Talk:Crazy Ponnie/@comment-5184041-20120610143403/@comment-4818278-20120610171754

Its not so much as "nerds" but the "losers" Dan picks on. The ones who have no friends, are alone to the point where it is past comically acceptable (With Nora, her own parents didn't want to be there for her birthday) and when the main cast interacts with them, they are shown to be psychopaths.

You can maybe blame social awkwardness, but with Dan, I don't give him that luxury. In pretty much every show he has written, anyone who isn't a main character, is a jerk. They'll be mean to the point where it isn't funny and act completely over the top emotinally.

A very good example is in Drake and Josh with the "Theater Thug". Despite Josh not even looking like the criminal (We can clearly see at the end of the episode), people took it upon themselves to constantly beat him and call the police. While it would have been acceptable maybe once due it being an hinest mistake, but happens a multitude of times, even right down to the end of the episode.

So characters like Ponnie and Nora, I actually don't blame at the way they turned out. They live in a written universe where everyone else is designed to hate them.