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A subreddit for fans and critics of the 2003 show Arrested Development. Discussion, pictures and anything else Arrested Development related.


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Important: Please read the rules before posting. "I didn't know." is not a valid reason for violating the subreddit's rules.

We will also remove reposts and common submission/questions from the last 3 months and wherever possible consolidate discussion to a central thread to facilitate organization on the subreddit.

Rules

1) Etiquette

Do not post rude comments directed towards other community members or the moderators.

Contribute constructively to discussions, and try to flag posts and comments that break our subreddit rules.

2) Relevance

All posts must be directly related to Arrested Development. No "Actors acting" or vague tie-ins to the show from unrelated posts elsewhere on Reddit or the web. This may include some political content if things become too toxic.

Things that are frequently posted and/or vague tie-ins and low effort content will be automatically removed.

They include (but are not limited to):

  • license plates

  • captchas

  • coincidental instances of the words bees or beads that do not reference the show

  • posts that do not stand (or seem to relate to the show) without the title

  • screenshots of comments

  • Loblaws grocery store, Steve Holt the magician, other coincidental names that are obviously not referencing this show

  • speculation (i.e. looks like Tobias was here)

  • lookalikes

3) Piracy

Don't link to or request episodes hosted illegally online. This includes streams, torrents, cloud-hosted files, etc.

4) Vote Manipulation

Asking for upvotes (such as "For every upvote..." or "If this gets x upvotes....") is forbidden. Bots and astroturfing are forbidden and will be reported to the Reddit admins.

5) Image hosting

Images, GIFs, and Webms to be hosted on Reddit, Imgur, gfycat, or giphy only.

6) Self-Promotion

The promotion of products or services whose sale benefits you, either directly or indirectly, is forbidden.


"Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development."

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26

Watch out for hop-ons

you’re gonna get hop-ons

6 Comments
2024/12/01
08:11 UTC

2

Prequel Spin-off idea: "Buster's Milford Years"

The joke is that we never see or hear Buster. It's just a whole new cast of characters.

7 Comments
2024/12/01
07:58 UTC

163

Unexpected AD on Bluesky

14 Comments
2024/12/01
03:00 UTC

620

The seal is for marksmanship

10 Comments
2024/11/30
17:03 UTC

706

Welcome to the weekend!

21 Comments
2024/11/30
16:38 UTC

205

♪ MR F ♪

10 Comments
2024/11/30
15:14 UTC

714

But I suppose we all do expose our inner desires, don't we?

42 Comments
2024/11/30
00:55 UTC

122

New Show

8 Comments
2024/11/29
23:11 UTC

120

Buster as a drone pilot

In S4:14 Original Cut at 21:13 Buster is stationed in the Anaheim Plaza - look down the sign - there is the "DR. ONE CENTER".

It's at least my 20th rerun of the show. Never saw that before.^^'

12 Comments
2024/11/29
20:48 UTC

65

Mabey, Passibleigh

2 Comments
2024/11/29
20:35 UTC

47

I mean, it’s a single banana Michael

7 Comments
2024/11/29
20:35 UTC

1

Maybe and father(s)?

Watching The Old Man, thinking that maybe went from 0 dad's to three dad's - must be quite the change.

1 Comment
2024/11/29
20:20 UTC

1,161

Henry Winkler jumps the shark

This show is amazing. 100 rewatches and I still find jokes I missed. In this scene where they find the seal’s flipper in the dead shark, when Barry leaves he jumps over the dead shark. For those who don’t know where they saying “jump the shark” came from, google it.

41 Comments
2024/11/29
18:44 UTC

142

Bonster!

14 Comments
2024/11/29
13:46 UTC

13

Did George Sr. set up Gob's stabbing in the prison?

Or did he legitimately want to play catch with him?

16 Comments
2024/11/29
12:10 UTC

50

MUSTAAAAAAAARRRD

5 Comments
2024/11/29
07:09 UTC

49

Happy Thanksgiving. Grateful for…

Tobias Fünke : "I don't know what you heard about me, but I'm a different kind of cop. I’M from the streets, and I'm the laaaast cop you'll ever want to mess with in a darkened al - dark alley

Tobias Fünke : Oh, you know, maybe my wife is right. I'm not cut out to be a DeNiro, or a Regis, or a Pinkett-Smith. I shou...

