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List Of Freaks And Geeks Characters
The following is a list of characters from the television series ''Freaks and Geeks.'' Weirs Lindsay Weir Lindsay Weir—played by Linda Cardellini— is the elder of the two Weir siblings and the protagonist of the series. As a child, Lindsay was close friends with Millie Kentner. Early in her scholastic career at McKinley High School, she would be recognized as a bright and thoughtful student, as well as a brilliant member of the Mathletes. However, when her grandmother dies, she begins to question religion (she became an atheist after her grandmother, who was the most decent and good person she knew, said she saw "nothing" right before her death), social structure and the general direction of her life. She begins hanging out with a gang of less academically minded friends (known commonly as "burnouts" or "freaks") which worries both her family and her old friends, Millie in particular. She starts out being very deferential to the freaks and ignoring their rudeness towa ...
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Freaks And Geeks
''Freaks and Geeks'' is an American teen comedy-drama television series created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Judd Apatow that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season. The show is set in a suburban high school near Detroit during 1980–81. The theme of ''Freaks and Geeks'' reflects "the sad, hilarious unfairness of teen life". With little success when it first aired, due to an erratic episode schedule and conflicts between the creators and NBC, the series was canceled after airing 12 out of the 18 episodes. The series became a cult classic, and Judd Apatow continued the show's legacy by incorporating the actors in future productions. The series has appeared in numerous lists of the greatest television shows of all time, including lists by ''Time'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''TV Guide'' and ''Rolling Stone''. It launched several of its young actors' careers, such as James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, ...
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Jason Segel
Jason Jordan Segel ( ; born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'', as well as for his work with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series ''Freaks and Geeks'' and ''Undeclared'', and for the critically successful comedies in which he has starred, written, and produced. Segel has starred in several films, including ''Knocked Up'' (2007), ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' (2008), ''I Love You, Man'' (2009), ''Despicable Me'' (2010), ''Bad Teacher'' (2011), ''Jeff, Who Lives at Home'' (2011), ''The Muppets'' (2011), ''The Five-Year Engagement'' (2012), ''This Is 40'' (2012), ''Sex Tape'' (2014), '' The Discovery'' (2017), and ''Our Friend'' (2019). His performance as the late author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film ''The End of the Tour'' was met with critical acclaim, earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Bes ...
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Jerry Messing
Jerome Edward Trager "Jerry" Messing is an American actor. He is known for a recurring role in the TV program ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999-2000). Career Messing played Pugsley Addams in the 1998 film ''Addams Family Reunion'', and had a reoccurring role on the short-lived cult NBC dramedy ''Freaks and Geeks'' as Gordon Crisp, an optimistic geek with trimethylaminuria. He also appeared in five episodes of ''Even Stevens'' and two episodes of ''Mr. Show with Bob and David''. Messing has not appeared in an acting role since 2003. In 2011, Messing appeared in a music video for artist Viennie V, playing a contestant on a dating show. As of 2019, the video has over 770,000 views. "Fedora Guy" Meme On October 31, 2013, a picture of Messing appeared on Reddit. The photo features Messing wearing a trilby and grinning at the camera. After being widely disseminated online, Messing was labeled "Fedora Guy" and the picture became synonymous with " neckbeard" and "nice guy" stereotypes, as ...
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Religious
Religion is usually defined as a social system, social-cultural system of designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morality, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sacred site, sanctified places, prophecy, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or religious organization, organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendence (religion), transcendental, and spirituality, spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the Divinity, divine, Sacred, sacred things, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, ...
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Sarah Hagan
Sarah Margaret Hagan (born May 24, 1984) is an American television and film actress. Life and career Hagan was born in Austin, Texas. She has been acting since the age of six, when her mother first signed her up for musical theater. Hagan was first involved with theater companies such as Houston's Playhouse 1960, the Houston Grand Opera (where she sang in the children's chorus), the Crighton Playhouse, the Houston Music Hall and the Bitter Truth Theater. From there, she made her screen debut in the 1997 feature film ''Faith'', where she played the title character at age 13; her TV debut came on an episode of the Calista Flockhart series '' Ally McBeal'' in 1999. Hagan's first major break came when she was cast in a recurring role as Millie Kentner on the short-lived NBC cult TV series ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999–2000). Following that show's cancellation, she was cast on the David Alan Grier NBC sitcom '' DAG'', where she was originally slated to play Camilla Whitman, daughter o ...
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Cheerleader
Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to entertain the audience, or for competition. Cheerleading routines typically range anywhere from one to three minutes, and contain components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting. Modern cheerleading is very closely associated with American football and basketball. Sports such as association football (soccer), ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling will sometimes sponsor cheerleading squads. The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders. The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have a cheerleading team. Cheerleading originated as an all-male activity in the United States, and remains predominantly in America, with an esti ...
