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Arrested Development: Then and Now


So along with my Arrested Development series of posts here... I kind of wanted to go into what it was like watching and loving Arrested Development back when it was first on vs. now that it is a lot more popular and on Netflix.

So the most frustrating thing about liking it back when the original series was that you never really knew what was going to happen to the show... but I have to say that sort of made the show even funnier. The show CONSTANTLY mentions it's troubled status through plotlines and jokes. In one episode in season 2 they mention the housing order being dropped from 22 to 18... which is the number of episodes that were in season 2 compared to season 1. In the finale there are signs everywhere for a show called "Skating With Celebrities" which ultimately replaced Arrested Development's timeslot and the signs said "A Trainwreck on Ice." The whole episode SOBs was all pretty much about the show being cancelled... there's just a lot. It was one of the funniest things- espeically if you followed everything and you kind of knew what was happening.

The new series jokes more about some of the other projects the cast is working on. Transparent was referenced a few times as well as Jeffrey Tambor's awards for it... and Ron Howard's Han Solo movie... it's still good but not quite as funny.

It was also not very well heard of back then... basically if you watched this you were a pretty big comedy nerd/snob...especially at my age which was like 13... lol. There weren't a ton of 13 year old Arrested Development fans... so it wasn't the most fun thing ever. But it was cool because I was the only one that liked that...whereas now there are a ton of fans and I'm kind of annoyed by it... lol. There was an article I read recently that said something about kids that claimed they watched Arrested Development when it was on but they didn't. I really did. I think it was season 2 that I started to watch it... I probably didn't see that many episodes live on television tbh... but I did know about the show while it was still on TV... so yeah. That was my thing.

It was also kind of exciting when the cast wasn't huge to see them in other movies. Will Arnett became a big vocal actor and appeared in a lot of commercials and animated movies since then... David Cross was pretty famous before playing Tobias... but he was in movies like She's The Man and Alvin and The Chipmunks after... so it was nothing like Ed Helms or Steve Carell or anyone from The Office really... it was a lot different.

So I think that's everything... I hope it's entertaining for you guys... and it's a little bit of a history lesson I guess.

Also... I still don't know how to describe this show at all if someone were to ask me... I just kind of go with the narration before each episode. Lol.


Byee!
-Shannon
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