<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"A couple of weeks ago, I was taking a break from catching up on Heroes and decided to rewatch one of my all-time favorite TV shows - Freaks and Geeks. The show, which (sadly) only lasted 18 episodes, aired from 1999 to 2000, and told the story of siblings Lindsay and Sam Weir, and their friends, the &amp;quot;freaks&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;geeks&amp;quot; in the title, as they attempt to navigate their way through high school in the 1980s. Not only do the characters actually look like they&amp;#039;re in high school (which seems to be a rarity these days) but the show makes the high school experience feel very real. I like a lot of the shows that are on today, but this is probably the only show I&amp;#039;ve watched where it seems like viewers can actually relate to the high school-aged characters. Watching it is great for another reason too \u2014 I only realized how many actors got their start on the show once I started re-watching it. The series was created by Judd Apatow, who is behind some of the biggest hits in the last few years \u2014 Knocked Up,  The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Superbad, to name a few \u2014 and a lot of the actors who star in those films got their start on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the next show that Apatow created. Jason Segal from Forgetting Sarah Marshall is here, and at least half of the Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared casts make appearances in Superbad and Knocked Up. Seth Rogen, probably the biggest star in what&amp;#039;s been called the Judd Apatow comedy mafia, got his start acting on Freaks and Geeks when he was 17. Freaks and Geeks ended before it&amp;#039;s time, but the series has been available on DVD for a few years, and is definitely worth checking out, not only to see where a lot of these actors got their start, but because I still think it&amp;#039;s one of the best shows out there, even if it didn&amp;#039;t last very long. Have you ever watched it? Tell me! Whitney Portnoy CosmoGirl! Photo Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a10261/daily-kiss-freaks-geeks/>