I assume the character is about hovering around the 29-31 mark (something that Fisher pulls off easily) which is an age where you can believe her going for a forty-something film producer or an early-twenties guy who seems to be the next Zuckerberg-style internet mogul.

I'd forgotten The Thick of It. Series 4 was just fantastic. Extra Mannion and it built to a hell of a finish. If Jamie had turned up then it would have made it a no-brainer between it and AD.

And I apologise for what must appear to be a humblebrag post.

Same here (well, not the watching it right now bit). I was at the London premiere for Arrested Development in May and spotted Iannucci in the crowd, it took all my resolve - and my friend's good advice - not to follow him to the toilets.

Fair enough. This is the first time I've seen him do his thing so I'm happy to hold my hands up sand admit I don't get it.

The return of Arrested Development and the conclusion of Breaking Bad. Just those two series alone have made 2013 the most exciting year of TV for me in a long time.

Is it? Well now I do feel like an idiot.

Am I the only one who saw this and checked the username expected to see a 'Reposted (insert website) Comments' gimmick title?

Agreed - animation is a tool, not a genre. Bob's Burgers is a comedy and one I would rate as being funnier this year than Arrested Development has been (and I am a huge fan of AD Season 4).

We just say manager.

Ricky Gervais won't shut up about his atheism.

What a picture!

I agree, that's a cracking sequence, regardless of the film's context.

You're probably right but I still watched the whole thing hoping we'd catch a glimpse of him in the wild, finally looking like the Governer of the comics with straggly hair.

A great film, one of my most pleasant surprises of 2013. I'd agree that it is "doggedly manipulative and yet consistently affecting" but it really works. I was gripped throughout, though the film isn't afraid to gut-punch you for your efforts. The ending especially is tense as any thriller I've seen recently.…

We also haven't seen Oscar, Maeby or Tobias do one. The last can be forgiven, having only married into the family. And we've not seen Michael do one with any gusto.

@avclub-8a6bc9f95f689b4a78f015b1189e62d1:disqus  - I read the same comment from Hurwitz (but also can't find it now, a something search is proving fruitless). I believe it was along the lines of Buster being offended by the family's imitations of chickens, as shown with his "chickens don't clap!" outburst.

Very great.

The Longpigs were one of the good, solid bands of that era. She Said is a cracking song. I'd always taken it as a man just being frustrated by a controlling girlfriend.
Lost Myself is another of those that can happily whisk me away to my teenage years of 1996.

I realise I run the risk of sounding thick for asking this - whatever the answer is - but is that a real paedophile Morris is talking to in that scene? I've always assumed not but there's a part of me that would like to believe Morris would actually confront a real sex offender with a list of made-up nicknames, just…