Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?
Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?
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Okay this isnt a movie but a show, but arrested development (especially the early seasons) are filled with situations, puns, innuendos and jokes that are set up over several episodes, sometimes even seasons. It is impossible to catch and appreciate them all on first watch. I have seen the show probably a half dozen times over the years and i still stumble over the occasional thing i missed.
I love aaall the claw jokes that show the seal gag was planned from the very beginning. "I'm a monster!"
There are even some jokes where they were seeding foreshadowing, but were never able to actually have it come to fruition because the show was cancelled. My favorite of these is that Tobias is actually a black man
Man, now i gotta watch it again. I really love the funke. Oh is his name part of this gag?
I don't think so. It's more like he'll often say stuff that makes more sense if he were a black man. Eg. When Lindsay is hitting on Ice, Tobias says something like "she certainty has a type". Or how the cover of "The Man Inside Me" seems to show a black man. Much like the foreshadowing of Buster's hand, a lot of it is meant to be extremely subtle.
Omg you are so right!
Arrested development was way ahead of it's time and has some of the most clever writing of any show, especially for the time is was first made (pre Netflix.) The word play and subtle running gags are absolutely hilarious. And the characters are all written hilariously well.