/r/arresteddevelopment

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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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Possibility of a Tobias only spinoff?

David Cross is an amazing actor, and with the state of the AD cast being as it is maybe the best we can hope for as AD fans is an epic Tobias series that explores his life after the Bluths, after leaving Lindsey.

Alia Shawkat could make guest appearances and the rest of the cast wouldn't be needed

Who else things this could be great šŸ˜ƒšŸ‘??

Inspired by this thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/1d5lt2k/if_you_had_to_who_in_arrested_development_would/

3 Comments
2024/10/16
00:33 UTC

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Ike and Tina Tuna

When I feed my cat, I tell her she's getting Ike and Tina Tuna. And I ask Plate or Platter? She just meows, but the way she does it, I translate it to "I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it."

12 Comments
2024/10/15
23:25 UTC

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FAO al-Jibaaly Muhammed a-Abat

Iā€™m on my millionth rewatch, but I donā€™t get the joke with FAO al-Jibaaly Muhammed a-Abat, who owns the shop that Buster works in.

Online it suggests this is a reference to American toy store FAO Schwarz, but is that really it? Is there not some joke about the name that Iā€™m missing?

6 Comments
2024/10/15
21:49 UTC

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i saw a *redacted* mapping car today and screamed ā€œoh my god an ostrichā€, my girlfriend thinks iā€™m crazy.

title. just saw it again and had to explain the joke but i guess itā€™s mapping here now. and i saw an ostrich at the zoo a few days ago. Thatā€™s not a coincidence. Currently booking passage to shuturmurg, india.

3 Comments
2024/10/15
20:44 UTC

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That face you make when you realize that you've accidentally worked a day in your life

10 Comments
2024/10/15
18:33 UTC

96

Lindsay had to prepare the meal for H.O.O.P.

19 Comments
2024/10/15
18:03 UTC

70

NO TOUCHING!

7 Comments
2024/10/15
17:01 UTC

363

George Michaelā€™s Lock Screen

Season 4 is a lot of things. But George Michaelā€™s choice of Lock Screen is hilarious. 4.16

22 Comments
2024/10/15
15:28 UTC

591

Watching Veep for the first time... You can always tell a Milford man

This has to be intentional... It just has to!

11 Comments
2024/10/15
05:40 UTC

85

Dr. Funky??

14 Comments
2024/10/15
04:29 UTC

180

Look at Monday Night Football, Michael!

21 Comments
2024/10/15
02:12 UTC

611

He also believed video of the tussles would be a big hit in the burgeoning home video market.

16 Comments
2024/10/15
00:04 UTC

422

Those are...

balls. Saw this elsewhere

23 Comments
2024/10/14
22:29 UTC

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How long (TO BINGE) are seasons 1-3?

How long would it take to watch the complete seasons 1-3 in a single sitting?

10 Comments
2024/10/14
16:55 UTC

78

Her?

10 Comments
2024/10/14
16:49 UTC

15

Arrested Development Missing in NL

[update] after several router restarts, everything is right again with the universe. What happened? I don't know, just happy to get back to viewing.

So I'm in the Netherlands and was busy watching Arrested Development. Was really enjoying it, but all of a sudden this weekend it just disappeared off Netflix. It says it's no longer available in my region. I can't find any sort of official announcement about it, does anyone know if it was actually removed or is something just wrong with my account?

Picture is from the browser, on my chromecast it says not available in the region

https://preview.redd.it/flunxjjvrqud1.png?width=546&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7ab10086853b9de22cd4dfd5d1bdca30425219b

7 Comments
2024/10/14
15:40 UTC

378

My favorite repeated-viewing joke

In S01E10 Pier Pressure, there's a very clever joke that took me multiple viewings to get (it was around 17 years ago as a teenager...). And since I discovered this community recently, I'd like to appreciate the joke with you and over-analize it :)

So... Maeby is punished and sent to spend time with Lucille.

Their scene together opens with Lucille holding jewelry and saying "and this is from when Pop-Pop yelled out, ā€œOh Melanie!ā€ when he was making love to Gangy" A little while later she holds the elephant broche and says "ah yes the week when we had the au pair."

