Lindsay continues to push away from being a Bluth by embracing a relationship and finding a new career.
Red herring callbacks sustain 77 jokes across a deliberately misdirected narrative structure.
Directed by Mitchell Hurwitz, Troy Miller · Written by Richard A. Rosenstock, Caroline Goddard
WAR
65.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Red Hairing” ranks #78 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.2 — Great. The episode packs 77 scored jokes at 1.6 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Lindsay landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Lindsay: Love wants to put up a wall. No, no. I mean, not just any wall. A wall to keep out the Mexicans. Oh, wow, what a great crowd, uh...
Lindsay Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lindsay · Crowd: I mean, someone should put up a wall. Yeah. We should put up a wall. Put up this wall. Put up this wall! Put... up... this wall.
Narrator: In fairness to Lindsay, it was Marky's face-blindness that led him to mistake this photo for the candidate. Why Lindsay failed to recognize musical icon Nat King Cole cannot be explained.
Narrator Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Lindsay · Lucille 2: Honestly, Lucille 2, you've been like a mother to me. Aw. Except kind and loving and willing to let me eat.
Narrator: Because Lindsay could only spend so many hours with a shrill, feathered creature... ...and needed to get away.
All Jokes — 77 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: I'd give $20,000 for a lemonade right now. For the most part.
Lindsay: Marky! Mommy needs mescaline!
Marky · Ma Bark: It's not DeBrie, Ma Bark. It's Lindsay. I just cut off my hair.
Ma Bark: I know who you are. Now start shoveling! God, you're lazier than Lindsay.
Ma Bark Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lindsay · Marky: You really are color-blind. Face-blind.
Marky: The strong will become the weak. But I think I overdid it first on the maca, because I ended up seeing two of him.
Marky Absurdist Character Comedy Marky: That lizard bastard bit me! God! Who keeps numbing these desert animals?
Marky Absurdist Character Comedy Ma Bark: Put some rubbing mescaline on it!
Narrator: It's Lindsay's Arrested Development.
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun Marky · Lindsay: Come on, Cindy. / What do you think? / Ugh. Smells weird in here. What is that? / I think it's just... not urine.
Marky: Cindy? You okay? Look, Lindsay, Cindy already marked the master.
Narrator: One year later, however, the only thing they'd actually changed was getting the 'not urine' smell out of the penthouse.
Lindsay: You're looking at Lindsay. Still Lindsay.
Lindsay Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Marky · Lindsay: How was beg? / Beg was good. I found sometres lechescake.
Lindsay: I'll, uh, change out of these filthy clothes and into some filthy lingerie. I don't think I washed it.
Lindsay Character Comedy Observational Herbert Love: Look, look, look. Am I guilty of anything? Yes. Of having a great sense of humor.
Herbert Love: I forgot the joke.
Marky · Lindsay: Did you take the silver glitter? / Nope. I mean, I'd say check the junk drawer, but I can't differentiate anymore.
Lindsay · Marky: Blue in the face, yeah. That's better than what I had, actually. I was gonna say they'd be covered in ink and glitter.
Narrator: Does it look like I'm lying? It did. But not to a man with face-blindness.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Narrator: Because Lindsay could only spend so many hours with a shrill, feathered creature... ...and needed to get away.
Lucille 2 · Lindsay: I used to wear that with the Captain. / Tennille? / And not make contact, yes!
Lucille 2 · Lindsay: There are two S's in 'congress.' And I just call myself Lucille... Lucille 1. I'm so sorry. No. Just Lucille.
Lucille 2: It's from a dear Hispanic supporter. And I'll never get it into the bay in one piece.
Lindsay · Lucille 2: Honestly, Lucille 2, you've been like a mother to me. Aw. Except kind and loving and willing to let me eat.
Marky: That's a face? Everything I do is wrong.
Marky Character Comedy Visual Gag Callback Lindsay: I don't know if I've said this before- it's not important or anything- but I'm really, really pretty.
Lindsay Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marky · Lindsay: I'm the straightest guy you know! Why does every man feel like they have to say that to me?
Lindsay · Narrator: Ooh, a Neiman's catalog. But it was what she found stuck inside the catalog that got her attention.
Lindsay · Narrator: And that's when she found the mother lode. 'From Gangie 4: Facelift.' What a load of... Mother.
Lucille · Lindsay: Oh, great, looks like we've got another high-end hooker in here. Oh, thank you, Mother.
Lucille: Put a 'Y' on there. 'Nosy.' And you should be thanking me for that. You looked like a can opener.
Lucille: I'll be out on parole by the time you work up a tear.
Lucille Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lucille · Lindsay: Just goes to show, the apple does not far from the tree fall. I am like you nothing.
Prison guard · Lucille: Your 3:00 p.m. hot rock massage is open. Thanks for coming, sweetheart.
