Although I would count some of the darker episodes of 'F&G' — "The Garage Door," "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," "Noshing and Moshing," "Chokin' and Tokin'," "Kim Kelly is My Friend" — among my favorites, I wonder if that 2nd season would've been too much of a downer even for me…

Same here — 9th-grade English, no less! (We were studying the play at the time.)

I've lost count of how many times I've seen the series — I watched the initial NBC run (including the last three episodes burned off in one night in July of '00), as well as the whole Fox Family Channel run at least once, the DVD at least a couple of times (I received the Standard Edition 6-disc set for Christmas in…

Well put.

I think it was fitting for Daniel to end up hanging out with the Geeks — they're probably the only people in school who would still look up to somebody like him. (And I agree, his conversation with Harris was perfect foreshadowing of this.) Once he gets out of high school, people aren't going to see him as the cool…

Agreed. Granted, the writers knew the show was on its way out by then, but I think it was both more realistic and more dramatically satisfying this way, with just the two episodes. More true to the characters, too; Sam may have spent all season crushing on Cindy, but I don't think he would be the type to hide his…

I can kinda see where Neal is coming from, even in light of his dad's infidelity — he probably thinks that Sam would be less tempted to stray later on if he gets the "perfect" girl to begin with.

Excellent, excellent film — I first got to see it on the big screen at a second-run theater, and I own it on video.