Sure, everyone knows the easy answers to that question—anything on SyFy, anything on the educational channels, and anything on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, especially if it is made with old toys.

However, it takes more than flashy special effects and big explosions. Star Trek: Enterprise proved that. It takes originality, compelling plots, sex appeal and…well, something geeky.

Here are two of the best TV shows to geek out about on TV now.

TRUE BLOOD (HBO)

True Blood: This show's got bite!

This show has everything a growing geek needs to become big and strong. Based in a world much like ours, except that Vampires, werewolves, demons, shape shifters and mystical things of all natures live side-by-side with humans.

Unlike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or other vamp tales, Vampires have come out into the sunlight, so to speak, and thanks to a artificial blood that can allow them to survive without feeding on every lovely neck that tempts them, they are now struggling to overcome prejudice and earn the rights guaranteed in the Constitution.

Of course, not all Vampires want to give up their shadowy scourge-of-the-night lifestyles, and there are a lot of God-fearing people who don’t want to share the supermarkets and suburbs with Count D, Last at and Angel.

Even mild-mannered Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), who has tried to live among humans peacefully for years, has trouble getting by. Converted against his will just after the Civil War, this relatively young vampire has finally returned home in Bonn Temps, La.

There, he falls for a waitress named Sooki (Anna Paquin), who can read everyone’s mind but Bill’s (and other vamps). Of course, a psychic Southern girl dating a vampire brings up all sorts of problems.

And if that isn’t enough get geeky about, being on HBO, the show guarantees a lot of wild sex magic and other naughty parts (including nude scenes of Paquin, who X-men role as Rogue guarantees all the comic book freaks are tuning in).

BURN NOTICE (USA)

Burn Notice: James Bond couldn't handle it this hot!

James Bond never had these problems.

Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) worked for the CIA as a highly trained operative, until he got burned. In the spy business, being burned is worse that being declared a traitor. You are dumped in a city, stripped of your rank, clearance and funding, left to fend for yourself—an outcast. For Weston, he is dumped in Miami and warned not to leave or he will be rushed to the top of the Terrorist Watch List.

Despite the beautiful bathing suits and scenery, Miami is not where Michael wants to be. It’s home. His mother (Sharon Gless) still lives in the house he grew up in, and began learning his craft to avoid a bad relationship with his father.

Also in Miami are two friends of Michael’s that he wasn’t ready to hook up with—Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a mojito-guzzling ex-SEAL and current gigolo, and Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), an Irish hottie whose turn-ons include C4, Automatic weapons and yogurt-eating ex-CIA operatives.

To make ends meet, Michael and friends help out need causes in a cross between MacGyver, Mission Impossible and James Bond, and Michael proves to be better than all three: He can out build MacGyver, and isn’t afraid to pick up an UZI, He doesn’t need special masks to help him infiltrate the bad guys, and instead of getting his gadgets from Q, he builds them himself. The things that he can do with a cell phone can really make you think before you place that next call.

Throw in Campbell with his Army of Darkness geek-cred and the lushish Anwar, who makes you wish the show was on HBO, and you have geek bait that has made Burn Notice one of the top shows out there for the last couple years.