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Freaks and Geeks was a television show created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow which ran on NBC in 1999-2000. The show was canceled after only one season, but it has gone on to develop a large cult following while also launching most of the casts members careers.
A community dedicated to the short-lived, but much loved comedy, Freaks and Geeks.
What is Freaks and Geeks?
"Freaks and Geeks was a television show created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow which ran on NBC in 1999-2000. Unconventional at the time when Beverly Hills, 90210 was the "it" show about high school, Paul Feig wanted to tells the lives of the kids who weren't popular, the "Freaks" and the "Geeks" and their struggles in high school. The show was canceled after only one season, but it has gone on to develop a large cult following while also launching most of the casts members careers."
Why was the show canceled?
The show's cancellation is partly to blame on its scheduling as well as the lack of advertisement for the show. After 6 episodes aired it was put on hiatus from November 1999 until January 2000. The network believing that by giving the show a break they could use the continuing episode (Carded and Discarded) as a sort of second Pilot to relaunch the show. This didn't work however and the show was canceled in March 2000 after only airing 13 episodes. The following 5 aired in response to fan petition in October 2000.
Here's an extensive timeline of the show by Judd Apatow
Where can I watch the show?
Freaks and Geeks has recently become available on Netflix. You can also buy the box set which is loaded with extra features, deleted scenes, bloopers and more.
/r/freaksandgeeks
I'm halfway through the show and really want to finish it but it's no longer available where I started watching (on Hulu in the USA). I'm thinking I can maybe watch some other way if it's available elsewhere. I don't have Paramount +.
Anyone know what’s going on with the show? It showed Monday it was expiring and now it’s not anymore was it just a gimmick to get people to watch it??
I’ve always thought Lindsay would have stopped hanging out with the Freaks eventually. May have kept in contact with Kim in college and seen her from time to time, but would have eventually fallen out with them. Just always the vibe I got.
I’d like to imagine a Sam who is a little more secure in himself/a bit more confident.
My headcanon for Sam is that he’d have been good at communicating with his kids and nice, but somewhat overprotective. I could envision him being a bit of a helicopter parent without meaning to be.
Lindsay, I’m not so sure about. I envision Kim becoming a teen parent (or at least a young one, child born when she’s between 18-21.) I think Lindsay would have fallen out with the freaks eventually, but may have stayed in close enough contact with Kim for her to see Kim’s parenting mistakes and get a feel for what raising a baby is actually like. Lindsay goes to college of course after high school but may see Kim sometimes on breaks. I think Kim would be too overwhelmed as a young parent to effectively parent - Lindsay sees this and remembers the kinds of mistakes Kim made later on in life if and when she herself has kids. I’ve always sensed Kim, especially if she became a young parent, would’ve been negligent without meaning to be.
in the usa - says it's leaving hulu monday. any idea where it'll be available for streaming next?
Millie - My immediate thought is that I think she’d have initially majored in nursing, but I don’t think this is what she’d have “kept” (most people change their mind about their majors during their first year of college anyway.) My headcanon for Millie is that she’d have become a teacher, so that’s what I think her courses moving forward would have been centered around. And later on in life possibly became a housewife.
Cindy - Political Science Major. Likely a housewife now. If not Poli Science then maybe English, considering what she wrote in the yearbook.
Neal - I’m not sure, but something that would lead to him making a lot of money. I’m thinking initial intent of going to med school, but may have switched out like most people.
Lindsay - I feel like she went in for paralegal studies but may have ended up in social work, or even a psychology major. Not sure about her.
Sam - I truly have absolutely no idea. Not even a guess for him. I could see him initially going in undeclared. I could see him being kind of unsure about his path too, which is normal at 18.
Bill - I also don’t know, but I’d like to think he has a reasonable amount of money saved nowadays, only character who I think didn’t marry or have kids.
Harris - Could see him majoring in Psychology for some reason. Or some out of the box major you wouldn’t expect.
Daniel and Kim likely took community college courses, neither finished.
Wish I’d been able to watch it when it was one. Love love love
All my episodes on Hulu say expiring on Jan 27. I’ll be crushed if I can’t watch this anymore, hopefully it’s at least moving to another platform.
Mine:
-Kim “knows” that Lindsay is pretty. Doesn’t mean she is into her romantically but she knew that Lindsay was nice looking and it’s partly why she felt threatened in the beginning. Millie also thinks Lindsay is pretty.
-Daniel did have a very small crush on Lindsay, at some point. Not feelings that were intense enough for him to pursue her, but the feelings were there.
-Harold missed the 1950s. Thought it was the best era.
-Kim became a teen parent.
-Bill doesn’t marry or have kids, but does have a fair amount of money saved.
-Millie and Cindy both romanticized the 1950s. Lindsay did too, in her youth, but didn’t by the time we see her in series. Lindsay as an upperclassman and college student was much more into the 60s.
I spent the Orange Con’s Inauguration Day watching the first season of Severence. BRILLIANT!!!! I wish there was more stuff like this!!! Have to admit that I had shrooms on board, but this show is absolutely insanely brilliant.
apparently they dated during freaks and geeks and for a few years after. does anyone have any more information? watching the show for the first time and i'm curious
I personally think that the show could’ve lasted longer had it aired on FOX, The WB or UPN.
I can see Sam being a bit of an overprotective parent. I do think he was nice, and made an effort to keep an open line of communication with his kids.
I think Kim was a teen parent, and unfortunately likely negligent due to her own life circumstances even if she didn’t mean to be.
I don’t know how I think Lindsay would have done as a parent.
I’m sure we’ve all met people like this, who tended to choose jobs that weren’t “right” for them because they didn’t know themselves well, and were perhaps not honest with themselves about their capabilities/whether or not they were truly right for what they wanted to do.
at the end of the show when lindsay and kim go do the grateful dead thing, that seems fun as fuck. I'm graduating high school in june and have almost zero life plans, much less summer plans. are there still people who do things like this with the dead or other bands?
The Weir’s sporting goods store is clearly in trouble throughout the first season. They’re constantly dropping little hints here and there and then finally at the end we hear about this big mega store opening up. I imagine that if the show continued for a second season we would have seen the Weir’s lose their business and go broke. Maybe Dad ends up working for the mega store for far less money, and Mom might even had to pick up a part time job. Would have been interesting to see Lindsay and Sam in their poor phase. Anyone else think it was headed in that direction?
Does anyone know the name of the song that is played during the wrap party in the Freaks and Geeks documentary on Hulu? The doc is part of a series called Cultureshock.
One of the only teachers in the show that actually cared about doing their job.
He put in a lot of effort to check in to see how they were doing, and tried to be relatable with them.
This scene in Carded and Discarded was awesome!
We don’t talk enough about the microwave salesman. Dude is hysterical.
Most are in their fifties or very early sixties. I feel like Kim has Facebook. I think, for some reason, that Daniel is more old fashioned and doesn’t have any of it. I feel like he might have a cellphone, but I don’t see a sixth two year old Daniel with Instagram or even Facebook.
I feel like Neal has LinkedIn.