And That's Why You Always Leave A Note!

Well it looks like I'm getting requests (requst) for entries now. This "Kate" girl in the comments of my last entry seems to want me to write about the rap group Arrested Development. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with their catalog. It may not be the same, but I could write about the television series Arrested Development. Yes, I'll make sure to do that tonight. But I do like the idea of people commenting with ideas for posts. It sure makes my job easier. Anyway, today was one of the two school days that I have every week. In one of my classes, we had a formal debate on whether or not the Defense of Marriage Act was a moral imperative or not. And it was just miserable watching the team against gay marriage spout some of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard, and then see them get weakly, and passively rebutted. It was miserable, but it was nice when the team against gay marriage said that they weren't really against it, and admitted that every argument they presented was stupid. But anyway, on to my story about Fox television.

It all started one day when the usual crew of Christian, Kate, and I were hanging out at Kate's house. Being the generally uncreative people that we are, we couldn't come up with anything really cool to do. So we settled on rummaging through Kate's extensive porno collection. We were looking for something thought provoking. Somehow, Kate's Arrested Development DVDs got mixed in with all of her BDSM flicks. Kate mentioned how it was a hilarious show. Christian and I weren't convinced, though. After several minutes of having half-watched the show on our own time, we were never all that impressed. But Kate's love for Arrested Development left us unsure about how we felt about Arrested Development from our 30 seconds of viewing while flipping through channels. So we took Kate's bait and decided to watch Arrested Development. By the way, Kate doesn't even like porn. The DVDs we were rummaging through were mostly Aqua Teen DVDs and other nerdy Adult Swim shows. But that's not really important. What's important is that we started watching Arrested Development, and we became instantly hooked. I'm pretty sure there may never have been a funnier show on television. How can I be so sure, you ask? Well Fox canceled it after three seasons. Fox is stupid like that. They're big fans of canceling good shows. Don't ask for examples. I'm talking out of my ass most likely. I don't really watch all that much television outside of the Food Network. So I don't know about all of the hip new sitcoms. I'm getting off track, though. Arrested Development is great. If Kate wasn't such a constantly tired person, we probably could have finished off the whole series in one straight viewing. But instead, we stretched our Arrested Development marathon across the whole summer. Almost every day of the summer, the three of us would end up at Kate's try and think of something fun to do, fail, and then continue to watch Arrested Development. It may have gotten to a point where we were hoping we couldn't think of anything to do outside of Kate's house so we could watch Arrested Development. But it's honestly that great of a show. We all began to feel a real connection with all of the characters. Micheal's difficult life keeping the family together. George Micheal and Maeby's strange cousin-love. Tobias' inability to strip himself of his cutoffs. Gob's desire to make it as a magician. Buster's awkward Oedipus Complex. It was all such a whirlwind of emotion. Sometimes it would leave us in tears. Mostly tears of laughter, though. The show is fucking hilarious. In fact, I believe the moment that I laughed the hardest in my life was during an episode of Arrested Development. It was in the episode with Martin Short. Martin Short's character, Uncle Jack, plays a strong man who lost the use of his legs. But rather than use a wheel chair for mobility, he is carried around by another strong man. But the hilarious part comes when Uncle Jack has the person carrying him, make him do a dance. So the man starts shaking Uncle Jack around, and Uncle Jack pukes on himself. It was just so sudden, and out of the ordinary from the humor you usually see on the show, that I instantly burst out laughing, and continued to laugh for several minutes. It was amazing. According to what I picked up on IMDB.com while making sure I had my facts straight in that little story, that episode is not a fan favorite, because of that scene that had me in tears laughing. Apparently, that was too low brow for Arrested Development fans. It would seem that those "fans" need to get off their high horse, because that is comedic gold. Fuckin' elitists, man. But anyway, by the end of the summer we had finished the series, and it was an all around perfect experience. Of course, it's just another thing that I was late to the game on. I have a nasty habit of getting into things way too late. But I'm just glad I ended up getting into it at all.

Alright. Well I think this fan request entry worked out quite well. I'll be happy to accept more requests for future entries. But right now I think I'm going to go downstairs and read for a bit, before I go to bed. I just started reading Everything Is Illuminated last night. I loved the movie, and I love the author of the book, so I assume this book will end up being great. Although, I think it will be tough to top Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for my favorite book. I guess we'll have to wait and see. We'll probably be waiting awhile, too. I always take so long to read books. Mainly because I normally only read before I go to bed, and sometimes I'm just way too tired to make any headway. But I'm going up to Manchester, NH with my family this weekend so my brother can visit a school. So hopefully, I'll be able to get a bunch of reading in on that trip. Okay. Well I'm going to go do that thing I said. Bye, pals! Keep those requests coming!