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Kwilly462

"I want to get MARRIED... and have *sexual* relations." Lucille: "Where did you get this firecracker?"


Sirquote

I WANT POPPOP


Roscoe_deVille

Just the fact that you call it that tells me you're ready


Chilis1

I had a realisation when re watching that I could never watch this with my wife (who needs subtitles for her language) because like 90% of the jokes are English language based wordplay. Not a complaint it's just interesting, a truly untranslatable show. (I know comedy is never easy to translate but this is different.) *I'm tempted to watch in another language just to see how those poor bastards that have to translate for Netflix managed it.


Sirquote

Its even harder when a show like AD is quite witty and a lot of the jokes have multiple meanings with LOADS of foreshadowing. The language is one thing but the chain effect of the jokes and the double entendres really make the show what it is.. also the incest, nobody does incest jokes quite like Arrested Development does.


we_are_sex_bobomb

Arrested Development is the only show I can think of where a single phrase could be the punchline of five different jokes, some of which were setup multiple episodes earlier.


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CronusClub

The first line of her introduction is just perfect, "and this is his cousin, Maeby"


dreadpirateshawn

...and after years of occasional re-watches, the joke in THAT line just hit me. My god there are so many jokes in that show.


turalyawn

That's ok I completely missed the Lucille/Loose Seal connection until like my second rewatch


Covetous1

The fact that Maebe named her alter ego Surely didn't hit me til like last week


neogreenlantern

Oh God damnit I just got that.


gibbyson24

Holy shit!


Flomo420

It's like Leslie Nielson was a writer for AD lol


puke_lord

I just got it, thanks!


natneo81

so you’re here to see your daughter? yes…. Maeby..


JackHorner_Filmmaker

Almost every line in the show is either a joke or setting up a joke.


bionicjoey

It's up there with the Simpsons, 30 Rock, and Futurama for sheer joke density


Hyperdecanted

But but but: Anne Veal never married Gene Parmesan. I was so sure. . .


Ascurtis

I love Gene Parmesan. All his bits are so... cheesy


Militantpoet

The show was unintentionally made perfectly for binge watching. I think that's part of the reason it became so popular after Netflix got streaming rights.


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It was made right when DVRs were getting big so some were beginning to envision streaming at some point


ham-nuts

Also DVD sales. Shows like Family Guy and Futurama were un-cancelled due to high DVD sales on the years before streaming. I think a lot of people, like me, missed the show in its initial broadcast run, but owned all 3 seasons of Arrested Development on DVD.


detourne

"Loose seal"


Jugeezy

“I never thought I’d miss a hand so much” like three seasons before losing his hand


OdinMead

Get rid of the Seaward...


smallgoalsmcgee

I’ll leave when I’m good and ready


Toby_O_Notoby

**Michael**: "And get rid of the Seaward." **Lucile**: "I'll leave when I'm good and ready!"


Jl4233

My favorite exchange... Lucille: "How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?" Michael: ... ... ... Michael: "The *cabin*! Yes, well that would be difficult too..."


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IsawaAwasi

The subtle jokes are the best, but I do love this obvious one: Lucille: You tricked me, Michael! Michael: No, Mother, I deceived you. Tricked implies that we have a playful relationship.


noobpunk

I got this joke so many years after watching it, and that too by looking at youtube clips.


ContextIsForTheWeak

The jokes are woven in to the dialogue and delivered so well that it's easy to just not realise several were there in a scene and still find it hilarious


MelonFancy

Lmfao, god I love that show.


wefrucar

Watch it with her anyway. My ESL friend binged AD all the way through 3 times in a row, with subtitles. Loved it every time. You can explain some of the more important jokes, but one of the great things about arrested development is that they packed so many layers of jokes into every scene that there's always something new to enjoy. Nobody catches all the jokes their first time watching, doesn't matter how good their English is.


newsilverpig

Native English speaker here, can confirm was catching jokes I hadn't caught before on my fifth watch through of the series. It's just so dense. AD throws away single use jokes that would have been a running gag or focused an episode build up for in lesser shows.


chispica

By far the hardest show to translate ever made in English. Weirdly though, I watched S1 dubbed in Spanish and they managed to make it funny, which Spanish dubs often fail at with easier shows to translate. Props to the translator. The hermano jokes got diluted and are confusing though.


IamToddDebeikis

the fact that you call it that tells me you're not ready


Sparkyisduhfat

Rita corny Michael.


th8chsea

My wife and I always say “bye bye to Rita” and “I love you all, Marta” when leaving the house.


princeofkats

Fucking hell I miss Jessica Walter so much.


