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Back when I was going to college, The Cosby Show was popular. And NBC would broadcast these public-service announcements. The Cosby kids would say things like, “Don’t do drugs, because you’ve got a lot to live for.” And I used to think, Well, okay – it’s easy to say that, but some people are sitting at home and aren’t from a rich family and might have no future. And here’s a kid actors making shitloads of money, and he’s telling everyone they have a lot to live for? It’s hypocrisy on the grandest scale. Seeing something like that was always a motivation for me to create something more realistic.

That was one of the things I dealt with in the “I’m with the Band” episode, where Nick auditions to become a drummer. Lindsay tells Nick, “You’ve got to follow your dreams! You can be anything you want to be!”

When I wrote that episode, it was my way of saying, “Actually, no. That’s nonsense. You might have that attitude, but that’s not the way the world works.”

(Paul Feig, criador do Freaks and Geeks)

Chauncey Gardiner