Kick ME

In its one season on NBC, Freaks and Geeks drew raves from the New York Times, L.A. Times, USA Today, and dozens of other publications. When the weekly primetime reruns were broadcast on Fox Family, it became the highest rated show on that network. Many of the show’s best moments come directly from Feig’s experiences in high school, where he started as an awkward, oversensitive, Dungeons and Dragons-obsessed geek and ended the same way – but happy at last with who he was.

In Kick Me, Paul Feig goes into hilarious – and cringe-inducing – detail about bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of life in public school, which he calls, the ultimate melting pot, where kids of every social stratum and psychological profile are dumped together in a cinderblock building and forced to interact. Kick Me is a nostalgic trip for the inner geek in all of us.