The media portrays teens on TV shows as rebellious, sex-crazed, and unreasonable. Freaks and Geeks, created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig and Judd Apatow, is a one-hour television show that aired on NBC from 1999 to 2000. The show centers on brothers, Sam and Lindsay Weir, and their friends while they all attend McKinley High School. Freaks and Geeks is a show that portrays teenagers in a different way than the media because of the lessons the characters have to learn, the choices they choose to make, and the struggles they have to endure. Many teenagers have to learn many things from the events in their lives. Freaks and Geeks shows characters adapting to changes in their lives and learning to adapt to them. Neal Schweiber, a freshman at McKinley High School and Sam Weir's friend in episode 12, discovers that his father is having an affair with his mother. He reacts to this situation by lashing out at his friends and other family members. Neal finally comes to terms with the fact that his father betrays him and adjusts to life. This shows the changes in Neal's family life and he learns to adapt to it. Become a mature adult and learn life's lessons. This lesson is about people, like his father, who have a midlife crisis and have tried many things to avoid it. Another example is Sam Weir, in episode 17, breaking up with his longtime crush, Cindy Sanders. Sam discovers that Cindy is actually very superficial and boring and that's not what he's looking for. This moves away from the stereotype that the popular person always leaves the less popular person and people always think that the teenager always had true love in high school. Sam in particular learns... halfway through the paper... the struggle to not be a failure in life. He holds out until he finally succeeds in Dungeon & Dragons. This probably gave him motivation from what he probably didn't receive in his childhood. Success in a teenage life is something that gives the desire to achieve it again. Freaks and Geeks offers a fresh and realistic depiction of adolescence in a nice package of a TV show. It moves away from the media stereotype of the teenager by showing teenage life in a new light. It reveals the lessons many teenagers must learn to become mature adults, the choices they must make that will affect their lives to a greater or lesser extent, and the difficulties many have faced that have led them to make rash decisions or get lost in what they they wanted. Do. Freaks and Geeks is a show that I recommend to many who are fed up with the stereotypical media shows broadcast on television.