She annoyed the hell out of me. Her voice was awful and the way she stood when she was talking to Sam was so awkward. I heard the actress who plays her sounds nothing like her in real life and I hope that's true. I never understood how she got so popular, she was a snobby bitch most of the time. I didn't even think she was that pretty. I hope I'm not the only one out there who thought this. I really couldn't stand watching her.
shareIn Freaks and Geeks, she always seemed very patronising, as if she was making a point of being kind to the lowly geeks. It stretched credulity to think she would ever be Sam's girlfriend.
I thought she looked rather scrawny and rat-like in F and G, but in Undeclared, she looked quite the beauty, probably because she is wearing more makeup.
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I thought she was pretty cute in Freaks and Geeks, but really nasty looking in Undeclared.
shareCindy seemed like a symbolic character. I used to be a teenage guy. A lot of teenage guys fall for any halfway decent looking girl who gives them the time of day. Cindy was cute. But to Sam she was prettier than Heather Locklear.
I liked Cindy's cousin from Boca Raton. She came to Lindsay's party. I forget her name.
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The fact that Cindy was a cheerleader was enough to make her popular.Just look at Vikki who had a horrible attitude.She would have been a nobody like Alan if she didn't have that Cheerleading status.
shareFor a HS girl, Cindy was cute. She wasn't awkward at all. Everytime she talked to Sam, she was supremely confident.
And up until the episode where she went to the movies with Sam, she was really nice to everyone.
She was a good character for the show. It taught Sam that just because people are pretty, they aren't good people. Him and his friends thought being hot = great person.
Also, it helped Ken realize what he and Amy had was great.
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"That's only if her being a cheerleader was the thing that was making her a bitch. Maybe she wouldn't have been if she wasn't."
Exactly!Maybe her character was very stereotypical but there was something very shallow about her.When she was sitting around the lunch table with Cindy they were talking about how cheerleaders needed to be pretty.It seems like her and the rest of the cheerleaders thought they were better than others.
I never understood how she got so popular, she was a snobby bitch most of the time. I didn't even think she was that pretty. I hope I'm not the only one out there who thought this. I really couldn't stand watching her.
It seems like her and the rest of the cheerleaders thought they were better than others.
"It seems like you think you and your friends are better than cheerleaders. Go figure."
Lol!I was talking about the show not real life!Did you even watch it that you made such a dumb comment.
And that's exactly what this kind of crowd in high school thinks. They know they are the pretty, not particularly intelligent, and want the most popular boys while thinking the rest of the world doesn't exist.
Vicki was particularly stereotypical. However, I want to point out that it would have been interesting to see Bill and Vicki have an actual relationship in season 2 if they had made Bill into a viable basketball jock (easily done by just having Martin Starr ditch his glasses, walk normally, and flex his biceps now and then). They seemed to have had some chemistry together when they were in that closet scene. Something like this would have humanized Vicki & give Bill the greatest gift of all by having an actual love in his life.
She was very stereotypical from the start, but what they did to her in that last episode she was in was ridiculous. They had her character do a total 180 in one episode. Granted, she was always superficial, but they turned her into a total raging biotch out of nowhere. I get that they weren't going to get a second season and wanted to wrap up the story, but it was handled very lazily. Even if they wanted to do it that one episode, they could have just had Sam not fitting in with her crowd and the popular life. Instead, they went overboard on attacking her character. Basically, the writers wanted to promote their politics before the 2000 election and that was the worst episode of the series. All the subplots were dumb: Ken's intersex gf and him thinking he's gay, all the VP Bush stuff with Rocco and Lindsay and Cindy being a Mean Girl.
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I didn't think she was that pretty, but had a pretty smile. I thought she was really sweet until she started dating Sam. Not because they didn't have anything in common, but because she was suddenly a bitch.
shareI never thought Cindy was pretty with that flat, stringy hair of hers. I recently watched an episode and caught a subtle joke I never caught before. Cindy is walking down the hallway and says something like "My hair is so flat today!" I LOL'd because her hair was ALWAYS flat and stringy. It looked the same all the time!
shareCindy and Vicky even noticing the geeks was pure fantasy. In real life, they would never have spoken to them.
shareJust great casting, IMO.
Like a lot of girls at that age, Cindy was cute but a little awkward looking (as were Sam, and most of the other similar-aged kids if you want to stretch a point).
As was Winnie Cooper in TWY, who Cindy's character was so clearly based on.
In later series as she developed and got older, Winnie Cooper blossomed and became devastatingly, achingly beautiful.
I'm sure the same would be true of Cindy, had the show kept running.
If we'd seen her at Lindsey's age, say.
Go on Stanley, stick one in Jane Russell & win a goldfish.
That's one of the reasons I loved the casting on F&G. The students didn't look like they were in the late 20's and model beautiful. She looked like a real student.
In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot.