When it's too hot to do anything else...
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Because it’s been so hot Ciaran and I have been doing very little the past couple nights, which is not so good because we’re moving in two weeks. Instead of packing we’ve been watching a lot of TV, namely Freaks and Geeks.
The genius of Paul Feig, Freaks and Geeks follows the teenage lives of Lindsay and Sam Weir as they grow up in Michigan, 1980. This show is painfully indicative of the awkward moments of high school (spin the bottle, ill-practiced garage bands, etc.) but it isn’t preachy like Degrassi. There are so many great characters— my favorite is a three-way toss-up between Bill (goofy), Nick (awkward) and Sam (adorable)— as well as actors who play the great characters (Joe Flaherty of SCTV, Tomas F. Wilson a.k.a. Biff from Back to the Future). Plus there are so many classic comic references to Caddyshack, Steve Martin, Gary Shandling, Bill Murrary— who Bill Haverchuck pushes up his glasses to and proclaims is, “The funniest man on the planet.”
If you haven’t seen this show, I highly recommend it as your summer TV homework.
3 Comments:
bill in 'knocked up'!
http://images.boxofficemojo.com/img/k/knockedup/35_2342_D021_00330.jpg_cmyk.jpg
i admit, this blows my mind.
I know! t's crazy. I saw that movie, it was pretty good.
p.s. have I ever told you how much I love how you post links in these comments? It makes me feel like a nat-u-ral wo-man!
Lots of love for Daniel too, especially at the end when he's playing dungeons and dragons.
Ciaran just got Undeclared, we're going to start watching it tonight. I'm sad it's not as good, but we'll see. Anything is better than packing right now.