New season of Arrested Development released today

[Dr. Love]

The original season 4 outline sounded much more promising... Lucille goes to prison (doing the time of her life) and Lucille 2 becomes the new mother of the family, which freaks buster out. Tobias is revealed to actually have been a black man all along (there is so much foreshadowing for this its unreal).

[FORD]

One minor complaint.... what's with all the censored "bleeps" on a show that isn't actually airing on TV, and therefore isn't subject to FCC censorship rules?

Tobias being a black man? Not sure how they would pull that off, but it would be more interesting than implying he's a closet case, but still hooking up with women (or whatever that was).

In any case, the ending certainly implies that there are more episodes in the works. Whether they will actually materialize is another question.

[Dr. Love]

One minor complaint.... what's with all the censored "bleeps" on a show that isn't actually airing on TV, and therefore isn't subject to FCC censorship rules?

Tobias being a black man? Not sure how they would pull that off, but it would be more interesting than implying he's a closet case, but still hooking up with women (or whatever that was).

In any case, the ending certainly implies that there are more episodes in the works. Whether they will actually materialize is another question.

Tobias is an albino black man: The Arrested Development writers were known for using a lot of foreshadowing (think of all the references to Buster losing his arm to a seal, none of which will be included here because they’re well-documented elsewhere). One such plot development that the writers started to foreshadow but never followed through on was about Tobias being revealed to be a black man with a rare skin condition. Arrested Development star Alia Shawkiat spilled the beans in an interview, saying:
“[The writers have] gone on little tangents where you think they're going to start a storyline and they'll pull it back. I remember they were going to do one about Tobias actually being a rare black person, where he would have this rare disease and was actually black. It's these hysterical, crazy ideas that they could have continued on.”
Fox cutting the second and third seasons short might have had something to do with this plotline being dropped, but there are references to Tobias being a black man sprinkled throughout the show. Here are a few:

Tobias: I am surprised that she’s going after somebody so similar to my own type.
(in reference to Lindsay flirting with Ice the Bounty Hunter, from the episode “Good Grief”)

Lindsay: People hear the name Tobias, they think ‘big black guy.’
Tobias: Well, obviously, I’m not a big guy. I’m not a Carl Weathers, par example. (from the episode “Afternoon Delight”)
Lucille: Michael. I was almost attacked last night in my own home. I walk in and there’s a colored man in my kitchen.
Michael: “Colored?” What color was he exactly?
Lucille: Blue. (from the episode “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay (to Maeby): I don’t know where that hair of yours came from. (in reference to how Maeby’s frizzy hair hurt her chances in child beauty pageants, from the episode “Notapusy”)

And then, there’s the cover of Tobias’s book, The Man Inside Me:

[ELVIS]

What, are you a fucking Arrested Development conspiracy theorist now ??

[FORD]

Just in case anybody gives a shit.....

The "Arrested Development" team has re-edited the 4th season, and rather than an entire episode focused on one character's perspective, as this season was originally released, the "remixed" version has been re-sequenced to run like a typical sitcom, and thus now is 22 episodes the same length they were on broadcast TV, instead of the 15 longer episodes as they originally appeared on Netflix.

It's available now on Netflix (or anywhere else you might look for such things "unofficially"