when in rome…
didn't the Olsen twins already do that one?

GEEKED
is Nathan's favorite word.

it's a good thing
AV Club pointed me to that website because it looks like a total scam. I never would have given them my email address otherwise.

wasn't that scene
stolen from Mr. Holland's Opus?

"A" for Self Esteem?
Amelie conveniently left out the part where Angela studies for the geometry test in the girls' bathroom with Assynia or Abysinia or whatever her name is… basically the black Angela. (She has an implied parallel boy situation, but she's pretending to be dumb to get with her Jordan.) This subplot is…

foreshadowing
Good catch! I never noticed that. Nice that the funny "Happy birthday, and maybe more" line works both to paint Rayanne's dad as distant and addled and to point to the overdose.

don't you mean "pharmaceuticals"?
…or am I missing a joke?

[[head explodes]]

gabe sachs and jeff judah
What are we to make of Freaks and Geeks producers (and Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars) being the creators?

Thanks for clearing that up, Guy, it's always bothered me. I feel bad hijacking this board, but until AVC covers F&G they're just asking for it.

It seems cruel now, but I can vividly remember how, at that age, missing whatever Daniel & Co. were doing to pass out candy with your mom would have seemed like absolute torture. Lindsey had to go, just like Jordan did. (Although, and this is getting really off-topic, wasn't it weird that Lindsey and her friends go…

under the bleachers
It seemed like Angela was aware of using Sharon's dad's heart attack to get closer to Jordan. Her crocodilish tears and dramatic "My friend's dad might die" sound kind of forced.

"we absolutely do not guarantee a spoiler-free site"
No shit, Keith! About 15 minutes ago in the archives you spoiled all of Twin Peaks for me in your recap of Episode 4. If you did that in my living room, I'd kick YOU out.

even though it's like the zit had become…
the TRUTH about Angela, I don't like this episode very much. It does a good job of revealing how women really feel about their bodies, but…

no one's still reading this thread…
but I'm behind and wanted to offer my two cents on Angela's ignorance of Brian's crush on her. I think it's right that she doesn't acknowledge it because she doesn't want it to be true. I think at the same time she recognizes that he likes her but classifies it as a less mature,…

(Female here.) I saw PDL a long time ago and was ambivalent about it, but I loved Before Sunrise (and, shamefully, Ethan Hawke) and Beautiful Girls (which, until now, I thought only I had seen!).

The thing about using a specific discipline (there's a more precise word for it that I can't think of right now) like feminism or Freudian analysis to interpret art is that you're bringing pre-established categories and projecting them onto the piece.

MGMT
I have to disagree with Sean and Josh about MGMT. Call me unsophisticated, but Oracular Spectacular is one of my most listened-to albums right now. I can and do play it all the way through frequently, and although "Time to Pretend" is an awesome song, it doesn't do it for me quite like "Electric Feel." ("Kids" is…