Great run. I'm glad I'm one of the few who tuned in to enjoy the ride.

[ron howard]Maybe it could be a movie. [/ron howard] (if someone could do a gif of him saying that line in the finale that would be great.

I don't get Hurwitz's position. If Fox had given a full commitment this season, he would have done 9 more episodes which is 3less than what Showtime would have committed to for the fourth season. Is Hurwitz admitting that any further shows done on Fox for the third season would have been lousy? In essence, Fox did the right thing by pulling the plug? Doesn't make sense to me. I wonder if Hurwitz felt that he was not being compensated enough under the Showtime deal, and that's why he nixed the offer. If he really felt that he could not have done a 12 episode fourth season, he would have known from the beginning.

It must've been something like a lowball offer, or there is some other part of the story we don't know about.

Either way, RIP. I converted so many people too!

I don't see it that way myself. It was clear to me that the last 2 eps (especially the final one) had about 3-4 eps worth of material crammed into them. I forget the exact timeline but they got word after the 3rd or 4th filmed ep that Fox was pulling the plug. I figured they had to go back and do a bunch of re-writes so they could at least have some closure to it. After that, to come up with a whole new arc would probably be too taxing for Hurwitz et al. at this point. Of course, the only way I figured the show could be continued if the Showtime/ ABC deal was accepted was for the last ep to be a 'Bobby Ewing's Dead' dream arc... Michael wakes up and realizes he's still stuck with his family and season 4 begins.

What I want to know is what happened to Steve Holt? Did he ever find that hand in the park?

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I'm sad, but also glad they went out in style. AD, you will be missed.

MATT

Sad day indeed. RIP, my favorite show.
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One of my favorite comedies of all time...so fucking sad!

FUCK FOX!

For those who refuse to give up hope:

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18669,00.html

and there may be some validity to the final line of the show:

I just got my first iPod yesterday, the 60GB Video. I have zero interest in the video function, but in commemoration, the first thing I put on it was the series finale of Arrested Development. :up:

We should start a thread devoted to never forgetting this show! we can put in it what the actors are uup to, etc...i had an hr and a half of guest spot AD cast tonight...

Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat (Maybe and George Michael) were both in the same episode of Veronica Mars and David Cross was on the Colbert Report!

Some fun fan tribute videos over at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

Another article reporting that the show still clings maddeningly to some small sliver of life:

http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=2803

Sad to see it go. But at least it went out after being given a fair chance to succeed unlike many critically acclaimed Fox castoffs.

AD I will love you always, thank you for all the great times.

I'll miss this show. For my birthday, I'm going to ask for the 1st two seasons on DVD. I had them, but had to sell them for rent money. I really didn't want to, but had no choice.

The one good thing out of AD being cancelled is that in 10 years, no one is going to recall American Idol fondly whereas AD will be remembered as one of the best and most original comedies in television history.

I just found this picture, and had to post it somewhere here:

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LOL...that is funny, does this mean that South Park is picking up AD?!!?? :D

That's a great pic! I'm going to have to send it some friends who I know will love it.

Nice! Obviously made by someone using the South Park Studio.

I just got the 60 gig as well, and this thread has inspired me to put every episode on it so i can always have Arrested Development on me.

I've avoided this thread thread forever since i didn't want to face the truth, ... just wanted to say that, don't know what to add to this.

Heres a review I wrote for my college newspaper right after the season finale (before it was officially cancelled), hope you enjoy it.

After a long fight and numerous near cancellations, the Bluth family has finally left TV, well sort of. Arrested Development ran for three years on the Fox Network, but that all came to an end on Friday when the final four episodes were dumped in a single two hour block against the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
Arrested Development became the show that couldn’t get a break. After low ratings in its first season, Fox decided to give the critical darling a second chance and placed it in the middle of its Sunday night line up, where shows tend to do well. Unfortunately ABC decided to air a new show against it, Desperate Housewives. Instead of Arrested Development taking off and becoming the show to watch, the housewives took over TV and nearly cancelled everything that aired against it.
The third, and possible final, season produced some of the lowest ratings for a network show ever. The fans rallied behind the show, watching it on multiple TV’s trying to boost ratings, but nothing worked. The final straw occurred when Fox’s new baby, Prison Break, aired in the same timeslot and saw a massive ratings boost.
The Bluth family may just be too crass for the heartland, who would rather watch reruns of According to Jim. Arrested Development followed a family hopefully the complete opposite of your own. They all lied to and fought each others in a variety of comical situations that you had to watch the entire show in order to get the full impact. The jokes were smart and came at you one after another but some you didn’t understand until a second or third viewing.
The final four episodes presented a bittersweet ending to the show by masterfully bringing it all back to where the show began. The main plot running through the show for the past three years has been Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) taking over his family’s real estate development company after his father is put on trial for treason. The family is a wild bunch of rich idiots, like Gob (Will Arnett) the eldest son who wants to become a magician or Lucille (Jessica Walter), the matriarch of the family who has such theories as you must finish a bottle of vodka right after you open it or else it will go bad.
The episodes found the Bluths coming together in there own fashion to save the family and finally clear their father’s name. At one point a few members of the family are riding in a taxi in Iraq when the driver informs them that the ride took so long due to the “Cheney Expressway” being backed up all the way to “Halliburton Road.”
Despite the show ending with an epilogue, there are reports flying around saying that Showtime is in talks to pick up the show once Fox officially lets it go. Fox can’t be blamed for cancelling the show; they kept it on air for two more seasons than any other network would have. Showtime realizes the cult audience that has flocked to the show, and wants to bring those faithful viewers to the pay service.
Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz may not want to continue the show now that the final episodes on Fox have aired. The main story line has been solved, but a few more remain open. The show could go on and nobody would complain, but it just felt like the end.
Whether or not the show continues depends on the writer’s confidence that they can still continue on this family even with out the hilarious drama that played out. Arrested Development will be one of those shows like Freak and Greeks or Firefly that had a brief run on TV but became huge hits on DVD.
For the final time Arrested Development is thrown up in the air, will it be picked up by a pay cable channel or will it go down for ever as one of the funniest shows that never got a break? I think Executive Producer/Narrator Ron Howard put it best in the final line of the show, “no, I don’t see it as a series, maybe a movie.”

A reminder that Arrested Development begins (Pilot) on HDNET tonight at 10:00 Eastern.

Thank you! I forgot all about this.

Set the Season Pass this past weekend.

I'm set and ready for some Arrested Development in HD!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

no HDNet for Comcast in my area. bastards. I'm stuck with the SD one from g4

Same here. Better than nothing.