Freaks & Geeks

yeah agreed except for maybe superbad, which is probably the closest to f&g of any of the apatow movies.

I think one of them claimed they started working on the Superbad script when they were 14 or something.

Is this show really as good as everyone says it is? I've never seen it.

I think you'd like it, Mr. Snrub.

i remember watching this when i was like 14(?), forgetting almost all about it until last year, and re-watching every episode in about a week on veoh last year. i've got it on dvd now. one of those things that you think cant be as good as everyone says but i just love it

last year...last year

I didn't watch this show until a few years ago but burned through the DVDs in one weekend. I should probably rewatch them again soon.

after all this time, STILL NO REGION TWO DVD. hurrah for other ways to watch this in the UK.

this is the mitochondrial eve of quirky cinema, right, yeah, right?

no that would be Woody Allen

that's like the first mammal. this is the small band of 100 ppl that migrated from africa

its certainly mitochondrial something for Apatow's stable of current stars

i think it might be undeclared tbh

After 10 years of delaying watching this for no good reason, I've spent the last week falling in love with the show and just a few minutes ago finished the last episode. Sad it's over.

Favorite scene of the entire series: Bill stuffing his face and laughing at the same time to Gary Shandling doing stand-up on tv. Sounds ridiculous, but that scene had a lot of weight to it.

And speaking of Bill, he and Kim were that show's secret weapons. I thought I was going to fall in love with Lindsay after the first couple episodes, but it developed into a big love for Bill and Kim equally.

It won't be anytime soon, but I'm sure I'll mark off a week sometime in the future and watch the whole series again.

I also watched this for the first time recently. I don't have anything interesting or new to say - yeah yeah, basically as good as anything I've ever seen.

I also hopped on this bandwagon in the past couple of weeks. great show, almost everything rang pretty true for me.

BILL FUCKING HAVERCHUCK - why is Martin Starr not riding the crest of the Apatow wave?

srsly

I only realized about half way through watching Freaks & Geeks that I'd just seen Martin Starr in in Adventureland playing a not-entirely-different kind of character. I assume he'll be instantly recognizable to me if I go back and watch some of the Apatow movies again as well. <3 that dude.

Literally just started watching it for the first time after being brow-beaten into it by a friend (also all the James Franco love around here lately wasn't discouraging). I thought it would be uncomfortably awkward and hard to watch, but it isn't, at least not so far. Definitely ringing true.

"I prefer to get high on life!"

Martin's doing really well, though, Pillbox - the great Party Down series on Starz, Knocked Up, Adventureland, and I spotted him in the trailer for the upcoming Ricky Gervais movie as well. He does deserve a lead role in something big, for sure (more so than Rogen, of that cast).

http://10.media.tumblr.com/GC6hrM4xRoagrx3hORJmQRW1o1_400.gif

awesome

Is this show really as good as everyone says it is? I've never seen it.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, April 13, 2009 2:33 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark

Three episodes/one disk in (fuck a Netflix), it's not THAT good but it's okay. Why is the blond girl such an insufferable bitch?

the geeks >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the freaks

I don't understand what's so "freak"y about the freaks. I expected there to be, like, dyed hair and tottoos and tons of boy piercings and shit.

So I got this box set for Christmas, and I'm watching it all for the first time. Does the editing ever get any better? Or am I doomed forever to watch 10 second reaction shots after each line?
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:45 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ This is completely OTM.

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Why is the blond girl such an insufferable bitch? If she doesn't become your (at least) second-favorite character by the end of the show's run, you're doing it wrong.

Gosh Mr Snrub and Melissa don't like one of my fav shows, I cry and cry and cry

Btw Snrub it is set in like 1980, v few boy piercings at the time

also in suburban michigan

Wait until the last disc for the punk stuff.

BTW I just saw Gruber (who played Mr. Rosso, the guidance counselor) as the warm-up act for Cinematic Titanic (with two other F&G actors.) He did a piece set to "Year of the Cat"--pretty funny.