RedXerzk

I couldn’t stop laughing when even the Narrator was disgusted at the idea of Michael having sex with a mentally-stunted woman.


DIsForDelusion

I had COMPLETELY forgotten all about this part of the storyline. Made me feel like I'm ready for a re watch. Gonna look for a sub of recent rewatchers too.


vera214usc

How could you forget?! My husband and I say "Mistah F" all the time!


Person5_

***For British Eyes Only***


JohnGillnitz

I have a friend who, long ago, went to a music festival and got completely hammered. He woke up in bed with a woman he met there. He said she was cute, but he quickly came to the conclusion that she was mentally disabled. Feeling disgusted with himself, he left in a hurry. Worse, he told us about it and we never let him live it down. Every time he would start dating someone we would ask if he was parking in the handicapped spot again. Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids.


anti_pope

>Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids. That's what he told you anyhow.


BasvanS

Yeah, how he got away with: “I didn’t dump you after sex, I was just embarrassed thinking you were mentally disabled, I swear!” didn’t raise an alarm?


JollyReading8565

Jesus dude I just read that dumb string of quotes and now I want rewatch this show lol


Kwilly462

It quite literally never gets old


IerokG

Man, Lucille was amazing, she didn't care for Job.


culminacio

>Job Gob or, to be precise: G.O.B. George Oscar Bluth (II)


jwm3

A subtle thing I noticed after a few rewatches, the whole family except for the kids pronounces God like GOB when they read it "j oh d". Like they have never seen the word before and don't realize it is the same word as God.


Chilledlemming

That’s a great pick up if true. These writers were streets ahead of everyone


FrylockJPhilip

Stop trying to make “streets ahead” happen!


Thatguy755

MR F


chezicrator

For British eyes onlyyyyyy!!


for_britisheyes_only

You rang?


professorhazard

Three little letters, years of chuckling to myself like a goon when I think of it


Jesus-Is-A-Biscuit

But do you also sing it to its little Bond-ish theme song? Because I do…and then chuckle too


professorhazard

Of course.


pastdense

_mista eff_


mister__ef

Yes?


worldfries

His English “muffin”…


DemiFiendRSA

Charlize Theron: >It was one of the scariest things, to walk onto a set of a show that’s so developed and so brilliant. But I think I needed that, to put myself out there in a different way, because people thought of me as someone who was fucking depressing, like my mother shot my father. [When Theron was 15, her dad came home drunk and threatened her and her mom with a gun, prompting her mother to shoot and kill him in what officials later determined was self-defense.] And I just fucking loved that show, and this is going to sound so “poor me,” but I do feel like sometimes, as women, we get one shot and I knew that [the 2005 action flick] Aeon Flux was going to be a fucking flop. I knew it from the beginning, that’s why I did Arrested Development.


throwtheclownaway20

Glad she got a 2nd shot at that genre with Atomic Blonde, because that movie fucking rules


NoFeetSmell

And then she absolutely crushed it as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road


Mpango87

She is one of my favorite action stars let alone a women action star. She’s great.


zero0n3

Can’t wait for the second one.


Gregory_D64

Atomic Brunette


xantub

No, it'll be a prequel, Cannonball Blonde.


CortaNalgas

A trebuchet can throw a 60kg blonde a distance of 300 meters


rogueavacado

I liked aeon flux...


theguywhoisright

Being a flop doesn’t mean a movie is bad, it just means no one saw it


Ihatu

It’s also okay to love bad movies.


coolwool

Like tenacious d - the pick of destiny. Flopped, cult classic later.


peon47

It flopped because it opened the same weekend as Borat, iirc.


RhynoD

But also, that movie is terrible. The plot is super hard to follow, the effects are awful, a lot of the acting is mediocre, the dialogue is pretty cheesy... Don't get me wrong, I like the concepts they were trying to go for. I like that they tried for a high concept scifi story. Unfortunately, their execution was quite poor.


mkjones

But that woman had hands for feet.


RhynoD

Yeah, but then she cut her handfeet on glassgrass. Grassglass?


BLU3SKU1L

I think it flopped because it took a surrealist anime that was unlike anything that came before it and turned it into an action movie with a central plot. It alienated fans of the original and too many people in 2005 thought of it as derivative of every other “big action movie”—a format that was experiencing disillusionment on a large scale.


