GOB Bluth and the Continents
Mrs. Veneer and I have never been able to watch a television show regularly, at least not until we got a DVR and found a show worth watching regularly (Ugly Betty). Then along comes the writers' strike, and kablooey. But the strike gave us time to catch up on a show we missed the first time around, Arrested Development. That's got t o be the funniest American TV show of this century (that's an easy claim to bandy about, with the century being just eight years old, but still), and it leaves Seinfeld in the dust. In only a month or so we managed to watch the entire three seasons, and now that we're done we quote it all the time. But what comes back more than anything is the "majestic" keyboard line from Europe's "The Final Countdown," which hapless magician GOB ("jobe") Bluth (Will Arnett) used as the backing music to every one of his doomed magic acts. Will Arnett is a masterful character actor, as long as the character he is playing is venal, conceited, insensitive, cowardly, self-pitying, blustering, immature, mean, or just plain evil. So in honor of Will Arnett and GOB Bluth, here's the song:
"But where did the lighter fluid come from?" -- GOB Bluth
