Have You Seen This Scene From “Freaks and Geeks”?<br />The “Freaks and Geeks” producer Judd Apatow — who once said this was the most personal scene he had ever made — had been a “comedy geek” as a kid<br />and later worked with Shandling on “The Larry Sanders Show.”<br />Note: Bill doesn’t react when Shandling comes on.<br />He’s not watching to watch Shandling; he’s watching to watch TV for company.<br />By JAMES PONIEWOZIK UPDATED August 13, 2017<br />Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time.<br />Shandling gets closer, too, as the routine goes on, and Bill becomes absorbed in it<br />“I’m One” by the Who, from the 1973 album “Quadrophenia.” It builds from mournfulness (“I’m a loser / No chance to win”) to a defiant chorus.<br />It didn’t appear until after NBC canceled the series, and its single 18-episode season reran on the Fox Family Channel in fall 2000.<br />Bill turns on the tube just as Dinah Shore introduces the stand-up comic Garry Shandling.<br />And now he’s framed tighter, after Shandling comes on.<br />He has a routine, and the episode is partly about his dealing with having that routine disrupted.<br />And he learns, in this episode, that his mom is seriously dating his gym teacher, whom he hates.
