"Arrested Development-- **2-Hour Season Finale**"

“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.

Holy shit! He was a patsy!

It’s Gary Cole! <squeeeeeeeeeee!>

-Joe, Mission Accomplished

Her?

okay…was he serious about the movie crack?

…please tell me they were. Otherwise I’m really going to miss that show.

It was Arrested Development.

sigh

Wow. What a way to go.

The funniest two hours of TV, film, anything in a long time.

It did feel like they were shutting the door on it though, didn’t it?

Waitaminute…her?

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?

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. :slight_smile:

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.

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.

It’s funnier not explained.

If you insist – “second base” traditionally was touching the woman’s breasts. In that context, head first works

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)

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.

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.

Oh yeah – Anyong’s real name is Hello.

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.

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? :smiley:

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.

No no, the WILLIAM Hung Jury.