588: All These Different Jackets

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Buy those bongos and make it a 30-piece drum set, because legendary one-season wonder “Freaks and Geeks” is finally available to stream. This is an amazing show with a fantastic cast about a bunch of geeks and burnouts in Michigan in the early 1980s. It’s a sweet and funny and awkward and painful story about growing up and trying to figure out who you are, while everyone else in the world wants to label you and make sure you never forget your label. We discuss our favorite ancillary characters, the richness of the world of “Freaks and Geeks”, and how...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 5008, November 2021.
0:10.9	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.2	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.4	On this episode, we're going to talk about a beloved TV series.
0:19.0	It lasted one season.
0:26.5	It lasted 18 episodes before NBC canceled. Actually, NBC canceled it way before the 18 episodes aired. We'll talk about it. It's Freaks and Geeks from 1999 and 2000,
0:33.9	a show that when you watch it, you cannot believe who's in it because everybody is in it.
0:41.5	And we'll talk about this wonderful show that I think in some ways is the platonic ideal of the
0:46.3	one and done television series.
0:48.7	But we'll get to it.
0:49.4	Let me introduce my panelists.
0:50.9	Steve Lutz is here.
0:52.1	Hi, Steve.
0:53.1	Hello there, Jason.
0:53.9	I wasn't sure whether I should wear
0:55.2	high karate or old spice, so I chose both. Excellent, excellent. Marko Arment joins us. He has
1:03.4	the 28-piece drum set, I believe. Hi, Marco. Yeah, I like to think I was like one of the cool kids, but I was probably Neil.
1:14.3	Tiff Arment is also here.
1:16.8	She's learning how to load a film projector.
1:20.2	You are a perv, a loser, and a turd.
1:25.7	And Annette Weirstra joins us.
1:28.2	She is the one carrying the tuba.
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