There are few things in life, much less this show, as joyous as Carl Weathers being the thriftiest guy in the world. Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is the Bluth way, after all. While other solo episodes in the original Season 4 cut led to some unmemorable misadventures, this half-hour focus on a broken GOB made the whole experiment worth it.
The apex of the Season 1 Marta storyline, this episode is proof that some of the recurring jokes they knew to go out on top. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. This episode also gave us the unforgettable visual of Tobias paint himself blue for an audition as the understudy of the infamous Blue Man group.
Another fan-favorite guest star on the show was Julia Louis-Dreyfus who plays Maggie Lizer , a supposedly blind attorney and on-off girlfriend of Michael. Maggie makes an appearance again in Season 2, this time visibly pregnant. Michael thinks the baby is his which leads to moments of utter confusion leading to yet another home invasion. Tobias and Lindsay break into her house to determine if she really is pregnant.
Is she faking it just like her blindness? Jarvis is so serious that he refuses to smile and never jokes. Lucille attempts to flirt with the man. His father, George Sr attempts to run away from police custody in a muscle suit after being allowed to participate in the Living Classics pageant. This leads to a series of dramatic events as competition heats eventually ending with Gob burning down the family banana stand.
He only realizes that there were bags of cash hidden inside the walls. It also sets up the running gag of Gob stuffing a dove inside his suit for an illusion only for the sad bird to breathe its last. If you notice closely, Lindsay orders Bananas Foster, a flaming dessert indicating the fate of the banana stand. It contains most elements of what makes Arrested Development such a funny show.
But, the two hit it off and oddly start bonding. On the other hand, Michael who thought that his son is on drugs decides to teach him a lesson using a familiar face from the past. All of this leads to a shocking finale as we come to the stunning realization that George Sr is always a step ahead. How can we conclude this list without mentioning a single Buster episode?
This episode follows Buster as he leaves his nest in hopes of spreading his wings. He learns to stand up for himself, telling his mother that he would like the front seat in the car as a small but significant act of defiance.
While other shows take their own sweet time for the actors to settle into their roles, Arrested Development starts off strong with well-written characters. School elections, and the political parody that leads to, are common in sitcoms. Featherbottom, a terrible and inexplicable riff on Mrs. George Sr. The boys try to teach their father a lesson, even using his lesson-teaching accomplice J. Walter Weatherman against him, but that just leads to a mess of confusion and lesson on top of lesson.
His plan is a disaster, as the bachelor party does not go as planned. Once Buster believes himself to have murdered a stripper she was just narcoleptic in a juice haze it was kind of hard to get things back on track, especially once Michael turns up. They are setting the table for a lot of what happens in the second season. Tobias gets obsessed with the Blue Man Group. Gob becomes the President of the Bluth Company. Oh, and Lucille signs Buster up for the Army.
All of these stories start paying off right away, including Tobias blue-ing himself. Remember Maggie Lizer? Because of this, George Sr. How do we find this out? Naturally, because her seeing-eye dog, Justice, is actually blind. The model home does sink into the ground and start to fall apart, though, leaving the family without a proper home to live in. Want to talk absurdity? Meanwhile, Gob is trying to pass a miniaturized tiny town off as an actual real estate development just being viewed from far away by Japanese investors.
Does this culminate with Tobias dressed as a mole smashing the tiny town a la a Godzilla movie? Of course, it does. A seal that developed a taste for blood thanks to Gob.
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