
Character Analysis

Michael Bluth
Played by Jason Bateman
1029 jokes across 82 episodes of Arrested Development
520
1,029
7.2
6.9
Character Comedy
Michael delivers 1029 scored jokes across 82 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 on impact for a career WAR of 520.0. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Michael Lines
Michael:I've made a huge mistake. [Michael, alone, after realizing Gob is keeping Marta]
Michael · Marta:Michael sees the gift bag, asks: 'What does te amo mean?' / 'I love you.' / '...And who's in there?' / 'Mi hermano.' / 'Brother.' / 'I've made a huge mistake.'
George Sr. · Michael:I knew I should've sold that property when Stacy died. Tracey. No, we would've lost a fortune if we sold when Tracey died. No, Stacy was the paralegal I used to bring out there who went into insulin shock at the very height of the market. Sad.
Michael · Narrator:'It's not like there's some list of rules handed down to us from on high.' Ten Commandments fall on Michael's head.
Michael:'You mailed that insurance check, right, Gob?'
All Jokes — 1960 total
Narrator · Michael:Narrator introduces Michael as happy while everything around him is clearly chaotic
Michael:You can't just comb that out and reset it?
Michael · Lindsay:Not all homosexuals are flamboy... Oh, my God! I have the exact same blouse.
Michael:Hasn't everything already sort of been discovered, though, by, like, Magellan and Cortés?
George Michael · Michael:- Breakfast. - Family. Family. Right. I thought you meant of the things you eat.
Michael:No, it's not. It's a fake home, son.
Michael · Gob:Oh, that's perfect, Gob. — I just remembered something. Dad's retiring, not turning six.
Michael · Gob:Lindsay's been in town for a month? I don't think so.
Michael:You're gonna be all splattered in red paint. That's gonna distract the eye.
Michael:Yeah? I knew it. It's about me, isn't it?
Michael:Maybe you'll be inspired by the boat party tonight, start a career as a pirate.
Michael:Unbelievable. Sounds like you saved enough skin to make 10 new boys.
Buster · Michael · Lucille:Buster doing something on the balcony that he apparently cannot do on the balcony — it's too windy per Mom.
Michael · Gob:Mom! — Mom, congratulations!
Party Guest · Michael:Are those police boats? — No, I'm serious. I think they are police boats.
Michael · Party Guest:That's the Securities and Exchange Commission. — They have boats?
Lucille · Gob · Michael:I'm putting Buster in charge. — That's a good choice. — Buster? The guy who thought the blue on the map was land?
Michael:Eighteenth-century agrarian business. But I guess it's all the same principles.
Michael:Are you at all concerned about an uprising?
Rival Company Rep · Michael:We'll set you up in Arizona in one of our finest estates. — Attic or main house?
Michael:I'm sorry. What exactly is this intervention for?
Michael:Something you apply for, and then they pay you to, uh... Never mind. I don't want to ruin the surprise.
Buster · Michael:I think Dad would really want you to help us out here. — Dad's in jail. Here we go.
Michael · George Sr.:I quit. — Probably a good career move.
Michael · George Sr.:Yeah, I don't think that that's true, Dad. — Really?
Lindsay · Michael:I'm sad. Life is hard right now. I've got the JDL on my ass. — JDL? — Jewish Defense League.
Michael · Lindsay:This is why I was against HOOP. — This is why I didn't call you!
Lindsay · Michael:You're so judgmental. — No, I'm not judgmental. — And you're disappointed in me. — I'm not disappointed in you. — You are. — So I'm disappointed in you.
Michael · Lindsay:We're a disappointing family. — We're an incredibly disappointing family.
Michael · Lindsay:We're a disappointing family. / We're an incredibly disappointing family.
Michael · Lindsay:Seriously, you're gonna pull a muscle. — I used to be able to do this.
Michael:For a while. Just your aunt and her husband. Not Gob.
Michael:It is gonna be a little crowded, so you're gonna have to share a room with your cousin.
Michael · George Sr.:You love it here? — Oh, I'm having the time of my life! Hey, T-Bone.
