July 14, 2009

• Freaks and Geeks- Tricks and Treats(episode 3)

  Previously on Freaks and Geeks (pilot) (Beers and Weirs)

  

  Plot Summary: Lindsay agrees to stay home and hand out candy with her mom on Halloween night. However, when she gets an invite to go cruise around town with Nick, Daniel, and Kim, she ditches her mom to hang out with them. Sam, Bill, Neal, and Harris go trick or treating. Lindsay and the gang go on a vandalism spree that starts with smashing pumpkins and ends abruptly after Lindsay accidentally pelts Sam with an egg.

  This was a great episode.  It starts off with a very gross moment.  I finally noticed something about the beginning sequence.  There is peanut butter on the table and may have been one of the ingredients that was added to the concoction however later in the episode it is revealed that Bill is deathly allergic to peanuts. 

  There is also a funny tribute in this episode.  Joe Flaherty dressed up in a vampire costume.  This is a nod to a character he played on SCTV named Count Floyd.  Flaherty also was in another great TV show called Maniac Mansion, one of the only live action TV shows to be based on a Nintendo game.

  Another strange note is that Lindsay mentions that there is a new Friday the 13th movie playing.  The show was set in 1980 so the movie she is referring to must be the first Friday the 13th because that came out in May of that year and the second came out in May of 1981. 

  I love when the teacher is reading off the titles of the books that she didn't think were acceptable for book reports.  It reminds me so much of my 7th and 8th grade years.  I despised reading for an assignment.  I wanted to read at my own pace and not so many books per quarter.  I would go to the public library and check out the Choose Your Own Adventure books and do book reports on them.  My teacher was none the wiser.

  Another funny point is when Lindsay catches Millie kissing a boy in the parking lot.  Millie explains that she met this boy at church camp.  I don't know if any of you know this but church camps and church youth festivals are pretty wild.  I heard from so many of my friends that went that the church youth fests are where they learned about the joys of masturbation.

  Also the rumors floating around about what is being inserted into candy is funny.  I know when I was a kid every year there was some other ploy out there that made it harder to eat candy.  My neighbors ended up giving out toothbrushes or pennies because they didn't want to have people frightened about the candy.  I read somewhere a while back that there was some truth to the rumor about people sticking razorblades in candy bars but it was a father who was going through a divorce and he did that to his own children.  It is a sick world so it is better to be safe and examine the candy.

  I think one of the funniest sequences happens in this episode and that is when Bill is preparing for trick-or-treating.  He goes as the Bionic Woman and he is pretending to be her.  "I'm sorry, I can't hear you.  Hold on I'm going to put the phone up to my bionic ear.  OW!  You don't have to shout, I have bionic hearing."  "No these are not bionic, these are ALL ME!"  I crack up every time I see that scene.  It's around the 20 minute mark in the video below.

  Music Used:  "The Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett), "Gonna Raise Hell" by Cheap Trick; "Roller" by April Wine; "Free-for-All" by Ted Nugent

  Quotes(besides the Bill quotes mentioned above):
  Harold: Last time I had this much fun, I was pinned down in a foxhole by the North Koreans.

  Daniel: Hey, knock it off, blondie. You're gonna blow the speakers.
  Kim: Oh, I'm sorry, Grandpa. I'll try not to blow anything of yours anytime soon.

  Bill: Ma'am, I hope there aren't any peanuts in those peanuts.

  Enjoy the episode.
  

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