if you haven't seen AD from the beginning, it's going to take you several episodes to work out the characters and what is going on. this show is extremely serialized for a comedy, which makes it difficult to attract new fans. if you are serious about wanting to get into this show, renting season 1 on dvd will help you immensely.

the opener with the narration (Now the story of the family who lost everything...) tells you what you need to know.



Kind of..



How the hell did the sitcom Soap last 4 long years?

no, lol, i actually meant on dvd. i don't have a dvr.

It only had two other channels (and PBS) competing with it?

anyone know how it did in the ratings this week? I hope it did better than last week with no football to compete with......although I'm sure viewing public/carbon-blobs were too busy watching "America's Funniest Home Repossessions" or something....

Yes. RTFT.

Ahh, I see from the page before. Not good


I have no idead what RTFT means, by the way. maybe "read the thread first?" or something like that.

still, I haven't seen the episode still and didn't wanted it spoiled.

HAHA.. that's true. Stupid 21st century...

Yeah, something like that. Read the fucking thread would be my guess.

ah, yeah, that makes more sense. I guess next time I'll spoil the episode for myself so I don't waste so much of everyone's time

Agreed! I rented AD season 1 from Blockbuster earlier this summer, then we caught season 2 in reruns. Now we're watching season 3 live. If anyone is coming new to this series, I HIGHLY recommend getting the old DVDs and watching them in order. There is a tremendous amount of comedy in each episode that relates to character attributes or past jokes. Without having watched past episodes, you're missing quite a bit...and probably won't enjoy it as much.

That said, once you DO watch the past seasons, you'll quickly see why everyone raves about this show here. It's fantastic.

It also helps to watch the behind-the-scenes material. I hadn't realized that was Ron Howard's voice narrating until I watched that stuff and now I've realized several jokes are in relation to him (for instance, the Andy Griffith quip he made this episode about how the log cabin was NOT making fun of him LOL).

To all of you guys who have this episode recorded one way or another:

In the pub scene, right after the first mention of "soup of the day", is that Jack black in the background playing darts? At one point it looks like he looks right into the camera and smiles.

It looks a lot like Jack Black, but I'm going to say that's not him.

Just watched it again and I don't believe anybody mentioned this line, there was other dialog going on.

When Tobias comes in and shows off his plugs, George & Gob are discussing the plans and in the background you hear Lupe shriek when she sees Tobias. She says something like "Mr. Gay! He's bleeding!" and runs off. Too funny.

Yep, noticed it the second time I watched it, funniest line for me.

The best I could do, sorry about the size.

Here is a small version of one of them:

Yeah after watching it again, I'm going to agree and say that's not him.

BTW, thanks for the chicken gifs, guys.

It's being discussed here:

http://www.tv.com/arrested-developme...9&topic=108920

Cool, thanks.

I'd bet it's him.....just based on the way he wears that hat and the expressions from the screenshots. I'd imagine that he was on the studio lot that day and they asked if he wanted to do a stand-in or something. Hopefully, this will mean he'll be guest in future episodes (and maybe bring more viewers as well).

Thank you.

I thinking that's him based on the third screencap and the goofy face he makes. That's his trademark "goofy" face he always does.

charlize's accent sucks!
The few laughs I found were hilarious, but i agree, this episode was a bit off.

I agree about the goofy face.