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JUL 7, 2010


'Freaks and Geeks' TV Party FILM / BIG SCREEN FUN
'Freaks and Geeks' TV Party
Central Cinema

There are two types of people in the world: Those who worship Freaks and Geeks and those who haven't seen it. Ten years after its aborted run on TV, Judd Apatow's high-school dramedy remains the gold standard of teenage angst, and tonight Central Cinema shows a handful of classic episodes on the big screen. (Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave, www.central-cinema.com. 8 pm, free—reserve a seat by purchasing a $5 food-and-beverage voucher.) by David Schmader

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It wasn't really "Judd Apatow's" Freaks And Geeks. Sure, he was very involved in the show and has had the biggest career after, but the sensibility of the show was different than everything else he's done and especially his solo follow-up, Undeclared...and that's largely because of its creator, Paul Feig.
Posted by g on July 7, 2010 at 11:15 AM · Report
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@1 - Ditto. Paul Feig is the genius behind Freaks and Geeks. If you watch Undeclared you can see where Apatow took the Freaks and Geeks formula and turned it into his own brand of sentimental melodrama intermixed with gross out humor. But Paul Feig's vision was much more grounded in real life humiliation and failure as well.
Posted by mmoffatt on July 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM · Report
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So that's why I've never been able to get into "Undeclared"...thanks for the info.
Posted by David Schmader on July 7, 2010 at 11:23 AM · Report
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Well, that and the fact that Undeclared was a half-hour and had no room to breathe...which Judd Apatow has acknowledged. It sounds like he wanted to work with some of the same folks again but do something lighter and seemingly more commercial...which bombed as bad as Freaks and Geeks as far as that goes. But yeah...I loved F&G and bought the Undeclared box but a few years later still haven't managed to get through the whole thing. Later in the series Jason Segal does turn up doing his pathetic-dumped-crying-sadsack routine, which is always fun.
Posted by g on July 7, 2010 at 11:32 AM · Report
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Once nice scene that's all Apatow is Bill watching Garry Shandling do stand-up on television. (Man, I guess I've geeked out on this series a bit...)
Posted by g on July 7, 2010 at 11:34 AM · Report
rara avis 6
this show was the purest, most perfect thing ever shown on television. yes, i fall in the worshiper camp - i want seven minutes in heaven with bill haverchuck!
Posted by rara avis on July 7, 2010 at 12:47 PM · Report
David Schmader 7
KIM KELLY IS MY FRIEND.
Posted by David Schmader on July 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM · Report
Fnarf 8
Feig has written a couple of books that are well worth reading, "Kick Me" and "Superstud", which shed some light on where "Freaks and Geeks" came from (as if anyone who ever went to high school doesn't know where it came from).

Among the many, many, many great things in this series, I think my favorite is still Nick playing his 29-piece drum kit. And facing military school when he fails.

Failure is the central American experience, but is so seldom even tangentially addressed in media. "Freaks and Geeks" is miles and miles better than any movie made in this country in the past decade or more.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on July 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM · Report

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