[The male cast is playing a video game. Enter Penny and some gorgeous girls] Penny: Hey, guys! My friends and I got tired of dancing so we came over to have sex with you.[Her statement unnoticed, Penny and her friends leave giggling]. Sheldon: Why did you hit pause? Leonard: I thought I heard something. Rajesh: What? Leonard: No, never mind. —The Big Bang Theory, "The Dumpling Paradox"

You are one ofTwo Gamers on a Couch, enthralled by the latestnoisy console game. As you furiouslypunish the controller old potato chips fly from your shirt, illuminated briefly by the glow of the screen before disappearing into the darkness of the room around you. You feel the sweet victory over your rival drawing near. As you are about to deliver the final blow, a mysterious figure steps between you and the television. Who could it be? Oh, it's just yourextremely hot female roommate trying to get you todo something other than play video games. Whatever, you will unpause the game after you pretend to listen to what she says.

This girl is theNerd Nanny, and how she winds up living with a bunch of lazy guys is a mystery. Even more amazing is the fact that the guysnever seem to notice how frickin hot she is, unless some story-drivingUST is needed. She is constantly trying to motivate theNon Action Guys to doanything, sometimes even to pay attention to her, but they usually won't have any of it. Fortunately for our male castmembers, she almost never leaves them for a different housing situation, because if she did—well, who would want to watch a show without hot chicks in it?Am I Right??

Note the guys don't always have to be nerds. Any reason to becouch-ridden also works (e.g. drugs, lazyness, etc.).

This character is popular in webcomics and sitcoms, but is present in other genres as well.

CompareIgnore the Fanservice. Related toMagical Girlfriend,Team Mom,Action Girl,The Chick, andCloser to Earth. See alsoUgly Guy, Hot Wife,Odd Couple. CompareGive Geeks a Chance andSavvy Guy, Energetic Girl. ContrastGamer Chick.

Anime and Manga

• Genderflipped inKuragehime.Crossdresser Kuranosuke frequently visits the "Sisterhood," a group of androphobic otaku women.
• Played with inGenshiken. Otaku-hating Saki dates Kohsaka and essentially plays a lot of this trope to the hilt, but her status as a character like this is part of the plot. Ohno, on the other hand, is a total otaku like the other men in the club, with Saki playing the same role to her.

Film

• Jennifer Aniston inThe Breakup.
• Kristen Bell's character inFanboys. Averted in that she's a fangirl herself, but she seems much more on the ball than all of the titular fanboys.
• Averted inGrandma's Boy.The Chick smokes, drinks, plays video games, and happens to work with the most pro-active stoner-gamers on the planet.
• Sydney White, being based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, has this with the eponymous character, who becomes the Nerd Nanny to seven dorky boys.

Live Action TV

• Donna or Jackie fromThat '70s Show.
• Penny fromThe Big Bang Theory, though she lives across the hall and simply likes the companyand Leonard. Although we do see why they hang out with each other, as the guys, most especially Leonard and Sheldon help her out with her problems when she's experiencing them and she helps them get a lot less bullied than they normally still are. Another difference is that they do do things without her coaxing, and she does hers without theirs, but usually in their own social circles and what they try to get from the other party is a crossing of boundaries.
• Jen fromThe IT Crowd. She's hired to be the IT team's HR manager. It turns out she knows nothing about computers and relatively little about how to be socially successful, but compared to her two (sometimes three) IT nerds, she'susually the normal one.

Webcomics

• Lilah fromCtrl+Alt+Del. However, she's a gamer herself and actually makes a living off of it, and even understands if Ethan needed to do something gaming related. On the other hand, any time she needs him to stop acting like an overgrownMan Child...
• Gender-swapped inQuestionable Content with gamer-otaku Marigold and "regular guy" Angus.

Web Original

• Blame Halo 3
• Yahtzee blasts this trope in his Webcomics review.

• Trope
• Comedy Tropes
• Indexed and Nerdy
• Always Female
• Example as a Thesis
• Alliterative Trope Titles
• Nerd Nanny