Freaks and Geeks is set in the 1980-1981 school year where Lindsay Weir and her brother Sam attend McKinley High School together. The series begins as Lindsay changes from a good student to a girl who hangs out with the Freaks. Her relationship with her new friends as well as her old friends and the friction it creates with her parents is the focus of the series. Her brother Sam is mostly concerned with fitting in at school along with his Geeks group of friends.