Notes from Lone Oak
Here are 11 of the best times when “Arrested Development” makes a reference to an actor’s real life or past roles.
Henry Winkler making the Fonz pose and jumping a shark.
Henry Winkler playing against type as the incompetent, foul-mouthed, bi-curious family lawyer was one of the great casting coups of “Arrested Development”. Also, if any show deserved to have Winkler recreate both his classic Fonzie pose AND his infamous shark jumping, it was this one.
Amy Poehler cast as GOB’s wife.
Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are married in real life, so it was logical to cast Amy Poehler as GOB’s unnamed seal-dealing wife. (Although I’m going to go with GOB’s theory that his super-hot wife with huge cans is named Crindy.)
Charlize Theron in “Monster” as her “pre-plastic surgery” photo.
This was a really strong one. When it’s revealed that Charlize Theron’s character Rita has a lot of money (she owns all of Wee Britain AND the Wee Britain in Cleveland), her uncle talks about how she had plastic surgery to look like she does now. Then they flash up the photo of Charlize from “Monster”… where she gained a ton of weight and took every possible measure to make herself look terrible. It’s a laugh-out-loud shout out, because you never, ever see it coming… but afterward it makes so much sense.
Bob Odenkirk doing role playing with Tobias.
It was extraordinarily unsurprising when David Cross’s “Mr. Show” partner Bob Odenkirk showed up as a therapist just a handful of episodes into the first season of “Arrested”. It was like when Adam Carolla was a guest on the first week of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, or Kyle Gass had a cameo in “School of Rock”. Some comedy duos are just attached at the hip, even when one goes on to become a little (or a lot) bigger.
Tony Hale referencing his Volkswagen Mr. Roboto commercial.
Turns out, before Tony Hale was Buster, he was in a Volkswagen commercial where he danced to Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” in the car. (It’s one of those commercials that makes you say, “Oh, yeah, I think I might kinda remember that.”)
So when they had him doing the robot to “Mr. Roboto” on the show, it was a direct reference to that… just with a hook for a hand and some stairs for a car. (Buster’s hand situation [avoiding a spoiler there] stands as the most foreshadowed joke in the show — if you go back through and watch “Arrested” from the beginning, you’ll see they’re making references to Buster and hands from the very beginning. It’s stunning how much foresight it took. You watch it and truly believe the writers had a long-term, multi-season plan all along.
Scott Baio brought in to replace Henry Winkler.
Scott Baio plays the character Bob Loblaw, a lawyer who’s, in many ways, the antithesis of Winkler’s Barry Zuckerkorn. (Though not as much of an antithesis as Wayne Jarvis.)
When the Bluths fire Barry and hire Bob, Scott Baio says, “This isn’t the first time I’ve been brought in to replace Barry Zuckerkorn” — a reference to when he was cast as Chachi on “Happy Days”, ostensibly as a replacement “cool guy” for Winkler’s fading Fonz.
Justine Bateman cast as Michael’s possible sister.
When they brought Justine Bateman in as Nellie, a prostitute who was potentially Michael’s sister, it cast a perfectly comedic, awkward shadow over the whole episode. Plus, with the show’s love of casual incest — they carried the cousins-in-love storyline for all three seasons — you never quite knew how far things were going to go before either Michael or Nellie put up the stop sign.
August 2011
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I’m not saying we’re arming ourselves with dead squirrels, but this hurricane is supposed to be insane. It is scheduled to start hitting the New York area tonight, and people are expressing their panic by buying tons of wine at Trader Joe’s and joking about zombies. And the fact that they might have to read books by candlelight. But we at The Mary Sue are intent on surviving this thing and posting as much as we can before our power is interrupted completely. Even if we have to use smoke signals! … In the rain and wind! … Yeah, that might not work either. But dammit, we’ll try it first! (BuzzFeed)
WASHINGTON—With Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy on gay men and women serving in the military, set to expire Sept. 20, tens of thousands of U.S. service members are reportedly busy gearing up for marathon sessions of asking and telling. “Finally, after years of being silent about my…
So, I had to go to the clinic today to get a tetanus shot, since after Friday’s rusty fan mishap I was feeling even worse than usual and wanted to make sure it wasn’t early onset tetanus/etc. As soon as I mentioned the word ‘fatigue’ the physician stopped her differential and insisted I go talk to one of their psychotherapists, as I was “obviously depressed.” Obviously I have no issue with psychology, indeed I’m even studying it, but I went there for a tetanus shot and maybe some blood work, but received a lecture on psychopathy first.
It reminded me of my last job when physicians would think that an integrative approach means being physician+psychologist+best friend+whatever other specialties you’d like to throw in there. Integrative models are supposed to use evidence-based medicine and best-practice principles to put the patient first and as part of a team approach. She wasn’t listening to her patient, never mind putting her first. No matter how many times I expressed that this wasn’t the issue, she kept going on about it and the services they offer there.
I had never before experienced this in a primary care setting, and it was infuriating. You can’t meet a patient and within less than 5 minutes pass judgement, give life advice, and push psychopharmaceuticals, all with arrogance and condescension.
