I was going to write a post about how we should all stop crying about Arrested Development and just watch The Office, which just gets awesomer and awesomer with every show. But then I watched the last four episodes of AD, and I can’t bring myself to let go.

Oh, Arrested Development! The wondrous twists and turns! The incessant inside jokes! The borderline offensiveness! The characters you can’t help loving, despite the outlandish absurdity of the plotlines! Will there ever be a show again so obsessed with itself, with such hilarious results? What other show could make the same joke over and over again, and have it increase in funniness every time? (e.g., “Marry me!” and “Her?”)

And what other show could get away with being so blatantly preoccupied with incest? The most obvious example is also the tamest: George Michael is obsessed with his cousin, Maeby (who, of course, turns out not to be his cousin. Not that he gets to end up with her or anything). Maeby had also hooked up with another cousin (Steve Holt!) before she knew that he was a cousin. And there’s Buster, who has an unnaturally close attachment to his mother, Lucille, and who dates a woman his mother’s age who’s also named Lucille.

And then there’s the final episodes, which take the incest thing to a whole new level: siblings. Michael (played by Jason Bateman, see below) thinks he has a long lost sister, and so goes to a bar to meet her. She turns out to be a prostitute who thinks he wants to hire her, and she is played by Justine Bateman (see below). Gross in real life. Later Michael finds out that Lindsay, his sister on the show, was actually adopted, and so she attempts to seduce him. Gross in fictional life. Finally GOB, their older brother, hits on Lindsay. Double and triple gross.

But funny! I don’t know how they do it (did it), but it is (was) pretty amazing. Alas. At least we will have the DVDs.

I am dying of cuteness. They look exactly the same now, only more world-weary. They also both, by the way, grace VH1’s 100 Greatest Teen Stars list. As they should. Adorable! 

I especially liked the Veronica Mars shout-out, censored by Fox. Mark your calendars for March 1st: Maeby and George Michael on Veronica Mars. Someone will have to tell me what happens afterward, because I’m pretty sure I will be too excited to see straight.

Though the weather outside is (or will soon be) frightful, VH1 knows just how to make the time pass by: 100 Greatest Teen Stars. I have been watching and taking notes of movies I need to add to the Netflix queue. So far I have:

• Lucas
• Running on Empty
• Stand By Me
• Just One of the Guys
• Class

I am alternately amused, nostalgic, and extremely frightened. Less than half of these people went on to success and fortune in acting. The others seem to be good sports about their teen idol status, even Corey Feldman, for which I imagine it must be difficult, as he is currently starring on stage in a musical adaptation of Fatal Attraction. I am in no way kidding about this.

There’s nothing better than a good 80s high school movie. And I will stand by that statement.