In recent weeks, about a billion jellyfish-like "purple sailors" have washed up on West coast beaches of the United States. The animals—known as "by-the-wind sailors" or Velella velella—founder on the shore and pile up like a carpet of deflated blue and purple balloons.

The jellies started washing up on Oregon and Washington State beaches four to six weeks ago, says Kevin Raskoff, a marine biologist at Monterey Peninsula College in central California. Then they started showing up in California.

The animals usually float on the surface in the open ocean, riding wind and water currents in search of food using a hardened, triangular "sail." But in years when the wind changes direction, they are pushed toward shore—and almost certain death. (See stunning portraits of the Portuguese man-of-war, another open oceanseason 4," Bateman said of "Arrested Development." It can be recalled that season 4 ended with Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli) mysteriously dying, and Buster (Tony Hale) getting the blame for her apparent murder.

And while a lot of fans were disappointed with the way season 4 was formatted, Bateman recommended going back to watch the whole thing again "because the first two episodes of the fifth season basically stitch into the final parts of the fourth season as a sort of a continuation and it kind of zippers the two together, then starting in episode 3, really starts covering all the new ground of this fifth season."

Bateman previously teased that the upcoming season was structured like a murder mystery, essentially focusing on Lucille Two's death. The nature of the