I like this Lucille Bluth/Mitt Romney tumblr mashup thingy. It works remarkably well.

But I’m still wary of the new episodes of Arrested Development supposedly in the works. Part of it is that Mitch Hurwitz’s record since AD went off the air has been spotty at best, part of it is that I feel like too many sitcoms that succeeded it have poisoned me against some of the show’s innovations–the average sitcom has become piled high with so much exposition and so many scenes you can barely keep track of them, and it’s taken the self-consciously classical Community to restore some semblance of sanity to the thing. But mostly I think it’s for the same reason I haven’t revisited the show since the turn of the decade–the show encapsulates the early ’00s uncannily, incredibly well. I wouldn’t say it’s aged horribly, but as we move away from that period I find myself less inclined to go back to it. And it’s so tied up in what was going on then, like the housing boom, so soon to become a housing bust, that let all these entitled rich people live large. The Iraq War and its connections to domestic America. Celebrity obsession (though that one still sticks), easy money, and so on. So much of the series is grounded in those times that, unless they’re literally going to pick up right where they left off (unlikely, since Michael Cera has stubbornly refused to stop growing up), what we’ll get isn’t so much the actual Arrested Development as a show with the same name about a different series of concerns and situations, which is to say, it can’t not be an entirely new series. And, as I said before, that’s not a good thing (see this and this, lest you’ve forgotten).