Gob accepts a job from his brother, but is distracted by a scheme of his own.
Lindsay's thread dominates with character-driven cringe; lowest joke density of season.
Directed by Mitchell Hurwitz, Troy Miller · Written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
WAR
76.5
Wins Above Replacement
“A New Attitude” ranks #72 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.0 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 1.6 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 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
Narrator: This was extra hard for Steve to hear on his actual birthday.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Gob Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Gob · Tony Wonder: Same! I was gonna say it. Same! I was thinking the same. That's so weird! ...same. ...same. Crazy! ...zy!
Tony Wonder · Narrator: Now everybody's gay! / They started out gay.
Steve Holt · Gob: Jesus. / No, that would be a 'J.' This is a 'T.'
All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Gob: And then thanks for the birthday card that I never got from you for the last 40 years.
Gob Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Narrator: ...that led to this tinkling match.
Gob: I've met someone. Can't really give you any information-- kind of famousy.
Gob Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael: Also famousy. Can't give you any information.
Gob · Michael: Is it Julie Bowen? / No, it's not. / Is yours Julie Bowen?
Gob · Michael: I want to hear you say the words 'I'm not seeing Julie Bowen.' / I have not seen Julie Bowen. / Well, that's a funny way to phrase it.
Narrator: But soon the hard lemonade softened their competitive edge.
Gob Misdirection Character Comedy Gob: I'm not talking about selling these mausoleums. I mean destroying Tony Wonder.
Gob Misdirection Character Comedy Gob: I need you to act as my boyfriend to help me get in.
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Michael · Gob: I am your brother. / You sound like my son.
Steve Holt: I love magic, of course. I mean, my dad's a magician. Well, you're my dad, I mean, so, so you should know.
Gob: Well, technically gay night at a magic club.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob: and then thanks for the birthday card that I never got from you for the last 40 years.
Gob Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Narrator: This was extra hard for Steve to hear on his actual birthday.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Gob: that wasn't for revenge, that was just on spec.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Steve Holt · Gob: Jesus. / No, that would be a 'J.' This is a 'T.'
Gob: He got the last laugh, which, in this case, happened to be the first laugh.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob: Listen, if you insist on speaking to me like you're my wife, then don't be surprised to find my [bleep] in you and then you never hear from me again.
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Gob: I should have my attorney Bob Loblaw look at this.
Gob Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Narrator: It's Gob's Arrested Development.
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun Gob: Do I seem like a clown to you? / I got it. / Do I seem like some kind of a clown to you?
Gob: No, the Gothicassle. Yes, the Gothic Castle. / No, I didn't say the Gothicassle.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Store Employee · Gob: I think you look amazing. / I'll take it. / Great. / No, no. The compliment, not the shirt.
Narrator: which, that night, did actually kind of resemble the Gothicassle.
Narrator Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: I do know that your daddy wants you to get your hot, little, tight, little, hot ass right up there right away to see him.
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Gob: and I just needed a believable arm candy bean.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob: And don't make that face; you look homophobic.
Gob Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort George Michael: the Fakeblock thing will scrub it away. / You know about Fakeblock? / You know, that's my software.
George Michael · Gob: You're giving me these craz... / Mad? / N...
Gob · Onlooker: Bit my tongue, that little bitch. / Oh, no, he didn't. / They're always doing that. / I mean, oh, no, he didn't.
Gob: I never want to sleep with you again. / I mean, I probably will. I don't. / But are we good?
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gob: Who's the dumbwaiter now?
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tony Wonder: Well, I'm here, I'm queer, and now... I'm in a chair!
Tony Wonder · Narrator: Did somebody say Wonder? / Nobody actually did that time, but I think he got away with it.
Tony Wonder · Narrator: Now everybody's gay! / They started out gay.
Tony Wonder: Did somebody say Wonder...ing?
Tony Wonder: See, it's like a quotation mark, but with a 'W.'
Gob: You should have seen me when they took me out of the storage locker.
Gob Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Tony Wonder · Gob: I even shaved them. Want to feel? / Wow, they are smooth. / Like a lady's. / I think.
Valet: Valet is closing. The Cabriolet-- license plate: 'ANUS TART.'
Valet Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Narrator: As it turns out, they did a lot more than steal pies.
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement Gob: Don't call me girl, friend.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tobias: Oh, I have a list of men that could fill every opening you have.
Tobias Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gob: That was all cheese, but no mustard.
Gob Visual Gag Character Comedy Tony Wonder: I'm not here right now, because I'm right behind you. Made you look. But how did I know you looked? Because I'm right behind you! Made you look again.
Gob: Who wants to help me build a wall to keep Mexicans out of America? [bleep] / All right, all right! Who wants to help me build a wall for no reason? It's a different wall.
Gob Character Comedy Escalation Chinese Worker: You should get the Chinese to build your wall. We make great walls. / I'm Chinese; I know all Chinese.
Gob · Tony Wonder: Would you get off my [bleep], Mother! / Well, if I wasn't sure you were gay, I am now.
Tony Wonder: Trust me, I am all man. Give me a little leg shave?
Tony Wonder: Poor guy doesn't realize I'm about to destroy our life. Our life? I mean, destroy our life with Gob. Dest... I'm going to destroy our life-- my life-- with Gob.
Tony Wonder: ♪ Hello darkness, my old friend... ♪ Destroy my life with Gob.
Narrator: It seemed Sally had two secrets.
Narrator Visual Gag Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Gob · Siri: I'm going to need the gayest. / Did you say the 'grayest'? / I need the, uh, gayest one. / Did you say the 'grayest'?
Person at Little Ballroom: She's got a kid, he's acting like he's Father of the Year or something. I bet he's pretending Steve Holt is, like, nine. I just saw him, he looks 50.
Gob: First of all, that's very dated of you, Michael. 'He's' don't like to be called 'she's'
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Gob: It said 'Love each other' on the foot band. / Yeah, that does sound like one of mine.
Narrator: It was a merry mix-up.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun Narrator: It was a merry mix-up.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun Gob · Commercial: This gay bar would be the best...! / ...something that can fillet a chicken and subdue an intruder.
Gob Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Gob · Tony Wonder: It's, like, God... you get me. Well, you're an easy guy to get.
Gob · Tony Wonder: Same! I was gonna say it. Same! I was thinking the same. That's so weird! ...same. ...same. Crazy! ...zy!
Gob: It almost went down my throat.
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Gob: I would definitely stay and have gay sex with... or normal sex with you, but...
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Gob: I have... feelings for you.
Gob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Narrator: The feeling was friendship, but neither had ever experienced it.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ann · Gob: Oui. / What? We what? / No, oui. It's French for 'yes.'
Ann Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob: We're going to destroy Tony's career by proving that he's straight when he has sex with you while you're wearing... this Gob mask.
Gob: It's a straight bait.
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Tony Wonder: You think the Shubert Organization would entrust a project like Dreamgirls to a straight producer?
Tony Wonder: Biggest fake gay there is, by the way.
Narrator: Now everybody's gay!
Narrator Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: Stupid, forgetful Michael.
Gob Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown · Rebel: Who was that? / No one.
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