My aunt Cathy was so rad. She lived in L.A. She was on Kojak. She doinked Ryan O'Neal once at a party.

As many of you know, I love Freaks & Geeks. If you deduct the subplot where Neil Schweiber hunts down the truth about his adulterous dad (and the implausible escape clause which turns Lindsay Weir into a Deadhead), you end up with the greatest "comedy" television show of the past twenty years. A coupla nights ago I spotted the geekiest geek Samm Levine (he whose virginity was dispelled with the aid of nubile twins, according to the F&G DVD commentary) in an ad for a shyte new horror flick . This moment inspired me to compile this here Freaks & Geeks Where Are They Now list, enjoy:

• Busy Philipps (now with black hair) plays a savvy wigger on the sitcom "Love, Inc.". Great premise (dating-service entrepreneur can't get a date) but not a whole lotta laughs so far.
  
• Joe Flaherty plays "Principal Flaherty" on the soon-to-be-released pilot "This is My Friend", also starring Judge Joe Brown, Clint Culp, and Joe's daughter Gudrun Flaherty. This MySpace Page gives me no further clue about the show, though there seems to be a Ritter or two involved.
  
• Becky Ann Baker plays "Waitress" (doesn't sound like a major role) in the new Robin Williams vehicle The Night Listener, where the star sports a beard and therefore is going for noir-Mork again. I don't like any Robin Williams movies (except maybe Popeye), but it seems that his slow "bearded" roles are always more intolerable than his daffy trucker-speed cutup roles. But I actually might try to see this, because Becky Ann Baker deserves more work, bigger parts. And Sandra Oh is hot.
  
• The ineffable Martin Starr is apparently a walk-on in Steve Carell's latest pitch, American Storage, about a "man who is trying to turn around a failing storage facility by leasing out units as low-rent apartments to random people on the Internet." Go with super-stud!
  
• John Francis Daley (who just turned 21 a coupla weeks ago) is in this project called 5-25-77, which might also be a pitch, and definitely has Star Wars as a plot hinge.
  
• Jason Segel plays "Frat Boy 1" in the new Tenacious D flick, which also stars Colin Hanks and Ben Stiller. That's a recipe for some real spine-splittin' laughter right there.
  
• Seth Rogen -- whose post-F&G career is the most fertile because he's the same grounded-snark character every time out -- plays "Neil" in You, Me & Dupree (which smells like a wet fart in spite of him). He's also a peripheral character in Fanboys, a star-studded meta-flick about a pilgrimage to see Star Wars the Phantom Menace. Between this and 5-25-77, I have to ask: what's with the George Lucas bukkake, kids? Why can't the noids make a pilgrimage to see Brazil or Bride of Re-Animator for once?
  
• Natasha Melnick is supposedly possessed of a genius IQ yet can't figure out how to set up a MySpace page for her band One Last Run ('cause this sure ain't it). She also looks eerily Hiltonesque as an apparent bride-stripped-bare in Everything or Nothing. According to the official site it is a "cautionary tale of drugs, environment vs. heredity and our social system as it relates to orphans." Obviously concocted by a whole committee of genius IQ's.
  
• Trimethylaminuria (Gordon Crisp's b.o. malady) is still without a cure. (Jerry Messing himself has taken a break from acting and hasn't been seen since his performance as Artie Ryan on "Even Stevens" in 2002).
  
• The amazing Sarah Hagan stars in this creepy Cingular GoPhone commercial. Imagine Millie beset by wolves...