In all the good shows they put in a squad of sidekick geeks who turn up at times to make things more interesting.
The X-files has the Lone Gunmen. A trio of conspiracy theorists. They are Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers.
On Buffy we got the Trio who stirs up trouble in season six for our heroine. Warren Mears, Andrew Wells and Jonathan Levinson makes up the trio. Some of them we know from before, like Jonathan who's basically been in the show from the get go. He went to school with Buffy and has been seen at several occasions.
Of course SPN has joined the club with their own gang of wacky geeks. First they were called Hellhounds, Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler.
In season 3 they are back as Ghostfacers and they've actually managed to recruit to their gang. Ghostfacers is also the name of their reality show that they hope would take them to Hollywood. But somehow they end up with nothing each time they run into Sam and Dean. Poor guys.
Found some interesting pics when I image googled Ghostfacers...
Can't have a party without the boys! ;)
Should have been like 7 days left.