Arrested Development Turns 20_ On Set With Michael Cera, Jason Bateman and Porti

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00:00 I'd love to do it for a long time, obviously, but

00:03 hopefully it'll find its audience and people will get the humor and it'll do really well.

00:07 Yeah, it's a great show to watch. It's really fun.

00:08 The guy was always bankers, there was no beating him.

00:10 Totally.

00:11 You should've been stocking up on those get-out-of-jail-free cards.

00:14 Everything is pretty much dysfunctional in this television show.

00:17 Yeah, I don't think there's one thing that resembles normalcy of any kind.

00:23 What are you doing?

00:24 Are you trying to cry?

00:25 I'm sad.

00:26 So, this is the magic trick, huh?

00:30 Illusion, Michael.

00:32 The trick is something a whore does for money.

00:33 Everything's a lot of fun.

00:35 You know, you show up on set and it's kind of like it's time to play.

00:39 It's the most enjoyable experience for an actor to be able to get in there and just do stuff

00:44 that you think is legitimately funny with people who you think are legitimately funny.

00:48 [police sirens]

00:49 Are those police boats?

00:51 [gunshot]

00:51 [woman screaming]

00:52 No, I'm serious. I think they are police boats.

00:55 There's so little ego involved on this show from top to bottom except for maybe Jason

01:01 and Portia.

01:03 Well, our father gets arrested for embezzling funds from the company in the pilot episode.

01:09 They cannot arrest a husband and wife for the same crime.

01:15 Yeah, I don't think that that's true, Dad.

01:21 Really?

01:22 [police sirens]

01:24 I got the worst f***ing attorneys.

01:28 You know, he's the guy that has made us all very rich.

01:32 He's a real estate developer.

01:35 There you get arrested development.

01:39 It's officially the first joke of the show, okay?

01:42 We start with the title.

01:44 [police sirens]

01:45 The rest of us who are very privileged, wealthy kids have to work out how to live as real

01:52 people in the real world.

01:53 And we're all useless.

01:55 We're completely idiotic and useless.

01:58 You know, Michael, Dad did name Mom as his successor.

02:02 And I'm putting Buster in charge.

02:04 That's a good choice.

02:05 Buster?

02:06 The guy who thought that the blue on the map was land?

02:10 Everybody has decided to live together in the one remaining model home that Father built.

02:18 It was supposedly the start of a major real estate development.

02:22 We just had the one model built.

02:24 Of course, everything's been frozen now, so those homes won't be built.

02:27 So there's just this one home out in the middle of this huge development, empty.

02:31 So we're all living there, under one roof.

02:33 And more comedy.

02:36 More comedy.

02:37 You know, it's really fun playing a character that is an adult who has to deal with adult siblings.

02:46 And the dynamics of the siblings as grown-ups is actually kind of new and fun and something

02:53 we all have to deal with in life.

02:55 Everything I do is so dramatic and flamboyant.

02:59 It just makes me want to set myself on fire.

03:03 Good grief, Mother.

03:05 Not all homosexuals are flamboyant.

03:08 Oh my God, I have the exact same blouse.

03:10 I'm married to Tobias Fionke.

03:13 He's a doctor of psycholinguistics who now wants to be an actor.

03:18 And you refused to support me when I had my winter regressive therapy primal scream off.

03:23 Not this again.

03:24 You know why you wanted me to be a part of that primal therapy thing?

03:28 Yes, I do know why.

03:29 Because you're a baby and you want me to be a baby so we can get along better.

03:33 How about that?

03:34 Well, two babies are better than one.

03:38 Two babies also equal one adult.

03:43 Oh, come on.

03:44 So that's his big change of life and I have to deal with that.

03:49 On top of having no money, I have an out-of-work actor as a husband.

03:52 And you know, Lindsay, by the way, I expected this from them because they're completely oblivious.

03:57 But you, you should know better.

04:00 I am simply the sanest of the bunch.

04:02 The curve is a little high.

04:05 So I'm not altogether sane, but in the arrested development world, my guy is pretty much on the ground.

04:12 He's kind of a grounding, sane-ish character, but he's still a part of our family.

04:18 He still has his quirks.

04:19 I'm basically the most appropriate guide the audience has to take you through the zoo.

04:23 So I take you to visit crazy father, crazy mother, brother, sister,

04:28 my son, who plays like 25.

04:33 He's pretty sane, too.

04:35 So basically we try to keep this family together and all of the sort of idiosyncrasies keep it from becoming a cohesive unit.

04:46 Ergo, comedy.

04:48 What have we always said is the most important thing?

04:50 Breakfast.

04:54 Family.

04:55 Family, right.

04:57 I thought you meant all the things you eat.

04:59 [music]

05:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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