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Undeclared

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Undeclared	comment	A Sitcom produced by Judd Apatow, coming fresh off his critically-acclaimed but ratings-deprived and executive-meddled Freaks and Geeks. This show was no more successful, with only 17 episodes and equal amounts of Executive Meddling, but was similarly on Time magazine's "Top 10 New Shows." The show was produced in autumn 2000, but didn't air on Fox until autumn 2001.Steven Karp (Jay Baruchel) is a brand-new freshman at North East California University who is excited with his chance to escape his geek status from high school. The title comes from Steven having an "Undeclared" major. Despite feeling overwhelmed by being out on his own for the first time and with roommates who are slightly aloof to him, he trudges forward in an attempt to be less awkward then he really is. One of the bright spots of Steven's first day was striking a friendship with a girl in the dorm across the hall, Lizzie (Carla Gallo). During the first party of the year, his dad shows up and with news that he is getting divorced from his Mom. Steven tries to be his Dad's friend but it ends up overwhelming him and he spends time in his room alone crying.Lizzie accidentally stumbles into his room and tries to console him and herself, the reason being that her long-distance boyfriend Eric can go from affectionate and loving one minute and then yelling and dumping her the next minute, only to apologize the next day and start the pattern all over again (A male version of a Tsundere). Lizzie, tired of it all, proposes sex with Steven to help them acclimate to the college experience.The next day Lizzie is surprised and a little ashamed at what she did, expecially when Eric calls and apologizes. Steven, on the other hand, can't get her out of his mind and feels that she is his future girlfriend. And this is all on the first episode.Subsequent episodes elaborate more on Steven's roommates and Lizzie's roommate Rachel (Monica Keena). While Steven has not quite shed his geek image, his roommates warm up to him. Lloyd (Charlie Hunnam) is a Theatre Major from England and shares the same bedroom with Steven. He is quite popular with the ladies and becomes a sort of mentor to Steven. Ron (Seth Rogen) is a Business Major and for the most part the more sensible one of the group, though he has his own issues with girls and dating. Marshall (Timm Sharp) is a Music Major with a big crush on Rachel and who could be slightly neurotic, trying to pick up on Lloyd's mannerisms.Steven and Lizzie are the main characters and the entire show is mostly about him trying to get the girl and then keep her. Steven becomes cooler and more confident in himself. He and his roommates grow into a close-knit, protective circle — defending themselves against other groups at the college. An especially troublesome group is the Fraternity that Steven earns the ire of. Rachel is trying to find her own identity and slowly finds herself becoming a bit of a party girl. Steven's recently divorced dad Hal (Loudon Wainwright III) becomes close friends with his roommates.The show did not use a laugh track and relied heavily on improvisation from the actors. The characters' personalities were actually based on the actors; the first episode was not written until the actors were cast. The series strove to be as true to the college experience as possible on network television; parties, sex and drugs are alluded to but are not explicit. Judd Apatow said that he didn't intend for the show to be as autobiographical as it became. Seth Rogen was one of the writers, which made no end of jokes on his behalf when he wrote the episode where his character makes out with a Love Interest.The actor playing Lizzie's boyfriend Eric, Jason Segel, was actually the one Apatow wanted to play Steven, but the network wanted more of an underdog or everyman for the role. (Opinions may vary but part of Baruchel's appeal in the show was that he subverted the male Hollywood Homely type, something Segal would not have done.) As a result, Eric made an appearance in nearly every episode, either on the phone or in person as a sort of Take That! to the network. By coincidence the last episode focused more on Eric than the other characters.
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Undeclared / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Undeclared / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Adam Sandler and Ted Nugent playing themselves. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Kyle Gass and David Krumholtz played minor characters in certain episodes.
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Undeclared / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Undeclared / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Freaks and Geeks, albeit with a lighter tone. Apatow specifically said that after making a rather serious high school drama he figured he would try for a light-hearted college comedy. Unfortunately it suffered the same fate of being Screwed by the Network.
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Undeclared / int_2dba7575	type	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
Undeclared / int_2dba7575	comment	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Downplayed. Steven and his friends get into some pretty crazy situations with the Theta Delta Zeta fraternity, but most of them are realistically awkward and insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
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Undeclared / int_414ac0d	type	College Is "High School, Part 2"
Undeclared / int_414ac0d	comment	College Is "High School, Part 2": For the most part, averted. Although the show's characters seem alarmingly unambitious and carefree for college students. Even at the most prestigious universities, you're bound to meet at least one or two people like that. So, to a small extent, this may be Truth in Television. Also, the generally mundane lives of most college students probably wouldn't make for very interesting television. Nevertheless, the classrooms appear to resemble high school classrooms more often than not (lecture halls, for example are rarely seen), and the professors tend to act like befuddled high school teachers. The subject matter they present is often startlingly lowbrow (even for a freshman 100-level course) and full of silly editorializing. In "God Visits," for example, the Philosophy professor introduces Existentialism by declaring "Existentialists believe that the universe is meaningless, and that human beings have no purpose." Which is not only an absurd oversimplification, but inaccurate. He then proceeds to apologize for going over time and interrupting their lunch (as though all students would be having lunch at the same time) on "Taco Tuesday. Ben Stein's famous "Beuller...Bueller" lecture sounds more like a freshman-level lecture, albeit a (deliberately) boring one.
