JEF: What are you, some sort of Green Hornet apologist?
PETE: "This is Mission Control, requesting permission to rock out!" Ken is hilarious. He's my favorite character by far. If I was most like Sam Weir freshman and sophomore year, Ken was my spiritual doppelganger when I was an upperclassman.
ABBY: My favorite line in this episode is when the Weir's parents try and get Lindsay to tell her brother what a beautiful body he has. Scenes like that make this show near perfection for me. You guys?
JEF: See, I never felt the dialogue ever really rose above awkward and stilted for me. I mean, I know it's high school and all, and awkward is the point, but I sort of expected better from the show after all the hype. I'd rather watch classic Degrassi myself.
ABBY: Jef, you'd rather watch Dagrassi than Freaks and Geeks? So many riddles have been unraveled.
PETE: Jef's got a thing for girls who say, "Aboot."
ABBY: Why is Nick so awkward when he plays drums? And in life?
JEF: He's. A. Drummer. Abby. Do you know what they call a drummer without a girlfriend? Homeless. You've got to divide them between the people that aspire to be Phil Collins and those who don't, then take the Phil Collins folks through therapy until they learn to be people.
PETE: I think Abby is referring to Nick's obvious lack of formal instruction, which came through pretty heavily in the Dimension audition. That scene is so painful in my memory that I fast forwarded it on rewatch. Poor dumb bastard.
ABBY: Lindsay does the one thing that all women do when they have no idea what else to do to make guys feel better, they give them some loving and then they deeply regret it for the rest of their lives. Is that so wrong?
JEF: Why would you regret making someone feel better? Sex is, ironically, like the word "fuck." It's got a lot of different meanings and interpretations. I don't think a girl should regret comforting someone physically. Or a guy either for that matter.
PETE: You know what the Butthole Surfers say about regret. Kidding aside, I think there's a valid point to be made about not wanting to deal with the aftermath of giving physical comfort to high school-aged boys, who usually still have the emotional maturity of howler monkeys.
Not that I'd know, of course. My high school was woefully lacking in "charitable" females.
Join us next week where we will watch a real classic The Twilight Zone, "And When the Sky Was Opened" (S1, Ep11). Remember, you can watch along with us as it is on Netflix and then make nasty comments about our obvious lack of attention to the plot.
