CDog's Guide To Holiday Programming, Day 4 (Or, COME ON!)

I'm going to depart from my usual style tonight by writing an open letter. To a TV show.
22. Afternoon Delight - Arrested Development, 2004

Photo Credit: Fox

Dear Arrested Development,

Thanks for treating your viewers like intelligent people who could understand a joke without having it explained to them. Part of your genius was the fact that you could make a passing reference in one episode that would then reappear without a direct callback or commentary seven or eight episodes down the line, and it would automatically become 8x funnier as a result.

Also, thank you for shining the brightest light possible on the magic that is the quirky and absurd. It unlocked a lot of brains.

Now, I take you to the highlights, because there is really nothing to say that hasn't already been said by the legions who have been mourning the loss of the Bluths for years.

Highlights

1) The blue fingerprints on the wall that nobody acknowledges. Genius.

2) Never has a montage of a suit's escalating value been so amazing.

3) Alia Shawkat's delivery sharpens with every episode. This is one of her best.

4) "First I blow him, then I poke him."

5) Few things please me more than Buster talking about, "Army."

6) World's Most Effective Use of the Bleep award.

7) "The seal is for marksmanship. And the gorilla...is for sandracing."

8) Mae Whitman deserves every high five in the world.

9) Have any of us really stopped to consider the lyrics of Afternoon Delight? We have now.

10) It's actually a little bit devastating when Tobias misses that call.