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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love the website but also love Arrested development….how do reconcile the two??
You wrote: “jumped the shark”.
Only a media dweeb would reference that saying-slash-phenomenon.
Fortunately sharks will also not be bread out of existence… unlike white people and their conservative leaning subset.
I am not white…but I think Arrested Development was the best show ever on television followed closely by Twin Peaks and All in the Family…I feel confused…
my confused peoples, you don’t have to actually follow everything written on this site like it’s scripture. it’s ok to disagree. in any case, we all know that WIRE is the best show on television.
I thought that was a ghetto band in the 80’s, not a TV show. TV is evil, a tool of White Oppression. Don’t watch it!
(Whether your blog is “real” , or self-hating, or an attempt at self-mockery, whatever).. Anyway, I’m with anonymous, I loved Twin Peaks, except people actually started calling me that when it came out (for a couple obvious reasons, haha)..
The fact that it’s very good and funny can’t be a reason (white) people like it, right?
I’m white and I hated Arrested Development so much, it provoked an immune response in me. Hated it. H-A-T-E-D it. I tried so hard to like it, but the show was so damn twee and self-aware, I had to bail. There is no doubt in my mind why it got low ratings and ended up cancelled. The show suuuuuucked.
“I thought that was a ghetto band in the 80’s, not a TV show. TV is evil, a tool of White Oppression. Don’t watch it!”
Young white people absolutely LOVE to mention the fact that they don’t watch tv. If you mention you do, they’ll mention how they would rather read instead. If you run into the ultimate white person who says that they don’t even own a tv, the best course of action is to find the nearest exit and leave asap.
Sincerely,
The Duke of White People
i’m white and this site is awesome. super hilarious and i’m guilty of most of it!
you should write about how white people love to argue on the internet over nothing…or maybe you already have!
that’s some weak hate.
Nice.. I finally figured out why I love Arrested Development. I’m white!!!
I thought it had to do with Arrested Development being one of the most cleverly written TV shows ever.
But, I guess it’s only cause I’m white.
YAY me.
Great website, terrible post. Everyone knows white people like Flight of the Condors, while only geeks–like this Mexican one–like Arrested.
Arrested development was a witty show with some serious acting talent. But I suspect the reason affluent white people like it is well, it’s about affluent white people… a no brainer there.
I could write about how black people love Moisha … That’s about how interesting it is to point out the obvious.
three words… best show ever
I thought this blog post was about the hip-hop group Arrested Development at first. lol They love that group! I went to a FREE (something black people love!), outdoors(!) Arrested Development concert in San Francisco in the early 00’s. 98% white people.
and another thing is, where’s the “goth” stuff here and LOTR? that stuff is like totally White. Oh, and Ren faires and SCA.
Whilst reading these ‘White People’ blogs I found myself nodding at my monitor like a little plastic dog saying ‘yes’ repeatedly. When I saw Arrested Development at #38 I’ve very nearly had puppies.
It feels wonderful to be finally confirmed as ‘White’ it’s a truely liberating experience.
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
you are forgetting that 70’s show!
i rented it once to see what the hub-bub wuz all about.
i could not stop puking.
and anybody that would go for something called ’80s night’ should be rounded up and dealt with like Kerrvorcian had in mind.
I’m sorry. im liberal as the next guy but there are limits.
its for there own good.
I’m white and I’ve never seen this show. Maybe the white blogger who runs this blog has.
if there’s one thing white people love more than denouncing television, it is doing so publicly, on their myspace pages.
also, it is important to note that while the average young white person’s day is far too full of important activities to watch television, there is usually plently of available time to post a myspace bulletin whenever they do something. or, in extreme cases, think something.
What do you mean they didn’t jump the shark? There is an episode featuring Henry Winkler actually jumping a shark. This is an homage of epic proportions. Even the Malachi Crunch thinks that was a stroke of genius writing by Mitch Hurwitz & co.
I agree with just about 100% of everything listed on this site. Another one to add is “The Office.” White People LOVE “The Office.” I myself am white and when I make the huge mistake of admitting that I’m not that into the show, a circle forms around me, ready to crucify me. “What? How could you not like it? Dude, it’s the best show on TV.”
And speaking of, the use of the word “Dude” is also something that should be up here.
Funny, most white people I know hate the show because it’s “too confusing”.
I still think Arrested is one of the best TV shows to have graced the earth because of the writing style. Unfortunately it got canned for shit like Family Guy, the OC or that shortlived crappy one which I can’t remember the name to (have you wrote about those yet?)
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Never seen it.
Did anyone catch how lame # 20’s post was?
He listed wearing sombrero’s twice.
He’s canceled.
that show was crap
I am white and that is pretty much the best show ever made. Dammit!! Why do all the 27 year old rockers leave me so heartbroken?? I mourn thee..
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i just got a link to this site and was horrified to find out just how white i was…when i saw sarah silverman on here i thought…oh fuck, i really, really love her. then arrested development…i really, really, really love that show. dammit.
Why is it that whenever something white is brought up, the go-to group is black people to find something about them? Find another group.
Yeah we’re so rubbish lol.
Im not trying to come off as arrogant, but intelligence is required to appreciate the show. Arrested development is brilliant. Perfect casting, flawlessly written, and the storyline transitions better than any show I have ever watched. The running jokes through out the show’s duration are incredible, the pop culture references that tie in are absurdly hilarious. The witty one liners and the awkwardness of the humor make it hard to appreciate for most people. Basically, the show is too clever for most people in this country to enjoy. There is no laugh track telling you when you are supposed to laugh. Its not a show you could appreciate if you caught it half way through the season either. Each season is basically a movie. Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Curb You Enthusiasm (insert your favorite comedy) , cant even begin to compare to Arrested Development. The only show I consider to be on the same level is The Office.
I thought i was a full fledged sister before i signed on to this site, but the truth is, I am not. I LOVE all these things that white people like. I LOVE THEM WITH A PASSION.
White people, i am a light skinned chick with a love for starbucks, A.D, indie, juno and recycling… please draft me into your culture!
Ha! Me not so white. That show sucked.
The reason some white people like Arrested Development is probably the same reason some non-white people like it: it’s hysterical and clever and generally amazingly well-written. The common denominator between fans of the show is not race, but rather intelligence and appreciation of edgy, fast-paced jokes. It’s probably not for everybody, which is why it got cancelled. It IS the best show ever, which is why we love it.
White people tend to like programs and movies about dysfunctional families in general. For example: “Six Feet Under” and “Garden State”
Also Wes Anderson movies
well i’m Asian and I adored this series. all three seasons of it.
how does it make sense that any large group of people collectively like a show that got canceled for lack of popularity?
I think Arrested Development is a great show!
However, you made a mistake in the entry. That should have been “If you are ever IN a white person’s house…” instead of “If you are ever a white person’s house…” You missed a preposition!
Hahahaha I LOVE arrested development. I don’t fit the mold for most of the other stuff white people like (okay jr sushi snob), but I have to admit I am white and proud of my taste for AR.
