This pilot was so good that the pilot of Succession uses the exact same plot.

There were dozens of us!  Dozens!

It’s quite possibly the best comedy pilot of all time. Most shows need a few episodes to really gel. Arrested Development was top notch from the start.

Never really noticed how weirdly DeShitheel walks ... but once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

The classic short-term gain, long-term rat-fucked.

I’m 6'4" and wish I was 6'2". Waiting for gravity and old age to do it’s thing and make things right.

Speaking of Vietnam, being over 6' sure feels like I caught the last chopper out of Saigon. There’s this whole subculture of men and women who obsess over men needing to be 6' and I’m so glad I never had to deal with the bad side of it.

The price increase was not over 10 years. It was practically overnight

Quadrupled the rate downtown and the inner core of the city (up thru like Wrigleyville on the North Side, and down to Sox Park area), Double in the fringe neighborhoods at first, though now those neighborhoods like Edgewater (where I live) is up by about another 50 percent.

The crazy thing is that I am sure he would infinitely prefer to defend his height (to quote George Costanza, “It is not a lie if you believe it is true”) than field questions like “your brand of fascism is immensely unpopular with other fascists across the US. Is it more of an indictment on you that other Nazis find…

There is something so pathetic about someone who has to constantly tell you how much of a manly man he is...

which DeSantis declines as he can’t accept gifts.

They quadrupled the rate when they took over. 

Libertarians are the stupidest people you ever meet and their ‘ideas’ are based on the simple fact that they never think things through.

Most people knew it was a bad deal from the start, but Mayor Daley pushed this through the city council in such a short time that he didn’t give the citizens a chance to weigh in on the deal. All that money was spent within a few years of getting it so Chicago has nothing to show for it. Daley also sold off the Skyway…

I was living there in 08 when this went through. Me and my wife went out onto our street and gorilla glued like 20 meters shut in protest.. small effort but i am glad it cost the city a little bit for its stupidity

Hey Miller (Warren Oates here)...this really sucks but isn’t surprising. I can’t imagine how it feels to see your original concept and web site get forced to change it’s style and concept.

*Sean is about to board train, but stops to give note to commentariat*

Oh my God! THE AV CLUB HAS DISBANDED!

Sean — I think I can speak for all of us salivating, rancorous, sewer-dwelling mutants when I say we’ll miss you. Thanks for the years and years of great work.