Arrested Development

Today I finished watching one of my new favorite shows. The only problem is that it went off the air a couple of years ago. Good thing they may be making it into a movie. The show had great writing and acting. Each character was unique, and the 53 episodes all interwove and completed each other. The show has its quirks. The family lives in a model home, and drives an airport staircase. The only way to describe the show is to describe the characters.

Michael Bluth(Jason Bateman)- Michael is the middle son and Lindsay's twin brother. The shows straight-man. His wife has died previous to the show, and he has trouble with love, including his brother's girlfriend, a lawyer faking blindness, and a woman who was unknowingly mentally retarded. He took over the company to try and save his family.

George Bluth Sr.(Jeffrey Tambor)-The matriarch of the family. Is in prison for possible light treason, involving making model homes for Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He is imprisoned, breaks out of prison, and lives in the attic of the model home. He finds religion in Judaism and has a twin brother named Oscar.

Lucille Bluth(Jessica Walter)- George's alchololic wife, and mother of the family. Holds many family secrets and is not the best mother. She adopts a Korean boy.

G.O.B. Bluth(Will Arnett)- The older brother. G.O.B. is a "magician", who usually has lighter fluid or a dead dove shooting out of his sleeve. He is a patsy for his dad, and usually tries to one-up his brother with a stupid idea.

Lyndsay Bluth Funke(Portia de Rossi)- Michael's "twin" sister. She never has a job and is living in a failed marriage. She joins advocacy groups for weird special interests groups.

Dr. Tobias Funke(David Cross)- Tobais is Lyndsay's husband. He aspires to be an actor with help from Carl Weathers. He is a never nude, who can never be naked, even alone, and wears cut off bluejeans to help with that. He tries to join the Blue Man Group and gets hair plugs that reject his body.

Buster Bluth(Tony Hale)-The youngest Bluth sibling, Buster suffers from horrible panic attacks. He may be in love with his mother and dates her older best friend, also named Lucille. He gets his hand bitten off by a seal and gets a hook for a hand.

George Michael Bluth(Michael Cera)- George Michael is Michael's son. He works at the family's frozen banana stand. He is secretly in love with his cousin Maebe, but has a Christian girlfriend named Ann.

Maebe Funke(Alia Shawkat)- Lyndsay and Tobias' daughter. She is mostly forgotten by her parents. She was pretending to be a handicapped girl at her high school, and was later secretly working at a movie industry as an executive.

Running gags like how each family matter does a chicken impression make the show so much funnier. Another thing is how every character has a unique characteristic. The lawyer who is secretly gay, the competition who has no hair, the rich uncle who can't use his legs so he has a strong man carry him around instead of using a wheelchair. Celebrity cameos also don't take away attention from the show. This has to be one of the best and funniest shows ever, and its a wonder that it was cancelled.