As you know, Freaks & Geeks is probably the best network television show that has ever existed. Well, you might not know that, but I am telling you. No, seriously, go right out and watch it if you have never seen it. Anyway, my question is when you were in high school, what group did you identify with? Freaks? Geeks? Jocks? Any of the other in the list rattled off in Ferris Bueller.
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90 comments:
Have never watched Freaks & Geeks.
In the beginning, I was a cheerleader. Then I discovered punk rock!
I was preppy at first, then I discovered Jnco jeans and skateboarding. Yeah, I was 90s hot.
I was in band, but I wasn't a "band geek." More of a loaner, I suppose. Had friends in a lot of different groups. But mostly my bestie and I hung out together. Loaner with a +1?
I was 1 of, what, 9 people who actually watched F&G when it was on air. God I wanted to be Lindsay Weir.
But my high school didn't really have any distinct groups like that. For the most part every one mingled with every one. It was boring.
I was a freak. I had hot pink hair and wore the same hoodie every day.
Nerd/wrestler with long hair. No one messed with me.
Sounds like a Romy & Michelle situation. And that is awesome.
I was a choir geek. But my sis was popular so I hung out with them too.
Like most of us, i didnt fit in or identify with any group. I liked certain people from all groups, except jocks, cos they were mean, but in a sea of cliques, i was adrift. In senior year, i learned that all the so called quiet kids- mostly boys- thought to be losers- turned to be the most fun and most interesting!!!! High school blows. Its like lord of the flies.
Freaks and Geeks best show ever? What are you, 12?
No and no
In HS I was in band and drama. Twirler for band and headache for drama teacher:)
Band people know how to party way better than drama people btw. They just want to talk about how they feeeeeel
I was in the speech club/drama department group. I only heard later in college what the drama people were called by outsiders & it's a three letter word starting with f that is considered very unkind. So, not a social or band geek. Somewhere in between. We thought of ourselves as the smart-asses.
Oh, I was a geek, although I had smoked pot before sophomore year in 1977, so I had freak friends. I also had the army jacket, but was the captain of the school's TV quiz bowl team. Not jock, no way.
Sort of like Lindsay.
I was also like Lindsay Weir.
Oh, i , did like the show. I esp liked it when 2boys stood outside the diner and guessed what people ate. Guess in senior year i became a hippie, but transformation not complete til 1st year of college.
My high school was pretty great--a coed Catholic high school--and most students were pretty nice. There were cliques, but you could still pretty much sit anywhere in the cafeteria without people wondering why you were at their table.
I hung out with everyone: nerds, punks, smart kids, drama kids, preps, jocks, etc.
@greenmountaingirl Exactly! Thank you for putting it into words for me!! Apparently not thinking this am. We even said in our senior video that we were going to do our 10-year reunion Romy and Michelle-style, and we were trying to figure out who would be our Sandy Frinke :)
We were misfits. My bf & I were the Alpha couple of the misfits, and it turned out most every other kid in our little group was gay.
I didn't find out/realize they were all gay or bi, til YEARS later---Suddenly our finding each other all made sense.
My Alpha-partner/HS boyfriend was/is very mature, never judged by looks or 'weird-ness' or money. He gravitated to weirdness instead. GREAT guy from birth. And I've been a fruit-fly from birth, so I couldn't believe I missed it for so long!
For reference, I graduated in 1989. 80's music 4-EVAH!!!
Ugh…HS was the worst. Went to school with a guy who had a similar name to mine. He got caught jerking off in the guy's locker room. People confused us. Ugh.
I had friends in different groups, but I was probably identified by others as a "smark freak," if that makes sense.
I was in LOVE with Nick Andopolous when I watched F&G. Highly recommend. It was only on for one season, so very worth the time to Netflix it.
I was (and still am \m/ ) a rock chick. Nose pierced, biker jacket, doc Martens, the whole shebang.
I have toned it down since the 90's, kinda.
Still have my nose pierced and tatts, but now I'm more great shoes and corsets.
I never watched Freaks and Geeks so I don't know which category I would fall into.
