Arrested Development 04/10/05
 

"Spring Breakout", Episode #216.


Producer(s): Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, David Nevins, Mitchell Hurwitz.

Original Airdate: April 10, 2005.

Great episode tonight. :)

I should also use this first post to say, Michael, your AD s1 is on the way. :q:

She's in Rehab!

A bit too frentic, but absolutely hillarious. This series has some of the best running gags I've ever seen.

Zach = Never-Nude :D Classic!

zach really looks like the real ggw guy..
http://www.nymetro.com/nymetro/news/...040209_175.jpg
http://www.poster.net/braff-zach/bra...ff-6205306.jpg
did george michael drop an f bomb?

It sounded like he did, but I'm pretty sure he didn't.

At this point it doesn't matter, it's quite obvious nobody's watching :p

i listened to it 2x and it sure sounded like it

There was a "viewer discretion advised" prompt before the episode. I listened 5 times to George Michael's F-bomb. I think this may end up being kind of a big deal, but hey, there's no such thing as bad pub.

You guys are probably right.. Cheap shot at getting free publicity, but if any show deserved it more than AD, I haven't seen it.

I agree.. It was so out of place.. If they were going to use it, they should've saved it for a better moment.. (except mabe was trying to hear what a "normal" teenanger would say, so the profanity would actually be appropiate then")

I replayed it three times, finally turned on the closed captioning. He (supposedly) says plucked. It even fits in context of the sentence whatever he was saying...

Great episode. Biggest laugh for me was after the drinking contest. "And now I must return to rehab..... She's in rehab!"

CC says plucked (I checked as well), but he definitely didn't say plucked. It definitely sounded like fucked to me.

Loved that the TV show said that George Sr was found in a house and not in a hole, a takeoff on the Hussein story.

you defintely need to watch the past episodes.. there is more than a reference to Hussein

You guys need better speakers, George Michael said "Plucked".

Mmm... Kitty... :drool:

And it was definitely because of the Girls With Low Self-Esteem flashes, not for a supposed f-bomb. It's the same kind of disclaimer before every GGW commercial: "Warning! The following may not be suitable for some viewers." There was no f-bomb, come on.

Solid episode either way. I can't wait for next week's finale!

I hope they bust ass and get the DVD's out soon. I've only missed a few episodes this season, but I know it'll be better watching it all straight through.

It started out slow, but when it got rolling, man. Another classic. So many great moments:

Lucille using Buster's hook as an ice pick
Buster knocking himself out with the coconut
Gob calling Lindsey a surfboard
Ron Howard with another great line: "Now that's how you narrate a story."
George Michael calling Ann and using his full name

and finally Zach. As it started out I thought it was going to be a throwaway guest spot, wasted, but then Tobias pulls Zach's pants down to reveal... a never-nude. rotf Awesome!

You just wanna see their linuses!

Good episode.

I liked how they had George Sr wink at the bottle of pills like Lucille did in the beginning:lol:

Ron Howard taking cheap shots at the other narrator was great too.

bananas and nuts

:up: Judy Greer
:up: the set up of the Bluth movie paying off
:up: more never-nudes!

How about Buster's medication:

"TAKE THREE BY MOUTH DAILY FOR HAND PAIN (Phantom)"

How about the end:

Lucille "There were 250 CC's of your father in that Banana Stand!"
Michael "No touching"

a reference to (paraphrasing)
George Sr. "There was $250,000 in that Banana Stand!"
Prison Guard "No touching!"

Oh and a big :up: as always to Ron Howard - I loved him taking shots at the Scandal Makers narrator ... "Real shoddy narrating. Just pure crap"

Oh, and how could I forget to mention Lucille doing the chicken dance!! That was great!

Oh, and George Michael definitely said "plucked"

great episode. awesome lines, awesome stories.

when was george michael supposed to have said the f word? I don't remember anytime that even sounded like it.

The line was "You're like this flower and I know its spring time but I'd hate to see you get plucked by someone who doesn't even care that you're blossoming"