Arrested Development is a funny show [Text View]

Ekims

02-02-2007, 07:14 PM

anom

02-02-2007, 07:18 PM

Yes. Yes it is.

And to be fair, Fox stuck with this show far longer than anyone could have expected them to. I blame the hundreds of millions of people who preferred to tune into Dancing With The Stars, or whatever shows kept pounding it in the ratings.

testify4

02-02-2007, 07:18 PM

Watching Season 2 again via NetFlix. Such a well-written show! You can tell there are a lot of fans here based on all the quotes and inside jokes from the show. :)

More than one person had ID'd me as an AD fan when I had "Final Countdown" as my ringtone. :D

The Flush

02-02-2007, 08:04 PM

I never watched when it was on, but over the last couple of weeks my TiVo has picked up several episodes as a suggestion. Didn't have anything else to watch so I watched a couple. I really know why you guys now say "Burn in Hell Fox". :cool: So now I am forced to maybe sign up for BB or Netflix just so I can see this series from beginning to end.

If you had watched it when it was originally on, it would not have been canceled.

hefe

02-02-2007, 08:08 PM

If you had watched it when it was originally on, it would not have been canceled.
I think I'm having déjà vu.

nedthelab

02-02-2007, 08:10 PM

One of the funniest shows ever made on american TV ... one of those shows where you have to pay attention.. part of its demise IMO

Fleegle

02-02-2007, 08:49 PM

I never watched when it was on, but over the last couple of weeks my TiVo has picked up several episodes as a suggestion. Didn't have anything else to watch so I watched a couple. I really know why you guys now say "Burn in Hell Fox". :cool: So now I am forced to maybe sign up for BB or Netflix just so I can see this series from beginning to end.

About 3 weeks before Christmas, I got all 3 seasons for $33 from Amazon. Great show, and it's 16X9 on DVD.

If you get HDNet, they air 2 episodes every Wednesday

Langree

02-02-2007, 08:55 PM

We tried to tell you :p

jerobi

02-02-2007, 11:01 PM

About 3 weeks before Christmas, I got all 3 seasons for $33 from Amazon. Great show, and it's 16X9 on DVD.

That was an awesome deal - I grabbed a set for myself and another as a gift. Hopefully they'll bring that back some day. I have a S1 disc in my DVD player right now.

getbak

02-03-2007, 01:07 AM

I own all 3 seasons on DVD.

In Canada, CBC has been airing it daily since January 1 and I've been watching it in HD for the first time (season 2 just started this week). It's one of very few shows that gets even funnier on multiple viewings because the jokes don't only make references to things from past episodes, but also things from future episodes.

DevdogAZ

02-03-2007, 02:07 AM

Can't have an AD thread without throwing in my two cents. My favorite comedy of all time. So well written, so intricately crafted. Burn in Hell, America for not watching this show.

RayChuang88

02-03-2007, 02:16 AM

One of the funniest shows ever made on american TV ... one of those shows where you have to pay attention.. part of its demise IMO

The biggest problem with Arrested Development was that they intricately interweaved plot elements through multiple episodes, which made it difficult to follow if you even missed a few episodes. That's why the show is vastly better enjoyed on the full-season DVD sets, which allow you to go through every episode per season to enjoy all the great things about the show.

DevdogAZ

02-03-2007, 02:19 AM

The biggest problem with Arrested Development was that they intricately interweaved plot elements through multiple episodes, which made it difficult to follow if you even missed a few episodes. That's why the show is vastly better enjoyed on the full-season DVD sets, which allow you to go through every episode per season to enjoy all the great things about the show.
I don't think the show would be difficult to follow if you missed a couple of episode, but it definitely wouldn't be as funny. Perhaps that's why "America" never tuned in "en masse," since every time they sampled it, it didn't seem funny, since they hadn't seen the set up to the joke several episodes prior.

Plus "America" is stupid. ;)

getbak

02-03-2007, 02:22 AM

Quoting myself here...

