no, they weren't actually 3d shots. just messed around red lines.

That was a great closer!

I just watched it and gotta echo a few others saying it was the best episode. I'm sure I didn't catch half of the jokes. I usually don't bother to rewind it either, but this time I missed too many because I was still laughing from the previous one. I even laughed at the quintuplet joke despite completely forgetting about that show.

Ooh...inside info. Which Richter are you again?

Emmett.

Not much else to add that hasn't already been said.

So cheers to the gang at AD, for giving us 2 1/2 years of some of the greatest comedy on television.

From The Seattle Post -Intelligencer :

'Arrested Development' parodies its demise

By JAKE COYLE
AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

NEW YORK -- It's only fitting that "Arrested Development," the most self-referential show on TV, would go down chronicling its own demise.

The sitcom is essentially a lame duck after Fox announced in November that it wouldn't order a full third season - broadcasting 13 episodes instead of 22. Though an Emmy-winning critical hit, its ratings have been paltry, averaging fewer than 5 million viewers this season.

Monday night's episode blatantly parodied the show's situation.

"The Bluths were desperate," the narrator (Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director and one of show's executive producers) intoned about the show's hyper-dysfunctional family. "The press had them all but finished."

Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman, then announced: "If we want a chance of keeping this family going past the next few weeks, we're going to have to pull out all the stops."

The episode - the ninth of the season - at various points pretended to be 3-D, trotted out celebrities including Andy Richter, Ben Stiller and Zach Braff, and turned into a pseudo-live broadcast.



The plot involved a fundraiser for the family's legal bills - a veiled plea for the show itself. Though such a premise could be expected to rile network executives, Fox spokesman Scott Grogin said the network didn't have a problem with the show.

"Our backs are against the wall and it's really come to begging," Michael Bluth said - which the narrator immediately followed with: "Please tell your friends about this show."

The second season of "Arrested Development" was also cut from 22 episodes, to 18. Fox appealed for support for the program and the Web site http://www.SaveOurBluths.com was founded.

In May, the network surprised many by not only renewing "Arrested" for a third season, but moving it to 8 p.m. on Mondays - a move Fox Entertainment President Peter Liguori called "audacious."

"We have confidence in the show," Liguori said at the time.

With Fox's November announcement, "Arrested" has been rumored for a possible move to cable - and even that development was satirized in an exchange between Jeffrey Tambor's George Bluth Sr. and Bateman's Michael.

"I don't think the Home Builders Organization is going to support us," George says.

"Yeah, the HBO is not going to want us," replies Michael. "What are we going to do?"

"I think it's show time," George then says.

Chris Alexander, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox, which produces the show, said both Showtime and ABC have expressed interest in "Arrested Development," but no deal has yet to be reached.

The show has won six Emmys and one Golden Globe, but some critics have suggested it's too zany to keep up with and the upper-class characters aren't "relatable" to audiences.

In a concluding speech on Monday's show, Bateman had even acknowledges that by saying: "We've been given plenty of chances, and maybe the Bluths just aren't worth saving, maybe we're not that likable. We're very self-centered."

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I would think that would be the ideal target audience. People who watch but don't know what's going on? I dont understand how you can be a religious AD watcher and not get ANY references. Well it worked for the Simpsons for their first 4 years.


As for the show:

fuckin awesome show..

-- Why wouldn't HBO want them?

-- Tobias says Freddie Wilson but my subtitles say Victor Willis, who WAS in the Village People. So who's Freddie Wilson, I dont get the reference either.


Michael: I may have an 'in' with Andy Richter.

George Sr. : You're kidding? Do you think you can get him?

--The biggest guest role of the show and it's the king of Fox programming:
Cancelling his quintuplet show which kinda sucked but was more successful than his first show but that one was LOADS better. (And Andy Controls... was the show that replaced UNDECLARED, another good show.)

Donny Richter: I have a brother named Andy, an attention hog, he can't seem to really attract a real audience.

