Arrested Development Season 4: The Bluths are making new mistakes!

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Iceman said:
Something I just realized - I thought the original format of having one main cast member per episode was a cost saving move, so that they would only have to pay each character once for the entire season (and then again for the movie). But with reverting to the original format, doesn't this create the original problem that got them cancelled? I.e. ratings not high enough to justify the steep cost? And further, does this mean netflix stepped up their investment - or did the actors take a hit in their pier episode take?

Also, "bob loblaw lobs law bomb."
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I think that was more of a format, with a focus on different characters in every episode. Arrested Development with little to no interaction between main characters would make zero sense, IMO.
 
Mistouze said:
And about the series being awesome at foreshadowing stuff, just realized that in the episode "Afternoon Delight",
when the banana stand is destroyed the first time at the start of the episode, you can read I GET YOU BLUTH spray painted on it lololol and Annyong is missing...
. As good as egg + mayonnaise!
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If you
read the bottom of the banana stand when it is lifted out of the water, you can see "Hello" below "I'LL GET YOU BLUTH", which is Annyong. As we found out in the final episode of S3, Annyong was seeking revenge for his Grandfather against the Bluth's
. So it was a whole season and a half of foreshadowing....
 
mj1108 said:
If you
read the bottom of the banana stand when it is lifted out of the water, you can see "Hello" below "I'LL GET YOU BLUTH", which is Annyong. As we found out in the final episode of S3, Annyong was seeking revenge for his Grandfather against the Bluth's
. So it was a whole season and a half of foreshadowing....
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busters hand, the seal and that was all foreshadowed about that long too
 
mj1108 said:
If you
read the bottom of the banana stand when it is lifted out of the water, you can see "Hello" below "I'LL GET YOU BLUTH", which is Annyong. As we found out in the final episode of S3, Annyong was seeking revenge for his Grandfather against the Bluth's
. So it was a whole season and a half of foreshadowing....
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Hahah that's awesome, can't wait to watch again
 
Seraphis Cain said:
Question for you guys: Would you even care at this point if the movie was cancelled? Hurwitz said in an interview that if S4 does well, he'd love to do a S5 and even S6. And really, what we're getting now is better than a movie anyway. I really wouldn't even care, and in fact would prefer, if the movie was just cancelled in favor of more episodes.
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Like everyone else in here, I would prefer more seasons, but I will take whatever they are willing to give us.

Lionel Mandrake said:
Here's a pretty good list of subtle jokes.

Some are ones that have been discussed to death, but there are some I never even knew.
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Wow, some of those are brilliantly hidden!
 
mj1108 said:
If you
read the bottom of the banana stand when it is lifted out of the water, you can see "Hello" below "I'LL GET YOU BLUTH", which is Annyong. As we found out in the final episode of S3, Annyong was seeking revenge for his Grandfather against the Bluth's
. So it was a whole season and a half of foreshadowing....
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That's what I was getting at ^_^
Lionel Mandrake said:
Here's a pretty good list of subtle jokes.

Some are ones that have been discussed to death, but there are some I never even knew.
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Awesome, thank you for the link!
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
Here's a pretty good list of subtle jokes.

Some are ones that have been discussed to death, but there are some I never even knew.
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Mother of god. i've rewatched so many times and I didn't know half of these.

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bwahah
 
levious said:
I just noticed in that episode recently when George is mistaken for Oscar and arrested in Mexico he says, "no that's not me, you're looking for my brother, brothero! Brothero!"

thought it was a cool companion joke to GOB and Michael not knowing what hermano meant.
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I think it's a joke that the family doesn't know Spanish, with an exception for
Buster
because
he might be Oscar's son
.

Lionel Mandrake said:
Here's a pretty good list of subtle jokes.

Some are ones that have been discussed to death, but there are some I never even knew.
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Some of the ones I didn't know about are alright, but several of the ones I was aware of are painfully obvious.

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This one is funnier for the fact that it's a callback to the name "Chareth".

Seraphis Cain said:
Question for you guys: Would you even care at this point if the movie was cancelled? Hurwitz said in an interview that if S4 does well, he'd love to do a S5 and even S6. And really, what we're getting now is better than a movie anyway. I really wouldn't even care, and in fact would prefer, if the movie was just cancelled in favor of more episodes.
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More seasons and a movie would be even better, assuming they could end it well and keep it quality.

Metalmurphy said:
I know I'm late but...


Holy crap! What the hell happened to Maeby? Oo
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She's really not that bad, she just doesn't look her best consistently/at all angles. The freckles really throw you off, but she wouldn't be her without them.
 
Began to watch this show this past weekend. Holy crap it's freaking hilarious. Had me in tears many times. I watched it once or twice when it was originally airing and I just couldn't get into then for some reason. Anyway, Gob just kills me.
 
Kuroyume said:
Began to watch this show this past weekend. Holy crap it's freaking hilarious. Had me in tears many times. I watched it once or twice when it was originally airing and I just couldn't get into then for some reason. Anyway, Gob just kills me.
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Rewatch it when you're done. You'll pick up on a ton of things that you missed the first time.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
Here's a pretty good list of subtle jokes.

Some are ones that have been discussed to death, but there are some I never even knew.
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From the comments:

I have one certain gag and one debatable gag for you:

On episode 2 "Top Banana", the opening scene is the KTTV Fox11 news broadcast with John Beard covering a story called "Banana Flambe". Later, when Lindsay is eating lunch with Lucille, the waiter brings them "Bananas Foster", a flambe dish. All of this leading toward the Banana stand getting burned.

