Freaks and Geeks creator, Mr. Paul Feig, was kind enough to answer me a few questions in an interview. So here is what he had to say.

The Freaks and Geeks Web: So how and when did you come up with the idea for Freaks and Geeks?

Paul Feig: Ever since I was a teenager, I'd always hated movies about teenagers and high school, simply because I never felt that any of them represented my high school experience. They were always about kids who were obsessed with sex and popularity and all the other things that my friends and I weren't really mature enough to care about. For me, high school was about trying to get through the day without getting beaten up or humiliated or having your self-esteem destroyed. My friends and I had a lot of fun whenever we were able to bond together at our lunch table and it was our little support team that helped us all get through high school and absorb the abuse that was ladled out to us throughout the day by bullies, teachers and school in general. And this was the high school I always wanted to have portrayed on TV and in the movies. And so, one day I decided it was time to write it and I did. And the next thing I knew, my old friend Judd Apatow, who had a deal at DreamWorks, read it and loved it and wanted to do it. DreamWorks bought it, they sold it to NBC and very quickly we were making the pilot of Freaks and Geeks.

The Freaks and Geeks Web: What character do you most idenify with from when you were in high school.

Paul Feig: Sam Weir is the closest to who I was. I was much taller and ganglier than he is in the show and originally I wanted to cast an actor who was the same way. The pilot originally had Sam plagued by a short Alan White which made his fear of the bully all the more embarrassing and frustrating for him. This was because my worst bullies were short kids who were actually younger than me. But they seemed hellbent on making my life miserable. I think it was because I was tall and so they felt like they were taking on Goliath. Never mind that they knew I wouldn't fight back. I guess it just made them feel tougher than they really were. But Sam is the character I forced to go through the things I went through at that age. Dressing up like a robot when he was too old to go trick or treating, wearing a disco jumpsuit to school, being afraid of the showers in gym, having a huge crush on an unattainable cheerleader -- these were all things that happened to me. However, there's other events from my life that I made the other characters go through too. Lindsay's car accident is something that happened to me the week I got my drivers license and Nick dancing in a disco contest and then losing to a guy who did magic were also things that happened to me but they seemed better for the freaks to go through. When you get to do a show like I did with Freaks and Geeks, you use everything and become every one of the characters. Or should I say, the characters each become a specific part of your past or personality. I feel very close to all the characters from Freaks and Geeks, but Sam is who I was. And I've always felt that Lindsay is who I became, as far as her fears and ideology and questioning of things in her life goes. And, to be honest, Lindsay is my favorite character that I've ever come up with in my writing.

The Freaks and Geeks Web: Have you seen the cast of the show since the cancellation?

Paul Feig: Not too often. Judd's seen everybody more, since he's used most of them on his show Undeclared. But I run into everyone on occasion. Martin Starr and I talk occasionally, as well as Samm Levine, and when I directed an episode of Undeclared, I got to hang out with Seth and Jason again. Busy and I email sometimes and whenever Linda's around, we'll get together for lunch. I really love the gang from Freaks and miss them very much now that we're not in production.