Gob finds a new group of friends after his relationship falls apart and his family abandons him.
Buster's regression accelerates: 1.74 jokes per minute sustains the season's darkest character arc.
Directed by Mitchell Hurwitz, Troy Miller · Written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
WAR
76.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Colony Collapse” ranks #33 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.2 — Elite. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.1 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: If what Jesus did was a trick. I say it wasn't. It was an illusion
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: Yeah, me and Blank are getting the old Christian magic act back together
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob · Steve: Wait, your mom's name is Eve? Yeah. God, I a chick named Eve once. Biggest mistake of my life
Gob Steve Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael · Gob: Yeah, what's the illusion? That you actually love the bride? Hey, that's good patter
Gob: Should the guy in the... In the $32... In the $32 pink... Bath... Should the girl in the $6,000 tuxedo...
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 66 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: Trout, a Southern boy who had a Northern man's taste in women
Narrator: Chris K, who was a lot like Trout, but without the accent
Narrator Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Narrator: Oakwood, a studio teacher, who might have had his own entourage, if his part hadn't been cut from the pilot of Modern Family
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Observational Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: as surely as there's a mouse behind your ear
Gob Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Gob · Narrator: Okay, you are like the only person I know who doesn't just love magic. A poll would confirm she was far from alone
Narrator: For the fifth year in a row, your least favorite entertainers are magicians. A close second, talk show side-kicks
Narrator Observational Meta/Self-Referential Narrator: Of course, Ann's concept of fourth base was very different than Gob's
Gob: Who am I gonna hit on, stupid? My sister? Lindsay? Don't be stupid. She's my sister, that's gross
Gob Character Comedy Escalation Narrator: It seemed the only 'her' Gob would be getting off that day was the Queen Mary
Gob: These were mice... For 'rabbit to mice.' No, that can't be done.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Gob: No, these were part of a something I called 'Mice-a-laneous.' 'Mouse in purse.' 'Mouse in drink.' 'Here's a mouse, now it's gone.'
Gob Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Unnamed character: How'd he do that?
Gob: Look at you, full of 'yes.' Look at how much 'yes' is in you! I knew it! I knew I'd get that 'yes' from you
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gob: My life is a fallacy. ♪ It's just a fallacy ♪
Gob Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Gob: Well, I could wait till after
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Gob: Should the guy in the... In the $32... In the $32 pink... Bath... Should the girl in the $6,000 tuxedo...
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob Misdirection Character Comedy Gob Character Comedy Misdirection Narrator: Of course, Gob meant it in the showbizzy way his niece had always used when she was accused of being too young. 'What are you, like 15?' 'Marry me. Marry me. Marry me.'
Narrator Callback Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: I've made a huge mistake
Gob Running Gag Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Gob · Ann: Oh, hey, mouth. I didn't see you sitting there. We rode up in the elevator together. I'm blanking
Gob Ann Running Gag Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: Yeah, me and Blank are getting the old Christian magic act back together
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Father Marsala: Oh! That's why she's there. I thought you were hair
Gob: That once your eyes have beholden it, you will put no God before me, because of its spectacularity.
Gob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Gob: Ann. And God. Love for and God
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Gob: Jesus Christ! Sorry. Wasn't on there too good
Michael · Gob: Yeah, what's the illusion? That you actually love the bride? Hey, that's good patter
Michael · Gob: I have a bee company. You stole my idea? Uh-huh, I did not steal your... We sell... It would take hours
Michael Gob Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: My bees are dropping like flies, and I need them to fly like bees
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob: Meanwhile, I'm working out like crazy, my diet has become insane, and this Jesus character... I mean, he was shredded.
Gob Character Comedy Absurdist Gob: Lets herself go. Her stomach's out to here
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Gob: Well, hopefully I haven't
Gob Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob · Tobias: Thanks for coming. How could I not? I'm playing Roman Centurion Number Two.
Tobias: I didn't know there was a groom part
Tobias Absurdist Character Comedy TV Announcer: Coming up next, Father Marsala's searing docudrama, Father Marsala's John the Baptist. Then the antiabortion drama, Embryo Dan: It Would Have Been a Wonderful Life. And later, break out the bagels. It's time for Father M's lighthearted comedy, A Jew Came to Dinner
Tobias: I hate to be the guy who quotes his own reviews, but His Word magazine called my Jew 'pitiful'
Tobias Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gob: If what Jesus did was a trick. I say it wasn't. It was an illusion
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: Ooh! They did not like that one
Gob Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Gob: I am the Amazing Jesus!
Gob Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Gob · Pastor Veal: Pastor Veal, let me remind you that you are in a church in front of your daughter, your congregation, God. You cannot tell a lie. Right, nothing out of the ordinary? No, I didn't see anything. Yes
Gob: No, I said don't underline the 'you' in that
Gob Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Gob: I plan on beating his record by two full weeks!
Gob Absurdist Character Comedy Ann Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Betty: I guess if he comes back from the dead, we could just get a stepladder
Betty Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Ann · Gob's note: No, he shan't, for he ith not here. If I have not yet returned, I am in the Rapture
Storage auction participants: Jesus, there's a man in there. Pack, stack, and all that
Gob: Now we have our nest, Egg... Ann. Now we have our nest, Ann
Gob Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gob: let the son of Gob enfold me
Gob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gob · Steve: Maybe I'm being tested like that guy 'Jawb' from the Bible. Job. Yes? Job. Yes, sir. Job. Yeah
Steve · Gob · Narrator: I have a brother? Oh, man. Yes, Steve. Yeah. What's his name? Dave. Oh! Dave Holt. Yeah, Dave Holt. Yes. Yes, Gob had been speaking to his son for an hour and a half
Steve · Gob: You have another son? I have a brother? Oh, man. Yes, Steve. Yeah. What's his name? Dave.
Gob · Steve: Wait, your mom's name is Eve? Yeah. God, I a chick named Eve once. Biggest mistake of my life
Gob Steve Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Gob: No, this is the greatest day of my life
Gob Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Woman · Gob: Cherry. I have lupus. Could have warned a guy
Woman Gob Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Gob · Mark Cherry: A trick is something a whore does for... Do a trick and I'll pay for your bar tab. Who wants a trick?
Steve: He's not coming back
Steve Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Gob · Narrator: I won't forget this. Hey, remember me? And soon Gob found himself experiencing what, on the street, is referred to as a roofie circle
Narrator: With stage-four syphilis
Mark Cherry singing: Go away, Getaway, stay away, Getaway
Mark Cherry: Be like, 'I'm just driving the queen of England,' but we're still... We're taking our clothes off
Gob: Fun night. A fun night. Fun night
Gob Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Tony Wonder: I'm here, I'm queer. And now I'm in a speaker. No one can stop us
Gob: I have no one in my life who cares for me
Gob Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Gob Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — Arrested Development