Just finished the last two discs. I admit this show did grow on me a lot. And I for one LOVED the Ben Stiller episode. Sam breaking up with Cindy was so cute! It was the very last episode (the Dungeons and Dragons one) that really turned me off. Where was Amy the Tuba Girl? Whatever happened to Maureen, the girl that actually enjoyed hanging out with the geeks? Lindsey becomes a Deadhead? Ehhhh...

Whatever. Still a really good show. favorite bits: the geeks watching the porno movie, Neal crying to his mom (Where is the love for Neal?? He is totally my favorite character.), Sam dumping Cindy because she didn't laugh at The Jerk, Millie playing "Jesus Is Just Alright" on the piano and Nick joining in enthusiastically, the dad playing Gene Krupa to Nick and Nick just totally has his mind blown, the whole Seth Rogen and Tuba Girl storyline, the geeks taking Maureen going to the all-you-can-eat buffet, the freaks getting fake IDs to see the awesome new back Feedback and then they find Mr. Rosso is a member of the band, Bill's dancing

Bill watching Gary Shandling

They did the finale 13th in production order and the "tuba girl" episode last (17th), because they wanted to have a finale at the ready when the imminent cancellation came, so they did it early. I don't think Amy was even introduced at that point, sadly. And Maureen went with the popular crowd at the end of the episode she was in, did she not? I am positive that if they had gotten a second season, plenty more would have been done with both of those characters.

Maureen also showed up at the hospital when Bill nearly died from eating peanuts.

That episode never aired, a DVD-only ur a traet.

http://www.ifc.com/news/television/

Tricks and Treats is probably my favorite episode of the show (competing against the "lost" episode w/ Mike White), in part because the Geek story is as good as (or even better) than the Freak story. So good!

Have been watching these every Friday night since IFC started airing them -- never seen the show until then. Love, love, love this show. To the point of obsession and yes, I am going to get the DVD set so I can rewatch this like I rewatch West Wing.

Bill Haverchuk, I love you. Especially when you cry in the back seat of Biff the gym teacher's car.

Marc Maron interviewed Apatow a few weeks ago on his WTF podcast, and they talked about the scene when Bill comes home from his bad day at school, makes a grilled cheese sandwich and sits down in front of the tv & watches Gary Shandling on tv. Apatow said that was probably the most personal scene he wrote for the show. Love love that scene so much, the way Bill is laughing so hard he's pointing to his mouth like he's saying "Gary stop it I'm trying to eat!".

And I just love the little bits between Sam and Neil and Bill when they bond over the movies they've just seen or the comedy sketches they like, when they talk about Airplane (Stop calling me Shirly lol), or trying to stay awake to watch SNL...very cool.

Also the guidance counsellor reminds me of the hippie "lesbian seagull" teacher in Beavis & Butthead.

The grilled cheese/Garry Shandling thing hit very close to home for me.

It's just so right. No speaking, just the music over top...it's really touching.

Also: (sorry, abrupt mood change) Bill dressing up as the Bionic Woman for Halloween made me cry tears of laughter. "I'm sorry Steve Austin, I can't marry you. I'm mad at you right now.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ulr6K6qqlI

The grilled cheese/Garry Shandling thing hit very close to home for me.

― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Saturday, October 2, 2010 10:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Ditto, me too. In fact, it was so eerily on-the-nose that I combed through the show's credits looking for a name I recognized, assuming that someone I knew in middle school was involved with the episode.

I knew a guy in middle school who watched Garry Shandling while he ate grilled cheese. YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS NOW?

:)

I also used to play drums along to Exit...Stage Left.

Favorite scene of the entire series: Bill stuffing his face and laughing at the same time to Gary Shandling doing stand-up on tv. Sounds ridiculous, but that scene had a lot of weight to it.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, August 9, 2009 2:43 AM

Yeah, I heard Judd on the WTF podcast say that was the most personal scene for him, and I knew I wasn't just imagining it. That was such a magnificently crafted scene. Just thinking about it makes me feel kind of heavy.

they just talked about that scene on the ifc site: http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/10/revived-and-derived-freaks-and.php