{"id":1970,"date":"2005-11-17T23:52:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/17\/aaaaargh\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T23:52:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T06:52:58","slug":"aaaaargh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Aaaaargh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s clearly been doomed for a while, but it still pisses me off that <em>Arrested Development<\/em> &#8211; which, along with <em>The Office<\/em> (which I find so brilliantly humiliating that it&#8217;s actually very hard for me to watch) is the best current comedy on TV &#8211; has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>For once, it&#8217;s hard to blame Fox &#8211; they did give it three seasons to find an audience, which is more than they do for most shows I like. It got written up all over the place by adoring critics. So why didn&#8217;t audiences start watching it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hecklerspray.com\/hecklerspray\/2005\/11\/foxs_arrested_d.html\">This person<\/a> thinks that <em>Arrested Development<\/em> was just too smart for American audiences; <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerherald.com\/artsetc\/2005\/11\/14\/loss_of_arrested_de.php\">this one<\/a> blames baseball for chopping Fox&#8217;s broadcast season into chunks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Firefly&#8230; Arrested Development&#8230; Dead Like Me&#8230; Wonderfalls&#8230; <\/em> Sometimes I think that my liking a TV show is a kiss of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s clearly been doomed for a while, but it still pisses me off that Arrested Development &#8211; which, along with The Office (which I find so brilliantly humiliating that it&#8217;s actually very hard for me to watch) is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}