Well, I'm finally on the "Arrested Development" badwagon- a bit late.

[Beware the Beast Man]

Cathyclysmic and I started watching the first season on DVD over the weekend. Through a techincal SNAFU, though, we also wound up with disc one of the 2nd season. My goodness, what a funny-ass show. We were in tears over the "Afternoon Delight" episode. David Cross is genius.

I am probably in the minority who is glad Fox cancelled the show after three seasons. This way, it never had the opportunity to go stale.


"THERE IS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND!!!!!" :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Great show.

You have to watch each episode at least twice to catch all the jokes. :thumbsup:

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. That was the trouble we had with its original run.

We left the room for twenty seconds during an episode and were completely lost. There was a lot of rewinding and pausing this weekend. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. One of my favorite moments from one of the last episodes...

Without giving too much away, it involves some of the family going to Iraq, which, of course, featured prominently from early on in Season 1.

Buster and Michael are in a taxi, apparently in Iraq, because the narration hints at that. Buster speaks Arabic and is yelling at the cab driver in Arabic.

Michael asks what the cab driver said, so Buster says, "He said traffic's backed up from Knott's Berry Farm to LAX." :rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. funniest show on US TV in the last twenty years

I have NEVER laughed so hard in my life. I still use quotes from that show every single day.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Best sight gag (from this season):

When Tobias decided to combine practices and become an analyst and therapist. His business card read:

Tobias Funke
Analrapist.


:rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. LOL... best punchline to that too

when Tobias is dressed in Lucille's clothes and screaming at Buster as Michael enters -

Buster - Tobias is analraping me.

Best sighty gag from Season 2 -

Barry Zuckercorn (Henry Winkler)- Accidentally taking and e-mailing a cameraphone photo of his balls, the photo being intercepted by the feds, and examined for the existence of weapons bunkers, and presented as evidence of treason.

[Cathyclysmic]

17. Turn around boys, it's just balls.

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. And who can forget the "Bob Loblaw law blog"?

:rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. LOL!!!

Se habla Bob Loblaw (at the end of his commercial)

I loved Super Dave as "The Surrogate" too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. The Surrogate was funny as hell!

Did you know "Super Dave" is Albert Brooks' brother?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251872/bio

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. didn't know that

thanks :)

George Sr. (looking at an Internet video of a guy who flew on a lawn chair with helium baloons while contemplating sawing off his house arrest anklet) That's it! We need-
Surrogate - A big party-
George Sr. - For -
Surrogate - Buster's... stupid... thing.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Also, Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.

Seriously. :D

George Sr. to Tobias: "Stop licking my hand, YOU HORSE'S ASS!"

:rofl:

[asthmaticeog]

13. Honestly, I have no idea

how the cast got through the Bob Loblaw scenes without cracking up.

"We're not here to talk nonsense to Bob Loblaw." :rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. I liked how both Lindsay and Tobias were clumsily hitting on him

and he was billing it to their retainer.

His best line - "This isn't the first time I've been brought in to replace Barry Zuckercorn."

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Heheh- lots of sly "Happy Days" references.

From what I gather, there's even a scene where Barry jumps over a shark.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. I met "Barry" once.

Henry Winkler was the speaker at my college graduation. :D

When I shook his hand, I said, "Nice to meet you," (which was true) then as I was about to exit the stage, he called out, "Nice to meet you, too."

I smiled back at him, then walked off. Later on, my mom asked what he said to me as I was walking off the stage, since it was clearly obvious to the audience that he called after me.

:D

[asthmaticeog]

30. YES! The Happy Days meta-humor

that Ron Howard so freely indulged in was ALWAYS funny as hell, when you could catch it. Some great Andy Griffith jokes in a couple of eps, too.

[Initech]

26. Or what about William Hung and the Hung Jury?

:rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. What do you mean Judge Rheinhold isn't a real judge!

[Initech]

28. Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb

:rofl:

[asthmaticeog]

11. Welcome!

One of us, one of us, one of us...

[The2ndWheel]

18. Well, a little over two seasons

Only got in 54 episodes I think.

But yeah, I still laugh out loud watching the DVD's. I've only missed one episode, Ocean Walker, and apparently it's one of the better ones. So can't wait for season 3 to come out.

Better late than never!

[RedStateShame]

19. Why did it take so long to start?

Were you chicken?

I love Gob's chicken dance.

