I missed this week's episode

[The Niggardly King 0]

Arrested Devlopment is a fantastically hilarious show. Remember that time when Henry Winkler jumped the shark?

 

 

Good Times...

[Art Sandusky 0]

I liked the dejected piano music.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

The most I've seen of an episode of Arrested Development was :09 of the end of this season's premiere when my Tivo decided to start recording the first episode of Kitchen Confidential a bit too early.

 

And for the record, the funniest thing on FOX right now, sadly, is The War at Home. Im surprised they haven't dug out "FROM THE NETWORK THAT BROUGHT YOU MARRIED WITH CHILDREN!" on it yet, if they haven't already. Its not the next MWC, but its as close as you'll get in todays Network TV landscape.

 

oh, and I saw this:

 

- "Arrested Development." The funniest show on television is all but dead. There's no official announcement yet, but all the signs are there, and if this short-lived thing of beauty even manages to deliver half of a season, consider that a sanctioned-by-Rome miracle.

 

The ratings are abysmal. Fewer than 4 million viewers, which puts it in cable territory. Despite what may have been one of its funniest episodes ever in the first week, nobody watched. This past Monday, even fewer people watched. So much for Emmy power. So much for Charlize Theron as a cameo draw.

 

Blame? Easy. Fox moved the series from Sunday to Monday, which was: (a) stupid, (b) a planned assassination or © all of the above. The network barely promoted the night switch -- a killer for viewers, especially those trying to sample 30 new series -- and sure enough, "Arrested Development" drew fewer viewers than last season. Worse, once on Monday, the series got almost no push. Now, there's one more episode before Major League Baseball pre-empts the show -- and Fox will air "Prison Break" repeats in that slot for a bit after that and before, ahem, bringing back "Arrested Development."

 

Yeah, that'll happen. Enjoy next Monday's episode. Chances are, everything after that will be dubbed "the lost episodes" on the next DVD. Here's how things get worse for Fox: "Kitchen Confidential" is also dying on Mondays. That means Fox hasn't been able to launch a decent sitcom in some time, and, no, "The War at Home" on Sundays doesn't count. If you watch that, you deserve it.

 

But it's true that the audience always decides. Always. And if it doesn't want "Arrested Development" but gloms onto the asinine "War at Home," three things are in play here: (a) Nielsen families have lame taste, (b) we get the television we really deserve and © most damning, the theory of sophisticated urban viewers is out the window. San Francisco was the 27th-ranked market for "Arrested Development." New York, Los Angeles and Chicago all tied for 21st. And Boston was 45th. So much for savvy. Let's move to Portland, Ore., -- it was the No. 1-ranked market for "Arrested Development."

 

Also, I wouldn't look for a cable net to pick up AD because apparently 1 episode of AD costs as much as about 5 episodes of anything that FX puts on including The Shield and Over There and they would be looking at not picking up any more viewers.

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And for the record, the funniest thing on FOX right now, sadly, is The War at Home.

ohhhhhhh SHIT, son

[Annabelle 0]

too bad.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

You beat me, I sat through nearly the entire first two seasons before I realized it's not that good.

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It took you that long to figure out you didn't like it? This kind of idiocy exemplifies why I don't go into the the tv/film folder. Now all this thread needs is Downhome to push it over the top.

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I'm surprised it took that long for the insult to come, I should have been called an idiot 20 posts ago.

 

It took me that long because the show was OK at first, then the demeanor of the show wore thin on me, then it just got plain annoying with said Martin Short episode.

[Special K 0]

Martin Short episode is easily, easily the worst episode of the show.

 

And I know it's supposed to be a matter of opinion, but there ARE absolutes in this world, and one of them is that Arrested Development is fucking hilarious. It sort of shot itself in the foot for being so self-referential, but it wouldn't be as funny if it wasn't.