The show just wouldn’t be the same with a random brotha running around the set trying to inject some “street cred” haha!
you guys are uneal
stop taking everything so seriously..plus if you’re gonna attack a SATIRICAL website ANONYMOUSLY you automatically fail
good job making a racist post!
racism == humor, when you’re a lackwit.
Fuck all NIGGERS!
stuff WHITE people like
FUCK YOU NIGGERS
niggers suck
SORRY, but i can only say that seeing this made me UPSET. as one of only a few thousand REAL arrested development fans in this world (i have seen every episode more times than i can count, and can quote it like a preacher quotes a bible, and most importantly, i am a member of THE-OP.COM the arrested development fan forum, the only forum we really have)
anyway, it upsets me to see this, because if white people actually DID like this show, it would be on the air for more seasons, the likes of a show like “24” which white people are scared to admit they love.
it bothers me to see this, because its actually loved by about 10% of white people, if that… and true fans just get upset knowing that the white people who claim to like the show, dont even understand half of its jokes, but say they love it because they are told that its “Smart”
The Onion, while certainly pretty white, has the noted advantage over this blog that it’s funny properly punctuated.
Er, funny and properly punctuated.
Plus, it’s not one of those shows that “the wrong white people” like, like Two and a Half Men or Family Guy.
Of all the supposed AD fans, no one pointed out to #4 that “jumped the shark” was a joke in AD. The shark-jumping was done by no less than Henry Winkler, the original shark-jumper.
The phrase is entirely appropriate.
Racism is bad. Except when it is against the white man. Then it is hilarious!
Also:
“If you are ever a white person’s house[…]”
Learn fucking grammar.
White people REALLY like beginning sentences with “Firstly,”. Firstly?!?! My God.
AD was cancelled because not enough white people watched it.
No search results for Curb your Enthusiasm or Larry David on this site. (i think comments dont get searched). I know its not current to 2008, yet a post on that shiite would be awe inspiring. Check out CYE “Ruckus with the ladies” bit from the season on that video clips website.
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Its fine to make fun of white ppl… i can laugh at myself and the whiter guy next to me (better yet the white guy who cant accept he’s white). but “minorities” need to be able to laugh at themselves too… either way you can call it “racist humor” and some can get all up-itty and shit but who cares, why do you have to be a racist if you make a joke about a person of a different heritage, we all have funny and stupid querks, learn to laugh at yourself and at others… as long as you dont harbor any real ill-will towards another. “Racist” jokes are often hilarious, whether they are about whites or blacks or arabs or asians or canadians (stupid canucks) or latinos or whatever… lighten the fuck up and have a laugh.
…And btw Arrested’ is the funniest show to have ever have been on tv. (< pronounced ‘period’) Its not the best show ever cuz you gotta break things into categories a bit (kinda like races and ethnicities), but it is the best\funniest comedy show ever! period.
oh and if its isnt funny to you thats cuz you dont get the jokes, and if you dont get the vast amount of jokes (or realize the vastness or the vast amount of joke) thats because you are too stupid to get the jokes.
AD is best for 20yr olds at youngest, usually, and hits best with close to thirty somethings. you have to have a bit of an IQ and you have to have been awake over the past 15 or so yrs and be aware of the last 30 or so. If you got below a 550 on your vocab section of your SATs chances are you wont like this show… but then again your opinion doesnt matter! (oh i forgot to mention in my last post that it IS okay to harbor ill-will against the stupid!) *flame on?*
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Why do you have to be smart to think that show is funny. Does it really take glaring insight to think that Tobias looks funny in blue pant and jean shorts. Or that Buster is a mommas boy, or that jobe is just a baffoon. I am sorry doesnt take much of an IQ for that. That being said I love th show. Really hasnt been anything like it. Then agian I like Survivor too. How about a new one “Saying that you need to be clever to get it just to justify watching a show that other people dont like”.
Ok so you dont have to be to bright to get those parts… but the show is literally line after line a joke after joke… ive watched it with bright ppl and they get the lines that to someone else would be just dialogus (yeah, i just made up a word. what of it?!) banter.
So i will refine my claim… if you are bright this show will likely be funnier to you than to a stupid person… ya see? that just doesnt flow as well.
freaks and geeks
THE WIRE!!! My roommates are even more white than me and The Wire is their favorite show next to…Buffy the Vampire Slayer!!!!
haha 80s night.
White people are like teenagers who never grew up and lost their self-absorption. Arrested development!
Satire at its finest. It’s crazy that some of you don’t see that, white or not.
Oh my god…this blog is so true it hurts!!! i love breakfast places….AND arrested devvelopment!!!
oh man…
true, white people like to say they never watch tv. i, on the other hand, like to basically brag about how i watch TONS of it. kinda like the college kid who brags about how many beers he bonged last night. seriously, i watch TONS of tv. probably over an hour a day…
Hey, hey, hey, Arrested Development was awesome, it was up against Monday Night Football.
Then again, I can’t complain about the blog, because since I missed Arrested Development the first time around, I caught up on it through Netflix, so I guess that’s a two-fer.
white people also love commenting on things on message boards, because otherwise they don’t really have an opinion
SO TRUE! Spot on.
Haha I had never heard of Arrested Development until Netflix had recommended it for me! It’s now in my favorites on my facebook profile (another thing that white people love) and I know I am in for a treat whenever I see that Jason Bateman or Micheal Cera is in a movie!
they did actually jump the shark…in one particular episode, henry winkler, leaps over the dead shark that has bit off the arm of the seal. A direct reference.
That’s right probably worse show ever, luckily the network knew this and cancelled it
YOU’VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE!
this is bullshit. i know lots of white people and only 2 of them don’t watch television.
and only two of them say they dont watch television
Also a class thing and regions of white peoples. Most of the white people I know have no clue what the tv show Arrested Development was. They do know the band and don’t like the band so good try with that one.
Plus, it has Michael Cera in it, and white people LOVE Michael Cera. Strangely, Im black and I appreciate Michael Cera just as much as any white person, possibly even more. Oh well.
thank goodness Arrested Development was cancelled. How else could the rest of America fully appreciate the genius of Michael Rapaport’s “The War at Home”??? I mean, christ, how do you even watch a sit-com without a laughtrack?
“I blue myself”
A.D. for life.
i’m not white, but i LOVE arrested development. but then again, i’m an “articulate & intelligent” black person. like barack obama…whom white people also like.
i miss that show. if the show being canceled didn’t give jason bateman & michael cera enough time to do hilarious movies, i would wish it was still in production.
i say in a few years, we demand it back. i miss the bluths..
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white girls love Michael Cera….
well at least i know i do.
Im white never seen the show! Friends would have been a better one, Seinfield even better(still never watched it) but the best one was M.A.S.H. that is the first big show that white people everywhere watched(never watched it)
White people like Arrested Development because of Franklin. “It ain’t easy being black… it ain’t easy being white.”. It’s the whole white people like having black friends thing.
