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So everyone's ready for the new episodes of "Arrested Development" this weekend, right? Everyone's on board? Well, here's one thing you should not do in preparation for the big event: Do not ask Will Arnett to do the chicken dance for you. Because he will not.
In an interview with the New York Times, Arnett, who plays GOB Bluth on the show, came clean about what it feels like to have randos come up to him and ask him to perform on the spot:
How much have you come to resent the Chicken Dance? I never look a gift horse in either the mouth or the nether regions. I just don’t look at the horse. Out of context I’m not prepared to — look, I’m not sure if you were aware of this, but I’m not a monkey. I’m a 43-year-old man. I’m not going to do the chicken dance on the 1 train.
And in case you're not sure what the chicken dance is, allow us to enlighten you:
