ANIMATED EGGHEADS
The Simpsons’ Lisa Simpson is the noble model, while Family Guy’s matricidal baby Stewie Griffin serves as a diabolical counterpoint. He may have something in common with The Brain, the schemer who sought world domination on Pinky and the Brain. Of course, those of us who feel left out of this exclusive brainiac club can take solace in the immortal words of Simpsons everyboy Milhouse Van Houten, who spoke for those who are neither supersmart nor socially smooth when friend Bart Simpson suggested he could “speak nerd” to a tech hipster. “I’m not a nerd, Bart,” Milhouse says. “Nerds are smart.”