Marky: What's the worst that can happen? [Cut to chaos with ostrich]
Marky Irony/Sarcasm Visual Gag Herbert Love: Ah! What a great day to step out onto an over-irrigated golf course and play a game that wastes vast acres of usable, farm-able land.
Tobias: Lindsay, I forgot, you dyed your hair. Do you have any money?
Tobias Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Maeby: I tried. Tell your therapist I tried.
Maeby Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Maeby: I'm getting a lifetime achievement award for my work in the entertainment business. I tried. Tell your therapist I tried.
Maeby Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Herbert · Lindsay: What's your name, princess? Cindy Featherbottom. Of the Laguna Beach Featherbottoms?
Lindsay · Staff: It's, uh, 714... Right this way, sir, right this way.
Lindsay: Oh, God, he blued himself.
Lindsay Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Herbert · Lindsay: Give me a call; perhaps we can engage in some sexual congress. Although that's a total giveaway, right?
Narrator: In fairness to Lindsay, it was Marky's face-blindness that led him to mistake this photo for the candidate. Why Lindsay failed to recognize musical icon Nat King Cole cannot be explained.
Narrator Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Maeby · Lindsay: Are you really going to whore yourself out like that? I am not a whore. Yeah, you're a whore. I am not a whore.
Marky · Lindsay: If you see a woman named Lindsay, tell her to bail me out. I'll do my best, sir.
Lindsay · Buster · Gob: Gentlemen, start your engines. No, Gob. Oh!
Lindsay · Maeby: Kids or people who like kids. So, where's Marky?
Marky: They're upping my charges from prank bomb to non-Arab terrorism.
Marky Dark/Subversive Observational Marky: Jail's a lot like Swappigans, except there's only one thing to swap. It's scary.
Marky Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Marky: Anus tart. Yep, that's me.
Marky Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Herbert: Meet, greet. Sure are sweet. What a treat. What did the lamb say? Baa? Bleat.
Herbert Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Herbert: Your lips are like a Murphy bed. They don't take up much space, but they are there when you need 'em.
Herbert Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Herbert Love: I'm going to meet with some of my, uh, 'constititutes.'
Michael · Lindsay: The wall between Mexico and the U.S.? Tell him to take it down? Or just not to put it up. No wall yet. Oh, no, there's no- I knew that, yeah.
Michael · Lindsay: The wall between Mexico and the U.S.? Tell him to take it down? Or just not to put it up. No wall yet. Oh, no, there's no- I knew that, yeah.
Michael: Fat Tracey or thin Tracey at the end?
Michael Character Comedy Observational Herbert: What the hell? It's better for my back anyway.
Herbert Character Comedy Misdirection Lindsay · Herbert Love: Wait... I can't do this unless you promise to be against the wall. What the hell? It's better for my back anyway.
Herbert · Lindsay: Aah, Jesus Christ! Oh! I'm sorry. Why would you do that? No, I thought it was cute, I saw it in a movie.
Narrator: Lindsay wasn't special, but he'd gotten the necklaces on special.
Lindsay · Hostess · Narrator: Uh, Bluth. I made a reservation. Hi-lo. Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm sorry, the Bluths have been seated. But she wasn't the only Bluth pretending to be something they weren't that night.
Michael · Lindsay: High school. Brother and sister. We can't be brother-sister- she knows about the family. We don't. Just met.
Herbert: Well, don't you have to have power to abuse the power?
Herbert Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Herbert Love: Well, don't you have to have power to abuse the power?
Marky: You wouldn't believe the scallops they're throwing away here, but I got out of that Dumpster my way.
Marky Character Comedy Observational Herbert Love · Lindsay: It's over between us. My wife found out and I told her there was nothing emotional, that you were just a prostitute. I'm not a prostitute.
Herbert: It's over between us. My wife found out and I told her there was nothing emotional, that you were just a prostitute.
Herbert Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Lindsay: This isn't over. I'm not some taco you can throw into the bay.
Lindsay: It's called hooking up. And, yeah, I got a little sidetracked, but I know who I am now. I'm back to being severely liberal.
Lindsay Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Sally · Lindsay: Show-and-tell? Oh, she just means these photos of Herbert Love with a mystery redhead he's cheating on his wife with. Who took these? The first two were taken by the security camera in the Albertsons parking lot.
David: I've got to find someone to jump onto that stage and to show everyone here that we are the party that has complete con-con... Complete con-con-con... con-con... Complete... Giant.... trol.
David Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Lindsay: Love wants to put up a wall. No, no. I mean, not just any wall. A wall to keep out the Mexicans. Oh, wow, what a great crowd, uh...
Lindsay Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lindsay · Crowd: I mean, someone should put up a wall. Yeah. We should put up a wall. Put up this wall. Put up this wall! Put... up... this wall.
Lindsay · Narrator: My name is Lindsay Bluth, and this is who I am. A Bluth, just like her mother.
Narrator: And Annyong tries to stick the Bluth family for a tomato juice that costs him $700 and ultimately his freedom. Good-bye, Annyong.
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