TV Hangover turned 7 years old today - that’s like 84 years old in blog years. Celebrate with us by watching TV & drinking!
Big thanks to everyone who came out to our Freaks and Geeks party last week and thanks to Videology for hosting us once again. We had a great/too drunk time and can't wait to do it again. The pictures will eventually be up on our Facebook (which is a great place to see about our future events--I guarantee you're going to love the next one we're planning) but until then, here's a copy of the drinking game rules that we used on Friday. They work best for the first two episodes (keg party!!!).
Drink whenever:
- Ÿ Sam Weir makes his Sam Weir face
- Ÿ The Weirs eat a meal together
- Ÿ Anyone gets bullied (drink twice if it’s by Kim Kelly)
- Ÿ Any band is mentioned
- Ÿ Bill Haverchuck drinks
- Ÿ Lindsay’s geek past is referenced (drink twice if they say mathletes)
- Ÿ Anyone says “keg,” “kegger,” “party,” or “beer”
- Ÿ Anyone says “freak” or “geek”
- Ÿ Any reference to Neal being Jewish
- Ÿ Sam says “Oh, hey Cindy”
- ŸYou get really sad that James Franco used to be Daniel Desario but now he’s just ugh, James Franco
Finish your drink:
- Ÿ Sam gets screwed over by the awesome part of “Come Sail Away”
- Ÿ Millie sings about Jesus
In case you were wondering, there are still tickets for you and your friends to come to our Freaks and Geeks party at Videology in Brooklyn on Friday night. Your $5 will get you into the back screening room for a viewing of two episodes with a drinking game and trivia in between. It will be fun! We promise! Plus you get to see our pretty faces and listen to us rap at you about things. If you don't get a ticket or just want to stop by for a drink, the Videology bar will be open all night. I promise there will be something for you even if you are allergic to peanuts, licorice, and nougat.
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Hey everyone! Just a reminder that our next TV Hangover event is coming up next Friday: a back-to-school Freaks and Geeks party. We're watching two episodes (and playing drinking games to deal with the angst), hosting trivia, and taking yearbook photos. The party is officially from 7:30-midnight at Brooklyn's Videology but we'll be drinking in the bar (and I'll probably be sharing really embarrassing high school stories) until the wee hours of the morning. There are still tickets available so be sure to gets yours before it sells out!
Also: feel free to leave any drinking game suggestions in the comments! And if you haven't brushed up on your Freaks and Geeks knowledge, the entire series is available on Netflix and A.V. Club is current revisiting the series for their classic TV Club.
Our last event at Videology was so much fun that we're already doing another one! On August 23rd, we're going to drink away those back-to-school blues while celebrating what is arguably the best series ever created about high school: Freaks and Geeks. It's a fantastic show that's equally hilarious and heartbreaking. Plus it has a flawless cast and a killer soundtrack that we can't wait to dance to. We'll be screening the pilot along with a surprise episode (and we'll obviously make up a drinking game for them), hosting trivia once again (better brush up on your guest stars!), and doing some other fun things like taking yearbook portraits to honor that amazing title sequence.
To make things a little less hectic this time around, we're selling tickets in advance. It's only $5 and seats are limited so grab yours soon!
August 23rd, 7:30-midnight Videology 308 Bedford Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
The best news you'll read all day: Freaks & Geeks, which is one of our personal favorite shows to rewatch every fall, and also probably the most perfect and important television show ever made about being a teenager is now streaming on Netflix Instant! Whatever plans you made for this weekend pale in comparison to marathon watching these eighteen episodes while lying in your bed.
"I was talking with a TV critic when the show was on the air. We were discussing the episode 'I’m With the Band' -- this is when the Nick character auditions as a group’s drummer. Nick is terrible and embarrasses himself in front of Lindsay, the girl he wants to impress. And the critic said to me, 'When Nick walked into that audition, I had to leave the room. I knew everything was going to go wrong, and I couldn’t deal with it.'
I remember when the movie Independence Day was coming out. I was sitting in a theater, and the preview for that movie came on. And it showed a huge spaceship blowing up the White House. I remember thinking, Well, this is going to be the biggest movie ever. It hit the pleasure center of the audience’s brains. The problem with Freaks and Geeks was that it didn’t hit that pleasure center. It played in the pain center." - Paul Feig
"What's great about the geek spirit is that all of life's obstacles never seem to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. If the world knocks us down, we just get up (albeit slowly sometimes), brush ourselves off, regroup and try again. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the next day. And from this we grow and understand how the world works and eventually figure out how to find our place and our happiness. And even then, we never stop trying to make it all better. And that, my friends, is the Freaks and Geeks way." - Paul Feig, creator.
It's October and the weather on the East Coast is finally catching up. It's a great month for hooded sweatshirts and reliable boots, for having fun outdoors without shivering or sweating excessively, and for enjoying the time before winter creeps up on you. But sometimes October is that month when you're suddenly behind in your schoolwork, when you're panicking about the SAT, and applying to colleges. October is when the end of your six-month deferment is nearing and you have to start paying off your student loan. It's when you decide to start looking into graduate schools and when you're working your first post-collegiate job and feeling nostalgic for dorm rooms and weekday drinking. It's when you start feeling overwhelmed because life is kicking your ass and you're exhausted and for some reason there are always wet leaves on your kitchen floor. In short? It's a good time to slow down, watch every episode of Freaks and Geeks again, and remind yourself that if Sam can catch that dodgeball at least once, then so can you.