"trying different personalities?" is schizophrenic a better definition? She's a middle class kid who is just "slumming it" until she goes to some big college while Daniel, Kim and Ken live their crappy lives in Michigan.

Well, one of the problems with this show, especially in the second half, is the continuity from episode to episode. Being a mascot is a fairly big plot line for Sam in this episode and then it's never talked about again or even resolved. I guess he quits?

I don't think it was anything that that deep. I think it was just a lack of familiarity with those subcultures by Feig. And Feig never gets the Freak subculture quite right either. The Geek stories were the best and the strongest in the series. Feig knew the geek subculture because he was one and he nails it spot on.

Again that's her prerogative and she's entitled to it. But if she doesn't want to date Nick because of pot use and then she jumps into that Dead Head van to tour with the Dead for 3 weeks, then she comes across as a big hypocrite.

That's her prerogative if she's against people and her boyfriend smoking pot but then don't lie to your parents and jump into a dead head van following the Dead on tour for 3 weeks. You do that you come across as a major hypocrite.

How old are you guys? Did you ever go to a Grateful Dead show? What do you think people did? Chew bubble gum?

Lindsay also comes off as a bit of hypocrite in this episode after you watch the ending. In the end she lies to her parents and goes with the dead heads to tour with the Grateful Dead. Yet in this episode and several other episodes she continues to site Nick's marijuana use as a reason for the break-up.

I never liked this episode that much because it had too many story lines going on at the same time and some were rather silly and out of place. I thought the production values were rather cheap and amateurish. I've often felt the show started going off line at this point and rest of the episodes are rather hit or miss…

I don't think it was intentional, it seems like the original intention was to have Seth Rogen be a bigger part of the series from the beginning by his inclusion in the opening credits. He's pretty visible in the first two episodes, Overall though, he's basically missing from 1/2 of the first 10 episodes. Actually…

There's a scene with Kim and Lindsay in the bathroom talking about Nick and Kim is telling Lindsay he's a great guy etc.

Bill: You wanna watch t.v…..Welcome Back Kotter is on? He, He, He.
Cindy: Are you O.K.???
Bill: That's Horshack from the show. 
Cindy: Oh…well I've never really seen it before.
Bill: WHAT!!??

Where's Ken?? This is episode 8 and this is third episode where he's absent and he was barely in episode 3.

Here's a great one:

And another huge loss was Buck Houghton's production values in seasons 4 and especially season 5. Season 5 comes off rather cheap to me, smaller casts, cheaper production values, smaller sets etc. Houghton IMO is the most underrated participate in the TZ series. He was able to secure the rights to the old MGM backlot…

I remember being kind of shocked that the first season didn't have the classic TZ theme? That wouldn't appear until season 2. How many iconic t.v. themes are absent from a series' first season??

Yeah, Season 5 has 4-5 episodes that are among the best of the series but it also has about 15-20 episodes that are among the worst of the series.

Thomas,

Josey, Yeah, I'm kind of surprised it's so relatively unknown even by fans of the series.

Yeah it's the one with Steve Forrest who is an astronaut on a mission orbiting the Earth. They lose contact with him for about 15 minutes while he's in space.

No question, "Death Ship" is one of the best of the series.