After fighting with his father, Nick moves out and to Lindsay's surprise begins staying with the Weir's. Cindy tells Bill that she has a crush on Sam. She asks Bill to convince Sam to invite her to a party.
WAR
78.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Chokin' and Tokin'” ranks #8 of 18 Freaks and Geeks episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.4 — Elite. The episode packs 84 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Bill landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bill · Jean Haverchuck: Bill, just waking up in hospital: 'Did I almost die?' Mom: 'Yes.' Bill: 'That's cool.'
Millie: Millie wakes the dog: 'ARISE, DOGGY. ARISE.' [dog barks] 'You see? Believe, Lindsay.'
Millie Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Millie · Lindsay: Lindsay: 'How could you tell?' Millie: 'I'm not dumb, Lindsay. I know what high people look like. I went to a Seals and Crofts concert last summer.'
Sam: Sam explains his semantic distinction: 'Alive is good. Die is bad. Trust me on this. My dad's a dentist.'
Sam Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jean: Jean caps the confessional escalation: 'When Sam was 4 months old... I dropped him on a brick patio. He had a hairline fracture of the skull.'
Jean Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 84 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ unnamed student: Student theorizes the cafeteria recycles the same meat through the week — Salisbury steak becomes hamburgers, then meatball heroes, then meatloaf
unnamed student · cafeteria worker: After the whole meat-recycling debate, a different student steps up and says 'I'll have the Salisbury steak, please' — worker responds 'Excellent choice, sir'
Daniel: Daniel calls the cafeteria food 'Salisbury dog meat' while ordering
Daniel Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Nick · Lindsay: Nick says 'I could eat again, I'm kinda hungry' — Lindsay says 'You're kinda stoned' — Nick: 'I'm very stoned'
Daniel · Nick: After Lindsay storms off upset, Daniel says 'What's wrong with Lindsay?' — Nick says 'I don't know, man. She's crazy.'
Nick · Mark: Nick pressures dealer Mark about being dry; Mark says his dad found his grow lights and ran over them with his car
unnamed adult: Beat after the grow-lights story where Nick's dad says 'He better have' — implying approval of the car-running-over
Nick: Nick tells Mark 'The customer is king, Mark. The customer is king.'
Nick Character Comedy Absurdist Harold: Harold flipping through TV channels, sighing — 'Pelicans. Try 2. No, no. Try 4.' [Sigh] '7.' — settling with 'Ah, that's it.'
Harold Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Harold · Lindsay: Harold sarcastically tells Lindsay the Johnsons should pay her 'a king's ransom to lay around drinking pop and watching TV on their couch'
Sam · Harold: Sam says his favorite Charlie's Angels character is Bosley — Harold is baffled: 'Nobody watches this show for Bosley'
Sam Harold Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Harold: Harold is wounded that Sam doesn't share his appreciation for Kate Jackson specifically
Harold Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Harold · Lindsay · Jean: Harold tells Lindsay she can 'test the waters' too — after she gets married
Harold · Sam: Harold tells Sam 'The Cindy ship has sailed. It's time to board another vessel.' — Sam responds: 'Another what?'
Harold Sam Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Neal: Neal rhapsodizes over a 'New Tri-Folder Organizer' with genuine excitement: 'MM! Very impressive. I have one of those babies myself.'
Neal Character Comedy Absurdist Neal · Sam: Neal suggests Sam target Vicki instead of Cindy — 'The Cindy Sanders of this world are just... hors d'oeuvres. Vicki is a 5-course meal.' Sam: 'Hor-what?'
Neal Sam Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bill · unnamed bully kid: Kid offers Bill 'crushed nuts with your sundae' — Bill's confused 'My what?' — then gets hit with the dessert / physical gag
Sam: Sam deadpans: 'That guy needs a new joke' immediately after the crushed-nuts gag
Sam Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Bill · Miss Foote: After Miss Foote sneezes, Bill says 'God bless—whoa. God bless you, Miss Foote' — the 'whoa' implying a powerful sneeze he was not prepared for
Bill · Alan · Miss Foote: Bill offers to close the window for Miss Foote; another student whispers 'Brown noser' — class laughs
Bill: Bill lists his allergies: 'bees and air and cats and dogs. Well, not dogs. Well, some dogs.'
Bill Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bill · Miss Foote: Bill matter-of-factly: 'If I eat a peanut, I could die.' Teacher: 'Wow. Really?' Bill: 'Yeah. It happened once.'
Alan · Bill: Bully: 'So don't eat 'em, dork.' Bill: 'I don't. If I did, I could die.'
