At 12:01a PST, 3:01a EST and 8:01a GMT and so on, Arrested Development is coming back for its 4th season on Netflix and it is a must much. Earlier this week I was on a conference call with show creator Mitch Hurwitz and here are 5 things he told about the 15 episodes that debut in just a few hours!
What will see on Netflix that we didn’t see on Fox?:
We actually do have nudity in the show. I won’t tell you. It’s one of the principal cast members.
The origin of the Banana Stand?:
So, you know, we try too and I – you know, I had a cookie business there with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard and, we ran, and that sort of became the inspiration for the banana stand
What Seth Rogen had to do to play a young George Bluth Sr?
He’s got the lowest voice in the history of cinema. And, he lowered it to be Jeffrey Tambor.
And lastly what to keep your eyes out for…:
Well, as it turns out, we did a show where we wanted the rules of the world to be consistent. That if there was blue paint, you know, blue makeup on the wall, we wanted it to stay there the next week. And, if somebody smashed a hole in the wall, we wanted that hole there the next week. What became kind of the esthetic of the show was, let’s create as much of a reality as we can.
When will we see the next season of Arrested Development?:
I know that Jason Bateman, early on, maybe Jeffrey, you said this too, but Jason used to always say, we should do it like the Michael Apted films. And, do them every seven years. And I like that idea, except you only get so many seven years in your life, which you realize, as you get older. So, maybe it’s every three years? You know, every two years? Something like that.
Steven Schirripa was on Conan O’Brien’s TBS talk show yesterday and he talked about a recent encounter he had with Reggie Jackson. The Soprano star talked about the secret life of former Yankee Reggie Jackson and basically he said the right fielder struck out with him. But it wasn’t only with Schirripa, he heard it was other people too. Because Steven said a security guard came over to him after he saw how Jackson treated him and he told actor a story about Reggie. Back in the ’70s Jackson went to a restaurant and he was rumored to be nasty to everyone. So the security guard told Steven that when Jackson ordered a shrimp cocktail, all the guys in the back stuck a shrimp up their butts, served it to him and they watched as he ate it. Sounds like Jackson might been a great ball player, but he wasn’t good at detecting the taste of a$$ on his shrimps. I guess the cocktail sauce killed the taste or maybe the taste of a$$ gets washed away if it is an a$$ eating it.
Now we don’t know if this story is true or false, but everyone should take it as a warning to always be nice. You trap more bees with honey than you do with a shrimp cocktail.
When adult looks at this building in China, we think it looks like a something that men have and women do not. So Jimmy Kimmel Live was excited to see if kids saw it the way we did too. So they sent a producer out on to Hollywood Blvd and asked the prepubescents what the erect structure looked like to them.
If that doesn’t make all of us postpubescents feel like pervs, I don’t know what will. I know let’s all go to Disneyland and see a bunch of other buildings that are the same shape. You know, that little girl might be onto something.
Amanda Bynes is the new Queen of Mugshots after taking not one but two of them after her arrest yesterday. One mugshot was taken with her fake Barbie doll wig and the other one was taken without it revealing she actually has a very cropped do.
The actress was arraigned in court this morning and released on her recognizance. According to WABC she claimed that the object in question was a vase and not a bong. While prosecutors admitted that police did not find a bong/vase outside of her building in Mid-Manhattan.
Mark your calendars because she is due back in court on July 9th according to WCBS.
UPDATE: Amanda Bynes breaks her silence on Twitter. First she Tweeted, “I only smoke tobacco I don’t drink or do drugs. I’ve never had a bong in my life! I need to get another nose job after seeing my mugshot! :D” Then a little while later she added, “I need Nicki Minaj’s wig person stat! :P”