sydneyesque / thesounknown / annahinks / dashedlines / Chris Piascik
Arrested Development got canceled because there were approximately nine of us who watched it while it was on the air, and that wasn’t enough to get it renewed. We were very vocal supporters, and told all of our friends there was a reason it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy, and we definitely had water-cooler talk every Monday morning trading favorite quips and figuring out that George Sr. built houses in Iraq, and all of our friends looked on, uninterested. And then it was canceled and we were bitter, angry, unhappy, watching those last four episodes that aired in a two-hour block against the Olympic opening ceremony on a Friday night in February.
And then a few years later your friends started bringing up in random conversations that they were starting to watch it, and they said things like “Yeah, it’s really funny” and you wanted to stab them because you had been saying that for at least four years, and you started to notice when you went to someone’s house they had the DVDs out on a bookshelf or the show listed in their favorites on Facebook and they started being like “This show is so funny! I can’t believe it got canceled!” and you thought
FUCK YOU.
what she said.
my thoughts exactly.