"You could charm the black off a telegram boy."
"ok, we'll just tell you now, she's the one who dies"

Michael: Am I the only one that thinks the family is finally starting to become sympathetic and relatable? I mean that's what people wanna see...

It's great that the actors were so great even though by the time of shooting, they knew they may not be back on again.

-- Taking digs at the critics to tone down the complexity, with less subplots and easy-to-follow stories:

Narrator - "It was a complex situation, without an easy solution"
Lucille - "We have to make a good impression or we're finished"
Narrator - "Now that's a clear-cut situation with the promise of comedy. Tell your friends"


The ending:

"...What has happened to us is a great injustice, that we were never really given a fair chance. But that's not the truth. We've been given plenty of chances. And maybe the Bluths just aren't worth saving. Maybe we're not that likable, we're very self-centered."

--Maybe the very last "On the Next AD" segment, with the cliche sitcom ending:

"It didn't sound desperate."
"I guess it really doesn't pay to be DESPERATE."




Please tell your friends about this show.



I wonder what the title of the episode refers to?

If it's in your subtitles, then I would have to assume the original joke was to show the Village People, but after the show had been subtitled it came about that the real Village People wanted too much money for their likeness. So instead they went with completely ficticious people that highly resemble the Village People so we'd get the idea of it.

It would have been funnier with the real Village People, but it all goes back to the whole "Yellow Submarine" thing.


Or maybe they're Hot Cops

Season 2 alleges that Maeby was not the biological child of Tobias and Lindsey many, MANY times without actually telling how she came to be the Funke's daughter.

Don't think it needs to be THAT ridiculously elaborate.

That is BS. Surely you're underestimating the general audience. I get all the jokes without reading these threads - and I'm borderline retarded.

I almost panicked when I watched my tivo'd recording, since I swear they said somewhere that it was a full hour or arrested development... was there a second episode? a repeat maybe?

yes, there was a second repeat episode. can't remember which one off the top of my head since I've been watching a lot of the dvds lately.

Martin Short

It's where Martin Short quest stars and "Uncle" Jack, or the Bullet, with Dragon carrying him around and Tobias, the blowhard.

It was the episode with Uncle Jack (Martin Short)

As long as I didn't miss a new episode... at first I thought my TIVO had messed up!

I know that but George Micheal doesn't want to tell Maeby that she really isn't part of the family so he can succed with his crush. That stint would be the nail for Maeby to know that it is OK but then probably right after she is going to find out that Lyndsey and Tobias aren't her real parents, either for a double whammy. I think I started to notice more chemistry between Buster and Lyndsey when I rewatched the episode for the 3rd time especially with the chicken sauce line, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens.

By the way, at sometime we are going to see the rest of the episodes. Don't be so sad, kids.

Sister is my new mother now, Mother. And is it just me or is she looking hotter?

it will be greatly missed

The thing is George Michael (and the viewer) doesn't know exactly how Maebe is not related. While we had a few hints (such as Maebe being a test tube baby), there has been no direct confirmation on how she's not related. George Michael can't exactly go up to her and say, "Yeah. I don't think you're related to us."

I believe there are going to be a lot of loose ends tied up during the next four episodes.

I checked my dvr and there's a double dose of House on Monday night.......just in case people weren't 100% sure

George Michael wouldn't say that anyways, though, because he doesn't want to upset Maebe, I think. I really think we are starting to sound like people who read Soap or Wrestling insider magazines to find out about what is going to happen to these characters.

And THAT is true - simply because Buster has replaced Lucille 1 with Lindsay since Lindsay was "taking care of" Buster while he thought that Lucille was simply ignoring him. The "chemistry" is the same as when Buster and Lucille are working.

I don't think Lindsay would ever want to play with Buster's Charlie Browns!

what about his Linus?

That was a great show.

It may not be but they might work at a Buster has a crush on his sister angle.