I know I shouldn’t have had as much anger as I did over the situation, which some would say means maybe I do need go talk to someone about what’s been going on, but it comes back to respecting the patient’s choices and listening to the patient. Writing it out has dissipated any anger I had left, so thanks for listening too.
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On a lighter note, it’s my puppy Prynne’s 12th birthday today, and in 2 weeks it will be 10 years that we rescued her. We went to the park this morning and she was all aglow with her rainbow bandana. I also made her a special PB cake. Love.
In a possibly game-changing move, the American Psychological Association unanimously approved a resolution in favor of full marriage equality. If all goes well, the political world should pick up on this as supporting evidence in the fight for gay marriage rights. From the Advocate:
“The resolution points to numerous recent studies, including findings that ‘many gay men and lesbians, like their heterosexual counterparts, desire to form stable, long-lasting and committed intimate relationships and are successful in doing so,’” reports USA Today.
“It adds that ‘emerging evidence suggests that statewide campaigns to deny same-sex couples legal access to civil marriage are a significant source of stress to the lesbian, gay and bisexual residents of those states and may have negative effects on their psychological well-being.’”Hey, marriage equality opponents: what else do you need?
Scott Weber seems to have been behaving badly. The Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (JCAPN) has retracted five of Weber’s papers, dating back to 2009. And the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP)and Perspectives in Psychiatric Care also have pulled articles by the nursing researcher. The reason: he misused his sources and plagiarized the work of others.
That’s our interpretation of the retraction notices, which come close to saying as much but don’t quite get there. Here they are, so you can judge for yourself:
The following article from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, “Nursing Care of Families with Parents Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender,” by Scott Weber, published online 25 January 2010, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Poster, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to references that could not be verified and significant overlap with previously published material. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00282.x
The following article from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing,“ Depressive Illness in Teens and Preteens and Effectiveness of the RADS-2 as a First-Stage Assessment. Part 1: Descriptive Paper” by Scott Weber, et al, published online on 17 June 2009, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in-Chief, Elizabeth Poster, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to references that could not be verified. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00283.x
The following article from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, “Results of Psychometric Testing of the RADS-2 with School-Based Adolescents Seeking Assistance for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Concerns. Part 2: Research Brief,” by Scott Weber, published online on 17 June 2009, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Ellizabeth Poster, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to references that could not be verified. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00284.x
The following article from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, “Treatment of Trauma- and Abuse-Related Dissociative Symptom Disorders in Children and Adolescents,” by Scott Weber, published online on 3 February 2009, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in- Chief, Elizabeth Poster, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to references that could not be verified. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00285.x
The following article from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, “Improving Treatment of Adolescent Depression in Primary Care,” by Scott Weber, et al, published online 7 December 2010, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Poster, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to significant overlap with previously published material. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00286.x
The notice for the JAANP paper,”Critical care nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists interface patterns with computer-based decision support systems,” and Perspectives is Psychiatric Care are similar. First the JAANP one:
The following article from the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, published online 26 October 2007, in Wiley Online Library (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in-Chief, Charon Pierson, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.:
Critical Care Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists Interface Patterns with Computer-Based Decision Support Systems by Scott Weber
The retraction has been agreed due to significant overlap with previously published materials.
Then the Perspectives in Psychiatric Care one:
The following article from Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, “Measurement of Parenting Intention, Decision-Making, and Expectations,” by Scott Weber, Betty J. Hill, Dianxu Ren, and Rodger L. Beatty, published online on July 5, 2010, in Wiley Online Library (http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com) has been retracted by agreement between the journal editor-in-chief, Geraldine Pearson, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to significant overlap with previously published material.
Ironically, Weber was guest editor for the JCAPN‘s special issue on Mental Health Nursing Care of LGBT Adolescents and Young Adults, which came out in January 2010. An article he wrote for that issue is the first retraction listed above. His editorial, written with Poster, closes with the following passage:
On behalf of all the authors, we believe this compendium of papers will provide nurses and other adolescent health clinicians with new information about this population, including insights on how to most effectively provide mental health care to and with this exciting new generation.
Um, maybe not quite so much of that information was new after all …
We tried to reach Poster but haven’t heard back.
Weber used to be at the University of Pittsburgh, but he has moved on (the dean’s office wouldn’t talk with us). His phone number there is no longer working and his name is no longer in the faculty directory. He does, however, show up as a faculty member at Walden University, an online school whose most recent commencement speaker was Bill Clinton. And he evidently considers himself an expert on ethics, judging from the title of one of his articles in Advance for Nurses: “The Moral Compass of Nursing.”
The lede paragraph puts it nicely:
I frequently am asked business-related questions that fall in the gray area between ethics and legality. Although ethics and law are separate domains, the issues we face in healthcare often intersect these areas. While the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics is the standard of ethical conduct, often nurses are confronted with issues that go beyond these principles.
How true, how true.
Anyway, we spoke with a publishing source familiar with this case who told us to expect more retractions of Weber’s work. (He appears to have dozens of citations to his name, many, if not most of which are single-authored articles.) The source also told us that Weber was guilty of massaging the dates of his references — they were all real — to make them look more current. Now, that’s a first for us, and it doesn’t seem like the smartest idea.
We’ll update when we learn more.
