Arrested Development Themes

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Arrested Development is a television show created by Mitchell Hurwitz it currently has 4 seasons and is still being produced. Over its running time the show has dealt with many matters and is often seen as one of the best television shows ever made. Arrested Development is about the Bluth family that, for the most part, was living in wealth and luxury until the father, George Bluth, was arrested for defrauding investors, petty theft, and grand theft. Arrested Development often dealt with class and social status, with these in mind we also look into the notions of creativity and how these connect together and make the show and its characters as interesting and diverse as they are. Even though they are a family each one of them are quite different …show more content…
Before the beginning of Community Jeff Winger, the protagonist, had previously been a lawyer that had been debarred because his degree was fake and was not truly allowed to be an acting lawyer he begins attending Greendale Community College to acquire the degree he is lacking which lead him to meet the people that would become his study group and friends. George Bluth as previously mentioned was arrested for multiple fraud and other alike charges, this caused the premise of the show with the family living together, and this is dealt with within the first episode of the show. These creative decisions are still now fairly unique to these shows, not many other producers or writers have delved into this area even though it has now proven in 2 separate shows to be a viable way to begin and hold a show, Community for example is a show that theoretically should have only been around for 3 seasons as this is the time the students would have taken to complete the courses they were undertaking however the popularity of the show drove them to continue making it, while Arrested Development is a show that could have been on air much longer then it originally was, only receiving it’s continuation when purchased by Netflix in 2013. …show more content…
The protagonist of the show Michael Bluth and his son George Michael Bluth were to begin with living in the attic of the model house that the family ends up all occupying, he is the only of the 3 children that continued working for their father and runs and helps maintain the frozen banana stand which his father originally opened in 1953, this was what began his rise in social status. With the change in his monetary situation however he developed a “the rules don’t apply to me” type attitude when it came to his company and its money, believing it was all his own, not the companies. Not only did George Bluth continue to exploit his company as a free source of income, his wife Lucille Bluth and daughter Lindsey Bluth-Fünke also did as well thus leading to the downfall of the company and the arrest of George Bluth. This of course lead to the second change in class and social status mentioned earlier. In the “Top Banana” episode George Bluth continues to tell Michael Bluth that “there is always money in the banana stand” however Michael misinterprets his father thinking he just meant it was a means to continue to make money
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