Sesame St.
Not Nerdy: New Sesame St.
Slightly Nerdy: New Sesame St. pre-Elmo centrism.
Fairly Nerdy: Old Sesame St.
Nerdy: Any non-Elmo centric Sesame St. movies.
Very Nerdy: Sesame St. Live.
Dangerously Nerdy: Sesame Place.

I’m not sorry.

H.P. LOVECRAFT: Slightly Nerdy. I defend the “Kthu-loo” pronunciation. It’s like saying the last name Nguyen, only doing it right.

NERD TELEVISION: Why aren’t Firefly and the Sarah Connor Chronicles on this list?

STAR TREK: Re: TNG = Not Nerdy– what if it was a formative experience for me, and, as a tot I both recognized that Geordi was doing Reading Rainbow and that Professor Xavier from X-Men TAS was Jean-Luc Picard and Cyclops would be better if he was just Geordi like in the other show? What then? Plus, I have the X-Men/TNG crossover book “Planet X”… on my cell phone.

LotR: Fairly Nerdy, but I think I get extra points for watching the cartoon of The Hobbit.

My contributions:

MOVIES:
Not Nerdy: Fullscreen Standard DVD. Knowing who’s up for an Oscar this year.
Slightly Nerdy: Refusing to buy anything but Widescreen releases. Watching extras beyond the gag reel and deleted scenes. Knowing who should win an Oscar this year; having seen all the Oscar-nominated movies instead of just saying you have.
Fairly Nerdy: Only buying special edition DVD sets with the Extras discs. Knowing who will win an Oscar this year and why, despite others deserving it, because of a knowledge of Hollywood politics. Knowing that “Hollywood politics” is a redundant statement.
Nerdy: Buying multiple copies of the same movie(s) because it’s been released again with more extras!/Waiting in line at 3AM to get the extra-special first-edition release of a movie with all the extras. Watching the whole movie with the commentary on. Movie posters, including ones you got from the movie theater itself.
Really Nerdy: Buying multiple copies of the same movie so that you have one to watch and one to keep pristine. Having the actual DVD/BR signed. Requiring multiple pieces of furniture to hold your movie collection. Movie memorabilia other than standard-issue mass-market/movie theater posters and action figures; for example, the “frosted glass” version of The Dark Knight poster, animation cels, pieces of film, music boxes.
Dangerously Nerdy: Having a home theater set up with a projector instead of a TV. Restoring old films yourself. Any movie props or costumes that you own (bonus points if you wear them). Any tie-ins that you own given to the crew of a movie (specific t-shirts, hats, pins, etc.) even though you weren’t involved in the movie. Contacting anybody involved with a film either to protest, recommend, or congratulate over something and/or ask for pointers in getting into the business. Blatant fanmail to a non-actor/director. Working in and/or hoping to work in the movies in a non-glamorous job (ie not writer, producer, director, actor).

ANY FANDOM:
Dangerously Nerdy Over 9000: Creating a meme, especially one that’s not fucking annoying.

ANY FANDOM:
Dangerously Nerdy Sue: After creating a fan-based work, you either cosplay as your original design or original character, or successfully sell merchandise around your fanart, fan-comic, etc. Bonus points if the work is actually good. Mega bonus points if people recognize you.
Stratospherically Nerdy Sue: Dressing as someone else’s fan-made character/design, especially if recognized or going to meet the creator (like at a convention).

NERDY CARTOONS
Not Nerdy: “New” cartoons: Familiarity with/casually watching Batman the Brave & the Bold, X-Men Evolution, Spectacular Spider Man, etc. These cartoons being your main or only motivation for being a fan of a title, despite success in other media (comics, movies, old cartoons, radio shows.) Preferring the cartoons to this other media.
Slightly Nerdy: Actually getting all the in-jokes in the “new” cartoons (including cameos, shoutouts, characters who don’t normally get much air time) & watching them faithfully. Comparing and constrasting new and old interpretations of characters and plot within the shows. Fanfiction that only references “new” cartoon continuity.
Fairly Nerdy: Keeping track of voice actors in the cartoons and making jokes about their work in other media (bonus points for other non-cartoon nerd media). Knowing and recognizing shoutouts to and quotes from old cartoons outside of the standard collective pop culture consciousness (the Hulk, Spider-Man, at this point Wolverine); ie “BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRDMAN!” the episode of X-Men Evo where a guitar riff from the X-Men TAS theme was played in the opening, any jokes in the director or cast commentary because nerds watch that. Knowing and singing along with theme songs/theme music. Bonus points for air guitar.
Nerdy: Knowing about “Iron Man” before the live action movie came out soley from the ’60s or ’90s cartoons. Remembering/being nostalgic for “old cartoons” not including Disney (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Birdman before “Attorney at Law”). Excommunicating seasons or arcs of a cartoon. (I’m looking at you Goliath Chronicles.) Having deliberately watched cartoon spinoffs from non-cartoon nerdy media (Star Trek TAS). Fanfiction referencing alternate/older continuities of the same title. Downloading or buying a cartoon before it’s available in the country you’re in, even if it’s in another language, and even if you don’t know that language (not including anime– this is more “I can’t believe the Latin American release is a year ahead of us”).
Really Nerdy: Being nostalgic despite being too young to remember those old cartoons. Owning on any format other than Laserdisc/VHS/Betamax cartoons you hold near and dear to you, including on your hard drive. Setting your DVR or waking up at odd times to watch shows when they are rerun if they aren’t available on DVD. Bonus points if they are really obscure or hard-to-get cartoons to begin with (Namor the Submariner, Thor, the Herculoids, Frazetta’s “Fire and Ice”.) Petitioning for a show to be remastered and released on DVD/BR. Any AMVs, whether you’re watching them or making them. Being a part of a group to swap files/DVDs and discuss the show, online or physically.
Dangerously Nerdy: Owning costumes related to the cartoons. Making costumes related to the cartoons. Obsessively collecting all the toys that go along with the cartoons, even if they cost a million retard dollars and you keep them in pristine condition and you have the complete set. Any convention involvement specifically related to a cartoon. Mondo nerd points if this is a convention specifically for that cartoon. Any “Rocky Horror Picture Show” style synchronized audience participation, especially IN PUBLIC.

I’m not sure that reading Lovecraft is nerdier than playing the pen and paper RPG based on his work.

For the most part though, this is a fairly right-on, hilarious list.

Lord of the Rings

Not Nerdy: Saw the movies
Slightly Nerdy: Read the Books
Fairly Nerdy: Watched all the special features on the Extended Editions OR saw the Ralph Bakshi version.
Nerdy: Cosplayed
Really Nerdy: Read the Silmarillion OR the ROTK appendices.
Dangerously Nerdy: authored a fanfic OR fluent in elvish.
Monstrously Nerdy: authored a fanfic IN elvish.

Movies:
Dangerously Nerdy: You care about how much money movies make.

Professional Wrestling:
Dangerously Nerdy: You care about how much money wrestling promotions are making.

TV:
Dangerously Nerdy: You care about TV ratings.

MMA:
Dangerously Nerdy: You care how much money MMA promotions are making.

Any Hobby Ever:
Dangerously Nerdy: You care about how commercially successful objects within the hobby are.

Ahem. Had to get that off my chest.

Beyond-Hope Nerdy: Hearing that title and immediately thinking of Miyamoto Musashi. And then remembering the naming gag from Pokemon by association and actually finding it sort of clever.