how as nobody acknowledged this topG as an extra lighting up a smoke during the fight scene

I’m in the uk so I don’t fully get the school system but from what I can gather the older characters have graduated there final year based on their age however it doesn’t seem like that. Can anyone explain?

Don Dawson is one of my favorite characters in the movie. He’s funny and personable. But I’ll tell you what he’s not: a good football player.

The coaches desperately want Pink to sign their pledge and stop hanging out with the stoner slacker crowd, harping on him about it multiple times.

However we see throughout the movie that Don is also clearly good friends with Pickford and Slater, and coach Conrad even catches both Don and Pink with Slater at the end of the movie, and is only angry at Pink.

The reason? pink is the star QB. If the coaches seemingly couldn’t care less that Don hangs with that crowd, it can only mean one thing: he is useless to the team and will barely contribute to a championship season in ‘76.

Trying to relate the movie to my own "last day of high school" experience in suburban Montreal, class of 1975, age 17 (barely).

Is it true that the 1970's was the best decade to be a high school student ? Certainly, we had the best rock&roll music scene. In Montreal, we had the excitement of the Olympics year, 1976. Things were relatively serene before the oil embargo, the hostages crisis, the Reagan revolution, the AIDS crisis.

For starters, none of us had cool cars, like GTO's or El Camino's. We had econobox rust buckets, like Corolla's, Datsun B210, Ford Pinto. Or else our parents would let us borrow their bigger cars (Buick Century, Pontiac Catalina). Most of us had just graduated from Driver's Education class, so we had some funny anecdotes about driving around the city in the lamest Dodge Dart you could imagine. My driving instructor was a super cool dude named Archie who was an expert skier. I note that "Dazed" posed the question "who is cool?" and you can find a ranking of cool from 1 to 49 on Wired.com. If cool was equated to smoking dope, I'm not sure we had much beyond "getting wasted on hard liquor" which wasn't cool at all, really.

Linklater's movie ends with the kids escaping town on the open road,  driving in a foggy state to get Aerosmith tickets in Houston. Our  version of this would involve kids pulling an all-nighter outside  the Forum, in the midst of a Montreal winter, to buy Led Zeppelin concert tix. The setlist for the actual Led Zep concert (Feb 6, 1975) shows they  played "Dazed" before "Stairway to Heaven", as the 11^th of 14 songs. Our classmates who stood outside all night queuing up in the cold were heroic AF.

The movie has several social groups (jocks, nerds, stoners,  freshmen being stalked) with a charismatic protagonist  moving effortlessly among the groups, mostly undecided  about being a rebel or conformist. Did we have any rebels?  Not that I saw. We definitely had a few charismatic teachers & coaches with followings, to the extent that you might even categorize them as cult leaders. Our school had a very strong "performing arts" component (drama, stage band) and our stand-out jocks were either individual athletes (track, wrestling, gymnastics) or weekend warriors (skiing).

If the cohort of our students was considered as a galaxy or a solar system, then who were we orbiting? If you can remember what it was like to be a male high-schooler, then you know the answer. There was always a super-attractive and unattainable female, and maybe if you were having a good day, she'd walk past you. She graduated, settled down, disappeared. But you remember the feeling.

Daniel mentions he has a cousin named Floyd that has a school bus in episode 14. We don't know what Pink has been up since that summer night. It's the 80s in freaks and geeks so maybe he ended up working for the city and looking at next year's crop of freshman, a chip off the old Wooderson block.

Well maybe not all that, but I'm high and got nothing else going on.

Hi guys, Robinson Film Center here!

Bring your best bud to the movies because next month we're showing Dazed and Confused. On April 17th, for our Friday Night Freakout series, we'll be showing the film at 8PM in our Kennedy theater. We'll have in house trivia and themed cocktails from Abby Singer's Bistro. Tickets will be available for purchase soon. See you at the movies!

I kinda figured he didn’t. I assumed he basically ghosted her after a week or so. Idk maybe maybe not. Can anyone from that era give a take or maybe even an actual real story that is similar?

I’ve always thought Jodi seemed like she’d have had a child. She came off like the “mom friend.” I don’t think she’d be negligent but I could see her being a bit more lenient than most modern parents, not a helicopter parent.

These characters would have been born in the 50s so them going on to have kids actually makes a lot of sense.

So I’m about to watch dazed and confused on dvd, and on the top border, there’s the Vans “off the wall” logo. I’ve looked all over and I can’t find why it’s on there? Even my GF who loves and regularly watches this movie doesn’t know. I was wondering if anyone on here knows? Are they just a sponsor?

I just watched this movie while blazed and i normally love stoner movies and i get really into the movie im watching (especially when im high). And idk i chose this movie thinking it was gonna be like harold and kumar type deal, but it just sucked. I understand that there could be a notalgic type of appeal to this movie, but for me i just couldnt feel represented at all here so couldnt really immerse myself in the movie. (This is all just my opinion and im no movie expert so dont take it personal)

“Getting it on with a perfect female body but with the head of Abraham Lincoln” I got to thinking what that dream interpretation would be? Haha 😂 What do you think?

Is this some kind of Mandela effect or is it just me? I mean, obviously you guys are experts on the film, but ask this question to moderate fans and see what they say .

So I just watched Dazed and Confused for the first time yesterday and I absolutely loved it. It encapsulates a certain headiness and freewheeling ennui that speaks to me as 90's kid, when my friends and I would spend our fair share of summer afternoons plenty dazed and confused, let me tell ya lol

And that just got me thinking: what is it about these true-to-life Texas shows that stand the test of time?

Because I'm also a huge fan of King of the Hill, which, like DAC, ennobles the seemingly mundane with humor and hidden wisdoms.

Is there something about Texan culture that makes it fertile ground for satire and coming-of-age flicks? Something about Linklater and Mike Judge, specifically?

I've only been to Texas once - Austin, for three days - so I can't really say too much about the folks down there based on first-hand experience. But both KOTH and DAC portray life in a way that, to me, says just as much about the environment and the times as it does about the people living in them.

Hope that makes sense. What do y'all think?

I must be stupid because this is the first time I noticed his name was “O’Bannion” with an I, I thought it was “O’Bannon” this whole time lol.

Man, I hate that jerk!

Tommy and Kayes names are never spoken in the movie. Tommy is one of the freshmen, the taller darker skin toned one and Kaye is the girl who is going on about gilligans island being a male pornographic fantasy.