(Finebros) So one of the shows that we make at our company
is Choose Your Own Adventure games, kinda like the old books.
- Cool. - Dope.
- (Finebros) But we make them animated. - Cool.
(Finebros) We work with this amazing animator and composer
- named Doctor Octoroc. - Doctor Octoroc. That's a dope name.
(Finebros) We actually turned Freaks and Geeks
- into a retro-style game. - I heard.
(Finebros) And so we would love for you...
- Have you seen it? - No.
- (Finebros) ...to play the game. - Whoa, how do we play it?
On YouTube?
- (Finebros) On YouTube. - You guys.
(both) "William McKinley High School, 1980."
(James) It's in Michigan, Paul Feig.
♪ (guitar instrumental) ♪
(Seth) This is the opening shot of the pilot.
- ♪ (music distorts, changes) ♪ - Nice.
(James) Oh, two different games. Freaks!
(Seth) We should play as the freaks, obviously.
(James) Screw the geeks.
- (Seth) Lindsay's coming up. - (James) Okay.
There's the jocks. I remember that.
- (Seth) "Hey Daniel." It's you. - (James) Oh.
- (Seth) "Hey Lindsay." - (James) That doesn't look like me.
(Seth laughs) It kinda doesn't.
(James) We're gonna go hit the patio.
(Seth) You mean the smoking patio?
(James) Here we are.
(Seth) It looks like me. "You guys remember Lindsay?"
- (James) Oh, there she is. - (Seth) Hey, what's up?
Wow, they really got me. (laughs)
"I heard you didn't sign up for the Academic Decathlon!"
- (James) Oh man. - (Seth) "But you're our best Mathlete!"
- She is. "What should Lindsay do?" - (James) Okay.
(Seth) "Sign up to be a mathlete."
- Should she be a mathlete? - (James) No.
(Seth) "Being a freak was a bad idea."
- "Tell Millie to leave her alone." - (James) Yes.
(Seth) I think she should tell Millie to leave her alone.
(James) Get out of here, Millie.
(Seth) "Millie, will you just get out of here?"
- (James) Oh, she's gonna be mad. - (Seth) I remember this.
- This was so weird. - (James) Yeah, it's pretty close.
(Seth) Yeah. "Freaks go all the way." This is really close.
You didn't make Jason Segel tall enough.
"You want me to cut class?"
"What's wrong, brain?" Busy would always say that.
"Afraid of letting down your mommy and daddy?"
(James) She wasn't gonna be a regular character.
(Seth) No, but she was so good.
"Tell them she's afraid to--"
- "Screw it-- cut class!" - (James) Cut class!
(Seth) We're bad influences.
- (James) Okay. - (Seth) "Okay, yeah."
- (both) "Let's get out of here." - (James) All right.
- (Seth) This is amazing. - ♪ (rock music) ♪
- (James) There we are. Remember that? - (Seth) Creation.
I like how you animated Shaun Weiss in a Mighty Ducks jersey.
(laughs loudly) That's pretty great.
"What did you think, Lindsay?"
(James) I got pissed that they gave you the Flying V guitar,
'cause I wanted to be more punk.
(Seth) "You just need to rehearse more."
This was so painful. I remember this scene in the episode.
(James) What? "I'm Harry..."
(Seth laughs) Oh, they took your low blow.
- (laughs) "The stoner." - (James) That makes no sense.
(Seth) "There's no way the Seth Rogen..."
(laughs) It's true, hey.
"I'm not at all famous but I was in The Mighty Ducks,
so I won't rehearse either." (laughing) It's true.
This gets-- this is very meta and personal at times.
"...sucking. I want to nail that audition."
- Daniel. - (both) "Fine... let's do this, guys."
- (game beeps) - (Seth) Fine, let's do this, guys.
- ♪ (intro playing) ♪ - ♪ (vocalizing along) ♪
♪ (music warbles down) ♪
♪ It's getting... ♪
I still remember all the words to that song because of that.
"You are a dumbass, Andopolis!"
(James) "...comes from your crotch, not your brain."
(Seth laughs)
This is really accurate.
"Kiss Nick because she feels bad for him."
- Right? - (James) Uh... okay. Yeah, that's good.
(Seth) It perpetuates the series arc better.
(James) Oh.
Daniel is actually supposed to end up with Lindsay at some point.
- (Seth) Really? - (James) Yeah.
(Seth) ♪ When you're with me, I'm smiling ♪
This was one of the most painful...
(James) I mean, can't you see how that was gonna happen?
- And then Busy came along. - (Seth) Yeah.
Oh yeah. Like, he was gonna be the dorky nice guy,
and you were gonna be the bad dangerous cool guy.
(James) Yeah, and she would be with me, and then it was like...
(Seth) And I wind up with a hermaphrodite.
"Talk to her mom about breaking up with Nick."
"Break up with Nick immediately."
Boy, talk to her mom about breaking up with Nick.
That's what she does in the show.
- ♪ (mellow music) ♪ - The kitchen looks the same.
This is when she tells the mother
that she's gonna break up with him,
and then the mother breaks up with him for her.
(laughing)
"Did you just break up with my boyfriend?"
I remember that episode.
(James) Oh.
- (Seth) I did that. - (James) I don't remember that.