Never heard of Freaks & Geeks. Maybe we don't get it here in Canada or maybe I just never heard of it.
In highschool I hung out with the studious Christian crowd. We got good grades, stayed out of trouble, didn't go to dances and didn't date. We were the good girls.
I was a sosh cheerleader who joined every club, committee, editor of high school paper, sang in the choir, played sports.
I got so burned out I won't join in on anything now!
I was a nerd, but hung out with a group of regular people - not nerds or misfits or popular. My nickname was Spock, a nod to my nerdiness. I was also a drama geek, but as a true nerd, i ran the lights and did stage management.
@libby - fistbump! Class of '88 here.
I was in the nerds group. I was in all honors classes and the only female in the math team. But I had spiky hair for a time and idolized a classmate who had liberty spikes. So. Make of that what you will. :)
I was a nerd but slid into the hippie crowd. I graduated HS in 1969 so it was kind of the thing then.
@Seachica, I did makeup for our drama club--my forays onstage were, er, embarrassing to say the least.
Class of '89 here. Definite band geek. Didn't help that I was also an AP/honors kid but because I helped enough people with homework and pass classes, my geek friends and I were pretty much left alone. And I definitely agree with the poster who said high school is like Lord of the Flies. (Especially since I'm watching my oldest 2 kids go through high school now.)
The Jocks.
'89
Band geek.
I was at first a cheeleader! Then sophomore year realized all the cute boys were skaters and turned in my skirt for some purple hair and cutie patootie boys and of course weed! I suppose it would be considered the Freaks as far as this show goes.
Did you take revenge by making him your avi?
lol @ FSP. Comedy seems to surround you. Your situation would have made a great storyline in a John Hughes movie. I'm class of '86. Gym rat, honors classes, weekend freak.
You all are so fun!
I was a skateboard chic, all decked out in clothes brands from the skateboard companies. When I moved to Boise, from Napa at 15!! Half way through freshman year, it was the worst. I was a pottery loaner after that, they didn't even know what independent or element was in Boize at that time. :)
I was in band as were most of my friends. ALLLL of my male friends turned out to be gay. All of 'em. Not so much with the girls (yours truly excepted.) We were all in the same honors and AP classes too so I didn't have to mix much with the outside world. Class of '91 so 80s music it is! And the ultimate high school flick? Heathers!!!
Choir geek, but at our school many of the jocks were also in choir so we ended up being one big happy group.
I have no clue. I was this indie kid who only listened to the newest, most obscure music and dressed weirdly, I was in all AP classes, and I partied and drank like a fish with all the other party kids. I even spent some time with the God Squad when I was a freshman. We didn't work out.
Class of '87 4evah!
Definitely watch F&G, it's worth it.
Jsierra- I went to bible school for a year. I would pull up in my Tempo blasting my chemical romance and other emo rebel music. I didn't last long. They called me a devil child. :)
I'm with AuntLiddy. I belonged to no group, but knew people and circulated among them all. I have 7 younger siblings, and they were my "group".
I don't think I belonged to any group. I could interchange between groups. But in terms of academia, I was a nerd though and class president.
Can't get into F&G. Sorry -- do I have to resign my CDAN membership.
Arrested Development -- forever and always.
Class of 89! Geek forever.
"Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him." Ummm, I was a 'Soc' way back in the '70s.
I didn't belong anywhere. Family was poor an all the white people were bussed in from the wealthy neighborhoods.
Wanted to be a drama geek but the West Charlotte wrecking crew didn't accept me as a member. They all got to secretly vote and only the popular kids got to become members. Swore I would thank them when I won my Oscar!
If they had a category for "Voted Most Likely to Disappear and No One Would go Looking for Them" it would have been me.
Hated high school with a passion and have never attended a single reunion. Although on my 10th I couldn't have attended anyway because I was making a movie. Ha!
Never watched the show, but I was a jock and a geek.
I agree w/ Enty, although I didn't watch F&G til a few years ago after much insistance from a friend.
