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During high school, I\u2019d often come home to see my dad sitting in front of the TV after a hard day\u2019s work. He was always in charge of dinner, so food would be ready on the stove while he was half passed out from the effort. There were either two things playing: \u201cSouth Park\u201d or \u201cSeinfeld.\u201d Usually \u201cSouth Park.\u201d To humor my dad, I would sit beside him and watch with him, regardless of how much I really <\/em>hated \u201cSouth Park.\u201d<\/p>\n Once while watching that terrible cartoon, I turned to my dad and asked if this was his favorite show. I had seen Erik Cartman\u2019s stupid face so often on screen that I had just assumed my father had an inherently terrible taste in media. But instead of naming either of his usual two programs, he surprised me by laughing and shaking his head. He looked at me and named a show I\u2019d never heard of: \u201cArrested Development.\u201d Out of sheer desperation to stop watching \u201cSouth Park,\u201d I grabbed the remote and changed the channel. I put my head on his shoulder while the intro theme rang out in front of us.<\/p>\n Within the first 20 minutes of the pilot, I was captivated. The show has a shockingly simple premise that takes the plot a long way. The Bluths are a family with immense wealth at risk of losing their status and riches when the family patriarch, George (Jeffery Tambor, \u201cStar vs. the Forces of Evil\u201d), is thrown in jail for embezzlement. It\u2019s up to Michael (Jason Bateman, \u201cZootopia+\u201d), the only sane person in the family, to keep the Bluths afloat while juggling his money-hungry siblings.<\/p>\n The audience is treated to an entourage of lunatics (family members) that continuously ruin Michael\u2019s life. His three selfish siblings, Gob (Will Arnett, \u201cSuper Team Canada\u201d); Buster (Tony Hale, \u201cThe Decameron\u201d); and Lindsay (Portia de Rossi, \u201cScandal\u201d), along with her husband Tobias (David Cross, \u201cThe Umbrella Academy\u201d), fight for Michael\u2019s attention and wallet throughout the seasons. Meanwhile, as Michael tries to get his father out of jail, his controlling and pseudo-alcoholic mother Lucille (Jessica Walter, \u201cAmerican Housewife\u201d) finds ways to disrupt his efforts further.\u00a0<\/p>\n