the greatest show on earth. "i don't give a damn 'bout my reputation, you're living in the past it's a new generation." that's the beginning lines to the song that introduces freaks and geeks. hands down the greatest tv show ever made. it was criminally cancelled after one season (just like my so called life). i've just spent most of the past weekend watching all eighteen episodes and as much as it pains me to admit, this show is heads and shoulders above my so called life. i love mscl (and i have the special edition lunchbox to prove it) but i think i can say that i revere freaks and geeks. it's consistently amazing, smart, witty and has the best one liners. why do all great things have to end after one lonely season? once again, i argue that there is no justice or god in this world. crap goes on for decades and hollywood squares gets resurrected? who are these nielsen families? shit. shows should not be evaluated by random people, it should be evaluated by a select panel of individuals who exhibit tremendous taste and insight. ahem. if we leave everything up to the random masses we get crap like....well, we get crap.



i've seen many great dvd series in my time on earth -- mscl, sopranos, sex and the city, the life of mammals, most of 24 -- but honestly, this is the best. praise dvd sets. if commercial-less dvds were a pantheon of gods, i would convert in an instant. i have so much more to say about the show but the sun is rising and i really can't stay up any longer, i have get my rest to enable me to go through all the episodes with commentary and watch the deleted stuff. i guess i know what i'm doing this week. thank you christina -- she let us borrow the set -- for the greatest gift any human has ever bestowed upon another human, short of child birth, which is arguable as a gift anyway. see the first eight minutes of the pilot episode here.



"what's great about the geek spirit is that all of life's obstacles never seem to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism, and our hunger to experience the world. if the world knocks us down, we just get up (albeit slowly sometimes), brush ourselves off, regroup and try again. we keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experiences and then we start again fresh the next day. and from this we grow and understand how the world works and eventually figure out how to find our place and our happiness. and even then, we never stop trying to make it all better. and that, my friends, is the freaks and geeks way."

-paul feig, creator/co-executive producer of freaks and geeks-