Freaks and Geeks is a television show that was produced by Judd Apatow. It lasted only one season and was cancelled after its twelfth episode aired. Despite the cancellation, Freaks and Geeks has gained a cult status and has received critical acclaim from critics with Time Magazine giving it the honor of being labeled as one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time in 2007. The show focuses on Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini) as she struggles with being a smart student mixed in with a group of ‘Freaks’ who are a bunch of slackers who prefer to have sex and smoke marijuana. The other side of the show focuses on a group of geeks headlined by Lindsay’s brother Sam (played by John Francis Daley) who must survive the school year with his group of geeky friends as they try to avoid being picked on by jocks and other mean spirited individuals.
The show has helped to launch the career of Judd Apatow who has become a successful writer/director/producer in Hollywood and has cast a large portion of the Freaks and Geeks cast with starring roles in some of his movies such as actor Seth Rogan in the film ‘Knocked Up’ , Jason Segal in the film ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and James Franco in the film ‘ Pineapple Express’. We leave you with a quote from the episode entitled Beers and Weirs’ where Lindsay and Sam’s parents go away for the weekend and Lindsay wants to have a party with alcohol involved. Sam doesn’t think it’s a good idea and consults his two friends Neal and Bill who think that they should switch the alcoholic-beer with non-alcoholic beer without Lindsay knowing about it. Here’s Bill trying to convince his friends about switching the beer to non-alcoholic beer instead…
| “Sam Weir: What’s non-alcoholic beer? Bill Haverchuck: It’s just like beer, it just doesn’t have that ingredient that makes you drunk. Neal Schweiber: …Alcohol? Bill Haverchuck: Yeah. |
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