Lucille finds that her children have started dividing up her things, and adjusts to her new home.
Irony-heavy episode sustains 1.57 jokes per minute across 66 total gags.
Directed by Mitchell Hurwitz, Troy Miller · Written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Jim Vallely
WAR
68.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Queen B.” ranks #51 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.6 — Elite. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 1.6 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Lucille landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Lucille · Buster: It sure would be a shame if something happened to your pretty little key witness. Star witness. And are you threatening yourself?
Lucille: Your pillow must look like a Rorschach test. Not that there'd be anyone to see it.
Tobias: They're going to be talking about this bomb for years. Oh, God, it is bad, isn't it?
Tobias Misdirection Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tobias: What you are is the Invisible Girl. You make it impossible for people to see you in order to protect yourself.
Tobias Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Lucille: I'm staring at a hundred years in the face! How dare you.
Lucille Misdirection Character Comedy All Jokes — 66 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: They take no prisoners... because they are prisoners... at the Orange County Correctional Facility L.I.T.E.
Narrator: They're the ruling gang in this four-star hellhole
Narrator: Real Asian Prison Housewives of the Orange County White Collar Prison System
Narrator Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Gang member: one of our members is a real 'B' word
Gang member: In civilian life, we'd just vote Lu out, but here... she's gonna end up on the wrong end of a noodle
Gang member: Uncooked. You get me?
Lucille: Their bark is louder than the dogs they eat back home
Lucille Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lucille: Anyone who comes after me is going to be one unfortunate cookie
Lucille Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lucille Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Narrator: It's Lucille's 'Arrested Development'
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Narrator: Years before her behavior had become 'bossy, bossy' with the Jade Dragon Triad
Narrator Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Lucille: Full steam, boys!
Lucille: you're usually as hard to miss as Liberace wearing a fright wig
Lucille Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lucille 2: I'm practically counting your crow's feet
Lucille: maybe I should turn back and show you another bird
Lucille Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Narrator: But it was clear that Lucille 2 hadn't heard it
Narrator: in a fit of what sailors call 'sea rage'
Lucille: Coming about, boys!
Narrator: in what can only be described as a 'sail-past' gone wrong
Barry: Correction: good news for Barry
Barry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Buster: She stole the 'Queen Mary' to get away from the SEC. Oh, and she winked.
Buster Character Comedy Misdirection Lucille: Correction: it's a glare
George Sr.: It's only a trial separation. I made a pun.
George Sr. Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential Callback George Sr.: Even in this time of stress
Lucille: This toast has hook holes... again! I told you to get rid of that thing; it's hideous.
Lucille: what's gonna happen when they swear you in? You're gonna rip the Bible in half. The jury will love that.
Buster: Maybe you could hook me up with a little stimmy. Lil' stimmy.
Buster Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Buster: And I want stimmy to get a hook that'll do that
Buster: Homosexuals kidnapped the boat and took it on a joy ride. Mother didn't want to trample their rights, so she let them.
Buster Absurdist Character Comedy Lucille · Buster: Make it an eel. It's gonna be an eel! Better.
Lucille: I'm staring at a hundred years in the face! How dare you.
Lucille Misdirection Character Comedy Lucille · Buster: It sure would be a shame if something happened to your pretty little key witness. Star witness. And are you threatening yourself?
Lucille: And he's supposed to be the good one
Lucille Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Narrator: Actually, they'd claimed those things years earlier when she was having a sunspot checked
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Lucille 2: I've made a pun. Oh, how could I not do it for my oldest friend? Oh! Now I've gone and done a double. A double.
Lucille: Like your pre-surgery chin. Or your post-breakfast drink.
Lucille 2: Your references are as fresh as the wallpaper in the room of that pretend child you've had all these years
Lucille 2 Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Lucille: Your pillow must look like a Rorschach test. Not that there'd be anyone to see it.
Lucille: Says the woman whose liver can be spotted from outer space
Prison clerk: Well, our cashier's pregnant, and she's not married, so...
Lucille: A $20 gratuity is appreciated?
Lucille: The same girl who hands me towels does the cavity checks. You tip.
Lucille Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Lucille: That's a gang? I thought they were tech support.
Lucille Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Gang members: 'Roop hore'? Roop hore. You couldn't have chosen a harder word to say.
Lucille: Your move, Olive Garden
Narrator: You couldn't have chosen a harder word to say
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Narrator: And soon the Dragons were taking 'drags on' their cigarettes again
George Sr.: I got Olive Garden to offer us unlimited bread
George Sr.: Who better than the Chinese to help us build a wall, right?
Gang member: Ancient Chinese secret, huh? It's no secret-- we'll kill you.
Lucille: My God, he Steamboat Willied it
Lucille Visual Gag Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Gob: I can't tell you who, 'cause I'm dating someone famous. someone... famous.
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Lucille: I'm as normal as blueberry pie
Lucille Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lucille: You look as swishy as Ryan Seacrest. Ryan Seacrest is straight. And I'm 40!
Tobias: Perhaps that's why they call this place Au-stare-ity
Tobias Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Lucille: He thinks that horrible monster looks like me! So fine, you want to call me a villain, I accept it! I'm your villain!
Lucille Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lucille Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Lucille: ♪ My heart is in pain / I just want to flee / From me. ♪
Lucille Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Lem: Rules are meant to be broken, huh? We have Dove bars?
Lem Character Comedy Misdirection Michael · Lucille: Gene! He does this to me every time! What's he doing here, Mom? I thought he was that guy.
Lucille: She missed a step. Tell her she missed a step. She can't do it like that.
Lucille Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Oscar: Do you think I'm here for the donkey punch? Which I do love, and it's the only night you can get it.
Oscar Cringe/Discomfort Misdirection Tobias: What you are is the Invisible Girl. You make it impossible for people to see you in order to protect yourself.
Tobias Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tobias: They're going to be talking about this bomb for years
Tobias Misdirection Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Tobias: They're going to be talking about this bomb for years. Oh, God, it is bad, isn't it?
Tobias Misdirection Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — Arrested Development
