Freaks and Geeks: What happened next

morgue: Everyone reading this loves Freaks & Geeks, right? Right?
Readers: OF COURSE YES WE DO WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTION.
morgue: Well did you know that the story of these characters didn’t actually end at the end of episode 18, Discos and Dragons, with Nick dancing, Daniel dwarfing and Lindsay deading?
Readers: NO NO I DID NOT I SUSPECT YOU ARE ABOUT TO TELL ME ABOUT THIS
morgue: Yes I am. You see, the ultra-neat Yearbook DVD set features on its inside covers a bunch of signatures and messages from the show’s characters to Sam (front) and Lindsay (back). And a few plot developments are revealed!
Readers: DYING OF SUSPENSE NOW SPILL PLZ
morgue: So, from Sam’s pages, we find out that Cindy wants to be friends even though she still thinks Sam’s a jerk, while Todd reckons Cindy is crazy! Alan can’t bring himself to be friendly and writes insults all over Sam’s book! Nick Andopolis thinks Disco sucks! And most importantly, Maureen still wants to hang out with Sam!
Readers: BUT NICK LOVES DISCO NOW
morgue: Don’t be foolish Nick was just into disco because Sarah was and he was just with Sarah because he couldn’t be with Lindsay! Over on Lindsay’s pages we find out that Nick and Sarah broke up (surprise!) and he’s obviously still in love with Lindsay. The secret trip Lindsay took with Kim Kelly was apparently a success, because the mathletes think she went to the academic decathlon, and Kim’s talking about a second mission – presumably her mom and dad found out but kept quiet about it. And! Daniel actually has a coherent explanation for being such a s.o.b all season! Although it’s all spin obviously.
Readers: AND THAT’S IT
morgue: Um, yeah. It’s not exactly a lost episode I guess.
Readers: OH
morgue: No wait – the other thing you need to know. That episode where there’s a viking mascot?

Readers: VIKING MASCOT = TERRIFYING YES I DO
morgue: Well did you know that the dude playing the mascot is… THE BEEF.

Readers: LOL
morgue: (to himself) This was more interesting in my head than it is now in the cold, harsh pixels of reality.
Readers: THE BEEF FALLS OFF THE TABLE IN A VIKING HEAD LOL

9 thoughts on “Freaks and Geeks: What happened next”

  3. The only thing that’s held me back from getting the DVDs to this day has been that the box sets have been TOO DARNED HEXPENSIVE!

  5. On the commentary for that episode, Martin Starr reckons that “Even Stevens” (starring The Beef) is the only thing worth watching on the Disney Channel.
    Also gleaned from the commentaries: the kid who Millie and Lindsay babysit (while Lindsay is stoooooooned) was the voice of Nemo (he’s now on “Weeds”).

  6. It blew my mind to see Bill turn up in Knocked Up a couple of weeks ago on the telly. So utterly unrecognisable I had to check IMDB.

  7. Jon, MattDebz – yep, of course they are available for the borrowing.
    Peter – no kidding. The Yearbook was hella pricey but I was earning in GBPounds at the time so it was bearable…
    Martin Starr is my new hero, because Seth Rogen was my old hero and now he’s famous. I mean seriously, out of everybody in the F&G ensemble, it’s *that guy* that becomes the big-box-office superstar?

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