Re: Frankie Muniz Going To Appear On Arrested Development
I think Arrested Development is a great show. (It's on tonight, in fact, on BBC2.) As MITM18 said, it's presented as a documentary (with Ron Howard as narrator, who played little Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show" and Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days"), although the show is about a fictional family, called the Buths.
There's George Bluth Sr, who used to be head of the Bluth Company, and his wife Lucille, their four adult children, GOB (which stands for George Oscar Bluth and is pronounced Jobe - there have been a few times on the show when people, such as a news reporter, have accidentally called him "Gob"), twins Michael and Lindsay, and the youngest, Buster, who is too attached to his mother. Lindsay is married to Tobias Funke, who used to be a psychiatrist, but lost his medical license after giving CPR to a man who it turned out wasn't having a heart attack. They have a daughter, called Maeby, and Michael also has a son named George-Michael, who is one of my favourite characters, along with Gob and Tobias. George-Michael is a really good, hard-working kid, very nervous and polite, and has a crush on his cousin Maeby (although he's sort of managed to forget this crush and has currently got a girlfriend, called Ann Veal, who his father hardly knows, but doesn't like her, all the same.) Currently, in season two, which the BBC is showing, their lawyer is Barry Zuckerkorn (played by Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie on "Happy Days"), the worst lawyer you could imagine.
Anyway, in the first episode, George Sr was arrested for using the company's money for his own purposes and Michael is consistently trying to straighten out the family and save the company. George Sr has managed to escape from prison (he escaped in the last episode of the first season by faking a heart attack, and there's a funny moment where the entire family is gathered at the hospital. The doctor comes out and says, "We lost him." What he means is that George Sr has escaped, but the family thinks that he means he has died. Horrified and upset, they enter the room to see him, see the empty bed and the open window...and as the narrator says, "It was then that they realised that George Sr wasn't dead - but was fleeing the country that he loved so very much."
Presently, George Sr is back in the country and is hiding in the attic of Michael's home, which he shares with George-Michael, Lindsay, Tobias and Maeby.
Apologies for the rather long-winded reply. I tend to ramble about things I'm interested in.