Will Arnett

Will Arnett plays Gob Bluth on Arrested Development, the sitcom written like a crossword. Watch the Fox years (2003–2006) for joke density unmatched on network; treat the Netflix seasons as a different sport. Arnett’s Gob is the magician as a walking callback — vanity, panic, a family that treats failure as a brand. Illusion as character. The huge mistake on purpose. Tailored suit, disaster inside it.

s01e01 is the contract: narrator as device, family as a criminal sitcom, model home as set and thesis. s01e10 (Pier Pressure) is callback density as industrial craft, not a meme kit. s01e22 is a first-season closer that already expects to be studied. Gob is how those hours teach a narration to raise an eyebrow. It does have a last episode, in 2019. The Fox years are the rewatch.

Netflix’s BoJack Horseman (2014–2020) later voiced the washed-up ’90s horse as self-loathing that sounds like a joke until it isn’t. s01e01 wears talking-horse sitcom camouflage on purpose; s05e01 (The Light Bulb Scene) treats mental-health storytelling as form; s06e16 (Nice While It Lasted) is a planned six-season landing. On TV Flash Gob still leads. BoJack is how the desk remembers the fool in expensive clothes could also carry adult animation’s prestige file.

Start in the model home if you want the crossword; stay for the horse if you want the landing. He is not only a magician the stills looped. He is why rewatch comedy still needs a fool in expensive clothes, and why a huge mistake can be character. Two machines. Same vanity, different weather.