[Nailzberg]

35. I started calling people chicken just so I could do the dance.

[BigMcLargehuge]

36. Ca CAW ca CAW ca CAW

Have any of you ever even seen a chicken?


P.S. That gif is MINE now!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. favorite quotes -

Buster: My Army training tells me... that this is going to be a hot mission.
Michael: What? A hot mission?
Buster: Yes. I create a diversion, and you grab George Michael and go. We need a name. Maybe "Operation Hot Mother".
Michael: No, le-let's try to top that.
Narrator: They never did, and later, "Operation Hot Mother" was underway.

Narrator: In an effort to "hip" up his act, Gob had briefly introduced a puppet.
(Gob is acting as a black puppet named Franklin in front of the family)
Gob: Can I tell you something, my man?
Gob: Sure, Franklin.
Gob: You are one cool (bleep)
Gob: . Speaking of mothers, let me give that oatmeal some brown sugar.
(the puppet 'kisses' Lucille)
George Sr.: Get off my wife, you bastard.
(strangles Franklin)
Gob: (as Franklin) What's the matter with you?
Gob: (in the present) Franklin said some things Whitey wasn't ready to hear.
Michael: Gob, weren't you also mercilessly beaten outside of a club in Torrance for that act?
Gob: He also said some things that African-American-y wasn't ready to hear either.

Tobias Fünke: Time for me to take off my receptionist skirt and put on my Barbara Streisand in the Prince Of Tides ass-masking therapist pantsuit.
Michael: What the hell are you talking about?

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. Ron Howard's narration makes everything work.

He has such an "everyman" voice that it comes across as almost deadpan with all the absurdist comedy going on.

[Mutley]

21. I never saw much of Arrested Development, but agree about the cancellation

They should do that with all shows. Five seasons max -- but better two or three seasons. Let 'em go before they get bad.

[LynneSin]

22. I love the show but hardly saw any of it this season

Since Fox is so kind to make sure that it's never aired on the same night or time slot, unfortunately I lost touch with it. But I didn't watch it until I rented the first 2 seasons of the show and spent the entire weekend watching it. I adore that show and I'm thinking of just buying the DVDs - it's that good.

Rumor has it that Showtime might take over the show.

[BigMcLargehuge]

23. it didn't pan out with Showtime

They wanted to take the show but only if Mitch Hurwitz stayed on as producer. He said he didn't have the energy to do another season and bowed out.

So the show died.

[myrna minx]

25. AD had the dirtiest joke I've ever heard on TV.

Lucille 1: I'm glad I didn't cry. :rofl:

I'm not going to give the context, because this thread would get locked. :rofl: I can't wait for season 3 to come out on DVD.

[Initech]

27. I LOVE Arrested Development.

It's easily my favorite show since Seinfeld.

3 seasons, all near perfection.

[Godhumor]

31. Best "On the next episode" gag ever...

From the third season when Charlize Theron walks across the pool...

Mike: GOB, that's your trick, right?

GOB: It's no trick.

<On the next episode>

GOB: It's my illusion!

<Fireball flies out of his hand and catches Tobias' hair on fire>

*You don't see anything of the scene really except for feet, but you hear Tobias running to the pool and landing on the prop that GOB set up for the water walking*

Tobias: Why, why am I not getting wet???


I also love the fundraiser for TBD.

As far as dirties joke on TV both the Simpsons and American Dad have it beat without any doubt. Unfortunately, I can not repeat either of them (How eiether of them made it past Standards and Practices, I have no idea.).

[6000eliot]

34. Homer: "Florida? That's America's wang!"

When Dr. Hibbert forces him to take a vacation in Florida.

[stanwyck]

32. Jessica Walter, matriarch, rules in the funniest show ever

I watched the show during it's run plus have ordered thru NetFlix. Funniest show ever. And Jessica Walters is hysterical. The entire cast is. Some of my favorite AR moments, after being accused of being lazy, Lindsey stalks off to take "an angry nap". Lucille is appalled to find out that hospitals don't have bars. And she's right. A hospital is a place where you really need a drink. And the wonderful Ann, George Michael's totally forgettable girlfriend, continually amazing Michael with how ordinary she is. Ah, memories.

[BigMcLargehuge]

33. It's as clear as the Ann on plain's face!

Ann is one of the funniest recurring characters too. I love how she ended up attached to Gob at the end of the series.