The writers of that show seem to confuse two kinds of what people may call "nerds", those who isolate themselves in the world of comic books and science fiction and those who acquire such description because of how their focus on their field of science isolate them from the outside. Contrary to what the show suggests, the latter type of "nerds" are even less than the average person ready to allow themselves to accept science fiction beyond being a fantasy, if at all. Their involvement in their science and its rules would feel like a wall preventing them from attaching themselves to such shows like it is shown there. Take for example that space guy who appears on public TV. What happened after he saw the movie Gravity? I don't remember that he expressed fantasizing about it. Instead I remember that he objected to things in it because of his view that things would be different in real world. Same thing could easily be anticipated if you take an expert paleontologist to see Jurassic Park (even though there is much bigger room for the unknown here than in the physics and space sciences). The comedy aspect would have been much better served with showing the nerds being annoying to the average person with their constant pointing to how a science fiction show does not fit scientifically rather than making them themselves involved in those shows.
I remember how I saw things were far from fitting the behaviour of a psychologist in that show Frasier. But one could easily argue back that a comedic aspect of the show there was based on that contradiction or conflict. Here on the other hand I cant find any connection to a comedy except through the exaggerated stereotype which failed very miserably because it was not based on stereotype beyond that resulting from failing to distinguish between the two types of "nerds" mentioned above.
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