Last night's "My Name is Earl" was pretty good, too.




What?

I DANCE ON YOUR GRAVE, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

aaaaahahahahahah

_{the one episode of that I saw, sucked}

Caveat: I think achewood sucks as well.

i want more arrested development no matter what. tonight was great but i want more

I want more too. I am truly sad that it's over. There were so many super-duper brilliant moments in last night's episodes. Franklin's sign on his chest that read, "George Bush doesn't care about black puppets"—oh my.

I watched it with my boyfriend and a roomful of people who'd never seen it before, so we had to stop and explain a lot of things. Also, I was the only person in the room who knows who Justine Bateman is. That was great that she was on there; it reminded me a bit of the last episode of The Bob Newhart Show, where Bob woke up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette at the end of the show.

I really hope that some other network picks it up, but I'm not counting on it.

I kind of agree with the Chef, albeit in regards to futurama. When rumors were spreading on MeFi, I was all OMG more Futurama, but the more I think about it, I realize that it's pretty much perfect as is, and all the plot arcs tied up nicely. Re-starting it would mean having to change character's behavior and motivations to keep it consistent with the original format.

/derail

I actually saw this post just before I watched the finale (TiVo'd in the Pacific Time Zone), and I have to agree with you ColdChef. The finale tied up so many of the long-time loose-ended plots AND redefined many of the characters.
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Do we really want to see Michael return AGAIN to his disfunctional family; do we want to see the reign of Queen Lucille; do we want to see Lindsay pursue Michael and George Michael pursue Maeby relatively free of incestual taboos? It sounds like it'll take a lot of work to just set up a whole new set of situations of the kind that made this situation comedy so funny. However, I really do want to know what happened to Buster with the seal... now THAT was a cliffhanger.

You know what? You've got me thinking about this so much I'm going to try writing a 1000-word piece you may end up seeing somewhere else. If so, thanks for the inspiration, Chef. If not, just ignore me.