In Canada, CBC has been airing it daily since January 1 and I've been watching it in HD for the first time (season 2 just started this week). It's one of very few shows that gets even funnier on multiple viewings because the jokes don't only make references to things from past episodes, but also things from future episodes.

Right after I posted that, I started watching the episode that aired yesterday, and it was the one with my favorite line from a show full of great lines...

Michael: Get rid of the Seaward.
Lucille: I'll leave when I'm good and ready.

smak

02-05-2007, 04:00 AM

This says it all.

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q10/smakson/untitled-1.jpg

Funniest comedy ever on TV.

-smak-

DougF

02-05-2007, 09:32 AM

Plus it doesn't have a laugh track, so that automatically means it's intelligent TV. If you didn't watch this and don't watch Studio 60, you're obviously not a very bright person.

:D

Seriously, I love AD. I had to work a Saturday a few weeks ago and ran the entire second season on my laptop while I was working. If you need a quick fix during your work day or don't have the DVDs, be sure to check out arresteddevelopment.msn.com.

Fahtrim

02-05-2007, 09:38 AM

Yes, and water is wet.

Jesda

02-05-2007, 10:00 AM

THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN A BANANA STAND!

Fahtrim

02-05-2007, 10:10 AM

THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND!

Fixed if for you.

Bardman

02-05-2007, 06:26 PM

wprager

02-05-2007, 06:59 PM

We tried to tell you :p

Yes, but did you Get Arrested (http://www.getarrested.com) (link no-longer working)? Did you sign petitions (online and otherwise)? Did you e-mail everyone in your AddressBook saying "Watch this show!"?

So, rather than blaming the clueless, maybe we should all look at ourselves and ask, did we do enough?

Langree

02-05-2007, 07:40 PM

Yes, but did you Get Arrested (http://www.getarrested.com) (link no-longer working)? Did you sign petitions (online and otherwise)? Did you e-mail everyone in your AddressBook saying "Watch this show!"?

So, rather than blaming the clueless, maybe we should all look at ourselves and ask, did we do enough?

yes i did

Langree

02-05-2007, 07:57 PM

I stuck in disk one tonight, this show still cracks me up.

markp99

02-05-2007, 08:18 PM

Burn in hell, Fox!

hefe

02-05-2007, 08:25 PM

+5

The atrocity is that this show would repeatedly get pounded in the ratings by stinkin' reality TV.
I'm trying to remember what reality shows it might have been on against, but nothing comes to mind.

Magnolia88

02-05-2007, 09:31 PM

Plus "America" is stupid. ;)

America, you've made a huge mistake.

I own the entire show on DVD, but still I end up watching it when my TiVo picks up the reruns on G4. I can't help myself, it gets funnier every time.

cwoody222

02-05-2007, 10:12 PM

I own the first two seasons on DVD but now that I get G4 I've been recording reruns... and catching them on Canadian TV too.

The other day I actually caught a new joke... the episode called My Mother the Car and at one point Job is watching the episode of the classic show. Then we get ot the point where Lucille is driving the car... I was laughing so hard thinking "my God, three years later and I'm still finding NEW jokes!"

This show is classic!!!

I caught one the other day when Michael did a "her?" and couldn't stop laughing... just such great delivery!

Someone at work said something about "the hubbub hub" (a name a copywriter came up with for something... that we won't use ;) ) and I had to explain "the bob loblaw law blog" :)

getbak

02-06-2007, 12:51 AM

I'm trying to remember what reality shows it might have been on against, but nothing comes to mind.
Extreme Makeover - Home Edition

"Who's going to watch us when they can watch a hot, shirtless guy build a skate ramp for a kid with no bones?" - Jason Bateman

gchance

02-06-2007, 01:17 AM

His name is GOB btw.

Greg

Hoffer

07-23-2010, 11:41 AM

I watched Arrested Development when it originally aired. I just started watching the show again off Netflix streaming. I'm like 13 episodes into the first season.

