Freaks and Geeks
The Little Things
TV Flash files “The Little Things” as a desk essential hour — Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) on NBC, season 1, episode 14, aired 2000-07-08, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E14: listed hour 14 of 18 in the Freaks and Geeks guide, hour 14 of 18 in season 1. It aired 2000-07-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Smooching and Mooching” (S01E13). Next is “Discos and Dragons” (S01E15).
Essential hour: “The Little Things”. The Little Things: canceled-before-America-caught-up craft — small humiliations treated as the actual season, not filler.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As McKinley High prepares for a visit from Vice President Bush, Ken and Sam must sort out conflicted feelings in their love lives.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Little Things sit in the Freaks and Geeks guide?
S01E14 is listed hour 14 of 18 — hour 14 of 18 in season 1, season 1 episode 14.
When did Freaks and Geeks S01E14 air?
The Little Things aired 2000-07-08 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How much of it is there?
One season, 18 episodes. There is nothing to skip and no later recast — the cult is the complete run.
In the series
Why this series still plays
1980–81 Michigan high school, 1999 soul: Lindsay drifts toward the burnouts while Sam survives freshman year. Paul Feig and producer Judd Apatow chose authenticity over punch-up and cast a murderers' row of future stars. Eighteen episodes, canceled before America caught up, permanent rewatch loyalty. The perfect short-run cult classic.
NBC, 1999–2000, one season, eighteen episodes, and then the network did what networks do when tone loses the overnight. Brainy Lindsay Weir drifts toward the burnouts while her geeky brother Sam survives freshman year in early-1980s suburban Michigan. Paul Feig, with Judd Apatow among key producers, chose authenticity over punch-up and cast a murderers' row of future stars who felt like people, not sitcom types. Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps. Set in the…
Filed against
- Linda Cardellini as Lindsay Weir
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- John Francis Daley as Sam Weir
John Francis Daley’s Sam Weir survived Freaks and Geeks’ freshman year like a documentary of embarrassment — 1990s catalog authenticity, then Bones stretching the kid into a lab’s socially blunt orbit. TV Flash files him as the geek who…
- James Franco as Daniel Desario
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- Seth Rogen as Ken Miller
Seth Rogen’s Ken Miller made Freaks and Geeks’ burnout table feel like a real lunch period — 1990s catalog authenticity, then The Studio and Pam & Tommy stretching the chuckle into Hollywood roast and nineties tabloid grimace. TV Flash…
- Jason Segel as Nick Andopolis
Jason Segel’s Nick Andopolis made Freaks and Geeks’ 1990s catalog high school feel like a mixtape with a pulse — the burnout drummer, authenticity over punch-up. How I Met Your Mother and Shrinking stretched the same ache into multi-cam…
- Busy Philipps as Kim Kelly
Busy Philipps’s Audrey Liddell needled Dawson’s Creek like a Capeside grenade — 1990s catalog WB seminar-talk, then Freaks and Geeks’ Kim Kelly proving the same voltage could do a real lunch period. TV Flash files her as the friend who…