NPR has a massive annotated chart of all the running gags in Arrested Development: [link]
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Steph L. - May 20, 2013 5:41:34 pm PDT #6685 of 8624
I look more rad than Lutheranism
-t - May 26, 2013 5:59:19 am PDT #6686 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I knew it was coming but I'm still not ready. Just as I am happy with how caught up on my DVR I am, Netflix drops 7.5 hours of new Arrested Development on me...
Lee - May 26, 2013 6:33:07 am PDT #6687 of 8624
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I know! I just watched the first ep, and it's very hard not to mainline them.
-t - May 26, 2013 6:51:31 am PDT #6688 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I feel like I should at least make an effort to do something else between episodes...we'll see how that goes.
Polter-Cow - May 26, 2013 8:21:34 am PDT #6689 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm six episodes in, and the show's still got it, and mainlining is the way to go, honestly, because the whole story is so dense and callback-y. I'm having a little trouble keeping track of the whole timeline, so it's good to have all the connections so fresh.
§ ita § - May 26, 2013 10:53:11 am PDT #6690 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fuck! I was wondering what I was going to watch today! I'm so glad I caught up on this thread, because I forgot it was the 26th today.
Must behave and also listen to the online course I'd promised myself to, but...whoo!
Polter-Cow - May 26, 2013 2:27:48 pm PDT #6691 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Just finished! I feel like I need a wiki to put together what the hell just happened.
§ ita § - May 27, 2013 6:56:17 am PDT #6692 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That was totally a cameo by Dan Harmon, wasn't it?
(I feel like we should whitefont here, but it could also go in Premium where it wouldn't--does that make sense?)
Polter-Cow - May 27, 2013 7:09:19 am PDT #6693 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
YES IT WAS!
I guess technically Netflix would be Premium, but it feels weird not to talk about AD in here. Maybe follow movie rules? Whitefont for two weeks?
-t - May 27, 2013 7:09:53 am PDT #6694 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, yeah, I hadn't really thought about it, but yeah.
But it's so Comedy with a capital C, it should be here! But I'm only halfway through and don't want to dodge spoilers. But will I avoid reading discussion wherever it happens? Unlikely.
I was actually kind of underwhelmed by the first episode, but it's certainly accumulating nicely. I find that I am already looking forward to the commentary tracks where I hope to find out what decisions were to make production easier/possible, I suspect that will be extremely interesting.