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I love Undeclared, there really should be a box set.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

Tep OTM about the Freaks being better than the Geeks, probably why I liked Undeclared better.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

I was about to say that, too, only with the me OTM bit. There was like that spree of college-related shows all at around the same time, and I guess it got lost in the shuffle.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

So this is the part where you talk me into/out of getting the 120 dollar vers

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

i got it. it was my birthday present to myself. just looking at it is making me really, really happy.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

but IS IT WORTH IT???

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

yes.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

If I hadn't already spent money on DVDs lately, I'd probably get it, even though I'm not a devoted fan of the show. More sets like this need to come out. And hell, moneywise? It's only a little more expensive than the Sopranos and Star Trek sets, which have barely any extra features in comparison.

(Not to mention the hugely overpriced Prisoner discs.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

linda cardellini went to the same high school i attended, but was five years ahead of me. her locker was above my sister's and apparently she dated one of the two hottest guys in the school (the other one was his twin brother) and used to cry to him all the time because the shallow popular girls only wanted to hang out with her because of her looks and didn't take much notice of her personality and artistic ambitions...

i thought that was sort of a weird story.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

Is the yearbook edition still available outside of eBay? I had heard that it was only offered to the people that signed the petition.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

i'm a dork. i signed the petition.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I just checked the website (which I should have done first) and the limited edition yearbooks are still available. HRMMM. This is causing me mental and physical stress.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER

but you're crazy to diss the beautiful and talented Busy Phillips. Whenever she would utter "Like I give a care," I'd fall in love all over again.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

actually, i think she did a good job with the role. kim is a bit irritating, though on purpose i assume. i liked the mixture of petulance and silliness and suspicion and good-heartedness, but i can see how some could find her grating.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

It's not even that I find her grating so much as just ... bland and intangible. Grain of salt: I feel the same way about Chloe Sevigny in everything but American Psycho.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

I thought Busy was great on Freaks. When she showed up on Dawsons I was like, huh? Linda C is great. Has she done anything sense? How much are they charging for this thing?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

She's the geeky girl in Scooby Doo, I think

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

Busy Phillips gets bonus points for being part of a weird sub-genre of teen-indie movies that I see on cable, always starring Dominique Swain or some other jailbait starlet.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

Linda C is great. Has she done anything sense?

I think she is on ER, but I can't say for sure since I don't watch that show.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

i know!!! "the smokers"!!!

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

dominique swain has become such a straight-to-video siren!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

The Smokers, New Best Friend, Tart, oh so many more.

(woah, the photo on her IMDB page is scarrrry)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

new best friend is the worst friend a moviegoer can have

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

(sorry)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

That one was bad enough that even I couldn't sit through it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

last night i was supposed to go out. since i just got the box set, my friend and i decided to have a few drinks and watch a few episodes first before leaving the house. we never made it. instead, we drank a bottle of stoli and ploughed through 3 of the discs. everyone, go get a copy. borrow or steal $ if necessary. this show was truly amazing, and the kid who played haverchuk is unquestionably a genius.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

$120 :(((((((((((((((((((((

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Linda C is definitely the spunky nurse on ER. She's also Velma in the Scooby Doo movies.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

1an J0hns0n used to look like Sam!!!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to watch this tonight, most definitely.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

This series gets a lot better as it goes. And Biff-from-Back-to-the-Future (I can never remember his real name) is great as the Coach.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

his attempts to bond with bill when he starts dating bill's mom are hysterical.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

OMG I forgot about that.

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

Haverchuk does not have the mohawk anymore.

― lisafrank! (deangulberry), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

i am so jealous that you know haverchuk. UNFAIR!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

his attempts to bond with bill when he starts dating bill's mom are hysterical.

that may have been the best moment in the entire decent, but overrated series. I kinda liked the Dead episode, of course.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

O HOW DARE U

― lisafrank! (deangulberry), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

just finished watching the whole series in 3 days. i feel like i just went through high school again. very happy about the last episode. i was worried about the lack of d&d on the geek side of things.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

Did all teenagers listen to The Who back in 1981 tho'?