I don’t really like most of the things on this site, but one thing I do like… no scratch that… LOVE is Arrested Development. I know it has been said before, but the show really does require you to have a functional brain. While there are many jokes that are obvious, if you watch the show multiple times, you will catch so many subtle things that makes the show above and beyond anything on television. One example of this is when Michael and Gob are talking about Gob buying a boat called the Seaward. Their mom walks in and Michael says to get rid of the Seaward, although their mom things he meant the “C word” it is an obvious joke(to most people) and is funny, but theres a subtle thing that you have to watch closely to catch, their old yacht was called Lucille (the name of their mother) and Gob sinks it in a magic “illusion” but if you pay attention later on in the series you will notice that a new yacht they had is named “The C-word” referencing how their mom is a Cunt. There are many many more subtle jokes, but that was the first one to pop into my head while I was writing this. The quality of the actors of this show are top notch too.
Obviously people know Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, and Will Arnett, but the 2 most talented actors (in my opinion, I guess it’s just because I like their other work more) are Jeffrey Tambor and David Cross. David Cross with Bob Odenkirk created one of the best sketch comedy shows of all time with Mr. Show, and Jeffrey Tambor was what is probably one of the best characters on television as Hank Kingsley in The Larry Sanders Show. Tony Hale is not as famous as the rest of the cast, but his portray of Buster is top notch. And I am not a huge fan of actresses (at least not near as much as actors) but as far as the female lineup in this show, you couldn’t get much better. Add in a very great lineup of guest stars, such as Ben Stiller, Ed Begley Jr., Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, and other recognizable faces, the acting in this show couldn’t get much better.
The incredible acting and flawlessly written script was what made this show the greatest show in TV history. Obviously I love this show too much, I watch the whole series almost once a week.
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uhh, out of all the things listed, i’m not into ANY of them…i guess i’m white, but not white. haha
#10
“Young white people absolutely LOVE to mention the fact that they don’t watch tv. If you mention you do, they’ll mention how they would rather read instead. If you run into the ultimate white person who says that they don’t even own a tv, the best course of action is to find the nearest exit and leave asap.
Sincerely,
The Duke of White People”
ha! Duke!! that’s aweomse.
I reluctantly admit that have a tv, but I quickly add that I don’t subscribe to cable. (I keep the tv on a tv dinner tray in the living room so that I can move it to the spare room easily when guests come to visit. I wouldn’t want them to think that I’ve been watching it. It certainly doesn’t have a permanent place in the living room.)
I love arrested development. I get it on CBC television at 5:30pm when I get home from work.
I adjust the picture by fiddling with the kitschy rabbit ears I have mounted on top of the television. QUIRKY and cool!
I wouldn’t be caught dead with cable.
don’t forget about freaks and geeks! all white kids love it for the same reason as A.D.
You could make a stereotypical “stuff black people like” too, only that would be “racist.” Gotta love those hypocritical double standard!
I love Arrested Development and mourned it’s early demise. It did poorly in the ratings for a couple of reasons. 1) It wasn’t marketed well. I never once saw a commercial for the show. If you watch 5 minutes of TV, you’ll probably see six commercials for Prison Break, five for American Idol, three for Medium, etc. You can’t choose not to market a show and then complain that nobody is watching it. 2) I agree with several others in that the show was too intelligent for a lot of people. That may anger some, but I’m sorry. I used to write articles for newspapers and magazines, but the editors would often dumb my stuff down. When I asked why, they said, “You have to write for an eighth grade audience. Most people don’t read so well.” That’s a sad statement about Americans. But it’s also an indication as to why there are so many stupid shows on TV. Arrested Development asked that its audience think, and I’m sorry…but some people can’t handle that. It’s not a white thing, a black thing, or any other type of thing. And while I found this site to be worth a chuckle, it only serves to promote the stereotypes that we should be past at this point.
Being really white, I do know that David Cross appeared on BOTH Arrested Development AND The Ben Stiller Show. And in my pasty household, the phrase “pooter balls are..people” is still used to this day.
to repeat others.. best show ever… pure genius. being white, i don’t watch a lot of tv (hahahahaha), but this was one was the only time i was actually sad to see a show get canceled.
i think this entire list was funny… anyone upset about it being ‘racist’ is most likely the most racist person posting. most of the list applied to classier white people than myself though.
I love G.O.B, he is my dream-man
hey, i was annoyed at this website already.
but now, you brought Twin Peaks into it.
how dare you!!… it’s a war!
I own all the DVDs for Arrested Development and The Ben Stiller Show, but I’m not a Twin Peaks fan. It was too popular…
I did not watch it in TV, because I don’t watch TV. But one of my friends, another white person, did pass it along and, by golly, it’s the best TV I’ve seen in years.
hahaha. I love arrested development. It makes me laugh because it totally shows I’m stereotypical cuz yeah….arrested development is my favourite show….and its hilarious….
If you don’t like arrested development, there is something wrong with you, white or not, that show was the best there was. Too bad it got itself canceled.
T.V. show that has taken Arrested Development’s place in the genre that is funny-shows-with-lots-of-irony-and-shitty-ratings
that white people like because it’s “alternative”: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Lol, how many times will I read “I’m white and…”
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Arrested Development was great, right up there with Curb Your Enthusiasm. 😛
God I miss AD. Best show ever on TV. Bring it back now because it has dozens of new white fans now. DOZENS!!!
Wow, this site isn’t offensive, or funny, or, well, much anything. You all know that one scene in arrested development has more comedy in it than this entire website, but hey, im just a “white guy.” at a coffee shop.
its funny because the more you try and seperate yourself from the articles in this blog the whiter you are, for trying to be alternative its like a never ending circle. got me trapped 😛 ahahaha
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned that Ron Howard narrated and produced the series as well. It just doesn’t get any whiter than that.
Everybody thinks Howard constantly wears a trucker hat because he’s balding, or he’s trying to be a “Hollywood Director” guy like Rob Reiner (also a balding guy from TV, so white ‘n liberal he was “Meathead” back in the day). But, noooo… Ron Howard’s so white that, if he DID’NT wear a hat, he’d spontaneously combust within five minutes under the hot SoCal sun.
But seriously, AD’s fabulous. (eg. aping “Girls Gone Wild” with “Girls With No Self Esteem”…fuckin’ hilarious).
none of you idiots has a sense of humor.
The O.P? Please don’t call it that.
This honkey LOVES Arrested Development!!
Best show in a long long time !!! quick, witty and, like any great artist or art, only truly appreciated after its “death.”
Just a question, where is the blog for stuff black people like? Or stuff yellow people like?
lol THis was probably one of the funniest showes ever to be honest. lol ….. …. By i know alot of Mexicans that loved it too ….. what dose it mean
This show sucks. No white person I know that has seen the show liked it. It got canceled for a reason. It sucked. End of story.
Maybe the reason White people like Arrested Development is because you have to be smart to appreciate it.
I keed, I keed.
One problem was that you couldn’t just start watching it mid season… too much going on. I only saw it a few times, but I know that if I started at the beginning, it would become a marathon!
Ha ha! The first time I saw Arrested Development was while drinking red wine at a friend’s house in San Fran after spending a few hours at an ’80s night.
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“Arrested Development” is awesome. I can’t even begin to explain how much I love that show.
Anyong.
ROFLMAO
Arrested Development is A LOT funnier than this article. It is a lot funnier because this article is shit and Arrested Development is funny.
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Arrested Development was a great show, I loved it.
