The family unites behind Lindsay’s campaign, but Michael senses that something is amiss. Maeby has an idea that George-Michael likes a little too much.
Gob's physical comedy carries a 75-point episode despite subversive humor faltering mid-season.
Directed by Troy Miller · Written by Mitchell Hurwitz
WAR
40.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Everyone Gets Atrophy” ranks #80 of 84 Arrested Development episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.1 — Great. The episode packs 46 scored jokes at 1.5 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 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
George Sr.: We forget, but we never forgive.
Michael · Tobias: Okay, I get it. Is that supposed to be me? No, that's my impression of Tobias doing you.
Lindsay: I want to be part of the problem.
Lindsay Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Michael: you know, which is... that's the universal sign for 'things are over.'
Maeby: Hey. It is hard to resist. Taking advantage of the vulnerable.
Maeby Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential All Jokes — 46 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lucille: Now that the original Michael's back, I suppose we don't need two hands-on-our-hips, pipe-up-our-rectum scolds.
Lucille Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Tobias · Lucille: so cruelly served to me from the back seat of my car by someone who thought I was a Lyft driver. Could have been the pink mustache.
Tobias: I dyed it what I assumed was the color of Michael's skin. Although now that you're back, I do wish I had used a less permanent dye.
Tobias Character Comedy Absurdist Tobias: His beard tickled me.
Tobias Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lindsay: I want to be part of the problem.
Lindsay Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy George Sr.: I hate everything about my life, including you.
GOB: Well, that's not the horniest thing I've heard. Daddy not horny.
GOB Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort George Sr.: I feel like one of these bulls on my breasts.
George Sr.: You're a bull who wants to stick it in everybody, and everybody ends up sticking it in you.
GOB: I tried to buy those velvet pants. But I chickened out and got these shirts instead.
GOB Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort GOB: He had a face like mine... but same.
GOB Character Comedy Absurdist GOB: Hello, darkness. Sorry, I'm taken.
GOB Character Comedy Misdirection George Sr. · GOB: My God. Must be nice to be wanted, even if it's just your mom. Oh, cry me a blizzard, snowflake.
Maeby: Hey. It is hard to resist. Taking advantage of the vulnerable.
Maeby Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential Lindsay: Oh, my gosh. I didn't even recognize you. It's a teenager thing. I could never pull that off. They want to look old, we want to look... You don't look very young.
Lindsay Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lucille · GOB: Family of the Month. Year?! Are you for... Mother Family of the Mother Year! Of the year.
GOB: which is just tits, teeth and ass, right? Now she's the host of O.C. Can You Say, which is tits, teeth, public affairs, ass, some light interviews. I mean, it's so much more responsibility!
GOB Character Comedy Escalation GOB Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch GOB · Michael: Well, technically, it's from the Bluth-Austero Company. Oh, I see. So you're giving it to yourself.
Lucille: I've never been less ashamed of her. Did I say what I think I said?
Lucille Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lucille · George Sr.: It was during the 1992 African-American riots, and they had every right. Every right. Every right.
GOB: They're like two geodes! You can feel them. I can't. My go-to joke is that these are the best two things John Beard's money can buy.
GOB Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort George Michael: I'm sorry. I'm probably grumpy because I was out late last night, raping and murdering. Not cool. I wouldn't joke about that. I rape and murder, and I joke.
Narrator: Total regression!
George Michael: God, it's so much smaller than I remember.
George Michael: For scenario two, you just found out that your Darth Vader figure is dating your girlfriend, and you find out he knew she was your... Whatever. Who gives a shit?
Maeby: Well, truthfully... No, I'll just tell you the truth: it's a wig.
Maeby Character Comedy Misdirection Maeby: Everything I've given her to do or say has only made her go up in the polls. It's like the more offensive it is, the more people get behind her.
Maeby Observational Dark/Subversive Lindsay: This so-called reporter from the Wee Guardian says I was right. Now, suddenly, she's 'Perhaps I've recalled incorrectly. I'm positively knackered.'
Maeby · George Michael: So the kissing is part of a plan? Yeah. I thought we could do it when the whole family is on camera getting the Family of the Year Award.
Maeby: And then, I open my mouth, and I have these rotted out meth teeth. And I'm like, 'Then why do I gotta my cousin for some meth money, Mom?'
Maeby Dark/Subversive Escalation George Sr.: We forget, but we never forgive.
Michael · George Sr.: Although, by not forgiving, you're throwing everything out and just keeping the hate. Well, how do you think she keeps that figure?
GOB: When I was a kid, you said, 'You want a trophy? Try harder, G.O.B.' But I was like, 'But you gave one to everybody else. What happened to everybody gets a trophy?'
GOB Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm GOB: And you're gonna be surprised to hear this coming from me... May be a little bit too hard.
GOB Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort George Sr. · GOB: Everyone gets a trophy. Count me out. Fine. Everyone but G.O.B. No!
Michael: That is not Buster.
Michael Visual Gag Misdirection ★ Rewatch Actor playing Buster: I don't really want to be an actor. It's not what I want to do.
Tobias: I'm going in and out of Michael like a cuckoo clock bird.
Tobias Character Comedy Absurdist Buster: I mean, that guy obviously has a giant rubber hand, and I have a giant melted hand that smells like Bounce.
Buster Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Michael: you know, which is... that's the universal sign for 'things are over.'
Michael: Well, if you ever change your mind, I ain't going nowhere.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael · GOB: That's it, I'm out of here! Okay, I get it. Is that supposed to be me? No, that's my impression of Tobias doing you.
Michael GOB Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch Michael · Tobias: Okay, I get it. Is that supposed to be me? No, that's my impression of Tobias doing you.
Buster: Why hasn't Michael come back? What happened to 'Michael always comes back'?
Buster Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — Arrested Development
