Hey, have you finished off the new season of Arrested Development yet? Ready to now watch them again, with the sequences re-ordered to probably mess up most of the joke set-ups and payoffs? Well, you're in luck, because someone has already edited them together into new episodes that play out chronologically--jumping between ordered storylines like how the first three seasons played out, but with more frequent ostrich references. Should this experiment/compulsion interest you, you can download the new cuts from links here (via).
The fourth season of Arrested Development arrives on Sunday! So close! Don't spoil it now! Or, like usual, be a weak-willed chump and watch these five very brief clips, rationalizing it to yourself by thinking, "Well, if this were on network TV, I would have probably seen some clips in ads, anyway. And besides, it's meant to be watched multiple times, so I'm just getting a head start." I regret nothing.
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As surely as cash remains in the fruit kiosk, so too does each day bring a new reason to bring up how Arrested Development is coming back in like a week-and-a-half now. Today's first item comes straight from The Creator himself, Mitch Hurwitz yesterday tweeting that he's at last finished the fourth season's final mix, comforting us that there will indeed be gifts under the tree come Christmas morn. More importantly, though, he offered a tip for your viewing party/day of sitting on the couch solitary and unbathed.
Remember how Hurwitz planned to make it so the new episodes could be watched in any order? Well, that did not work out so well. "Turns out I was not successful in creating a form where the setup follows the punch line," Hurwitz explained. Maybe he can figure it out for the movie, and finally give us the Pulp Fiction of canceled television show films.
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Only 11 more days until Arrested Development's fourth season, and here are the new, amazingly-elaborate excuses Netflix has made for us to bring that up today.
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The Bluths are all back, and it looks like they've got new model homes, new attention-grabbing vehicles, and new methods of comedically scalding one's hand. Sorry, Cornballer, but you and Steve Holt might not have made the cut.
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The new season of Arrested Development is almost here, but Netflix is still unrelenting in their campaign to prove that, come on, Fox, you could have done a little better job promoting this thing. Their latest move: a Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand tour, beginning today with the stand's appearance in London before it heads to the U.S.--presumably to our "Wee Britain" districts--in two weeks time. Those who want to see it in person can follow the trail of banana peels spilling behind Mr. Banangrabber. Or, just follow @ArrestedDev on Twitter, and apparently they'll tell you where exactly they'll be. With any luck, this will go better than when someone tried the same stunt with Eddie Murphy's engorged head.
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There's only one month until Arrested Development's new season, and Netflix is not about to let you forget that. This week's reminder: some new, slightly less in-jokey character posters and the first clip of the Bluths in action--an outtake showing that Buster is still in disturbing relationship with at least one Lucille. Watch the video at EntertainmentWeekly, and see the posters below. Maybe you can figure out a way to shoehorn a "blue myself" reference into this.
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Continuing down the marketing path of referencing to the choir, Netflix has released some new, in-jokey Arrested Development posters to go along with similar fan-focused efforts like putting the series' fake shows up for streaming, "bluing" itself, replacing ratings stars with bananas, and funding an entire season of a decade-old show canceled for lack of interest. Have a look below. If hook-hands, juice boxes, and pharmaceutical bottles winkingly suggesting alcohol do not make sense to you, you've got just over a month to do your re-watching homework.
(Now updated with several more posters.)
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Arrested Development on Netflix. May 26. A Sunday. Honor it like the religion we've sadly made it.
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Some disappointing news today, as it's been revealed that the Hollywood studio system continues to be guided by profits and schedules, not your ability to quote three seasons of a TV show. As such, it looks like it might be a while before you see any more of The Simpsons or Arrested Development in theaters.
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If you've been wondering if Ben Stiller might return to Arrested Development as one of the show's many cameos: yes, he will appear. Likely in front of a dumbwaiter.
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Hey, would you like the big, upcoming Arrested Development reunion to also be a smaller-scale Paul reunion? Well, either way, it's going to be that.
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Netflix has added another little easter egg in its continued, bizarrely-subtle teasing of the new season of Arrested Development. Following up on the addition of many of the series' fake titles to their streaming library, now they've made it so that whenever you search for something with "blue" in the title, the results come with the edge of the screen smeared in blue. Clicking the streaks confirms they're a fun in-joke for fans of the show, and a cruel mockery to fans of 1999's Blue Streak, who were hoping this was announcing the long-awaited arrival of the buddy movie that proved Martin Lawrence-Luke Wilson an irresistible comic duo. Test it out today at your local Netflick.
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The carefree days of en masse chicken dances are, for now, behind us.
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To the delight of Arrested Development fans and the inevitable disappointment of perverts looking for video of boy-fights, Netflix has now added episodes of AD's meta shows--including Boyfights, Mock Court with J. Reinhold, and the inimitable Wrench--to their streaming service. As these are not actual shows, clicking for video merely takes you to a relevant clip from Arrested Development, but Netflix did go through the trouble of making cover art and full write-ups for them all, presumably so that bloggers would for the nth time remind everyone how the cult comedy is getting new episodes this spring. You win, Netflix.
Nonetheless, it's a pretty clever, subtle promotional effort, and worth taking a look at. To save you the trouble of searching for them all, I've collected the full lot of covers and summaries below. The lack of Homeless Dad and Love Indubitably is an oversight we'll sadly have to live with.
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If Arrested Development glassware and Lego dioramas weren't nerdy enough for you, the discriminating Arrested Development nerd, why not give these a shot: Arrested Development Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges, featuring in-jokey titles like Mr. Bananagrabber, Stair Kart, D℞. Fünke's, and Chicken Dance Revolution. Buy all six individually or grouped at a discount at 72pins. Caution: game on label is not actual game on cartridge, as Steve Holt does not yet have his own shouted video game series. Power Hook sold separately.
Carts for Shaun of the Dead, Game of Thrones, and other nerdy things also available and pictured below.
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A photo of Jason Bateman standing around the Conan backstage? Yes, it is basically just that, but according to Conan O'Brien, it's apparently also the first official photo to emerge from the new season of Arrested Development, so take it in slowly. The re-appearance of Andy Richter (and presumably his fake brothers) has already been confirmed, as has the addition of Conan as himself, so this really doesn't give us any big clues about the new season. But still: it's a look at new Arrested Development, right? We are going to Netflick this so hard.
The amateur, talking-heads Arrested Development documentary first revealed back in 2009 still doesn't seem to have a distributor or release date, but here's a trailer labeled "last and final" so that, in the hallowed tradition of the cult series, we can pretend this must mean it's real and coming soon to delight us with Will Arnett's shouting. Watch below and, if given the opportunity, be sure to ceaselessly hassle Michael Cera about a release. He's always the one to blame.
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From EntertainmentWeekly, yet another reminder that Arrested Development is coming back next spring. Remember how that's happening?
