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Post your thoughts on their futures...


Sam, Bill, Neil all grow up, go to college, get good jobs, happy ending

Lindsay is tough, but I think she does eventually go to a good school, and live up to her potential. Even during the show, when she was hanging with the Freaks, she still excelled in school, and didn't hide it. Despite ditching the mathletes, she still wanted to be smart...just not revolve her life around academics like her dad made her.

Daniel - I think something in him clicked in the last episodes. I can see him buckling down and graduating, and getting his life together. I like happy endings, and I think he gets one.

Nick - Same with Nick. He moved on from Lindsay, and started being a normal guy (ie not a burnout). He definitely seemed like he would go to college and do well as he matured.

Ken - I think Ken just skates by in mediocrity...maybe even having Amy leave to go on to bigger and better things.

Kim - I would love to see her escape her burnout life, but I just don't see it. She almost embraced her spot in life.

It would have been nice for the writers to know this show was being cancelled, and they could have given us a bigger glimpse into these characters lives...but it was an awesome show, and great characters I grew to love.

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I think we are given most of the information needed to answer this question.

Daniel and Nick-work at menial labor, eventually find their way into union jobs with high pay and great benefits (it does take place in Michigan).

Lindsey- Earns a PhD and becomes an academic. She makes less than a UAW union member.

Ken-turns into a burn out, but has his family's $$$ to fall back on.

Sam and his nerd buddies-get college degrees, go into computer programming, get in on the ground floor of the tech revolution and make millions.

Kim- This is the one I can't figure out.

I'll take Punctuality

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All of these are great replies, and I note that the predictions also seem to say a lot about the poster.

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Sam - Dad dies of a heart attack during his first year of college out of state. Moves back to town and takes night classes at a local University while he tries to manage the sporting goods store during the day. Struggles and ends up having no life for some time until he sells the store in the 90s to a big box retailer. Sam eventually becomes a middle manager at a grocery chain, remaining single, taking care of Mom until she passes in 2009.

Lindsay - Has emotional difficulty with Dad's death. Spends a few years drifting to find herself but this eventually motivates her to excel with her strengths knowing that Sam is taking care of Mom. Goes back to school and earns a doctorate in computational analysis, eventually becoming a research and design engineer with Ford.

Neil - Shrugs everyone off in the later part of his high school years to become a loner, fully academically driven and completes a combined a M.D/Ph.D program. Now a neurosurgeon with the Cedars Sinai hospital system in California.

Daniel - In and out of prison for mostly drug, petty theft, and domestic abuse. Eventually settles down to become a tow truck driver. Fatally shot during a tow hookup gone bad in downtown Detroit.

Nick - Became a drifter. Dad kicks him out of the house. Army wont take him. Becomes a dreamer while in reality works for odd jobs. Becomes homeless and quietly forgotten by everyone else.

Ken - Dad's store goes bankrupt so he hammers down a career: to become a police officer with Detroit metro. Does not marry Amy as that never led anywhere. Now has 5 kids with three grandchildren.

Kim - Drifted around a number of years working as a waitress after high school. Drug use continued and eventually died in 1991 due to AIDS complications.


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Lindsay - rebellious phase slowly fades out as she matures. Still hangs out with the Freaks, but focuses more on schooling, and graduates with an excellent record. Goes on to major in one of the STEM fields at a good college, struggles a bit with being a woman in a male-dominated field. Gets hired to do interesting projects, marries a kind and successful man also in STEM when in her late 20s, has a couple of kids and lives a comfortable life. Likes to do outdoor sports with the family on holidays.

Sam - Never has a rebellious phase, but gradually becomes less awkward as he matures. Graduates with good grades and goes on to major in geology/archaeology, becomes a science teacher at high school, marries in his 30s and lives a comfortable middle-class life.

Neil - does well academically, majors in law, and makes a good living working for a small, private law firm. Has one bad marriage that ends in divorce, marries again and happily. Has a kid from the first marriage and two from the second. Is slightly neurotic and has a mid-life crisis that his second marriage pulls him out of.

Bill - Becomes more athletic, and is well-liked by many by the end of high school, while achieving pretty good academic results. Learns programming and ends up in a lucrative job as a software developer/ game designer. Marries in his late 20s and has 4 kids, they all have fun playing together.

Nick - Graduates, but just barely. Does a year of military service, comes home, and starts as a trainee in retail. Eventually grows to a middle management position, while playing in a band and doing small shows as a hobby. Marries a cute music store manager he meets at a rock concert, they have 2 kids. She's cool because she lets him hang with the guys, and teaches him be more assertive about his goals. When the kids grow up and move out, they retire and buy a farm together.

