i'm just discovering arrested development

[Bob]

and i really really like it

i slept on it for far too long but i've finally picked it up. i signed up for netflix and after a series of mishaps they've finally sent the first disc to me

but as it happens a friend lent me the whole first season on the same day, so cool

but yeah, this show rules. i'm a little weirded about by the whole george michael and his cousin thing but hey, it's an emotion and i'm feeling it, so that's cool.

david cross continues to be awesome

i'll be sure to provide continuous updates as i go

[ggirlballa]

i would only watch it if nothing else was on, but it wasn't a bad show though, i just never got into it

[Bob]

the only thing i don't like about it is ron howard's narration

i don't like ron howard, i prefer it when he's invisible

buster's great

[Waus]

Fantizmic show. Keep us posted.

Ooh - also - it wouldn't be a bad idea to check out the wiki guides to inside jokes and running gags for episodes you've already seen.

[Planetary]

i thought you were on about the band.

[tracky]

i like them both, the show and the band. i always feel a bit out of place listening to their music because it's all very black, but I still enjoy it. The show is just genius (y)

[Documad]

It's one of the few TV shows where you have to pay attention. I laughed out loud at almost every episode. That doesn't happen with TV very often.

I know what you mean about the Ron Howard narration. At first, it bothered me, but by the 3rd season it was quite funny. I don't know if that's because I got used to it or whether I just enjoyed all the Happy Days references. Oh, and when the narration went on and on about how the show wasn't saying anything bad about Andy Griffith . . . . :p

[Mr. Boomin'Granny]

with CLUB SAUCE

[cosmo105]

with CLUB SAUCE
GOD DAMN YOU!

what about macaroni - let me finish - salad? (http://the-op.com/media/sound.php?aid=28&fmt=mp3)

[ET]

We're looking at balls... let's turn it around. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwylqYHEpNk)

[Bob]

you're married to carl weathers?.....shit

[beastieangel01]

the show rocks, glad you've been able to get in to it :)

[Bob]

this show's really fucking good, wow

[Schmeltz]

"What time is it? Almost sundown. I have to prepare for the Sabbath."
"It's Tuesday."
"Shhhhhh."

[Ason Unique]

It took me the longest time to get past the fact that the kid was named 'George Michael', and that at every opportunity he was referred to as 'George Michael'. Fuck, I had to rewatch the first 3 episodes because I was Hawwww-hawwwing about his name.

[Waus]

...and that's why you always leave a note! :mad:

[Bob]

...and that's why you always leave a note! :mad:

haha i loved that one

"...and that's why you never teach your son a lesson"

actually i've loved every second of every one so far but it includes that one

[Ason Unique]

The episode where Michael has to look after Buster is gold. When Buster goes off about his mother, the reactions of the room evoke The Office.

[Bob]

haha! it's james lipton, and david cross, in a scene together! david cross lampooned the fuck out of james lipton in a stand-up bit, this is great

[roosta]

yeah, im just discovering this too....fucking top class stuff. when GOB does any kind of magic act (especially when accompanyed by "the final countdown") i go into hysterics.

[DandyFop]

Gob and Dwight are very similar. Watch an episode of each back to back and you will be surprised.

Like I said, the best thing about Arrested is that is just gets better and better. All the subtle references to things that have already happening, running jokes, makes it a show you can watch a billion times over and find something new every time.

[Bob]

Gob and Dwight are very similar. Watch an episode of each back to back and you will be surprised.

i was actually thinking the exact same thing

i drunkenly ordered all three seasons on DVD from amazon last night, but i don't regret it

[Waus]

perhaps...an attic I shall seek?

[abcdefz]

What a fun show.

Yeah, Bob -- like folks are saying, as you get further and further into it, the layers of jokes keeps building. It's amazingly subtle for a show that is kind of a joke about sitcoms in the first place.(y)

[Bob]

no touching!

[Schmeltz]

Take it back! If I wanted something your thumb touched I'd eat the inside of your ear!

[DIGI]

"I have good ideas, Michael. I think I pretty much proved that with Fuck Mountain."

[Junker]

i thought you were on about the band.

lol...me too! :p

[beastiegirrl101]

OMG!

Just finished disc 1 & 2 of season one...waiting on netflix to get the 3rd. I finally got conned into getting it after listening to everyone in my family constantly quoting it. I LOVE IT!

my cousins always do the "countdown" but I don't think I've gotten that far yet, what season goes that start?

