okay but whatās so great about the original season 4 of arrested development is that it had the classic feel of the show with jokes you didnāt get punchlines for or set ups for until after the fact, you donāt understand why people say things until well afterwards, etc.
the greatest example is theĀ āhomo muchā speech, because itās clear michael tuned out about half of that speech, and, when you first watch it, you just think gobās being some asshole calling Michael gay, nbd. then you see the full thing inĀ āa new attitudeā and you know exactly why he said it and itās funny (and tbh a little emotional). you even soon after that have the reveal of why michael was all likeĀ āi KNEW ITā and why gob was freaking out so much over who he had slept with.
another one is when lindsay and tobias and maeby are getting a house and you see the realtor have a big reaction to tobiasā license plate, which you donāt see until his first episode. tbh, i think it makes the reveal funnier than showing the plate and then seeing the guy gasp. like, yeah, itās funny, but itās funnier when youāre waiting for the actual punchline.Ā
itās a lot more fun waiting to see why maeby is being chased by security and running past gob or finding out gob was the one who nearly ran over michael, something you just think is a random thing to show michael isnāt paying attention to things because heās so over the moon about rebel. itās funny to find out several episodes later that fakeblock is literally not what you think it is. and just seeing how the family is still all interconnected no matter how much they try to separate is so fucking PERFECT for them.
s4 was written to be out of order for several reasons, mostly from necessity over the actors all having other things they had to do, other commitments made, other jobs, all of that. and so the writers wrote it that way and did it very cleverly and i just think the remix is a travesty for trying to change that - and changing it rather unsuccessfully.Ā