The anachronisms (this one didn't seem so off) are really annoying.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

The anachronisms really don't bother me at all -- unlike The Wonder Years, or Happy Days at least some of the time, being a period show doesn't seem to be the point of it. It's set in the early 80s, but it isn't about them.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

wifey signed the petition, but bought the cheap version. also read that Undeclared will make it to dvd.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

I got the cheap version; am I a fool? I had forgotten about the whole Cindy Sherman thing! I read that Linda C. is now on E.R.--I have to watch. I have the biggest crush on Lindsay Weir.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

ehh... just finished the whole thing. sorta sad. and yes, ian johnson did used to look like sam.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I am borrowing this from you ok Jer?

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

THE BEN STILLER EPISODE! WHY?!?!?!?!?!!? V

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Been watching them on DVD, kick ass. We're only 4 episodes in though, then when we finish I get to go back and listen to the 30 COMMENTARY TRACKS I AM SUCH A DORK!

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, Martin Starr is the finest actor of our generation (and I mean that).

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

When you get to the last disc, skip the second episode. Don't watch it. SO FUCKING BAD.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

You're like Marty McFly, giving me advice from the future.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to go back in time and neuter Jerry Stiller.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 28 May 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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martin starr is easily the best thing about this show

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link

Easily?

― The Wally Funk Bible (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

it was so easy for me to say it, therefore yes

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

i just watched the pilot again and bill's awkwardness is so vivid and painful that it doesn't really seem like acting at all

― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link

my overriding memory of this show (which I only saw for the first time 4-5 years ago) is by the end of every episode my other half would be in floods of tears and just saying how much she was like the linda cardinelli character as a kid. there's a truthfulness to this show you don't see much in programmes about young people. the episode where the drummer kid quits playing drums is just so harsh and powerful.

― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Monday, 23 May 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link

Rly want to watch this again, not sure if i can in the uk?

― kinder, Monday, 23 May 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link

Isn't it on netflix? I think it used to be?

― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Monday, 23 May 2016 11:46 (seven years ago) link

it is in the US

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

Been watching this as a family. Been a while, but perfectly cast, well written, very almost unusually nuanced and empathetic. My kids are digging it.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Just saw a 90-min show on it on A&E, worth seeing.

― nickn, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Started this tonight for something I've been working on. Found the first episode slow but promising. This probably came up somewhere on The Virgin Suicides thread, but it's amazing that (from the air/release dates I was able to look up) they scooped Coppola on "Come Sail Away" by a few months (best scene in the pilot, I'd say). Coppola's film also had a key scene with a Down Syndrome character--I don't know if she's ever talked about it, but she seems to have been influenced by the TV show.

― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link

Often great. Enough so that when it wasn't, I wanted its many flaws smoothed over. And when the flaws started to take over, something great would happen.

― clemenza, Saturday, 25 August 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

well this is a big hit w my 12yo daughter

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link

She sees right through Daniel’s bad boy act fyi

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link

My kids *loved* it when we watched it as a family.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link

#raisedright

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link

loved this. the dramatic elements were grounded and relatable, regardless of when you grew up. hell, Nick's failed drumming audition was heartbreaking! or Neil finding out his dad was a low-life.

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link

In hindsight this getting canceled after 1 season was sign of the decline of America

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/01/27/freaks-and-geeks-streaming-hulu-cast-creators-interview/

― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 January 2021 02:27 (three years ago) link

like that article

miss Οὖτις

― Dan S, Sunday, 31 January 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link

good stuff

― Nhex, Sunday, 31 January 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link

This being on Hulu came at the perfect time for quarantine

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:38 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

It's the end of an era. Our very first TV on DVD release, Freaks & Geeks, is going out of print. Includes all original music. All versions - including the Yearbook Edition - are now on our Going Out Of Print page. Get this phenomenal show while you can! https://t.co/SYE96xypMd pic.twitter.com/HKyjbxRIfU
— Shout! Factory (@ShoutFactory) April 21, 2021

― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link

damn. ok guess i will finally pull the trigger on the BR set soon, thx for the info
in all likelihood someone will pick it up someday, but who knows how long that will take

― Nhex, Thursday, 22 April 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link

it won't be "out of print" for long lol

― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 April 2021 02:29 (three years ago) link

I dunno, "Undeclared" is out of print, isn't it?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link

xpost Famous last words wrt physical media.

― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link

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