Arrested Development: Development Arrested

RIP. Wow, I hope they rebroadcast the final four episodes again, because it will be a long wait for the Season Three DVD. Those four episodes provided a great end to a great show. I’m still processing (my mind continues to thrash with the Cheney shooting), but I have to say I was very pleased with the ending. AD skewered Fox and the administration as they went out in a blaze of glory.

Pseudo-spoiler (pseudo-) alert, in that these really aren't spoilers and it's not much of an alert.

Here’s a list of some of the highlights:

*Judge Reinhold (“My name is Judge”) along with the William Hung & The Hung Jury band.

*The ukulele being replaced by over-the-top music cues in a salute to other boiler plate dramas.

*Justine Bateman playing a hooker, who may be Michael’s sister, in a nice Family Ties twist.

*Franklin (GOB’s puppet) wearing a “George Bush doesn’t care about black puppets” t-shirt.

*All of the roads in Iraq having Bush Junta names – Haliburton Highway, Dick Cheney Drive, Condoleeza Rice Way, etc.

*A weapon of mass destruction in the Bluth home in Iraq, wait, no just a fake…because there were no WMDs in Iraq.

*Buster cutting off his prosthetic hand with an electric knife and Michael saying “see, you would have lost your hand anyway.”

*Lucille was the mastermind the whole time.

Perhaps, three years from now, AD will return to Fox with an intro like The Family Guy had when it returned.