(Finebros) He broke it because Nick was about to play "Lady L."
(Seth) Yeah, that happened in an episode.
- The new episode. - (James) Man, I forgot.
(Seth) And I cut my chin open.
- (James) Really? - (Seth) Breaking the guitar, yeah.
"You can't take their car!"
- "Don't be lame, Lindsay." - (James) Yeah.
(Seth) You know he wanted to use the parents' car.
Should we steal the car? Let's steal the [bleep] car.
- (James) Yeah, yours. - (Seth) Yeah.
(James) Who does the good thing on this game?
(Seth) 'Ey.
- "No farting in the car, Ken!" - (James laughs)
- (Seth) "What?" - (James) Wah-wah.
(Seth) Wah-wah. Was that in the show?
Does this happen? I can't remember this episode.
(James) It was at the very beginning.
It was the teaser-- er, the opening, cold opening.
(Seth) Oh, and then we end up fixing it, right?
(James) I tell the lady she's too sexy or something.
- (Seth) You're too sexy? - (James) Yeah.
- (Seth) Did you make that up? - (James) "I'm too sexy."
- ♪ (funky music) ♪ - (Seth) Who's that?
(James) Who's that supposed to--
(Finebros) This is the real question.
(Seth) "The longer..." oh no.
This is a real math question we're now supposed to answer.
"If the longer diagonal of a rhombus..."
You're in school. You should know this.
"...and the large angle is 100, what is the area of the rhombus?"
- (James) Um... - (Seth) Come on.
- (James) I'm gonna say 42. - (Seth) Let's do 42.
- (speech bubbles beeping) - ♪ (triumphant music) ♪
(Seth) Yeah! Nice! Woo!
That's us. That's actually what we're doing in the episode.
And then we hold up the bumper. That's right.
- (James) "Wow." - (Seth) "You guys really are my friends!"
- (James) Yep. - (Seth) "Hey... where's Nick?"
- ♪ (disco music) ♪ - Oh, Nick's--
He's disco-dancing with Lizzy Caplan.
(James) Rosso.
(Seth) "Listen to this album.
It's 'American Beauty' by the Grateful Dead."
(James) Oh, I was just gonna say that.
(Seth) "Soon you'll be rarin' to go to that Summit!"
Okay. I'm gonna ditch and follow the Grateful Dead
for Christ's sake.
(James) What did I do in this episode? Is this the--
(Seth) This is your Dungeons & Dragons episode.
- (James) This is, yeah. - (Seth) I view all the episodes
through the lens of what my character did also.
Like, to me, this is the episode
where I yell at Nick for joining disco--
- (James) Oh, when we say, "Disco sucks." - (Seth) Disco sucks.
- (James) So sad. - (Seth) I get a little emotional.
- (Finebros) Oh, we cry every time. - (Seth laughing) Yeah!
It's such a good song too. It ends really well.
♪ (mid-tempo music) ♪
I was so angry. Remember being angry?
Were you angry when the show ended?
- You didn't give a shit. - (James) I was so silly. I didn't--
(Seth) You didn't care at all.
You were about to play James Dean in a movie.
(both laugh)
"Freaks and Geeks only had one season.
This game is dedicated to the cast..." Nice.
- (James) Aw. - (Seth) "...and crew of this brilliant
- but cancelled show." That's nice. - (James) Thank you.
- (Finebros) You won! - (Seth) We won the game!
It still gets cancelled.
It'd be cool to explore that world more, though,
- you know what I mean? - Yeah. Keep going.
(Finebros) Are you giving us consent to the rights to continue--
Yes, we are. We don't have any rights to them,
but you can do whatever you want with them.
Do what you want with Daniel.
- Daniel is yours. - Daniel Desario is yours.
Ken Miller's yours too, man.
(Finebros) I think it's even interesting.
Imagine if you had made Freaks and Geeks now,
if it could have been transmedia online,
- it could have been making extra seasons. - I know.
- Then we actually could have. - Oh yeah, yeah.
It's so true, and there was no format for it.
(Finebros) So we're massive fans of Freaks and Geeks.
- What do you think of the fandom? - It's awesome.
It's crazy, 'cause at the time we made it,
there was no infrastructure for canceled TV shows
having any life beyond their cancellation.
More people have seen it now for sure
than saw it when it was actually on television.
(Finebros) What do you want to say to the Freaks and Geeks fans
- that will be watching this? - Thank you for not realizing
that there's a lot of other better shows that have come on
(cracking up) in the last 15 years
and focusing on ours.
Part of me wants to go back too.
It's just, like, hard. We got older.
Maybe we'll do it.
(laughing) Maybe we'll provide that for you in a new form.
(laughing)
(Benny) Hey guys, Fine Brothers here.
We want to give a huge thanks to Seth Rogen and James Franco
for coming and filming this with us.
(Rafi) It was really an honor getting to have you guys
look at this and see some of our work.
- Hope to work with your guys again. - (James) Yeah.
(Rafi) Why don't you let these people know
where they can find you next?
(James) We are coming out in our new movie
called "The Interview" on Christmas Day.
(Seth) Go see it. It's wonderful...
when you're coming out of it.
(James laughing) It'll change your life.
(Seth) That's what you just said. (laughs)
♪ (8-bit music) ♪