Season 4 of arrested development = bad

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Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Monstrous Dooklord posted:

Name one show that's ever "come back" that's hasn't been irredeemable over self-referencing horse poo poo. Just hope they quietly let it die and don't try to make a fifth.

Beavis & Butthead

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:08

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Cnut the Great: Mar 30, 2014

i liked it

close thread

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:11

LifeSizePotato: Mar 3, 2005

Monstrous Dooklord posted:

Name one show that's ever "come back" that's hasn't been irredeemable over self-referencing horse poo poo. Just hope they quietly let it die and don't try to make a fifth.

unpopular opinion: family guy was best in its 2nd and 3rd seasons but it hasn't been too bad since returning

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:21

hitchensgoespop: Oct 22, 2008

Attitude Indicator posted:

ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION TUJAGUE!

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:29

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

horrible thread

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:29

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:30

Irradiation: Sep 14, 2005; I understand your frustration.

Mega64 posted:

Beavis & Butthead

Also correct other than Beavis's voice being too much of a strain sometimes on Mike Judge.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:32

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Shadow posted:

It's really simple though. This show's charm and hilarity came from its ensemble cast. You didn't focus on one character, or even a sub-storyline for too long. Due to the non-budget Netflix provided, they couldn't afford more than 2, sometimes 3, of them at a time, it turned into a long waste of time. They should have just gone with a movie or 2-part miniseries.

This plus the intervening plots required multiple viewings to fully understand, but the payoff was not interesting enough for me to ever bother watching through it again. I normally have no problem following complex plotlines but for some reason I had a hard time following Season 4.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:50

LifeSizePotato: Mar 3, 2005

sweetmercifulcrap posted:

This plus the intervening plots required multiple viewings to fully understand, but the payoff was not interesting enough for me to ever bother watching through it again. I normally have no problem following complex plotlines but for some reason I had a hard time following Season 4.

for me the hardest was the george sr. stuff, partially because of all the oscar switcheroos.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 21:52

Shadow: Jun 25, 2002

sweetmercifulcrap posted:

This plus the intervening plots required multiple viewings to fully understand, but the payoff was not interesting enough for me to ever bother watching through it again. I normally have no problem following complex plotlines but for some reason I had a hard time following Season 4.

It's because it was a 2 hour story that took something like 16 to get through. I don't think the plot was "complex," I just think it was dragged out to the point of being tedious.

Like the last season of How I Met Your Mother. They had about 4 episodes of material and dragged it out over something like 18.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:12

GigaPeon: Apr 29, 2003; Go, man, go!

I still don't get why George Senior was turning into a lady? Someone said cause the roots were downhill from the portapotty and the lady's birth control poops were getting mixed in?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:12

Cnut the Great: Mar 30, 2014

GigaPeon posted:

I still don't get why George Senior was turning into a lady? Someone said cause the roots were downhill from the portapotty and the lady's birth control poops were getting mixed in?

what? oscar mentions that the maca root they were ingesting increases your power when combined with sweating in a lodge. but george skips the lodge and has oscar sub in for him instead, so george gets the opposite effect while oscar gets a doubled one.

this sounds kind of complicated but it was actually pretty obvious if you were even half paying attention, so my advice to you is to maybe actually watch the shows you are watching

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:35

Skeleton Ape: Dec 21, 2008

Monstrous Dooklord posted:

Name one show that's ever "come back" that's hasn't been irredeemable over self-referencing horse poo poo. Just hope they quietly let it die and don't try to make a fifth.

New Trailer Park Boys is pretty funny

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:36

Cnut the Great: Mar 30, 2014

nothing new is ever good. sorry

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:37

Moola: Aug 16, 2006

mods please probate Tujague for not answering the loving question

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:45

a creepy colon: Oct 28, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Moola posted:

mods please probate Tujague for not answering the loving question

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:48

Junk: Dec 20, 2003; Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?

Benedick Cuckold posted:

nothing new is ever good. sorry

what about new retro wave?

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Attitude Indicator posted:

ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION TUJAGUE!

# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:18

babypolis: Nov 4, 2009

Tujague posted:

The last half of Season 3 was lovely for the same reasons. Half of it was callback catch phrases. The show had clearly run out of gas.

Everyone who clamored for its return between seasons 3 and 4 is a corn-fed loving retard which is probably most of you

can we ban bronies from making GBS threads out opinions about media already

# ? Sep 30, 2014 23:46

gay skull: Oct 24, 2004

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

# ? Oct 1, 2014 00:40

potee: Jul 23, 2007; Or, you know.

Not fine.

gay skull posted:

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

# ? Oct 1, 2014 01:27

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

LifeSizePotato posted:

for me the hardest was the george sr. stuff, partially because of all the oscar switcheroos.

that plotline seemed really weird in context of all of the previous Oscar/George/Lucille stuff

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:45

Comfy Fleece Sweater: Apr 2, 2013; You see, but you do not observe.

Arrested development was supposed to be a documentary?

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:55

Don Mega: Nov 26, 2005

gay skull posted:

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

# ? Oct 1, 2014 05:59

LifeSizePotato: Mar 3, 2005

gay skull posted:

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

you're taking his av pretty seriously huh

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:06

Comfy Fleece Sweater: Apr 2, 2013; You see, but you do not observe.

ay yo give me a free Av, I'll take anything

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:08

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

LifeSizePotato posted:

you're taking his av pretty seriously huh

Well it turns out that hating on Season 4 of Arrested Development isn't controversial in the least around here, so this thread has to live or die on something

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:09

Just Burgs: Jan 15, 2011; Gravy Boat 2k

I liked it.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:13

George H.W. Cunt: Oct 6, 2010

Kinda wondering what the answer is could you answer it?

