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Old 06-07-2004, 07:55 AM
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100 Reasons why we love Arrested Development!

Hey all!

I thought it would be cool to compose a list of our favourite reasons why we this show so darn much! Lets get this list started!

1. It's the best comedy series in years!
2. They prove that being broke isn't the end of the world!
3. Because there's a Bluth in all of us!
4. Jeffery Tambor in a Doo Rag !
5. One word: Buster
6. Ron Howard as Narrator = brilliant
7. All the wordplay misunderstandings: Hermano and Annyong are just two examples.
8. GOB, the hot cop!
9. Portia De Rossi in the best performance of her career!
10. Jason Bateman back on the small screen.
11. Liza Minelli in a sitcom!
12. David Cross is comic genius
13. Gob's stripper-inspired magic act!
14. Narcoleptic strippers
15. Barry, the incompetent lawyer
16. The Bluth banana stand
17. Kitty flashing her boobs
18. Incestuous love triangles
19. The staircar
20. Light treason with Saddam
21. T-Bone the flamer
22. The cornballer
23. George Michael....and he's straight.
24. The Bluth brothers are very sexy! (And Buster just might be the sexiest of the three!)
25. Because the Emmys finally got something right!!
26. We learned how to "get our stew on"
27. The music that they plays whenever the Alliance of Magicians is mentioned.
28. The Music played whenever there is a Buster/Oscar interaction scene.
29. The way Buster massages the shoulders of everyone he comes across.
30. In it's second season, the show is still the funniest thing on television!
31. Two words: Diamond cream.
32. Rock, paper, scissors!
33. Solid as a rock!
34. The blue dot over Uncle Oscar's you know what.
35. Blue Tobias blending into the background.
36. Annyong.
37. Ice, the bounty hunter/party planner.
38. The **** T-Shirt.
39. GOB's chicken dance!
40. Buster trying to escape to Mexico.
41. Someone as hot as Lindsay being unable to get any sex.
42. Tobias and his acting ambitions.
43. The infamous cutoffs.
44. GOB's magnificent sexual harrassment speech
45. Afternoon Delight
46. Pantsless GOB
47. Lucille high on pot
48. Buster's seal for marksmanship
49. GOB in a banana suit
50. Yet another great t-shirt - the shemale shirt.
51. LUPE!!
52. The double-entendre titles
53. The sad Charlie Brown walk
54. The stripper-dance by GOB and Buster around the coffin
55. George Sr.'s hideout outfits (the blouses and maternity wear)
56. Because GOB is a horrible magician, and we wouldn't want it any other way.
57. Tambor pulling a Nutty Professor is genius!
58. Because where else would you see show where someone is in love with a family member, aside from Jerry Springer.
59. Candy beans
60. Eyebrows that don't stay put
61. Maeby as a film executive
62. Lindsay drugged out on Teamocil
63. Lucille singing Downtown!
64. Tobias is Queen Mary
65. Buster and Starla
66. Companies named Sitwell and Standpoor
67. Liza Minelli (She's worth mentioning twice!)
68. Michael in a sportscar, with a smashed fly on his face
69. Hot Cops in a gang fight
70. Gobias Interprise
71. Mr. Banana Grabber
72. Why Buster is afraid of Catalina
73. The fact that the Lucilles are labeled as I and II
74. Henry Winkler
75. Gob's theme song ("The Final Countdown")
76. Never-Nude
77. Carl Weathers
78. Egg--oops--i mean Ann. (and her obsession with eggs)
79. The Tobias/Funke music (that gypsy-polka music...)
80. Blue Man Groups
81. Gob's Segway, especially that he has his name on it.
82. Gene Parmesan
83. Lucille II's Vertigo
84. How Buster refers to Army as a child would refer to School ("Army had half-a-day", or, "I got them at Army")
85. That blue handprint on the Bluth Model Home wall
86. George Bluth's Torah Study Group, and his Prison to Home connection via satellite.
87. Give me a Gob. GOB!
88. Steve Holt!
89. Buster's nervous hand to ears/head habit
90. Buster and his skills
91. Body Chocolate
92. Gob and Lindsay doing the chicken dance together
93. "I just blue myself."
94. The doctor in the hospital
95. The cop who always gets one last beating in after they realize it's Oscar, not George.
96. GOB getting guys to sit on his lap and rock on his chair.
97. "I've made a huge mistake."
98. "it's nice to be back in a queen."
99. "Like anyone would 'R' her."
100. Tobias and Lindsey's open relationship