In HS (where popular = preppy), I didn't really identify with any one group ("The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads"), hung out with everyone and would float from group to group.
@JSierra, me too on the music. The day that changed my life, musically speaking was in 1976. I rode my bike a few miles to the record store and bought two albums: Ramones and Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, just based on a record review I had just read. Pedaled to a friend's house & we were flabbergasted that there were 14 songs on the 1st Ramones album. None longer than 2.5 minutes. WTF is this? Revolutionary in the mid 70's bloated rock band era. After that only the strangest most obscure rock would do. Sorry Eagles, sorry Fleetwood Mac.
Love Freaks and Geeks. Was just talking about it earlier in one of the blinds.
I was a Freak and every boy I dated was James Franco character to a T. I must have a type. Was re watching it about a month ago and still love it!
Jock.. I played sports but i was also the class clown who read comic books
Jock.. I played sports but i was also the class clown who read comic books
None of the groups in my high school would have me.
Co-sign! Arrested Development will forever be the greatest!
@lazyday:
"I called this number three times already..."
LOVE The Modern Lovers!
Co-sign! Arrested Development will forever be the greatest!
I would suppose I was a drama geek, which is squarely where I became friends with Freaks, Linda Cardellini, whom I will refer to as a drama princess because she was neither freak nor geek. She was the rare combination of wealthy, beautiful and total sweetheart. Drove us to the beach in her convertible bmw where we would run lines for shows. Dated the high school quarterback one of a set of the most handsome identical twins you've ever met (the quarterback's brother went on to be an actor in Hollywood, hasn't broken through but did do an arc on Nip Tuck a few years ago).
I was in my own group as I was a jock and I was in band and I was on yearbook. My group of friends were from all groups what we had in common was that we weren't drinkers. I had super cute boyfriends etc but yeah my group was mixed of all grades and we sat in our own "area" of the cafeteria.
I was a nomad. I was punk rock, a theatre geek and a political activist so I was associated with differnt crews. The drama crowd, the freaks, the militant activists, and of course the stoners.
I watched F & G a couple years ago, meh I didnt love it.
I'm having my 20th HS reunion this fall, which is kinda freaking me out. I was in band (sax) but the band teacher hated me b/c I never practiced or bothered learning the music. We did take cool trips though and were in the Macy's parade in 1991, my junior year.
@lazyday. luv me sum "Roadrunner"!
I was in my own group as I was a jock and I was in band and I was on yearbook. My group of friends were from all groups what we had in common was that we weren't drinkers. I had super cute boyfriends etc but yeah my group was mixed of all grades and we sat in our own "area" of the cafeteria.
I was in the dweeb category.
I was the top student, and a National Merit Scholar but a hippie feminist who refused to kiss faculty butt. So the faculty chose the intellectually challenged quarterback to be valedictorian.
I was a "wannabe". I would change my personality to try to get in with the popular kids. If they were drinking, I was drinking. If they were smoking, I was smoking. If a guy wanted...you know... there I was. By senior year, I was sick of trying to be someone I wasn't. I quit the pretend games and had some really nice friends from all groups.
I was an overachieving, honors/AP class taking, yearbook editor nerd/mean girl. Does that make sense? Probably not, but then again, you'd have to see the bubble in New Jersey where I come from.
College was SO MUCH better.
@HairyDog & @EmEyeKay - I still laugh at "There is an abominable snowman in the supermarket down by the peas and carrots" and "Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole".
You just know Jonathan Richman was heckled all the time in those days.
i was a annoying loud popular kid who hung out with the jocks... but bullying was NOT part of the deal, i hung out with everybody, stood up for everybody i loved our freeks and geeks
I've never watched Freaks and Geeks.
I was a freak in HS in NYC and then when I moved to Florida I was REALLY a freak. My high school was allll about the football team and the jocks.
I was a nobody, really just floated through high school. My only significant accomplishment was graduating and leaving that place.
I couldn't imagine a show better than Freaks & Geeks, it's perfect. I was sort of a freak, but I was morbidly shy and quiet and spent a lot of time alone. I stole a book of Shakespeare's plays from the school library (read everything and still have it), which pretty much sums up my high school behavior.
