It was Arrested Development

Feb 10, 2006 22:15

It may be because I'm sick, but when Michael started crying in the Arrested Development finale I just started sobbing. It's starting to feel more like this is the end for the show. Even though there's been talk of Showtime picking up the series, it really felt like the last episode. Instead of an "On the Next Arrested Development" there was "On the Epilogue." And the last line before the epilogue, And that's Arrested Development, really felt like a series finale.

Here's some random stuff I loved about the episodes:

- Doctor: Buster's in what we call a light to no coma. In layman's terms it might be considered a very heavy nap.

- George Michael: It's a great day ... for being sad.

- Franklin's sign: George Bush doesn't care about black puppets.

- Judge Reinhold playing himself as a tv judge with William Hung as a musical jury in the mock trial!!

- Michael to Tobias: You comin' out?

- Narrator: And so, like many people who no longer felt anything for each other, they decided to get married.

- Veronica Mars reference!!! Subtitle on the screen when George Michael suggests watching a tv show on dvd (name bleeped): reference to off-network high school private eye drama censored by FOX.

- All the Judge Reinhold references.

- All the sandwich references.

- Burning mutual respect.

- Tobias: Those Hollywood shows are so incredibly detailed. Then Tobias and George Michael open cupboards that are empty except for a Starbucks cup, and the items Tobias and George Michael take from the cupboards.

- Tobias thinking that “The Prosecution” is a CBS procedural franchise.

- Prosecution: And imagine the impact if that had come on right when we turned on the tv.

- Michael: Who’s tougher than us? Then George Michael getting scared when keys are thrown at him.

- Tobias: This is the best free scrap-booking class ever!

- Gob getting arrested in Iraq for doing a burning bush trick (as a Jesus reference) which is interpreted as a Bush protest.

- The Americans training the Iraqis to be soldiers. (So adorable!)

- Cab driver in Iraq: The Cheney expressway was backed up all the way to Haliburton.

- The Saddam Hussein look-alikes at the Bluth house in Iraq.

- That the nuclear warhead made Buster and Gob want an ice cream cone.

- That saving Gob is called “Operation Hot Brother."

- The multiple call backs to the pilot in the last episode.

- The second base photo.

- Gob dating Ann, Lindsey hitting on Michael once discovering she was adopted, George Michael finally telling his dad about him and Maeby.

- Michael: So it's embezzlement, bribery and conspiracy.

Lucille: And a whole lot of love.

Michael: Oh right, and perjury.

- Annyong returns ... for revenge!!!! His real name is Hello!!

- Maeby: TV is not as good as it used to be ... but you can help me out by signing my petition to make it better.
Buster: I kind of like Skating with Celebrities. (The show that replaced AD on Fox.)

Michael: Three years ago I made a choice, [starts to break down] I made a choice to keep this family together -
Narrator: And that's when Michael finally cried.
Michael: And today looks like I successed.
Narrator: It wasn't exactly a turn on.

Ron Howard: I don't see it as a series. Maybe a movie? Please yes!!!

I will miss the most dysfunctional, incestuous, unethical, uncaring BEST family on television. Perhaps in the next few days a Fox executive will say: I've made a huge mistake.

Some more sad tv-related news: Scarlett Pomers (Krya on Reba) has revealed that she's been in treatment for an eating disorder. She's only 17 years old. It's just really sad and distressing. Although at least by talking about it may help other people.

In happier, more amusing news: my dad told me that my grandpa really enjoyed Legally Blonde. I have such a hard time wrapping my head around my 90 year old grandpa watching AND liking Legally Blonde, but I guess it shows that Reese Witherspoon can make anyone like her.

To try and cheer myself up I'm including one of my favourite exchanges on BtVS:

Giles: I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your
transgression.

Xander: I resent that! Or possibly thank you.

reba, tv, vmars, btvs, arrested development

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