# Which 'Freaks & Geeks' character do you most identify with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582 "2012-12-30T18:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/1 "2012-12-30T18:44:50Z")
Just got done watching ‘Freaks & Geeks’ on Netflix, and I gotta say I’m majorly disappointed…that it only lasted a season. Anyway, as I was watching it, I saw myself in three characters from three different times in my life: Bill (high school me), Nick (college me), Mr. Wier (current me). Amazing what a well-written show it was, and how real the characters were. So which one do (did) you most identify with? I’m posting a poll with a lot of options, so hang tight… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/2 "2012-12-30T21:02:58Z")
Probably Bill, though I’m not really a lot like any of them. He and Lindsay were my favorite characters. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/3 "2012-12-31T02:51:55Z")
I see bits of myself in all three geeks but if I had to pick one it would be Sam. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/4 "2012-12-31T02:55:44Z")
And I just realized I meant “\*Neal \*Schweiber” in the poll. The fact that Samm Levine played him confused my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/5 "2012-12-31T03:15:21Z")
Started HS as a solid Sam, but probably morphed into more of a Harris (once I got laid). Although I also wore a faded army jacket like Lindsey, so there was obviously an attempt to “play cool”. Probably should have voted for her too. Never would have skipped out on the scholars summit, or whatever it was called. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/6 "2012-12-31T18:27:03Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I see bits of myself in all three geeks but if I had to pick one it would be Sam. I had little bits of the other two geeks in me as well, but my physical awkwardness is what pushed me over the edge for Bill. Sam was a cute kid, and there’s no way anyone was accusing me of being cute. Neal was pretty self-assured, and I was most definitely not that either. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/7 "2012-12-31T19:36:04Z")
Watching the series for the first time today. I voted for the geek guru but maybe I was more like his his sidekick. The one that fought the bully with Bill and Neal. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/8 "2012-12-31T19:39:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I see bits of myself in all three geeks but if I had to pick one it would be Sam. Oops I followed the mistake in the OP and wrote Sam when I meant Neal. Specifically I would say I was shy around girls like the real Sam (Weir), physically awkward like Bill (but in more of a round way then gangly) but snarky and sarcastic to a fault like Neal so yeah, all three, but mostly Neal. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-freaks-geeks-character-do-you-most-identify-with/645582/9 "2012-12-31T19:57:08Z")
Definitely Lindsay. I grew up in a stable, loving home. We weren’t rich, but we weren’t poor. I shared Lindsay’s naivety that anyone could grow up to become whatever they wanted. I switched groups of friend around the same time and ditched a lovely devoutly Christian friend. The only difference was that I was a fat kid but apart from that, we shared a lot of the same experiences.