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- Through the adventures of both groups of students, Freaks and Geeks addresses a variety of issues, including bullying, peer pressure, sex and dating, social status, body image, parental expectations, academic achievement, and divorce. The plot is heavily based on the writers’ own high-school experiences.
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Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama television series created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Judd Apatow that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season. The show is set in a suburban high school near Detroit during 1980–81.
- John Francis Daley (Sam Weir) was the only cast member playing a character his or her age. Daley was 14 in real life and on TV. Linda Cardellini, then 24, played his 16-year-old sister Lindsay.
- The camera crew was under strict orders to make scenes look drab. Freaks and Geeks takes place in fictional Chippewa, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The crew used green and gray-tinted lights to achieve so-called Midwestern colors on the show's set in California.
- Most of the show's budget was spent on music. The show's 18 episodes featured snippets of more than 120 songs, including Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" in the opening credits.
- Executive producer Judd Apatow might not have worked on Freaks and Geeks at all. Getty Images. He took the job after Fox didn't pick up his pilot Sick in the Head, a sitcom about a rookie psychiatrist's first days working the psych ward.
Freaks and Geeks: Created by Paul Feig. With Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Samm Levine. A high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.
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- 1999-09-25
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3 days ago · “Freaks and Geeks” was quickly canceled but it launched many careers and remains revered. With, clockwise from top left, Seth Rogen, Samm Levine, Jason Segel, Martin Starr, James Franco, Linda ...
Aug 20, 2024 · Freaks and Geeks, cult-classic teen coming-of-age television series focusing on two groups of high-school students in suburban Michigan in 1980. Freaks and Geeks aired on the NBC network for one season from 1999 to 2000 before its cancellation.
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Dec 6, 2012 · Created as veiled autobiography by Paul Feig and developed with executive producer Judd Apatow and supervising director Jake Kasdan, the series gathered a cult following during its on-again,...
Nov 13, 2015 · Freaks and Geeks is arguably one of the most authentic television shows about the American high-school experience—the social ineptitude, the awkwardness, the struggle to figure out who you are...
