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re: Official: Arrested Development Master Thread All Links Now Included
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:31 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:31 pm to Byron Bojangles III
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Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:45 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:50 pm to brewhan davey
How many of you are staying up to see this?
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:54 pm to Byron Bojangles III
That's right, I forgot I already did that
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:55 pm to Cap Crunch
Posted on 5/25/13 at 7:57 pm to Byron Bojangles III
looks like he drives a Honda civic with flames and a spoiler
Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:01 pm to Tactical1
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How many of you are staying up to see this?
I will be. I slept all day anyway and got drunk enough last night that I don't really want to go out tonight
Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:06 pm to Cap Crunch
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I will be.
ive been up since about 5 this morning and probably gonna have to pop half an addy to stay up
but i'm in it for the ling haul
Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:06 pm to Byron Bojangles III
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The True Origin Stories Behind Six Classic Arrested Development
The Cornballer
Invented by George Sr. in the mid-seventies, it is an appliance used to make cornballs. It was made illegal after it was found to cause serious burns.
"I knew this one episode, ‘Bringing Up Buster,’ was going to end with a father-son rapprochement, if you will, so I was looking for some way to comment on that. Now it’s called ‘meta’ I guess, but it wasn’t called ‘meta’ then. The phrase I wanted to play with is, ‘That’s a little cornball.’ I don’t really know if people know that phrase. It’s kind of an old Broadway phrase, like, ‘a big cornball ending.’ I just sort of had that pun, and at that time, almost to a fault, I had gotten into all these literal evocations of clichés. When I was doing The John Laroquette Show it’s almost all I did. It really got obnoxious, like ‘the other shoe falls’ and then this fake shoe would fall and it coincided with some other information that would come out, you know? This was like one of those. ‘Let’s articulate this cliché! That’s a little cornball!’ Let’s have them make cornballs! And then I always like that George Sr. was like a self-styled Ron Popeil, and he would just engage in all these crazy businesses. What if there’s a fry-at-home thing to make these cornballs with that you would get horribly burnt on? Growing up with my father, we were always trying to invent things. We invented water weights once. Now you can probably get them in Front Gate or Sky Mall, but I remember my father thinking of these inflatable bladders you could take on trips, people could exercise on planes with them. It actually goes back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
The chicken dance
To taunt someone, often Michael, the members of the Bluth family would do a chicken dance, each with their own spin, none of which resembled a chicken.
"I think this was executive producer Jim Vallely. Sometimes he gives me credit. Will Arnett, who physicalized it, sometimes gives us both credit for being on set and working out the moves with him. But I’m almost certain Jim pitched it and put it in the script as Gob starts acting like a chicken. And claps. As inspired as the idea was, a lot of the credit goes to Will. I remember watching him do it and thinking, This guy comes from drama? I’ve never seen anyone commit to a joke like this. To this day that’s true! Maybe Phil Silvers’s Sergeant Bilko. But to [shouts] stiffen your [shouts] back and think about it … even if you tried to do it yourself, it’d be like, Oh, so I’m really going to go for this, huh? I’m going to have a solid back and I’m going to kick my feet! So angry! Anger is just at the heart of so much comedy. I’m. So. Angry! Then we quickly turned his dance into an ancient insult in Mexico."
Carl Weathers as cheapskate
Tobias hires Rocky star Carl Weathers to teach him how to act, but all Carl wants to do is mooch.
"We’d previously talked about how Tobias spent money on Carl Weathers’s stage fighting class, so it seemed like we should get Carl Weathers on the show. I always liked adding stuff that made it look like this is a whole world, and there’s a history between these two guys. Then we had this great idea to do a parody of this very homoerotic scene in Rocky 3 of Carl and Sly Stallone running on the beach. There were shots of their crotches and this big finish to some imaginary race and they were jumping up and down in the water in slow motion. We gotta do this with Carl and Tobias! Then I needed to call Carl Weathers. There’s always [that thing when you’re making] fun of something until you realize, oh, right, it’s a human being.
"So I called Carl, and said, ‘Hey, I don’t know if you’ve seen the show but we wanna use you for it, and you’d be working with David Cross.’ And he goes, ‘Great, but let me ask you something. It’s not going to be just a bunch of Rocky jokes is it?’ I laughed, ‘No! No! Give me a little credit, Carl. Of course not! It’s a multidimensional character.’ And he was like, ‘Because I direct and I’m a funny guy and I don’t wanna just do a bunch of Rocky jokes. Nobody wants that. Maybe I could be really cheap or something?’ And I said, ‘Whaaaat?’ ‘Maybe I could be really cheap?’ ‘Really? You’d like to do that?’ ‘Oh, absolutely, that’s what I’m saying. I want to play someone funny, not just be a sight gag.’ It was so much better. I went back to the writers room and said, ‘You’re not going to believe this. Carl Weathers wants to be incredibly cheap.’ All credit to Carl on that."
The mayonegg
George Michael tells his dad that his girlfriend Ann loves to eat an egg and then squeeze some mayo in her mouth at the same time. "It’s so cute."
"I was just always grossed out by eggs. And mayo. The whole thing together. Egg-salad sandwiches always bothered me. I often think of myself as George Michael, and sometimes I think of myself as Michael. In that instance I was Michael and I thought, What would be really awful for me to see my son do?"
Franklin Delano Bluth
During Gob’s bout with ventriloquism, he brought in his foul-mouthed puppet Franklin.
"I had always wanted to do a ventriloquist. There were all these kind of plagiarisms or homages to Soap in the show. I worked for the producers of that show Witt/Thomas/Harris, for many years, so I knew it very well, and I just always loved the idea of all the accoutrements of [the ventriloquist character, Chuck] including the puppet. So we gave Gob a black puppet he would offend people with. Franklin was basically Franklin from Peanuts. We’d had a story on the board for a long time, something that happened to Brad Copeland; someone had given him a CD and he’d never thanked them enough. I remember the idea of doing a show that had these big, broad elements but also these really human brother elements, so we had this idea for a while that a CD had been given to Michael that he didn’t properly thank Gob for, and Gob was bent out of shape about it. That morphed into Michael should have paid for the CD to be made and it cost him $5,000. He spent $5,000 on Franklin’s CD because he thought it was an investment, a mutual fund CD, when really it was just an album by a black puppet."
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Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:12 pm to Byron Bojangles III
i'd like to hang out and chill with carl weathers, i bet he is a cool dude
Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:28 pm to aVatiger
Just got back from the store with my Frozen Banana supplies and some beer.
Posted on 5/25/13 at 8:54 pm to Tactical1
How did Annyong stay alive in the walls so long? George Sr's jail bars 
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:04 pm to Byron Bojangles III
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:05 pm to Byron Bojangles III
holy shite
i never noticed that
i never noticed that
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:07 pm to Byron Bojangles III
wow
a friend of mine made that analogy 5 years ago, never really thought about it until now
deja vu shite right there
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:10 pm to aVatiger
I been hardcore surfing reddit
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:27 pm to Byron Bojangles III
so my friend just said that if you are on the east coast it doesn't come on till 3am ET..
is he right?
is he right?
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:32 pm to aVatiger
Yes. 2am CT
This post was edited on 5/25/13 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:33 pm to aVatiger
I don't think anyone knows yet. I've seen somethings saying that it will be 12 EST, others that it will be 12 PST, so that won't be until 2 here
I'm just waiting by my phone for the text
I'm just waiting by my phone for the text
This post was edited on 5/25/13 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 5/25/13 at 9:34 pm to Tactical1
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How many of you are staying up to see this?
This guy.
I bought some New Belgium six packs and I'm ready to roll.
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