Daniel - Graduates with terrible grades. After several tries, completes training and becomes a light & sound technician at a local broadcasting company. His natural charm gets him discovered and cast in a middlebrow comedy show. After a couple of seasons, he spends a month in jail for petty crime, and that together with his flakiness gets him booted off the show. He spends a while being down and depressed, renting terrible apartments, drinking, and sleeping around, until one of the women he's seeing, who's in love with him, gets him another acting gig. He vows to clean up his act, marries the woman and commits to his career. Reaches enough status and makes enough connections in the industry to stay a working actor for the rest of his life. His wife dies ten years later, and he dates young starlets. Near the end of his life, is visited by a person who turns out to be the kid from a random hook-up that Daniel has never met previously. Spends the rest of his life bonding with and being taken care of by said kid.

Kim - Becomes a hair dresser. Has a few boyfriends that all end badly, until in her 30s she meets a martial arts instructor from Europe, and moves there with him for a fresh start. Works part-time doing administrative work for her husband's martial arts school, part-time raises their 2 kids. Has problems with alcohol abuse, and has to spend several months in rehab, but ultimately gets it somewhat under control. Rages that her adult life is boring, but secretly appreciates the stability that her family provides.

Ken - Breaks up with Amy as they go their separate ways. Graduates with below-average grades and works part-time at his dad's firm for a while, helping out with menial tasks. Grows increasingly frustrated with that job and quits, goes on a road trip across the U.S., makes some connections, and works as a roadie for a while. Returns home, works for his dad again, but in a better position than last time. Eventually the leaves the firm to someone else, but gives Ken a small share in the profits. Ken uses the money to start his own bar. Never marries, but eventually has a kid with his on-and-off girlfriend, and settles down with them.







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Neal - goes off to college, majors in business, ends up an insurance salesman. Marries a teacher and has 3 kids.

Bill: goes to college, majors in something health field related, ends up working in a lab. Remains socially awkward and never marries but bill and sam still keep in touch. He also has a lot of online and gamer friends.

Sam: goes to college, remains unsure of what to do with his life, ends up in the same career as his dad or something similar. Ends up with a cute blonde wife and they have 2 kids.have the house with a white picket fence. An all american family.

Lindsay: drifts around with the Freaks for awhile after high school but eventually they lose touch. She goes to college and becomes a school counselor like mr Rosso. Dates around but still hasnt married that someone special. Probably has some cats.

Nick: drifts around after high school with his,pals, ends up playing in a band in town for several years thinking he'll make it big but never does. Ends up working at a gas station and has a kid with his girlfriend.

Daniel: manages to graduate high school and goes to some sort of tech school and becomes a mechanic in town. Dates around a lot. OR ends up with an addiction to pain pills and ends up resorting to robbery to fund his drug habit.

Ken: ends up a pothead for life and bums around because he has a lot of money.

Kim: hangs with rough people, drug addiction struggles, abusive relationships, has 4 kids by different dads,before she somewhat gets it together and gets a job as a cashier in town

Millie: marries a preacher and becomes a youth group leader and Sunday school teacher

Cindy: marries a high school sweetheart,,becomes a teacher, has a couple kids



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If one of the geeks was "hopeless" as far as dating/relationships went it was Neal. Unless he did some serious growing up I can't see a guy like that getting married unless he's rich. Bill was funny and aside from the peanut episode seemed pretty okay with himself. He got Vicki to kiss him in the closet after all, whereas Neal would have been too forward and blown it.

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I based this on people i know personally who remind me of the characters lol. I knew a Neal..actually he was worse than Neal. Hes now married.

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The three geeks probably all go to college and end up in pretty lucrative fields, maybe in the burgeoning tech industry. The possible exception is Sam who may have stayed in town and helped his Dad run the store out of loyalty to him. Harris probably became a Gates/Jobs esq tycoon and eventually got himself elected president in the alternate world of Freaks and Geeks.

I also don't really know about Lindsay. With how the show ends, it shows her continually moving more down the "freak path" while the Freaks (except Kim) all became a little more "straight". She probably got her head screwed on straight at some point and studied social sciences at college and ended up as a teacher or even some kind of political activist.

Ken probably ended up perfectly fine and went to college. Nick would be able to graduate if he started trying and may have ended up doing something in the music industry like being a roadie, starting a music store, or working for a drum manufacturer. Daniel and Kim seemed "hopeless" and probably bounced around from job to job and had substance abuse and legal issues. Kim may end up with a bunch of kids she doesn't want.

Cindy and Vicki probably went in opposite directions, with Vicki being a nice, well adjusted person once she got out of high school and away from the pressure of being "Queen Bee" while Cindy probably became head cheerleader later and was as bad or worse as Vicki, and was a spoiled Daddy's Little Girl throughout her life.

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