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Will There Be Arrested Development Season 5?

Published by on June 2, 2013 | Leave a response

You’ve watched the first 3 seasons. You’ve Eaten, Prayed, and Loved for Arrested Development Season 4.  You gobbled up all 15 new episodes on Netflix.  You’ve even read all the critical reviews (they didn’t like it this time either) – but you’re ready for more.  Will there be a fifth season for Arrested Development on Netflix?

I think the answer is a resounding maybe!

Check out this business friendly interview on CNBC with Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix.  He says that Arrested Development season 4 was “everything they had hoped” for, and would be on board for Arrested Development season 5 if the “talent would be willing”.

If the do season 5, let’s hope they can get more of that talented cast in the same room at the same time, and don’t have to use hardcore green screen (Lucille Austero Maritime Court scene was hilariously horrible). Except the chicken dance. Green screen chicken dance FTW.


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Where is Shuturmurg, India?

Published by on June 2, 2013 | 1 Response

Where is Shuturmurg, India?

For those of you hoping to Eat, Pray, Love – you’ll just have to settle for an Ashram somewhere outside of Dubai, because there is no such place at Shuturmurg, India.

Sorry, folks!

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Lindsay Bluth-Funke: Then and Now

Published by on May 31, 2013 | Leave a response
The old, snarky Lindsay Bluth from seasons 1-3

Seven years went by between the cancellation of Arrested Development and the return on Netflix.  During this time everyone got older.  Some got fatter.  Some got thinner.  Some lost more hair.  Some stayed never nude.

old snarky lindsay bluth from seasons 1-3

The old, snarky Lindsay Bluth from seasons 1-3

Perhaps the biggest change is Portia de Rossi.  There are really two different looks for the Lindsay Bluth character (three if you count the red wig character Cindy Featherbottom), the “long hair kharma seeking” Lindsay, and the “short hair bust your balls” Lindsay.  You can check out more of the differences over on Buzzfeed.

The long hair Lindsay looks decidedly creepy – probably on purpose due to Hurwitz and Co.  Short hair Lindsay is basically Portia de Rossi’s own real look, and yes, after 7 years she does look a bit different, but doesn’t everyone (except Jeffrey Tambor)?

Get real internet - looking different doesn't mean you don't look great.

Get real internet – looking different doesn’t mean you don’t look great.

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Backstory: Tobias Funke’s Neiman Marcus Cutoff Shorts

Published by on May 29, 2013 | Leave a response

The LA Times has a great article on the costumes and wardrobe for the cast of Arrested Development.

I wanted to share the following snippet about Tobias Funke’s Never Nude Cutoffs, which are actually women’s designer cutoff jeans from Neiman Marcus!

Quoted from Adam Tschorn’s LA Times article: New ‘Arrested Development’: All re-dressed up and ready to go

The most iconic piece of apparel in the original series run has to be Tobias’ “never nude” denim cutoffs. Where did you find those?

Costume designer Katie Sparks:  Mitch said, “Let’s do some cutoffs for Tobias” [played by David Cross] and — I’ve never told anyone this — I was in Neiman Marcus and saw these cutoffs in the women’s section. They were just low enough to cover everything, but they were short-short and had a little fringe. I thought: ‘Oh, my God — these are hysterical!’ They were $150, and I felt like an idiot for buying them … I wish I could remember the exact brand, but they were definitely designer — Givenchy or something. But they were so perfect because they were cut for women and came so high up they looked like underwear.

So that’s how he ended up wearing women’s cutoff jeans from Neiman Marcus.

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Arrested Development Season 4, Episode 9: Smashed

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response

SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is an episode featuring Tobias Funke!

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(Tobias enters the model house and meets Gob)

Gob:  Good to see you old friend.  What have you been up to?

Tobias:  Things are good.   Nothing much.  I’m a registered sex offender, but things are good.

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The Fantastic 4 Musical

written and directed by

Tobias Funke – MD, S.O.

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(To Michael in the model home)

Tobias:  Michael, I appreciate your bravery.  I know, now, everything seems doomed.  And I’m in a similar situation myself.  But trust me – we are fucked. We are fucked.  Fucked. Unless some sort of miracle coincidence happens.  But, the best thing is to just walk away, and we’ll lick each others wombs.  I guess I’m just going to have to give up my dream and my love forever.

Tobias:  I’m going to go there with you for moral support.  And I will act as your assistant.  Maybe I’ll do my famous “gay character”.  I don’t think you’ve seen that one.

Michael:  I think I have.

Tobias:  Mmm… I don’t think so.

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Tobias:  (To DeBrie)  You can do anything I want you to do.

Tobias:  (To all the children at Cinco de Cuatro) I’m a registered sex offender.

Tobias:  That red haired lady can’t throw her wad at that guy.

