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Remember - there's a special new episode of "Arrested Development" tonight at 9:30 on FOX! Make sure you catch this show as it is absolutely hilarious. Jason Bateman is a wildly underrated comic actor and the show is suberbly written. I don't have enough space here to properly describe how funny this show is, but suffice to say, you can hear me laughing from the parking lot of my apartment complex. I'm not generally a loud laugher, but this show makes me cry - on par with Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe(no longer on the air) and a step above The Simpsons, Scrubs, Beavis and Butthead(now on MTV 2), and Malcolm in the Middle. Don't believe me? Then read this review in the Newark Star-Ledger. Need further proof? Michael, the main character, has become the president of his father's company after his father was imprisoned for various embezzling schemes. In order to fix the company, he had to sell off all of his family's perks, including their cars and private jet. However, he was able to keep the pickup truck with extendable stairs on the back that led people up to the private jet. Thus, he and the family are now required to use the stair car as their primary means of transportation. Every time he has to drive somewhere, we see him get in the stair car and I lose it. What type of show has the balls to come up with a joke that stupid and keep it going the entire series? A great one (see Everybody Loves Raymond and Robert's insistence on touching food to his chin before eating it.) In related TV news, also remember to check out Wonderfalls, this Thursday and Friday on FOX. Deirdre tipped me off to this, and the quirky show has a lot of potential. It premeired on Friday, but they are reairing the premiere episode Thusday with a follow up Friday of episode 2. The main character is a wise ass college graduate who lives in Niagara Falls. For some reason, inanimate objects have begun to talk to her, and now she is compelled to do what they ask, usually something nice for a stranger. It's a bit hokey, but it also has the feel of one of those better X-Files episodes, where they would drop the alien ridiculousness and fool around at a carnival or something. Even if you did see Friday's episode, you can watch it again with commentary this Thursday. Apparently, FOX will be running audio commentary with the episode by the show's creators. It's an interesting concept and I hope it doesn't get bogged down by too many people hitting the server at once. Even without commentary the show is watchable simply for the main character, Jaye, played by Caroline Dhavernas. She does a great job of making what could be a lame concept edgy and interesting. I swear I have seen her in something before, but all I could find was Lost and Delirious, a little, unknown movie that I caught while unemployed last year and enjoyed much more than I expected. Well, I clearly cannot give the proper amount of space to the Amber story now, so it waits for another day. Until then, take solace in the fact that I just threw 3 hours of good TV your way (Wonderfalls - Thursday and Friday, Arrested Development - Wednesday and Sunday). For your troubles, here's another nugget: Significant Others on Bravo was funny after two episodes. Caught them during the can-Amber-stop-vomitting? marathon. It normally airs on Tuesdays, but its cable so it'll be on another 80 times. P.S. Double your pleasure: South Park and Chapelle's Show are both new and worth watching tonight. So, it's --- 9:30 -- Arrested Development - FOX 10:00 to midnight -- Comedy Central South Park Chapelle's Show The Daily Show Tough Crowd (anybody catch Greg Giraldo flipping out Monday? Awesome.)