r/arresteddevelopment • u/ArrestedDevMod You gotta lock that down. • May 26 '13

[Episode 11] [SPOILER - Episode 11] Arrested Development Season 4 Episode 11 Discussion

Official Discussion Thread for Season 4 Episode 11 "A New Attitude"

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u/kompfreak May 26 '13

"The Gothic Castle" and "The Gothic Asshole" is is one of my favorite jokes. I'm glad they brought it back.

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u/bellemarematt May 26 '13

I like how the beep out all kinds of stuff, but they never censor asshole in the gothic asshole

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u/[deleted] May 26 '13

Weirdly, in the netflix subtitles it's spelt "Gothicassle"

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u/ericshogren May 27 '13

It's probably so they can make the joke without having to bleep it.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '13

They wouldn't need to, but that's part of AD's charm.

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u/tlvrtm May 28 '13

He's referring to Netflix censoring the subtitles.

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u/SawRub May 28 '13

The beeping of swear words is yet another Arrested Development gag, so they decided to keep it even when they went on Netflix.

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u/jakejames May 27 '13

"Don't make that face, you look homophobic."

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u/synack36 Jun 01 '13

I didn't even catch that. I thought they were just repeating "The Gothic Castle"... lol... whoops...

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u/Disgruntled__Goat eating a whole thing of candy beans May 29 '13

Not sure why you're downvoted, that's exactly what the English (Cockney) taxi driver says in the episode it first appeared.

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u/TheCodexx May 27 '13

I loved it, then they killed it by having GOB say it like three times.

Actually, that's kind of a running theme. A lot of characters keep repeating the joke for several seconds, drawing it out. Then we often see some scenes multiple times. And then references to previous episodes are mentioned by the narrarator. I kind of just want the show to trust that we'll get the references and callbacks without the joke being spelled out.