I love Buster.

[The Notorious LOL]

Annyong!

[Rock]

When Lindsey and Gob do the Chicken Dance. Thats the good shit right thur.

I also feel kind of sad when I see all 3 seasons on DVD next to each other at home. There are two normal sized boxes and then this piddly one for season three. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

[abcdefz]

It's funny -- I was just re-watching season one this weekend. the show got so much better and snappier as it went along. Amazing.

Does anybody else notice that Jason Bateman is basically channeling Albert Brooks? Almost identical deliveries, except that Bateman never finally wigs out like Brooks does.

[The Notorious LOL]

the series of snapshots involving Buster and a sheep in a photo booth have caused many LOLs recently.

[The Notorious LOL]

lololol (http://www.photobooth.net/mt/archives/2005/09/05/buster_and_the_sheep.php)

[abcdefz]

That first photo's actually a pretty good picture of the guy.

[The Notorious LOL]

the third and fourth one are the best.

[Jitters]

I just hopped on the band wagon after seeing the show on T.V about a month ago.

I bought the first DVD set and haven't stopped watching it since (y)

[DipDipDive]

I kinda wanna touch Jason Bateman's butt. :o

I like the spring break episode with the slutty secretary's cock-eyed nips. lolz.

[Documad]

The first few episodes of season three are the best. That's a show that's actually better the second time around.

[Kid Presentable]

Bob Loblaw cracks me up. I love his "This isn't the first time I've taken over from Barry Zuckercorn. I can do everything he can do. Plus skew younger......with jurors."

Also, how Eve Holt's catchphrase in Gob's yearbook is "Eve Holt!". :D

[DIGI]

G.O.B is by far the funniest character, but Buster is a close second in my book.

All the pot references in the show are great.

Buster trying to get George Michael to get him some pot for Lucille 2:
"I'm not S'ing around, man. My old lady's on the floor."

When Michael asks Oscar to give Lucille a little Afternoon Delight:
"I wonder how I'm gonna get it in her? Maybe I'll stick it in her brownie."

(y)

[DipDipDive]

Unlimited supply of juice? This party is gonna be off...the hook.

[DandyFop]

I love JUICE!

[DipDipDive]

heheheheHEY BROTHER!!!

[beastiegirrl101]

how ARE you?

[abcdefz]

Also, how Eve Holt's catchphrase in Gob's yearbook is "Eve Holt!". :D



I never saw that! That's great.

[-T-]

I remember watching the first episode when it first aired, I was hooked. Good Stuff.(y)

[cosmo105]

Bob Loblaw cracks me up.
you, sir, are a mouthful!

[Bob]

how ARE you?

hehe, that's how i'd introduce myself to people if i talked to people

no touching!

[cosmo105]

no bees!

[Kid Presentable]

Of course. Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.

I loved Michael's interactions with Wayne Jarvis. "I....Appreciate that... to a wondeful degree!" :D

[Documad]

I still think the best moment is when George Michael wears the rocket suit and goes after David Cross in a mole suit while he's trashing the tiny housing project while being watched by Japanese businessmen. I'm laughing as I type this.

Or it could be when Gob does his show outside the courthouse in front of a "free chicken" sign.

[Bob]

I still think the best moment is when George Michael wears the rocket suit and goes after David Cross in a mole suit while he's trashing the tiny housing project while being watched by Japanese businessmen. I'm laughing as I type this.

hahaha, i watched that the other day, that was great. in any other show, it would be such a tacky ridiculous scene, but it was set up so impossibly well that it actually worked, i really can't wrap my head around how they managed to do it

such a great show

[Kid Presentable]

I still think the best moment is when George Michael wears the rocket suit and goes after David Cross in a mole suit while he's trashing the tiny housing project while being watched by Japanese businessmen. I'm laughing as I type this.

Or it could be when Gob does his show outside the courthouse in front of a "free chicken" sign.
That particaular scene was the culmination of 4 separate pretexts, meshing together flawlessly to form unbridled hilarity. I laughed so fucking hard when that scene started, and fell off my seat when George Michael flew in. Shit. It is an incredible scene. (y)

[beastiegirrl101]

it's so tired in here.

[The Notorious LOL]

tap me on the fanny

[tracky]

Annyong!

Hello!

[DandyFop]

I still think the best moment is when George Michael wears the rocket suit and goes after David Cross in a mole suit while he's trashing the tiny housing project while being watched by Japanese businessmen. I'm laughing as I type this.



