10 fictional companies on TV you wouldn't want to invest in

From Arrested Development's Bluth Company to Lost's Oceanic Airlines, a rundown of small-screen companies too risky for your hard-earned cash

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It was just this year that the long-awaited fourth season of the cultishly beloved sitcom Arrested Development hit Netflix — but in news that will make you feel older than an evening with Lucille 2, tomorrow marks a full decade since the show premiered on Fox.

On November 2, 2003, audiences were first introduced to the Bluth family, the comic clan around which Mitchell Hurwitz's sitcom was built. It was also American armchair dwellers' first glimpse into the family's notoriously unreliable business: An Iraqi home–building, cornball-frying, banana-freezing Bluth Company, which has fluctuated between "triple sell" and "don't buy" during the show's run.

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Daniel is a freelance writer, an Englishman abroad, and a pop culture junkie. He writes about film, TV, and lifestyle for outlets including MSN, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Evening Standard, and Yahoo.