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[stktt]

Yeah, they were pretty bad. Young Lucille tried, but young George didn't really seem anything like old George.

Seth Rogan is incapable of playing anyone other than Seth Rogan.

 

[soco]

I'm on episode 11. Do they finally explain

Spoiler

Lucille's prison number? Every time i see it i smile and assume it's foreshadowing

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Seth Rogan is incapable of playing anyone other than Seth Rogan.

Oh wow, is that who that was? Somehow I completely missed that. It all makes sense now.

 

[strobogo]

I would agree that Young George/Lucille were certainly the lowest points of the season. George especially because Seth Rogan didn't capture the feel of George at all. He was just being himself. I thought Wiig was fine and I'm not even really a fan of hers, but I still didn't really like them and I don't feel they added anything to any of the episodes they were in.

 

[Terrordactyl]

Yeah, they were pretty bad. Young Lucille tried, but young George didn't really seem anything like old George.

Kristin Wiig was good, Rogen not so much, could only see him as Rogen. Should have just went with Tambour wearing a wig again, it worked well in the past.

DeBris is still the lowest point of the season.

 

[theytookourjobz]

Episode 5 was so good.

Spoiler

Tobias' shemale shirt

 

[bananas]

I'm on episode 11. Do they finally explain

Spoiler

Lucille's prison number? Every time i see it i smile and assume it's foreshadowing

Spoiler

No. It's a throwaway gag.

 

[Fantastical]

Young Lucille and George are really, really terrible. Young Michael is even worse. What the hell happened?

I hated them in the first episode but the part with Barry I thought was okay. Well Wiig was good. Rogan was terrible.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

I need to get a pair of matador pants.

 

[Raiden]

Oh my god i had no idea S4 has already begun ... How is it?

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

I hated them in the first episode but the part with Barry I thought was okay. Well Wiig was good. Rogan was terrible.

Young Barry was great.

Oh my god i had no idea S4 has already begun ... How is it?

All in all, I thought it was really good. Some misses here and there, but the good largely outweighs the bad.

 

[fleck0]

Finished em all, agree with the consensus that one shouldn't judge until after watching ep 5

Best line - "

Spoiler

TAKE TO THE SEA!

"

 

[bananas]

I just realized that episode 1 starts with a Grinch reference and that Jeffrey Tambor was in the Grinch movie. Hhm.

 

[Terrordactyl]

Another thing I laughed pretty hard at, Sally Sitwell not knowing how to shave a leg :lol

 

[soco]

Spoiler

No. It's a throwaway gag.

That's a shame. I was hoping it'd lead to more

Spoiler

Annyong story

...

 

[Passive Assassin]

Another thing I laughed pretty hard at, Sally Sitwell not knowing how to shave a leg :lol

The Sitwell family is terrible with hair.

 

[Nappuccino]

Oh my god i had no idea S4 has already begun ... How is it?

Different but the same and also good.

 

[oatmeal]

Pull yourself together and act like a man

You're right, okay, I love you

Love you too

 

[-tetsuo-]

The two Michael episodes are much better than the George and Lindsey ones. Also, Judy Greer.

 

[oatmeal]

Drowning an inmate in the lap pool is a BUMMER.

 

[forgeforsaken]

So, I assume at some point someone will collate all the loose ends. I feel like we were left with a few.

 

[BertramCooper]

Do people seriously not like DeBris? I thought she was great.

For some reason, the image of her in the Fantastic 4 suit piling into Mark Cherry's limo with a bunch of groupies was hysterically funny.

 

[mooooose]

Spoiler

No. It's a throwaway gag.

Upside down its hello. Anyong.

 

[strobogo]

It's a Bob Loblaw Law Bomb! I wonder how many takes it took to get that right. I also wonder how many takes went into Gob and Tony Wonder drinking water. Also, I lol'd at Siri saying gob, like gobstopper. I don't know why, but I thought it was great.

 

[Lijik]

I just realized that episode 1 starts with a Grinch reference and that Jeffrey Tambor was in the Grinch movie. Hhm.

Guess who the director was

Edit- after reflecting for a day the line that stands out to me the most is "Its forty for the flip and forty for the flop, and theres a forty flat fee. So its a flat forty forty forty flip flop with a flat."

 

[iammeiam]

Kristin Wiig was good, Rogen not so much, could only see him as Rogen. Should have just went with Tambour wearing a wig again, it worked well in the past.

At first I thought it was pretty weird that they decided to cast the young versions, then realized it was probably a decision to allow them to film the flashbacks without eating into their limited Tambor and Walter together filming time.

Really would like a behind-the-scenes documentary explaining all the arranging and limitations behind the season.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Doing a re-watch, and Lindsay's episodes are definitely the weakest. Marky Bark is pretty dull.

 

[BertramCooper]

I'm done, and I really liked it. I wasn't head-over-heels crazy about it, but honestly, I wasn't totally in love with Season 2 the first time through, and now I think it's easily the best of the three original seasons. AD always takes a while to sink in and fully appreciate. I'll probably wait a week and then slowly start a second viewing.

 

[oatmeal]

Was the budget ever released? House of Cards had 100m for 26 episodes. I'd assume this had less.

 

[strobogo]

I think Gob deserves a spin off. Will Arnett basically has played Gob on every show he's guested on since, but I would love a full on Gob spin off. Forever.

 

[Recon]

Do people seriously not like DeBris? I thought she was great.

For some reason, the image of her in the Fantastic 4 suit piling into Mark Cherry's limo with a bunch of groupies was hysterically funny.

I never really liked Maria Bamford, and I flat out hated her in this.

 

[forgeforsaken]

I never really liked Maria Bamford, and I flat out hated her in this.

