It is a bit confusing, to be talking about the "Freaks" from Freaks and Geeks and think of them as losers. Yes, Seth Rogen and James Franco are going twenty years playing stoned out losers, but they play characters, the persons are actually well paid actors, Seth Rogen has addressed Congress, James Franco has earned degrees and teaches classes at NYU, UCLA, and other universities. Even the other two freaks Busy Phillips, and Jason Segel have about become household familiar faces, as they have both done plenty of TV shows and movies, Busy was on Cougartown and Jason did Forgetting Sarah Marshall, with Mila Kunis.
Anyway, the point is on the show, the counselors and even the teachers are fierce in pointing out the "freaks" as losers and a waste of time. In one episode the math teacher, who is a hard-ass, tells Lindsey that yeah he has cute bedroom eyes and his curly hair makes all the girls swoon, but don't kid yourself, that boy is going nowhere and if you keep wasting your time with them, you will end up in the same boat. This only serves to piss her off more, so what does she do? Go and prove him right by helping the pretty stoner cheat. She ends up painting herself into a very uncomfortable corner, but alas, she is saved by a counselor who tries way too hard and her parents.
I was kind of taught that we all have a chance to make something of ourselves. I add to that fact that it may not be through academics. There are many ways to find success in this world, but none of them come if your goal is to be a lazy F**k. That is what we see from this little gang. They don't like going to school, they want to say everything is boring, meanwhile, all they do is stand against the wall taking up oxygen. If these kids were real, they would be looking for a way to get high since life has already started shitting on them. We don't really see that, but who would play hooky to just sit in a car doing nothing? I remember playing hooky once or twice, but it was in the quest of the mighty beaver. That was such a distraction, back in the day, nowadays, I could barely care who sits next to me.
I guess my point is, should we just turn our backs on the "freaks"? Do we deem them undesirable as soon as junior high, or do we wait until they graduate high school? Let them hang their own noose and hang themselves? As a grown up, it is easier to see the shitty kids, and it may not be their own faults, but if they risk slowing down the few good ones, do we shame them into hiding? One of the freaks had a father in the military, and he was insistent on sending him off, to make a man out of him. Should we be doing this with more of today's youth? In the show, Lindsey, the main girl, was trying to "save" him by maybe having him tryout with a real rock band, only for him to find that he has not put in the time and discipline to play good. In his head, he is a music god, but in the real world, not so much. I laughed as the cameras faded in that episode, Lindsey is stuck listening to a drummer who thinks he is good, but can't keep time. That should be her hell, for interfering in what his dad's good intentions for his idiot son were.
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