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*** Season 4 is presented in a {{Rashomon}} style, each episode focusing on a single character, and the complete story only emerging after watching the entire season.

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*** Season 4 is presented in a {{Rashomon}} style, RashomonStyle, each episode focusing on a single character, and the complete story only emerging after watching the entire season.
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** Ann Veal makes her first appearance in the season 1 finale "[[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS1E22LetEmEatCake Let'em Eat Cake]]".
** His role as the narrator aside, the final shot of the season 3 finale "[[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS3E13DevelopmentArrested Development Arrested]]" marks Ron Howard's first InUniverse appearance. He becomes a bona fide recurring character in the two remaining seasons.

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* ChaosArchitecture:
** The model house, Lucille's apartment, and the Bluth Company conference room look completely different in the pilot than they do in the rest of the series.
** In ''[[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS2E8QueenForADay Queen For a Day]]'' Lucille expands her bathroom by pushing the wall it shares with Lucille 2's kitchen, despite their apartments being across the hall from one another.
** In Season 4, the outside of the two Lucilles' apartments changes from a hallway continuing to the right to a dead end which, coincidentally, fixes the goof mentioned in the previous point.



* ChromaKey: Lampshaded in Season 4. As Creator/JeffreyTambor plays both George Sr. and Oscar, it is necessary to use this effect if both of them are going to appear in a scene together at the same time. When George Sr. meets Oscar at a restaurant, he asks Oscar to take the seat opposite him as "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it would look better.]]"

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* ChromaKey: Lampshaded in Season 4. 4 and once again in the Season 4 Remix:
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As Creator/JeffreyTambor plays both George Sr. and Oscar, it is necessary to use this effect if both of them are going to appear in a scene together at the same time. When George Sr. meets Oscar at a restaurant, he asks Oscar to take the seat opposite him as "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it would look better.]]" ]]"
** Due to scheduling conflicts, Creator/LizaMinnelli shot her scene during Lucille's trial in front of a green screen, which ended up looking very noticeable. Sure enough, the Season 4 Remix's new narration for this scene calls Lucille "''green'' at ''screen''ing witnesses".
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** After Gob fails his fire trick in front of the mentally retarded Rita, her response is an astonished "But wherever did [the lighter fluid] come from?"

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** After Gob fails his fire trick in front of the Rita, [[spoiler:who is mentally retarded Rita, retarded]] her response is an astonished "But wherever did [the lighter fluid] come from?"
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* TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect: A nurse who falls in love with Buster when he's [[spoiler:faking a coma]].

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* TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect: FlorenceNightingaleEffect: A nurse who falls in love with Buster when he's [[spoiler:faking a coma]].
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: Lucille is paranoid that her Hispanic maid Lupe steals from her, and demands to search her purse before she lets her go home at the end of the day.
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* ArtisticLicenseShips: The ''Queen Mary'' actually is welded to the dock (which Michael pointed out), and actually had all the boilers and engine components removed before being docked. And it was oil-fueled, not coal

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* ArtisticLicenseShips: The ''Queen Mary'' actually is welded to the dock (which Michael pointed out), out) surrounded by a rock breakwater, and actually had all the boilers and engine components removed before being docked. And it was oil-fueled, not coal
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* ObituaryMontage: In [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS1E4KeyDecisions "Key Decisions"]], Michael Bluth attends the Desi Awards ceremony with his brother's girlfriend, Marta. He sits through a Spanish-language montage of dead people in uncomfortable silence.
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* DinnerAndAShow: Family dinners and get-togethers are almost guaranteed to [[HilarityEnsues descend into chaos]].

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* DinnerAndAShow: Family dinners and get-togethers are almost guaranteed to [[HilarityEnsues descend into chaos]].chaos.

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* InsistentTerminology: They're not ''tricks''. They're ''illusions''. Used to G.O.B.'s chagrin in [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS3E11FamilyTies "Family Ties"]], among other episodes.
** Oddly enough, GOB eventually talks about a prostitute "turning illusions," the exact reason he gave in the pilot for why he doesn't like to say "tricks."
** As much as he insists that they're "illusions" rather than "tricks" during actual magic shows, he tends to not have an issue with them being called "tricks" (and even does so himself) in casual conversation, implying that the whole thing is actually just a poor attempt to make himself seem more sophisticated while performing, rather than an actual preference.

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* InsistentTerminology: They're InsistentTerminology:
** George Sr. didn't commit treason, he committed ''light'' treason.
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not ''tricks''. They're ''illusions''. Used to G.O.B.'s chagrin in [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS3E11FamilyTies "Family Ties"]], among other episodes.
** *** Oddly enough, GOB eventually talks about a prostitute "turning illusions," the exact reason he gave in the pilot for why he doesn't like to say "tricks."
** *** As much as he insists that they're "illusions" rather than "tricks" during actual magic shows, he tends to not have an issue with them being called "tricks" (and even does so himself) in casual conversation, implying that the whole thing is actually just a poor attempt to make himself seem more sophisticated while performing, rather than an actual preference.
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The show [[TheWikiRule has a Wiki]] [[http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page on Wikia]] and comprehensive coverage on Website/{{Wikipedia}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development itself]]. The now-defunct fansite [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130121170947/http://the-op.com// Balboa Observer-Picayune]], archived on the Internet Archive, also has thorough coverage of the show's first three seasons. There is a [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopment Recap page]] listing the show's episodes and the tropes used in each of them (still in [[TitleDrop development]]).
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* OpenRelationshipFailure: {{Lampshaded}}. In season two, Lindsay and Tobias try an open marriage to see if it can salvage their strained relationship. As it turns out, Lindsay is frustrated that her attempts to flirt with other men go nowhere, and Tobias is too busy jealously stalking Lindsay on her dates to do anything else. Both of them [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday brag about how much they're sleeping around]], though.
-->'''Tobias:''' You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.\\
'''Lindsay:''' Well, did it work for those people?\\
'''Tobias:''' No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might... [[OriginalPositionFallacy but it might work for us]].

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