next time i have to come in here, i'm cracking skulls. >> celebrated the normalcy in all of us. made it bigger. made detention an event. made oddballs okay. >> all pretty bizarre, just some of us better at hiding it, that's all. >> oh, god. >> because hughes cracked the code with the teen audience, others that followed realized you don't have to talk down to them, talk up to them or at their level. >> man, i hate high school. >> on "freaks and geeks" what was important for everybody was it was realistic. >> oh, my god. >> come on guys. >> somebody please tell me what is supposed to be fun about this? >> paul feig wrote characters that were more authentic. he really more than anyone else to me understands really what it was like and hasn't forgotten what it was like to feel like an outcast. >> homo. >> homo.