You love Arrested Development.  I love Arrested Development.  I’ve never once met someone that didn’t absolutely love Arrested Development- only people that hadn’t seen it.  It’s the show Fox could never get right, though.  It won every award in the book at least once, had a stellar cast, and the possibly some of the most genius comedy writing in a generation.   So what happened?

Well, I don’t know.  I don’t work at Fox.  And if I did, I would do a lot of things differently (like give a show a chance and not move it all around the programming schedule until it was more lost than Flight 815.)  Arrested Development was just finding its fan base when the show was canceled and the uproar that soon followed led many people, including myself, to believe that they would resurrect the show much like they did Family Guy- especially after AD’s Season 2 DVD set spent over a month as the number one selling DVD on Amazon.  No luck.

Then Fox tried to regurgitate an Australian cartoon with many of the voices done by actors from AD called “Sit Down, Shut Up.”  Few liked it.

There are rumors of an Arrested Development movie.  According to Will Arnett, people are “talking about it.” In fact, here, listen to him tell you about it because he’s way funnier than I am.

Another Arrested Development project that has appeared, like a zombie’s hand punching through a fresh grave, is the Arrested Development Documentary Project.  Created by two rabid AD fans, they’ve undertaken the challenge of documenting how it was possible that this show went so under-appreciated, and how its fanbase is still growing in size and ardency.

Will AD ever come back on air?  Will there be a movie?  In a lot of ways I hope not.  In the same way I’m kind of glad Kurt Cobain and 2Pac died, lest they be contestents alongside ‘Speidi‘ on “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.“  Okay, that’s a stretch, but you know what I’m saying.  Like, imagine the cathedrals built in Michael Jackson’s honor had he just kicked the bucket after Dangerous!  Perhaps Arrested Development is better left as a short-lived opus- and maybe leaving it dead is the one thing Fox could do right by it.

Until then, there’s always money in the banana stand!