August 18, 2009

• Freaks and Geeks- Girlfriends and Boyfriends (Episode 8)

  Previously on Freaks and Geeks:  Pilot, Beers and Weirs, Tricks and Treats, Kim Kelly is My Friend, Tests and Breasts, I'm with the Band, Carded and Discarded

  
  
  

  The episode, Girlfriends and Boyfriends, was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and was written by Paul Feig.

  Episode Summary: Lindsay reluctantly agrees to come over to Nick's house while his parents are out of town. Sam hopes to become lab partners with Cindy, but becomes jealous when Bill is named Cindy's lab partner.

  Another excellent episode.  Lindsay and Nick continue to grow closer but Lindsay begins to realize that there isn't much to Nick.  I had a friend in high school that had the same problem with her boyfriend.   All he wanted to do was drink, smoke pot, and play basketball.  Occasionally he did all three at the same time.  She came to me and asked what to do and I always suggested she should break up with the guy.  Eventually she did and the guy turned into a goth.  That was hilarious.  He went from a wannabe gangsta rapper to a goth.  Teens are so stupid.  I should know because at one time I was a teen. 

  Speaking of stupid, Sam's story in which he looks for ways to impress Cindy Sanders.  I just couldn't get into why he would do that.  I mean Bill explained that she "cut the cheese" in front of him.  I don't know how I would deal with that.  I was in a restaurant a few weeks ago and a lady ripped one as she stood up and tried to explain that her leather shoes were new.  After she said that I burst out laughing and could not stop.  She turned red and left.  Sam joined the yearbook committee to win Cindy's attention.  I guess I shouldn't harrass Sam for doing that because my high school didn't really have clubs other than one called Pro-Life Knights(self-explanatory), WINGS(anti-smoking and anti-drinking group) and yearbook.  They always met during the time when there were sports and policy at our school was you could only be in one group per season.  I am sort of glad my school didn't have groups otherwise I may have been subjected to horrible posters throughout the school.  The Pro-Life Knights would post photos of aborted fetuses throughout the school building including the multi-purpose room which we used for chapel, cafeteria, semester and finals, award banquets, and a meeting place before and after school.  It was great to see this fetus in the lunchline with a headline: He could have cured cancer.   I also remember the guy who looked like the character in Freaks and Geeks named Harris would try to start a group every so often.  He would go around with petitions.  I actually signed one because I thought it was great.  It was for film making and film appreciation.  He also wanted to start a Dr. Who club and a They Might Be Giants club.  Anyway, look for Sam to continue his attempts to win Cindy's attention by joining her groups in a future episode, an episode which features the greatest actor in the history of film...according to a 12 year old girl over at Yahoo Answers. 

  I forgot to mention that you should look for three awkward moments revolving around Lindsay's story.  First, Nick sings to her.  I have sung to my girlfriends before but it never worked in fact one time she asked me to sing her to sleep and ended up laughing at me.  Second, Mr. Rosso talks sex with Lindsay.  I can relate because of a talk a pastor had with my class in grade school.  He spoke in the third person and said, "Pastor W. and Mrs. W have a very fulfilling sex life."  That was it, I tuned out for the rest of the class period.  Finally, watch for the most awkward sex talk parents have ever had with a child. I am so thankful that my parents never had "the talk" with me.  My dad would leave out Hustlers and Penthouses and I guess they figured that was good enough.  The closest we ever had a talk was one day my dad was driving a few friends and I somewhere and we were talking about how they were teaching us the 6th Commandment.  Well my dad asks, "What did they teach?"  "Sex before marriage is a sin."  "Well I guess me and my wife were sinners."  OMFGIH!!!!  I didn't speak to him for 2 weeks after that.

  Notes: R.F. Daley, the real-life father of star John Francis Daley (Sam), appears as the yearbook teacher in this episode.

  Seth Rogen does not appear in this episode.

  The Sackie's fast food restaurant in episode "Girlfriends and Boyfriends" is actually a Wendy's.

  Quotes:
  Sam: Cindy is not abnormal.
  Bill: Yeah? She cut the cheese.
  Neal: Oh my God.
  Sam: That's not funny.
  Bill: I heard it, man, I swear. She blamed it on the chair. But she cut the cheese.
  Sam: Well, some chairs make weird noises.What kind of a chair was it?
  Bill: I don't know. Vinyl?
  Sam: Vinyl chairs always squeak.
  Bill: It wasn't a squeak. It was the sound of cheese being cut.

  Mrs. Weir: [speaking to Lindsay about her virginity] Honey, tell her about Korea.
  Mr. Weir: Korea? Well, one day I went to Seoul on a weekend pass and I went to this bar, and I had a few to many. And I followed a couple of my buddies to the Red Light District...
  Mrs. Weir: Your fathers first time wasn't special and he's always regreted it.
  Mr. Weir: It was the worst five dollars I've ever spent. And I wish I could get those five dollars back!

  Ms. Yeats: Mr. Desario, don't you have something to do?
  Daniel: Right. But I thought we were going to do that after class, Ms. Yeats

  Lindsay: Mr. Rosso, Nick and I are just friends.
  Mr. Rosso: Hey, no need to explain anything to me. I got it on in a van at Woodstock.

  Mr. Kowchevksi: All right, kids, hurry to class. Last one to class, first one on welfare. It's your choice. (I wanted to use this line with my students when I taught high school)

  Music: "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers Band; "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" by Journey; "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues; "Lady" by Styx(with some help from Jason Segel)

  Well, here is the episode.  Enjoy!
  

  I am wondering if I should review another TV series once this one is finished.  I was thinking Rome, Deadwood, The Shield, Band of Brothers, or Bullshit.

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