Man, this show was so good. I watched an episode last night that had Henry Winkler as the lawyer. I laughed when he was in the bathroom and about to comb his hair. He held up his hands, feeling his hair was perfect as is. Just like the Fonz. :)

I also did some IMDB browsing on some of the people in the show. I noticed IMDB says there is an Arrested Development movie coming out in 2011. That would be pretty cool. I wonder if this is rumor or really happening.

hefe

07-23-2010, 11:44 AM

I've caught a few on Netflix recently as well. Good times. Still makes me laugh.

crowfan

07-23-2010, 11:47 AM

Man, this show was so good. I watched an episode last night that had Henry Winkler as the lawyer. I laughed when he was in the bathroom and about to comb his hair. He held up his hands, feeling his hair was perfect as is. Just like the Fonz. :)That is one of my favorite moments. That, and when he jumped the shark on the dock.

Oh, and:

"Buster, stop playing with Mother's rape horn."
"Yeah, like anyone would want to 'R' her."

God this was a great show.

DevdogAZ

07-23-2010, 12:52 PM

photoshopgrl

07-23-2010, 01:16 PM

Can't have an AD thread without throwing in my two cents. My favorite comedy of all time. So well written, so intricately crafted. Burn in Hell, America for not watching this show.
This.

Plus "America" is stupid. ;)
And this.

I also did some IMDB browsing on some of the people in the show. I noticed IMDB says there is an Arrested Development movie coming out in 2011. That would be pretty cool. I wonder if this is rumor or really happening.
I wish I could remember where I saw an interview with Bateman but he said it is definitely happening and probably start filming before 2010 is over.

There isn't enough webspace to fill my love for this show. Or all the quotes in my head on a daily basis.

whitepelican

07-23-2010, 01:21 PM

There have been rumors about an AD movie for a while. Supposedly, all the main characters are ready to jump on board as soon as it's greenlit. Not sure what they're waiting for, but the most recent thing I've heard is that it's still not a sure thing.

At one point, Michael Cera (him?) was supposedly the one holdout, apparently due to his budding film career.

photoshopgrl

07-23-2010, 01:37 PM

At one point, Michael Cera (him?) was supposedly the one holdout, apparently due to his budding film career.
IMDB has him listed for the project so fingers crossed it happens soon!

4inziksych

07-23-2010, 06:57 PM

the first season is playing on hulu now too.
I read an interview with one of the actors (was it buster? or tobias?) just a few weeks ago, said it's definitely not happening (the movie that is). Personally, I think the show was so almost unbelievably perfect and went out so well, they should just let it be.
My favorite line was, "your transplanted hair has rejected your body." That and almost anything tobias said.

gchance

07-23-2010, 07:05 PM

Is this (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/07/michael-cera-arrested-development-movie-scott/) the interview you were talking about?

The news was not encouraging. Cera said he hadn’t spoken to Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz about the movie “in a while.” More generally, the actor admitted to being apprehensive about the project. “I feel scared by the all the expectations on it at this point,” he revealed. “People ask me about it a lot. And to make a movie that already has expectations built in before the script is even written seems intimidating.”

DevdogAZ

07-23-2010, 07:13 PM

That and almost anything tobias said.
I blue myself.

http://www.cymreedley.org/Blue_handprint.jpg

mattack

07-23-2010, 10:20 PM

Bob Loblaw's law blog.

photoshopgrl

07-23-2010, 10:35 PM

I really think it's happening guys!

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/07/gq-exclusive-arnett-hurwitz-confirm-arrested-development-movie-is-on-like-donkey-kong.html

gchance

07-23-2010, 11:00 PM

4inziksych

07-24-2010, 12:41 PM

Is this (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/07/michael-cera-arrested-development-movie-scott/) the interview you were talking about?

Nope, this one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/david-cross-arrested-deve_n_531590.html

4inziksych

07-24-2010, 12:44 PM

I really think it's happening guys!

