Beers and Weirs (2 Oct. 1999)

When Mr & Mrs. Weir go out of town for the weekend, Lindsey hosts a keg party. Sam, Bill, and Neal, worried that the party-goers will get too rowdy, substitute a keg of non-alcoholic beer for the one the freaks have on ice.

Director:

Jake Kasdan

Writers:

Paul Feig (creator), J. Elvis Weinstein,

Stars:

Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Linda Cardellini	...	Lindsay Weir
John Francis Daley	...	Sam Weir
James Franco	...	Daniel Desario
Samm Levine	...	Neal Schweiber
Seth Rogen	...	Ken Miller
Jason Segel	...	Nick Andopolis
Martin Starr	...	Bill Haverchuck
Becky Ann Baker	...	Jean Weir
Joe Flaherty	...	Harold Weir
Busy Philipps	...	Kim Kelly
Dave Allen	...	Jeff Rosso (as Dave 'Gruber' Allen)
Shaun Weiss	...	Sean
Natasha Melnick	...	Cindy Sanders
Sarah Hagan	...	Millie Kentner
Steve Bannos	...	Frank Kowchevski

Storyline

When her parents go away for the weekend, Lindsay is in charge of her house, and Daniel convinces her to host a keg party. She likes him and can't say no. Sam fears the party-goers will trash the house, getting him in trouble, so he, Neal, and Bill substitute non-alcoholic beer for the freaks' keg. As the party unfolds, Sam removes all the glass objects, Neal seeks a way to be Lindsay's knight in shining armor, and Bill samples the real beer. Cindy shows up to dazzle Sam, Millie comes to keep her eye on Lindsay, and Kim throws a wrench in Lindsay's hopes with Daniel. When the revelers find money to get another keg, Lindsay knows she's sunk. Is big trouble inevitable?

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Plot Keywords:

non alcoholic beer | keg party | high school partying | high school girl | geek | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 October 1999 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Apatow Productions, DreamWorks SKG

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min 44 min (17 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Executive producer Paul Feig had originally planned to do a storyline based on the wrenching real-life process of integration that his high school went through. When NBC nixed this idea, a subplot where Sam and an African-American student compare their histories of suffering was written; the network gave it the OK.

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Goofs

When Lindsey is in math class, the teacher has an equation for the Simple Power Rule and the equation is incorrect. The -1 should be in the exponent of x so that x is raised to the n-1 power.

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Quotes

Neal Schweiber: Friday night, always a good night for some Sabbath.
[Lindsay looks at him]
Neal Schweiber: ...'cause, you know, Friday? is the the Sabbath... for the Jews.

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Connections

References Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)

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Soundtracks

"Maybe"
Written by Richard Barrett
Performed by Janis Joplin

User Reviews

Not as strong as the first one

The second episode was a nice step into the season. Perhaps not as strong as the first one, but you got the chance to get to know the characters a little better.

In this episode the Weirs went out and left Lindsay in charge of the house. Her newly found friends convinced her to have a party at her place and of course that bound to have a bad ending.

Lindsay only did it to impress Daniel, who she later finds with Kim making out on her bed.

In the meantime, the Geeks think of a brilliant plan of swapping the beer with fake beer. Neil, who has a huge crush on Lindsay tries to get her attention throughout the episode. She pretty much ignores him right until then end for helping her end the catastrophic party.

Overall, it was a nice second episode. Bill once again had the best lines. Though Millie's 'I like to get high on life' is a classic one.

THREE stars.