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Arrested Development |OT| Season 4 - May 26 - Netflix Unmakes A Huge Mistake

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The movie was a cool idea when it was the best thing that might happen at that point in time, but right now I'm pretty sure most of us would like another season. Especially after this one.
 
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Curufinwe

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So did no one say I've made a huge mistake in the whole series? I thought for sure Gob was going to right at the end of episode 15.
 
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Aske

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Just finished. So good!

Each episode felt like a self-contained movie. I loved the total lack of time restraints and resultant near-double-length episodes, and while I felt the season could have ended with a greater climax, I still felt more than satisfied and thoroughly impressed.

Season 4 was certainly much less consistent than previous seasons, but given the difficulties with getting the cast together for filming, the workarounds were inspired. Despite the story structure, the season felt far less homogenous, and I appreciated what this allowed the writers to do, even as I missed the old format. Only spotted obvious green screen once, during Gob's second episode. I'm sure the eagle-eyed caught it more frequently, but I wasn't looking for it. The scene I'm thinking of was so painfully obvious that I wondered if I'd missed a self-referential gag.

I watched the episodes over a longish period of time - was George and Oscar's
weak-strong role reversal
thing ever explained? Everything else tied up beautifully, aside from the obvious cliffhanger. We're definitely getting more in some form or another, right? That's been confirmed?

Also: loved Kristen Wiig; did not love Seth Rogan in their respective roles. Great to see the rest of the cast slip back into their old roles so perfectly.
 
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CzarTim

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I wonder if (potential) season five will be more consistent if Hurwitz isn't trying to do the whole "watch in any order" thing. I keep having the feeling that that was too much of the focus especially in earlier episodes.
 
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brianmcdoogle

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Wait, Mark Cherry existed before Season 4? Re-watching and Egg mentioned him during the protest in front of the movie theater in Season 2, Episode 18: Righteous Brothers.
 
poppabk

poppabk

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That George Mahariss joke flew right over my head, although I had no way of actually getting it.
Have to imagine it was hilarious for people with the right information.
 
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y2dvd

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Slacker said:
The other Mark Cherry is mentioned in season 4 as well, when GOB asks for clarificiation on which Mark Cherry he would be performing magic illusions for ("the baby-faced singer or the baby-faced showrunner?").

Cracked.com: 4 Tips for Enjoying the New 'Arrested Development' Season]http://www.cracked.com/#ixzz2WUQBeKIv
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And a link within that..

http://splitsider.com/2012/08/53-arrested-development-jokes-you-probably-missed/

From the User Comments:
"In the Saddam episode the Bluths made a big stink about how Saddam reduced the number of houses he ordered from 22 to 18 or something like that. This mirrored the reduction of episodes ordered by Fox TV."

So meta.
 
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TUSR

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What can you tell us about the movie?
Another ambiguous question! Well what we're calling the movie is just the ongoing story - so at the moment, there is nothing really up with it, except that I am gathering up ammunition to try to get the next chapter made.
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Mitch workin' it
 
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PotatoeMasher

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Wow, he answered my question. Love that her original name was just "Fugly."

Yea, there were a lot of things that her name was made out of - Anvil was definitely part of it. The image of a veal padding pen. And there's an old Monty Python skit where John Cleese's character's name is "An Elk" - it was an oblique reference to that too. Her original name was "Fugly." We were going to name her something Fugly - and then it felt a little too jokey and they fortunately didn't allow us to say it.
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Jazzem

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Finally finished S4...what the hell at that ending o_o

What a weird, weird season. It certainly had many great moments, but;

A) I don't think the new format worked out that well

B) A large amount of episodes left me completely stone faced

C) The weirdly dark tone it took just led to things being more uncomfortable than funny

Neither a complete success or disaster then, but this is easily the weakest season.
 
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FantasticMrFoxdie

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That was a great AMA.
Yeeeeeeeees:

For the 5th season, it would DEFINITELY be about the family all together. That was always the design. The idea was originally to have them even together LESS for Season 4 - it really was going to be basically 9 stories (like the Salinger collection) that had nothing to do with one another, and just showed everybody's life, so that everybody's life could get to a point of peril, and then the family could truly have no choice but to get back together for the next iteration.
Let me put it back to you- which would YOU prefer? Movie or Season?
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LOL On where Never Nude came from:

