Last year, we released a list of "53 Arrested Development Jokes You Probably Missed," and with the long-awaited new season set to debut on Netflix this Sunday at midnight, what better time to crank out another new list of hidden jokes from the show? Arrested Development is so dense that there are enough subtle gags, callbacks, and references to fill a dozen of these lists. So, if you're cramming the show's first three seasons in before the fourth premieres this weekend, keep an eye out for these sneaky bits of comedy including Oscar Bluth's accidental prison race riot and the Iraqi version of T.G.I. Friday's.
Funded by the collective prayers and wishes of the internet hive mind, with possibly some help from dubious business practices in Iraq1, Arrested Development will be brought back from the dead next early Sunday morning on Netflix. The critical and financial success of this unprecedented experiment in TV resurrection will decide if other shows will be able to continue to tell their stories long after a broadcast or cable network had canceled it, thereby cheating death, defying nature. To save Netflix, or Amazon Instant, or any current or future video streaming service the burden of thinking too much when they decide to play God, here are 12 comedies whose [...]
It turns out that there will be an intended episode order for the new season of Arrested Development after all. Creator Mitch Hurwitz and Jason Bateman previously said that the 15 new episodes that make up Season 4 have no intended order because they each follow different characters simultaneously, but after finishing the final mix on the episodes, Hurwitz tweeted today, "Done! Just finished the final mix last night. In two weeks Arrested Development will be yours to do with as you please. Except for 1 thing! You gotta watch them in order. Turns out I was not successful in creating a form where the setup follows the [...]
Netflix just released this trailer for the upcoming fourth season of Arrested Development last night. 15 brand new episodes are coming your way a mere 13 days from now at midnight, Pacific Time, on May 26th. I have a feeling the next 13 days of your life will consist of watching this trailer a lot of times.
Netflix is continuing to make cool stuff to promote the new season of Arrested Development launching on May 26th (which is only 30 days away now). They just released a batch of nine character posters – all of which you can check out below – which should make you reminisce about the original show fondly. If you're looking for more cool stuff to fill your Arrested Development hole until that trailer drops (where is it already?), then check out the previous batch of character posters or the manyNetflixeaster eggs.
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz warned fans against consuming the entire new season of the show in one big gulp this morning an interview with Vulture. Despite the fact that Netflix is releasing all 15 episodes at the same time (this Sunday at midnight) and that many fans are planning on binge-watching, Hurwitz warns, "You can't take it all in at once." He added:
"The whole show is like the selective-attention test. No one sees the gorilla! I’ll give you an example: When I was at the last sound mix with our editors and there was one of our bigger sight gags in the background of one of [...]
Last week, Netflix put out a new website called InsertMeAnywhere.biz, in which Arrested Development's Tobias Fünke played around in front of a green screen in various costumes, hoping that fans would use the footage to edit him into a lot of classic movies and shows. Well, it's been a week and the internet responded. Above is one of the best ones from the staff at video game company Capcom, who edited Tobias into a bunch of Capcom games, but needless to say, there are a ton more of these videos. Check out the best ones below, including Tobias in The Matrix, Breaking Bad, and, of course, Brokeback Mountain.
Today, Netflix launched a fun new website to promote the new season of Arrested Development, which is set to debut on the streaming service May 26th. Located at InsertMeAnywhere.Biz, it's a faux-website for David Cross's Tobias Fünke where he's uploaded his acting reel on a green screen background for director James Cameron. It's new footage of Fünke auditioning, in costume, for roles like "Motorcycle Ruffian," "Cowpoke," and "Action Hero" for Cameron to add him via green screen into his movies or for Arrested Development fans to green screen him into various films, which is what I'm assuming 90% of web videos will be from now on. Get ready for edited [...]
Over five years ago, Arrested Development fans Jeff Smith and Neil Lieberman set out to make a documentary about Arrested Development, and you'll finally be able to watch it tomorrow. Titled The Arrested Development Documentary Project, the film consists of exclusive interviews with the cast and crew of the cult favorite sitcom. It also has interviews with the show's fans for some reason. Digital distributor FilmBuff announced today that they'll be releasing the movie tomorrow on all of the big On Demand platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and XBOX. The release of Arrested Development's new Netflix season (May 26th) is still 24 days away, [...]
The main thing making the month-and-a-half wait for Arrested Development's new season easier is that fans on the internet and Netflix itself are making a bunch of cool stuff related to the show. Earlier this week, Netflix released nine cool character posters to promote the new season, and now, an artist at Colossus of Clout Design Company has made a fake vintage album covers for each of the show's major characters, complete with in-joke-laden titles and albums.
Hit the jump to check out all nine of the album covers, which won't be enough to hold you over until Arrested Development's return on May 26th, but they [...]
It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of the comedy world. There are a raft of comedy documentaries exploring comedy and comedians, but do they really have anything significant to add to the discussion? This series looks at comedy documentaries and whether they’re interesting, insightful, and possibly even…funny?
Right now would seem like an ideal time to release The Arrested Development Documentary Project. In the midst of an almost dizzying amount of excitement about the fourth season of Arrested Development, premiering May 26 on Netflix, the show has gotten more press and [...]
Netflix puts out this video today of Arrested Development cast member Alia Shawkat revealing the plot to a new episode of the show. Too bad they had to censor out most of it. At least you can just mad libs your own Arrested Development episode off of this clip if you're really desperate.
Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and brought a new clip from Arrested Development's upcoming Netflix season with her, which features her, David Cross, and guest star Ed Helms, who was previously unannounced. Helms is reprising his role as real estate agent James "I Don't Sell" Carr(s), a character in the show's Season 2 premiere before he was all famous and stuff.
Yahoo! announced today that they've obtained rights to the Saturday Night Live archive from 1975 to 2013 and they'll begin streaming sketches from the show's 38-year history in September. All the content currently on Hulu and Netflix, including Netflix's streaming of every episode, will still be available come September under the Yahoo! deal. This is part of a big comedy push Yahoo! is making that also includes offering the excellent original web series Burning Love and First Dates with Toby Harris. Here's the SNL content Yahoo! says they'll be offering:
● A library of show clips from the 1975/76 – 2012/13 seasons ● Select SNL musical performances ● Making-of and behind-the-scenes clips [...]
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