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/07/gq-exclusive-arnett-hurwitz-confirm-arrested-development-movie-is-on-like-donkey-kong.html

I'm always baffled by this. It seems like the whole world is now waiting in baited breath for this movie, but nobody watched the show besides some of us die hards. Is this all dvid response or what?

Hoffer

07-24-2010, 01:02 PM

I watched one last night where they tried to convince their accountant he killed a stripper. Gob comes out of the room and says something like "Gilligan killed the skipper...stripper". That made me laugh. :)

I'm just on the whole blue man bit as well. I love when Tobias auditions for them and announces he's going to sing a song. The blue man group just stares at him. Also love Tobias blending into all the blue stuff while spying on Lindsey.

Hoffer

07-24-2010, 08:20 PM

I think my favorite part of the show is when Gob does the chicken thing. Just saw a bit where Lindsey joined in wiggling her hand on top of her head. :)

whitepelican

07-25-2010, 07:35 AM

Michael: "Have any of you even seen a chicken?"

Haps

07-25-2010, 09:51 AM

Just watched the first 4 eps of this show last night. Yup it's funny. No idea why I didn't watch it when it was actually on.

marksman

07-26-2010, 06:37 PM

This is how funny it is to me.

They mentioned in the back of EW this week that Will Arnett and David Cross would be working together on something.

They said something along the lines of "Add Franklin and we will blue ourselves."

Just reading Franklin's name had me cracking up thinking about that puppet. It was so funny.

Zevida

07-26-2010, 07:16 PM

Just reading Franklin's name had me cracking up thinking about that puppet.

At least he can have lunch at the club now!

mattack

07-26-2010, 11:10 PM

I'm always baffled by this. It seems like the whole world is now waiting in baited breath for this movie, but nobody watched the show besides some of us die hards. Is this all dvid response or what?

I didn't read any of the recent articles linked to, but a movie can be a hit with attendance that make a TV show absolutely bomb with the same # of viewers.

i.e. I think they're hoping a decent proportion of the people who saw it on TV/DVD/reruns(?) will actually see the movie.

Hoffer

07-27-2010, 03:59 PM

I finished off the series last night. Such a great show.

I'm trying to get a coworker to watch the show on Netflix streaming. He seems interested, but I have a feeling he'll never watch it.

Steveknj

07-27-2010, 04:31 PM

All I know is that everytime I hear The Final Countdown, I think of AD :)

marcello696

07-27-2010, 05:06 PM

I was scrolling through Hulu yesterday and I came across AD and my daughter immediately started doing the GOB chicken dance.

I laughed so hard I had tears :D

DougF

07-28-2010, 11:06 AM

All I know is that everytime I hear The Final Countdown, I think of AD :)

What a fun, sexy time for you.

BK89

07-28-2010, 12:14 PM

She's really funny. Let's hope so.

Hoffer

07-28-2010, 01:51 PM

I didn't even catch where they got GOB from until they showed his birth certificate in a later episode.

bruinfan

07-28-2010, 05:07 PM

I don't think the show would be difficult to follow if you missed a couple of episode, but it definitely wouldn't be as funny. Perhaps that's why "America" never tuned in "en masse," since every time they sampled it, it didn't seem funny, since they hadn't seen the set up to the joke several episodes prior.

Plus "America" is stupid.

this is me, except for the stupid part... i think

anyhoooo...
last fall/winter, i caught AD on hulu... they were putting up one season at a time... and omg it's the funniest freaking show ever. i'm so sad i didn't catch on. i tried to watch one probably season 2... and i couldn't watch a whole episode for some reason.. wasn't funny.

so i got through all 3 seasons... went and bought the 3 season dvd, got my wife hooked on it, got a few coworkers hooked on it.. i'm on my first rewatch and me and my coworker have been semi coordinating shows so we can talk about them...and i've been reading the show threads in the archives...

markz

02-14-2011, 07:58 PM

Sorry to revive an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one:

Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz's guide to getting a sitcom cancelled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/feb/12/arrested-development-mitch-hurwitz-sitcom-cancelled)

wprager

02-15-2011, 07:53 AM