Comments | slightlyoffaxis: "Lisa, see what we mean when we say you're too smart for your own good?"

slightlyoffaxis

"Lisa, see what we mean when we say you're too smart for your own good?"

Sep 29, 2005 08:50

No. viewers for the finale of last season's Arrested Development: 5.90 million

No. viewers for the premiere of this season's Arrested Development: 4.58 million ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

sparklyfabulous September 29 2005, 07:23:12 UTC

oh my god. oh my god. i had to go and click on the "past stranger than fictions" link DIDN'T I. every time i finally forget that it HAPPENED, you REMIND ME AGAIN.

i'm not linking to the entry i mean because i hope it will fade back into oblivion.

i maintain that i have NO MEMORY of the event, and therefore it never happened.

(also everyone is looking at me wondering why i am giggling madly at my desk.)

slightlyoffaxis September 29 2005, 07:35:03 UTC

What, you mean the one where you got peed on?

(This should serve as a warning to anyone else who roots around in my old geocities page. Michelle is correct, the page should fade into oblivion.)

slightlyoffaxis September 29 2005, 16:04:14 UTC

Incidentally, through looking for that link I found that "Quebecizona" is one of those things that yields exactly one Google match. This just shows that, at least at one time in our lives, we had a completely original thought.

wmetoile September 29 2005, 08:28:11 UTC

(present company excluded)

It's very kind of you to excuse those of us who didn't do any of the above (seriously, the Trix bunny needs to get over his damn self) and yet do not watch Arrested Development. What can I say? To watch or not to watch Arrested Development is a personal choice every woman needs to make for herself. But I will defend to the death your right to make that choice.

slightlyoffaxis September 29 2005, 08:40:09 UTC

To watch or not to watch Arrested Development is a personal choice every woman needs to make for herself. But I will defend to the death your right to make that choice.

I totally agree. To your face. But behind your back, I'm going to start referring to you as "Part of the Problem."

wmetoile September 29 2005, 08:40:43 UTC

My family's been calling me that for years.

rockmarooned September 29 2005, 09:33:01 UTC

I am far less kind. I think you should only be allowed to not watch Arrested Development if you don't watch any other shows, either. Or at very least, you have to ignore The O.C.

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missfee September 29 2005, 08:48:45 UTC

i love quebecizona. but i am confused by the artful rendering of your plan. where are you moving my home state? and do you realize that it's not just arizona that does the "hey, ya'll are crazy thinking you can 'change time' and whatnot?" thing? parts of indiana agree, dammit.

also, you need sun to make good iced tea. sadly for minnesota, they have no sun. or is minnesota moving to where arizona once was?

slightlyoffaxis September 29 2005, 09:19:59 UTC

Minnesota will have good sun once it switches places with Arizona. Our logic is airtight, I tell you :/

anonymous September 29 2005, 11:58:23 UTC

*sigh*

If I were home (where there's TV) I would SO watch Arrested Development! Alas, I am away and am part of the problem. But I assure you! If I were home, the numbers would be 5.90 million+1, 4.58 million+1, and 3.90 million+1.

~Island Cake

allsussedout September 29 2005, 20:52:04 UTC

i think i partially understand why people don't watch it. example=me. i've watched it twice and i had no idea what was going on at. all. i dunno. i feel like i'd have to be dedicated to watching it to really figure out what the heck was going on....or rent the dvds or something. i dunno. i also don't really watch any other tv shows. except american idol. hehe.

slightlyoffaxis September 30 2005, 06:53:02 UTC

That doesn't explain the 3 million people who used to watch it, but don't now.

rockmarooned September 30 2005, 09:53:35 UTC

Yeah, that's really puzzling to me. In the first season, around 6 million people watched each week, I think -- maybe a little more. In the second season, it was a little less (like 5.9 million), and while I was surprised and saddened that they didn't gain any Simpsons fans, it seemed like, OK, they have a fanbase of 5.5 million or so, which is not huge but certainly respectable.

But if this season winds up averaging something like 4 million per week, WTF happened to those other 1.5 million? I understand that the show doesn't exactly encourage casual viewing the way, say, King of Queens does (that is, I doubt KOQ ensnares the *same* 12-13 million diehard fans each week). But what about that million or more people who presumably watched the show enough to gain familiarity? Did they all have babies this year or something ( ... )