Four years ago, Entertainment Weekly called Family Guy the show that Fox just keeps putting on the air. I think this year, the same should be said for Arrested Development, a show that I've tried to watch and enjoy but find myself wanting to shoot the TV like Elvis.
Arrested Development is a funny show, but it's too funny for it's own good. What I mean by that is that it's a bunch of one-liners and punchlines with no build-up. Is the spirit of Henny Youngman on the writing staff. Not everything has to be funny. Good comedy is about discrimination. The analrapist (not what you probably think) gag was amusing, but not funny. Therapist is really nothing more than "the rapist" pushed together. Tulsa spelled backwards is "a slut." This is all amusing. Not funny. And not original.
While talking about discrimination, Arrested Development has a wacky family where the patriach (Jeffrey Tambor) is under house arrest for alleged crimes, such as possible business with Saddam Hussein. Jason Bateman is the only sane one to bring them together as the show boast. Really? Would a sane person name their son George Michael?
Arrested Development has been on the air for three seasons and won Emmys. That's more than Buck Rogers in the 25th Century got and I love that show in all its cheesiness.
Arrested Development is that one show that wants to be liked by everyone. So much that it is constantly advertising that no one is watching it, even though they should be. Hit shows just happen. They aren't made. If Fox would stop showing us previews of stuff that isn't in the next episode, people might watch.
This all comes at the news that the shows lead actor, Jason Bateman, had throat surgery and the show might be put on hiatus again as he recovers.
I say, take it as a sign. The show didn't win Emmys for its second season and has been preempted by the MLB playoffs.
Maybe God is trying to tell us something.
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