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Screech
2026 · Film · short · 9 min
Directed by Alessia Pugliese, Fernando de Miguel Fuertes
A woman caught between her housemates and their prey descends into a surreal realm where tormenting Australian ravens force her to confront her repressed complicity.
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He was "into engineering and science", yes. But it didn’t mean anything beyond that; he didn’t do any engineering besides occasionally something would magically appear. And he liked “science” but not any particular part of science. They didn’t talk about anything that he liked more than “science”.
It would be like if someone said they liked “movies”, but never mentioned a single movie that they enjoyed, or actor, or director, or anything. Just they’re really into “movies”.
Big Bang Theory has many flaws, but it is so far better than Steve Urkel or Screech. If I had been a kid when Big Bang Theory came out, having some positive nerd representation would have been wonderful. And in Big Bang Theory the characters are represented positively—the show clearly likes the characters, to use Roger Ebert’s terminology.
Given that the average sitcom writer's conception of a nerdy character is more like "Screech" or Steve Urkel, the complex, neurotic, and really quite well-researched characters on Big Bang Theory are like a bolt of awesome from the blue.