Freaks & Geeks

you can still buy a garcia tie at jc penney's

wasn't phil jackson the big booster of garcia ties?

My guess = Bill Walton?

Now that's just crazy talk :p

Sorry for OT but how do you know so much of US cultural ephemera with an Aussie handle like VegemiteGrrrl? Been curious!

She moved over here for our football.

There's probably way too much water under the bridge now, but if there can be an Arrested Development movie, couldn't Apatow have done some sort of F & G reunion/sequel thing?

I think the biggest obstacle is that no one would be able to recognize Bill now.

xpost Leee, I was always kind of stuck on American pop culture growing up...kind of a freakshow Americophile. American politics/history major in college, Mr Veg has abt 10 years on me and American-born/raised so he has schooled me in whatever holes he perceived in my education, lol. Not to say I don't love my homeland of course, haha,
Besides, Big Red goes to the Bridge Benefit every year and I heart that giant hippie big time :)

Oh and Johnny otm. Football is my gateway drug,

http://www.avclub.com/articles/paul-feig-walks-us-through-freaks-and-geeks-part-1,72057/

I was contemplating starting a Martin Starr appreciation thread because really -- that guy is top notch.

I read that this morning and was going to come post it! His stories about the casting are terrific, especially the Samm Levine thing.

Yeah the casting stuff was interesting. Can't imagine Lauren Ambrose as Lindsay?!

There was the girl with the big boobs. That was based on a girl I knew in high school.

My brother is so much like Daniel Desario it's scary (he even looks like him!).

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pics or gtfo

tbf you may have already gtfo'ed

maybe has pointy white hair like punk phase desario

the brief phase of risin' above

I just rewatched this. So sad when it ends. The one anachronism that bugged me is when they're talking about Santana "So the guy who sings is not named Santana? No, that's the guitar player. How'd he get them to name the band after him? Must be a badass." Surely they already would have been familiar with this idea thanks to Van Halen.

oh and also mr rosso is too old

You mean the actor is too old for the character? Or the character references things that he's too old for?

The actor was 41 when they shot the show, and if anything he looks like he could be a bit older than that. Which means the character would have been 18 in 1957. But he talks about getting into American Beauty in college. He would have been 31 when that album came out, so I guess maybe he was in grad school for a long time? It's not a big deal because he's such an awesome character and the perfect actor for that role, but I just found it kind of funny. He seems more like the kind of hippy teacher that would have been around 15 years later when I was in high school. More like Mr. Van Driessen from Beavis and Butthead.

Hmm. I would buy the actor/character as being in his low 30s. I agree that he is an awesome character.

yeah i always chalk rosso's age to wearing the years roughly and staying in college for as long as possible to avoid vietnam. watched all of these again last week, i'd forgotten how really really good segal, starr, and busy phillips are in it. bill haverchuck is probably always default fave character but kim kelly had nuances i did not recall.

i mean really, this is fucking poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlx9wHE6HP0

plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_r5O4PKi4

Between this and Party Down, Martin Starr might be one of my all time favorite actors. Shame he doesn't get more parts.

This article about Stephen Lea Sheppard (geek guru guy) is pretty interesting http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/12/saved-by-hollywood/

He's also in NTSF:SD:SUV.

The only anachronism that stood out to me was when nick andopolis asks the lunch lady if they recycled the meat. Would someone have really said "recycled" in 1980?

Isn't it interesting that a show set in 1980 came out in 1999? Could we have had a show set in 1990 in 2009?

Martin Starr is awesome whenever he pops up. "The League," Party Down," all the beard jokes in "Knocked Up," "Parks and Rec..." Does he count as a child actor done good?

Would someone have really said "recycled" in 1980?

I think so. I remember taking glass pop bottles to the store for the 5 cent deposit/recycling.

Isn't it interesting that a show set in 1980 came out in 1999? Could we have had a show set in 1990 in 2009?

Interesting question - what's your answer? Do you think the late 80's / early 90's are still too close to make for good TV?

Would someone have really said "recycled" in 1980?

Yeah, the barber shop my parents took me to had a glass bottle recycling bin, and later we started saving glass bottles to recycle at the house.

in the early to mid 80s my parents would collect and recycle aluminum cans to pay for gas for our summer vacations. we took them to this place with clown faces painted on the machinery that smashed the cans down. pretty terrifying.

Michigan had recycling for aluminum cans and glass soda bottles by 1980.

Could we have had a show set in 1990 in 2009?

Chris O' Dowd's new sit-com on Sky, "Moone Boy" is based in 1989-90

Martin Starr also turned into a right hunk.

if you guys are worried about anachronisms you can see palm trees and modern cars but really who cares?

Ih he ever does anything to his teeth I will take that above statement back.

Where are the modern cars? I didn't see any modern cars. And I was nerdily looking for them.

Speaking of nerdily looking for anachronisms, the Who didn't tour the US in 1981, and the Who shirt Millie wears didn't exist until 1994.

to be fair i did say i only noticed one thing and it didnt bother me, so im not exactly bothered or nerdily scanning for them tbh!

as far as 1990 being depicted in 2009, i cant really picture it, but i do think that "the 90s" as a time period with obvious signifiers etc really started to solidify for people around that time. i feel like as a culture we're more and more loathe to look back on things from our recent lifetimes, maybe? at any rate, 1999 doesnt seem too soon to look back on 1980, but 2009 does seem too soon to look back on 1990. i don't really know why.

1990s youth culture was more ruthlessly documented

the 90s don't really begin until almost mid-way through. people still wearing mullets and bopping to duran duran as late as 93.

That Stephen Lea Sheppard piece linked above was really good, thanks for sharing it

yeah, but as seen in this show, small town 1980 was still the 70s

http://i47.tinypic.com/27yn5he.png

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/photos-freaks-and-geeks-reunion-exclusive#slide=1

kinda looks like no one wants to hang out with cardellini :(

i will hang out with you lindsay weir

sam turned into a beefcake!

There is definitely an awkward distance between Segel and Sarah Marshall Cardellini.