The once-were-Geeks-in-High-School-but-now-proudly-identify-as-Freaks are back with another episode breakdown: this time of the seminal (hey, we used that word right!) series Freaks and Geeks. We went right to the start with the first episode, creatively titled "Pilot".
What were you in school? A nerdy geek? A burnout freak? A bully jock? A... Hufflepuff? Well, regardless that the title breaks kids down into only clique, what we really learn in the Pilot and through this series is that we're more than the labels we're given. In fact, it's somewhat ironic that this show can make us nostalgic for what was most definitely NOT the greatest years of our lives.
Not only do we love this show for the complexity of these characters; but the show was a veritable well spring for talent. Oddly enough, we've seen that most of these people somehow ended up in a Spider-man movie, since all roads lead to Spider-man.
Some other strange connections we've learned or only just remembered was that Linda Cardellini was in Legally Blonde getting her hair permed, and it's possibly that Tina Fey stole the entire idea for Mean Girls from Freaks and Geeks.
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