Freaks and Geeks is an American comedy-drama Comedy-drama, also known as dramedy or seriocomedy, is a genre of television, theatre, and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content television series, created by Paul Feig and executive produced An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also film producer, line producer by Judd Apatow Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well-known for making a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy films, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the critically acclaimed, that aired on NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank, California. It is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network" due to its stylized peacock logo, created originally for color during the 1999–2000 television season. Eighteen episodes were completed, but the series was canceled after only twelve had aired.
A fan A fan, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person with an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking and enthusiasm for something. Fans of a particular thing or person constitute its fanbase or fandom. They often show their enthusiasm by starting a fan club, holding fan conventions, creating fanzines, writing fan mail, or promoting-led campaign caused NBC to broadcast the remaining three episodes in July 2000; three earlier, unaired episodes would not be seen until September of that year, when the cable network Fox Family Channel ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a division of The Walt Disney Company. ABC Family offers contemporary and inclusive programming, including series, movies, events, and enhanced ABC encore presentations. It was founded in 1977 as an extension of televangelist Pat Robertson's ministry, aired them in syndication In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in countries where television is scheduled by networks with local affiliates, particularly in the United States. In the rest of the world, however, most. The complete series was later released on DVD.
Despite a quick cancellation and only one season with 18 episodes, Freaks and Geeks developed a devoted cult following. The series appeared on Time Time is an American news magazine. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. As of 2009, Time no longer publishes a Canadian advertiser edition. The South Pacific edition, magazine's 2007 "100 Greatest Shows of All Time" list,[1] and in 2008 Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Unlike celebrity-focused publications Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW's primary concentration is on entertainment media and critical reviews. Unlike Variety and ranked it the 13th-best series of the past 25 years.[2]
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Plot
The show centered on a teenage Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood (age of majority), but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage. According to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, for example, a young adult is generally a person between the ages girl, Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), and her brother, Sam (John Francis Daley John Francis Daley is an American television and film actor, singer, and director. He plays Lance Sweets on the series Bones and played Sam Weir on the NBC comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks. He plays keyboards and vocals for the band Dayplayer), both attending William McKinley High School High school is used in some parts of the world, particularly in United Kingdom, North America and Oceania to describe an institution that provides all or part of secondary education. The term "high school" originated in Scotland with the world's oldest being the Royal High School in 1505. It spread to the New World owing to the high during the 1980–1981 school year in the town of Chippewa, Michigan, a fictional suburb of Detroit.
Their friends, respectively, constituted the "freaks" — Daniel Desario (James Franco James Edward Franco is an American actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films. In 2001 he played the title role in Mark Rydell's television biographical film James Dean, which earned him a Golden), Ken Miller (Seth Rogen Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer and film producer. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy for four years during his teens, coming in second place in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest when he was 16. While still living in Canada, he auditioned for (and ultimately landed) a supporting role in Freaks and Geeks. After he), Nick Andopolis (Jason Segel Jason Jordan Segel is an American television and film actor, screenwriter and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, and I Love You, Man, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your), Kim Kelly (Busy Philipps) — and the "geeks The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "One who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, etc." Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs" — Neal Schweiber (Samm Levine) and Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) — of the title. The Weirs' parents, Harold (Joe Flaherty) and Jean (Becky Ann Baker), were featured in every episode. Millie Kentner (Sarah Hagan Sarah Margaret Hagan is an American television and movie actress), Lindsay's nerdy, highly religious former best friend, was a recurring character, as was Cindy Sanders (Natasha Melnick), the pretty, popular cheerleader on whom Sam had a crush.
The show's starting point was Lindsay's transition from her life as an academically proficient student, star mathlete, and proper young girl, with Millie as her like-minded best friend, to an Army-jacket-wearing teenager who hangs out with troubled slackers. Her relationships with her new friends, and the friction they cause with her parents and with her own self-image, form one central strand of the show; the other follows Sam and his group of geeky friends as they navigate a very different part of the social universe trying to fit in.
Cast and characters
Main article: List of Freaks and Geeks charactersWeir family
- Linda Cardellini as Lindsay Weir
- John Francis Daley John Francis Daley is an American television and film actor, singer, and director. He plays Lance Sweets on the series Bones and played Sam Weir on the NBC comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks. He plays keyboards and vocals for the band Dayplayer as Sam Weir
- Joe Flaherty as Harold Weir
- Becky Ann Baker as Jean Weir
Geeks
- Samm Levine as Neal Schweiber
- Martin Starr as Bill Haverchuck
- Sarah Hagan Sarah Margaret Hagan is an American television and movie actress as Millie Kentner
- Jerry Messing as Gordon Crisp
- Stephen Lea Sheppard as Harris Trinsky
Freaks
- James Franco James Edward Franco is an American actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films. In 2001 he played the title role in Mark Rydell's television biographical film James Dean, which earned him a Golden as Daniel Desario
- Busy Philipps as Kim Kelly
- Jason Segel Jason Jordan Segel is an American television and film actor, screenwriter and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, and I Love You, Man, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your as Nick Andopolis
- Seth Rogen Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer and film producer. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy for four years during his teens, coming in second place in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest when he was 16. While still living in Canada, he auditioned for (and ultimately landed) a supporting role in Freaks and Geeks. After he as Ken Miller
Faculty
- Dave "Gruber" Allen as Mr. Rosso
- Steve Bannos Steve Bannos is an American television and film actor and writer. As an actor, he may be best known for his portrayal of Frank Kowchevski on the short-lived NBC dramedy Freaks and Geeks as Mr. Kowchevski
- Trace Beaulieu Trace Beaulieu is an American puppeteer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) as Mr. Lacovara
- Steve Higgins as Mr. Fleck
- Leslie Mann Mann was born in San Francisco, California and graduated from Corona del Mar High School. She began her career at the age of 17, with appearances in television commercials. In 1995, Mann was chosen from an open audition of 500 candidates for her first big movie role in The Cable Guy . Since then, she has appeared in films such as She's the One, as Ms. Foote
- Thomas F. Wilson as Coach Fredricks
Guest stars and cameo appearances
Early on, the creators of the show were not open to the idea of having guest stars on the show. A denied suggestion from NBC was to have a pop icon like Britney Spears Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent appear as a waitress in one episode. Many of the program's crew, including producer Judd Apatow Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well-known for making a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy films, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the critically acclaimed, thought that such guest-star appearances would greatly detract from the show's quality and realism. However, lesser-known "guest stars" would make occasional unhyped appearances on the show. As the producers began to fear an imminent cancellation, Apatow's old friend Ben Stiller Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara made an appearance as a Secret Service The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States Department of Treasury agent in the second-to-last episode of the program, but the appearance only aired after the series had been cancelled.