100 More Reasons Why We Love Arrested Development
1. A hundred dollar bill is no more than a hundred pennies.
2. The spot on the back of Tobias's back he can't reach.
3. "What, is she funny?"
4. "Portugal, down South America way."
5. "I know you're the big marriage expert. Oh! I'm sorry. I forgot. Your wife is dead."
6. Burger King product placement
7. Barry jumping a shark!
8. Buster trying to zipline with his hook
9. Maeby thinking a cross is a 't'
10. The sailorboy saying "take me with you"
11. Tobias playing George Sr.
12. Carl Weathers playing Ice
13. A third "loose seal," this one with a taste for blood.
14. Trying to catch aforementioned seal with terminally-ill cats as bait.
15. Buster's hand chair, a sad reminder of his missing hand.
16. Motherboy XXX
17. Franklin
18. Franklin Comes Alive cd
19. George Michael and Mabey Kiss
20. George Sr and Oscar jail switch
21. Polly and attic tea parties
22. Pop Secret
23. Franklin as Buster's hook replacemnt
24. "Marry Me."
25. "Babysit Me."
26. Franklin's makeover
27. Because illusions are for magicians and “tricks” are for whores
28. George Michael's adorable sailor outfit in Motherboy XXX.
29. Zach Braff is a never nude.
30. Men With High Self-Esteem.
31. Our narrator is so much better than the ScandalMakers narrator.
32. Because that's how you tell a story.
33. The guy with the "Freedom" sign who shows up everywhere
34. Tobias in his best role yet - Mrs. Featherbottom
35. Senor Tadpole's
36. FIRE! Sales
37. God doesn't care about ratings!
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Old 06-12-2004, 12:42 PM
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Jeffery Tambor in a Doo Rag !
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Old 06-12-2004, 05:04 PM
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One word: Buster
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Old 06-13-2004, 05:45 PM
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Ron Howard as Narrator = brilliant
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Old 06-13-2004, 07:55 PM
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All the wordplay misunderstandings: Hermano and Annyong are just two examples.
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Tobias: You know, first of all, we are doing this for her, okay, because neither one of us wants to get divorced. And second-of-ly, I know you’re the big marriage expert. Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot. Your wife is dead.

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Michael: That cousin of yours is a hell of a girl. It’s too bad you can’t date her.

George Michael: No, I meant... Wait, you wouldn’t have a problem with that? Nothing!
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Old 06-14-2004, 09:29 AM
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GOB, the hot cop!
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Old 06-18-2004, 09:16 AM
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Portia De Rossi in the best performance of her career!
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Gob: And guess what? Dad kissed me.
Michael: How? He looked pretty unconscious in that picture.
Gob: I didn’t say he was totally into it.
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Old 06-18-2004, 11:03 AM
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Updated the list!

Keep those reasons coming!
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Old 06-18-2004, 06:38 PM
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I should think this one would have been thrown in already but oh well...

Jason Bateman back on the small screen.

Liza Minelli in a sitcom!
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Old 06-19-2004, 03:09 AM
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Added those two! Thanks PPD!
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Old 06-19-2004, 07:11 PM
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Old 06-21-2004, 02:04 AM
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Gob's stripper-inspired magic act!
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Old 06-24-2004, 09:24 AM
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Narcoleptic strippers
Barry, the incompetent lawyer
The Bluth banana stand
Kitty flashing her boobs
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Old 07-15-2004, 01:45 PM
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Incestuous love triangles
The staircar
Light treason with Saddam
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George Michael....and he's straight.

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