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“UNDECLARED” PANEL:
 

• (On why he didn’t get the lead in “Undeclared”)
  Jason: People didn’t believe that I couldn’t get laid.
  Jay: (indignant) Go fuck yourself!
• (On Jay auditioning against some dude from “The Real World”)
  Seth: Thank fucking god you beat that guy, because the show would’ve been a disaster.
  Jason: (smirking) Yeah, the show would never have made it.
• (On how they all had bad teeth, apparently)
  Jarrett Grode: I got my teeth fixed too after “Undeclared.”
  Jay: (jumping out of his seat to check) Oh shit, you really did! (OK, this is funnier when you see it)
• Jarrett: (about his current job) I work at Seth Rogen’s medical marijuana dispensary.
• Judd: (referring to Kevin Rankin’s stuttering character) You were kinda doing The King’s Speech really early.
• (on how Ben Stiller only appears on the shows when they’re about to be canceled)
  Jay: He’s the string quartet on the Titanic.
  Seth: He’s one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• (on how Jay’s character had a hard time getting laid, but he’s engaged IRL AND NOT TO ME FFFFFFFFFUUU)
  Jay: Fingers crossed I’ll be getting laid somewhere around September 2012.
  Krumholtz: Right before the end of the world. Right on time.
• Judd: Jarrett, how are you doing with the ladies these days?
  Jarrett: (completely deadpan) I’m a drug dealer, I do great.
  Judd: I think we found the guy to step in on “Two and a Half Men”…
• Judd: I would go back into TV, I just don’t want to see Jason get rejected again.
  Jason: (smugly) I’m super-rich now.
• (on how Segel was in really bad shape during “Undeclared”)
  Jason: I looked like Jack Skellington.
  Seth: You were, like, bloated in weird places.
  Jason: Well, only you know that.
• Judd: (about “Undeclared” in general) When I watched it later, I realized that it was, like, a very personal piece of writing about how I felt going to college and thinking I could reinvent myself and act like I was kinda cool and macho, and then people were onto me in, like, four days.
  Jay: That was like me coming out to L.A. to do “Undeclared.” I was gonna reinvent myself—no, clearly I was just a nerd from Canada.
  Carla Gallo: “Was”? (everyone “awwww”s)
  Jay: Anybody else in here wanna shit on me?!
• (on Jay being really young and adorkably naive when he started)
  Judd: All you talked about the first, like, few months, was that your dream was to do well enough to buy a Ferrari. (everyone laughs)
  Seth: That’s totally true.
  Jay: (practically in tears of laughter) I forgot!

“FREAKS AND GEEKS” PANEL:

• (on Sam and Cindy,to John Francis Daley)
  Judd:  John, you had your first on-screen kiss.
  John: That’s right. First on-screen erection, too.
• Stephen Lea Sheppard: (who played Harris—and is EXACTLY LIKE HIM in real life, SERIOUSLY—on his non-kissing scene, which was apparently a camera trick) And her grandmother was on-set to make sure no hanky-panky occurred.
• (on Samm Levine’s audition)
  Judd: He was really terrible. It was a terrible audition, and he was reading for John Daley’s part, and he—for NO reason, did an impression of William Shatner, and it was just so wrong, and embarrassing and really awkward, and we just thought “I guess this is exactly what we need.”
• Judd: There was once—on the set I said to Levine “you’re so great. And this is a high school show and you’re so great. I wish you had one of those things where you don’t grow.” (everyone laughs; Levine flips him off) And he’s like “I do! I can’t grow! I took medication when I was a kid and I couldn’t grow!” So if we do the reunion movie…
  Samm: I’m the only one who can still play himself.
  Judd: Exactly, yeah. It’d have to be a science fiction film or some thing where everyone aged but you.
• Steve Bannos: Kowchevski, in fact, was based on a teacher I had in high school who I saw beat the shit out of someone who was very similar to Franco. …He was the algebra teacher as well as [the] football coach, so it kinda made him a double douchebag.
• (on how young Daley was during filming)
  Rogen: I will say this: John Daley still believed in Santa Claus while we were shooting.
  Jason: (to Seth, gleefully) Do you remember the year you dressed up??
  John: I also didn’t have pubic hair.
  Seth: I will confirm that.
  John: Only Seth and Judd know that.
• (after Busy and Judd and a few others tell a very long story about Franco going all Method and deciding that Daniel had been physically abused and freaked out when he was touched, and ended up actually throwing Busy to the ground in one scene where Kelly smacks Daniel on the arm, and everyone freaked out)
  Jason: That story took 127 hours.
• Paul Feig: James used to read very dense books on the set, and he was reading Proust [mispronounced] and then next day he was reading Moby Dick, and I remember Jake going over there like “oh, have you finished Proust already?”
  Natasha Melnick (Cindy Sanders): I was fourteen and he made me read The Idiot. I was devastated.
  Samm: He made you read it?
  Natasha: Yeah, he totally made me read it. He was like “you should totally read this.” I was like “really?? Okay…”
  Seth: But he’s still in school! He showed us; he actually was reading shit that whole time!
  (CONFIRMATION: JAMES FRANCO IS ACTUALLY AS HIPSTER-Y AND RIDICULOUS AS HE SEEMS. WHAT EVEN)
• Judd: I just remember Martin [Starr] started working out, and suddenly he was, like, gettin’ guns. I’m like “Martin, you’re ruining the show!”
  Martin: There was a gym on the lot, and Franco was like “we should go work out” and I was like “yeeeah, Franco!” so we went—we’d go to the gym on a few occasions, and then I got, like, a cease and desist order from you guys. …Franco literally said “fuck it, you should do it anyway.”
  Samm: I remember the way you guys punished Martin for continuing to work out, when we did the locker room scene was to put him in the ladies’ robe. And he was really upset about that.
  Seth: Too sexy for a man’s robe.
• (on how a bunch of cast members dropped out of school to do the show)
  Jason: (to Judd) A lot of us have no higher education because of you.
  Busy: All of us!
• (on how Judd called Linda and told her the show was axed minutes before she went on Letterman)
  Linda: You said “the show’s canceled” and I said “David Letterman is canceled?!”
• (on how Jason has achieved all of his dreams except hosting SNL)
  Seth:  He did fuck Megan Fox on Mount Kilimanjaro.
• (when they keep making fun of him)
  Samm: I’m a serious actor now. I was on “That’s So Raven”!

(I also have extremely long-winded and more detailed descriptions of what they talked about, but it’s much less amusing and I doubt any1curr. But I’ll send ‘em!)

(also apparently Quentin Tarantino is a big F&G fan \8D/ )