User blog comment:Churchpants/*Why* Does Sam Love Freddie??/@comment-3092491-20110718000001/@comment-3092491-20110718032834

I think Freddie definitely knew Sam didn't really hate him at that time and it doesn't surprise me that he said what he did. It was just a defense, a argument, against a stubborn Sam who he really believed liked Brad because that's what he really thought, and he couldn't even begin to wrap his mind around the idea that she would like him *that way*.

I think he knows Sam doesn't really hate him and really is his good friend but they're still playing their game, doing their dance, where he honestly acts as though she does cause that's the pretense they put up in half the interactions they have and it's *always* their go-to card when they have a serious conversation with one another - and it also always ends up crashing down around them in those cases.