I've become a fan of Arrested Development only after seeing a few episodes, though I can by no means be qualified as one of the show's many ardent and dedicated fans. I did find one however that I kidnapped, drugged and forced into explaining to me the show's greatness. Here's what he had to say:
The show pleases us (AD-lovers) immensely for its ability to stack comedic moments, every line of dialogue from one of the Bluths topping the other in its absurdity, every other line pulling into the forefront some reference from a past episode that you thought was inconsequential but turns out to drive the plot of the current episode. For those who get it, the experience of the show is like standing one inch away from a wall that's studded with live human fingers, poking your ribs and your neck and your forehead, teasing teary-eyed seizures of laughter out of you, those long fingers, and poking you some more...
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Arrested Development, or "The Semiotics of Innuendo."
ReplyDeleteEach line of wry dialogue is a slippery step on Jacob's footladder. With double and triple meanings being par for the course of its
wonderfully fresh language, the show is either instantly recognized as a brilliant work of deep themed wit, with a Nile of biblical jokes and
references, or it is confusedly denied interest by the butter knives in the audience drawer.
-JBS