Tobias:  Well universe, you seem to be putting up all sorts of walls between me and my dreams.

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Arrested Development Season 4, Episode 7: Colony Collapse

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response

SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is an episode featuring Gob Bluth.

Summary:  Gob hooks up with Ann Veal, but leaves her at the altar after failing to perform a magic “illusion” simulating the resurrection, but faster than Jesus.

No Tobias Funke in this episode. :/

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Mark Cherry:  You know what would be awesome?  If you put up the partition and pretend to just be our limo driver.

Gob:  Okay!

 

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Arrested Development Season 4, Episode 6: Double Crossers

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response

SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is an episode featuring George Senior.

Not much Tobias love in this episode, but there is plenty of Herbert Love!

Does Herbert Love remind you of Obama?  I don’t think so, but I thought I’d ask…

Herbert Love Quotes

(At a political event for politician Herbert Love)

George Sr:  I’ll give you a piece of the action!

Herbert Love: Action Jackson? What do I look like, Carl Weathers to you?

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Herbert Love videos on Polideos

Herbert Love on “ObamaWamaLama” Care

Herbert Love Most Definitely did not Touch That Lady’s Leg

Herbert Love Refuses Funding for Kikiwikiwikistan

Hebert Love Gets a Big Hand From a Vet

Herbert Love Almost Tells a Joke

Herbert Love “What would my wife gain from lying?”

Herbert Love Campaign Video Paid for by the Newport Beach Birthers for a Bright Tomorrow.

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“We have got to build a wall between us and Mexico”- Herbert Love

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Orange County Corrections Pamphlet that says: “Drowning an inmate in the lap pool is a bummer”

 

 

 

 

 

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Arrested Development Season 4, Episode 5: A New Start

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response
Failure to Launch - Tobias's Favorite Movie

SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is an episode featuring Tobias Funke!

New Tobias Funke Quotes!!!

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John Beard: Alright guys, what we got?

Production Guy #1:  It’s quiet out there.

John Beard:  We better be ready.  (To the makeup guy)  I’m a man.  Don’t make it look like makeup.

John Beard:  Is that guy one of ours?

Standing Cop #4:  Look at the license plate.

John Beard:  Looks like we got ourselves an ANUSTART!…

Tobias:  (calling Maebe)  Hey there, it’s Big Daddy.  I was trying to call you – before I surprised you!  Things are really looking up, and, uh… hello?  Damn it!  What Sudden Valley does to these cell phones!

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John Beard’s: To Entrap a Local Predator - Super Creeps.

Tobias:  (Entering the house, singing “It’s just a Fallacy!”, with John Beard hiding in the closet) Is there a little girl here all by herself?  Daddy needs to get his rocks off.

John Beard: (Yells in a girls voice from the closet) I’ll be down in a minute – have some lemonade!

(Tobias sits sipping a little bit of something: Mike’s Hard Lemonade.)

John Beard:  Pretty good lemonade, huh?

Tobias: It is!  Is there alcohol in here? John Beard!

John Beard:  Why are you here?

Tobias:  I’m here to see my little girl.  I wanted to show her Daddy’s Thing.  What are you doing here?

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Tobias:  (To a Hot Sailor)  You are soaked to the bone!

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Lindsay:  It’s time to give up our dreams if they aren’t working.  Your acting career… This marriage everyone thinks is a sham because you’re gay…

Tobias:  What?  I’m sorry.  Everyone thinks I’m gay?

Lindsay:  Well, I mean, it’s kind of a running joke in the family….. I mean, you know that, right?  Because of the misleading way you talk sometimes.

Tobias:  Uh, you’re saying the way I talk makes me sound gay?  When in the last year have I said even remotely mis…

(Cut to 11 seconds earlier)  Tobias:  (singing and spinning) It’s just a Fallacy!

…leading.  Is this because I want to be an actor and all the leading men in Hollywood are gay?

Lindsay:  Well, I don’t think all the leading men in Hollywood are gay…

Tobias:  (very gay) Oh honey…

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Tobias:  (To Gob) Oh, you look I feel.

Gob:  Gay?

Tobias: No! I… no.

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Tobias:  (couldn’t sound more gay) I think you have my suitcase.

Lindsay:  Can I just use this one?  (The suitcases are exactly identical)

Tobias:  Oh, what the heck.  I guess having matching luggage isn’t so romantic anymore.  And these romantic gestures are possibly why people think I’m a homosexual.

Tobias:  Well, it’s time to correct old misconceptions!  And that is why I’m making “A New Start”.

Lindsay:  A New Start… filled with compassion and love – I like that!

Tobias:  Well, I’ve already got the license plate – so go cry in your pie!

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(On the plane to Shuturmurg, India)

Tobias:  Am I the only one who still dresses to fly?

