Season 3 - Arrested Development

I had to miss the season premiere. Normally I wouldn't want to read about something I haven't seen, but not this time. This show rules even in print! I'm laughing my butt off!

 

Insanely funny last night. Just keeps getting better.

Gotta watch out for that Itsy Bitsy IRA. They apparently haven't laid down all their weapons. Those Poppins are dangerous.

Jeff

 

for a moment I was wondering if they aired the wrong episode. that "peviously on" tag had a LOT of stuff that wasn't in 3.1.

glad Opie made it clear that they WEREN'T making fun of Andy Griffith.

"in prison you gotta lie there and take it. here, I have to lie there and give it."

loved the chicken impersonations.

 

Was Harry the TV? I did not recognize him.

When Todias says "You might say I'm a little buy-curious" made me spit my drink out!

 

How about Buster having to put his rubber hand through another (and stronger) cycle in the dishwasher?

BWAAAHAHAAA!

 

I caught that one. I was in stitches, to coin a phrase.

 

"that's a girl's wig" - "they said it was a Bob"

 

Favorite quotes:

"More touching!"

"The Volvo didn’t have satellite radio, which is crazy. I mean, what are we, Amish?"

"Boy, that’s an awful lot of money for the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard."

“Ms. Poppuns is an original creation of Wee Britain and is in no way meant to invoke the character of the popular novel, musical or stage show ‘Mary Poppins’. Our Ms. Poppuns has neither the trade-markable qualities of being a nanny nor the power of flight, but instead is a cleaning woman who transports herself with the aid of a guide wire and a sturdy cane as she fights the likes of Jack the Ripper every weekday at quarter past and half after every odd Greenwich mean hour.”

 

Also:

"Oh, I can just taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth."

 

I thought that was the only bad episode of Arrested Development so far. What the heck was all that Wee Britain stuff? And Charlize Theron couldn't have been less funny or interesting (not to mention how terrible her accent was, although this may turn out to be part of the plot).

 

I'll explain the joke:

In many parts of the country they have Vietnamese areas in town they call Little Saigon.

Britts sometimes use different words than Yanks do. One such word is Wee. Wee means little.

So instead of Little Britain they called it Wee Britain. Wee Britain instead of Great Brittan.

Obviously no are of any town would be called Wee Brittan. It's ridiculous. It's funny because it's a conceit.

 

I don't need the word "wee" explained, thanks. I just thought the whole sequence was idiotic -- Americans just shouldn't embarrass themselves by trying to make fun of the British. It was way too broad for AD -- it was like Mike Myers wrote it. The rest of the episode was ok though.

 

I may be missing the point, but I saw a Canadian and a South African making fun of the British. And isn't embarrassment one of the main ingredients of the show?

 

I watched episode #2 last night. Even though i read all the postings about this week's episode, i still laughed myself silly...and then watched it again.

Tobias has to be the strangest character i have ever seen. The housekeeper's reaction to his hair transplant was priceless.

 

Did I also mention that "Wee" is the Euro version of the America "Pee"?

 

That was absolutely hysterical.

'Tobias just analrupped me'. (spelling changed for obvious reasons)

 

"hey! that's the name of the show!"

wee br**ain!

roofies, roofies and more roofies!


how is this not the most popular sitcom since 'Friends'? if (when?) this gets cancelled, I'm a-gonna be cranky.

 

"It’s a mainstay of the magician’s toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether."

"I won’t forget this... Dad."
"I will...I will."

Nice to see Marta again (version 3.0).

One more episode before MLB pre-empts the show, right? At least we'll have the 2nd season DVDs by then.