Laughs aren’t ‘Arrested,’ but Fox sitcom could be

Last call for laughter.

Fox’s ‘‘Arrested Development closes its third season – and perhaps the series – with four episodes (beginning at 8 tonight on WFXT, Ch. 25).

If it is the end – Showtime is reportedly considering picking up the show but dickering over costs – the best sitcom of the past decade is going out with head held high, a drink in hand and one tipsy swagger.

You’ll find more jokes here than even 10 episodes of ‘‘My Name Is Earl – and about 3,000 more than any episode of ‘‘Two and a Half Men.

Fox didn’t do the show any favors this season, running it in bursts on Monday nights and then burying it again. Now it airs the final four on a Friday night – against a little thing called the Olympics.

Way to bury a show.

Oh, but don’t blame Fox, people.

Blame yourselves.

Why, why, why didn’t you watch this show?

In tonight’s two-hour finale (the network deviously released only the first three episodes to this delirious critic), the Bluth family tackles its legal troubles with a mock trial that brings in Judge Reinhold (yes, the actor) as the judge.