Why AD Rules
Monday night's episode blatantly parodied the show's situation.
"The Bluths were desperate," the narrator (Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director and one of show's executive producers) intoned about the show's hyper-dysfunctional family. "The press had them all but finished."
Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman, then announced: "If we want a chance of keeping this family going past the next few weeks, we're going to have to pull out all the stops."
..."Our backs are against the wall and it's really come to begging," Michael Bluth said -- which the narrator immediately followed with: "Please tell your friends about this show."