There's Always Money in the Banana Stand

I've been ranting and raving about how good of a show Arrested Development is for a while now.  Imagine my surprise when I went to go pick up my paycheck at Target today and found an Arrested Development t-shirt immortalizing the Bluth's Frozen Banana Stand.

Unfortunately, the mediums were completely gone, so apparently someone must have taken my advice and watched the show.  My shirt will have to wait for another day.  But in the immortal words of Wayne Campbell, it will be mine.  Oh yes, it will be mine.

:(

Lots of great memories this season.  For a while I didn't even think that there would be a season.  It's just a shame that it had to end this way.

Who am I kidding?  This sucks, and I'm devastated.  My next few days in a nutshell:

Franklin Comes Alive!

A few days ago I mentioned that you should drop what you're doing right now and watch Arrested Development.  I've continued to watch it since, and since discovering that I can watch Netflix via my iPod in the Target break room, have been using my breaks to watch more episodes.  This additional time has allowed me to begin the final of the 3 original seasons today, and the show keeps getting better and better.  The situations just keep getting more ridiculous, the jokes keep building up over many episodes, and hilarious characters keep being introduced.  Since I know a). no one is reading this in the first place and b). if for some reason some is reading this you likely aren't up to where I am in the show, I don't want to give away too many spoilers, I will refrain from doing so.

With one exception:  Franklin Delano Bluth.

Franklin is G.O.B.'s puppet that he introduced into his magic act to spice things up.  One episode I watched today while on break showed the two of them making a record titled Franklin Comes Alive! (spoofing Frampton Comes Alive!) to promote racial equality.

Same thing

It made it pretty difficult for me to maintain my composure in the break room while I knew people were watching me.  Totally worth it.

The clip didn't seem to work unless it was after a jump break for some reason, so I added one to avoid frustration among my non-viewership.  So continued after the break...

It's Arrested Development

There's been a lot of hoopla over Arrested Development the last few weeks due to Netflix picking it up for a 4th season close to ten years after its original cancellation.

 

Hoopla

I started watching it along with How I Met Your Mother soon after I signed up for Netflix on the recommendation of a friend.  I'm part-way through the second season and I can easily say that it is probably the funniest and best show to ever have been released on television.  I don't want to spend too much time on it right now because I actually want to go watch it but let me just say that if you have Netflix and haven't seen it, drop what you're doing and start immediately.  If the show doesn't have you sucked in by the Fire Sale of episode 2 you aren't human.

All you need to know about the premise is in the opening.  "And now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together... It's Arrested Development."

It has several actors you probably know that have gone on to do bigger things such as Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Michael Cera, and I just don't want to go on any more because do yourself a favor and just watch it.

From the last episode I watched:

Okay seriously I'm going to go watch an episode right now, as should you.

On the next Arrested Development...