I was going to mention before that this was my favorite scene. And then you did. We are the same person

[cosmo105]

i just love all of Tobias' ridiculously homo-sounding statements.

Even it it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it down!


(oh and i recently watched the episode where G.O.B. has tobias break into maggie's house and says he needs someone with agility...and tobias jumps on his back and whispers "THIS KIND OF AGILITY?" oh god, lol city.)

[DandyFop]

DAVID CROSSS <33333333

Plus Amy as GOB's wife... :o :o

[DipDipDive]

I blue myself.

[DandyFop]

i am going to take this opportunity to brag again about my best Halloween costume ever (http://myspace-133.vo.llnwd.net/00290/33/18/290578133_l.jpg)

The pic doesn't totally do it justice but still...

[Kid Presentable]

^^^You make a better Maeby.

[DandyFop]

Yeah but where's the fun in that? I only get one day a year to wear a moustache and I tend to make the most of it.

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah but where's the fun in that? I only get one day a year to wear a moustache and I tend to make the most of it.
Fair call. You couldn't spend a party going "Marry me!", or "Babysit me!". It's a pretty funny get-up. (y)

[DandyFop]

My nametag totally said "Tobias Funke, Analrapist". :cool:

[Kid Presentable]

My nametag totally said "Tobias Funke, Analrapist". :cool:
Haha. Like how they say "poofter" meaning "tourist".

[Documad]

My nametag totally said "Tobias Funke, Analrapist". :cool:
:D

Best business card ever.

[Schmeltz]

I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, which has left me with a bit of a mess on my hands.

[DandyFop]

I was looking for a video of Gob's magic act and I came across...this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQncN7Klvw&eurl=

totally my new boyfriend

[beastiegirrl101]

imoscar.com

[Jitters]

Best. Show. Ever.

[Bob]

alright, i finally got around to watching the last season

who was that at the end of the last episode? the "maybe a movie" guy? i feel like that was a joke i was supposed to get only i don't know who it was

[Late-Night Lion]

^ That was your buddy Ron Howard

[Documad]

So wasn't the third season great?

[Waus]

alright, i finally got around to watching the last season

who was that at the end of the last episode? the "maybe a movie" guy? i feel like that was a joke i was supposed to get only i don't know who it was

I think right around when the third season got canceled there were talks of doing an Arrested Development movie.

[Bob]

So wasn't the third season great?

yes, very much so

i still think the narration was annoying, but the show rules regardless. it's got such impossibly clever writing, even tobias' gay jokes manage to be constantly clever and not lame.

tobias: i should tell the hot cops to change to a more nautical theme...perhaps 'hot sailors'...better yet! hot seam-

michael: iiii like hot sailors

tobias: me too...


it's a shame to see it go before its time. not that 3 seasons is anything to scoff at. some of my other favorite shows (the office, spaced) only have 2 seasons, and they're still classics, but i'm assuming that they stopped after 2 seasons because they wanted to, not because they were cancelled. so that's annoying.

oh well, i'm looking forward to watching them again

i've been drinking more juice lately, and every time i do, i think of buster

[checkyourprez]

by far one of the funniest and possibly THE funniest tv show i think i have ever watched. its one of the only shows i can picture a scene from the show in my head and burst out laughing uncontrollably.

[Randetica]

eye dis like these dread

[Jitters]

i still think the narration was annoying, but the show rules regardless.

I really liked some of the jokes the narrator did, what didn't you like about it?

[Bob]

I really liked some of the jokes the narrator did, what didn't you like about it?

i just thought it was really intrusive. like, he'd explain the punchlines to the jokes, but i think they'd be much more satisfying if you got them on their own.

for example, in the one where they build a house (which is both the title, and an accurate description of the episode), there's a scene earlier in the episode where mike and gob are playing rock paper scissors, and michael always chooses rock and gob always chooses scissors (or something, i forget who chooses what, it isn't important). and then later in the episode, when they build the fake house and it collapses, gob attacks michael with the ceremonial scissors, and michael picks up a fake rock to defend himself. that's a hilarious callback joke, but the narration comes out and explains the punchline to you, i dunno, i just didn't like it.

[YoungRemy]

“Zero hour, Michael. It’s the end of the line. I’m the firstborn. I’m sick of playing second fiddle. I’m always third in line for everything. I’m tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I’m mad about, and I’m taking over.”