The debatable one is this: I don't know if I saw something that made me conclude this or if it is just coincidental, but the Orange County Department of Corrections where George Sr. is being held would be the "O.C.D.O.C." or "OCD-OC." An OCD prison in Orange County would help explain a bit more about the guards repeatedly shouting "NO TOUCHING" especially the episode or two where the guard(s) shout it three times in a row before stopping.
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HotHamWater said:
From the comments:


The debatable one is this: I don't know if I saw something that made me conclude this or if it is just coincidental, but the Orange County Department of Corrections where George Sr. is being held would be the "O.C.D.O.C." or "OCD-OC." An OCD prison in Orange County would help explain a bit more about the guards repeatedly shouting "NO TOUCHING" especially the episode or two where the guard(s) shout it three times in a row before stopping.
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Oh man I hope this one is real, but I also doubt it's intentional. If it is though–holy shit.
Battersea Power Station said:
I just noticed Fonzie literally jumping the shark in Motherboy XXX. Holy shit -- was that joke written for like 10 people that would get it?
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I actually think most people get that, "jumping the shark" has spread in a big way.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
Yeah, but how many people know that it's the very actor who originated the phrase by literally jumping a shark, jumping it again decades later?
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OMG. I just got this. I knew it was a reference to "jumping the shark" and I knew it originated with Happy Days and the Fonze water skiing over the shark, but this is the first time that I've put the whole thing together. That they actually had Winkler do the jump.. the originator.. I think I had to read someone explain that whole thing for it to completely click with me. Thanks.

From the splitsider list, there's a bunch there I didn't know, but I think the most surprising ones were the Friends references with the episode titles and Dr. Frank Stein.
 
bringing back this show was the real mistake. they ended it right it was starting to get boring. just let it be a good memory! but now it's going to taint the memory unless they do something different and cool.
 
akachan ningen said:
bringing back this show was the real mistake. they ended it right it was starting to get boring. just let it be a good memory! but now it's going to taint the memory unless they do something different and cool.
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They've had six years to come up with new scenarios and ideas. It's basically a fresh start. Whatever the show's quality was at the end of the first run is basically a non-factor at this point. I've got faith in them.
 
Subtle joke spoiler (re: Lupe):
" Lucille’s housekeeper Lupe is always wearing the Bluths’ old holiday clothing that is two holidays behind. In “In God We Trust,” she wears a “BOO!” sweatshirt during a Christmas party. In “Marta Complex,” she wears a “Gobble Gobble” sweatshirt on Valentine’s Day. In “The Cabin Show,” there’s a flashback to 1994 in which she’s wearing a Bush/Quayle sweatshirt."

holy SHIT. This is hilarious :lol
 
akachan ningen said:
bringing back this show was the real mistake. they ended it right it was starting to get boring. just let it be a good memory! but now it's going to taint the memory unless they do something different and cool.
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U realize why it got worse in the end, right? Fox ordered 22 episodes then when the season got started, was told to cut it to half. Then told them to cut the budget, reuse sets, etc. Then didn't even give them weeks to show the last few episodes and showed it all in one big block as a special. Fox treated this multi Emmy winning show like trash.
 
HotHamWater said:
]I have one certain gag and one debatable gag for you:

On episode 2 "Top Banana", the opening scene is the KTTV Fox11 news broadcast with John Beard covering a story called "Banana Flambe". Later, when Lindsay is eating lunch with Lucille, the waiter brings them "Bananas Foster", a flambe dish. All of this leading toward the Banana stand getting burned.

The debatable one is this: I don't know if I saw something that made me conclude this or if it is just coincidental, but the Orange County Department of Corrections where George Sr. is being held would be the "O.C.D.O.C." or "OCD-OC." An OCD prison in Orange County would help explain a bit more about the guards repeatedly shouting "NO TOUCHING" especially the episode or two where the guard(s) shout it three times in a row before stopping.
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This show, my goodness. I bet the latter one is true (the first clearly was intentional) because I can't think of any other reason for the persistent 'no touching' to come up in the first place.

blahblah...blah said:
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I don't know why, but this is one of my favourite jokes of the show. The sheer number of redundancies is amazing.
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It is classic T (Tobias). You always leave a note!
 
There has to be some Archer references, there just has to be.
 
man reading that list of subtle jokes and this is making me laugh again because Im imaging Lucille's voice

Lucille: Michael. I was almost attacked last night in my own home. I walk in and there’s a colored man in my kitchen.
Michael: “Colored?” What color was he exactly?
Lucille: Blue.
 
Is the new season going to be more serialized, like some of the later episodes?
I'm not gonna divulge anything, but I know what the stories are and what Mitch [Hurwitz] is doing, and it's so layered. It's really audacious and amazing. I think a lot of people will miss the work that is involved, the story, the Venn diagrams that are being created, the domino effect that characters have with each other in their various episodes. I know what he's doing, and this has never been done on a TV show like this. This makes Lost look like a Spaulding Grey monologue. You'll have to watch each episode more than once.
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My body is ready.
 
Oh, yes. 13 sounds great.

My wife had never seen the series, so we are rewatching now. I'm still dying from laughter with each one, amazing how well it holds up.
 
The new episodes are going to be released on Netflix. What's it like working with them compared to a network?
Netflix is great. They don't meddle at all. They know what they want. They're happy to have it. The idea of Fox and NBC and being kind of studio- or network-loyal is absurd. People don't give a shit. What is it? It's on the plane. It's on Netflix. It's on Hulu. It's on YouTube. It's on the Internet. That's how people watch TV.
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Great snippet.
 
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