Arrested Development

Funke in

Arrested Development,

blue.

I

wish you watched that.

I think you'd like it.

Here's the thing, I know what the Blue Man Group is, so I don't need the Arrested Development explanation either.

That's fair, but you would appreciate it.

Yes, it's the same style of fraud.

And the same types of people in government that continue to give us photographs that look so legitimate that go viral... turn out time and time and time and time again to be nothing but a sketch, a hoax, or if you're a fan of the television show Arrested Development, the equivalent of Tobias Funke snapping by accident a picture of his testicles and thighs in the bathtub because he didn't know how to use a phone.

And when the government subpoenaed the company, the Bluth company, they got those pictures and thought that they were evidence of, what was it, missile silos? Because the family had been accused of doing business with Saddam Hussein, a little bit of light treason.

And then it turns out that they were just balls.

Go Padres.

But no, you know what? It was Arrested Development.

Oh, good for you.

Yeah, Arrested Development.

We've been putting it off for so long.

You've arrested.

But, uh...

Or the Arrested Development with the Burger King.

That I have to assume was also actually Burger King.

right yeah

But it makes me think of Job.

Arrested Development? Yeah.

That's exactly what it is for me now.

That song is just that.

Yeah, totally.

I just started re-watching Arrested Development, so I'm all about the show homes at the moment.

Turning over the fake turkey and getting out the mini cereal packet.

That's where I'm at right now.

So we've got Big Nose Thug is voiced by Jeffrey Tambor, who's, again, an Emmy Award winner for his role in Transparent.

He's also in Arrested Development.

And he, too, is in Hellboy.

And then Hook Hand Thug is voiced by Brad Garrett,

was just

really it was funny and it was cinematic and there was so much movement and I just felt like the luckiest author in the world because I was like yes this is the artwork which is perfectly going to complement a story which is trying to like deliver lots of jokes like I think I was watching a lot of 30 Rock and Arrested Development at the time, but I was raised on Get Smart where you kind of got that secret agent genre that's kind of constantly being undercut with jokes and ridiculous moments and lots of really great character stuff as well.

And so seeing the characters, and I think that the characters are what's at the heart of Real Pigeons and the dynamics between the characters.

And so seeing Ben kind of like nail them in those really early days, Ben, I was thrilled.

Like it, it was a feeling that you get that sort of wrench in your stomach.

Uh, it's like, It's like – what's the guy's name? From Arrested Development, Michael Cera's character.

There's a gif of him just like laying down on the floor face first on the carpet and just giving up.

It was that feeling, just like giving up on everything and just be like, what's the next move? And then an email comes in.