#38 Arrested Development
January 29, 2008 by clander
Eventhough most white people prefer to say that they don’t watch television, one thing they agree on is that Arrested Development was the best show on TV. They love it so much!
The love it for a number of reasons. Firstly, since the show was cancelled before it jumped the shark, it’s effectively like a rocker that dies at 27. Also, the show got terrible ratings, meaning that it wasn’t ‘mainstream,’ which makes white people love it unilaterally. Other examples of shows like this are Twin Peaks and The Ben Stiller Show.
They also love it because there are a few references to white popular culture, and if there is one thing that white people love, it’s cultural references that they understand (see Garden State, The Onion, and Juno for examples).
If you are ever a white person’s house, and you see an orange box in their DVD collection, you should say “oh, you have Arrested Development, I love that show!” To which you will be offered a glass of wine, and perhaps an invitation to 80s night.
Also of note: the hip hop group Arrested Development is also loved by white people.
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Arrested Development is a fucking great show! Fuck is wrong with this dude?
I saw Maeby on an episode of The League. She played a court sketch artist. She calls Ruxin “a dick.”
^White Steve
It got cancelled because timeslot is everything in tv, which AD had none. It doesn’t help a series when you put the premiere against the fucking superbowl.
Come on… You could put ‘always sunny’ on this list but AD is universally, cross culturally one of the best comedy series ever.
It’s like the mother of witty comedy. It should be on a list ‘stuff everybody in the world likes’.
If i were a dictator in charge of a country, i’d force everybody to watch it. There’d be guards monitoring them to make sure they payed attention to every single line and facial expression, and penalties (public whippings) for not catching the joke.
That’s how much i believe everybody in the world loves/should love/will love AD.
all ma relativiz bin arrested.
wat a revoltin development dat turned out to bee.
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Maeby was in Whip it with Ellen Page from Juno, Jimmy Fallon, Eve, and Drew Barrymore
I think the hipster liberal upper class white people you are talking about like the show because it wasn’t mass popular and because its humor actually takes some work to get and a lot of people missed it. I am sure I missed a lot of jokes in there myself. But its a good show. Who woulda thought someone could make a tender love story about incest that people would like and find cute. It at least launched Michael Ceras career, into some movies white people probably don’t like Superbad and one white people love Juno(terrible movie). I don’t know what happened to the acter who played Maeby, she is a great actor too
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