The Most Bizarre Sitcom Deaths Explained
The Most Bizarre Sitcom Deaths Explained
By Thompson Smith/April 14, 2021 1:13 pm EDT
Handily among the dominant genres of American entertainment since the mid-20th century, situation comedies have carved out a permanent presence in popular culture. In a general sense, sitcoms provide lighthearted, low-stakes escapism for folks who just want to shut their brains off and laugh after a long day. When serious issues arise on a sitcom, they re usually dealt with swiftly and entirely within the confines of very special episodes. Most of the time, nobody dies, because people don t turn on sitcoms to get bummed out. That s what makes death on sitcoms something of a departure from the norm, and therefore, worth examination.
Arrested Development. Hale played the lovable Buster Bluth for all five seasons of
Arrested Development, and the finale on Netflix revealed a shocking truth about the character: he killed Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli). We asked Hale what he thought about the character s hilariously dark ending. Well they had a really tumultuous love affair as well, Hale said of Buster and Lucille Two. So there s a lot of history there, but very much in
Arrested Development fashion, I had no idea what was happening. So we would get just pieces of the story as we were going on. And then I remember reading that last script and I was like, Wow, we took a dark turn.