What is Step Brothers's IQ Score?

Step Brothers has an IQ Score of 123/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 35/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 14/50 Educational Value, and 47/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Step Brothers educational?

Step Brothers is low on educational value, 14/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Step Brothers , IQ Score 123/200

Name: Step Brothers
Genre: comedy
Rating: 123

Step Brothers has an IQ Score of 123/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

comedy

123/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Adam McKay's Will Ferrell / John C. Reilly vehicle whose surface premise (adult men still living at home) is the cover for sustained inquiry into arrested development and family-system pathology.

The film's commitment to letting the protagonists' incompetence be the actual subject rather than the joke pretext is what separates it from McKay's later, more obviously polemical work. The 'Boats 'n Hoes' sequence operates as both parody and earnest emotional climax.

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