Tobias:  How could they not have Failure to Launch? (movie)

failure to launch movie

Failure to Launch – Tobias’s Favorite Movie

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(At City of Hopelessness Hospital, Shuturmurg, India)

Tobias:  I’ve broken my skull in a third place, on this elephant guy statue.

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Tobias: For I too find I that I am on a journey, although as we discovered when our MasterCard bill came back it was the same one she took, but mine has confirmed that I should redouble my efforts to achieve the unachievable dream of being an actor, a journey that has left me eager to connect with my true love.  Particularly if she finds a way to cover a 2000 rupee City of Hopelessness hospital debt…

Lucille:  The trick is going to be getting anyone to believe that her husband is straight enough to have true love as a woman.

Tobias:  What are you implying!?

Michael:  Oh, I don’t think there was any implying going on at all.  Didn’t hear any implying.

Lucille: I wasn’t implying!

Tobias:  I’m sorry mother… It’s just that I’ve got a bit of a stick up my bunghole about what I’ve now found is a running joke about me, but lets be honest, (to Michael) for 2000 rupees we’d both go down on Matthew McConaughey, yes Michael?

Narrator:  At the time of this family meeting, 2000 rupees was 36 dollars.

Michael:  I wouldn’t.

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(local realtors office)

Realtor:  So, are you ready for a move?

Tobias: As you can see, I’m ready for a lot that’s new.

Tobias car (Volkswagen Cabriolet) license plate reads: ANUSTART

Realtor: Oh, good heavens.

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Priest:  I believe he (the realtor) died as a warning to live within our means, and be realistic about our lives.

Tobias:  Then I should redouble my efforts so that he will have died in vain.  Meaning he will have led a pointless life… is what I mean.  Yes, carry on.

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(At the Garden Grove Methadone Clinic)

Nurse:  If everyone’s good, you’ll get your juice.

Tobias:  Carl Weathers used to give us grape juice, but then he’d add $5 dollars to our credit card.

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Tobias:  There we go, now I can see a pretty face under all that butter substitute.

DeBrie Bardeaux:  I’ve done a few things I’m not proud of.

Tobias:  Episodics?  Been there.

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Tobias:  Can I just improv my way out of a marriage?

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DeBrie Bardeaux: Blackout.

Tobias.  And scene!

(Tobias rushes her to the emergency room)

Tobias:  Oh, my god!  She had too much butter!!!

Doctor:  Oh, my god -  That’s a butter face.

Tobias:  Be careful with her face, she’s an actress!  We’re both actors!

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Tobias:  It’s Okay.  Some people struggle with addiction.  Other people are incapable of ever being nude.  Everybody has something.

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DeBrie Bardeaux: Maybe I should get a regular job.  I do have a law degree.

Tobias:  And I’m a doctor, but let’s not settle.

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Young man:  Are you the smurfs?

Uncle/Neighbor/Father:  No, no, no… they’re the ambiguously gay duo.

Tobias:  Oh no, I assure you, there’s nothing ambiguous about me.  I’m Johnny Storm, the human Flamer, and this is Sue Storm, my sister and fellow fighter-in-law.

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Tobias:  Well, hello there young man!  What brings you to at least 500 feet beyond the entrance of Disneyland?

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Arrested Development Season 4, Episode 4: The B. Team

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response

SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is an episode featuring Michael Bluth.

There’s a great clip of Tobias running around during the filming of Carl Weather’s Scandalmakers, but you’ll have to watch yourself – won’t spoil that today.

 

Other Stuff from Episode 4

Imagine Entertainment:  “Where dreams drop into make-believe as surely as a drop of water falls into a bigger thing of water in slow motion.”

Jerry Bruckheimer Films:  “Driving action toward love through a storm until lightning hits a tree.”

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Carl Weathers makes an appearance on Michael’s Casting Couch!

Michael’s Dream Team of writing and acting:  Carl Weathers, Warden Gentile, and Andy Richter.

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Netflix Outage Due To Arrested Development?

Published by on May 26, 2013 | Leave a response

Hey, I’m noticing Netflix is pretty slow at 10:30 am EST today, during the launch of Arrested Development Season 4.

If you are experiencing problems, head on over to downrightnow.com/netflix and report an outage.

I can’t rewind to get any juicy Tobias Funke quotes, and the video quality is significantly reduced.

But hey, give Netflix some credit.  At times their bandwidth can equate up to 30% of the entire traffic in the United States!

Looks like David Cross prediction is coming true:  “I’m not sure the grid will go down on that day, but the next day, it’s going to be like, ‘Gotta watch another, gotta watch another, gotta watch another’ as people binge on it.  We will probably lose 62 billion dollar in man hours and production, whatever the GDP is for the day, or whatever it costs us to be in Iraq and Afghanistan for a couple hours.”

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