The Petries are wonderful people and Dick Van Dyke is a legend. The Bluths are awful and I cannot rewatch the show once while I can watch Dick Van Dyke forever.
Same here. While I respect the Dick Van Dyke show's place in comedy history (I loved it when I was a kid), the person I am now loves the entire despicable Bluth family. Just the screenshot of Jason Bateman making That Face means I have to go binge the series again.
This is rough. I love both the Dick Van Dyke show and Arrested Development something fierce. And Arrested Development's first season is, alongside Cheers, one of the most perfect first seasons of TV I've ever seen, and I've wathced it more than just about any show of this century. Problem is that each season of AD gets markedly less good, though season 2 is still pretty great and 3 is definitely good. I don't recall Dick Van Dyke falling off in quite the same way, though. But then, I voted for the Simpsons in an earlier round. What to do, what to do.
The Petries are wonderful people and Dick Van Dyke is a legend. The Bluths are awful and I cannot rewatch the show once while I can watch Dick Van Dyke forever.
This is the most difficult matchup of this bracket so far.
In the end I had to go with my heart, and no show has ever made me laugh as hard as Arrested Development.
Same here. While I respect the Dick Van Dyke show's place in comedy history (I loved it when I was a kid), the person I am now loves the entire despicable Bluth family. Just the screenshot of Jason Bateman making That Face means I have to go binge the series again.
This is rough. I love both the Dick Van Dyke show and Arrested Development something fierce. And Arrested Development's first season is, alongside Cheers, one of the most perfect first seasons of TV I've ever seen, and I've wathced it more than just about any show of this century. Problem is that each season of AD gets markedly less good, though season 2 is still pretty great and 3 is definitely good. I don't recall Dick Van Dyke falling off in quite the same way, though. But then, I voted for the Simpsons in an earlier round. What to do, what to do.
I had that The Simpsons problem too. The show it is now makes it hard to remember how sharp it was for over a decade.