Comparison Of Geeks And Gilmore Girls

When comparing and contrasting the two television shows, Freaks and Geeks (1999), and the Gilmore Girls (2000), these are definitely two of the best shows about what it was like for an adolescent to be in high school in the past 3 or 4 decades. When I was a teenager in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the shows that spoke to us about high school life were Eight is enough (1977) and James at 15 (1977). These shows dealt with issues of the time as well, but with Freaks and Geeks, the writers really were able to depict life in 1980 for young teenagers. Even though I was in my early 30’s when it came out, it still took me back to that time and brought back that teenage angst. It goes to show that no matter how old a person is, what era they grew up in, or are growing up in, the issues that adolescents deal with on a daily basis are still there, the playing field may just change a little bit.

Piaget’s formal stage were very much abundant within these two shows. An example of this for the geeks would be with Bill Weir and metacognition, where he tries to understand things that are happening around him more, whereas his friends are just happy being who they are and do not put too much thought into it. With the freaks, the home life that both Daniel and Kim had, caused them in some ways to come together, otherwise they were in that “fight” or “flight” mode (self-defend) of Piaget’s formal stage. What was going on within their home was not known to many people, especially school officials, for they figured that both of them were just useless