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Kim Kelly Is My Friend

Season 1, Episode 4

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Kim invites Lindsay to dinner, explaining that she needs to introduce a nice friend to her parents so they will stop hassling her to sell her car. After Lindsay realizes what an abusive home Kim is living in, the two flee the scene in Kim's car. Sam struggles with a bully who is friends with Kim.moreless

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GUEST STAR
Rashida Jones

Karen Scarfoli
GUEST STAR
Ann Dowd

Cookie Kelly
GUEST STAR
Jack Conley

Stepfather

John Francis Daley

Sam Weir
Martin Starr

Bill Haverchuck
Becky Ann Baker

Jean Weir
Samm Levine

Neil Schweiber
Seth Rogen

Ken Miller
Linda Cardellini

Lindsay Weir

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QUOTES (5)
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- Sam: Kim Kelly's a psycho.
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- Bill: (To Sam) You don't have hair on your pits?
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- Millie: Hey! Those are for my French class. Daniel: But I love sprinkles!
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- Karen: I guess I'm just gonna have to mark this locker again. This time in geek blood.
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- Millie: I heard about what she does in the yearbook darkroom. Lindsay: What? She does what? I have no idea what you're talking about. Millie: She does it. Lindsay: What do you mean, it? Millie: She fornicates it!
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NOTES (7)
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- Plot Hole (Anachronism): The Weirs couldn't be watching the episode "Hash" from "Barney Miller" in prime-time in the fall of 1980 because that particular episode originally aired in December of 1976. Furthermore, the actor Jack Soo had died in 1979.
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- Plot Hole (California Dubling): The episode is supposed to take place during November in Michigan yet the trees are all green and the weather is warm & sunny during all the outdoor scenes.
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- This episode aired on some West Coast stations on 30 Apr 00.
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- Music: "Jamie's Crying" and "Ice Cream Man" by Van Halen; "King Tut" by Steve Martin; "Reminiscing" by The Little River Band
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- Seth Rogen does not appear in this episode.
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- Writer Mike White appears as Kim's slow-witted brother Chip.
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- This episode was scheduled to air 6 Nov 99, but was replaced by another episode because of concerns over its "violent content."
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- Karen: What was that Bilbo Baggins? Bilbo Baggins is the main character in the novel "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo is himself a hobbit, a human creature of small stature. An animated version of the novel first appeared as a TV movie in 1977.
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