A word from Linda: “['Freaks and Geeks'] had so much humor and so much heart, and was so much more genuine to my experience in school, or my experience as an adolescent, compared to the other shows that I was reading. They all seemed to have a gimmick, whereas there really wasn’t a gimmick necessarily with this show, other than it was trying to be as true to how awkward it feels to be that age as possible.”