Freaks and Geeks 1.01: Pilot Episode
Creator Paul Feig on the pilot episode:
After having spent most of my life seeing shows and movies about high school that I thought never represented my friends and me back then, I decided to try and create a TV series about the experiences I had going to school in Michigan. Hollywood has never been kind to geeks, usually portraying them as snorting, tape-on-their-glasses goofballs; and freaks (or "burnouts", as they were also called) were usually shown as being dark, angry figures who usually ended up in jail. For me, the freaks and the geeks were always the most interesting people in the school, the groups that marched to the beat of their own drummers. And fortunately, at least for 18 episodes, NBC felt that same way too.
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