The media portrays adolescents in television shows as being rebellious, sex crazed, and unreasonable people. Freaks and Geeks, created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig, himself, and Judd Apatow, is a one hour TV show that aired on NBC from 1999-2000. The show centers around the siblings, Sam and Lindsay Weir, and their friends while they all attend McKinley High School. Freaks and Geeks is a show that portray adolescents in a way that the media doesn’t because of the lessons the characters have
episode of Freaks and Geeks, Lindsay underwent many of the relatable choices and struggles high school students endure every day. During this episode, Lindsay was in a rough spot due to the death of her grandmother, and as a result she changed her normal decisions. This includes everything from what she wore to school to the types of people she associated herself with. Though many changes were occurring, one thing remains: her desire to appear unchanged by her parents. I enjoyed the intro to Freaks and
Bullying the Freaks and Geeks Walking down the school hall to the next class, the bully appears before his prey. He stands before his soon to be victims as if he is two feet taller and ten times stronger. His victims attempt to ignore him, but he stops them and puts his face in front of theirs to make sure his presence is known. He then abruptly decides to save his senseless punishment for another day as he passes by with a slight shoulder nudge. In today’s high schools, the majority of bullying
Not many classes have topics of which students can relate to easily and can find something to help them understand the ideas better. In our class we watch the show Freaks and Geeks to help us better understand sociology. At first, I wasn’t quite sure how this show set back in the 1980s would help me understand what we were discussing in class, but it turned out to really be a valuable asset in helping the class. The show perfectly displays the themes of the self, the looking-glass self, and in and
The Man with the Drums What does it take for a student to find their aspiration? Freaks and Geeks accurately portrays the stereotypes of high schoolers; All of their actions, and people that are around them will influence how they evolve. Many students have their different ways of going on with their lives, but what they do also affects everything else around them for the better or the worst. In Freaks and Geeks, we see an everyday nerd named Sam, a fellow who wears striped shirts everyday, and
Director Paul Feig that is well known for his works in Freaks and Geeks, The Heat, and I am David worked on the movie Bridesmaids. Bridesmaids is one of the examples of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, where the hero face through certain challenges in life. Annie Walker will be the main character of this movie that portrays the hero’s journey. She who has been having problems throughout her life, goes through hardships in order to fulfill her friend’s happiness. Her mother always tells her that
Freaks and Geeks is a show set back in 1980s over what life was like for the average high school teenager. The show goes over multiple dilemmas each episode that focus on two or more stereotypical teens in this time. The show focuses mainly on a pair of siblings named Lindsey and Sam. In this show you have your geek kids, like Sam, who are so awkward no one else talks to them. Then you have your so called “freaks” who aren’t afraid to get into trouble just for the fun of it, which is what Lindsey
Erikson’s Stages of Development was seen most widely in Freaks and Geeks. Whenever there is a mix of freshmen age children in with older adolescents, there is always that awkward stage. When I was in the 9th grade, the school system I was in was still utilizing the junior high school and we would not enter high school until the ninth grade. The year that Freaks and Geeks was to take place, I myself was in the 9th grade, so I sympathized with the show somewhat. Sam and Rory from Gilmore Girls
In 2006, Franco made his acting debut on The CW drama television series 7th Heaven. Since then he appeared in television shows such as Do Not Disturb and Young Justice. Franco has also had noticeable roles in films such as Superbad, Charlie St. Cloud, 21 Jump Street, Warm Bodies, The Shortcut and Now You See Me. In May 2008, he was cast in The CW teen drama television series Privileged. The series centered on a live-in tutor for two spoiled heiresses in Palm Beach. Franco was cast in an initial major
Many people think it is vital to surround yourself with a group of friends and to belong, especially when you are in high school. After watching the pilot episode of Freaks and Geeks, it is evident there are several great examples of interpersonal communication, as well as numerous types of friendships. These varying relationship examples will be discussed. First off, is a look at a few of Lindsay Weir’s friendships. From this episode, it can be concluded that Lindsay and Millie previously had
INTRODUCTION I compared Friday Night Lights, Freaks & Geeks, and Suburgatory in parents/family, major character death/injury, and relationships (which includes friendships and dating) Parents: I chose parents/family as a category because in a lot of teen tv shows and movies the parents are portrayed as the bad guys and they’re generally too strict or they try too hard to seem cool and they end up having no control. Also because I have lived with my mom for almost all of my life, and then moved
names like nerd and geek. Leonid Fridman believes that these anti- intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought and should stop for the sake of America. The author supports this position in the passage “America Needs It’s Nerds” through the use of rhetoric by giving definitions of terms such as geek, offering comparisons through juxtaposition, adding a tone shift, and posing rhetorical questions to the reader. The author begins by giving the definition of a geek and how it has been
and whom is a “freak”. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word freak as “a person, animal, or plant with an unusual physical abnormality” (n.2). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines the word freak as “a person regarded as strange because of their unusual appearance or behavior” (n.2.1). The last definition that the Oxford English Dictionary gives is “a person who is obsessed with or unusually enthusiastic about a specific interest” (n. 3). The meaning of the word freak has been a rollercoaster
Eli Clare in Freaks and Queers observes how individuals use certain words to reaffirm their identities and also distinguish themselves from the rest of society. Being a disabled transman, Clare mentions various words, like handicapped, cripple (crip), gimp, amongst others, which have come to be accepted by the disabled community. He says, “cripple makes me flinch…but I love crip humor, the audacity of turning cripple into a word of pride” (p. 83). Some of these words, like queer for the LGBT community
nerds and geeks. Throughout the article, Fridman utilizes rhetorical questions, colloquialisms and even anecdotes in order to directly respond to the fact that nerds and geeks should be celebrated for their contributions to the advancements in the world instead of criticized for not fitting into society’s expectations. To begin with, the author uses rhetorical questions, which appeals to pathos, to support
system” of Americas, he defines the definition of “geek,” which has been relentlessly used on those dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. While a geek – in dictionary terms
from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality.” Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love as Dr. Wilson mentioned in lecture is a postmodern homage to, Tod Browning’s, Freaks, which we watched earlier in the semester. Some points made were how it reanimates many of the films most stimulating questions about agency, sexuality, and collective
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn, is a fictional work of art that trails the life of Olympia Binewski, a hunchbacked albino dwarf, from her creation to her death. Her parents Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife, the geek "Crystal" Lil, decide to ‘breed’ their own freak show, questioning: “What Greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?”(Dunn, 18). Most of the action takes place at the Binewski’s Fabulon, a traveling circus, where Oly
channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conformity. Labels can be positive and/or negative, but I’ll focus on the negative aspects of labeling in high school. Everybody has a label in high school whether it is the “slut”, “pothead”, “freak” or the “jock”; it is one of the most apparent time periods in which individuals get labeled. Students have the mentality that whatever label is placed on them is going to be stuck with them forever, which then leads into a self-fulfilling prophecy
imbalance and decides that it's time to change the way nerds or geeks are viewed by society. Fridman develops his argument over why nerds should be held higher by using a shift of tones, compare and contrast, and figurative language. First, Fridman develops his argument over why nerds should be held to a higher position by shifting his tone throughout the passage. In paragraph 2, Fridman tells the reader how the Webster definition for geek is a “street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads