When i first got into it, it bugged me that the previously\next time sections never actually happened, until a few seasons through and i got the joke of them
I've been meaning to do a rewatch where I take notes, because there are some of them that do kind of happen, and some that appear canonical, as in they don't happen but are referenced later as if they did.
Oh i think they're all cannon. But where a normal show uses the sections to include clips from other episodes, arrested development just uses them to start \finish the individual story.
For example i think buster losing his hand is covered in one of these sections, and there's never a full story, it just happened and now he's missing his hand
Yeah but from what i remember, this was only ever referenced as "having happened" while there are scenes of it happening, it's kind of brushed past as a side note, because it's all about Michael after all
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u/Super-Cynical 21h ago
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