Is there a show so rewarding of repeated viewings as Arrested Development? With so many callback jokes, tiny details, and meta-references stuffed into every scene, you could literally blink and miss something. If you still haven’t purchased the DVD sets yet (and…are you in a coma, perhaps?), lucky for you that IFC is bringing the show back to your TV screen this fall, with back-to-back episodes Sundays at 10PM.
In a competition that was bound to be close, Henry Winkler bested Liza Minnelli by the slim margin of two votes, meaning Miss Sally Bowles is out of the running, along with James Lipton, Charlize Theron, and Amy Poehler. We’re nearing the home stretch, and today it’s girls vs. boys in our Arrested Development bracket. Who will reign supreme? It’s all up to you.
Henry Winkler vs. Carl Weathers
A far cry from the Fonze, Winkler’s Barry Zuckercorn was the family lawyer who had probably at least heard of the bar exam, though it didn’t seem like her was every personally acquainted with it. An ambulance chaser with a flair for obvious repressed homosexuality, he was as hapless and inefficient enough to seem like an actual Bluth.
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Carl Weathers certainly deserves praise for so willingly skewering himself for the sake of the show. Appearing as Carl Weathers, he portrayed himself as incomparably stingy, willing to take advantage of Tobias Funke’s misguided dreams of becoming an actor, and perpetually obsessed with saving scraps of food with which he could make stew.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus vs. Judy Greer
As Maggie Lizer (aka Maggie Lies-her-ass-off), Julia Louis-Dreyfus played a character who, for all her faults, may have been the perfect match for Michael Bluth. Sure, she lied for years about being blind (until the one say she was actually temporarily blind and Michael threw a book at her face) and then pretended later to be pregnant (until she and Michael had a quick romp in a hospital and, you guessed it, she actually got
Greer’s absolutely unbalanced secretary/mistress Kitty Sanchez, on the other hand, flashed her girls at the drop of a hat and mastered the art of giving the perfect crazy eye. A constant thorn in the side of much of the Bluth family, Kitty helped teach us that while you can sleep with it, you can never promise crazy a baby.
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