Arrested Development
It's from 2003, before you were born.
- Network
- FOX
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Premiered
- 2003
- Style
- mockumentary comedy
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About
As of 2026, it's 23 years old.
Arrested Development packed its episodes so densely with jokes, callbacks, and buried foreshadowing that it basically demanded a rewatch — and built a cult so devoted they did exactly that, repeatedly. The story of a wealthy, deeply dysfunctional family losing everything was too clever for its initial ratings and far too good to forget.
Cancelled, mourned, and revived years later, it gave the language an arsenal of perfect bits (the chicken dance, 'I've made a huge mistake,' the never-nude).
Brilliant, layered, and gloriously rewatchable, Arrested Development is the comedy that was too smart for its own ratings and beloved for exactly that.
Arrested Development season by season
Arrested Development ran for 5 seasons (2003–2018) across 84 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