Nope, I never watched Freaks & Geeks when it was on but I’ve seen a few episodes on IFC. It’s cute but not earth shattering. I never watched Square Pegs, either. HS blew and I graduated early, but I had friends from different cliques and I DID have some fun while I was there.
I was WAY into the drama club, I wrote for the newspaper and I was a head banger. I was one of those girls on main floor at a concert that rushes the stage when their fave song is played and has to get tackled by security. Then I would wear my concert t-shirt the next day like a badge of honor “Hey, look at me! I saw Billy Squire 3 times!” By the time I graduated it was all about New Order, Depeche Mode and The Pet Shop Boys. Ugh. I was a hot mess.
I was a mostly-loner freak in the late '70s/early '80s. I hated HS.
I had friends in all groups and continue to be friends with many of them to this day.
Preppy all the way, still am. :-) I was born this way--I'm a writer.
Back in the late 70's: Definitely in the study-a-lot nerd group! - but we were a big group (in a big high school) - sort of it's own little eco-system, with part-time jocks, and drama geeks, and band geeks, etc., all thrown together. We dated and hooked up and partied with one another and generally had a normal high school experience within the context of our nerd-dom. I'm still friends with a lot of them.
In the 90s... I started high school as a geek, left as a freak.
Never watched Freaks and Geeks but it's reputation sure does live on.
Graduated in '78 - VERY defined clicks in my HS. Freshman year a couple of my girlfriends and I mostly just stuck together - we had gone to Catholic elementary school w/45 kids in our class and then were kind of out of place in a HS w/1600 kids. Sophmore and junior year, we were greaser chicks but those guys were older and they graduated before us. By senior year, we were kind of back on our own but with a bigger circle of friends, but ruled a certain corner of the cafeteria. Listened to all kinds of music from the Ramones (it was NY) to Lynard Skynard to disco!
Never watched the show, loved reading your snippets but made me glad we wear uniforms to school here. Expression was via hair, jewelry and make up or footwear.
I feel like I would've been friends with a lot of you...I was in the mix of a bunch of stuff, cheerleader, leadership, drama dork (what we called ourselves), AP classes and still managed to cut tons of class, smoke all kinds of pot and see every show that came to town cause we had killer fake id's....I had all the fun available in high school, class of 87, Holla!
Just make sure you get the business women's special :)
Same her @VIP, me and my bestie were in our own world but we were cool with others too
Graduated in '81 - we had Heads, band/drama geeks, jocks, the volups, and the artists/musicians... I was actually a floater thru out most of them. Friends with peeps from each group. Except for the volups - those beeatches were just too much for me to deal with. Oh and a lot of people were in more than one group - one of our most famous was Terry Serpico -(Army Wives etc) class of '82 he was a jock AND a drama geek. And like most everyone else who floated a really fun, cool guy.
LOL! :)
Good for you! Karma's a bitch!
That's outrageous. If that was determined by GPA, didn't you have any recourse?
Loved reading your posts! I was a smarty pants drama club president choir girl. I did track and sucked at it. Ironically my teenage daughter is a college athlete and big time smarty pants. Things must have changed since my day cuz athletes were popular in my day but she claims that her athletic talents didn't mean anything really in high school and she was considered an athletic nerd. But she ended up as Scholar Athlete of the year so yay for the nerds. :)
Never really fit in anywhere and always felt like a weirdo. Nerd and dorky, but captain of the dance team, dated the quarterback and other jocks. Everyone knew me, but I never quite fitted in with any of them. Have only one friend from school, and I have known her since I was 6.
I was in the retro hipster group but also had close buddies in the drama group, but I was also super tight with my bestie, and then at times also the loner walking around campus alone at lunch, trying to waste time. I liked doing my own thing, hate following.
This is sort of my story except I was debate & student council & a class fav for leadership turned party girl. Loved good weed weed and bad boys. Ha! Now I'm somewhat in between.
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