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Now that we all watched the marathon Arrested Development finale Friday night — or, far more likely, now that we all DVRed the Arrested Development finale Friday night and watched it, hungover, Saturday afternoon — we know that the two hours of Bluthiness contained, like all episodes of the show, lots of densely layered facts and details. It's the perfect opportunity, then, for the Times's talented Ms. Stanley to show off her special skill — the utter inability to get facts and details right — and, to fully appreciate that skill, we really must flash back to her Friday review of the shows and see what she got wrong.

Let's focus on this graf, in which we think we find a threefer:

In its final episodes, "Arrested Development" tries hard to push red-state buttons. Michael's other idiot brother, Gob (Will Arnett), a failed magician who insists on being called an illusionist, travels to Iraq to practice his craft. Recently converted to Christianity, Gob devises a magic act that includes re-enacting biblical miracles. In Baghdad, Gob delights a crowd by conjuring a burning bush. The Iraqis assume it is an effigy of President Bush and riot, and Gob is arrested by American forces as an insurgency sympathizer.

So what's wrong? Well, first, Gob is not, actually, an idiot brother. Buster is. Gob is irritating and narcissistic, but he's not an idiot. He's also not a convert to Christianity; he was merely dating a Christian chick and constantly trying to get two Christian girls back to his hotel room for a "holy Trinity." And, finally, his burning bush was not an effigy of Bush; incited by Gob, Iraqis brought the own effigies.

Anything else, kids? There's twelve more grafs, so odds are there's something. The Comments section is all yours....

A Quick End to the Cult Series That Lived Up to Its Name [NYT]