Possible Clues:

• Joke targets, at times
• School clique, perhaps
• Overly bookish ones
• Social rejects, stereotypically
• Pocket protector wearers
• Revenge-seeking group in a 1984 film
• 'Revenge of the ___'
• Willy Wonka product
• Overstudious students
• Most characters on "The Big Bang Theory"