Franklin???
I think you’ve identified a key reason why it didn’t do well. If you’ve only seen one or two episodes, you probably didn’t connect to the rhythm of the show. It took me a little while too. It’s like learning to love a good scotch. You have to stick with it for a while to get it.
Not a great thing for a new TV show.
Indubitably.
Damn Shame. I am just pleased we have so many episodes to enjoy in syndication someday. With the 13 ordered, there will be over 50 episodes. Even without the magic 100 episodes, I’m sure a channel like Comedy Central will give them a good home.
And we’ll have 2 1/2 great seasons to watch forever on DVD, knowing the show never got the chance to jump the shark (except for when Barry Zuckerkorn actually jumped over a shark in season 2).
And the thing is that it’s not like you watch an episode just once and you’ve seen it all. The show has the joke density of a neutrino star, so there’s always something new to see.
And it was just last night that I got the significance of Ann’s last name. That’s kinda sick.
The one bright spot I can see is that the writers may just pull all the stops out for the last few episodes. I’m excited to see when kind of potshots they’ll take. Going out in a white creamy bang in-DEED!
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–Cliffy
You know, Bland? She’s George Michael’s girlfriend. You’ve MET her! Many times!
So, how does everyone predict AD wraps the show up?
Also, will this be the Best Comedy winner with the fewest total episodes?
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Patrick Duffy: What’s Arrested Development?
Ann Veal.
Aw, man! Amy Poehler’s gonna lose her boat!
Probably The Ben Stiller Show, a sketch comedy series on Fox back in 1992. Fox broadcast twelve episodes and cancelled the series. Then several months later it won an Emmy.
In this case, it seems logical to me to blame the viewers who didn’t watch. You may not have liked it, but you can’t deny it’s your fault.
FX is the idiot network that broadcast, then killed, Starved, another brilliant show, so I’d hardly trust anything to them.
Switching “funny” with “exciting” and switching David Cross to um, let’s see, Ron Glass, say, you could say the same thing about Firefly. 
Guh? Am I misreading you? They’re supposed to watch a show they don’t enjoy because you want it to stay on the air? You don’t think they have better things to do with their time than sit through something they don’t like?
No argument.
Well, except that Firefly was good, while Arrested Development…isn’t. 
I kid, I kid. I feel for all the fans of this show. I know all too well what it feels like when something like this happens.
People can blame me too. I watched the first few and didn’t find myself laughing. I’m not much of a sitcom viewer, though, so it’s unusual that I’m watching two sitcoms this season - Two and a Half Men, which I discovered over the summer, and Out Of Practice. Now those strike me as funny shows. Not as funny as Norm, Andy Richter Controls the Universe or 2 Guys and a Girl, but far funnier than Arrested Developement has ever struck me.