'Arrested Development' Day Is Coming on May 26, and You Need to Get Ready

Your save the date for the Bluth family reunion has arrived. Netflix officially announced Thursday that all the new episodes of Arrested Development will be arriving on May 26 at 12:01 a.m. PDT, and that we'll be getting one more episode than expected. Yes, fans previously believed that there would be 10 episodes in the resuscitated fourth season, before it was made known that there would actually be 14 episodes, but now those clever folks at Netflix have cheekily revealed that there will actually be 15. (They said they made a "huge mistake"—ha.) 

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So now it's official. You have a little over a month to prepare, and prepare you must. Like so. 

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Make Sure You've Seen Every Episode (or Re-watch Every Episode) 

All three existing seasons are currently streaming on Netflix. You know the drill. 

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Plan How You're Going to Watch Season 4

This is key. Netflix, as has become their big thing, will release all 15 episodes in one weekend dump. Plus, they're being released on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. That means you have the opportunity to down them all on your day off. But is that really the right move? We evaluated the pros and cons with House of Cards, but Arrested Development is a different beast. If you're a fan you've been awaiting these episodes for a long time. You might want to savor them. It's the difference between reading each new Harry Potter in one night, regulating your consumption so you make the book last longer.

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You also get to choose your own adventure here. Bateman told GQ that there is a "suggested" order, but that "the action across the episodes is happening simultaneously. If I'm driving down the street in my episode and Gob's going down the sidewalk on his Segway, you could stop my episode, go into his episode, and follow him and see where he's going." Plan accordingly, or at least think ahead once the episode descriptions arrive.

Decide if You're Going to Tweet Your Viewing Experience

Be wary, you could make some people mad in the process. 

Select Your Preferred Recipe for Bluth Frozen Bananas

Obviously that's what you're going to snack on during your binge-watching session. There are multiple recipes out there, so take your pick. And remember, there's always money in the banana stand. 

Get to Know Your Guest Cast 

The original Fox show was always good for guest stars, but Netflix and show runner Mitch Hurwitz have lined up an impressive roster for this new season. New additions include Seth Rogen, John Slattery (aka Roger Sterling), Conan O'Brien, and Kristin Wiig, who will be playing a young Lucille Bluth, which will be amazing. She's already played a young-ish Liza Minnelli who plays Lucille Bluth's friend/nemesis Lucille Austero. It's perfect casting. 

Also: narrator/executive producer/Opie Ron Howard will be appearing with executive producer Brian Grazer in a scene where they get stuck in an elevator with Michael. Mind you, the last episode of the initial series ended with—spoiler alert—Howard telling Maeby that he doesn't see her family's story as a TV show, but instead as a movie. Which brings us to...

Talk About the Movie!

Bateman and creator Hurwitz have been talking about the movie in Arrested Development's future for a while. At the Television Critics' Association meetings in January, Bateman explained that a) you shouldn't call it season four and b) it leads to a film. He's even been gabbing about it recently, in that GQ interview:

At a talk with Michael Cera last month, David Cross (aka Tobias Fünke) threw some water on the fire: "I don’t know if there's going to be a movie."  

...and Make Some Cut-Offs

You know, just to be in solidarity with Tobias.