Arrested Development 1/23/05
 

Where's the usual thread for this, man?

Alright episode, but the usual good GOB lines.

"This goes for the guys too, because sometimes even the guys are tapped out. But check your lease, man, you're living in Fuck City."

and

"I'm an idea man, I think I proved that with Fuck Mountain."

My Fav line
"Everyone always remembers Frank Sinatra"

Not the strongest of the season, but still a good episode this week.

"Then Gob fucked Lucille 2":lol:

Tobias is Queen Mary.

The lines he had when he was talking to Buster about being his wingman were great. :lol:

Great great episode.

This season really has been GOB all the way.

This episode was hilarious.

"I'll even take a chubby and suck it up!"

Plus the rival "gangs" :lol: I was almost tearing up at that.

I thought it was "everyone thinks they're Frank Sinatra". Either way though it got a chuckle.

My favorite line was ".........I guess she didnt see the pictures". Michael Cera has such good comic timing for a kid.

yeah, it was "everyone thinks they're frank sinatra"

"my son doesn't like to be seen in it [the stair car]"

"but he likes being seen with that girl?"

"i know, it doesn't make sense..."

Two of my favorite moments:

"I get hop-ons"
"Yeah, you get hop-ons."

"Well that's what Ask Jeeves said."

I liked that they revisited George Michael's crush on Maeby. I remember this being a huge deal in the first few episodes of the first season, but not really touched upon as of late. The George Michael / Maeby crush was one of my favorite jokes of the pilot episode.

did I miss something? How did maebe become a movie exec?

From the official site....

Tobias, meanwhile, wants to plot his route to the studio where he’ll be auditioning tomorrow

Tobias and Maeby arrive at the studio and Maeby convinces her father to get the Funke name spread around the studio before tomorrow’s audition.

Tobias begins to create his own buzz. Meanwhile, Maeby looks for an empty office to use the phone, but can’t get through to George Michael, who was supposed to be writing an essay for her. An assistant enters the office and mistakes Maeby for a high-powered entertainment exec. Maeby assigns him her essay to write.

Over at the studio, Tobias loses out on the role he was up for. But a development executive notices Maeby carrying around her book report for The Old Man and the Sea and, when she gives her name, thinks she’s the Funke everybody’s been talking about. He immediately green-lights her version of the book, starring Jude Law.

A bit of a letdown episode for me, but still miles funnier than most anything else.

The "chubby" line had me rotfl

Agreed. He's a very funny fellow. I've never seen anything like it in an actor that young.

Buster had a line early in the episode that had me rolling...but now I can't remember what it was. ARGH!

What did George Sr. say to Michael when he told him he was bored and wanted a book, all I heard was "Pop-pop..."

I believe it was "Pop-pop wants a Grisham!"

"Indeed, Starla and Buster did hit it off well, Buster being a sweeter, more supportive man than she was used to...and Starla being a woman that wasn't 70"

"Hey brother ..."

das

"And George Sr. was only too happy to have something to read:

Armageddon 2: Armageddon...*crosses it out*...hmmmm, bad title."

I think the last 3 have been great. It was the first few that were a bit of a letdown. But like you said still funnier than anything else.

loved the blue dot for george sr.

Loved the progression of Singles City, Swing City, F*** City, F*** Mountain.

GOB: "Plus, I took his fancy eyebrows."

I can't remember the line later when Michael says " Are you wearing his eyebrows?"
GOB: " Yeah, they make me feel ?dressy?"

I also liked, "Do you get a windbreaker with the car?"

The return of the hand chair :lol:

birrman54

Except for the Christmas episode it seems like every episode this season has about a dozen posts in here saying it's a letdown, and for every one of those posts someone else says it was better than the last one. I guess they are managing to keep everyone happy :p Personally, I think they've been pretty consistent.

that had me almost in fuckin tears. :lol:

the girl that plays anne can't be feelin too good about herself after how they talk about her on this show. its so great. :lol:

:up: I find it quite odd as well. Every week, "it was a letdown." Yet it is the most quoted show since Seinfeld. At least on here anyway. Look at this thread as an example.

I mean, Come on!

I bet you are thinking of the conversation between him and Michael at the beginning: Michael to Buster:

"You need to meet someone."...."A woman."...."A woman who isn't mom."

Well they're not saying she's ugly - just that she's completely bland and boring. "It's as Ann as the nose on Plain's face" is a perfect example.

Besides - like the actress cares. She's got a recurring part with LINES on an award-winning comedy!

No kidding. Look at Urkel. How long did that last?

Had to add that to my sig. I'm still cracking up.

There have been three letdown episodes this season for me. The first one and the two before last Sunday's episode. One of those had the most quotable line of the entire series ("COME ON!"), but overall that episode wasn't as witty as usual. Even the worst episodes are still better than 95% of the other comedies on TV.

I watched this again last night and found some great missed moments.
Michael asking what his mother had done to her bathroom, and Oscar chiming in about sitting on the jet and...
Maybe sitting down to read a script, getting a papercut and sayign "back to film school for you asshole"
Oscar stating they need another floating thermometer, and Lucille's blue cross number.
Buster telling Michael his mother is being more controlling.

I didn't get the whole floating thermometer bit. Care to explain?

Oscar walks out of the bathroom, walking gingerly holding his stomach and states "we need another floating thermometer and I need your blue cross number". I take it to mean he ingested the thermometer.

if by ingested you mean " *^%&$(& it #$ his &*^%^&#" then yes he did.

Yeah I'm thinking it was more of a little glass enema.

Maybe he can get the mountain lion cubs from the South Park "Woodland Critters" episode to "retrieve" it from his ass. That would make for a nice crossover.

Do you mean shove it up his ass? It looks like you went overboard censoring yourself.