# Arrested Development **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324 "2010-06-07T19:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 8, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/41 "2010-06-08T15:34:16Z")
“There is no God!” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/42 "2010-06-08T15:39:32Z")
Say goodbye to these, because it’s the last time. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/43 "2010-06-08T15:41:52Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > It just wasn’t funny. It was like one of those _Saturday Night Live_ skits that just keeps getting drawn out even though it isn’t getting any laughs. The only laugh I actually got out of the “Mr. F” plotline was the very last joke, and only because it was a reference to _Being There_. You’re such a pussy! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/44 "2010-06-08T15:42:10Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > Tobias - Perfect in season 2, tape-recorder-needing Tobias. Sick hair Tobias was disgusting. > Gob - Perfect. Except a little over the top with the father issues. > Maeby - Doesn’t really find her right element until season 3, with the movie executive thing. > Michael - A little too odd sometimes. For example, sleeping at 9 o clock before the fishing trip, or buying the Corvette. Wasn’t he meant to be the one we could identify with? > Jeffrey Tambor - Great characters. Added a lot of dynamic to the show, with the constant schemes and confusion. The lessons, for example. > Buster - Too weird. > Lucille - Great character. Believable as a type. > George Michael - Perfect square. The only major character with good ethics. > Rita - Didn’t work for me. > Narrator - Probably necessary. But sometimes feel forced. Especially in season 3 he often spells out the joke, and that doesn’t really work. You left out Lindsay, the sister. Also a great character, who fleshed out all the other family dynamics. Her relationship with all the individual family members really defined each of those people (except maybe Gob). Plus, there’s their baby announcement of Maeby: [There’s a girl in my soup!](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/99202525_8431145fd7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/45 "2010-06-08T15:50:18Z")
You’ve got the wrong guy. The real Saddam has a scar on his head. I’m no scar. I’m o scar. Dot com. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/46 "2010-06-08T16:00:03Z")
Hermano… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/47 "2010-06-08T16:05:14Z")
“I’m fully prepared for intruders in my house with my ‘rape horn’ and my mallet. If any pervert comes crawling in through the window, first I’m gonna blow him, then I’m gonna bang him.” “I’m sure he won’t know what hit him.” ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/48 "2010-06-08T16:24:26Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You left out Lindsay, the sister. A sister…hmmm… no, doesn’t ring a bell. (Yes, I left her out on purpose, in order to repeat that quote.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/49 "2010-06-08T16:52:48Z")
Don’t make me cry. I’m having sex later and can’t afford the moisture. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/50 "2010-06-08T17:49:48Z")
Everything you guys post is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to _set myself on fire_. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/51 "2010-06-08T17:58:00Z")
Who want’s a sausage in their mouth? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/52 "2010-06-08T18:01:58Z")
I blue myself early, so I’m nice and relaxed later. ---
**Author:** ![Brandus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Brandus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brandus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/53 "2010-06-08T18:09:10Z")
Ms Featherbottom: Oh silly me, I forgot I was still in the Colonies. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/54 "2010-06-08T18:11:17Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > There’s only been one Martin Short episode. > > Thankfully. Yeah, it just seemed like a bunch more. Many bunches. Many painful bunches. _This is George Michael. And this is his cousin, Maybe._ -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/55 "2010-06-08T18:44:04Z")
I might have committed a little… _light…_ treason. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/56 "2010-06-08T18:48:44Z")
Michael: Do you even know what they want to do with the wetlands? Lindsay: Dry them. Michael: Save them. Lindsay: From drying! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/57 "2010-06-08T20:58:09Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I might have committed a little… _light…_ treason. You’re a crook, Captain Hook! Judge, won’t you throw the book, at this pirate? ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/58 "2010-06-08T23:26:37Z")
Anyone: I’ll be heading to the OC. Michael: Don’t call it that. Rita: I hate it when they use Yanks to play British people. I can always tell. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/59 "2010-06-08T23:36:55Z")
Annyong! (who’s real name is Hello) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324/60 "2010-06-08T23:39:36Z")
Do you know where I can get one of those things that people where on their necks. It’s a cross… Across from where. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrested-development/542324.md?page=4)