Premise
the indicate centered in a teenage girl, Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini) and her brother Sam (John Francis Daley), both attending McKinley High School during the 1980-1981 school year in the town of Chippewa, Michigan. ( A town belike had its title from either Chippewa Valley High School located in Clinton Charter Township, Michigan. Paul Feig graduated from either a school inside 1980.)

Their friends, severally, constituted a freaks (James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Busy Philipps) and geeks (Samm Levine and Martin Starr) of the title. Joe Flaherty and Becky Ann Baker played the sib' parents, Harold & Jean Weir, & Sarah Hagan played Lindsay's geeky, highly religious right friend, Millie Kentner, within the revenant role.

A indicate's starting point was precisely Lindsay's transition from either her life when a easily-doing student & proper lass, sustaining Millie when her right friend, into a freak class action, as her granny's demise makes her reconsider her approach to life. a consequent relationships when she became a a share of it & the development of the already existent ones, along by using Sam & his friends' visitation when geeks, delineated a indicate's central plot.

DVD and CD releases
Around early 2004, a hexad-DVD Freaks and Geeks box set was released. The favorite "deluxe edition" placed including deuce extra discs is as well available through the official internet site for the indicate. Fans world health organizatiinside had signed an on a internet petition for a indicate on DVD got priority in purchasing the favorite placed. The CD soundtrack was also freed within 2004.

Undeclared
Within 2001, several of the actors featured within Freaks & Geeks appeared around the freshly Judd Apatow college "dramedy" called Undeclared, airing on the FOX Network. Despite garnering the cult charted, that indicate was as well canceled short in the period of its number 1 year.