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 Post subject: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:51 pm 
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Heard good stuff about it, started watching it on the Internet, it's really good. It had more of its hilarious moments at the beginning than later on, but it's good.

Anyone else?

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:18 pm 
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People always speak so highly of this show, but I have yet to watch a full episode of it.
Guess i gotta put it on the list...

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 22nd, 2008, 9:09 pm 
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Its so good. Ive had the DVDs since as soon as each season came out. Jenny and I just watched the entirety of it in about a week, its hard to stop watching. The layers of humor are so deep, there are literally like 5 jokes going on at once. Because you catch so much you missed earlier, its great with repeated viewings. It used to be my favorite show, until it was surpassed by The Office.

Oh ya, make sure you start from the beginning watching it. Its heavily chronological, and you wont enjoy (or understand) it nearly as much if you hop in in the middle. I highly recommend giving it a try. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 22nd, 2008, 9:38 pm 
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Yup, I can attest that it's so much funnier and makes a lot more sense watching it from the beginning. I tried to watch some episodes in the middle of the series, they were funny but I didn't really understand a lot of things. Highly recommended that you start from the beginning. It's a shame they discontinued it.

My only complaint about it was that the plot would develop to the point where the family would be back in square one, lol.


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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 22nd, 2008, 9:49 pm 
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My only complaint about it was that the plot would develop to the point where the family would be back in square one, lol.

Heh. I know what you mean. Every time they made any sort of progress they'd swing it back around again. I mean, I understand why they'd want to do that, it just gets a little frustrating when it becomes such a predictable phenomena.

I did manage to watch some of it over time, and I do agree it was actually a pretty clever show. Perhaps not one of my favorites, but pretty good.

I hear they're starting to work on a feature film, actually.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 23rd, 2008, 12:49 am 
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Yep, they are, in fact, working on a movie scheduled for 2009.

And yeah, it's not my favorite comedy (yet) - The Office takes that spot for me, just like for Apple.

I don't seem to get some of the comedy though. If there's literally like 5 jokes going on at once, then I should really watch it on repeat viewings. If you mean each of the characters' little quirks that you'd only understand after a while, then I know what you mean.

But yeah, I just started Season 2.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 23rd, 2008, 1:31 am 
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Got all 3 seasons, it's one of my favorite comedies (along with Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Office). It's the best show to watch over and over again because you notice so many things you didn't before and there's a lot of foreshadowing and stuff. It really is one of the funniest (and quite possibly the cleverest in terms of comedy) show I've ever seen, but it slowly degrades into the second and third seasons. Although, Tobias stays consistently hilarious with the many homosexual undertones and hints, and the whole blue thing.


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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 23rd, 2008, 1:46 am 
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I've got all 3 seasons on DVD, and I've got to say it's probably the most clever comedy I've ever seen. Apple hit it right on the nail, too. There really is so much going on and you've really got to pay attention or you'll miss out on so many of the jokes.

Can't wait to see how they turn this into movie form. It doesn't seem like a show that would transition well into a movie.


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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 23rd, 2008, 8:09 pm 
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Hate it.

It's in the same boat as Scrubs for me.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 2:51 am 
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But Scrubs isn't funny and this is.


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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 24th, 2008, 3:18 am 
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Both are funny. Scrubs - not so much anymore. Watch the first few seasons.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 26th, 2008, 2:35 pm 
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I absolutely love it. I used to watch it almost every day, but I watched it so much I've seen pretty much every episode at least two or three times. So it got a bit old.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 26th, 2008, 9:08 pm 
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Maeby's cute.

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 Post subject: Re: Arrested Development
PostPosted: August 26th, 2008, 11:07 pm 
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Voltage wrote:
But Scrubs isn't funny and this is.


That's what we call an opinion cutie.

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