Not sure if this has been talked about to any length on this sub before. This was one of my favorite shows when I was younger. As I'm revisiting it, some of the jokes are a little crude for my taste nowadays. I love the show still, just sometimes I'm caught off guard with how far they push things.

The Rita arc in particular is kinda wild. I'm very sensitive to this topic as I work with people with special needs, and I feel like those 5/6 episodes where they are really going heavy with the jokes is a little over the top. I don't know maybe I'm just too fragile nowadays. I can excuse the use of the word "retarded" because when the show was made it was the common nomenclature, but it's still makes me squirm hearing it.

Am I the only one with this issue? Did anyone else grow out of this arc because of this?

I would be nervous to show this to someone now and hyping it up, almost like I would need to put an asterisk on it.

Once again. Love the show, not trying to hate, just wondering what others experiences were.

Arrested development is my favorite show of all time and I have always heard it be compared to Archer. I tried to watch Archer and am on season 3 now but I just can't get into it. I dont know what it is l've giggled maybe a handful of times but thats it. I haven't laughed once in season 3. Is anyone else the same way?

They got along well. Rita is a capable adult who is generally independant and vocally advocates for herself. She misunderstands and miscommunicates sometimes, but that is exactly what makes her fit in with the family (have Buster and Gob been assessed for developmental delay (arrested development))?

She calls out Michael for being not very smart when he breaks up with her, and then she goes on to become a movie executive (something Michael failed at).

She's probably better off not being involved with the Bluths, but it was kind of an ignorant move on Michael's part to completely write her off the moment he finds out she has a disability.

Sure she looks sliiighhtly different and is wearing a bad wig, but I do not understand the insanity of how many people are commenting on her looks changing when literally every other cast member has also… aged and changed because time passed? It makes me really mad and I can’t find many posts where people have my viewpoint. I actually think she aged better than others.

Am I just face blind or does their publicist from season one look kind of like Sydney Sweeney? I watched this show when it premiered but just recently again with my roommate, anyone else see a facial resemblance???

I got no other take on this. I've followed the show since series 2 and read everything else relating to the cast since whenever.

The sexual allegation charges are sketchy as hell, and I do mean that as objectively as possible, this was not a #MeToo target.

And when they watched someone go through that for six months... I think they over-egged the pudding in defending him.

And seperately, I'm very proud of how openly they talked. It didn't do them any favours but it reinforces for me this crew cares for each other, fights and all.

Man, that hit so many satisfying moments for so many characters and still left you wanting more with that masterclass-of-carefully-chosen-words cliffhanger.

There is nothing wrong with the season 3 finale and it did a great job closing the series, but season 5’s finale truly wrapped so much up in a satisfying way.

Can we all agree that these posts saying, "Watching ____ when I noticed _____" are incredibly annoying. All of the actors in the show have been in other projects. It's not a secret and no one cares. This is /r/ArrestedDevelopment not /r/actorsofarresteddevelopment. Let the down votes commence.

I was today’s tears old when I noticed.

When asked if he wants to ride to school together, George Michael responds: “No, I’m riding with the Veals, Ann’s parents”.

I’m the last one to get it, right?

https://youtu.be/uATxRunbxwE?t=320&si=EHS3RXOYuCE-G7Gb