A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

I DO GIVE A DAMN 'BOUT MY REPUTATION: I missed Freaks and Geeks when it first aired (it was my One-L year, which should serve as adequate explanation in and of itself), and have been watching (well, DVRing and watching) the Friday night reruns on IFC. Yes, it's great, but huge parts of it are incredibly hard to watch--this week's including a scene that Alan couldn't bring himself to rewatch when he did a rewatch a few summers ago, as well as a geek plotline that struck awfully close to home for me in my junior high memories. If you (like I) missed out on it, it's well worth checking out, though it's fascinating that while some folks involved (Rogen, Apatow, Segel, Starr) have gone on to comic notoriety (if not stardom), several of the story editors are now running 90212.0, which, while it may have started as something semi-realistic, has now apparently gone full soap.