Freaks & Geeks

who the hell is angela chase?

My So-Called Life, Claire Danes

ugh that show

(I don't know if the writers intended Angela voice-over to actually scan as deep, but it's so fucking hilariously teenagey and kinda stoned-sounding that you get the sense they're winking at you a little: "People are always saying you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing ... like a toaster.")

(Haha also her initial description of why Jordan Catalano is hot is actually a description of how Jordan Catalano is stoned all the time, with the salient points being that she likes the way he leans on things -- "he's, like, a good leaner" -- and that he's always closing his eyes "like it hurts to look at things." He is then pictured several times over the next few episodes putting Visine in before class.)

more like it hurts to look at Claire Danes amirite

<i>I think I am most like Judd himself, who said he based Sam on his early high school years, and Lindsay on his later HS years.</i>

UGO: How much insight did Linda Cardellini give into the writing for her character?

PAUL FEIG: Linda was so much that girl that she didn't have to do much; she just inspired. When I first wrote the pilot, I based a lot of the characters on people I knew. But the Linda character was one I just completely invented. I didn't know a girl like that, although I'd seen them around. So she was like a total invention, and was somewhat like me in my 30s. And I kind of had a picture in my head of what she should look like, and when Linda walked in it was like, "Oh my god, that's the girl." It was like this weird moment where she popped out of my head. So she was always so great to write for, and so willing to go with us on different stuff. And she'd let us know if something didn't ring true.

UGO: Was she the sister you wish you had?

PAUL FEIG: Yeah, totally, because I was an only child.

i watched this for like 12 hours straight at ATP

the guidance counselor kills me... when he breaks out the acoustic guitar to play alice cooper - eighteen wtf

hey some of those chords are really hard

I'm a boy (or girl) and I'm a man (or woman)

Lindsay I think you should start calling me Mr. Rosso again.

watching this for the first time since ninth grade and srsly judd apatow make sam weir a star already

Weir looks COMPLETELY different these days

http://www.serienjunkies.de/Seriendarsteller/John-Francis-Daley/John-Francis-Daley.jpg

lols

he is so cute on the show, it's like watching a cat macro act

still not as good as Undeclared

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1385/bizarrocodeec0.jpg

i am on the second to last disc of the box set and i don't want it to end! will undeclared fill the void?

not really. :(

no

no it wont but its still great!

really just wait a week and rewatch freaks and geeks again.

max otm

thirded

"watch it again" not "rewatch it again," altho i promise you, you will rewatch it again after youve rewatched it for the first time

depends - did you prefer the Freaks or the Geeks?

I sold my DVD set to John Justen halfway through.

Undeclared remains ace, though.

the geeks, def

that is nonsense it doesn't depend. you should watch Undeclared because it is funny and charming, but it won't fill the void; it is just not as good.

milo's contrarian position continues to befuddle

are the characters in undeclared all lovable and poignant and hilarious like in f&g?

theyre pretty loveable, only sorta poignant, but mostly hilarious. but theyre all also worse actors (for the most part) and while its a more straightforward comedy it loses all the "holy shit this is just what it was like" that f&g has

some of the characters are lovable but on the whole they're less fully-realized than the ones in Freaks and Geeks and there's less poignance because there's just less going on. sometimes Undeclared is very funny, though.

xpost or exactly what max said

screwed by the half-hour format imho

HAHA XPOST: The characters on Undeclared don't really get time to develop anywhere NEAR as much as on F&G, especially with the half-hour format. So, like, not really.

So now Bell you KNOW this is true

best characters on undeclared are all f&g alums, especially eric, who's played by nick andopolis

jason segal is a hero

also <3 david krumholz who has a bit part, why does this dude not get more work?

he has a tv show!!

I'd forgotten his bit part on Undeclared -- this helps explain why he showed up in the Firefly movie!

ARGH WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT -- apparently Whedon/Apatow just got crossed in my mind as "TV people I like"

I did not even know about this tv show! it looks dumb, though.

millie the vampire slayer. xp

"numbers" is ok. hes the best part. his bits on undeclard with segel and kyle gass are YF 4 all time tho!

esp the running gag about his slutty girlfriend who's always cheating on him

he is going to be in the Harold + Kumar sequel-yay!

Oh right, I forgot about Millie getting traded between those two.

And I still maintain that the last episode of Buffy contained a big reference to the last episode of Freaks and Geeks (everyone sitting around playing Dungeons and Dragons with Millie!).

"YF"?