It got cancelled for one reason – Fox is TERRIBLE at marketing their good shows.
Fox works on a relatively moribund corporate model (i.e., cartoons, reality TV = good). Anything else doesn’t mesh well in their corporate culture (one of my favorites, “Its Always Sunny…” got kicked down to FX for that reason).
With AD, they simply didn’t know what to do with it. First of all the ads were terrible. They told you nothing about the show, they didn’t make any coherent sense, they gave no indicator of the plot or story arc, and they made it seem really lame. On top of that, they aired the ads real late at night. Finally, they kept jumping the show’s slot, so no one could get used to where it was.
In the end Fox said “this show keeps winning awards, but it costs a fortune to shoot and the ratings are low. We don’t need a prestige piece. Cancel it, and film a season of When Dancing Celebrities Attack for $40.00.”
I must hold my tongue. This particular wordsmith has spoken so eloquently… I’m in tears. Tell it, (white) brother. I feel as if I must make that distinction, because you PC dumbfucks have your heads up your asses so far, the real world is a dim reflection off of the rim of the toilet bowl to you.
I am white. and I loved Arrested Development, the tv show. What situation comedy could be more absurd? Answer? No other! It was sublime. SUBLIME I SAY!
It was not a “ghetto” band. It was not in the 80’s, it was the early 90’s. Stuffwhitepeoplelike: commenting on blogs & “correcting” people when they have no clue as to what they are talking about. This blog is an example of that. Whitey loves it.
Did you mean “annoying”?
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I pooped my pants
I’m a die-hard fan and the whitest person I know. Good observation.
I’m white and I do loooove Arrested Development. Seriously though, great show can’t wait for the movie… IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWNNN!
The reason the show was cancelled was Fox’s terrible marketing, and the fact that all of the white people in the ‘flyover’ states just didn’t get the show.
It would be more accurate to say “Intelligent people like Arrested Development”, as there are plenty of stupid white people who didn’t enjoy the show because it was way over their heads.
Bread out of existence? Really? When you are trying to sound intelligent(conservative leaning subset!), you might want to check your spelling.
ok, i know this website is satirical and meant to be funny, but don’t you think it’s things like this that perpetuate the constant segregations made between races? really, if you must make distinctions, it would be much more accurate to do so based on class rather than race, because that’s really what this is about. it’s social conditioning, not nature. to be honest, it’s not this blog that bothers me, but it’s the comments that people leave claiming that one race is this way and another is that way. fuck off… this is 2008, shouldn’t we be getting past that bullshit by now??
OMG – I love this show and, not-surprisingly, it was cancelled. Too intelligent for most people, I think. I like the fact that they didn’t try to dumb it down or pander to the lowest common dedominator. There was no token “black” character etc… It was just funny, which I think cuts through any race issues.
I’ve seen all the episodes many times and still laugh when I watch them. Brilliant!
My dad is full Mexican and loves this show! It’s not just a white thing but I will say I have ultra white friends who just “gush” over it!
Fats…as long as you have filled out all the “white” forms in triplicate and signed by the arrows and purchased a lifetime membership to your local art museum etc; welcome to the white world!
White people love their long, complicated, useless forms.
P.S. I often bring my own plastic bags when I go shopping so as to reuse them. Then when they no longer are acceptable to hold merchandise, I recycle them.
It’s good to be white – enjoy the ride!
Do offices still have water coolers? Mine has a vending machine where I can buy water for $1.25/bottle. Or, I can use the water fountain, which is pretty much the same city water, but without the plastic taste.
Bread – that group was so awesome. That loser Bono has nothing on David Gates.
So I’ve got my head up my ass for not finding something funny have I? Hmm, interesting. Oh, and this makes me a PC dumbfuck too? That’s fantastic. I wish I could be even HALF as insightful as you. Perhaps I could start by making really humorous analogies? Something fucking hilarious to do with toilet bowls and reflection? Haha, I’m already in stitches just thinking about this.
After that I could maybe move on to pigeonholing people I don’t really know ANYTHING about, just because they have a different opinion to me. Would I then no longer be a PC dumbfuck? Cos I’d hate to think someone else could jump to that same conclusion in the future, especially another person acting like a complete dickwad like you are.
If bread was out of existence, then white people would have one more thing to complain about. I hope that never happens. Not sure what that has to do with sharks, though.
I am white and never like the show but the band was alright. That being said it shows that you can’t label particular races like that. I have a black friend who I respect but that doesn’t mean that i think he’s going to steal something when he is in my house. I don’t think that he would do that because i don’t label people by there skin. I allow the actions of an individual to take place before i consider what i think of them. I hope this helps so we can all unite rather then looking at each other as different and creating alienation amongst us all.
Bread, white…whitebread. I get it, Bob Blanche!
I’m Asian, and write bits and pieces on the ‘stuffasianpeoplelike’ site, and I adore Arrested Development as well. Pretty much the first thing I said was that I found out about the site through an AD imdb board, linked to here, then linked to the Asian equivalent to this board…
So basically, if it wasn’t for Arrested Development, I wouldn’t have found out about this site, or the site for my ‘race’ either…
Yay for Arrested Development… you blowhards!
(That doesn’t even make sense, does it?)
Thank you anonymous person for calling this stupid website out for what it is – racist! Doesn’t matter if it’s written by a white person, doesn’t matter if some white people find it amusing. Racism is racism.
Sincerely,
A white girl born and raised in the Bronx who loves Arrested Development and 80’s night (gee, I’m so lame and white…hardy har har), hates Sarah Silverman and Vegans, and REALLY hates self depricating white schmucks.
I’m white and I HATED HATED HATED this show! It wasn’t funny at all.
I’m white and I have never watched Arrested Development. It sounds like a retarted show.
I admit that I have watched alot of American Idol.
I also used to watch Dallas.
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I was looking to buy all three seasons of Arrested Development and ran into a random guy who helped me find them. He said AD is the best show ever (to which I agreed) and that there weren’t many of us fans out there. He was African American. Now i’m confused.
I liked AD. Most people think farts are funny. There weren’t any farts in AD. Therefore, most people did not think it was funny.
more me
obviously you have never seen arrested development.
Never seen it. haha. I clicked on this one just to find out what it was!
So… it’s like the white version of ‘The Chappelle Show’?
Sweet.
This was the funniest show of these the aughts. If you did not see it, or did not get it, you are dumb.
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Are you kidding me!?!?! This show was God’s gift to entertainment! The wit, foreshadowing, irony and pure creativity will forever be better than any other show. Poop on you, Mister!
This one made me laugh so hard….Guilty as charged, I do love this show and own all 3 seasons!
I never heard of it, were there gay people in it, how about hamsters? Sounds racist and republican.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
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Actually, Arrested Development went ahead and essentially “jumped the shark” in its final episodes, cause they knew they were going under.
Also, in one episode, they have Henry Winkler (Happy Days’ the Fonz) jump over a dead shark casually as it lays on a dock. When he jumped over a shark on Happy Days on water skis, this is how the phrase originated.
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Classic. So true. GOB would be all over this list.
me too
“Twee and self-aware” is probably the best descriptor I”ve heard of shows like that… the ones white hipsters watch.