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Undeclared / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Undeclared / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Subverted. Steven tries to escape from Eric in the laundry room and the vent collapses.
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Undeclared / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Undeclared / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Lloyd is so beautiful that Even the Guys Want Him.
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Undeclared / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Undeclared / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Will Ferrell is referenced in the fourth episode as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live", which makes it odd that he cameos as a guy named Dave in episode 7, as a dealer in term papers. Also, Amy Poehler is in a couple episodes (Granted, they filmed in 2000, and she didn't join "SNL" until fall 2001, but it makes it seem like they would've seen her around the same time the show aired). Kyle Gass plays one of Eric's co-workers but there's a Tenacious D poster in one of the dorms. There are also several pieces of This is Spın̈al Tap memorabilia, despite Fred Willard playing a professor.
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Undeclared / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Undeclared / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Various clues place UNEC in the Sacramento area. Or do they?
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Undeclared / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Undeclared / int_875615dd	comment	Even at the most prestigious universities, you're bound to meet at least one or two people like that. So, to a small extent, this may be Truth in Television.
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Undeclared / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Undeclared / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Brits unaware of Charlie Hunnam (Lloyd) would assume he's an American actor as he cannot do a convincing English accent. In reality, Hunnam is English. Maybe he was told to do a posher Received Pronunciation rather than his native North East via Cumbria dialect, but his accent in Queer as Folk (UK) wasn't particularly strong. That some producer could tell the finer differences between his normal accent and the Queen's English but not the final catastrophic alternative is particularly bemusing.
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Undeclared / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Undeclared / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Tina, to Lloyd. She's more than a little creepy around him.
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Undeclared / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Undeclared / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Steven. Woobieness aside, taking Lizzie's phone and calling Eric just to dick around with him and talk about how him and Lizzie are getting married wasn't smart.
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Undeclared / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Undeclared / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Marshall.
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Undeclared / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Undeclared / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Played for laughs. When Eric is chasing Steven all over campus, the Mortal Kombat theme song plays, even though Steven is running for his life and spends the entire episode trying to avoid a fistfight.
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Undeclared / int_b6c2e6ad	type	Villain Episode
Undeclared / int_b6c2e6ad	comment	Villain Episode: Sadly the last episode, meaning the main characters were hardly in it.
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Undeclared / int_be8f3491	type	The Theme Park Version
Undeclared / int_be8f3491	comment	The Theme Park Version: While the show did depict and address several true to life college issues (The Freshman Fifteen, religious confusion, sex, partying, etc.), it was still a pretty unrealistic depiction of college life, due in no small part to the heavy amounts of Executive Meddling it suffered from.
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Undeclared / int_c1d5b78	type	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
Undeclared / int_c1d5b78	comment	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: In episode 11, Perry does this while trying to help Lloyd read a play - "As your mother, I am very disappointed that you want to kill your brother, she sighs and exits with her luggage".
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Undeclared / int_c7faa8e3	type	Sexiled
Undeclared / int_c7faa8e3	comment	Sexiled: Steven given Lloyd's womanizing tendencies. Though Steven got to do this to Lloyd a few times, some just out of spite and a couple of times for real with Lizzie.
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Undeclared / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Undeclared / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Jason Segal's character Eric, the overly-devoted boyfriend, is very similar to the his character Nick from Freaks and Geeks. Seth Rogen's character Ron also shares similarities with his former character Ken from Freaks and Geeks.
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Undeclared / int_fb7cc1ff	type	Master of the Mixed Message
Undeclared / int_fb7cc1ff	comment	Master of the Mixed Message: Lizzie. In one episode she walks around in her underwear to see if she can get a reaction from Steven, and interprets his averted gaze as a sign of disinterest and not him trying to give her respect.
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Undeclared / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Undeclared / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Partially averted. Considering the first episode was Steven and Lizzie hooking up, it was more a matter of when they'll get back together. There was never really a push for this, but it was always left on the table. For example, Steven and Lizzie tried to be Just Friends for a few episodes but quit after things became too awkward.
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Undeclared / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
Undeclared / int_ff9e9596	comment	DVD Commentary: The series DVD has one for every episode, but sometimes they throw in about 5 commentators and they go off on tangents not related to the show at all.
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