11 Facts About Arrested Development

1.

Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz.

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Arrested Development follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy dysfunctional family.

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3.

Arrested Development agreed when Ron Howard asked her himself, because they were old friends; she had been his babysitter when she was a teenager.

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Arrested Development uses several elements which were rare at the time for American live-action sitcoms.

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5.

Arrested Development developed a unique self-referentiality through use of in-jokes that evolved over multiple episodes, which rewarded longtime viewership .

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6.

Arrested Development said, "If there's a way to continue this in a form that's not weekly episodic series television, I'd be up for it".

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Plot of Arrested Development revolves around the members of the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy family who continue to lead extravagant lifestyles despite their changed circumstances.

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8.

Arrested Development is married to Tobias Funke, a discredited psychiatrist-turned-aspiring actor.

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9.

Arrested Development's wife Lucille becomes CEO, and immediately names as the new president her extremely sheltered youngest son Buster, who proves ill-equipped, as his only experience with business is a class he took concerning 18th century agrarian business.

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10.

Arrested Development is caught in the Bluth family yacht's explosion, as used in one of Gob's magic acts, but survives with a cooler full of damning evidence labeled "H Maddas".

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11.

Arrested Development reveals that he is there to avenge the Bluth family's theft of his grandfather's frozen banana idea and the cause of his subsequent deportation, an event orchestrated many years earlier by Lucille Bluth.

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