“Set in 1980 at the fictional McKinley High in Detroit, Freaks and Geeks focused on two groups of outsiders: the stoners, tough kids and bad girls, and the brains, nerds and squares. The program quickly became legendary as a smart, funny and authentic testimonial to the (few) highs and (many more) horrors of high school for the kids who don’t fit in.” And, in a move that real-life freaks and geeks everywhere could relate to, the show got shoved into a locker by its network after only one season.
Shout! Factory pays respect to the cult series created by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad) and Paul Feig (The Office, Arrested Development) by releasing the Freaks and Geeks: Yearbook Edition, “The Ultimate Tribute to One of the Greatest TV Shows Ever.” The Yearbook Edition is presented as an authentic 80-page William McKinley High School yearbook, with front and back pages “signed” by the show’s characters. Packed with exclusive essays, trivia, memorabilia, rare photos, and episode synopses, it contains all the episodes and extras of The Complete Series 6-DVD set, plus 2 bonus DVDs filled with six hours of additional extras never before available in stores:
- Museum of Television & Radio Panel Discussion
- Complete Script for a Never-Shot Episode
- Three Full-Episode Table Reads
- Deleted Scenes
- Original Cast Audition Footage
- Raw Footage
- Mr. Rosso Live in Concert
- Sober Students Improv Players
- Tales of the Secret Service
- Photo Galleries
- NBC Promos and EPK
- Behind the Scenes
- Seven Minutes in Heaven
- Graduation
- Thanks, Goodbye
“It’s one of the most insanely complete TV artifacts ever.” — Time Magazine
“An obsessive labor of love.” — New York Times
Series stars Linda Cardellini (ER), James Franco (Spider-Man, Pineapple Express), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Kung Fu Panda), and Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) graduated from Freaks and Geeks to go on to big Hollywood careers, so this box set serves as a career spotlight for them, as well as for the show’s many guest stars and cameo appearances, including Ben Stiller (There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Madagascar), Thomas F. Wilson (Back to the Future trilogy), Joel Hodgson (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Trace Beaulieu (Mystery Science Theater 3000), David Koechner (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Office), Kevin Corrigan (Pineapple Express), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees), Allen Covert (The Wedding Singer and many other Adam Sandler movies), Matt Czuchry (Gilmore Girls), Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Samaire Armstrong (The O.C., Entourage), Ben Foster (X-Men: The Last Stand, 30 Days of Night), Alexander Gould (Finding Nemo, Weeds), Kevin Tighe (Lost), David Krumholtz (NUMB3RS, Serenity), Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Cloverfield), Rashida Jones (Boston Public, The Office), Sarah Hagan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and punk rock band Diesel Boy.
McKinley High lives on in the impressive and lasting legacy it leaves behind. Go Norsemen!
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Freaks and Geeks: Yearbook Edition
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Freaks and Geeks: Yearbook Edition is distributed by Shout! Factory. For more Freaks and Geeks information, please visit McKinley High: A Freaks and Geeks Fan Site.