I loved the show but am sometimes surprised at the Talmudic scholarship it seems to inspire.

the Talmudic scholarship it seems to inspire

Just of the show's wild side, though.

I missed all of those due to having watched only part of one episode of the show.

I get an adrenaline rush admitting to this at Unfogged.

Incidentally, Netflix has agreed to run up to five more episodes of the new season, so yay.

I am so psyched about the new shows. I had the hugest crush on Maeby.

I've never seen an entire episode of Arrested Development.

I watched the first three or four over the past couple weeks. It's funny, but 1 is right - its fandom seems a bit excessive.

The thing that keeps catching my eye is all the really famous people in it. How did they get all these A-list actors to appear in a sitcom that never did so well? ... oh yeah, most of them weren't A-list at the time. And some of the others never were, it's just that I personally saw and liked other things they were in.

7.2: See also "Wet Hot American Summer".

A high school teacher I know says they've been filming at his school, leading me to wonder, aren't all the characters done with high school by now? (except Steve Holt)

8: no.

you can watch that entire movie on youtube. I suggest we all do that right now.

I just watched the pilot last night. Realized that I hadn't actually watched it comprehensively, just been around a lot of people who had. Fun! I was extremely skeptical that it was eve going to happen.

7.1: I'm not sure you can judge the show's quality from just the first few episodes. It gradually builds up a large collection of repeated jokes.

The show I like a lot is the "new girl". I avoided it for the first season, but it is real funny now.

14: I keep reading that New Girl got better when it moved away from Jess as "dorktastic" and into Schmidt's hysterical masculinity. But I'm still only partway sold.

AD is great. The show--which is absolutely not at all like AD, but since we're talking teevee--the wife and I are watching right now is "Sons of Anarchy." Wife put it best, asking "Is this just going to be 'the Wire' for white people?".

By all accounts, The Wire was The Wire for white people.