Beers and Weirs

Episode aired Oct 2, 1999
TV-14
45m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

Sarah Hagan, Natasha Melnick, and Stephen Lea Sheppard in Freaks and Geeks (1999)

Comedy Drama

When Mr. and Mrs. Weir go out of town for the weekend, Lindsay hosts a keg party. Sam, Bill, and Neal are worried that the party-goers will get too rowdy, so they substitute a keg of non-alc... Read allWhen Mr. and Mrs. Weir go out of town for the weekend, Lindsay hosts a keg party. Sam, Bill, and Neal are worried that the party-goers will get too rowdy, so they substitute a keg of non-alcoholic beer for the one the freaks have on ice.When Mr. and Mrs. Weir go out of town for the weekend, Lindsay hosts a keg party. Sam, Bill, and Neal are worried that the party-goers will get too rowdy, so they substitute a keg of non-alcoholic beer for the one the freaks have on ice.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Executive producer Paul Feig had originally planned to do a storyline based on the wrenching real-life process of integration that his high school went through. When NBC nixed this idea, a subplot where Neal and an African-American student compare their histories of suffering was written; the network gave it the okay.

Goofs
When Lindsay is in math class, the teacher has an equation for the Simple Power Rule and the equation is incorrect. The -1 should be in the exponent of x so that x is raised to the n-1 power.