Gob confronts the editor of the videos that showcased his magic mistakes. Michael tricks Lucille in to rehab, and then attempts to get her out after George Sr. is kidnapped.
Spring break chaos hits 77 jokes in 29 minutes—Bluth family dysfunction peaks here.
Directed by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo · Written by Barbie Adler, Abraham Higginbotham
WAR
83.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Spring Breakout” ranks #26 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.0 — Elite. The episode packs 77 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 on impact, with Gob landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Gob on TV: Steve Holt is a bastard. He doesn't even know who his real father is.
Gob on TV Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Narrator: It was the exact plot of the film Mrs. Doubtfire.
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Narrator: Not so. Buster had once videotaped himself re-creating moments from his then favorite film, Chicago.
Maeby: Well, that's like comparing apples and some fruit nobody's ever heard of.
Maeby Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Gob: Wow. It won't be easy to win a race against myself.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist All Jokes — 77 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lindsay: If you weren't all the way on the other side of the room, I'd slap your face.
Lindsay Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Narrator: Michael had asked her to do this, but that was long before he began hiding his fugitive father in the attic.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch George Sr: Polly, cover your mouth!
Narrator · Lindsay: She hadn't even done it that time but instead intercepted her mother's housekeeper as she was arriving for work.
Lupe · Lindsay: Almost done. Yours or mister's?
Narrator: Lupe never accepted a ride from Lindsay again.
Lindsay: I did notice we'd stopped TiVoing The Christopher Lowell Show.
Lindsay Character Comedy Observational Tobias: Well, excuse me for liking the way they shape my junk.
Tobias Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lindsay: You can pack your junk and get out.
Lindsay Wordplay/Pun Callback Callback Tobias: You're kicking me out? At the beginning of pilot season?
Tobias Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Narrator: Tobias took up residence in the apartment of Detective Frank Wrench, on the set of the television show Wrench
Lindsay: Well, she was so excited the hot water in the shower was lasting longer. How could I have the heart to tell her it's because her father moved out?
Lindsay Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Maeby: Did he take the good video camera with him?
Maeby Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Gob: I'm calling it Tricks- Let me finish- around the Office.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Michael: That is what we call working. Something you might wanna try next time you're at the office.
Michael Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Gob: Is that Qusay Hussein at the omelet bar?
Gob Observational Dark/Subversive George Michael: You're not my father! You'll never be!
George Michael: You cut off my hand!
Gob Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael: Even you have to admit that that was the lamest thing ever put on tape.
Narrator: Not so. Buster had once videotaped himself re-creating moments from his then favorite film, Chicago.
Narrator: He also liked Star Wars.
Gob: If that one gets pregnant, it stays pregnant.
Gob Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Gob: Believe me. I dated a chick like that once in high school. No, I didn't.
Gob Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: Smoking. It's a killer. That Sammy Davis Jr. Should still be performing.
Michael: You are George Michael! Who's cooler than you?
Michael Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Callback George Michael: So you lost.
Michael: I said, 'Let's- Do not- Let's not put the school through that.'
Ann: It's gonna be so awesome, because it's not just gonna be my love and George Michael's but God's love as well.
Ann Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Ann: God, it's gonna be incredible.
Ann Escalation Wordplay/Pun Callback Buster: I'm sorry I'm an inconvenience to you, Mother.
Buster Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Narrator: Lindsay had cleaned one room and now had a garbage problem
Lindsay: I haven't seen this in ages. EBay.
Lindsay Character Comedy Observational Gob: What's this? A stuffy office meeting? Well, maybe it's time for a little... Office Magic.
Gob Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Gob: Sometimes it's as simple as turning 10:45 in the morning into lunchtime!
Gob Absurdist Character Comedy Gob: Why does lunch have to be so dull? Maybe you'd prefer some chicken instead!
Gob Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Business Partner: Well, you know, I thought he was an investor. He voted against me.
Gob: No. You lost the presidency, just like you did in high school when you refused to play dirty.
Gob Callback Character Comedy Callback Gob: Pound is tic-tac-toe, right?
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Narrator: But the guard had recently lost half his tie to Office Magic.
Michael: Your uncle doesn't not-work here anymore.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Maeby Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Maeby: And he's won three years in a row- every year after his first junior year.
Maeby Character Comedy Observational Maeby: Well, that's like comparing apples and some fruit nobody's ever heard of.
Maeby Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Maeby: He might even finish after the Indian kid.
Maeby Escalation Dark/Subversive Lucille: And yet you're too good to polish the candlesticks?
Lucille Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lindsay: I'll DustBuster! God.
Tobias: Also, I don't think this is a real toilet.
Tobias Absurdist Character Comedy Ann: It's really gonna appeal to the Christian crowd.
Ann Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Kids: Four more years! Four more years!
Kids Irony/Sarcasm Visual Gag Gob: No. I fired him. As a result, I'm no longer welcome in the office.
Gob Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Gob: I want you to be strong, and you don't need the comfort of an immigrant in Mother's old stirrup pants to make you feel that way.
Gob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tobias: Oh, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Phyllidia Featherbottom and I can cook and I can clean and I can take care of the little ones.
Tobias Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Tobias: When you put a squirt of frosting on your throat / Before we take our medications
Tobias Absurdist Character Comedy Narrator: It was the exact plot of the film Mrs. Doubtfire.
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Tobias: Oh, I've no need for payment. The love of the family is more than enough.
Tobias Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lindsay: You could finally use some of his dirty tricks to get George Michael elected.
Lindsay Setup/Punchline Character Comedy George Sr: Our Heavenly Father let his son die so that our sins could be absolved.
Gob: Wow. It won't be easy to win a race against myself.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Gob: Of course, if anyone can do it, I can.
Gob Character Comedy Escalation Callback Buster: What do you expect, Mother? I'm half machine! I'm a monster!
Buster Character Comedy Escalation Gob: We hand out rubbers that say, 'We salute George Michael.'
Gob Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Gob: Two percent, huh? Is that how little I lost by?
Gob Callback Character Comedy Callback Maeby: This is my mom's, and it's fen-phen, and it's been banned by the F.D.A.
Maeby Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Tobias: I'm sure wherever your father is right now, she loves you very, very much.
Tobias Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Gob: Go home, you terrorist!
Gob Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Gob: Sure you didn't make that video in a cave?
Gob Escalation Dark/Subversive Callback Gob: This kid's popular? Looks like a chick I did once in high school.
Gob Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Gob on TV: Steve Holt is a bastard. He doesn't even know who his real father is.
Gob on TV Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Gob on TV: The girls like him just fine. Young and old. It doesn't matter.
George Michael: I couldn't find another tape.
George Michael: I tied with Bart Simpson and 'School Sucks.'
Michael: Gotta do something about that kid's self-esteem.
Michael Irony/Sarcasm Callback Callback Steve Holt: Wow. Is that what's gonna happen to my hair?
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