Fox dumped the final four episodes of this absolute classic series last night and thank Jebus the TiVO caught them. If somebody (ABC? Showtime?) picks AD up great; it'd be nice to see it get to magic number of episodes neccesary for syndication, where gems go to be redigested over and over for televised eternity, but I don't see it happening so I'll take these last episodes and cherish them as fucking hilarious. The last four episodes featured: Judge Reinhold, William Hung singing his heart out, the Crazy Stock Dude from CNBC, the amiable big dude from Curb Your Enthusiasm (saying his farewell to a fine uncredited recurring role), Ed Begely Jr. (another return character as an alpaca hair wig wearing real estate titan), the Soup Nazi as a Saddam Hussein impersonator, Gary (Lumberg) Cole, Ron Howard, whose 3rd person "Eye of God" narration was central to the show's genius, and hello hello, the return of Mallory Keaton- Justine Bateman (sister of show star Jason). Man was she super hot, all thoughts of the airheaded Mallory stigma that drove her underground driven from my mind by her sassy performance, and watching her almost hook up with her brother (yikes!) on TV was priceless. The final 4 also featured incest humor in all it's forms: accidental cousin marriage, getting to second base with your cousin (I will never look at that b+w shot of Pete Rose diving into 2nd again the same way) when you think you're not related, adopted sisters trying to get it on with former brothers, it was all wrong and all brilliant. All along AD was also the only show on TV to actively mock the Iraq War and it got some final shots along with the CIA (CIA East didn't know what CIA West had going), the state of Iraq's reconstruction and prison abuse in American run Iraqi prisons. Through in some double entendres about latent homosexuality, inspired comic insanity at the expense of American "values" and pretense, the Seinfeldian vision of a karmic universe in action and you've got pure brilliance, and the best series finale ever for a show killed (maybe, maybe not) before it's time.
It was Arrested Development.
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I was a big fan of this brilliant show, but I have to confess that I seldom watched it. Either Fox didn't promote it well enough, or else it aired opposite something else that I watch.
But I did get to watch the shows on Friday and realized that canceling this smart and clever show is a tragedy.
That's why Fox sucks. Another classic (Adventures of Brisco County, Firefly) prematurely sent to the boneyard.
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