# "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:** 7
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/121 "2006-02-12T21:18:49Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > Sounds like someone has moved into the “Acceptance” stage of TV series death. Ditto. Which sucks. -Joe, tasting ---
**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 12, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/122 "2006-02-12T21:24:15Z")
My feeling is this: I watched the show from the beginning. After about three episodes, I knew it was on ratings life support. I vowed to savor each episode as though it would be the last, and I never expected it to run the full season, let alone be renewed. So the last two seasons were a bonus. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/123 "2006-02-12T21:25:28Z")
The one thing missing was a family wide Chicken Dance. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/124 "2006-02-13T01:16:21Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > Sounds like someone has moved into the “Acceptance” stage of TV series death. More or less, yeah. I found that I enjoyed the show more when I wasn’t worrying about whether it was going to get cancelled or not. If the show survives past this year, it’ll be a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/125 "2006-02-13T02:29:46Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > The one thing missing was a family wide Chicken Dance. We had one earlier this season (either this one or last one, I don’t recall). We can’t get too spoiled with another one ;). ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/126 "2006-02-13T05:03:28Z")
I thinbk they just made a mistake about George-Michael being fifteen–in the second-to-last episode Michael tosses him the car car keys and tells him to take the stair car home, alone. Michael definitely would not allow GM to drive home without a license, and in Calif. you need to be 16 to get one. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/127 "2006-02-13T05:10:12Z")
If George-Michael also drove the stair car with Maeby in it, he would have been breaking the law as 16-year olds can’t carry minors as passengers unless an adult is in the car. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/128 "2006-02-13T14:13:13Z")
Best I can tell, the Michael as Robot reference refered to the 1/2/06 episode, in which Lindsay wants to send Maeby to a touchy-feely school without grades. Michael doesn’t like this concept. Lindsay: Yeah, like you could ever have a real emotion. GOB: The boy who couldn’t cry. Buster: He’s a robot! (As his hand falls off) Tobias: He’s like the steel man from the Wizard of Oz. > [@middleman](#): > > - The Anyong gag was a riot. It was too bad the set up for it, with the grandfather, had not been set up long ago. That kind of payoff would have been legendary. Either way, it was great that they brought him back for the finale. The Korean man came up with the idea for frozen bananas, but the Bluths had better marketing for it. Note that the Korean man had a simple ice cream cart, with the ad “Frozen delicious brown treat.” ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/129 "2006-02-13T14:24:40Z")
At the end of the scene with George Michael looking for Ann at the Veal’s house, and not wanting to talk to the crazy uncle, did a kid with curly black hair come running out the door as the old man was about to close it? Like he was escaping? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/130 "2006-02-13T15:44:41Z")
> [@Lambo](#): > > At the end of the scene with George Michael looking for Ann at the Veal’s house, and not wanting to talk to the crazy uncle, did a kid with curly black hair come running out the door as the old man was about to close it? Like he was escaping? Yes. What was that all about, though? ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/131 "2006-02-13T16:14:15Z")
I thought it was just some kid who got dragged in to a discussion of how the jews planted fossils in the 1920’s. N. Bluth – I didn’t get that until I read **Happy** ’s post. I loved Tambor’s performance as Oscar again – even without the hair you immediately knew it was him on the boat. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned – When Tobias was in bed with Michael, he had his head resting on his chin in exactly the same position as George Michael does in a picture on the nightstand. Which suggests to me that Tobias and George Michael might be related. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/132 "2006-02-13T16:18:37Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yes. > > What was that all about, though? I think it was as simple as the kid seeing an opportunity to get the hell out, and he ran. Good for him. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/133 "2006-02-13T16:20:02Z")
I really wish they hasn’t run commercials for all the horrible replacement sitcoms during the finale. Does anyone think one of those will survive half a season? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/134 "2006-02-13T16:23:34Z")
If the show is over, are there any threads that were left open? I still wanted to know more about Michael’s late wife. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/135 "2006-02-13T17:32:14Z")
One of my favorite lines that nobody’s mentioned yet (unless I missed it) was from the Saddam Hussein impersonator (paraphrased): “But forgive me - I’m acting like an _Uday_ impersonator!”. I also liked Tobias’s “Oh, we were all probably too hopped up on amyl and disco…”. Great series ending. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/136 "2006-02-13T17:44:40Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > One thing that hasn’t been mentioned – When Tobias was in bed with Michael, he had his head resting on his chin in exactly the same position as George Michael does in a picture on the nightstand. Which suggests to me that Tobias and George Michael might be related. Honestly, my opinion? I think the picture was there as nothing more than mere set decoration. No meaning in it at all. When Cross was propped up to talk to Bateman, the director (or someone on the set) said “Hey David, put your chin on your fist, just like in the picture!” Just some goofy visual alliteration. No meaning behind it at all. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/137 "2006-02-13T17:46:17Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > If the show is over, are there any threads that were left open? STEVE HOLT! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/138 "2006-02-13T17:52:20Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > I think it was as simple as the kid seeing an opportunity to get the hell out, and he ran. Good for him. That’s probably all it was. But it did remind me of the kid from MotherBoy trying to run away with Michael and Buster during _MotherBoy XXX_. > [@middleman](#): > > If the show is over, are there any threads that were left open? They left Buster in the middle of the ocean! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/139 "2006-02-13T18:10:00Z")
They never did find Buster’s hand so it could be reattached. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506/140 "2006-02-13T18:38:54Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > They never did find Buster’s hand so it could be reattached. I was very glad they didn’t do that. It would’ve been ridiculous for the hand to be usable even a week later. I guess they also never resolved what will become of Lindsay and Tobias’s marriage - if that’s resolvable at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development-2-hour-season-finale/343506.md?page=8)