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It had low ratings. I'm serious. That's why anything gets cancelled. Fox was actually ridiculously fair to the series I remember seeing the Arrested crew on my Burger King carry out bag for a couple months before this season began and I was thinking wow, pretty obscure show to be getting the Burger King treatment (you know, usually reserved for "event movies" like X Men). It won Emmys. It was heavily promoted during NFL games.

And, it still drew in viewers similar to what barely promoted WB/UPN shows bring Darius Butler Jersey in too. I really am not going to blame Fox for dropping the ball on this one.

My one regret is that in the age of 150 channel television, not one enterprising network is going to pick it up. In an age when any show brining in 2 3 million viewers a night on cable is a hit, I bet Showtime or HBO would do great if they renewed and ran Arrested.

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A demand to cancel Arrested Development!!!

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I actually didn't like it at first either. Only after I started from the beginning did I get into it. I don't think the intro really explains the show's premise and it's hard to catch on to the relationships between the characters even after seeing a couple of episodes.

My wife, who is more of a Grey's Anatomy/Desperate Housewives fan, actually has gotten into it as well after we started from the beginning. Makes me think that maybe if they explained it a little better, they could have gotten people into it.

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I think it would've done better around the same time as Seinfeld's reign. This is just conjecture, but perhaps that crowd is now a little too distracted by the internet, HBO/Showtime and TiVo/DVR/OnDemand. I saw every episode of the series, but viewed maybe two or three when they were originally broadcast I bought the DVDs for the first season and mostly downloaded the second and third season from torrents. Besides being busy and distracted, I almost never watch network TV. The only thing I watch regularly are the Sunday night HBO shows. If the Arrested Development demographic is mostly like me, I can see why it didn't do to well (though I'd have thought DVD sale could have reversed that situation). And, Burger King ads? Doesn't really seem like the best advertising channel for this show.

posted by mullacc at 7:27 AM on March 22, 2006

I'm serious though, I only saw one episode and it didn't Jerrell Freeman Limited Jersey make any sense at all. There was an old dude living in the attic (I guess the father), I had no idea why. And then there was some sub plot about a seal that had bitten someone else in the cast released.

An estranged husband and wife hid in someone's shower in order to collect a girl's urine to see if she was pregnant, at which point they had sex or something in the shower.

And some kid wanted to join the army, much to the Chagrin of his mother, who was like the matriarch of the family.

I'm sorry, but it was like a collection of totally random elements. I have no idea why anyone would find it funny or certainly find it "character driven" The characters were facing completely bizarre situations and not Darius Butler Limited Jersey acting that strange, I mean, how is it realistic to be worrying about your daughter's relationship while your father is hiding in an attic and all this other crazy stuff.

The show was nonsense.

posted by delmoi at 7:30 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

mullacc. Agree with you. I never watched them broadcast either. I think I saw some comment on longtail or lostremote mentioning how they should pack up and try to sell it online since that is the main demographic. Probably could have been pretty successful.

posted by BigBrownBear at 7:31 AM on March 22, 2006

It's a pretty hard show to figure out, if you are coming in after the fact, esp. if someone isn't there to give you a sense of how different the humor is, the sight gags, etc. So an average TV viewer hasn't got a prayer of becoming interested, as far as I can tell. I started into it last year and had the same reaction I did when I was young and saw Monty Python, which is that it blew my mind. The writing and comic timing was better than any show I can remember ever seeing on network TV. But that's pretty much the kiss of death in a medium that rewards mediocrity at every turn.

posted by docpops at 7:31 AM on March 22, 2006

delmoi. my opinion, too until i started from the beginning. i think that was the real flaw with the program and the line between people who liked it and those who didnt.

posted by BigBrownBear at 7:32 AM on March 22, 2006

I think it's the type of show that you really needed to watch from the beginning. I rented the first season DVDs before I started watching it on TV and I'm glad I did. Jumping into it in the middle would have been really confusing.

Also, I think it was a bit too intelligent for the average TV viewer. There were so many quick jokes, call backs to other episodes, pop culture references, and sub plots that it would turn off anyone who is used to watching shows like Friends.

It reminded me a lot of the show Soap, from back in the 70s, a show that also had too much for TV viewers to keep up with.