Eli was such genuinely sweet character. He didn't have much screen time, but always stole the spotlight when he was on.

After I finished watching this scene, I was hooked...this show's a masterpiece

Talking about wrong place and wrong time, this show, in 1999, is the perfect example. So awesome, but got canceled because of idiots who couldn't appreciate this.

I absolutely adore Lindsay dancing with Eli. And I love how much she is enjoying herself dancing with him in front of a big portion of the school. Gives me goosebumps. This is truly outstanding. And you won't see something like this in any other show. ❤💃

Linda Cardellini has a thousand watt smile. Wow.

Linda has the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. Also, John Francis Daley is so freaking adorable, especially when he's dancing with Cindy.

Millie got some killer moves

This pilot is the greatest thing I've ever watched.

this scene makes me cry lol, it's just so sweet. they don't make tv shows like this anymore.

This could be the best scene ever in Television history

This scene captures both the awkwardness of youth as well as the inherent innocence/capacity for good at the same time....just a masterpiece of television.

Linda is one of the most beautiful women alive. Period.

Sam learned the greatest lesson in life asking Cindy to dance. Face your fears and go for it!

i actually always love Millie dancing in this scene, she is always so nerdy and awkward and serious and uptight, but she looks so genuinely serene just vibing to the song.

This scene made me fall in love with the show. It's really sweet to me - I love how happy and carefree they look dancing. It makes me wish I went to high school in Michigan in the 80s. :/

That awkward tension is so realistic. This was exactly how my first school dance was. I wish I would have known back then how important that time was to me and others.

I was starting my first year of high school which was a living hell. Then on Sept. 25th 1999 (my 15th birthday) this episode came on and life was a lot better.

Eyeballs are moist now - Freaks and geeks was great mixing the comedy and the poignant stuff. Love that Styx song now.

i totally cry EVERY time i see this. most perfect scene in a TV show literally ever

Best scene in the whole entire show. The amount of feels from almost any other TV show can't match this one for me.

Linda Cardellini may have the prettiest smile in all of show business. Radiant!

One of my favorite scenes from the series. Lindsay was sweet.

This is my favorite scene ever from the whole episode! Sam is seriously my favorite character and the song, 'Come Sail Away' is amazing!

This scene is perfect. 10/10!

One of the greatest shows ever. Masterpiece

Anyone realize Jason Segel ia sitting in the background at the end of this scene, even tho hes suppoed to be "partying" at his house

This show had more heart and soul than everything made since put together! My love for Lindsey is eternal!

like one of my happiest scenes in freaks and geeks

Every high school high school in the Midwest had Styx at every school dance.

This scene gets me EVERY time like a little bitch. I can't help it. Also, the genius of it is they let the entire song play prominently for the whole scene. Brilliant.

Millie's little jig at the beginning is the only reason I came here.

I love so many things about this scene-how the music progresses and fits so well with the storyline here, Kim being intrigued by Lindsey and seeing her for the first time not as competition and maybe jealous but also impressed by her confidence, Rosso being touched by Lindsey & Eli dancing, Nick being off to the side looking so badly like he wants to dance but prob trying to keep up his image of the cool “Freak” so he resists joining in, Sam facing his preconceived notions and fears about dancing, etc! This show is brilliant, insightful, and touching! 🙌🏽💯✨

I've just seen that Nick sneaked in and came to Homecoming. I never noticed that. How I love that show and all the details of all the wonderful characters. FREAKS AND GEEKS Y U NO LAST LONGER ?

Just watched the series with my 12 year old daughter. She loved it almost as much as I do. A true gem of a show, rightfully considered one of the best shows in TV history.

Beautiful, beautiful scene, as a high school kid of the late 70's and as awkward as Sam, this one always gets to me and gives me the biggest smile...such a tremendous show...love it!

The editing and directing in this scene is so good. At 00:45 when Lindsey looks over the dance floor it perfectly communicates the existential dread/emptiness she's feeling. Then when she looks to Sam and the camera cuts to him, it switches to his perspective from then on; they transitioned from two entirely separate storylines seamlessly. Its subtle things like this that make all the difference

that show hits me so deep. i been watching it for years. really brings me back to the geek i was..

I hated this song until I saw it paired with this scene. It's beautifully done and as soon as Eli and Lindsay start dancing I get chills everywhere for some reason

Love when Kim Kelly puches that dink and how she really appreciates Lindsey's dancing with Eli.

"Come Sail Away" is a weird song to dance to, because it starts out slow, then about halfway through, it speeds up to a fast-driving rocker (and I'm not a huge Styx fan)

When Lindsey looks over at Sam my heart exploded :)

This show was incredible, and this particular scene is one of the best endings to a pilot or episode of a television series ever! It's brilliant on so many levels. It should be used in classes for scriptwriting.

Linda Cardellini is the best actress! And has such a great smile

This show is the main reason why I love Linda Cardellini so much!

this is the best scene of any episode, also the best ending to any show ive seen. anytime i hear this song now i do the eli dance, i acnt help it.

instant chills from this beautiful scene

I was always rooting for Sam, love that kid!

literally the best show of what highschool was. a bunch of awkward lame things that you go thru with your friends trying to figure out what life is like

Eli is the most underrated character ever! I wish he was in more scenes

My goodness Linda Cardellini has a radiant smile. Thankfully I was a little taller than Sam but his experience is mine exactly. My freshman year was 80-81. Awkwardly dancing to late 70s rock. I think F.A.G. may have suffered the same fate as Once and Again. Too real, so real it hurt to watch it.

This scene was SO Awesome❣️ Love how Sam was like...I can't fast dance🤔 and then was like what the hell!!!👏👏

Makes me miss high school. Class Of 1967

I love Sam. I identify with him so much. Especially with being nervous about everything back then.

I'm with many of the other comments below...completely surprised to find myself in tears during an innocent school dance scene.

I just watched the pilot episode again, and I still can't believe this show only lasted one season. It was one of the best things on TV in '99 and '00. 👍

I programmed my VCR to record the series premiere then went out for my Saturday night of partying. Watched it the next morning. Got hooked on the show as a result of this scene. These characters were my generation.

What Freaks and Geeks did at least as well as any show I've ever seen is pay proper respect to all of its characters, big and small, including all of the ones who came across in very unflattering ways... it didn't strip characters of their humanity.

Back in the good times when people actually DANCED and it wasn't just sick people grinding each other.

I completely felt like I was reliving the awkward,wonderful awesomeness of my 1st homecoming dance my freshman year of high school. Very similar to Sam's reaction. OMG this song turned fast, I don't know what to do-I feel like an idiot- then moved into joy- all wrapped up in one ball of growing. Talk about living in the moment!

God, I love Millie's dance hahaha and SAM THE MAN!

I think this might just be the finest moment in television history

IM CRYING!

the perfect song for this scene

Like another comment said, for some reason THIS scene was the moment the show clicked for me. Before this, it had some fun scenes and some scenes that really hit home and reminded me of my middle and high school years. But this scene, I don't know what it is about it but it's what made me want to watch the rest of the show. Maybe it's the song, maybe it's how wholesome this is, I have no clue

Miss 2013 summer when I first watched this on Netflix wish there more episodes

I have no words as this song plays and this show almost changed my life.....how beautiful and sad at the same time......

Lindsays a good dancer.

I love this, my favorite scene of the whole show

This scene gives me life

That pained look Sam gets on his face for a moment when the music changes - like he wishes he was anywhere but there - is painful to watch. But what great acting from someone so young!

What's so impressive about this scene to me, is that it is the final scene of the PILOT while it has the same emotional vibe as what we could expect from a final episode. It's able to immerge us in this very honest and awkward highschool situation in only 40 minutes so that we REALLY feel in phase with its extremely well written characters Thx again freaks and geeks, one of the best show I've ever watched

she is confident to dance with that guy ..I could imagine the joy of her as a girl friend in high school................. she has magic

Oml when Sam asked Cindy to dance I was about too cry

One of the great travesties in tv history that this masterpiece of a show only got one season

at 4:25 you can see him sitting by the stage, and watching the others having fun.

One of the greatest songs ever written in one of the greatest scenes ever filmed in one of the greatest shows ever made .

the first time i saw this i cried my eyes out and I have no idea why

Sam is like the most adorable kid ever.

Such an underrated show! Loved this scene!

it almost too perfectly captures the feeling of epic fail that that situation brings up, but then he rebounds like a Boss. love this show.

One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite shows of all time. Thank you for posting! I have this on DVD and Blu Ray, but I still enjoy checking out these clips on KZfaq when I can. It's just such a real scene!

Even though I'm a woman, I can identify with Sam in this scene in every way possible. Just like in this show, I grew up and went to high school in 1980 in suburban Detroit. I had the biggest crush on a boy named Eric. In 9th grade, we had a school dance where they set up this thing where names would be picked out of a hat (one for boys and one for girls) and each couple picked would slow dance together for one song. My best friend rigged it where I would end up dancing with my crush Eric. I was so nervous as we danced. I remember him feeling kind of sweaty. Who ever picked the song to slow dance to picked a bad one because we danced to The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. Just like in this scene, the song starts off slow and then suddenly gets fast. It was so awkward, trying to look cool transforming from slow dance to fast. Everyone eventually gave up and walked off, including me and my crush. I knew, watching this scene that the song Come Sail Away was about to get a faster tempo. Poor Sam. What happened with me and Eric? Not much. I crushed on him all through 9th grade, then by 10th grade my crush faded away and moved onto someone else. His timing was bad when he tried to kiss me at a party the beginning of 10th grade. Too late Eric.

Linsey is so beautiful and she so nice to these kids who get bullied

And its now on Hulu :D finally

This scene always makes me cry.

perfect show, perfect cast and perfect song

This show had such a specific feeling to it i love it

Its criminal that this show was cancelled

I used to hate "Come Sail Away" until I heard it in this episode. When I hear it now, it reminds me of this wonderful ending. Now I love it!

This reminds me of the episode on "The Wonder Years" where Kevin and Winnie are looking for each other at a school dance. I can't help but laugh at crazy Millie swaying by herself to the music.LOL

This was so nice, I had to watch it twice.

Sam and Lindsey have a great moment here.

I think this might have been my fave seen from the whole series.... Love it.

ben foster played eli ?! mind blown

This scene brings tears to my eyes. One of the best shows ever!!!!!!!!

Omg i'm so freaking in love of lindsay. She's the most pretty girl in the earth

This scene always reminds me of the homecoming dance scene in The Virgin Suicides (same song too!)

I don't understand how a show like this did not make it.

The scene that completely hooked me and made me a fan for life.

Great scene, thanks for sharing!