forget modern nature--this is how it's meant to be

synecdoche:

alexandra-ewing:

sydneyesque / thesounknown / annahinks / dashedlines / Chris Piascik
Arrested Development got canceled because there were approximately nine of us who watched it while it was on the air, and that wasn’t enough to get it renewed. We were very vocal supporters, and told all of our friends there was a reason it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy, and we definitely had water-cooler talk every Monday morning trading favorite quips and figuring out that George Sr. built houses in Iraq, and all of our friends looked on, uninterested. And then it was canceled and we were bitter, angry, unhappy, watching those last four episodes that aired in a two-hour block against the Olympic opening ceremony on a Friday night in February.
And then a few years later your friends started bringing up in random conversations that they were starting to watch it, and they said things like “Yeah, it’s really funny” and you wanted to stab them because you had been saying that for at least four years, and you started to notice when you went to someone’s house they had the DVDs out on a bookshelf or the show listed in their favorites on Facebook and they started being like “This show is so funny! I can’t believe it got canceled!” and you thought
FUCK YOU.

SPOT ON, ALEX.
The night those last four episodes aired were such a bittersweet moment in my life. I mean, they were amazing and completely awesome but I felt like a little bit of me (and you, and Rekha) died that night.

alexandra-ewing:

sydneyesque / thesounknown / annahinks / dashedlines / Chris Piascik

Arrested Development got canceled because there were approximately nine of us who watched it while it was on the air, and that wasn’t enough to get it renewed. We were very vocal supporters, and told all of our friends there was a reason it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy, and we definitely had water-cooler talk every Monday morning trading favorite quips and figuring out that George Sr. built houses in Iraq, and all of our friends looked on, uninterested. And then it was canceled and we were bitter, angry, unhappy, watching those last four episodes that aired in a two-hour block against the Olympic opening ceremony on a Friday night in February.

And then a few years later your friends started bringing up in random conversations that they were starting to watch it, and they said things like “Yeah, it’s really funny” and you wanted to stab them because you had been saying that for at least four years, and you started to notice when you went to someone’s house they had the DVDs out on a bookshelf or the show listed in their favorites on Facebook and they started being like “This show is so funny! I can’t believe it got canceled!” and you thought

FUCK YOU.

SPOT ON, ALEX.

The night those last four episodes aired were such a bittersweet moment in my life. I mean, they were amazing and completely awesome but I felt like a little bit of me (and you, and Rekha) died that night.

ohlivyuhuxtable:

“I had a great idea for a while just to really annoy the fans, which was that I was going to, like, let people know that we were in production and then … come out with an old-fashioned variety show where it’s like a Christmas special and it’s the Bluths and they’re singing, they’re wearing matching sweaters. Then you would cut away; then it would be like maybe like a sketch that was like Maeby and George Michael and he’s fishing and she works at a diner, and then back to another song (he laughs); really be just like, ‘This is a HUGE disappointment’.”

-Mitch Hurwitz, re: the Arrested Development movie. via

I kind of wish this WAS going to be the movie… I’m laughing! (go fish, uno)

ohlivyuhuxtable:

Michael: Where is GOB?
George Sr.: Oh, who knows? I don’t even know where he lives.
Buster: He doesn’t live at Michael’s?
Tobias: I’ve always pictured him in a lighthouse…

circlegame:

Arrested Development - Development Arrested

sydneyesque:

Sitwell: The only thing I ask is, out of the 450 homes we build, one be given to a disadvantaged family from the inner city.

Gob: That’s great. So the other 449 families live in fear? Is that what we’re saying?

ohlivyuhuxtable:

(via sydneyesque)

In a series of escalating dares…

ohlivyuhuxtable:scanz:lonelytourist:

Store Clerk: Are you going to actually buy something this time, or are you just curious?
Tobias: Well, let’s just say that I’m buy-curious.

sydneyesque:ohlivyuhuxtable:

G.O.B.: Well, what are you doing? Maybe you want to go out, or…

Lucille: Why are you trying to get me out of the house?

G.O.B.: I just thought we could hang out.

(door squeaking shut: reeeeee)

Narrator: Lucille was suspicious that G.O.B. was up to some sort of power grab.