This cover of Europe’s The Final Countdown using a kazoo, ukelele, and keyboard hybrid made my day. I’d start my magic tricks illusions with this performance any day.
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Jason Bateman, who played Michael Bluth on the show Arrested Development, has confirmed that Michael Hurwitz and Ron Howard have contacted the cast members to reprise their roles in an Arrested Development movie (Yahoo! TV). This is definitely the next best thing for fans hoping for another season of the canceled show. Arrested Development was one of the most brilliantly written comedies that rewarded you for being a fan of the show. Episodes would reference events and jokes that happened episodes ago or even foreshadow future events and continue reoccurring themes throughout the show.
Arrested Development would continuously break of the fourth wall with scenes that referenced the actors’ other works. It included ongoing Happy Days references like Fonzie and Chachi playing lawyers for the Bluth Family since Ron Howard, the executive producer and narrator of Arrested Development, used to star as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. Other cameos included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Zach Braff, Heather Graham, and Charlize Theron.
Apparently the show was too clever for the average FOX viewer, who would rather challenge themselves to see if they are indeed Smarter Than a 5th Grader, and was canceled prematurely. Hopefully with enough fan support, Arrested Development will follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and Futurama, which were both canceled by FOX and resurrected on another network due to high DVD sales.
So if you haven’t heard of the show or watched any episodes, go Netflix it or pick up the box set immediately and watch it all in order like it should be viewed. You can also watch all the episodes streaming online here (you may need to use IE or Safari though since it’s an MSN site or just use User Agent Switcher extension in Firefox). For more info on the fight to save Arrested Development, check out Save Our Bluths to see how you can help. So go on and have a marathon, whether it’s for the first time or the fifth time, and tell everyone you know about this under appreciated gem.
Related: Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog
