*Nancy Sterngood is a former resident of Perfection, Nevada who survived multiple graboid, shrieker, assblaster and Mixmaster creation incursions into Perfection Valley. Artisan, ex-hippie and a lover of solitude and open spaces, she has a daughter named Mindy Sterngood. During the first assblaster incursion into the valley in 2001, Nancy and Mindy managed to trap one assblaster, later named Messerschmitt, and sell it to Las Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy to pay for Mindy's college education.

Nancy is the one person in town not struggling to make ends meet. At peace with herself, she quotes the Dalai Lama, meditates and uses crystal energy to keep El Blanco away from her small house/studio. She generally acts as a calming influence by exercising a wise, trusting, Earth Mother yin to balance Burt's suspicious, over-reactive yang. Both Jodi and Rosalita Sanchez look up to Nancy for her calm reassurance — and because she's tough enough to stand up to Burt.

Besides the ever-present Graboid problem, Nancy's only other challenge is how to meet a nice, "fully actualized" guy when she lives in the middle of nowhere surrounded by man-eating predators. Had there been a second season, it was planned that a potential romance would form between her and Burt.*