Booger and Lamar aren't nerds
They are in the misfit category.
Perhaps that would be the case today when there are sub categories for everyone. However, when the film was made back in 1984 guys were considered jocks or nerds and both Booger and Lamar would be considered nerds. I graduated high school in '92 and back then there were only a handful of guy groups in my class. There were the football team and their friends (the jocks), the black kids and their friends and the nerds/dorks. There were a couple other random cliques like the actors who all hung out together, but most of them would be considered nerds/dorks.
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