6 Comments
2024/11/29
03:19 UTC

66

Her?

6 Comments
2024/11/29
03:15 UTC

11

What do you think AD characters would be thankful for? I have added a few to get it started.

9 Comments
2024/11/29
02:41 UTC

198

I don’t care for Gob

15 Comments
2024/11/29
02:19 UTC

32

He’s An Alpaca

Fake brows Ron

4 Comments
2024/11/29
01:52 UTC

337

Making a Case that Michael married Egg

Not Annegg of course, but Tracegg.

Exhibit 1 First of all, isn’t it fitting how Michael’s Egg is rarely mentioned, and almost never mentioned by name? It’s as Tracy as the nose on plain’s face!

Exhibit 2 George (and apparently the rest of the family) also have zero sympathy for Michael when his precious Egg is cracking. S3E7 - *George: “Ovarian cancer.” Gee, I wonder who that was. *

George also refers to his paralegal in S5E4 and Michael thinks George forgot Tracy’s real name, and responds in a similar fashion to George Michael when Michael can’t remember Ann’s name. George: I knew I should have sold that property when Stacy died. Michael: Tracy.

Exhibit 3 Similar to George Michael, Michael’s sex life is… limited. Michael clearly settled for Egg, much as he was concerned George Michael settled for Ann. S1E11 - G.O.B.: I’m sorry. I’m just still on the whole Michael-being-likable thing. You know that he’s only had sex with, like, four women, right?

Exhibit 4 A running theme in this series is Michael repeating the mistakes of George when it comes to parenting. George wasn’t fond of Michael’s Egg, just as Michael wasn’t fond of George Michael’s Egg. S2E6 - George: Don’t get involved. Believe me, when I thought your first wife was driving us apart, I did not make a stink. Michael: You complained all the time, and she was my only wife. And she died.

Also in S4E8 - George: You really like this girl? Michael: She's Tracy. George: Fat Tracey or thin Tracy at the end?

Exhibit 5 It is implied that Michael only marries Tracegg because he gets her pregnant in their sophomore year of college. While this doesn’t happen with Ann, this same conversation implies George Michael could pop-pop into the same situation. S2E14 - G.O.B.: "Unless he knocks her up like you did with his mother."

Exhibit 6 Lucille likes Ann (after Buster leaves for army, Lucille lets her? teach her the ways of God in S2E11). Lucille also liked Tracey. S1E9 - Lucille: You’re the only child who chose a spouse I liked, and she’s the one who had to die.

Exhibit 7 Like Ann, Tracegg is so forgettable that Barry doesn’t even know that she died! S2E11 - Barry: I got Michael out of his marriage, didn’t I? Michael: Actually she died. Barry: You’re kidding me. I’ve been taking credit for that for years.

Exhibit 8 Sally Sitwell was cool. In S2E11, when Sally imagines how different their lives would have been if they’d gotten together in high school, the ‘entirely different’ kid also looks much cooler than George Michael. Since the only variable that changed was the woman, it implies very egg-like genetics from the mom’s side. *And yes, the image is from Lindsay’s failed business, but still shows how Lindsay viewed Tracy *

Exhibit 9 When talking about Michael backing out of his relationship with Sally, Lindsay calls him out on his “type” - implying he was not happy and suffered when he was with Tracy. Who does this sound like? S2E11 - Lindsay: You know, I think you’re looking for a reason this isn’t going to work, because you can’t handle happiness. And you like to suffer.

In closing, you’re a crook Captain hook.

I rest my case.

39 Comments
2024/11/29
01:11 UTC

314

Well, I hope you also carry a spare bowl of candy beans!

21 Comments
2024/11/28
23:07 UTC

500

Happy Thanksgiving!

6 Comments
2024/11/28
21:14 UTC

602

To the next person who posts about the $6 million banana: let's get into some new areas, if you don't mind.

53 Comments
2024/11/28
13:45 UTC

45

I’m sure EGG! is a very nice sticker. I just don’t want you spending all your money putting her on your car.

3 Comments
2024/11/28
13:31 UTC

10

Shut up, it's art

4 Comments
2024/11/28
05:59 UTC

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