Cogito, Ergo Sumana for 2009 April 12

# (9) 12 Apr 2009, 01:14PM: Bluths as Bartlett's: Some lines from Arrested Development stick in my mind as incisive embodiments of some less-acknowledged fallacies, afflictions, and distinctions. To wit:

• Should the Fünkes try an open marriage? Tobias notes that many couples he counseled thought it would work for them, even though it never works, and indeed it didn't work for those couples either. Beat. "But it might work for us!"
• Michael disengaging from Marta, his brother's girlfriend. "This is wrong...not hot wrong, regular wrong."

"Illusions, Dad! You don't have time for my illusions!" has a nice little critique of missing-the-point nitpicking, but it's not as strong an association for me. Any other candidates?

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