wouldn t break? no, not if it was a funny idea. it s all about funny. yeah. so this is the magic trick, huh? illusion, michael. a trick is something a whore does from money. arrested development was absolutely firing on all cylinders from the first episode to the last. don t you judge me? you re the selfish one. you re the one who charged his own brother for a bluth frozen banana. i mean, it s one banana, michael. what could it cost, $10. you ve never actually set foot in the supermarket, have you? if you got it, it was the funniest thing you ever saw. because it assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. when you got there, don t be afraid to make a i m not gonna beat myself up over that. it was so clever and more meta than just about any show that s ever been on television. your average american male is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development. hey, that s the name of the show. it was really smart in the eye that you c
you got to go to austin, this your dream. that s what i m telling you. we wanted it to feel like was the audience was just being invited in to a very small town, very intimate setting. i don t want to be responsible nor have this baby be responsible for you not living out your dream. that s what i m saying you are my dream. i ve walked with you all these years to get to this place you and i together. it s about a couple trying to actually be in a marriage and make it work instead of just like what we always see on television, and then i felt a very strong deep desire to not just have her be the sidelines, supporting wife. looks to me like your so j. ourn what looks like a pretty important term paper in your english lit class. i don t know what a so.
what does she have that i don t have? suddenly, here s this tv show that everyone s talking about, but you have to pay to watch it. you know, that s how good the sopranos was. people were paying just to see that show. the sopranos came along and completely reestablished what the bar was. i honestly couldn t quite believe that television was communicating something that you might only see in the darkest moments and accurate moments in cinema. you look at the year that american beauty won the oscar, which is also the year that the sopranos debuted, and almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverge.
have reason for your own wanting to take down ms. hughes. yes. i do. i was just so taken with the fact that there was this incredibly dark unapologetically morally compromised lead character, who was a woman. i told pete to have you killed. it was sort of the beginning of a real emergence of rich women on television. sure take my last one. somehow. is this cab free? are you (bleep) nuts i have heard unnecessary jackie referred to as an anti-hero. she was at the mercy of her addiction. that always got her fullest
again. me neither, we re done being stupid. it s you and me. this is it, unless we re on a brake. [cheers and applause] don t make jokes now. by the time fraser and friends went off the air, there was a feeling among the networks that the multi-camera format filmed in front of a live studio audience was getting kind of tired and getting kind of stale. you guys play the most important part. the live studio audience now there is no form of television that makes us much money for the networks as multi-camera tv shows. we write a for camera show, we write it direct it and