the show creative team seem to have an eye for the high school experience and their vision transcend the setting . freak and geek be set at a michigan high school in 1980 and the opening shot of the series set u up for who the show will be about . we track across a football practice and up to the bleacher where a player and cheerleader be discuss how they love each other so much and it scary . we linger briefly on this generic moment before move underneath the bleacher to real life and a conversation about molly hatchet and lead zeppelin . these be the freak . then come the geek . they be three boy quote caddyshack and be bully for it and and then save by a girl . it through these freak and these geek that we will relive the high school experience . sure the name of the group change and their lingo and the band they listen to and but everyone can relate to the horror and beauty of high school and the relationship that reside there . so many characterization about this period of life be present through the eye of character that virtually no one be . the character be either too smart and quote kierkegaard at fourteen and make their own label worthy clothing and or they be perfect and a if everyone capable of make the game win shot . our story here be present through the life of lindsey and sam weir . lindsey be the old . she a former mathlete and that girl in english who get an a. however and dissatisfaction with her life and an attraction to the easygoing way of daniel desario and the head freak and lead her to a new group of friend and a shift in direction . her success a a student and the perception of her a a perfect daughter have leave her feeling empty . so she trade her plaid dress for her dad old army jacket and forsake the library for the smoking patio . but lindsey be not simply a story of teenage rebellion . her be a journey into the genuine a she find a home in the murky adventure of friendship and a real life live . sam and his friend and bill and neal and be freshman and learn from the outset that high school suck . but their story be not simply the ninth grade torture chamber they could have be . no and sam and bill and and neal be redeem by their acynical and wide eyed approach to life and their affection for one another . this care they have for one another be refresh and truthful . in one episode ( the garage door ) and sam suspect that neal dad be be unfaithful in his marriage . bill remind sam that he have to tell neal what he saw . there be no secret . remember that time in science class when i try to sneak out a fart and it come out a poop . do you think i want to tell you that . their innocence isn not simply an extension of their naivete and ( well and bill be a little naïve ) but flow more from their trust in one another and willingness to be faithful . in smooch and mooch and neal and bill discuss strategy for spin the bottle at an upcoming make out party . bill ask and what if they do not wan na kiss u . neal reply and that the genius part of the game . they have to . i do not know . i just do not want to see the expression on their face when they see that the bottle land on me and say bill and gently . the geek be not understated and and yet never over the top . they get their friendship just right . freak and geek also give u two of the great television characterization that i have ever see and bill and play by martin starr and and nick and play by jason seigel . bill be the anti eddie haskel . he brim with authenticity and his laid back way provide some of the show great comedic moment . in girlfriend and boyfriend and bill get to be study partner with cindy sander and one of the cut girl in school and sam big crush . at a study session and her get up from a chair be accompany by a noise that either come from her or from the vinyl seat cover . when she leave the room he immediately switch chair and scootches around on it to see if indeed the sound come from cindy or the vinyl . ( it wasn not the vinyl ) nick isn not quite so self assure . if he be wide eyed and it because he star into headlight . in fact and there be time when he come off a manipulative and creepy and yet there be a sadness in his character that i haven not quite see before . he be afraid . in i be with the band lindsey encourage him to try out for a local band and fulfill his dream of be a rock n roll drummer only to find that his skill do not quite match his passion for the music . in disco and dragon he finally find something he good at and disco and and yet it reveal to the viewer that the disco will close within a week time . he the friend that have to be take care of . ( ken smash nick guitar so that he would not sing an embarrassing love ode to lindsey . ) yet he want to be the spirit of the group . ( laser floyd be play at the laser dome . ) but nick isn not simply sad because bad thing happen to him . he want to be a deep thinker and but can not scratch the surface of thing and conventional mode of find your way seem only to backfire . he have glimpse his place in the world and and he can not bear it .