...It's Arrested Development

Over the past week or so, I re-watched the entire series of Arrested Development. My love for it has been renewed and now I find myself plugging the show to everyone I encounter. First I just talk it up, then I offer to lend out my own DVDs, then I contemplate a kidnapping and forced watching of the show. But what about this show is so good? Well, everything. So I've decided to use this blog to plug the show as well. Every week (or whenever I feel like it) I'm going to post a classic AD video clip, quote, photo, or just a picture of a frozen banana. Let the festivities begin.

Arrested Development Classic Guest Star #1
Zach Braff

Zach Braff appears in Season 2 as Phillip Litt, producer of the popular Girls With Low Self Esteem video series. His main ambition is to get girls with low self esteem to take off their clothing on camera. He comes off as a total jerk, prompting Lindsay to create a video called Men With Low Self Esteem. When Lindsay and Tobias confront Phillip and pull his pants down for their video, they discover...

Arrested Development Classic Moment #1

Phillip Litt suffers from the same rare condition as Tobias - he is a Never Nude (that's "exactly what it sounds like")!!!! Despite Tobias's claims throughout the series that "there are dozens of us," Phillip Litt is the only other Never Nude that we encounter. The two realize that they share a rare bond and converse in their always present cut-off jean shorts. It's a beautiful (and classic) moment.

Manliness is next to Drunkenness

While visiting Michigan State last weekend, the only logical activity on a Friday night was to get drunk. At the movies. It may seem as if this is all I ever do...and that's basically true. But it had been a long day of lounging around watching Arrested Development and napping, so Abby and I figured that we should get out of the apartment long enough to spend a few more hours in front of a screen. While perusing the wine section at Meijer, we tried to choose the most interestingly titled wine available. Unfortunately, we couldn't buy a bottle of Joe Blow Red Wine because we had no corkscrew! We settled for The Prodigal Son, which conveniently had a screw on top, and headed to the theater to see the new Wolverine movie. Making up drinking games at the last minute is fun; there's a bit of a rush to it, a hurried anticipation of what's to come. This time, we decided to keep things simple. We only drank to:

• Hugh Jackman being shirtless (being in a tank top counts if his pecs are sufficiently visible)
• The introduction of new powers
• Overt displays of manliness (this mainly includes loud growling, the use of brute force to destroy indestructible objects, or manly power strugges)

Needless to say, the bottle was empty in 40 minutes. I had enough of a buzz going on to partially block out the cheesy dialogue and shield myself from the raw testosterone being emitted from the screen. Unfortunately, a wine buzz only lasts for so long. At least Hugh Jackman is hot.

Drunkness halfway through the movie (1-10): 4.5
Drunkness at the end of the movies (1-10): not nearly enough