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:13

dundun: Oct 29, 2005; H E R B

Almost all comedy creators have the same issue, they make 2 great seasons of a show and then they go crazy and the rest of their career is poo poo. Mitchell Hurwitz, Dan Harmon, Dave Chappelle, etc...

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:24

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

You know what's a funny show? Broad City.

Also, Season 4 of Arrested Development. Maria Bamford has never been funny in anything ever, but does manage to be hilarious as a drug addict.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:53

Attitude Indicator: Apr 3, 2009

gay skull posted:

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

# ? Oct 1, 2014 07:01

RavenKrows: May 29, 2008

gay skull posted:

I screenshotted your custom title to keep a public, permanent record of what some saint went out of their way and spent ten hard-earned dollars on, to let the world know exactly what kind of person you are with every single public announcement you make:

You have parents, Tujague. Two people in this world came together, and you were created as a result. If there were two people in the world who truly deserve to be pampered, cared for and made rich for the rest of their lives, it would be them, or whoever raised you, because you are associated with them for the rest of their lives. True, they did fail in raising you properly, but to have your prot�g� be a brony who's collection consists of half bondage, half rape; who can't even answer a fellow poster on a forum about a question geared towards their favorite thing, and after being given over two months to do so, it is an absolute wonder if they have not yet committed suicide.

All I ask is that you ANSWER. MY loving. QUESTION. I do not give a poo poo about My Little Pony, but after you ran your loving MOUTH about the last half of Arrested Development Season 3, and I asked you what you thought of the latest season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, you can AT LEAST, LIKE A loving MAN, step up and answer my GOD DAMNED loving QUESTION. It is NOT HARD, it is about a subject matter that you are CLEARLY WELL VERSED IN, and I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT DID

YOU THINK

OF

THE LATEST SEASON

OF

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

I agree speak up or get out, pony fucker.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 07:59

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Well I for one thought Season 3 was great. In season 1 you can tell they're still trying to keep some semblance of a regular sitcom, maybe to ease in viewers or not be cancelled right away, but the show really hit its stride in season 2 and in season 3 they were like "gently caress it let's just go all in" and it resulted in so many great moments, fan service or not.

Don Tacorleone posted:

Arrested development was supposed to be a documentary?

Not really, it's just filmed documentary style. The characters are not aware of the cameras like in The Office.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 08:25

Joey Gladstone: May 26, 2003

It wasn't the greatest thing on earth, but it was fun and cool to experience history like that happening.

I think it's even cooler to think that a guy could have had a show picked up then subsequently canceled, then become popular enough to have the same show brought back on the air and become successful enough to collaborate with one of, if not the greatest cartoon of all time. He may have also gone on to make some really stupid, bad, comedies but he did bring back Cosmos.

People in this thread have a fiery passionate hate for Mitch Hurwitz which is pretty loving stupid. If you go into any other TV Show thread complaining about it you would be kicked out. It's "cool" to hate Arrested Development but nobody really gives a loving poo poo.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 08:28

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Joey Gladstone posted:

It wasn't the greatest thing on earth, but it was fun and cool to experience history like that happening.

I think it's even cooler to think that a guy could have had a show picked up then subsequently canceled, then become popular enough to have the same show brought back on the air and become successful enough to collaborate with one of, if not the greatest cartoon of all time. He may have also gone on to make some really stupid, bad, comedies but he did bring back Cosmos.

People in this thread have a fiery passionate hate for Mitch Hurwitz which is pretty loving stupid. If you go into any other TV Show thread complaining about it you would be kicked out. It's "cool" to hate Arrested Development but nobody really gives a loving poo poo.

everything you just said is stupid and you care too much in gbs

# ? Oct 1, 2014 09:33

Attitude Indicator: Apr 3, 2009

quakster posted:

everything you just said is stupid and you care too much in gbs

caring is cool. otherwise there would be no discussion. but I digress.

ANSWET THE PONY QUESTION TUJAGUE!!!!

# ? Oct 1, 2014 09:43

Captain_Indigo: Jul 29, 2007; "Thatâs cheating! You know the rules: once you sacrifice something here, you donât get it back!"

I liked it even though it wasn't as good as seasons 1-3 because I liked it better than nothing and it wasn't like anyone else was going to rescue it and do it better.

# ? Oct 1, 2014 09:43

Sexgun Rasputin: May 5, 2013; by Ralp
(and can't post for 689 days!)

i never found ad funny!!!! ever!!!!

# ? Oct 1, 2014 09:47

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Sexgun Rasputin posted:

i never found ad funny!!!! ever!!!!

well, humor is cultural. and since most jokes in arrdev boil down to people interacting like morons, it makes sense for someone who doesn't interact with people to not find it funny

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Attitude Indicator: Apr 3, 2009

Captain_Indigo posted:

I liked it even though it wasn't as good as seasons 1-3 because I liked it better than nothing and it wasn't like anyone else was going to rescue it and do it better.

this, pretty much. It was better than nothing, somewhat enjoyable, and the way they structured the episodes different from season 1_3 kept it intereseting enough. even if it didn't really work

# ? Oct 1, 2014 10:16

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