# arrested Development 12/05 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336 "2004-12-06T07:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/21 "2004-12-06T22:12:35Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > It it just me or did Maeby just bloom into womanhood in the space of a week? Uh, no, it really started last season (I thought she was bloomin’ plenty in the pilot). But her, uh, face certainly looks older. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/22 "2004-12-06T22:34:19Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > It it just me or did Maeby just bloom into womanhood in the space of a week? Hey, I applaud them for finding an actual 14 year old, though it makes my crush on her feel all the more wrong. Maybe if she, _Bend it Like Beckam_ era Keira Knightley, and the girl would plays Hermoine had a mud wrestling match… Jailbait thread. There’s a thought. Anyway, I taped this episode as I was out during the original airing and I had to rewind the first scene with the Charlie Brown Xmas music about five times before my brain would accept that I just saw a dog laying ontop of its doghouse _a la_ Snoopy. I also appreciated GOB musical choice when he was being buried (Europe’s _Final Coutdown_). I must have missed an episode. Who is the Asian boy that pops up at random? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/23 "2004-12-06T22:37:46Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > I must have missed an episode. Who is the Asian boy that pops up at random? Who? Annyong? He’s the Korean boy that Lucille adopted because Buster wouldn’t eat his vegetables. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/24 "2004-12-06T22:38:21Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > I must have missed an episode. Who is the Asian boy that pops up at random? That’s Annyong, the Bluth child adopted from Korea. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/25 "2004-12-06T23:08:09Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > I also appreciated GOB musical choice when he was being buried (Europe’s _Final Coutdown_). _Final Countdown_ is a trademark for GOB…he also used it when he “disappeared” the Bluth yacht last season. Annyong obviously never came back from seeing the Star War. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/26 "2004-12-06T23:48:58Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > Who? Annyong? He’s the Korean boy that Lucille adopted because Buster wouldn’t eat his vegetables. Goddamn, I love this show. I mean, just think of the absurdity of that answer, and how it’s just…well…accepted. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/27 "2004-12-06T23:54:18Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > I must have missed an episode. Who is the Asian boy that pops up at random? Annyong isn’t his name, BTW, it’s the Korean word for hello. Which is why whenever anyone says what they think is the boy’s name, he politely responds “Annyong” and the show provides a subtitle: “Hello.” –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/28 "2004-12-07T00:58:57Z")
I love how forgettable Ann is Michael to Ann: I wasn’t sure you’d get my message. Ann: It wasn’t a message, we had a convesation. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/29 "2004-12-07T01:23:26Z")
> [@sleeepy2](#): > > I love how forgettable Ann is I almost feel sorry for the actress playing Ann… “It’s as Anne as the plain on her face.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/30 "2004-12-07T01:41:40Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > _Final Countdown_ is a trademark for GOB…he also used it when he “disappeared” the Bluth yacht last season. Now whenever I hear that song I will always think of GOB on stage with a knife in his mouth waving playing cards around in front of a purple curtain. 😃 “Illusions, dad. Tricks are something a whore does.” ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/31 "2004-12-07T02:33:15Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Annyong isn’t his name, BTW, it’s the Korean word for hello. Which is why whenever anyone says what they think is the boy’s name, he politely responds “Annyong” and the show provides a subtitle: “Hello.” > > –Cliffy This is actually the only thing that even remotely bothers me about the show. If he were really a Korean boy saying hello to his new parents, he wouldn’t say, “Annyong.” That’s like a slap in the face to his new parents. He would say, “Annyong-hasaeyo,” the more formal version you use to speak to your elders and anybody else you’re supposed to show respect to. He’d only say “annyong” to people in his age group or younger. Aside from that, I almost choked to death on my ice cube when I heard the Charlie Brown music and then saw the beagle on the dog house. I also love how you can still see the blue paint all over the house. Man, what a great show. It’s so far above and beyond almost everything else on right now that my television actually weeps digital tears when I force it to show me something else. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/32 "2004-12-07T03:06:34Z")
Not only blue paint, there was also the hole in the wall half hidden by the bookshelf. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/33 "2004-12-07T03:30:46Z")
In the scene where George senior does the snoopy walk in Panama, theres a Telephone and the word P 2252 written on the wall behind him. The camera seems to focus just a bit too long on that shot, does it have any significance I’m not getting? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/34 "2004-12-07T04:23:54Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > One of the previous knowing hints was that Lucille really wasn’t pregnant with Buster for 11 months. Presumably she hadn’t had sex with George for two months before Oscar knocked her up, thus she had to _really_ postdate the pregnancy. 🙂 This always bugged me because in the first season they always played it straight. Even though everything else was so real, we were expected to believe Buster was a weirdo because his mother was pregnant for 11 months. And the way they treat Ann also really bugs me. In her first epsiode I don’t think she spoke and she was just a fat girl across the room. But now that they’ve focused on her she seems cute and funny and if George Michael can’t have Maeby, what’s wrong with this girl? The whole thing just seems odd. Of course, I can’t wait for the episode when George Michael and Maeby realize they’re perfect for each other. You all know it’s going to happen! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/35 "2004-12-07T05:17:12Z")
What was hinted at in last season’s finale: Annyong and George Michael be rivals for Maeby’s affections. Cockblocking. Always classy humor. I’m still waiting for Annyong’s control of the Bluth empire because he’s secreyly 18 to factor in… ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/36 "2004-12-07T05:38:17Z")
How Michael treats Ann is just hilarious. They forget her in Mexico. Michael forgets he talks to her. And seems so dissapointed when George Michael says they are getting back together (or that he is really liking her). Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/37 "2004-12-07T06:20:37Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the single funniest exchange in the episode (dare I say the season?): “George Michael’s hiding Anne in the attic.” “From who, the Nazis?” I had to pause it because my roommate and I fell down laughing for ten minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/38 "2004-12-07T06:36:52Z")
> [@Airblairxxx](#): > > How is it doing in the ratings? Any danger of it being suddenly canceled? I don’t know where to find complete Nielsens, all I can find are Top Ten shows each night. The show was in danger last season, but especially after the Emmy, FOX has started promoting the hell out of it (notice that they’ve also moved it to after The Simpsons?). I don’t think FOX would be quick to pull the plug even if it’s struggling, it sounds like they actually want it to work. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/39 "2004-12-07T06:39:15Z")
Thank God it won that Emmy :D. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336/40 "2004-12-07T15:24:24Z")
> [@audiobottle](#): > > If he were really a Korean boy saying hello to his new parents, he wouldn’t say, “Annyong.” That’s like a slap in the face to his new parents. He would say, “Annyong-hasaeyo,” the more formal version you use to speak to your elders and anybody else you’re supposed to show respect to. But Annyong doesn’t give a flop. He’s not respectful and doesn’t wish to be; Lucille’s just his patsy. –Cliffy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-12-05/278336.md?page=3)