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The One Where They Comment On Season Two

As a followup to the set visit report, we revisit scenes from season 2.

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When I first wrote about my visit to the Arrested Development set in October, scene details of were left intentionally vague. I voluntarily agreed to the writers’ request for “no spoilers,” although that was not a requirement for the visit. I never signed any thingie in squibbly.

During that one day, a few scenes were shot from the most recent episode, Sad Sack, and several scenes were reshot for the first four episodes. Now that they’ve all been broadcast, I’d like to take a quick look back at the scenes with notes and observations, as well as a few other details culled from the shooting script.

What immediately struck me after each episode is the attention to the smallest of detail, some of which—judging only by readers’ responses—were irrelevant to the viewing experience. I’m also struck by the amount of quality stuff that sadly did not make it into the final edit, though hopefully they’ll end up on a DVD release.

So, without further ado, here are the random observations, presented in episode order.

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Talk Room

Previous comments:

#1 prufrock2 wrote on December 14, 2004:

I’ve been trying to think up some new ways to describe how both this article and this site absolutely rock and I couldn’t do so.

So I’ll just say the regulars: outstanding, amazing, excellent, fantastic, fabulous...hell, the whole thesaurus!

#2 Poster_Not_Found wrote on December 14, 2004:

I would’ve never thought that to be landscape. Maybe a large oversized worm but, not landscape.

#3 Cornballer wrote on December 14, 2004:

This is a great article! I’m so jealous. Keep up all the great work.

#4 stupid bitch julie wrote on December 15, 2004:

What profrock said.

#5 Pisto wrote on December 15, 2004:

What are you talking about, "Poster_Not_Found", they always look like landscape up close. Those are balls. Great job!

#6 Remi wrote on December 15, 2004:

Excellent article, good job!

#7 jason wrote on December 15, 2004:

did they tell you whose balls they were??

#8 Becca wrote on December 15, 2004:

Great article...I’m so jealous...the show is great and is neat to hear how obsessed they are with making it funny as we are obsessed with watching it

#9 SteveHolt! wrote on December 16, 2004:

I love the attention to tiny details, since they usually refer to jokes from previous episodes, e.g., the Mexican authorities knowing George Sr. for the Cornballer and the occasional smear of blue paint in the kitchen.

#10 Poster_Not_Found wrote on December 17, 2004:

Who else e-mailed that thing to the addresses listed?

#11 francesca wrote on December 17, 2004:

f****ing brilliant!!! awesome article.

#12 Off- wrote on December 19, 2004:

Nice article. Keep up the good work. Loved the part about “I thought I did until you said, ‘if you know what I mean.’ ”.

#13 Poster_Not_Found wrote on December 19, 2004:

Hey, OPie, if you have the script for Sad Sack, did it say anything about the coarse language warnings in the script?

#14 Rotten Tomato wrote on December 22, 2004:

There’s nothing better than reading those great articles, keep up

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