I hate to be one of those white people that proofread, but, dude, you need to proofread!–
“The love it for a number of reasons.”–
“If you are ever a white person’s house…”–
–I don’t ever think I’ll be a white person’s house!
Aren’t we all white, really? You know, deep down?
I found this great new show which is very similar to Arrested Development and the Office and think it’s something you might be able to blog about, you can check it out at http://breakaleg.blip.tv/#962251
Also, inventing the internet so that losers like you can vent your spleen at us. Surreal.
Electricity
TV
Radio
Computer
Internet
etc., etc., etc.,
We benighted, “no clue as to what [we] are talking about” whites invented most of the useful things in the world in the hopes that one day, conflicted but signally ungrateful devotees of all the cool stuff we produce can read us the riot act (in this case, via one of our more spectacular and beneficial recent technical triumphs, the list of which is far too long to imagine, much less recite here) about how shitty we basically are. You’re welcome, ingrates. One way to really stick it to Whitey would be to eschew immunizations for your kids (who needs ’em, right? and the big American pharma companies are “evil” anyway, right?)
Oh boy. I’ve just lost all my “blackness” because I loved this show to bits. Bits I tell you. And how come I love so many things on this list? I know you white people love a puzzle – figure me out, haha!
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i have to admit. i love this show!!!!!!!! i especially love tobias and gob.
i guess you could say i love this show because i’m white, but i am also half-mexican so….
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Never seen it, not even a clue as to what it’s about. But if it runs against Family Guy, South Park, Robot Chicken, or any reality police show, I’m never going to see it….
In reference to “The OC.” “Don’t call it that.”
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It is fucking hilarious. Hilarious I tell you.
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guilty.
p.s. best show ever.
I don’t know… What’s whiter, Arrested Development, or Freaks and Geeks?
I’m gonna say Freaks and Geeks, but it’s close…
Wow, I feel sorry for you white people who say you hate Arrested Development. I guess you didn’t “get” it but I sure did. I put it right up there with Three’s Company as the best show ever…………….yes, I said Three’s Company. Jack Tripper, come on!
Anyway, I love this blog. Just stumbled upon it and so glad I did. I’m white and I don’t see how it’s racist at all. Lighten up people; smoke a big fatty.
im black & i own all 3 seasons of arrested development….i also watch friends,seinfeld,everybody loves raymond,that`s 70`s show,malcolm in the middle etc etc…..humor is subjective but one cant deny the kind of humor that radiates from AD. what confuses me is those who didnt find it funny but kept watching…..im pretty sure if a bitch was giving u head & kept scraping your dick with her teeth u wouldnt let her suck u off anymore……correct?
im black….fuck moesha. matter of fact….fuck all black casted tv shows after martin was cancelled. they spend way too much time “keepin it real” instead of keepin it funny.
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I just bumped all the Freaks & Geeks DVDs to the top of my netflix queue.
Ok. Confession time. I don’t own a TV.
damn, I thought you meant the band!
You should note that white people also love claiming that they “discovered” Arrested Development. I know I do, but that’s only because I did.
“Also, the show got terrible ratings, meaning that it wasn’t ‘mainstream,’ which makes white people love it unilaterally. ”
Huh? That doesn’t even make sense.
People didn’t watch the show, so white people all love it? Think about the logic here, buddy.
makes sense to me–white people love being different and shying away from big things (big corporations, paying for music, eating meat). It just seems natural that white people would like something that nobody’s heard of–it allows us to quietly rebuke the other person for being mainstream and for liking “Windows” over the Macbook and for living an uncultured, wasted life of meaninglessness and banality. (with references to the articles on St. Patricks day, Apple Products, &)
Once again, I will say it:
THIS IS THE BEST WEBSITE IN THE HISTORY OF WEBSITES.
I saw your diary underneath a tree… FAGS!! But still good!
I rebted the first 1/2 season from Netflix. (Do white people like netflix??:0 ) It was very funny,but the charcters were so sick and ugly it got hard to take. Sadly,the storyline about the horny teen becoming sexually obsessed with his very jewey looking cousin got me a little turned on… She was cute,dammit,semitic features or not!
Arrested Development is the greatest show in the history of network television. And this is the greatest website in the history of… the internet?
this is so true.
my white friends LOVE that show and own all the dvds.
I wonder, if you don’t like tv and think paying for cable is wrong because it supports the corrupt media don’t you see the irony of spending all that money on the dvds and watching the show so much that you all know it by heart?
oh, here’s another thing white people like:
AWKWARD SILENCE!
LOL!
OH MY GOD, YOU GOT OWNED!!! OH FUCK!
I’m sad more savants don’t troll the internetz, pointing out logical fallicies.
If ‘Arrested Development’ is on this list then ‘Freaks and Geeks’ should be up there too!
Thats the point…no one watched it but alot of white people will say they love it…because there was so much controversy and they heard about it through word of mouth. Most white peopl who say they loved it probably never saw it but its cool to like it now because of the resons why it was cancelled. They (we) don’t care about the show, we care about looking intelligent and like we’re edgy, non-conformists while we drink our Starbucks, wear crocs(horrible) and post on internet blogs.
fallacies.
*Another thing white people like: correcting other people’s grammar/spelling.
**Another thing everyone likes: hating those people, but only when we ourselves are corrected.
fallacies.
*Another thing white people like: correcting other people’s grammar/spelling.
**Another thing everyone likes: hating those people, but only when we ourselves are corrected.
What’s a whiter show, The Office or 30 Rock?
Scrubs is probably whiter than both in its sensibilities.
>oh, here’s another thing white people like:
>AWKWARD SILENCE!
just because we’re good at it, that doesn’t mean we like it.
White people love being different? White people know that Thoreau was right when he said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Seeking like minded company, and sitting in judgement of other white people, goes a long way to anesthetize feelings of isolation. This behavior isn’t exclusive to white Americans, or white people.
White Americans are in a unique position to be the ultra-consumer. Most Europeans have to make hard decisions on money spending. Few have the diggs, the car, the electronics, and the Cafe lifestyle. With a few credit cards, most in the US can have a little of everything.
The rest of the world get to sit around and watch white people “jump over the moon.”
Ain’t life grand?
Ah, if only more white people love Arrested Development perhaps it would still be on the air. Seriously, Arrested Development is one of the best sitcoms of all-time. Probably right up there with SportsNight (you really have to be very white to remember and like that one), Scrubs, Seinfeld, Frasier and Family Ties. That’s some great white TV.
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AD is a cleverly crafted show and the demographics of those who love this show – educated, intelligent people. Are you saying only white people are educated & intelligent? Hmmmm…
i can’t believe this racist crap. its still discrimination dickheads
No, it’s humor, you idiot. This website is very, very true to white people. (Yes, I am white.) Anyway, the stereotypes associated with white people are 50 times better than those associated with blacks and other races. I’d rather be called a snobby egomaniac than an uneducated criminal, wouldn’t you?
I’m sure it’s hard being a white male, but get over yourself.
This stuff is so hilarious. I cant believe people are so dramatic that they take it seriously enough to think its offensive. Its amazing. And so true. Arrested Development is the best show ever, complete with wit, humor, and plentiful white people cultural references haha
An Yang.