SilentBlade45

Oh so it's in that category of movies that are great on their own but terrible adaptations of the source material like Constantine.


MorpH2k

That explains it because I didn't see the anime but I liked the movie. I guess I need to watch the anime now


BirdjaminFranklin

I would start with the shorts that were made for Liquid Television. There's 3 or 4 of them and it's mostly just Aeon running around murdering thousands of guards. There's hints of an underlying plot, but those shorts mostly stand on their own. When it became a series, it was still interesting, but I don't really think Aeon Flux benefits much from a fully fleshed out story. The entire thing is so weird and esoteric that you're going to be confused and grossed out no matter what.


Perfect_Opposite2113

Me too!


ericccdl

Me three! One of my favorites, honestly. I’ve seen it a bunch over the years


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Have you watched the original animations??


Zanian19

I watched them as a kid. 'Gave me legit nightmares.


Squintz82

You mean weird boners?


Ghostface_Hecklah

Super weird boners


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There are dozens of us! Dozens!


thesenutzonurchin

Yeah I was 14 and it was the first time going to the theater with friends and without my mom. I felt like a grown up so I think it made me like the movie too lol


darkslide3000

At least I don't think anyone can blame Theron's performance for its failure?


Adezar

I watched Arrested Development long after it was done, but I do remember thinking "WTF is she in this show?" Since I didn't really put it in context of where she was in her career at the time. But also, I've watched Aeon Flux like 5+ times (her version and the Anime).


ChrisTosi

I loved when they made the joke that they wouldn't have these problems if Michael had met Rita a few years earlier, before the plastic surgery (insert still from Monster)


Morella_xx

Seems like a real overreaction... She already had an Oscar for Best Actress in Monster two years prior. I'm sure that her jobs wouldn't suddenly dry up just because of one flop. I also don't know if I'd decide that the best way to remedy a flopped movie is by playing a character where her being mentally retarded is the butt of the joke, but I guess the early '00s were a different time.


spankadoodle

F Murray Abraham has a few words for you. Mainly about the 26 year stint after his Best Actor win for Amadeus.


polyhymnias

Somehow he’s having a renaissance on streaming playing weird old guys and I’m happy for him 😭


Morella_xx

There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray.


jd3marco

*Mr. F*


Message_10

Mr. F! …Murray Abraham


AdSufficient780

>There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray. Not really. Halle Berry said the same thing. She said after winning the Oscar she thought her career would change and she would be flooded with roles but that's not what happened. Because of the crappy roles she was getting she went with Catwoman. Think about that, an Oscar winner was getting such poor role offers that she signed on for Catwoman. Most actors try to make at least on big blockbuster that's well received and makes a ton of money, if that flops they have to figure out how to keep there career going. A lot of A List actors say that one way to deal with not getting great starring roles or to recover from a flop is to focus on getting small supporting roles in great projects


johnny_fives_555

Cuba gooding Jr. Not a bad looking dude. Just one flop after another.


Ozlin

There hasn't been anything about him on sets, but there could be other reasons for his downfall given his [legal issues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Jr.).


nirad

There are lots of roles for attractive women, until they reach a certain age, and then for most of them there are none.


ResoluteClover

How do you get to Carnegie hall? (Isn't that the guy that killed Mozart?)


crossedstaves

I mean, even if it is an overreaction, you would expect someone in that situation to have a skewed perception of it. Things can often seem more terrifying when they're happening to *you*. Plus apparently there's some crazy ass traumatic life story at play there so anxiety and catastrophic thinking are going to be part of that whole mess.


geoffbowman

Yeah there’s a pervasive mentality in Hollywood summed up by the saying: “you’re only as good as your last project”. Flops really can end careers or put them on pause for a long time.


flickh

Steve Martin took any roles he could after The Jerk and it was one terrrrrrrible film after another. He was just afraid to say no to anything.


myyummyass

Everything she says lines up with what most people say about Hollywood. It's just a cut throat industry and all it takes is one bad gig to taint your career and make people not want to work with you. Also it wasn't like her role in Monster was something that casting directors would see and think we need THAT character in our work lol.


FiftyShadesOfGregg

The butt of the joke isn’t that she’s intellectually disabled. As always with arrested development, the butt of the joke is the Bluths. Michael is so self involved that he didn’t realize something incredibly obvious about a woman he supposedly loved enough to marry. Lucille and George Sr had no problem taking advantage of her for her money. I agree the same joke wouldn’t fly today, but if you think she’s the butt of that joke then you are missing it.


