Making Your Banana Stand Tim Doyle Arrested Development Print Release

Tim Doyle's new Arrested Development print for Spoke Art was revealed by Germaine Lussier at Slash Film earlier today. Based on one of the most famous lines in Arrested Development is “there’s always money in the Banana Stand.”

To celebrate the return of Arrested Development (and bananas) Tim Doyle has created his third print based on the series for Spoke Art the first two were for his two Unreal Estate Solo Shows. It’s a companion piece to the original banana stand image called “Making YOUR Banana Stand.” The image features of G.O.B. and Steve Holt’s competing Banana Shack from season three. This print will be on sale later today at the Spoke Art website at random time follow @Spoke_Art on Twitter for the exact time. It’s a 18 x 24 inch six-color screenprint in an edition of 150.

Tim Doyle on the design of the print :

The idea behind this one was to mimic what is essentially a running kind of joke on AD- the zoom-out, pull-away gag, showing the same scene from a different angle, or slowly revealing the entirety of a scene and the actors present- for comedic effect. My hope is that the people who own the original Banana Stand print from last year’s show will put this one right next to it- causing general confusion and awkward questions. This was ALMOST the print I did for this year’s UnReal Estate 2 show, but decided to go with the Model Home instead.  But after slamming Season 4 into my brain, and it’s very un-traditional structure- retreading the same material time and again from different perspectives, GOB’s Banana Shack just made more sense to me.  I did in fact re-draw the left side of the print by hand, re-tracing my own steps from almost 2 years previous. Which made me think about show-revivals and how set builders have to re-trace their steps and plans to resurrect a show like this- to make everything the same. SAME. ANYWAY- I could ramble, but I believe that would be a huge mistake.