ALOTT5MA FOREGONE CONCLUSION OF NEXT YEAR, OR: GO THE OTHER WAY. IT'LL LOOK WORSE This list will fawn over TAR while distancing itself from Jonathan and early-round exitees Rob and Amber. We (really, just Adam) will continue to be your most comprehensive source for mukluk coverage. Britney will end the year a mother (or mother-to-be) but not a wife and we will pencil in 2017 for the combination bat mitzvah/seance/implant imbroglio/Nickelodeon debut/denial of canoodling with Wilder Valderrama/Us Magazine "too sexy too soon" cover for Kabbalah Juicy Spears-Federline. Either Dean or Ickes McClinton08 will take over the Democratic helm, thus reinforcing the Republican stranglehold on government.
But those are the runners-up. Arrested Development is the best show on network television. Therefore, my own ALOTT5MA Foregone Conclusion of Next Year is that it will be cancelled. Let's review the math. Tonight's episode of Arrested Development featured (a) incest jokes (2); (b) a joke about a "colored man" (blue); (c) double entendres about sex, oral sex (2), infidelity (many), and anal sex; (d) the ingestion of drugs; (e) a wicked stab at fundamentalist Christians; and (f) for the second straight week, a plot point featuring the public exposure of male character's genitals. At a time when Michael Powell's FCC, prompted by exactly nine complaints (apparently from people who weren't actually watching the show), is investigating NBC's coverage of that gay burlesque show known as the Olympic opening ceremonies, we probably have to thank the confluence of two factors for the fact that AD hasn't been fined into oblivion: (1) nobody is watching it; and (2) Rupert Murdoch owns Fox. Anyway, there is more comedy in the editing and reaction shots of this show than there has been the entire season of, say, Joey, so get it while it lasts. But I'm preaching to the choir, right?
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