My reassuringly expensive Freaks and Geeks box set arrived. The plastic case is pretty badly broken; worse luck. I’m trying to decide whether I want to live with the temporary hassle of sending it back and getting a new one or with the lifelong frustration of owning such a cruel combination of perfection and imperfection.
But what I really wanted to do here was to quote Judd Apatow (executive producer) from the enclosed booklet:
Q: Is this the end of Freaks and Geeks?
A: No. I shall use the warm feelings that this country showers on this show to prolong my career well past the point where I have stopped making quality work. I will use the credit to secure a job on a mediocre sitcom, where I will not pitch any jokes in the writers’ room. Instead I will bore everyone with stories about the making of Freaks and Geeks and make sure to mention at least twice a night that that show was much better than this show. When the show is cancelled, I will be unable to secure another job and will be forced to teach at USC, where I will make the kids listen to the commentary tracks on this DVD over and over and over and over, never listening to their screams for mercy.
Quentin Tarantino said it and I always believed it (and shall now paraphrase it): if you really love what you’re doing, you can’t help being good.
edit: I didn’t really mean “perfection”, I meant something else. I’ll try to come up with another word.
