
Character Analysis

Maggie Lizer
Played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
29 jokes across 4 episodes of Arrested Development
7.1
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7.3
7.1
Character Comedy
Maggie delivers 29 scored jokes across 4 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 on impact for a career WAR of 7.1. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Maggie Lines
Maggie:Maggie: 'To tell you the truth, I am so relieved not to be pretending to be blind anymore. It's actually taught me not to rely on cheap tricks to get the jury's sympathy.'
Narrator · Maggie · Tobias:Her ability to see, however, was currently proving a disadvantage... as she couldn't reveal to the man she recognized as Tobias that she knew he was there without betraying her secret.
Maggie:Maggie's riposte: 'Oh, you're so right, Michael. I really can't be trusted.' [pause] 'Cause I'm fakin' it—' [pause] '—not.'
Narrator · Maggie · Michael:Unfortunately, Maggie had been temporarily blinded that day. / I can't see! / Bailiff. / That was my plan. What do you got?
Maggie:I think I'm gonna go for 'I was struck by the Bible and it restored my sight.'
All Jokes — 43 total
Maggie:Maggie: 'So you didn't get a case of I-just-had-a-one-night-stand-with-a-blind-girl-itus?'
Maggie · Michael:You feel sincere. / Damn it. I have spent the last five hours hating you...
Maggie · Michael:Maggie: 'You feel sincere.' — after Michael says she'd see how sorry he is if she could see his face
Maggie · Michael:Maggie reveals she already knew Michael was Michael Bluth — 'I'm blind, Michael. I'm not stuffed up. You smelled me.'
Maggie · Michael:I'm blind, Michael. / I'm not stuffed up. / You smelled me. / I smelled you, baby.
Maggie:I was manipulating you. This isn't the real list. This is a wish list.
Maggie · Michael:Well, you lied to me. Chareth Cutestory? / I know. 'Thou shalt not make up a name in vain.'
Maggie · Michael:Look at me. This could get me... Are you actually looking at me? / Yes, I am.
Maggie:It's like we're making naughty sex even naughtier.
Maggie · Michael:Well, it's like the Ten Commandments saying. 'Be true to thine own self, and to thine own self... Be true.' Number seven.
Michael · Maggie:I think I'm ready now. / All right. / Okay.
Maggie · Officer:This guy's the real deal. He's on the inside. / But, he's got some demands. / This could be the break we wanted.
Narrator · Maggie · Buster:Meanwhile, Maggie's interrogation of Buster was proving fruitless.
Maggie:This guy's wasting our time. Take away his grilled cheese.
Buster · Maggie:Buster tells Maggie the evidence is at a house on Scenic View Drive. / Isn't that where you live? / Yeah. And I'm headed there now.
Tobias · Maggie · Narrator:Tobias concerned about Maggie's heightened sense of smell, sets off to cloak himself in her scent — spends extended time in her bathrobe/perfume area while she walks around the house
Tobias · Maggie:Maggie comes home unexpectedly — Tobias must hide from a blind woman, except she can see him
Maggie:Don't worry. You're so ahead. [Maggie to a witness in court]
Narrator · Maggie · Tobias:Her ability to see, however, was currently proving a disadvantage... as she couldn't reveal to the man she recognized as Tobias that she knew he was there without betraying her secret.
Narrator · Tobias · Maggie:Narrator: 'Tobias was finding her an uncannily difficult blind girl to outmaneuver.' — as Maggie tracks his every move while pretending not to see
Tobias · Maggie:Their game of cat and mouse continued. [Extended visual sequence of Tobias sneaking while Maggie 'navigates blind']
Michael · Maggie:Oh, Justice, what is it, boy? What is it? Is there some jackass in my bathrobe?
Narrator · Maggie · Michael:Unfortunately, Maggie had been temporarily blinded that day. / I can't see! / Bailiff. / That was my plan. What do you got?
Maggie:I think I'm gonna go for 'I was struck by the Bible and it restored my sight.'
Michael · Maggie:You know, we're saying good-bye, and this is actually the first time that I feel you can really see me. / Yeah. / We're just two people staring at each other fully exposed in a court of law.
Maggie:Maggie: 'To tell you the truth, I am so relieved not to be pretending to be blind anymore. It's actually taught me not to rely on cheap tricks to get the jury's sympathy.'
Maggie · Juror Four:A juror has knitted something for Maggie during the trial. Maggie: 'Oh, Juror Number Four!' / 'I feel so bad I fought so hard to keep you off the jury.'
Michael · Maggie:Maggie says it's been 'about eight and a half months' since Michael saw her. Michael: 'Eight and a half months, huh? Wow. I see somebody has been counting the, uh—' [trails off in realization]
Michael · Maggie:Michael: 'Didn't I use something?' Maggie: 'No.' Michael: 'You thought I was blind, remember?'
Michael · Maggie:Maggie: 'Don't worry. You're not the father, Michael.' / Michael exhales in relief / then immediately: 'No problem. Really? Right. You sure? I mean, uh— I could be. What if I was? Don't you want to discuss this maybe?'
Maggie:Maggie: 'If you're interested, come to the baptism. You can hurl a Bible at the baby.'
Maggie:Maggie is 'practicing with the pizza guy' — rehearsing how to answer the door for a pizza delivery to fool someone into thinking she's not home.
Maggie:Maggie: 'She's taking the stand tomorrow. I want to make sure it creaks.' — about the fake-fat plaintiff
Michael · Maggie:Michael about Sally: 'Yeah, I know. It's a funny name. But she's a doll.' Maggie: 'Yeah, I had one.' / 'If you pull her hair, she'd cry or something.' Michael: 'This one kinda does that too.'
Michael · Maggie:Michael to Maggie: 'So, no more lies. Tell me the truth. If that baby is mine, maybe we're meant to be together.' Maggie: 'Of course it is, Michael.'
Maggie:Maggie's riposte: 'Oh, you're so right, Michael. I really can't be trusted.' [pause] 'Cause I'm fakin' it—' [pause] '—not.'
Maggie · Narrator:Maggie: 'Oh, you're so right, Michael, 'cause I'm fakin' it—' Narrator: 'But he was proven wrong.' Maggie: '—Not.'
Maggie · Barry · Loretta:Maggie in court reveals Loretta is wearing a fat suit, then rips it off — and Loretta is actually just fat. Barry: 'Wow. Did I lose this one.'
Maggie:Maggie says 'Quickly, Your Honor. Quickly throw it out' while Loretta's water breaks — begging the judge to dismiss the case before the surrogate baby is born in the courtroom.
Maggie:Maggie admits she outsourced the surrogacy after she couldn't get pregnant: 'Hey, I outsourced it, okay?'
Michael · Maggie:Michael and Maggie say 'When we're together it's like—' Michael: 'Magic?' Maggie: 'I was gonna say train wreck.'
Michael · Maggie · Narrator:Michael and Maggie make a vow: 'No more lying. No deceit, no sex. Everything.' Narrator: 'But that, too, turned out to be a lie.'
Maggie:Maggie's 'big surprise' in the next-episode teaser: she's apparently pregnant again (or still). 'You have got to be kidding me.'