Motherboy XXX

Some of you may have chosen to read this post because you saw the "XXX" in the title, and curiosity overcame you. Perhaps others actually recognized the reference. Truth is, I'm not creative enough to come up with interesting, random titles. "Motherboy XXX" happens to be an episode name of a  television show that I have recently become infatuated with. I would argue this show is by far one of the wittiest, funniest, and most creative TV shows ever. It even tops The Office in my book, which, if you know how much I like the Office, is saying a lot. I have two words for you: Arrested. Development.

I have a dim memory from a while back of coming across the Season 3 DVD amidst the clutter of our movie shelf in the basement. It was a hot summer day and I had grown sick of infomercials and Roseanne reruns, which is all there really is to do at my house in the middle of nowhere, and decided to recline in the basement, the only place in my house that isn't scorching, and watch an episode or two. I don't remember what episode, or really anything special about the experience. It didn't have much of an impact on me then. I probably had no idea what was going on in the show, and most likely the jokes were far too clever for me so I didn't get them.

Fast forward three years in the Uni lounge during a 6th hour free period where a friend decided to bring in a TV show to watch (this was before Super Smash bros took over the lounge), It was Arrested Development season 1. I vaguely recognized the name and recalled that I might have watched an episode before. I didn't remember it being such a good show, and told my friend this, but he insisted that it was really funny, so I'm like okay, why not I'll watch some. It was freaking hilarious. I was hooked on it. I borrowed the first disk of the season from him and took it home that weekend. All I really did that weekend was watch those eight episodes over and over again, along with season 3 which I had dug out of the basement.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of watching Arrested Development, the basic gist if the show is that this guy, Michael Bluth, has to keep his father's company afloat while his father is in jail because the authorities think his father has been doing some shady dealings with a country that the U.S. isn't on great terms with. He has this really dysfunctional high-class family that's just so ridiculous in everything that they do that it's absolutely hilarious.  One of my favorite characters on the show is Tobias, which is Michael's sister's husband whom she married as an act of rebellion to her parents, who quit being a psychiatrist to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, which leads to many funny auditions and roles he takes on, once even going into drag impersonating a nanny, Mrs. Featherbottom so that he can still be with his family after his wife Lindsay kicked him out.

It blows my mind how clever this show is. Everything is planned out perfectly, even the characters are named specifically to be tied in to later jokes or plot lines.  They use a lot of word-related humor that's subtle yet hilarious, unlike shows like Family Guy (still a great show) where they really diverge from the plot to bring you humor in "that one thing that happened one time" clips. To sum things up: It's simply the best show on earth.

Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but my show's on. Toodles.