I made my first motion picture acting debut yesterday.  Actually, it’s highly unlikely that the film will make it to the silver screen, but I would imagine seeing my mug on the DVD is not out of the question.  The film is actually a documentary about the late, great show Arrested Development. I’m not really sure if they’ve come up with a name for it yet, but it’s currently being referred to as the Arrested Development Documentary Project.

The reason I was able to participate is because my friend Josh has a buddy who has purchased a ton of actual props used from the show.  The filmmakers caught wind of it and decided they wanted to swing through Kansas City while they made their way across the country interviewing other fellow A.D. dorks.  Josh was invited to join who then invited me to join.  The whole thing was pretty much what I expected.  We all took turns waiting around while other people got interviewed and then we had to answer a bunch of questions with it was our turn.  They asked questions like “Why would you recommend the show to someone?”, “Why do you think the show was canceled?”, “What are you favorite quotes?”, etc. Hopefully my answers were unique enough to make the final cut because the guy in charge of the shoot said they had interviewed around 90 people so far and were looking to interview between 120-150 fans by the time they finished.  I’ll have my fingers crossed.

I had heard that Josh’s friend had quite the collection, and he definitely does.  Apparently a ton of the props were sold on Ebay from the agency that deal with the show once it was canceled for good. Here’s a snapshot of just a few items:

The two books are books that were featured with Tobias (David Cross) on the show, and the box on the upper left actually contains Buster’s medal.  As expected, the “books” are really just book covers as there are totally different books inside each of them.  The most amazing prop of all, though, is the famed Aztec Tomb from the show.  It played a big role in the pilot episode and was used occasionally throughout the series in the attic of their house.  GOB (Will Arnett) used it to perform his magic tricks illusions.  It was pretty awesome to see it up close, but I can’t imagine paying thousands of dollars to keep such a giant thing in my house.  The trap door even swiveled around and everything, though. 

After spending a couple hours talking solely about Arrested Development, I’ve decided I need to fire up the DVDs and run through them again.  Seriously, that show is brilliant.  It’s really a shame that the majority of what you see on TV now is either a game show, reality show, or some bland, generic sitcom.  I mean, seriously, the quality of evening program has to be awfully diluted to have Two and a Half Men be one of the highest rated shows.  Anyway, the trailer for the movie is below, and the date at the end should be for 2008, not 2009.