geek men with uberbabes. Ashton Kutcher married an older woman; he should be above this kind of cliché. Yet, here again we have Beauty & The Geek, the amiable show pitting geek men (some of them amazingly so) with girls who do nothing to prove you can have looks and brains.

I was thinking about other places where this pairing is seen on TV, and there were really quite a few.

I happen to like Peter MacNicol, but, what’s up with his geek characters always getting these attractive younger women? On Ally McBeal he played a lawyer-geek who dated Portia DeRossi’s character. Okay, maybe she was as big a social retard as he was, but in a different way. Now, on Numb3rs he plays a physics geek who’s buddying up with Diane Farr’s character, Megan Reeves, a pretty, size-one FBI agent. Apparently, the characters have bonded over braininess. Really, though, these are women who are not only attractive, but played by people about twenty years younger than MacNicol. What the heck?

You know, I also wouldn’t mind that even if there was some turnaround for the ladies. But is hot FBI agent Don Eppes played by Rob Morrow going to go off with some average jill brainiac? No, he’s going to go off with some younger, thin model type who, yeah, they’ll also call smart. It seems so unfair. You know, it’s not even that we don’t see geek women on TV, it’s that we don’t see average women on tv.

It’s like the range for main TV characters and their love interests is like this: <b>MEN can be hot or geek, old or young, fat or thin. WOMAN can only be hot and young and thin. I seriously want to scream sometimes? Am I alone in this? I mean, take Kutcher’s show. Can we even conceive in this age of a show where the men were the babes and the women were the socially inept half of the duo? I will seriously eat my hat if a show like that ever comes to television.