Arrested Development

Arrested Development is one of my personal favorite sitcoms, starring some of my favorite actors, including Michael Cera and Jason Bateman. It first went on the air in 2003 on the network Fox, continuing until 2006, and then in 2013 another season premiered on Netflix, and the fifth season is to be released this year.

The television show uses a variety of production elements that were considerably rare at the time of the first season. It was shot directly on location and mocked the styles of documentary films and reality television, using heavy cutaway gags, "security camera footage," archive films, and a plethora of flashbacks. There is also the presence of Ron Howard, the producer of the show and an omniscient third-person narrator throughout each episode who makes both humorous comments on the characters and aids towards the telling of the plot. Arrested Development also strays from the fake laugh tracks that most comedy shows have.

In the series, the Bluth family lives in a model home in Newport Beach, California; however, the home is actually located at 23155 Dolorosa Street in Woodland Hills, outside of Los Angeles.

The model home is edited to appear in the middle of nowhere, but the home is actually in the middle of a neighborhood with other houses around it. It also has a fence in front of it in real life.

Many of the locations from this show are in and around Culver City and Marina del Rey. A frequent location includes the Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand located in Fisherman's Village in Marina del Rey in front of the lighthouse. In the show, it was started by George Bluth in 1953, located on the Oceanside Wharf boardwalk, on Balboa Island in Newport Beach. The banana stand, though, is frequently destroyed and rebuilt throughout the show.

I went to the location at night, so unfortunately I was only able to get one decent photograph, the one shown below.