Alan Bill Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Bill · Neal · Sam: Bill outs Neal's psoriasis as 'lizard skin' and Sam's blood-fainting in class — completely torpedoing any social progress
Sam · Bill: Sam confronts Bill: 'I got a better chance with Miss Foote than you have with Vicki, and I don't have a chance at all.'
Sam Bill Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Nick · Kim: Nick, who is clearly high, asks the freaks for pot. Kim: 'Um, not be stoned?'
Nick Kim Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Daniel · Nick: Daniel accuses Nick of never passing a joint in his life; Nick's wounded 'You haven't passed a joint in your life'
Ken: Ken suggests that instead of throwing away the weed, Daniel should 'donate it to a worthy cause. Like, uh, me.'
Ken Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Daniel · Nick: Daniel refuses to give Nick the weed: 'I can't give it to you.' / Nick: 'Why not?' / Daniel: 'I care about you.'
Nick: Nick after 5 days without pot: 'I almost smoked my mom's ferns last night.'
Nick Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Nick · Lindsay: Lindsay notes Nick's eyes are clear for once; Nick: 'At least I'm saving money on eye drops'
Miss Foote · Bill: During a history lesson about George Washington Carver and his work with peanuts, teacher adds: 'And for being Bill's mortal enemy' — then self-explains: 'Because you're allergic to peanuts'
Bill · Miss Foote: Bill tells Miss Foote: 'I just don't like you talking so much about my allergies. It makes me look like a geek.'
Bill · Miss Foote: Miss Foote: 'You know, Bill, you're not a geek.' Bill: 'Tell that to the rest of the world.'
Gordon: Gordon declares he doesn't just like sci-fi, he 'LOVE, LOVE, LOVES it!' and immediately asks whose mom is driving
Gordon Character Comedy Escalation Gordon: Gordon: 'Hey, maybe my mom should drive because she puts all my make-up on in the parking lot before I go in.'
Gordon Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch unnamed player: Basketball scene: player dunks, someone says 'that's easy for me... and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar' — visual comedy of presumably non-Kareem-level player
Mark: Mark returns with weed saying 'The eagle has landed' — then announces a 'harvest sale'
Mark Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Nick · Mark: Mark tells Nick the weed is 'hydroponic' — Nick: 'Like the lettuce?' Mark: 'Yeah, like the lettuce.'
Nick Mark Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Lindsay: Lindsay declines to smoke weed: 'Dog crap is here, and we don't smoke that.'
Lindsay Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Nick · Lindsay: After being built up as a transcendent experience, the first pot-smoking session is shown as: Nick enthusiastically listening to drum fills while Lindsay sits there bored and unmoved
Nick: Nick interrupts the relationship argument to say: 'Oh, shhh... listen to this drum fill. OHH! [laughs] That guy is AMAZING. Do you know how hard that is?'
Nick Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Nick: Nick to Lindsay: 'You're a drag. And you know what? Here, you see it? I'm really addicted. How am I gonna live without it?' — then dramatically throws the bag away
Nick Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bill: Bill spotting Mr. Peanut mascot in a magazine: 'He's probably eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the liar.'
Bill Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Sam: Sam: 'Hmm. Let's find out if he's lying.' — implying they're going to investigate whether Mr. Peanut is eating peanuts
Sam Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Gordon · Bill: Bill's 'I'm sorry' to Gordon about skipping the convention; Gordon: 'I was gonna lend you my Yoda mask, too.'
Gordon: Gordon to Bill: 'You are, but we're too hungry to care.'
Gordon Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bill · Sam · Neal: Bill bites his sandwich and notes it tastes 'peanuty crunchy' — with increasing alarm
Bill Sam Neal Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Bill · Sam · Neal: Bill realizes his sandwich tastes 'peanuty crunchy' — the horrified realization landing across his face as Sam and Neal watch
Bill Sam Neal Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Sam: Sam asks Bill if he wants him to get Miss Foote to discuss the sandwich — a callback to the Bill/Miss Foote flirtation joke
Sam Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Alan: Bully Alan appears and asks 'Hey Haverchuck, what happens now? Should we call an ambulance?' in a mocking tone — then immediately the answer is yes
Alan Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Neal · Sam · Mrs. Haverchuck: Neal tells Mrs. Haverchuck: 'Is he gonna die?' — she reassures him no. Then Sam follows up: 'Could you not use the word die in a hospital?'
Sam: Sam explains his semantic distinction: 'Alive is good. Die is bad. Trust me on this. My dad's a dentist.'
