![]() I laughed out loud exactly once during those three episodes, and nearly gave up watching the show entirely - the first 90 minutes of season four felt longer than the next six hours. otherwise he's going to have to Skype me from a TGI Friday's." Netflix's bumper is ugly, odd, and cloying, pointing out that it's only a "semi-original series." Then for the next three episodes, from Ron Howard's narratorial throat-clearing to the "Showstealer Pro Trial Version" watermark splashed over footage from old seasons, Arrested Development is hell-bent on reminding us that it was cancelled seven years ago. I hated season four from the second it started. It doesn't really matter, though - it's just a loose thread tying everyone together, and we're probably better off not tugging too hard at it. There’s a core conflict running through the whole season, but it’s perpetually shifting and confusing, and I found myself constantly having to pause the show to remember why Michael ended up in this restaurant, or why he’s pretending he doesn’t know Lindsay. I, for one, am happy about that fact.Įvery new episode revolves around a single character, guiding us on an inevitably winding and interconnecting journey through their last seven years. In 2006, you'd sneeze and a half-dozen jokes would be missed and gone into Fox's ether now they're here for us, forever. It’s tailor-made for the DVR era and especially for Netflix - the episodes were to be viewable in any order, available all at once for infinite re-watching, rewinding, sharing, and dissecting. I fully support both decisions, and when the show's 15 new episodes finally became available on May 26th, I bailed on my family’s Memorial Day activities, hunkered down in front of my TV on a gorgeous day in New York City, and watched every single one.Įveryone’s talked about how Arrested Development was always designed for 2013 - the show was so fast, so smart, and so dense, and without a way to pause or rewind, often too much. Years, even - there's a part of me that's convinced CEO Reed Hastings added Instant Streaming to Netflix just so we could all re-watch the show, then started producing original content just so he could bring it back. I've been waiting for Arrested Development to arrive on Netflix for months. "Family first unless there's a work thing." Fans on Twitter began adapting the Narrator dialogue to Star Wars."It's like you always say," George Michael tells his dad. On January 20th, the page Sad Comics posted a variation that gained over 1,300 reactions and 473 shares (shown below).įollowing the announcement that Chris Lord and Phil Miller were fired from the Han Solo Star Wars anthology film, rumors swirled that Ron Howard would step in as director. The joke also began spreading to Facebook meme pages around this time. On January 19th, 2017, Twitter Moments featured a compilation of narrator jokes as they related to the current political climate. ![]() For the 2016 United States Presidential Election Debates, Arrested Development writer and narrator Ron Howard released videos in which he reprised his role of the narrator, interjecting himself into footage of the debates when Trump told falsehoods. The format held traction as a popular dialogue meme during the 2016 United States Presidential Election, particularly in reference to Donald Trump. On August 26th, 2016, Twitter user published what many credit with sparking the joke format's surge on Twitter in 2016, gaining over 95,000 retweets (shown below). The meme saw modest spread in the following years, appearing infrequently on Twitter and Tumblr, usually as a reference to the show. Narrator: "They didn’t, but it would have been." Spread Michael: "Okay, that would be disgusting if you’d actually slept with her, but I don’t think you did. The show's narrator, voiced by Ron Howard, often interjects during scenes to clarify falsehoods made by the show's characters (ex: shown below). "The Narrator" gag in which a person says something but is then interrupted by a narrator immediately contradicting the statement is a popular trope of the television series Arrested Development (2003). ![]()
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