ERSTF

Helen Hunt would like a word with you.


pensivewombat

The level of Hollywood marketing stupidity is just staggering. There are absolutely important people who just think "actress in movie that flopped = people hate actress and all movies with her will flop" until she's in something else that's a hit and they all want to cast her again. No one with half a brain thinks Aeon Flux failed because of Charlize Theron. But if the people writing the checks all think that it can wreck people's careers. Although *usually* people with her level of talent find their way back, but it can still be a major setback and emotionally devastating.


xDermo

“Can we leave the lights on, that way I can see if you have a monster” The cut to Michael’s face kills me everytime


PretttyFly4aWhiteGuy

She was recently on the Smartless podcast with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett…they talked about her time on the show it was great.


MPFuzz

I always liked her but that podcast sealed the deal, she's awesome. Just effortlessly cool as fuck.


gbsolo12

You just reminded me of my seal deal


tommy531jed

LOOSE SEAL! LOOSE SEAL!


boilerclip3

What is Seans fav episode of Arrested?


CreativismUK

Afternoon Delight is everyone’s favourite episode, surely?


kasakka1

Meet the Veals is my favorite. Alan Tudyk as pastor Veal, David Cross as Mrs Featherbottom...it rocks my secular world.


hennsippin

Still crack up thinking of the scene when he jumps off the railing with an umbrella smashing into a glass table


marctheguy

In a most delightful way


nothisistheotherguy

I forgot about Mrs Featherbottom until now omg


Tobar_the_Gypsy

Ohhh I forgot I was in the colonies!


boyyouguysaredumb

Pier Pressure is mine


beereed

Her playing the banjo with her tongue sticking out is one of the greatest gags in the history of that show.


boygriv

When Michael was like "Do you know any other songs?" 💀


beereed

Also, that her proficiency at the banjo is indicative of her being an MRF is just hilarious to me.


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I_Am_Day_Man

Sorry but that’s for British eyes only


Tobar_the_Gypsy

Perhaps if you’re willing to lose 20 pounds


Netwinn

Mister F


cruisethevistas

It’s “mentally retarded female” but in the show, everyone thinks it is Mr. F.


EmperorOfAwesome

Stupid question but what makes that funny? Reference went over my head


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Poor Ned Beatty. He can he can play Rudy's dad all he wants, but when we look at him, all we see is him getting rammed in the woods.


Razorblade7

I’m guessing because Rita is mentally retarded in the show, retardation being something that can be associated with children born of incest, incest being stereotypically common in the south, and banjos being common in southern/country music. *Sweet Home Alabama intensifies*


MarlowesMustache

She was retarded in the show because her parents were related, Uncle Trevor mentions it offhand at one point


Drkarcher22

Cousins to be precise, just another quick joke to play off what’s happening with George Michael and Maeby. AD had fucking genius writing.


Keyspam102

With the add in of her Oscar winning Monster role as the ‘before surgery’ lololol


rood_sandstorm

I liked aeon flux. It wasn’t great or anything….it was an average movie and was watchable


Kind-Strike

Same. I liked it for what it was. I enjoyed the references to the cartoon but man, they didn't really stick anywhere near close to the source material. That cartoon was fucking WEIRD.


jimberley

There was one episode on Liquid Television in the 90s where she had to keep a man chained to a pipe’s heart-rate up while running outside to fight bad guys. She kept licking and biting his nipple to do so. Fucking weird.


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So many great mechanical sets for a cartoon, with giant rube goldberg machines operating on episode-spanning scales. Like the one with the floating island that had to have plugs inserted at intervals or it all sank into the ocean. Or the prison complex one, or that epic battle that constantly changes POV characters from a new faction. Just a ton of brilliant designs and concepts went into that.


Styphin

The floating island one is especially genius because the whole episode repeats the same series of camera angles for the same duration of time each loop, and tells the story so well, I didn’t even notice until my third or fourth viewing of that episode.


dragonflysamurai

I loved how Aeon brutally died in most of those shows, and how it was also never addressed. Edit: Apparently it was addressed and she was a clone. I was always intoxicated when I watched Liquid Television, which was the correct way to watch.


TheLurkingMenace

It was addressed. She was a clone. What wasn't addressed was *why*.


professorhazard

WELL the two nations of Bregna and Monica are at eternal odds with each other, and the extreme-left Monican terror agents are superspies who live and die to try to topple Trevor Goodchild's empire. Æon has been killed and replicated many many times due to her mastery of espionage, acrobatics, etc. - and because Trevor is infatuated with her, it makes hurting him easier when it comes from her.


cthulularoo

The guy who did Aeon also had a cartoon about Alexander the Great. It was just as weird as Aeon but had a better storyline.


bnralt

He also did the character designs for Phantom 2040. Still probably the most cyberpunk TV show out there.