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Natasha Melnick
Natasha Melnick (born April 10, 1984) is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Cindy Sanders on the short-lived 1999 NBC comedy drama ''Freaks and Geeks''. Career Melnick was born in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from San Fernando High School in the San Fernando Valley, and enrolled in college at age fifteen in the fall of 1999. Her first film appearance was in Disney's ''The Parent Trap (1998 film), The Parent Trap''. She also appeared in ''Go (1999 film), Go'' and ''Orange County (film), Orange County'', in addition to recurring roles on ''Boston Public'' and ''Do Over''. Melnick appeared as a reoccurring character in ''Freaks and Geeks'' as cheerleader Cindy Sanders, whom central character Sam Weir (John Francis Daley) had a longtime crush on. In 2000, Melnick and the rest of the ''Freaks and Geeks'' cast were nominated for the YoungStar Award for Best Ensemble Cast, though the award ultimately went to ''Malcolm in the Middle''. In 2001 ...
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Samm Levine
Samuel Franklin Levine (born March 12, 1982) is an American actor, comedian and podcaster. He is known for his portrayal of Neal Schweiber on NBC's ''Freaks and Geeks'' and PFC Hirschberg in the 2009 film ''Inglourious Basterds''. Levine was also the sidekick and fill-in host on the internet talk show ''Kevin Pollak's Chat Show''. Levine was a regular competitor on Collider's ''Movie Trivia Schmoedown''. He returned to the Schmoedown in 2019 and was the manager of The Usual Suspects faction until he disbanded them before the start of the 2022 season. He returned to the Schmoedown as a competitor for the 2022 season, defeating Marisol McKee for the singles championship. Early life Levine was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, the son of Lynne, a mortgage broker, and Harris Levine, a dentist. He was raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Levine is Jewish. Career Levine began performing stand-up comedy at bar mitzvahs at age 12. After having seen him perform, Lisa Kudrow advised him that he ...
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Dallas (1978 TV Series)
''Dallas'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. The series revolves around an affluent and feuding Texas family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil and the cattle-ranching land of Southfork. The series originally focused on the marriage of Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes, whose families were sworn enemies. As the series progressed, Bobby's elder brother, oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, became the show's breakout character, whose schemes and dirty business became the show's trademark. When the show ended on May 3, 1991, J.R. was the only character to have appeared in every episode. The show was prominent for its cliffhangers, including the " Who shot J.R.?" mystery. The 1980 episode " Who Done It" remains the second-highest-rated prime-time telecast ever. The show also featured a "Dream Season", in which the entirety of season 9 was revealed to have been a dream of Pamela Ewing. After 14 seasons, ...
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Martin Starr
Martin James Pflieger Schienle (born July 30, 1982), professionally known as Martin Starr, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for the television roles of Bill Haverchuck on the short-lived comedy drama ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999–2000), Roman DeBeers on the comedy series ''Party Down'' (2009–2010), Bertram Gilfoyle on the HBO series ''Silicon Valley'' (2014–2019), for his film roles in ''Knocked Up'' (2007) and ''Adventureland'' (2009), and as Roger Harrington in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films ''The Incredible Hulk'' (2008), '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'' (2017), '' Spider-Man: Far From Home'' (2019), and '' Spider-Man: No Way Home'' (2021). Personal life Starr was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actress Jean St. James (née Pflieger). He is of German, British, and Eastern European descent. He is a Buddhist. In an interview with ''Wired'', Starr said that he felt "frustrated and depressed" at 22 due to lack of offers in the years after ''Frea ...
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Busy Philipps
Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999–2000), ''Dawson's Creek'' (2001–2003), ''Love, Inc.'' (2005–2006) and '' ER'' (2006–2007), for her abortion access advocacy, and for her portrayal of Laurie Keller on the ABC series ''Cougar Town'' (2009–2015), for which she received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also appeared in supporting roles in numerous films, such as '' The Smokers'' (2000), ''Home Room'' (2002), ''White Chicks'' (2004), ''Made of Honor'' (2008), '' He's Just Not That Into You'' (2009), '' The Gift'' (2015), and ''I Feel Pretty'' (2018). From 2018 to 2019, Philipps hosted her own television talk show ''Busy Tonight'', on E!. She currently stars in the Peacock original series ''Girls5eva''. Childhood Philipps was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She received th ...
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Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state geographically located within the tropics. Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning that are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. The state's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii—the last of these, after which the state is named, is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the United States' largest protected ...
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