I was recently thinking that Monty Python had some of this going on in how it was embraced by nerds. For one thing, the humour is based on the unexpected, which fans then ruin by memorizing every line of Holy Grail and reciting the whole thing.
The other thing is that I think a lot of people just took it as totally random and ignored that a lot of it (not all, but a lot) was satirical. Like when they'd mock the red scare, or gay culture and homophobia, or government spending, and whatnot. I read an interview with John Cleese where he mentions getting annoyed at people who think they just got high and churned them out because they actually put a lot of time and effort into creating what they did.
The other thing is that I think a lot of people just took it as totally random and ignored that a lot of it (not all, but a lot) was satirical. Like when they'd mock the red scare, or gay culture and homophobia, or government spending, and whatnot. I read an interview with John Cleese where he mentions getting annoyed at people who think they just got high and churned them out because they actually put a lot of time and effort into creating what they did.