Roboto.” This is alluding to Hale’s role in the 1999 Volkswagen commercial in which he dances to that song. Larry Middleman, speaking on behalf of George Sr., tells Gob, “Another brilliant idea, Einstein.” The actor who plays Larry Middleman is Bob Einstein.īob Loblaw says, “This room or someone in it, might even be wired with a listening device.” The camera cuts to each actor’s face, and then to a wide shot, where we can see the boom mic.īuster gets his hook caught in the stair car’s dashboard while dancing to Styx’s “Mr. With juries and so forth.” Which is a nod to Happy Days, where he was brought on as Chachi, to be a new teen idol as Henry Winkler got older. I think I can do for you everything he did. Scott Baio, as the Bluths’ new lawyer Bob Loblaw, tells them: “Look, this is not the first time I’ve been brought in to replace Barry Zuckerkorn. makes the excuse, “I thought that was the guy who played the Soup Nazi.” Ten episodes later, Larry Thomas, the actor who played the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld, plays a Saddam Hussein look-alike. When confronted about meeting with Saddam Hussein, George Sr. You’re a regular Brad Garrett,” a reference to Garrett beating Jeffrey Tambor for the previous year’s Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy. Michael tells George Sr., “That’s a wonderful performance, Dad. But once I got in there, the appendix wasn’t so inflamed. Stein, Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice behind Homer Simpson, says, “The operation went pretty smoothly. Their Burger King product placement, which was so over the top, it could only have been more meta if Tobias said, “That would’ve been a great product placement, Carl”:īarry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark on his way to Burger King, which is a reference to him jumping over a shark in Happy Days and its subsequent symbol as the moment when shows go wrong, which the Burger King product placement represented.Īs Dr. The narrator explains that other than a competition, Motherboy is also the name of a heavy-metal band from the seventies, adding: “We’re legally obligated to make the distinction.” Which is a reference to the show being sued by the rap band Arrested Development.
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Henry Winkler, as Barry Zuckerkorn, looks into the mirror and does the “no comb necessary” Fonzie pose (see above).Īn annoyed Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli) hears Tobias start singing “New York, New York” and says, “Everybody thinks they’re Frank Sinatra.” This is a nod to the fact that while Minnelli first sang the song for the movie New York, New York, everyone associates it with Sinatra’s later version. As Ron Howard narrates: “Fortunately, the new warden was an appreciator of the arts.” 2.” Warden Gentiles is played by Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton, and he approves the request. Tobias asks the warden of his father-in-law’s jail if he will lock up Tobias so he can do research for his role as “Frightened Inmate No. Judge Ping says, “I’d like to remind you there are no cameras allowed in my courtroom,” looking directly into the camera when he says “no cameras.” The rest of the scene is shot from behind the door.
Jessie, the publicist, calls George Michael “Opie.” Ron Howard, who played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show, comes in as the narrator: “Jessie had gone too far and she had best watch her mouth.” Even stranger is during the first season, when the show aired at 9:30 on Sundays, the evening news would follow Arrested Development, so Beard would be seen reading the fake news then the real news only a few minutes later.
and Orange County affiliate, KTTV, meaning Arrested Development used the actual anchor the real-life Bluths would’ve had.
In real life, Beard is the Fox evening anchor for the L.A. Beard plays the local Fox news anchor on the show. So in anticipation of the upcoming season we looked back at the series’ twenty most meta meta-moments.
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It’s easy to picture the first episode starting off with a wink at the show’s long hiatus and cancellation, because that kind of self-knowing joke is what the show always did: Arrested Development was not afraid to acknowledge it was a TV series and its characters were actually just actors. The unveiling of the fourth season of Arrested Development is less than a week away.
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