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1The cast and crew of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Beware of potential spoilers, although most will be marked.
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3[[index]]
4* [[Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentTheBluths The Bluth Family]]
5* [[Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]]
6* [[Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentOneShotCharacters One-Shot Characters]]
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9[[folder: The Narrator]]
10!!The Narrator
11!!!Voiced by: Creator/RonHoward
12[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mh7g3quony1s1kd97o1_400_4477.png]]
13->''"Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's '''Arrested Development'''."''
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15The LemonyNarrator of the show, who helps the series keep up its fast-paced plot.
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17* ActorAllusion: There are plenty throughout the series, especially noticable in Season 4 now that [[spoiler:Creator/RonHoward himself is an actual, canonical character in the universe.]]
18* CelebrityParadox: Bizarrely, despite that the narrator makes constant references to Howard’s career and more-or-less subtly portrays Howard in a positive light throughout Season 4, he still refers to the Ron Howard appearing in the actual show in third person. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the re-edit of Season 4:
19-->'''Narrator''': When I...conic producer Ron Howard offered to make Michael a producer in a movie about his family.
20%%* DeadpanSnarker
21%%* EndOfSeriesAwareness
22* LemonyNarrator: As the series goes on, he gets closer to being this, especially when commenting on the ShowWithinAShow's own narrator.
23%%* NoFourthWall
24* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Less and less as the series goes on, and he gets more and more moments that betray his initial characterisation as the impartial bystander.
25-->'''Narrator''': ... It was weird.
26* SelfDeprecation: Ron Howard takes a pretty good beating in season 4, though this paradoxically makes him one of the more reasonable and well-adjusted characters in the series, [[AuthorAppeal probably on purpose]].
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