Sam Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Frank (former student) on returning to school: 'Girls are cuter. A lot cuter.'
Frank Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Frank · Ken: Frank claims he saw Pink Floyd at the Pyramids — Ken gently notes Floyd has never played the pyramids. Frank: 'Oh yeah. You're right. It was the Dead. I just got confused because I was thinking of another guy I went to both shows with.'
Frank Ken Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank: Frank: 'Hey, saw Floyd at the Laser Dome. They weren't there, but it was their music.'
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Mr. Russo: Mr. Russo tells Daniel and Ken: 'Keep burning the bong at both ends and you'll wind up just like him.'
Ken · Mr. Russo: Russo says 'How dumb do I look?' — Ken: 'Do you really want to know?'
Mr. Russo: Russo: 'Learn from Frank... or you'll be Frank. It's your choice.'
Mr. Russo Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Callback Ken: Ken to Russo: 'As much as that's possible.'
Ken Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Sam · Neal: Sam and Neal comfort themselves in the hospital waiting room by planning what kind of ghost Bill would be: 'Maybe he'd be like Casper the Friendly Ghost'
Sam Neal Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sam: Sam suddenly: 'But it wouldn't be like that, would it? He'd just be dead and gone forever, wouldn't he?'
Sam Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Callback Daniel: Daniel: 'What do people do when they're not stoned? I don't know. Relate to one another?'
Daniel Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lindsay · Harold: Lindsay tells her dad she can't babysit because of 'woman problems' — Harold immediately: 'I don't want to hear about it. Just get over there.'
Millie: Millie sees stoned Lindsay and says flatly: 'You're on the pot.'
Millie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Millie · Lindsay: Lindsay: 'How could you tell?' Millie: 'I'm not dumb, Lindsay. I know what high people look like. I went to a Seals and Crofts concert last summer.'
Millie · Lindsay: Millie agrees to come help only 'for the safety of the child' — Lindsay thanks her; Millie: 'No, thank your dealer.'
Millie: Millie: 'Thank your dealer.'
Millie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Mr. Johnson · Mrs. Johnson · Lindsay · Millie: The Johnson parents' frantic babysitting instructions — knives, dog-riding, poison control, balloons
Jean: Jean (Sam's mom): 'When I was pregnant with Sam, I didn't think twice about nutrition. I was drinking a lot back then.'
Jean Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jean: Jean caps the confessional escalation: 'When Sam was 4 months old... I dropped him on a brick patio. He had a hairline fracture of the skull.'
Jean Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Lindsay · Ronnie: Lindsay (high) is found by the kid she's supposed to be babysitting — he's tagged her as 'it' in a game she wasn't playing
Lindsay: Lindsay: 'Nick is stoned all the time. He deals with his parents when he's high. He goes to class when he's high. Why would he do that?'
Lindsay Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Lindsay: Lindsay's stoned philosophical spiral: 'What if all of this is a dream? What if it's not even our dream — it's that dog's dream?'
Lindsay Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Millie: Millie's response to the dog-dreaming-our-reality theory: 'Life is not that dog's damn dream. We live in God's world.' — then she announces she'll wake the dog to prove it
Millie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Millie: Millie wakes the dog: 'ARISE, DOGGY. ARISE.' [dog barks] 'You see? Believe, Lindsay.'
Millie Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bill · Jean Haverchuck: Bill, just waking up in hospital: 'Did I almost die?' Mom: 'Yes.' Bill: 'That's cool.'
Bill: Bill tells Sam and Neal about Vicki and Maureen crying: 'If you want, you can tell them that I'm still dying' — then 'I mean, if it'll help you guys get a date.'
Bill Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sam · Bill: Sam: 'You are the king.' Bill accepts this immediately.
Sam Bill Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Lindsay: Lindsay explains why the hospital Jell-O is good: 'Because it was made by food scientists.'
Lindsay Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lindsay: Lindsay reminds Millie that they 'used to watch his show. You used to wish you had a pillow stuffed with his hair. Because it was so fluffy.'
Lindsay Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Millie: Millie tells Lindsay: 'Tomorrow, when you're not loaded anymore, you're not gonna believe in God, and you're not gonna want to be my friend anymore.'
Millie Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Alan · Bill: Alan visits Bill in the hospital: 'Hey, Haverchuck.' 'Hey, Alan.' 'I knew you wouldn't die. I can't believe you'd be such a wuss to die from a peanut.'
Alan Bill Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bill · Alan: Bill: 'Aren't you glad I didn't die?' Alan: 'Yeah, I'm glad for my sake. Think I want to end up in juvie for killing you?'
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