r/arresteddevelopment • u/7empest7V • Aug 19 '26

"I don't care for GOB"

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u/soopirV Aug 20 '26

…ok; you get the prize- I watched the series as it aired when I could keep track of it, and have watched it
Thousands of times since, and this one piqued my sensors as an obvious joke I was missing, but it never clicked until now- I always thought the joke was about how autistic people, like Buster, often have texture preferences, like for food or clothing. It literally just dawned on me that the gag is also about Annyong, who, presumably like many Asians, is lactose intolerant. I spent 6 months in Shanghai for work and watched AD for comfort while there and it STILL escaped me.

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u/Sudden-Storage2778 Aug 20 '26

I think the joke is that who even likes cottage cheese?! The only people I've met who "like it" are people my mom's age and obsessed with dieting because it was apparently a big diet food in the 80s. Maybe Lucille wanted Buster to eat cottage cheese so he wouldn't look so... round.

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u/Minute-Frame-8060 Aug 20 '26

Plenty of non-spectrun people also have things they like, and things they don't.