"Arrested Deveopment": The Zaniest, Cleverest 'Pseudo-Docu-Drama' Comedy Ever

You have to see the straight man, Michael, try to make sense of his clueless, greedy, solipsistic, hysterical family and try to hold them together after their father is arrested for building houses for Saddam Hussein. How often can a straight man be one of the funniest people in the show? Perhaps only in a pseudo-docu-comedy!

I was drawn to the show through the commercials, but wisely waited until the DVD came out and had a feast of belly laughs.

The Bluth family is our worst nightmare and our salvation. When we are feeling sorry for ourselves we are sure that we are Michael surrounded by selfish, horrible people. Or worse yet, we are afraid that deep down we aren't Michael at all, but rather, inept GOB or narcissistic Lindsay or the hopelessly out of touch with ourselves Tobias. But then we see this outrageous family and know that no one is really like that at all. We relax and forgive others and ourselves and just laugh and role on the floor and laugh. And when we watch it the second time we see more layers and things we missed the first time. And this the third time there is even more.

And if Norman Cousins was right, that laughing can cure even the most dire illness, we are also adding many healthy years to our lives.

Now how can this not be the best EVER?