"Freaks and Geeks" The Little Things (2000)

User Rating:

9.2/10   

Director:

Jake Kasdan

Writers:

Jon Kasdan (story) &
Judd Apatow (story) ...

TV Series:

"Freaks and Geeks" (1999)

Original Air Date:

8 July 2000 (Season 1, Episode 17)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | 1980s | Geek | High School | Sporting Goods Store

Cast

Linda Cardellini	...	Lindsay Weir
John Francis Daley	...	Sam Weir
James Franco	...	Daniel Desario
Samm Levine	...	Neal Schweiber
Seth Rogen	...	Ken Miller
Jason Segel	...	Nick Andopolis
Martin Starr	...	Bill Haverchuck
Becky Ann Baker	...	Jean Weir
Joe Flaherty	...	Harold Weir
Busy Philipps	...	Kim Kelly
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dave Allen	...	Jeff Rosso (as Dave 'Gruber' Allen)
Steve Bannos	...	Frank Kowchevski
Michael Beardsley	...	Humphries
Trace Beaulieu	...	Hector Lacovara
Jessica Campbell	...	Amy Andrews
Joanna Garcia	...	Vicki Appleby
Sarah Hagan	...	Millie Kentner
Matt McKane	...	Mike Stevens (as Matthew McKane)
Natasha Melnick	...	Cindy Sanders
Jerry Messing	...	Gordon Crisp
Stephen Lea Sheppard	...	Harris Trinsky
Riley Smith	...	Todd Schellinger
Shawn Soong	...	Stroker
Ben Stiller	...	Agent Meara

Runtime:

43 min (approx.)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Company:

Apatow Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In this episode, set in 1981, Harris quotes Yoda as saying "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." The quotation is from Return of the Jedi, which would not be released until 1983.

Movie Connections:

Features The Jerk (1979)

Freaks and Geeks, Episode 17 titled The Little Things...

Before watching this brilliantly insane episode, go here ---

http://www.harpers.org/DontHaveACowMan.html

and read that website from top to bottom. Freaks and Geeks, this episode is a Judd Apatow reel! Mr Apatow is putting irony and wit into US comedy that's so sharp it could slice every blade of grass in your lawn by exactly half! Respect to the man whom a few years ago now, made it possible for The Larry Sanders Show to stay on the air. Larry was the Spinal Tap of television. I'm sure, as with anyone who caught this show, I don't need to say it was nothing short of genius. And in regard to the above website where Judd Apatow becomes 'Artie' and Mark Brazill becomes that 'corporate cock sucking network exec' who came from upstairs to regurgitate the same 'sickly crap' over and over until all you had on your hands was a smelly office and dud sitcom to clean up!

It's also worth noting that this episode in question of The Larry Sanders Show is the one when Artie lands 'one' on the networks hound face, literally. Knocking em for 6. Mark Brazill (among many others) fell uncomfortably in the late 90's and are all being nursed back to health by Domino's Pizza sponcerers, Walmart and KFC... But, the jokes on him. He would never get them to deliver to the place, far away, where is career currently is...on the Third Rock From the Sun!

Hollywood vs all the Jud Apatow's...

"Rip Torn is my Dad"