(FORTUNE Magazine) – If Dennis Kozlowski's randy toga party became a sitcom, it might look something like Fox's Arrested Development (Sundays, 9:30 P.M.), which not only is the first show to gleefully spoof the post-Enron business world but also happens to be the best new sitcom of the fall season.

Real estate mogul George Bluth (the masterful Jeffrey Tambor from The Larry Sanders Show) and his clan have been looting the company till for such pet projects as family charity HOOP (Hands Off Our Penises, if you must know) and the magic career of son Gob, pronounced biblically, like Job. In motors the SEC, and soon Dennis (excuse me, George Bluth) is sporting a doo-rag and hangin' with the homeys in prison. "It wasn't so much Enron," says executive producer Ron Howard, who provides soothing deadpan narration over this dysfunction. "You can glance at the paper in almost any given week and find an example."

Luckily the writers keep the business argot light. After all, the intricacies of special-purpose entities don't make good TV, but watching Bluth turn corporate succession into a beauty pageant absolutely does. --Henry Goldblatt