“Say goodbye…to THESE”
And i have to say, the more you watch every episode the more you love it and the harder you will laugh the next time you rewatch the very same episode.
I even think non-white people like this show. I would recommend it to anyone. I hope they really do make a movie bc if i can see a chicken dance or a lucille bluth wink just one more time in a new context i will have a better life.
And thats why you never……..take humor and yourself too seriously.
Arrested Development is the shit.
The chicken dances are the best! Damn it feels good to be a white guy!
LOL, I am often surprised by just how accurately this site describes me, although I do deviate on occasion (the “don’t get too into anime” thing… I’m a huge anime geek… also I can’t STAND “natural medicine” or any of that new all BS)… so hilariously true in an ironic way. And yes… Arrested Development WAS the best thing on American TV during its run. XD
New all = new age
Heh.
Tobias, you blow hard!
Best shows ripping into white people:
Peep Show
Nathan Barley.
For British Eyes Only!
I was actually driving down the street today when a truck had something that looked like stairs on the back of it…… ahhh I about died.
My favorite charater of that show would have to be Buster. ESPECIALLY when he gets his hand eaten by a seal!
I’m white, I own it on dvd yes, but I pay for cable too… There are alot of things you can get on dvd you cant get on tv like no commercials! I will pay for that. I also have dexter, and dead like me on dvd, does that make me ironic as well? I don’t think so. I just want to be able to have these shows when they go off the air.
I agree….why get “Offended”. Snob…vs Criminal…Which sounds better. Glad ya put it that way.
Arrested Development rocks….
and whoever commented that was true. I guess the more I read this, the more I have to think it’s not so bad having stereotypes like this. It beats “all white people like American Idol” or some stupid shit that shouldn’t even be on the air.
I hate how true this is!
… I just blue myself. 😛
Never saw an entire episode of this show.
I have seen a few previews and couldn’t stand it at all.
-Thomas (an iPod-less, snowboard-less, white guy who doesn’t like the TV Show or the band by this name)
80s night– I can’t even describe how pervasive this now is.
-Thomas (determined to contradict every entry)
THANK YOU!
Best show of all time!
We also like to say that we have known Michael Cera since his Arrested Development days, before Superbad and Juno. I myself have been known to say “I’ve loved Michael Cera since AD in 03, bitch!” Combining both my love for Arrested Development and self-aware hip hop references.
no fair! I love this show..my white boyfriend..couldn’t care less
I remember Jason Bateman from his Silver spoon days..punkass! In case the bitch comment was directed at me. I loved this show, and I hear they are talking about making a movie.
My man is white, and he really couldn’t care less about this show..so its a surprise it is on this list.
My white-ass ex made me watch that. But he was also VERY Jewish. Is that to say it’s a white thang too, or, is it really just a yuppy-Jew thang?
Given the popularity of “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days” among white people, might it be true that Ron Howard’s presence on this show (as the narrator) is solely responsible for its success?
Also, if it is not already, the “I knew about it before you and now don’t like it any more because you know about it” condescension mentioned by Meekers should be listed as something white people like.
that show was pretty boring for me
i am a victim of this show. my best friend bought me the entire series for christmas. i love it…..and i’m not white. does this make me an oreo?
Um, this is kind of fun, but…
I checked the List carefully and couldn’t find any of the following items. Without these addenda, the list looks suspicously like “Stuff White Liberals Like That Make White Conservatives Feel Uncool.”
Here’s “Stuff the Other Half of White America Likes”:
1. Camo.
2. Furtively giving the IHOP a quick “demographic scan” before telling that joke.
3. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks.
4. A left-turn light in front of the SuperCentre.
5. Bumper stickers
…(oh, that’s already on the list, but the entry doesn’t include “Poor = Lazy” or “Drill Here, Drill Now” or “America Bless God”)
6. 50-mile commutes
7. Home-schooling in a good school district.
8. Israel (but not the actual Jews there!)
9. Hot sauce collections
10. Stockpiling canned food, in case the pre-millinnealists are right, not the post-millinnealists….wait, let me go check my Hal Lindsey library.
11. Pregnant white teenagers (not the other kind of pregnant teenager)
12. African immigrants (if they follow the right religion) as examples of industriousness and modesty.
13. Federal funding—from another region’s tax base.
14. Shopping centers that are less than 3 years old.
15. One-piece underwear (in Utah, mostly)
16. Gear that requires custom trailers
17. Trampolines
18. Race (not that kind, I’m talking about the Kentucky Derby, Daytona 500, etc)
19. Rude staring.
20. Pronouncing “One nation under God” as “One nationunder God”
21. Hockey
22. Softball
23. The Celtics (the team and borrowed Scottish pride)
24. Cherry-picking MLK quotes about hard work
Witty
I thought the show was tremendously over-rated. I only watched the episodes featuring the beautiful – and much under-rated Chilean actress Leonor Varela.
There’s always the exception that proves the rule, Kruggle…
never has a better cancelled show existed.
fucking hilarious. most clever show ever. can’t wait for the movie.
UHHH Arrested Development totally jumped the shark, it’s in one of the episodes!
I never watched this show. Had no interest in it.
Arrested Development Best Show Everrr!!
So Funny
Hopefully They’re Going To Make The Arrested Development Film xD
Best show ever. Period.
i love the glaucoma episode – the one with the hooker, the baseball game and getting high with dad. actually, i just love ALL of them. pure genius!
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that is curb your enthusiasm…not arrested development. but both are GREAT shows
Arrested Development was just an updated 70s comedy show called SOAP that ran on ABC i believe……Nothing new….but i will say that both shows were funny…..oh, Billy Crystal got his start on SOAP….
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This was the best show ever to be on television. I”m not just saying this because I’m white.
actually, arrested development was loved by critics
just check out imdb
Loved by white critics you dumbass hahahaha
then why was it canceled…
Yeah I liked it. BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY. Why am I being persecuted for my likes and dislikes.
how are you being persecuted?
are you serious? white people have been doing the very same thing to black people in regards to fried chicken and kool-aid for a long time.
suck it up and get over it. you’ll be alright
hahahaha
Kool-aid? What the fuck are you talking about? How is it that you get made fun of for drinking kool-aid, and since when do just black people drink kool-aid? I hate stereotypes that just have no finding and just come out of thin air. But I love stereotypes that are based on solid reasearch, genetic screening, and field work.
I miss it. I miss it so much!
Stereotypes such as?
You know, Asians are bad drivers, women aren’t any good at math, black people will burn down a city if a cop shoots a drug dealer that was trying to kill him. You know the ones that are just silly and not very harmful.
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This is hands down the greatest sitcom to ever hit television. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the movie 🙂
Never seen it. Heard it was weird. I’ll check it out sometime.
I liked it because it’s funny but not normal funny. It’s funny in it’s own way. Sort of like Scrubs (Scrubs is awesome)
I honestly don’t know a single white person who has yet to see AD. Whoa.
What is the black equivalent?
The Jeffersons. Black folks love them some George Jefferson!
I think you meant, women aren’t good at anything.
