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Karina was at a film screening tonight, so Jen, Ryan, and I got together to watch tonight's episode of Arrested Development together and bring you a good ole fashioned 3-way chatcast complete with screen captures from tonight's episode: For British Eyes Only. I just want to say that I am concerned. This week's episode lacked the traditional introduction and the infamous "On the next installment of Arrested Development..."(paraphrasing) section at the end. I thought that they went light on the narrator as well, although Ryan and Jen didn't seem to agree. Let us know what you think in the comments. Are they trying to reinvent (and thereby ruin) the show in order to snag more viewers?

In any case, check after the jump for the chatcast. Enjoy!
Begin chatcast:

C.K.: it's about to start!!!!!
C.K.: OMG
Jen: yaya
Jen: ok lets' start
Ryan: yeeeehaawww
Jen: I'm Jen Funk Segrest, millionaire and monkey wrangler
C.K.: Welcome to the Arrested Development three way chatcast
Ryan: Ryan j Budke reporting live and in person
C.K.: I'm C.K.
C.K.: which stands for Chatty Kathy
Ryan: think of this as an experiment in chatcasting gone horribly horribly wrong
8:00 PM
Ryan: the 3 of us are going to talk about AD as it happens and hope that all of you reading can keep up and follow our derailed trains of thought
C.K.: and I'll ad screencaps
Jen: I love buster
C.K.: buster rules
C.K.: "I'm a MONSTER"
Jen: Just want that out in the open
Ryan: Jeffrey Tambor is a genius
Jen: btw I'm a blue man group fan
Jen: they rock

Ryan: George Sr. is under house arrest? nice twist
C.K.: is the mother still off of the post part meds?
Ryan: must be
Ryan: ha, i like how they blurred Buster's "stump"
Jen: why did they fuzz the end of his stump?
C.K.: what happened to the regular beginning?!
C.K.: with the music
C.K.: and the "This is the story..."
C.K.: my breakfast
C.K.: lol
Ryan: don't know, guess they thought they could fit more in this way
C.K.: booo
Jen: the networks suck trying to cut the intros out
C.K.: Gob is the best
C.K.: ".....in squiggly!"
Ryan: i don't mind this show too much doing that since it was mostly new material
C.K.: lol

C.K.: protestacular
Jen: i wonder is jason bateman is a big a born again jesus freak as his sister is
C.K.: Steve HOLT
Ryan: steve holt
C.K.: lol
Ryan: prostateticular

Jen: hahah maagic marker on Tobias's head
Jen: sharpies can do anything!
Ryan: that's why they're "magic"
Jen: i so have a hard time buying she's a lesbian
Jen: and austrailian
8:05 PM
C.K.: with those eyebrows?
Ryan: i don't, gigidy gigidy
C.K.: I buy both
Ryan: hahaha
Ryan: uh oh, Chachi is coming up...
C.K.: Andy Griffith!? Is he really going to be in the show
Jen: does opie just call all his o ld buddies?
C.K.: that would be awesome
Jen: too bad tom bosley died
Ryan: that would be great
C.K.: hte BRITS
Jen: you ever hear griffith's old stand up act?
Jen: back inteh 50's?
Jen: pretty funny for back then
C.K.: lol
Ryan: I thought that was the guy who played the soup nazi

C.K.: RUMSFELT pic classic
Jen: lol
Jen: I love jeffery tambour
C.K.: cuckoo a cha

Ryan: hahaha the chicken dance

Jen: Gob's a nut
Ryan: as long as they're not in mexico
C.K.: LOL
C.K.: with the nose
C.K.: beak
Ryan: no satellite but there's a banjo in the closet
C.K.: BOOP COMMERCIAL BREAK
Jen: lincoln logs
Jen: lol
Jen: ck and his boops
Ryan: i bet jen and i watch the same ones
Jen: maybe
Jen: but I amon directtv
C.K.: this is subway
Jen: so no locals
C.K.: and now deep clean invigorating scrub
C.K.: the MAN
C.K.: I kind of like this commercial
Jen: yeah
Ryan: probably not then
Ryan: yea, i've seen this one
C.K.: I'm bummed about the lack of an intro
C.K.: and the fact that the intro was more or less one long take
C.K.: not the normal cut cut cut with narrator
8:10 PM
C.K.: BOOP
C.K.: back on
Ryan: i kind of liked it, it's like their "next week on AD" that never happen
C.K.: british eyes only

Ryan: hahaha the British District, i bet we don't see that on The OC
C.K.: and the car on the wrong side of the street
Jen: LOL
Ryan: and here's my girlfriend

C.K.: Ryan's girlfriend
C.K.: She's lost weight since you dated her tho
C.K.: back when she was in Monster
C.K.: lol
Ryan: lol
C.K.: he called her a prostitute
Jen: haha
Ryan: he just called her a prostitute
Ryan: ha
Ryan: delay
Jen: It was the hoser!
C.K.: beauty, eh?
Ryan: i like her glasses
C.K.: what did Michael jsut do with his hands
C.K.: lol
Jen: this is so not in london
Jen: lol
C.K.: her accent is horrible
C.K.: Michael called her a hooker again

C.K.: awesome
Ryan: i'm not trying to pick you up, but is there some way i can come by and pick you up
Jen: wellshe has two to fight through
Ryan: Tobias is buy-curious
C.K.: lol
C.K.: CALL ME

