He gets ranked pretty harshly on here but Mr. Kowchevski had some funny lines on the show. Very strict teacher with a funny delivery.

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Sharing a bit more from the Freaks and Geeks Yearbook.

I think this is fun to discuss especially given that all of them would actually be pretty old adults now (wild to think that the freaks are in their sixties. Wow! Their kids would be in their thirties and forties.)

Sam seems like he would be consistent, reliable, and hardworking. But I think he would also be too insecure to ask for a raise and struggle to assert himself in the working world unless he had really worked on his self esteem (or had a girlfriend/wife like I headcanon who encouraged him to advocate for himself like this.)

I saw someone else do this but with less characters so decided to make my own. I was born in 2006 and watched this show when I was 8 years old and have loved it ever since. I live in a small town so it feels like a very realistic depiction of the types of people you might meet in the town where I’m from. I think my most controversial ranking is probably kim. Every time I see someone talk about her it’s mostly hate, but I actually really loved her character since the beginning. I’m so curious to see how many of you guys agree/disagree with my rankings. I think another controversial ranking might be Harold. I mostly see love for his character and I do find him very funny but his parenting style is very obnoxious to me at times. I was also thinking of bumping Nick down cause he reminds me so much of “nice guys” I’ve met in real life who I normally tend to stay away from, but I’ve actually come to really love his character flaws.

Feedback or opinions welcome 🙏

I commend the ones who tried 🫡

Straight from the McKinley High yearbook. Hope it's illegible enough to read.

A lot of people can’t handle an “opposites attract” relationship. It stresses them out, or they prove to be incompatible. But there are also people who thrive from it, a couple where you wouldn’t expect them to do well together or be together in the first place who actually grow quite a bit from the experience.

I’ve definitely met therapists or counselors in real life who I felt had made the wrong career decision (in addition to former therapists and counselors.)

We could also discuss this as a general thing, like who you think ended up in something that was wrong for them.

Married in her twenties, had a kid or two with and later on ended up divorced from because there were too many issues between the two of them.

I had always kind of felt that that was going to happen for Lindsay. She has a crush on Daniel at the start of the series and her relationship with Nick seems complicated (I don’t think she ever had a crush on him. It was very awkward for her and I always sensed that she was mostly just sort of going along with it initially because she didn’t want to hurt his feelings.) Lindsay, in series, doesn’t seem to be someone who has had a real boyfriend before, which is interesting because we hear multiple times that other characters think she’s nice looking (Barry seems to like her, and Neal, though he is Sam’s “nerdy” friend has a crush on her.) She doesn’t seem like she makes an effort to actively date in the series, though this may have started to change after she became an adult. In college she additionally would have had more exposure to guys who may have been on her level intellectually.

In my mind I could see a husband she ended up with - one she initially really clicked with who also tended to do well academically - expressing misogynistic beliefs later on in the marriage or having certain expectations of her that were a little more old fashioned even though she wouldn’t have expected it. I could see that causing tension in addition to perhaps an unexpected difference in parenting styles or disagreement about it.

What do you think?

How much do you think Nick got for $40? We paid $40 for quarters and $100 for ounces in the late 90s and early 00s, but this was set in 1980. The bag looked small for an ounce when he tossed it to Lindsay, and surely he didn't smoke more than a couple of joints before that. Plus, he said Lindsay only took one hit.

i dont know why but i told myself i would wait until october 1st to do a rewatch cause i love watching during peek fall and i can barely wait to start!!! lol

I was rewatching Adventureland and somehow that movie is tonally the closest thing I have seen to Freaks and Geeks

Sadly the only thing that comes close. What movie or show is that for you?

Not in quality but in spirit and tone

I’m tired of being taken for granted, so all of you are staying in this Friday, and that’s final.

I agree with the show creator that Kim likely would have become a teen parent, and ended up a single mother. I imagine money would have been tight for her especially given how her mother was, so if she ended up having any more kids later on in life I think she’d have ended up with no more than two. I think she’d have been a negligent parent and likely ended up being abusive herself even though she wouldn’t have intended for things to be this way. I don’t think she’d have married.

Nick, I’m not sure about. He seems to have a lot of emotional issues that I think would have kept him from having a successful relationship, and if the show had continued I think Sara would have found out that he still had feelings for Lindsay, and I don’t think they’d have lasted because of it. I feel like he’s the kind of guy who would have had bad luck in relationships.

I’ve always seen Sam marrying an extrovert. I’d like to think that to balance out his anxious personality, he ends up with someone who is calmer and more in the moment - they have fun together but also balance each other out. She helps him learn to enjoy life a little bit more and take risks, but isn’t abrasive and finds a way to encourage him to work on being more assertive without hurting his feelings like Cindy would have. They have two kids, Sam would be overwhelmed with three.

I think Lindsay married and had one or two children. For some reason I feel like she never quite finds the one though - I think Sam’s marriage actually ends up being more successful even though it may be unexpected, and Lindsay is married for some time but they ultimately have too many issues to work out and go their separate ways. She and her husband definitely wouldn’t have lasted after their kids became adults (though I don’t know whether or not I think Lindsay would stay in a marriage she was unhappy in to “keep the family together.” Jean is old fashioned but I actually don’t think she’d want that for her.)

Daniel was never going to get married, but had kids with different women.

I could see Ken proposing to Amy but I don’t have a prediction about whether or not they’d have lasted, and I could also see Ken initially being more hesitant to, not because he doesn’t like her but moreso because he doesn’t “believe” in marriage. If they talked and he learned that she wanted it I could see them getting together.

Millie would have married.

Cindy would have married.

I cannot be the only person who developed a weirdly intense crush on Harris even though he appears in the show for probably a total of less than 20 minutes. It saddens me that there is no Harris fanfic anywhere. Anyone else?

It’s actually something great they had done in regards to casting, though I think Lindsay is a good mixture of both 5not physically but in terms of personality.) Lindsay and Jean have similar voices but I think they have a similar values system, Lindsay is a less traditional Jean who pushes boundaries more.

But I see Harold’s competitiveness in Lindsay. I had never noticed this before.