One of my pet peeves about this series is that the Geeks have so many classes together. I counted Lunch, Gym, English and now Biology. In many ways this makes their lives so much easier to handle. In real life you seldom have so many classes together with your best friends.

Yeah, you're right "Rosalinda's Eyes" is from 52nd st. It's one of my favorite Billy Joel songs which you never hear on the radio or on t.v. I remember I bought the cassette of 52nd st. and for whatever reason was obsessed with it for 2 month of my junior year in high school. It was about 5 years after it's release,…

One of the things that was so rare about this show was showing embarrassing and painful moments of adolescence that feel completely honest. Some of these are virtually unwatchable, it's like watching a small animal getting tortured. Usually in teen t.v. shows or movies these embarrassments are much more mild and they…

Where's Ken? I forgot how relatively minor Seth Rogen' character is during the first 1-8 episodes to the point where he's barely in episode 3 and not even in episodes 4-5.

There's a goof in the story as the boys are in the cafeteria and Neil says, "Did you watch Dukes of Hazzard last night?" Dukes of Hazzard was on Friday nights so his comment would make it Saturday  which makes no sense because they're in school.

It's interesting that Todd uses the somewhat pejorative term "lower class" rather than "working class."

I've often wondered how people who watched this originally explained Kim Kelly and Lyndsy's relationship? Episode 4 explains this transition so it must have been very odd on initial viewing watching episodes 3 then 5. Also, NBC just totally screwed up this show which is so sad.

Interesting anachronism in this episode as the Weirs in November of 1980 watch the primetime Jack Soo "Barney Miller" episode. Soo had died almost 2 years before. The episode shown, "Hash" was from season 3 in December 1976.

This show was never that great at accurately depicting Michigan in 1980-81 so I take most of the inconsistencies with a grain of salt. For one thing it looks like California in September for most of the series. I mean this is supposed to be November in Michigan and it's sunny and all the leaves are on the trees.

Dude, you're way too hard on yourself. I don't know your age or your situation or how long ago this happened. For one thing you should have looked at asking her out as an extremely brave thing do. That took a lot of guts to do. I never would have had the guts to do something like that back in high school.

We didn't have a swim team. I know some of the surrounding schools that were larger had swim, hockey, fencing, volleyball and bowling teams. There seemed to be a lot less sports available to kids back in early 80's. It seems like every high school now offers tons of sports.

That brings back memories, I'm born in 1966 so I'm the same age as Sam and the geeks. I'm from N.J. and the age was 18 when I was a freshman and then I think it went up to 19 when I was a sophomore and 21 by the time I was a senior. I remember N.Y. was 18-19 for a long time so many intrepid kids would drive across the…

Just a preface, I was the same age as the geeks in this show (started high school in 1980)  and it brought back a lot of memories of those stupid high school cliques.

This was one of my favorite episodes because of the story and the use of Rosalinda's eyes by Billy Joel. I think they also use about 3 songs from Glass Houses which was a big hit when I was a freshman just like Sam and the boys. It's also a very bittersweet episode with Maureen at the end.

Just a preface, I was the same age as the geeks in this show.

LOL! I sort of forgot that the show was on for something like 10 seasons. I was watching an episode from season 8 or 9 and it was so bizarre. Mary Ellen was wearing those Sergio Valente jeans with the feathered hair and a late 1970's disco blouse with 2-3 buttons unfastened. Then she was talking to this guy with…

LOL! I sort of forgot that the show was on for something like 10 seasons. I was watching an episode from season 8 or 9 and it was so bizarre. Mary Ellen was wearing those Sergio Valente jeans with the feathered hair and a late 1970's disco blouse with 2-3 buttons unfastened. Then she was talking to this guy with…

That's a silly reply, this is 1962 in an elite prep school in the northeast.

This episode is very popular among TZ fans but I've always had trouble with it. I think part of it is the pro-war message and the point that this man need the deaths of these boys as a form of external validation. Whenever I watch this episode I'm reminded of "All Quiet On the Western Front" where Paul goes back to…

One of my main problems with "The Trade-Ins" is the whole notion that people can't get a line of credit to have the procedure? The salesman says something about "government laws" forbidding that practice. That just seems a rather silly and arbitrary rule and makes no sense. The man will have a young new body and like…