We have an Arrested Development club at our 99.98723% white school. We all get together and watch it during lunch on tuesdays. It’s a fabulous show.
Martin.
Then it isn’t a stereotype.
Oh Come On! Everybody knows this is the best show ever.
I like to think it was cancelled because Fox is an awful network. If the show was advertised as hard as some other Fox shows it might still be alive and kicking today. I feel the same way about Undeclared.
I submit that this show did NOT end before it jumped the shark. A good portion of the humour of the third season was pure shark-jumping. I mean, come on – the whole Little Britain and Michael dating a mentally handicapped girl thing? The Muffin Man? The show was a little bit crazy before these things but still within the realm of possibility.
Surely I qualify for some sort of white achievement award. I love the show Arrested Development and I am quite literally, Mr. Wendel. I know that the most famous Arrested Development song had the name spelled differently, but this did not stop every person at every fraternity party from pointing at me constantly whenever this song was played which was often
Yeah… except for the fact that Henry Winkler actually jumps over a shark in an episode…
I find it fitting that Gob Bluth once sang, “It ain’t easy bein’ white… It ain’t easy bein’ brown.”
You have to be intelligent to keep up with this show (which is a must for enjoying it), so yeah, I guess non-whites wouldn’t like it.
best show ever. ever.
Yep, whites are pretty condescending too, some even openly racist!
Oh, I thought you meant the band Arrested Development.
oh yes, definitely.
i would add ’30 Rock’ to this category as well.
Sorry Bro. I’m a non-white who grew up in white America and I do understand its intelligence. I love dialogue where you actually have to think about it.
🙂
See it at hulu.com
Everyone Hates Chris
I do love this show and I will offer you wine. It will be cheap wine and in a cup, but not from a box! I am asian and white boys do love asian girls! I also love andy griffith I haven’t read that on the list yet! yeah ron howard!
“Eggplant”
I am starting to question my whiteness because I’ve never seen Arrested Development and I’ve never even heard of The Ben Stiller Show. Is it possible I’m not as white as I think I am? I thought all white people loved Curb Your Enthusiam (or is that a Jewish thing…?)
yeah i’m non-white and i liked the show just fine. will arnett was the funniest person on that show. so yea i guess you dont have to be white and intelligent to like this show. huh, go figure…
I just blue myself when I saw this on the list.
My wife and I named our dogs George-Michael and Maeby.
HA! This is one of my favorite shows!
I am IN LOVE with this show. However, a black person introduced me to the show.
Sounds like a wussy show. Now American Beauty… Thats the shit!
ad is so funny i once laughed so hard i threw up, tossed some sawdust on it. before you knew it, baby i had myself a stew going
Who doesn’t think Arrested Developement is funny? That’s my question. Jobe! C’mon!!
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it’s GOB!
It’s okay, you’d never laugh anyway.
Hey, you mentioned Arrested Development! I recognize that cultural reference!
one word for this show:
CANCELLED!
I named my cat after Buster!
Also, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
If you have not seen this fans of AD, you must.
AD paved the way for Sunny.
I love David Cross, but I just saw a couple episodes of Arrested Development (the first season) at my friends apartment and I was so bored I felt like I was being tortured.
Everyone seems to love this show, so I just wonder why I get this horrible feeling that Im wasting my life away, every time see an episode?
The only parts I thought were funny were David Cross scenes. Everyone else in that show is really painfully boring to watch. The characters are all sort of spoiled and the story lines are predictable and the whole thing is just at just a horrible boring middle ground.
It’s goes as far to make me feel depressed about life.
I love GOB so much. everytime i hear the final countdown i just feel so right
dear Hello,
My emotions towards AD are the exact inverse of yours.
white or not… Arrested Development is a funny ass show… I didn’t like it at first and then someone made me sit down and watch the whole 1st season DVD and I could not stop watching it… best show ever (besides FOTC & U.K. office)
I love Arrested Development. You have to watch all 3 seasons to fully get all of the jokes and little references that I think makes the show so good. The dry, sarcastic humor and subtle jabs at pop culture were unlike anything else on at the time.
Its an illusion Michael. Tricks are something that whores do for money.
“She calls it a mayonegg”
her?
it’s a WONDERFUL restaurant!
you are so stupid. if i knew you i would kick your a@@. i am white and intelligent and have several non white friends who are also intelligent. some of them like this show some do not. i myself do not like this show
or candy
Bob Loblaw lobs law bomb
The coming movie will the greatest event in white film history!
Do we have a deal?
We have a deal!
I thought you a lesson.
taught*
AD is by far one of the best comedic shows to appear on American television.
“Mom’s still got it”
“I DONT DATE WHORES!”
I love this show.
I’m so white.
I also think that game shows should be on this list.
I watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy every night.
I’ll be 18 in 10 days. hahahaha.
Yup, so white again. Arrested Development is heelarious.
What the FUCK? STUPID WEBSITE!
I agree. I like this show. How does this make me white? I mean.. should I believe that I’m white because of this even though I’m Puerto Rican? This is lame.
im brown from the dominican republic and i love arrested development. especially franklin
…. I hate how accurate this website it.
…. I hate how accurate this website is*
‘…it’s cultural references that they understand (see Garden State, The Onion, and Juno for examples).”
“I hate how acurate this site is.” I second that Julia.
you’re obtuse. this site makes deliberate generalisations for the purpose of humour. it’s COMEDY. it is not supposed to be taken literally.
i’m italian and i always joke about how us italians argue a lot. i’m clearly not trying to say that anyone who argues is italian…it’s a statement that is funny and not meant to be taken seriously.
yeesh!
Im indian, I LOVE THIS SHOW…but i never talk about it around my brown friends cause i dont want them too call me lame or white-washed lol
Actually, the only person I know who loves this is a block dude. Fail.
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
Best. Show. Ever.
nah, dude. arrested development is like the bible with almost everyone i know. this is 100% true.
and it’s also the best show EVER!
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on Arrested Development DVDs.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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you are retarded why would you ask for money while insulting minorities because they need their money. you just suck in every sense of the word
At a minimum it’s 72% accurate for any white person.
I like half the stuff on this list and pretty much hate the other half… maybe I should check my family tree…
LOL. that’s the funniest thing I”ve read today.
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The show was repeatedly hailed as “The best sitcom on TV.” Terrible ratings, sir? I don’t think so.
“Terrible ratings” refers to viewership – indeed, hardly anyone watched when it was aired on FOX (and that’s why it was cancelled). Being hailed as “the best sitcom on TV” is, on the other hand, a question of critical acclaim
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If I didnt have a live dove in my pants right now I’d…..
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Just started checking out the show. This guy at work kept saying how hilarious it was. and he was right. Better late than nevre, I guess…
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
This is a hilarious site! Love that you make fun of your own people. I always end up laughing out loud.
Keep up the good work. As a Black Canadian, I wonder if there is a “Stuff Canadians like” blog out there.
From reading the responses, it seems that some of “your people” (the stupid racist white ones) don’t get your site. But who cares about them anyways?
LOVE YOU!
