Sunday night viewing

I don't know about the rest of you, but at the end of this very long week my brain is fried. So let's look at something cooling and uncontroversial, say, for example, tv sitcoms. A glimpse of Arrested Development, via the Carpetbagger Report:

But the show's overall ideological thrust is plain. In another recent episode, idiot son George Oscar Bluth II ("G.O.B.") takes over the family housing development business and decides to clear the company name by building a new model home. G.O.B. insists, against the protestations of his brother, Michael, that he can build the new house in just two weeks. To meet his hasty deadline, G.O.B. builds the shaky facade of a house. He later appears at the ribbon-cutting with a "Mission Accomplished" banner draped across his chest and triumphantly declares, "My brother wasn't optimistic it could be done, but I wouldn't take 'not optimistic it could be done' for an answer!" G.O.B. then unveils the new company motto, "Solid as a Rock," the last two words of which he pronounces "Iraq." Of course, the house immediately collapses.

Of late my Sunday night preferences have been fixed on the truly wonderful American Dreams, but I'll have to check out Arrested Development too, at least when American Dreams is showing repeats.