peaseblossom and I just finished watching the 1st season of Arrested Development last night. I found the first third really funny, the 2nd third funny and the last third tolerable. I think the problem is that they have a very set pattern to the humor and the writers don't stray from it much. Which makes the show very predictible by the end. A good example of a tv show that might be very fun to watch weekly but doesn't survive the dvd well.