The results of a survey by Stack Overflow:



I like the way Mark Zuckerberg, an actual person, was rated as the "least most realistic".

Somehow, it seems totally accurate.

Felicity once hacked a light switch. Not a "smart switch"; a standard electrical light switch. I vote her as most unrealistic every time.

I hate the use of the super hacker characters in movies and tv shows.

You mean Chloe on 24 couldn't really do all that stuff?

Penelope Garcia is one of the worst for looking like she's not actually doing what she's doing; I like the actress who plays her a lot, but she looks more like she's buying stuff on eBay when she's 'hacking'. The all-time worst, in my opinion, are McGee and Abby in NCIS - they'll literally be typing madly while looking at each other and speaking. They don't even need to see the monitor to be able to 'hack' the Pentagon, or a Russian Embassy, etc.

Are there lots of such lists available somewhere? Least and most realistic fictional librarians? Least and most realistic fictional astrophysicists? Least and most realistic fictional plumbers?

There's one CSI Cyber clip where two people are literally hacking away on the same keyboard at the same time.

Epic. I guess they're almost trying to push it into the realms of parody with that one.

That did that once on NCIS as well.

That's probably what I'm thinking of.

Has there ever been a realistic librarian who got more than a bit part?

I'm not sure how realistic they are...but there was this Australian TV series....