In a later scene Lindsay sees the broche on Maeby and protests: " That was supposed to be for me. She was my au pair. Iā€™m the one who cleared my throat and pointed to the laundry room!"

I just love this so much! I love the sophistication that you need to come to a small conclusion from every sentence, that is a needed cotext for the next. I love that there's nothing forced about the joke, and it connects brilliantly with the story. And I especially love that they manage to paint such a rich image of the Bluth family dynamic in only 3 spoken sentences! (even though we already knew some of it):

  1. George repeatedly cheated on Lucille, including with Lindsay's au pair.
  2. Not only did Lucille know about the cheatings, she used it as a way to get expensive jewelry from George. She is also proud of it! So much so that she shares that information with her grandchild, almost like she is teaching her how to be as a woman.
  3. Not only did Lindsay know about her father cheating as a kid, she also knew how her mother used it, so she led her mother to discover her father cheating in the laundry room, for the purpose of getting jewelry herself. And she is still resentful of her mother excluding her from the reward.

IMO, those are the kind of things that make AD really stand out above the rest.

What are some other examples of sophisticated jokes that reveal a lot of information about the characters?

47 Comments
2024/10/14
12:59 UTC

2

What is the background song?

In the "On the next" section, does anyone know the name of the song that plays in the background?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsKh19yO_9A

1 Comment
2024/10/14
06:20 UTC

2

Red McGibbon

Who plays Red McGibbon in "Ready, Aim, Marry Me?" I've always thought it looked like Will Ferrell.

3 Comments
2024/10/14
04:09 UTC

100

On rewatch, are you ever surprised how good Eps 1-3 are?

Somehow even after 20 watch throughs, Iā€™m always impressed by the Pilot. I think it has a ton of heart and relatability with its comedy, and really thatā€™s when the show is at its best.
Those first three are so tight and memorable, itā€™s hard to believe they came out of the gate with that- it like arrived on air fully formed.
Even many shows I LOVE stumble thru the first 4 or more.

Do I just feel this way because Iā€™ve seen the whole series?
Iā€™m always surprised how well everyone nailed their character right from the beginning.

19 Comments
2024/10/14
03:27 UTC

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Did you think Development Arrested was a perfect ending?

19 Comments
2024/10/13
23:09 UTC

6

Hoping for a cameo from the man that Joan Baez called ā€œthe shallowest man in the worldā€

0 Comments
2024/10/13
20:35 UTC

15

Anyong in S1 E18 Missing Kitty

As Gob is prancing about before making the yacht disappear, there is a cutaway to Lucille digging through Anyong's pockets for her keys and the boy is looking down and having minor convulsions. I always assumed there was a joke to explain it that ended up being cut. Does anyone know what that was about?

12 Comments
2024/10/13
19:33 UTC

0

are seasons 4 and 5 worth watching?

i watched some of season 4 and the jokes just weren't hitting the same, does it get any better?

14 Comments
2024/10/13
06:03 UTC

100

Anyone else watch Supernatural? My husband & I think they were watching AD when they wrote the ep ā€œHook Manā€

Started with my husband noticing a poster that said GOB. Looked like it was meant for a band.

Obviously there is a man with a Hook for a hand in the episode.

There was a kid painting himself dark purple, so dark it almost looked blue.

And then Dean called for Sam by saying ā€œHey Brother.ā€

We could be imagining things, but weā€™re now hoping that the writers were at least watching AD when they wrote the episode.

Itā€™s possible. Buster loses his hand in February 2005. This episode of Supernatural aired October 2005.

5 Comments
2024/10/13
05:38 UTC

73

Itā€™s deer season again!!!!

Well, itā€™s me again. Here in Texas we are in our third week of bow season. I have this 42 inch tv in my camper and every deer season I rewatch all the seasons of AD. Iā€™m on episode ā€œIn a $5,000 suit? Cā€™MON!ā€ I do this every year and it never gets old.

6 Comments
2024/10/13
02:46 UTC

248

Well, he exists!

Robert Lobb has a law firmā€¦

Bob Lobb Law

Iā€™ve never been happier to be on LinkedIn!

18 Comments
2024/10/13
02:41 UTC

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