>edit: And I'm curious about the Apatow point. Is the
>parenthetical there a nod to the frequent knock against him
>that his visual sense is "indifferent" but that he does a good
>job of teaching/unearthing people who are good at that? I
>wasn't aware of that reputation. Kind of cool.

based largely on how good Freaks and Geeks was versus how slight Undeclared was, though the film analogues are similar, IMO.