If you were a lazy casting director for an 80s comedy, you'd take a look at the kid and cast him as the stereotypical school nerd, he was short awkward and he wore thick horn-rimmed glasses and dental braces.
Someone will run in and the hero will go, " catastrophe" and the little nerd scientist -- " nerd" means uncool -- will run and go, " Catastrophe! Bad things will happen and people will die" .
So everyone knows about the Super Bowl and the Super Friends and supermarkets and even some book nerds know about the great book Super Sad True Love Story.