Other fun points of interest:
-Bud Cort. 
-The Saddam lookalike pleading “I am not Saddam! Saddam has a scar! I have no scar! I am no scar! I’m no scar! Dot com!” (Was that Tambor as the fake Saddam?)
-Condoleeza Rice Way.
-The US soldier teaching the Iraqi soldier how to tazer GOB. “Go ahead, try it again.”
-The burning Bush.
Count the episodes. 22 in the first season, 18 (cut down from 22) in the second, 13 in the third.
“How long has [your love of Maeby] been going on?” “Um, about 53 weeks.”
Lindsey being adopted is a bit too Armand Tanzarian for me.
How old are Maebe, George Michael and Ann? 16, 15 and 18? Seems kinda odd.
Hilarious, though.
I’m a little depressed now. But that was two very funny hours of TV. I think the joke I laughed at the hardest was Buster speaking Arabic to the cabbie - and then explaining to Michael that traffic was backed up all the way to Knott’s Berry Farm.
I’m posting way too much to this thread, but I’m on a sort of AD buzz right now.
I’d just like to point out that a few months ago I started a thread on incestuous relationships on AD. I offered a bunch of cites, one of which was Lindsay and Michael’s drunken confessions to each other, and their resulting closeness. A few posters expressed doubt that anything incestuous was implied. I’d now like to bask in the warm glow of my insight. 
Question: On browsing through IMDB, I noticed a little show I’d never seen called Veronica Mars. What’s it about? I saw that Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat were both in an episode called The Rapes of Graff. What’s up with that?
I thought of those posts when all that stuff happened. But I’m not sure how that qualifies as insight, though; it was more like a prognostication. It’s not like they revealed there had been something incestuous going on.
I’m not. I’ve just watched the funniest television since Lucy worked on the assembly line. I’ll get depressed tomorrow.
Or when he swallowed a moth.
“And I believe you said something about… ice cream?”
I knew you were going to say that.
I am Nostradamus!
OK, this is my 8th post to this thread in less than an hour. I’m signing off now. I think I’ll watch an episode or two agian.
That’s not a bad plan. The whole experience was hilarious, I just got a little down when I heard “it was Arrested Development.”
Oh, another great background moment: did anybody else see Franklin’s shirt? After years of seeing Lucille’s maids wearing pro-Bush shirts, Franklin somehow ended up with one reading “George Bush doesn’t care about black puppets.”
Did you notice that when Michael asked GM how long he had had these feelings towards Maebe, GM responded: “Going on 53 weeks now”.
imnoscar.com sounds an awful lot like imoscar.com 
Which head? 
Put me down as someone who will subscribe to Showtime the instant they announce they picked up AD.
For about an hour and fifteen minutes I thought that humor doesn’t get any better than William Hung and His Hung Jury playing “It’s Not Easy Being Brown.” But then I found out Anyang’s real name. Dear God. I honestly couldn’t tell if I my tears were from laughter or from realizing that could be it for the best show on tv. Probably both.
If that was the end, I think I’m satisfied. Sad, but satisfied that it never had a bad moment. Kind of like the Office. The British Office. You know what I mean. Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go watch the the last four ADs again.
Small other thing I meant to observe: Nellie’s list of “don’ts” was strongly reminiscent of GOB’s rant from before the company Christmas party. I think it was identical through her line about “****blasting” or thereabouts.
Spectacular. Absolutely spectacular. The last episode, finishing off in as an alternate-universe pilot, was absolutely pitch perfect. Just wonderful.
If we don’t see it again, thanks to Mitch Hurwitz, Ron Howard, and the cast for 53 of the best episodes of television ever. Never jumped the shark, except when it was literally jumping a shark. Never faded away, just perfect. I second the comparison to the British Office, which had fourteen episodes and exited at the top of its game. But I’m still rooting for Showtime, which I would gladly get just for this show.
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Veronica Mars is a UPN show about a high school girl whose father is a PI. She does investigating for her father and for her friends and herself. It sounds kind of cheesy, but for all of its high school bubblegum, it tends to be really dark and oftentimes provocative. It is worth checking out and is enjoyable if you can get past the very high-schooly nature of the show.
My lord. That was the best 2 hours on TV. I just watched it, taped (from my DVR). I was DYING laughing! So many great self-referential jokes, so many funny moments. Just brilliant!
I loved how Annyong was the grandkid of the frozen banana guy that Lucille deported back to Korea (“It’s the SEC” “They still have boats?”)
Also the Congressman who wanted to save “Baby Buster” (which the guy on the phone recognized) climbing into bed with him!
A nice touch was when Michael was in the car with the prosecution saying the Bluth family doesn’t run, while you see Maeby running away from the fake wedding for the Alzheimers guys.
Ann ending up with GOB (with her crazy uncle - “The Jews planted fossils in the 1920s”) was just perfect after that talent show episode!
I also liked the CIA East / CIA West joke.
And the “Beefcake” magazines Tobius hid in the secret room to learn how to get more muscles! LOL! Speaking of Tobius, when Michael cut him off when he said “I’ll get hot sailors. Even better, hot sea-”
GOLD… just Gold.
Most of the last episode was referring to the first episode, of course, but the one thing I noticed was that the banner at the final party said something like “Howdy Pardner”. In the first episode, they mentioned several times that George was going through a cowboy phase, and the party then was western-themed.
The Nellie thing was at least partly inspired by an idea they had from the beginning but never managed to work in. They were thinking of having another Bluth child who refused to give permission to appear on the “documentary”. So they’d have a face blurred out of photographs…all that sort of thing. It’d be a running gag.
Now, can someone PLEASE find, or make, me a screenshot of the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life: Lindsey and Tobias’s baby announcement? I rewound that and paused on that image and laughed until my sides hurt. “There’s a baby in our soup!” with Lindsey in a tub full of blood. Unbelieveable. I’ve never seen anything so horribly tasteless in my life. I need to email it to many many people. Seriously - someone hook me up.
Great, great! But say ‘away’ when you say that, otherwise it sounds weird… You forgot to say ‘away’ again…
