They love it because it is "so real" while still being "funny" and "not too dramatic." They also like it because it (and Detroit Rock City) inspires them to wear army-jackets, and then they can be "alternative."
Unpopular girls would like The OC and My So-Called Life, but they are too main-stream to brag to their friends about owning the box-set or reading the complete scripts or watching the DVD commentary. Some unpopular girls do like The OC, but only in an ironic way -- "oh, yeah, I used to watch that back in seventh grade; when the first season first aired. I totally was in love with Seth, el oh el." And My So-Called Life has Jared Leto in it, and unpopular girls cannot like anything connected with People's Top 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, except in association with Darren Aronofsky, of course.
Not to say that the cast from Freaks and Geeks didn't go on to do anything, though. Unpopular girls loved Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and they just about orgasmed when Superbad came out -- Michael Austin Cera in a Seth Rogen film, about unpopular kids?! HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL!
Unpopular girls also love to point out the fact that Joe Lo Truglio is in Superbad. Ask them who he is, and they will wet themselves with excitement at the opportunity to discuss one of their "favorite alternative sketch comedy groups of the nineteen-nineties."
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psssh. I never watched that show.
(and it wasn't just because we didn't have that channel...)
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