Always thinking of myself as a nonconformist (perhaps another SWPL trait), I tried to avoid soooo many of the things on your list. But, like so many of the things on your list, I eventually succumb. When I finally saw “Arrested Development,” long after the show had gone off the air, I LOVED it. I immediately bought all three seasons on iTunes and watch it on my iPod all the time. *sigh* I guess I’ll finally have to watch “Mad Men” now…
Move on, Arrested Development…there’s a spankin’ new documentary-style comedy “Modern Family” had premiered two nights ago. ABC pwned the Fox network! +
Move on, Arrested Development…there’s a spankin’ new documentary-style comedy “Modern Family” had premiered two nights ago. ABC pwned the Fox network! The history of my life will be coming out soon on CSN ( cock sucking network) , “As The Trailer Turns”, it will document a year in my life with all my gay and animal lovers. +
Move on, Arrested Development…there’s a spankin’ new documentary-style comedy “Modern Family” had premiered two nights ago. ABC pwned the Fox network! I want to piss in your stupid fucking ass.
If only ABC had come up with “Modern Family” about 5 years ago, then it would be original… and if it’s not original, you must not be white
it’s ok… the real michael d. is just being ironic. don’t you love that?
“If you are ever a white person’s house…”
I’m sorry, but if I am ever large enough to actually BE a dwelling, then I have eaten way too many pupusas, samosas, and banuelos. Hopefully your English teacher will remind you not to omit verbs from your sentences.
Umm…actually, what was omitted was the preposition “in”. Not a verb. “Are” is the verb in that sentence.
He also said some things African-Americaney wasn’t ready to hear.
He also fully understood the meaning and intention behind the sentence yet felt the need to ignore the fact that it was perfectly comprehensible and at most a minor error and still correct him on proper grammar. (BTW, white people also really love correcting other peoples mistakes to make themselves feel better about their own inferiority complexes)
hmmmm I can taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth right now
Fox produces “Modern Family,” it just airs on ABC
How do you guys feel about The Office in comparison to AD?
Twin Peaks actually did jump the shark more than once. Still…I have to confess that I did like it.
And Arrested Development!! Woohoo!!!
A true standard in comedy blogging.
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Let’s take a ride on the “c-word”!
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Hank, you’re too funny!
Arrested Development was the best comedy show on televesion and you don’t have to be white to appreciate it. The humor is universal and top notch. Anyone with a brain and sense of humor can find something in Arrested.
add a yo to the beginning of your last sentence you will successfully have embodied #107 – self aware hip hop references. … i lov this site
you dont feel better about your own inferiority complex, you feel better about yourself despite your inferiority complex — i should know, as i am a white person and am clearly very lacking in self esteem
I wonder what it feels like to be a house?
Steve Holt!
Haha, I love this show! So much clever foreshadowing! Arrested Development is the best TV show ever made and I don’t care how white that makes me…. It ain’t easy being white!
Why it was cancelled.
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Even I like it. and I’m black (hence the black in my name – just in case you were wondering)
Man i love that show and still watch it on IFC and I’m not white either lol it truly was witty and smart but too corky for mainstream
Yea dude I’m Mexican n I love that freakin show. A well written show is recognizable no matter what the race
omg I’m white and I cannot stand that show! haha but I have to admit, everything else on this blog is pretty true to life…
It’s important to start from the first episode and watch them in order. You also need to watch a few before it sinks in…. are acquired tastes something we white people like?
im black and i fuckin love arrested development.
It always circles back to 80’s night, like a viscous…80’s…circle….
I love the show and I am an Indian. Although I was first came to know about it through a white friend, but hell I still love the show!
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I’m not white but I love this show sfm.
No, your not.
you dont have to be a trendy hipster faggot to love this show, it is genuinely hilarious
Best show in the entire world!!!! Its not because its “white” its because its one of the smartest/funniest shows to ever be on tv.
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I just got season one on DVD tonight, so I’ll let you know how I go.
“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).”
You could add Quentin Tarrantino’s early films to that list of films that contain white cultre references.
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit, it’s super funny as well ❤ ❤
Okay, I watched the first two and half episodes and while it wasn’t horrible I won’t be persisting with it. It’s not in the same league as: Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad or Entourage. I’ll have a crack at 30 Rock next week and see how I go with that.
Yeah, AD gets really, really funny for people who liked it right away because it constantly refers back to earlier episodes or to recurring character traits and downplayed catchphrases. But if you didn’t like it at first (and it sounds like you’re more into dramas) then no one should tell you “keep watching it, you’ll like it.”
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit it’s just as funny!!!
AD was the best show ever made and it should still be on.
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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Yes, I am white and I’m proud to say I own every episode of that show on dvd. I WAS THE FUNNIEST SHOW EVER
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Right o on this one.
As a black man who doesnt subcribe to the Bet tyler perry version of what comedy is i must say the mere thought of watching arrested development makes me wanna hurl.Im actually a pretty big woody allen fan so i supoose ive always considered AD something watched by the “wrong kind of white people.
Low brow humour is so distatseful.
George Bush doesn’t care about Black Puppets.
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
Maeby was in Whip it with Ellen Page from Juno, Jimmy Fallon, Eve, and Drew Barrymore
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all ma relativiz bin arrested.
wat a revoltin development dat turned out to bee.
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.
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.
^White Steve
I saw Maeby on an episode of The League. She played a court sketch artist. She calls Ruxin “a dick.”
Arrested Development is a fucking great show! Fuck is wrong with this dude?
…Or you could like it because it’s brilliant? XD
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first time visit and all these pieces are really funny, but some hit too close to home and make me depressed
… most anyone who has seen the show likes it…
fun fact: twin peaks was the highest rated show on TV for a while, so that would definitely be mainstream!
It totally did jump the shark…
Absolutely, also it was a great show and very popular among “white people” indeed as are many of the best Lynch movies…
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White, white man here who hates AD so much it scares me. Reasons:
1. Like a previous poster said, it’s twee.
2. The writers and actors are all clearly SO VERY PLEASED with themselves.
3. It does things that white people would laugh at, but few people of color would. Want an example? James Lipton stages a play using kindergarten kids. A play much like The Wire. Seeing a 5-year-old black boy in an orange prison jumpsuit shouting “Somebody stole my crack!” may get howls from the Caucasians, but, show me some African-Americans who think it’s rich.
4. AD seems to have been designed to be a cult hit–the guys who created this show clearly didn’t want a Seinfeld-esque ratings monster. Come on. One has to see the series from the very first show, in sequence, for it to make sense. Cult hits are great, but they’re only legit when the show actually was trying to BE a real hit and failed, like Freaks and Geeks. AD is to Freaks and Geeks as Poison is to Guns N’ Roses: a pale, manufactured shadow of the real thing.
5. What I hate most of all is how so many of my white friends (and they are almost all white, sadly) say I don’t like the show because I don’t understand it. Why, thank you for your patronizing pat on the head. I think I understand the show just fine: it’s crap! The smugness and self-satisfied-ness of the show are unbelievable. You want it, it’s all yours. Enjoy your Coldplay and (if you’re older) Radiohead. I’m out.
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I just love this show. So, are Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg the same person?
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I liked it because it was funny and didn’t like that it wasn’t mainstream because they had to rush through the story at the end.