I just read a review that said she was the highlight of the season and stole the show....

Ah, here it is http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20703842,00.html

DeBrie is played by Maria Bamford, probably best known as the slightly hysterical suburban woman from Target holiday ads and as one of Louis C.K.'s odd girlfriends on Louie. She all but steals this new season. Collapsing into a pile of trash, panicking from a nose bleed or ramming globs of butter into her mouth, she's pathetically sad yet sharply funny.
...
At the very least, from now on Arrested Development must include Maria Bamford.

such a stark contrast to the general opinion I've seen here and elsewhere.

 

[oatmeal]

LOL at buster using binoculars in the car with George and almost vomiting and then Gene doing the same.

 

[Akahige]

"George Maharis Arrested in Men's Room", Gay Scene, December 1974: "Famous Hollywood actor George Maharis was arrested November 21 and charged with committing a sex act with a hairdresser in the men's room of a gas station in Los Angeles... He was booked on a sex perversion charge along with Perfecto Telles, 33, the hairdresser, and released on $500 bail, according to police." An earlier guilty plea for a Hollywood lewd conduct arrest on 15 December 1967 with a male is also documented.

lol that is one obscure joke

 

[strobogo]

I wouldn't say she stole the show, but she was pretty great in her role. It's pretty hard to steal the show from Gob and Tobias, but Maeby certainly leveled up.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

I'm not seeing it.

Good for whoever finds her character funny I guess.

 

[Stabby McSter]

I'm rewatching Season 4 right now. An exchange between Tobias and GOB sticks out for me.

Spoiler

Tobias: Oh, you look like how I feel.
GOB: Gay?

 

[A Human Becoming]

Young Lucille and George are really, really terrible. Young Michael is even worse. What the hell happened?

Yeah, they were pretty bad. Young Lucille tried, but young George didn't really seem anything like old George.

100% agreed. Considering they used the same actors when the Bluth boys were children, they should have for when George Michael was a baby.

Seth Rogan is incapable of playing anyone other than Seth Rogan.

The least "Seth Rogan' I've ever seen him was in 50/50 and he still plays a 'funny guy'.

 

[Steelyuhas]

Andy Rhicter is easily the best thing of season 4.

He's been amazing

beard: "hey there's a raccoon on the back porch"
tobias: "bullshit!"

the way he says this was fucking hilarious, i loved the entrap a local predator part.

Haha that entire house scene was gold.

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Just finished ep 11:
WHAT
THE
FUCK

Speaking of GOB episodes, "Hello darkness my old friend" might be my favorite new recurring gag/joke of the season. Something about it is just perfect for that character.

 

[Metaphoreus]

Guess who the director was

Edit- after reflecting for a day the line that stands out to me the most is "Its forty for the flip and forty for the flop, and theres a forty flat fee. So its a flat forty forty forty flip flop with a flat."

It's not "flat." He says that there's another forty because the flip-flop will cause a "flap." But yeah, it was a funny line.

 

[Recon]

I just read a review that said she was the highlight of the season and stole the show....

Ah, here it is http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20703842,00.html


such a stark contrast to the general opinion I've seen here and elsewhere.

I just found her scenes to be cringe worthy, and not funny at all. I did love Tobias' interactions with her, he was great.

Also, if anybody stole the show, it was Andy Richter, he was great.

 

[jamesinclair]

Is it just me, or is the Netflix site design complete garbage?

 

[encephalon]

I'm biased, but I liked Debris (DeBris? DeBrie?) a lot in Tobias' first episode. Particularly as a counterpart to Tobias. She wasn't utilized as well in Tobias' second episode, but the episode wasn't as good as episode 5 anyways.

 

[EternalDarko]

Just finished the whole set, movie inbound! So many stories to tie up.
I'm really impressed at how they had jokes runnning for so long and finished multiple episodes later. Can't believe the amount of return characters from the series. Absolutely loved it, and i'm certain there are tons of jokes that i've missed and will come out upon a re-watch. As with the past seasons, i think it will just get even better on re-watch.
Oh and man, at that end - they really need to sort their relationship out.

 

[ezekial45]

Seems like a silly question, but do they have plans for another season? I know it just came out yesterday, but I can't get enough of it. This was a great season, and I think they can really nail it for the next one.

 

[mariachi507]

I'm rewatching Season 4 right now. An exchange between Tobias and GOB sticks out for me.

Spoiler

Tobias: Oh, you look like how I feel.
GOB: Gay?

I'm going to love rewatching this.

 

[BertramCooper]

I just found her scenes to be cringe worthy, and not funny at all. I did love Tobias' interactions with her, he was great.

Also, if anybody stole the show, it was Andy Richter, he was great.

I'll say that I primarily liked DeBris for the visual gags associated with her character, like the one I described above with her getting into the limo in her Fantastic 4 suit.

Bamford's performance wasn't anything to write home about.

 

[oatmeal]

I'm rewatching Season 4 right now. An exchange between Tobias and GOB sticks out for me.

Spoiler

Tobias: Oh, you look like how I feel.
GOB: Gay?

Haha, didnt get that the first time. Or the second.

 

[EternalDarko]

Haha, didnt get that the first time. Or the second.

Isn't that when they play the The Sounds of Silience again for Gob.

 

[strobogo]

He's been amazing


Haha that entire house scene was gold.

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Just finished ep 11:
WHAT
THE
FUCK

Speaking of GOB episodes, "Hello darkness my old friend" might be my favorite new recurring gag/joke of the season. Something about it is just perfect for that character.

Yes. And the Mongol having the same reaction at the lack of money was great. As was "How many?" "A horde. They only come in hordes."