Freaks & Geeks

just got round to watching the first two episodes of this on youtube (major pain in the arse cueing up every ten minute section, tho)cuz i'm a apatow fan anyway... and it's really good! the fake beer party episode is well funny. the fight scenes with the geeks and the bully are spot-on in terms of what most school fights were actually like, grabbing people's legs and stupid shit like that. hehe

I think I made the mistake of finishing my MFA program the semester before James Franco enters it.

aw man

the fake beer party episode is well funny.

"we'd like a keg of beer please."

"don't see that happening."

maybe i should transfer...
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Bill as Jamie Somers = BEYOND CLASSIC

I think I made the mistake of finishing my MFA program the semester before James Franco enters it.

-- nabisco, Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:32 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

you're at nyu? i thought you were at columbia for some reason.

(i read in US weekly that JF is going to nyu next year)

(also i <3 him)

it really is the best show ever isn't it? for all it has its failings

I love TV

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there is a girl that lives in my city and she lures alts back to her den by inviting them over to watch "freaks n geeks" and drink stella artois.

once they are lured inside they watch freaks n geeks for like 10 minutes before she straddles them and then she makes her way with them.

after she has her way with them she cooks them breakfast in the morning and they leave never to hear from her again.

this happened to 6 of my friends and she tried it on me, but i already knew she did it to my friends so i didn't go over because i assumed one of those dirty dudes had the clap or something and also because i knew Freak N Geeks is too mainstream now.

its kinda sad to see who's had huge subsequent success out of this cast - the guys by and large have done really well (with a couple exceptions) but the girls seem to have gotten the shaft. Linda Cardellini has what - the Scooby Doo movies and ER? I wonder how uncomfortable "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" made her...

besides seth rogen & jimmy franco who else is doing good? you think lindsey weir is mad she's on ER instead of how i met your mother?

meanwhile sam weir is guesting on the pam anderson sitcom "stacked" and neil schweiber did a 2 episode run on the steve harvey show

she was also in Grandma's Boy

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" grossed $63 million in the US. I think that counts as "doing good" for Jason Segel. John Francis Daley is a regular on "Bones" now. Don't know what their ratings are like. OTOH, Busy Phillips is on "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."

sam weir is on that one show with the dudes and the microscopes and the white erase boards

martin starr had some apatow movie cameos

well the show essentially had 1 female lead (arguably 2 including Busy Phillips) and half a dozen male leads, so that's not really fair. but being on post-'90s ER is almost like a theoretical success; the ratings are decent and i'm sure it pays well and you're technically famous, but who gives a damn?

basically what it comes down to is Apatow bro'd down with the bros, not the chicks, and thought of them when it came time to cast his film projects.

Rogen/Franco/Segel are all doing really well and look to be bringing Martin Starr along for the ride. John Francis Daly is on a fairly successful primetime TV show. Schweiber seems like the lone male castmember who should resign himself to sitcom guest spots.

As for the girls, Linda's on a show that's on its last legs and is about to be cancelled. Busy Phillips I haven't seen in anything. Haven't seen Millie in anything either, but I dunno if she counts as a "major" character.

basically what it comes down to is Apatow bro'd down with the bros, not the chicks, and thought of them when it came time to cast his film projects.

^^^exactly. which is kinda sad considering how great the girls on the show were. that's all I'm sayin.

yeah i wish busy phillips was in more stuff

i think she just had a baby? she's great.

one love, tuba girl

http://www.iplugin.org/typo3temp/pics/9be2966f6e.jpg

omg

O_O

hotsa hotsa!

woah tammy metzler lookin fly

i found that pic on a page from an "interactive cinematic installation" she did in 2004 (her last imdb credit is '02), btw, so that's some supporting evidence for shakey's premise.

interactive cinematic installation

sounds kinky

nobody from undeclared got famous except rogen

jay baruchel pops up in stuff (tropic thunder, and i think he's in nick & norah's infinite playlist too)

that one chick was in CARNIVALE

that british dude sucked anyways

i said famous homie not "in nick and norahs infinite playlist"

probably more people saw him in tropic thunder than they did on undeclared

homie

british dude was the evil hippie in Children of Men

haha i almost brought up his dreadhead role in that but i figured that isn't really any more an indication of fame than nicky'n'nora's totally kickin' ipod or whatever

also co-starred in the hilarious Green Street Hooligans (hobbits get violent)

He was also Nicholas Nickelby in Nicholas Nickelby.

i did appreciate it when whats-her-face from undeclared was one of the random chicks that jason segal does it with in forgetting sarah marshall

Jay Baruchel was in a movie that won Best Picture:

http://l.yimg.com/img.movies.yahoo.com/ymv/us/img/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/million_dollar_baby/_group_photos/jay_baruchel17.jpg

Being on ER rather than riding the Apatow-crew comedy train might look like a bad turnout in hindsight, but c'mon: that was big-time career success that far outstripped the others, at a time where no sane person would have bet on Seth Rogen ever getting to star in anything, anywhere.

Busy Phillips was on Dawson's Creek, was on ER for a while, and had a major role in a shitty sitcom about a dating agency that rapidly got canceled, which I saw one episode of and Phillips was not exactly saving anything.

Jay Baruchel's in Apatow stuff, Nick and Norah etc., and starred in I'm Reed Fish, and I suspect his current career as a sort of teen-movie Jimmy Fallon is going to work out just fine for him.

The girl who played Vicki Applebee was on Reba forever and is set to star in some newish thing and is probably doing better than Cardinelli, actually.

Millie was on Buffy for a while but is, let's face it: (a) not some kind of stellar acting talent, plus (b) odd-looking in a way that surely makes her pretty hard to cast right now. (Maybe this will change as she gets older.)

I saw tuba-hermaphrodite in something, at some point, and I'm not sure why there's any surprise here that she's hot; she was hot with the tuba, too.

I suspect Jay Baruchel spends a lot of time saying to his agent "lemme guess...Justin Long got the part."

sort of teen-movie Jimmy Fallon

this is really mean

And yes, Sam has a significant recurring role on Bones.

I think the cast members of this show have had a better overall career turnout than most anything I can think of, including a few shows that were kinda huge!

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Linda Cardellini was in a movie that almost won Best Picture:

http://sp1.fotologs.net/photo/49/50/22/linda_cardellini/1217028167288_f.jpg

yeah, I think in some ways being in a well-liked show that gets cancelled quickly is better career-wise than being on a ratings bonanza that locks you into that job for 5-10 years. you don't get the syndication money, but you're open to a lot more opportunities as far as jumping into film.