Undeclared

They had to show people.

And so, you know, Jason sat down and worked on that script, and, you know, Nick Stoller, who we had been working with on Undeclared said, "Hey, can I direct it if I help him out, uh, uh, on the script phase?" And then that was his first time directing, and, you know, they made something really special.

Yeah, I love that movie, and he's gone on to do a lot of other th- stuff.

Yeah.

They were younger than the characters in the script they were writing when they started it.

And, um, you know, he was lucky enough to be on, uh, Judd Apatow's TV shows in the late '90s into the early 2000s, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, but after that, he...

It wasn't like his career, uh, suddenly took off like a rocket.

Um, but, you know, he stuck to his guns, even when maybe it would've been easier to try to make something a little more mainstream, a PG-13 movie.

I, I like that it's a thing that he's decided he wanted to do.

I, I would not want to take Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared out of the equation.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Um, and, and, and that was kind of the, you know, the incubator.

And then of course, you know, so many of Judd Apatow's collaborators came out of him doing Freaks and Geeks and, uh, and Undeclared.

And, and then when they, when they got the juice to do more, that's when they kind of broke through into movies.

It was like television was the proving ground.

And then we know on the Apatow side of things, after the cable guy...

He makes Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared.

I mean, the stars are all here on both of those shows, right? Rogan, Siegel, Franco, Jay Barakel.

Once again, low rated, doesn't get picked up.

Old school, a movie about misfit men who find each other and befriend each other in early adulthood.

Pineapple Express, trying to articulate the feelings towards your drug dealer.

dodgeball has a bit of that old school streak to wedding crashers largely about the relationship between john and ryan our second theme here that i want to talk about just like the concept of arrested development because when i had first started tracing this frat pack movie i had originally envisioned it as the timeline of the movies kind of perfectly maps to the significant life events of the gen x generation right so it's like You got Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks in like the late 90s, 2000s, high school, college, old school, which is about wanting to go back to college.

Wedding Crashers, you know, about when all your friends are getting married, your 20s and 30s.

Okay, number eight.

In 2001, this English actor portrayed Lloyd in the short-lived Judd Apatow sitcom Undeclared before finding greater success as Jax Teller in the seven-season FX drama that premiered in 2008.

Name that English actor.

All right, number nine.

The Canadian artist is Corey Hart.

All right, number eight.

In 2001, this English actor portrayed Lloyd in the short-lived Judd Apatow sitcom Undeclared before finding greater success as Jax Teller in a seven-season FX drama that premiered in 2008.

Yeah, that would be Charlie Hunnam.

I didn't watch Freaks and Geeks.

I didn't watch Undeclared.

I really didn't remember him.

I know he's got some memorable moments, but I didn't remember him as Kal in The 40-Year-Old Virgin a couple years earlier.