Freaks & Geeks

the... drawl? time to bone up on your descriptions of north american accents!

lol ok touchy. i don't mean southern drawl, just, 'drawl' as in longer vowel sounds

:)

really I've only noticed him having some odd intonation when drawing out those vowels, there's an undercurrent of his original accent where he has to try not to say "caehn't" instead of "caaahn't"

that's what I meant, lol

just watched this for the first time ever. feeling bereft now it is ended. SO good. i may type more, but Max nails it best with "the 'holy shit this is just what it was like' that f&g has".

also LOL at gabbneb being too evolved for F&G.

yeah this show is all-time. I'd still put several other series ahead of it (Sopranos, Mad Men, Twilight Zone) but damn its emotional honesty with its characters is pretty unmatched

it has such a great arc. even though i wish there were more episodes, it tells a story - Lindsay's story - so well, and so completely.

I rewatched it and the bill actor kind of made me real sad because, to me, in F&G, he was the best actor of the bunch. Like just miles ahead of everyone else, and nowadays, as an actor, he doesn't seem to do even a tenth of what he was doing as a kid, idk

I kinda liked the Dead episode, of course.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, April 16, 2004 12:06 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was the best actor of the bunch

no doubt. I think he's been given fewer opportunities tho. most casting directors are probably all "too goofy lookin"

life must be so strange when you have an actually masterful professional achievement at a young age

Starr sometimes seems miles ahead of every other actor in the history of moving pictures, let alone the cast. But there's not necessarily scope in Hollywood for him to give that level of performance often, and he probably just has different priorities as an adult anyway. He certainly seems very happy being understated to the point of torpor, for comedic purposes, as himself.

That said, his Party Down character just about could be Bill Haverchuck grown up.

at least he's working way more than the other geeks.

John Francis Daley has been a regular on "Bones" on FOX for like four seasons now.

I think Cardellini is almost as good in F&G, and has been even more shamefully underused; I mean, at least Starr has Party Down.

I've never seen Party Down (what is it?)

god forbid I watch an episode of ER or a SCooby Doo reboot movie tho

shakey i'm jealous of you not having watched Party Down, you need to do so right away.

party down is definitely worth watching - cancelled f/x dark ensemble comedy with adam scott, lizzy caplan, ken marino and a bunch of other funny people, including martin starr

hm I do like Lizzy Caplan

party down was on starz, it was pretty great.

oh yeah starz not f/x

John Francis Daley has been a regular on "Bones" on FOX for like four seasons now.

and has had two multimillion dollar movies produced

i just remember that it got really awful ratings even for a starz show. there was a sorta party down reunion on an episode of children's hospital once.

In 2012 it was announced that Goldstein and Daley would co-direct their script for the reboot to the 1983 comedy film National Lampoon's Vacation. The working title is National Lampoon's Theme Park Vacation. Ed Helms is slated to play the adult Rusty Griswold.
xp

lol sorry adult Michael Anthony Hall, someone lost your phone number

just watched this for the first time ever. feeling bereft now it is ended. SO good. i may type more, but Max nails it best with "the 'holy shit this is just what it was like' that f&g has".

― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Friday, April 5, 2013 11:56 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loaned F&G to a friend of mine who was in that age range of the characters, having gone to a suburban high school in 1980-81. She found it eerie to the point of being almost disturbing.

yeah i watched freaks and geeks when it was running when i was...i don't know i must have been in middle school or early HS...but its verisimilitude was pretty moving

John Francis Daley has been a regular on "Bones" on FOX for like four seasons now.

and has had two multimillion dollar movies produced

sure but who watches "Bones"

lol sorry adult Michael Anthony Hall, someone lost your phone number

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, April 5, 2013 11:58 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and forgot your name

michael anthony hall is the college building built with a generous donation by van halen's bassist

lol

interesting that the rusty from xmas vacation has gone on to be on two major sitcoms, while the vastly superior rusty from european vacation is now just the blonde from gossip girl's older brother and people don't even remember the proper order of anthony michael hall's name (he turned down doing european vacation, so he can't feel too jilted)

oh wait michael anthony hall is his actual name? weird.

Michael Anthony, Anthony Michael, it's all the same when nobody wants to hire you anymore.

Cardellini was an amazing performance to be sure; always disappointed she didn't do more, or really anything near that level dramatically again. I wonder how much Forgetting Sarah Marshall impacted her career, if at all.

why would that impact her career

the people who know that she dated a dude she was on a show with, that said dude wrote that movie, and that he supposedly was inspired by his own experiences

so probably like five or six people

oh I got the subtext of the movie, I just don't see why any producers/directors would care that her ex-bf made a movie about her being a bitch

probably not - i think ER ending and that movie just kinda happened around the same time

if anything some producer is probably hoping she does the same to some other guy, because hollywood loves a good whiny heartbroken man film these days

Cardellini doesn't even really look human anymore

what... she looks the same but 13 years older

there's a...deadness there now

She's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQgzEufTcS30pMQGuF3lN-dYqxmPBRqcZpC6IOuMtm8pteNt_OgRQ

whoa i do not follow blogs or w/e but i didnt realize sarah marshall was supposed to be her

She is also Chris Cooper's oil developer character in The Muppets because Segel is unable to write fiction and everything in all his scripts is transcribed directly from his real life

sic is on to something

sexy, sexy Chris Cooper