resident cool kid, behind, and he is forced to hang out with Dustin and his friends and ends up enjoying. In the last episode of Freaks and Geeks,“ Disco and Dragons, Daniel Desario, the leader of the freaks, is forced to join the A. V. club causing him to have to work with the geeks. Daniel ends up really enjoying their company and plays Dungeons and Dragons with them. If A. V. club and Dungeons and Dragons sound familiar, it is because those are two things that the younger kids participate in in Stranger Things. Nancy Wheeler from Stranger Things has a lot of similar character traits to Lindsay Weir from Freaks and Geeks. Both girls are very good students, but end up hanging out with in more popular and less academically minded social circles. Nancy ends up hanging out with Steve and his group of friends, and Lindsay hangs out with the freaks. Nancy and Lindsay both have a geeky, smart, friend who they have been friends with for a long time. Nancy’ s friend is Barb, and Lindsay’ s is Millie. Barb and Millie both become suspicious when their friend begins to hang out with popular crowd. Both girls have a younger, geeky brother. Nancy’ s brother is Mike, and Lindsay’ s is Sam. Although there are not a lot of similarities, Matt Duffer stated that he wanted to create a show where a viewer will care about the characters just as much as Freaks and Geeks, which means there has to be some similarities between the
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