Jen: country codes
Jen: LOL
C.K.: I've always wanted to do that to someone
Jen: his accent is awful too
Ryan: i don't know anyone with a foreign number
C.K.: it's australian
C.K.: BOOP COMMERCIAL
Ryan: yea, back up you f'in ponce
Jen: a canadian doing a bad english accent
8:15 PM
C.K.: stevie wonder rules
Ryan: ha
Ryan: see, i got that commercial
Jen: ad a south african doing awful english accent
Jen: yeah
Ryan: what is entertainment coming to?
Jen: all the nationalities are the same
Ryan: now we have to outsource our accents?
Jen: it's the locals
C.K.: I like that they are making fun of the Brits
C.K.: instead of doing the tried and true make fun of the French
C.K.: where's the narrator tho?
C.K.: have we heard him at all yet?
Jen: olive garden is to italy what her bad acccent is to england
Ryan: yea, remember he brought us up to date about Steve Holt
C.K.: I wonder if they are revamping the show post its premiere not getting the ratings they wanted
Ryan: hmmm... maybe, but almost all of these had been filmed by now
C.K.: thus the no intro and less narrator
Jen: or maybe they were running long on time and just used a shorter intro
C.K.: true, but they could have re-editted
Ryan: i doubt they'd cut the narrator, that seems to get the most critical praise
Jen: sometimes that extra 20 seconds is just the best cut
C.K.: they've plenty of that
Ryan: of course that doesn't mean ratings... so...
C.K.: they're looking for a larger audience now
Ryan: i still say they're both just coincidences
C.K.: holy crap
Jen: is the narrator gone?
Ryan: no,not gone
C.K.: BOOP
C.K.: there is the narrator
Ryan: see, i think we just hadn't noticed
Jen: oh i could call someone worse thana ponce
Jen: thats pretty mild
C.K.: a bloody ponce
Ryan: oh, nice
C.K.: feelings
C.K.: lol
Ryan: could it be love?
Ryan: no i know what an erection feels like
C.K.: "I know what an erection feels like Michael"
Jen: hahah
Ryan: ha
Ryan: i'm the patsy
8:20 PM
C.K.: lol

C.K.: I was told it was a bob
Ryan: but he's bob... ha...
C.K.: lol
Ryan: love the Brad Garret reference, one of the funniest stand up comics ever
C.K.: could be GOB
C.K.: lol

Ryan: I'd make you blue
C.K.: fare morrow
Ryan: I remember when Charlize did this one thing when we were dating....
Ryan: wait, not appropriate
Jen: LOL
C.K.: lol
C.K.: the bird
Jen: BTW Tobias Funke and I are not related
C.K.: pennies from HEAVEN
Jen: <--- Jen Funk Segrest
Ryan: or doves out the window
Jen: our name is pronounced right
Ryan: love Portia's pigtails
Ryan: lol

C.K.: lol the news reel
Ryan: the itsy bitsy IRA
C.K.: itsy bitsy
C.K.: lol
C.K.: ha
Jen: NO one making of andy griffith
Ryan: i can't emphasize tha enough
C.K.: lol
C.K.: BIRD
Jen: is ron howard the narrator fr real?
Ryan: yea
C.K.: yes
Jen: or is it someone else who sounds like him
C.K.: he's the producer too
Ryan: no, it's him
8:25 PM
C.K.: I fooled his own son
Ryan: Iol, she just tazered George Sr.
C.K.: he was asking for it

Jen: harry hamlin, lol
C.K.: omg
Ryan: i like the glass of water blur
C.K.: Clash of the Titans is one of the best movies ever
Ryan: true dat
Ryan: ah, Rita
Jen: all the indiscriminate bluring! stop the madness!

Ryan: bastard, that's my woman
Ryan: uh oh... Rita's a mole
C.K.: for british eyes only
C.K.: BOOP
Ryan: next week on Arrested Development?
Ryan: nothing?
C.K.: coming
C.K.: after the commercials
Ryan: i hope
C.K.: hopefully
Ryan: normally they do it right away
C.K.: I told you they changed the format
C.K.: it sucks
C.K.: the new format sucks
Jen: I'm sorry that 20's flapper hat she's wearing does nothing for her
Ryan: she could wear a burlap sack and it would look fantastic
C.K.: although it would probably chafe
Jen: hey it even might win her an oscar
Ryan: ha, touche
C.K.: oooh game boy micro commercial
Ryan: yea, i want one
C.K.: kitchen confidential is pretty good
Jen: kitchen confidential s good
C.K.: lol
C.K.: JINX
Ryan: well i was writing something but screw you guys
C.K.: LOL
Jen: AHHH
C.K.: Scott BAIO

8:30 PM
Ryan: holy crap, Bob Loblaw
C.K.: BOOP
Ryan: what's better than that
C.K.: end of the show
C.K.: I hate the new format
Ryan: ditto
C.K.: they need the intro back and the next time on arrested development back
Ryan: i would much rather have the preview than the recap
Ryan: yup yup yup
C.K.: any final words?
Ryan: i really don't think there was that much less narrator
Ryan: can't wait for next week
Jen: bob Loblaw!
Ryan: this was fun
Ryan: jen's slow
C.K.: I think it was 20% less narrator
Ryan: you know the normal stuff
Jen: no. that's my final word
C.K.: They told me it was a bob
C.K.: a BOB LOBLAW
Ryan: Blah blah blah next week
Ryan: peace out puppies
Jen: next week more of ryan's girlfriend
Ryan: and Ryan is happy
C.K.: thanks for chatting, yall
C.K.: I'll slap screenshots in all this chatter
Ryan: so.. uh... who's actually gonna post this?
Jen: ok sweet
Ryan: excellent
C.K.: me
Jen: ck ca if he's gonna do screen shots
Ryan: alright guys, i'm gonna watch some tv, later
C.K.: cool
C.K.: later
C.K.: me too
Ryan: talk to you tomorrow i'm sure
***Ryan has left this chat.***
C.K.: I think he ruined our chat
Jen: woo
C.K.: JUST KIDDING
C.K.: I should include that in the chatcast
Jen: hahah yeah