Other notable guest appearances were made by Thomas F. Wilson (in the recurring role of Coach Fredericks), Chauncey Leopardi (in the recurring role of bully Alan White), Shaun Weiss (in the recurring role of student Sean and the bass player in Nick's band), Joel Hodgson Joel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007 MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com. Hodgson is currently "movie riffing" with (in the recurring role of a salesman who loves disco Disco is a genre of dance music whose popularity peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco was a reaction by New York City's gays as well as black and Latino heterosexuals), Joanna García (in the recurring role of head cheerleader Vicki Appleby), Kayla Ewell (in the recurring role of pretty new transfer student Maureen Sampson), David Koechner David Koechner is an American character actor (film, television and stage), comedian and musician (as a waiter), Kevin Corrigan (as Millie's delinquent cousin), Jason Schwartzman (as a student dealing in fake IDs), Allen Covert (as the liquor store clerk), Matt Czuchry (as a student from rival Lincoln High), Claudia Christian Christian was born in Glendale, California. Her first role on television was a guest appearance on Dallas, followed by a series regular role as Melody Hughes on the short-lived drama Berrenger's. She is most famous for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series Babylon 5. She left the series unexpectedly following (as Bill's mother), Shia LaBeouf Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian (as the school mascot that gets hurt), Samaire Armstrong (as "Deadhead" Laurie), Ben Foster Ben Foster is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies Liberty Heights and Get Over It, as well as the action films Hostage, X-Men: The Last Stand, Alpha Dog, 3:10 to Yuma, 30 Days of Night, and most recently in the science fiction film Pandorum (who appeared as the mentally handicapped student Eli, and often hyped the show while promoting the film Liberty Heights), and Alexander Gould (as Ronnie, the boy Lindsay babysits while high). Veteran character actor Kevin Tighe also appeared in two episodes as Nick's father.
Many of the writers appeared on the show at one point or another. Mike White, for instance, played Kim Kelly's oft-discussed injured brother, first appearing in the fourth episode "Kim Kelly is My Friend". Paul Feig and Gabe Sachs appear uncredited as members of the fictional band "Dimension" in "I'm With the Band". Michael Andrews, the original score composer for the series, plays the role of Dimension's lead singer. Steve Bannos Steve Bannos is an American television and film actor and writer. As an actor, he may be best known for his portrayal of Frank Kowchevski on the short-lived NBC dramedy Freaks and Geeks played the recurring role of the math teacher Mr. Kowchevski.
Other notable guest stars include David Krumholtz David Krumholtz is an American actor best known for his work on the CBS television show Numb3rs as Neal's brother Barry, Lizzy Caplan as Sara, and Rashida Jones as Karen Scarfoli, first appearing in the fourth episode, "Kim Kelly is My Friend".
Punk rock band Diesel Boy appears and performs in the "Noshing and Moshing" episode.
Opening sequence
The series' opening sequence depicts each of the main characters, with the exception of Kim Kelly (Busy Philipps), having their high school yearbook photo taken as the song "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts plays.
Episodes
Main article: List of Freaks and Geeks episodesThe show ran for eighteen episodes, three of which were unaired by NBC and not seen until Fox Family began running the show in 2000, and the final three episodes were premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image prior to being broadcast on television.
Ratings
The show averaged 6.77 million viewers and was #93 in the rankings during its only season.[3]
DVD, CD and book releases
On April 6, 2004, a six-DVD DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs , but are capable of storing just under seven times as much data Freaks and Geeks box set A box set is a compilation of various musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related items that are contained in a box was released through Shout! Factory. A limited "yearbook edition" set including two additional discs was also available through the official website for the show. Fans who had signed an online petition to get the show on DVD got priority in purchasing the special set. A CD A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982. In 2010, they remain the standard physical storage medium for audio soundtrack A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound was released on September 14, 2004.
In November 2004, two Freaks and Geeks books were released, titled Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Scripts, Volume 1 and Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Scripts, Volume 2. Both published by Newmarket Press, each book covers nine scripts from the series as compiled by Paul Feig and Judd Apatow Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well-known for making a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy films, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the critically acclaimed themselves. Extra content includes behind-the-scenes memos and notes, photos, additional plotlines and excerpts from the Freaks and Geeks series bibles.
On November 25, 2008, the deluxe "Yearbook Edition" boxed set was re-released. The set features all of the episodes, commentaries, and special features of the "Complete Series" six-DVD set, plus two extra discs and deluxe packaging. It is packaged as a 80-page color yearbook with essays, pictures, and episode synopses.
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