# "Arrested Development-- \*\*2-Hour Season Finale\*\*" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506 "2006-02-08T04:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/41 "2006-02-11T02:19:04Z")
“Sorry I took so long but the Cheney expressway is backed up all the way to Haliburton Drive.” I’m really gonna miss this show. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/42 "2006-02-11T02:29:04Z")
Holy shit! He _was_ a patsy! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/43 "2006-02-11T02:30:31Z")
It’s Gary Cole! \ -Joe, Mission Accomplished ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/44 "2006-02-11T02:51:21Z")
Her? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/45 "2006-02-11T02:58:29Z")
okay…was he serious about the movie crack? …please tell me they were. Otherwise I’m really going to miss that show. ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/46 "2006-02-11T02:58:51Z")
It was Arrested Development. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/47 "2006-02-11T02:59:31Z")
_sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/48 "2006-02-11T03:01:08Z")
Wow. What a way to go. The funniest two hours of TV, film, anything in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/49 "2006-02-11T03:04:11Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > Wow. What a way to go. It did feel like they were shutting the door on it though, didn’t it? Waitaminute…her? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/50 "2006-02-11T03:04:35Z")
I think I understand, but can somebody flat out explain what they are suggesting George Michael did to Maebe with the Pete Rose reference? What is head-first into second base? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/51 "2006-02-11T03:06:33Z")
Just plain spectacular. I feel proud – after the Richard Belzer cameo a few episodes ago, I said in this forum that they should have established him as John Munch. 🙂 Also loved the sign on the hospital door: John Wayne General Hospital West Wing Entrance I can’t begin to list all the great jokes. Though the “This is bad on so many levels” after Michael says “Marry me” to Justine Bateman is probably tops. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/52 "2006-02-11T03:06:57Z")
Wow. What a fantastic series finale. I’m pretty pissed I missed the first episode, though. I’ve never missed an episode, including the pilot, and I didn’t know tonight was the night they were burning off the final four. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Michael Cera is TV’s King of Comedy. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/53 "2006-02-11T03:07:57Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I think I understand, but can somebody flat out explain what they are suggesting George Michael did to Maebe with the Pete Rose reference? > > What is head-first into second base? It’s funnier not explained. If you insist – “second base” traditionally was touching the woman’s breasts. In that context, head first works ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/54 "2006-02-11T03:10:03Z")
Man, I’m holding back tears. I hope Showtime picks this up. One subtle joke that had me cracking up: Tobias: “You know how those Hollywood-type shows are always on the details.” (Opens a cupboard that’s empty except for a Starbucks coffee cup) (a few seconds later, George-Micheal comes in and opens another cupboard, empty except for a granola bar) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/55 "2006-02-11T03:10:32Z")
> [@randomlyblanks](#): > > It was Arrested Development. It was Development Arrested. That was the name of the last (and best) episode. And it was – it was all of the old jokes, reversed. I’ll need to watch it again, but on first viewing: -GOB’s boat was the C-Word, not the Seaward. -“What’s the most important thing?” “Family.” “I was going to say breakfast.” Reversal of the first scene of the first episode. Um… There were more, now I can’t think of them. This show fills my brain with so many things that I tend to forget a lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/56 "2006-02-11T03:14:00Z")
Can somebody recap the first 15 minutes of the first episode? Our power went out right before the show started! We came in and George Michael and Maeby were getting married in a mock ceremony. Buster’s apparently in a coma. We haven’t watched the other episodes yet (yay, TiVo, but it still requires electricity) because we all want to know what the heck is going on. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/57 "2006-02-11T03:14:07Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Um… There were more, now I can’t think of them. This show fills my brain with so many things that I tend to forget a lot of them. Oh yeah – Anyong’s real name is Hello. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/58 "2006-02-11T03:20:43Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > Can somebody recap the first 15 minutes of the first episode? The mock ceremony (and the was a mock judge show!) was to entertain alzheimers patients. GM was happy to participate because he’d get to kiss Maeby. After she ran out (just like Runaway Bride, which she despised), they turned it into a fake bar mitzva. He later did the mock wedding, but with a genuine priest, so the marriage was real. Buster faked the coma to avoid testifying. Michael was to be in a mock trial with Mr. Reinhold and the Hung Jury. That’s all I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/59 "2006-02-11T03:23:54Z")
_sigh_ So taboo, so funny. Was anyone else cringing during the scene when Nellie was coming on to Michael…just wondering how far they were going to take her advances? And how funny is it that the first thing Lindsay wanted to do when she found out she was adopted was to hook-up with/marry Michael? 😃 Maybe I’m still just riding on the high of 2 spectacular hours of television, but the way they ended it, I’m not sure anything they do beyond this could top these three years. The body of work they put out over 52-odd episodes is just so freaking _perfect_, I don’t want that perfection to be spoiled by anything (i.e. any changes a new network might bring to the show). If it ended tonight, I’d be satisfied. Does anyone else feel this way? But a movie would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/60 "2006-02-11T03:24:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Michael was to be in a mock trial with Mr. Reinhold and the Hung Jury. > > That’s all I can remember. No no, the WILLIAM Hung Jury. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506.md?page=4)