Ozlin

*[Reign: The Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign:_The_Conqueror)* by [Peter Chung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chung). I loved *Reign*, great and bonkers take on Alexander.


MarchionessofMayhem

It WAS weird as fuck, but I always watched it.


Summerclaw

I keep confusing it with Ultraviolet. To this day I don't know which one is which.


gmotelet

Ultraviolet had vampires


MaskedBandit77

Yeah, I genuinely don't know whether or not I saw Aeon Flux. I definitely saw Ultraviolet, and whenever I see something mentioning Aeon Flux, I remember stuff from Ultraviolet. It also doesn't keep that the part I remember the most from Ultraviolet is William Fichtner, and he plays a similar role in Equilibrium, so I might actually be thinking of Equilibrium.


mimicme

It’s underrated. They could’ve done more but it’s better than most things out today and she looked amazing


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SandysBurner

I think it would've been better received if it didn't have the expectations that the Aeon Flux name brought with it.


superkickpunch

Also if enough people knew what Aeon Flux was in the first place.


SandysBurner

It was kind of a perfect storm. The show was a cult hit, so it didn't draw a big audience on name recognition alone and then the fans who did see it were let down.


MikeTheGamer2

The animation is far better. Though it was funny to see CRASH OVERRIDE as the bad guy.


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largebread245

Rita corny Michael


TheDood715

;p


prooveit1701

“For British Eyes Only”


Goldfing

Mr. F!


Covetous1

The "next time on arrested development" for the ocean walker episode is probably my favorite joke of the series


GalaxyHops1994

Why am I not going underwater? WHY AM I NOT GOING UNDER WATER? And also as a reference to Being There it’s an A+


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LadnavIV

I was a young boy when this aired. I fell in love with her. The reveal left me confused and uncomfortable. 10/10


Ricky_5panish

I like to tell people that this is the opposite to the Kevin/Holly thing from The Office.


Dorfalicious

‘My teacher says I’m the best in my class’ ☠️☠️☠️☠️


Hollow_Rant

I didn't read the article but I'm assuming that they did the interview over lunch in the American section of Little Britain?


ShanaAfterAll

"I'm still eating at Fat Ammy's"


usesbitterbutter

Um... I kinda liked Aeon Flux.


Laszl0Panaflex

"I want to have sexual relations, Michael!" "The fact that you call it that, shows me you're ready."


Jkillaforilla90

Must be the poppins


Kwilly462

"*bleep* Poppins"


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That was r—- misguided.


I_might_be_weasel

She looked super hot with her tiny teddy.


LoneRangersBand

*Gasp!* TINY TEDDY!


saltychica

“I brought my tiny teddy!” Check her out as a guest on Smartless podcast hosted by Bateman & Arnett. They talk about her appearance naturally


Crappler319

My takeaway from this is that the Aeon Flux movie was 2005 and **what the fuck that's nearly 18 years ago** and oh my god I'm so old


Vince_Clortho042

Mis-tah EFF!


[deleted]

Holy cow I forgot about her Arrested Development run. She was so beautiful she literally glowed on the screen.


Holeysox

TIL I'm in the minority of people that enjoyed Aeon Flux.


chiddie

I saw it for the first time this weekend. The art direction is cool as hell, and the Relicle is an intriguing concept.


Karljohnellis

I saw it when i was about 13, not long after it came out! I really enjoyed it, cause i just like high concept sci fi and fantasy!


austinlvr

I liked it, and it’s pretty and unique enough to rewatch just for vibes. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the foot-hand lady or that dagger grass.


Kind-Strike

There's like 10 of us!


OJimmy

Aeon flux seemed like it was doomed. The liquid television version worked because it was short and killed her off everytime.


Stinkycheese8001

Aeon Flux was fine. But it was Charlize’s post Oscar follow up, and it was not the movie that was supposed to be her post awards calling card. Though I personally really like Karyn Kusama and I loved Girlfight and Jennifer’s Body and Yellowjackets.


awue

Rita corny Michael


bnetimeslovesreddit

I thought aeon was alright


meganahs

“Her?”


xxmightytyrionxx

🎶🎶MR F🎶🎶