Seth Rogen, who performed Ken Miller on Freaks and Geeks, remembers dropping out of highschool after he obtained the job.

Joan Jett might not give a rattling about her reputation however the solid of Freaks and Geeks higher absolutely notice that of the short-lived cult collection. And by and massive, they do. Really, how can anybody deny the affect that the Paul Feig-created and Judd Apatow-produced dramedy had on the careers of Linda Cardellini, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, John Francis Daley, Samm Levine, Martin Starr, and Busy Phillipps? Yeah, it was that stacked of a solid earlier than we even knew it.

One who continues to be reminded of simply how impactful Freaks and Geeks was is Seth Rogen, who performed “freak” stoner Ken. As he instructed Entertainment Tonight, “I still am good friends with a lot of the people that were on the show. People kept watching it — I meet teenagers all the time who come up to me and say they love the show.” You can rely myself amongst this ever-growing legion of followers of the cult present, having caught it when it first aired in 1999. Unfortunately – however in all probability justly, lest Freaks and Geeks burn out – the present solely lasted one season. (MTV really tried choosing up the present after its cancellation however Apatow turned down the provide over monetary and artistic causes.)

Rogen – who would quickly sufficient write a handful of episodes of religious follow-up Undeclared – additionally remembered an particularly ironic tidbit about his time on Freaks and Geeks. “That is crazy. I was 16, 17 years old when we were making that show. I dropped out of high school to go pretend to be in high school.”

Considering we’re in the period of rebooting for nostalgic causes, it’s type of stunning in a approach that Freaks and Geeks hasn’t made the leap – then once more, with so many tasks for the solid inside the Apatow Cinematic Universe, it’s like there have already got been a number of. And if you need one thing akin to Freaks and Geeks in small display screen kind, I extremely advocate the college-set Undeclared, which lasted one episode lower than Freaks and Geeks.

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