When I read about this on
Gawker this morning, I nearly shat myself, and for the first time ever, I actually wished I lived on the West Coast.
Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21, 2006
2032 Stoner Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Estate Sales Los Angeles is pleased to announce that it will conduct an exciting prop house sale of the contents of one of Twentieth Century Fox Television's favorite television shows of the past decade "Arrested Development".
Spectacular array of items will include several periods of furniture, magic show accessories and artifacts, interior décor items, art, books, kitchen appliances and kitchen ware, interior/exterior lighting, office furniture, extensive entertainment memorabilia and too much more to itemize.
Don't miss the opportunity to own a piece of this show. I. WANT. TO GO. SO BADLY. I know I wouldn't be able to afford anything, but I still want to see what exactly is up for grabs, how much it's going for, and who's buying it. That show had so many amazing props and set dressings that anything they're going to offer will be awesome.
And now I pose this question to all my Arrested Development-loving friends: if you had the money, and assuming the studio put it up for sale, what prop(s)/set dressing(s) would you want? I know I'd love The Cornballer, The Sword of Destiny, Buster's hand chair, the fake turkey that sat on the table in the model home, any part of the set that had Tobias' blue hand print on it, the banner that says "You're killing me, Buster", Buster's hook, the $6,300 suit (COME ON!), and hundreds of other little things that I probably shouldn't continue to list here but would make me laugh just by thinking about it.
The Milford Academy sign (shown above) is definitely up for sale, and would look fucking sweet in my living room. I've always found the fact that the show called the school "Milford" hysterical because there actually is a
Milford Academy in Upstate New York, but their
mission statement is just slightly different than "Where children are neither seen nor heard."
Okay, I'm done geeking out. I'll save the rest for the talking room.