No, there wasn't. The Never Nude thing - I will trace the etiology of that idea, and it's this. We had this joke that just put us out, that was Tobias keeps crying in the shower. And then I had pitched - I was thinking about production, and the way they shoot those things, they always put people in flesh colored bathing suits, and I said, what if we show part of the flesh colored bathing suits for 3-4 weeks - and then in the 4th week we reveal that he showers in a flesh-colored bathing suit because he doesn't like showering naked. And then Richie Rosenstock (who's an absolutely brilliant, hilarious guy - and is responsible for so many of the giant laughs in the show) said without hesitation: "Oh, he's a Never Nude."
And everybody in the room froze. And looked at him, and said, "is that a real thing?" and he shrugged, and it was just so funny. It wasn't a funny idea until Richie called him a Never Nude, which took the joke from being just a sight gag, to a psychological affliction that really elevated it in such a brilliant way. And then I remember looking up to see online if there was such a thing as a Never Nude - and guess what you can't search for besides finding pornography? "Never Nude" - back then you'd get 25,000 pages with the word "Nude" in it. Even if you used the Boolean quotation marks, you would still get things like "Hot 18 year old who'd NEVER been NUDE in front of a boy!" So we'll never know if it was a thing before ARRESTED. Although I suppose I could just ask Richie.
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AlphaSnake said:
Wtf?

Netflix just uploaded a shit ton of videos of Ron Howard narrating random tweets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qRTgdMWrt8

Hahahaha

Edit: He looks so tired in these, though.
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these are great. :D
 
Ultimadrago

Ultimadrago

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I finally finished Arrested Development season 4 tonight. Overall, I had a really fun time with it. I was shaky on the new format. While I largely appreciated the different approach, there were episodes where it was more tiresome and I wished it wasn't around. Nonetheless, this has been my recent viewing highlight of television at the moment along with Mad Men.

There were some genuinely great scenes in this season and I'm very pleased another was created. (I'm also pleased to see the .gifs have been rolling in).
 
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RobertC

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I've watched all of season 4, coming from a background of not being a huge fan of the original seasons... they were just ok to me, and I found I enjoyed this time around more than the last 2 seasons of the original run... that's just me.
 
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Peco

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Man, I'm so sad now that I have finished this new season. I don't want to wait another 7 years for a movie or new episodes. :(
Overall, I really enjoyed the new formula for this season 4, I was a little confused during the first 2 or 3 episodes, but not long after I found myself laughing hard at how the story was unfolding.

Is it me or Maeby is fucking hot? Those huge tits, DAMN
 
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Radec

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JOE goes to The Banana Stand!

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Grinchy

Grinchy

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That was pretty great. It's nice seeing people who enjoyed this good season instead of people who just complain about it.
 
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Slacker

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The Interrobanger said:
I watched 7 episodes before I gave up on this season. Cracked a smile maybe 5 times total. incredibly disappointing.
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That's like watching the first half of the Godfather and complaining about plot lines not being wrapped up. Season 4 is a 15-episode movie. I guarantee if you watch the rest that you'll laugh a few more times. Episode 8 is one of my favorites, actually.

If you were never that invested in the show to begin with, I can see bailing out. But if you loved the show before, trust me, keep watching. You will come to appreciate this season after watching all the episodes. And appreciate it even more after rewatching them all. ;)
 
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levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
Ending
buster wasn't arrested for murder was he? I thought Lucille 2's body hadn't been found?
 
Grinchy

Grinchy

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The OP has information about how spoilers are handled in this thread:

This thread will follow standard GAF-TV protocol: Once the episodes are up simultaneously on Netflix on May 26, spoilers are fair game.

I advise those who don't want to be spoiled to stay away from the thread until you have completed watching the entire season OR you can join CrunchyFrog's "The Arrested Development Season 4 Endurance Run Thread of Savoring the Happy" thread which will be viewing one episode per day.
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Michael dies at the end.
 
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ThisWreckage

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There needs to be a fifth season if the season four "focusing on individuals rather than the family to get them back together eventually" idea is actually true. The fourth season was mediocre, but if there is a fifth season where the Bluths get back together then it may look better by comparison.
 
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levious said:
Ending buster wasn't arrested for murder was he? I thought Lucille 2's body hadn't been found?
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Yeah, but there's a lot of blood (or something that looks like blood) on the stairway car, and he got some of it on his shoes, and there's security cam footage.
 
poppabk

poppabk

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Yeah the ending was pretty disappointing, there was really no payoff for most of the established plot lines. For such an interconnected season, I kind of expected a big final episode that drew all the threads together, but everything still seemed disjointed at the end. Still enjoyed the season, but the final episode was a bit anti - climactic.
 
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