I'd never seen "Freaks and Geeks," so my first taste of Linda Cardellini was as Velma in "Scooby Doo." The first time I saw the poster, I checked out Velma and for the first time in my life thought "damn, Velma's kinda hot under all that crap." I looked on the net further and found this woman who was stunning in a very girl-next-door kind of way. Then I realized that she was the girl with her lips sewn shut on the cover of "Strangeland." The only negative is that she went blonde for her turn on ER. I hope she goes back to her lovely chestnut brown locks, as it's a disheartening trend that women feel compelled to go faux blonde no matter what in Hollywood, i.e. Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, etc, etc.