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. in prison: 'There's always money in the banana stand' while lovingly eating an ice cream sandwich and trying to share it
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'I haven't had a vacation in years. This is my vacation.' / 'I'm doing the time of my life!'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.'s prison roommate T-Bone is introduced as 'a flamer'
Michael:Michael, after meeting T-Bone leaving prison: 'Well, I guess every vacation's gotta come to an end.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'Because he's a flamer?' after Michael says he won't hire T-Bone
Michael · George Michael:George Michael asks for more hours at the banana stand; Michael flashes back to his own childhood there
Michael · George Michael:George Michael starts to say 'Mr. Manager' again and Michael cuts him off: 'Manager. We just say...' / 'I know, but you just...' / 'It doesn't matter who.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael says 'I'm Mr. Manager' again; Michael starts to correct him; George Michael cuts him off: 'I know, but you just...' Michael: 'It doesn't matter who.'
Michael · Lindsay · Tobias:Michael arrives home; Lindsay and Tobias are in the exact same positions as when he left that morning. 'Is nobody gonna even try to get a job?'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'I have a job, Michael. It's called supporting my husband.' Michael: 'You haven't been shopping.'
Lucille · Michael:The dead dove in the freezer — Lucille trying to return it to a pet store
Michael · Lindsay:Lindsay spent $68 on hair conditioner; 'A small price to pay for self-esteem, Michael. Or are you still jealous that you lost Best Hair to me in high school and got Dorkiest?'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias delivers a speech about rejection in the 'business of show'... but has never actually had an audition
Michael · Lindsay:Michael lectures Lindsay about setting an example for Maeby; Lindsay replies 'Yeah. Shoot me when that happens.' / Michael: 'Is there a carbon monoxide leak in this house?'
Michael:Michael worries about Maeby working at the banana stand: 'I don't know about this. I mean, it can get pretty hairy in there.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.'s advice to Michael about Maeby: 'You stay on top of her, buddy. Do not be afraid to ride her. Hard.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'I don't know where they are.' (before Michael has finished his sentence) — Michael: 'You know, it's really more believable if you let me finish.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'But he's not special, Mother.' — a sincere assessment of Gob delivered with complete seriousness
Lucille · Michael:Michael: 'Where's the storage unit?' / Lucille: 'It's with your warrant.'
Tobias · Michael:'I was looking for work, and I blew it, Michael.' / 'I guess you've already seen that, huh?' / 'Yes, I have. Oh, right. This one.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael tricks Lucille by calling and mentioning the IRS wants to check for 'furs or...' — then following her housekeeper Luz to the storage unit
Michael · Narrator:The storage unit is on fire when Michael arrives — after following Luz all the way there
Fire Investigator · Michael:Fire investigator: 'Oh, definitely the work of a flamer.' — about the arson
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Well, isn't that ironic? I'm making a fortune at my new job, and you don't even have the job you thought you did.'
Gob · Michael:Gob, instead of helping Michael, asks him to mail a letter — 'You can't just give that to a mailman? / I can't trust a mailman with this. This is important.'
Michael · George Sr.:George Sr., hearing that George Michael is running the banana stand: 'George Michael is running the frozen banana stand now?' / 'That's right. Yeah. You sit with that. You think about that for a while.'
T-Bone · Michael:T-Bone appears at the banana stand: 'Your dad gave me this job.'
Michael · T-Bone:Michael asks T-Bone 'You burn down the storage unit?' T-Bone: 'Oh, most definitely.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I should be in charge. I'm the older brother.' / 'Please, do you even wanna be in charge?' / 'No! But I'd like to be asked.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Better than being treated like the goofball, the joker, the magician.' — then attempts a fireball that doesn't go off
Maeby · Michael:Maeby calls Michael to rat out George Michael: 'He's about to do something really irresponsible.' / Michael: 'You think it's irresponsible? I'll be right there.'
Michael:Michael's response to George Michael's distress: 'Burn it down.' / 'What?' / 'Let's burn this son of a bitch.'
Michael · George Michael · Gob:The three Bluth men — Michael, George Michael, and Gob — bonding over the burning banana stand
Michael · George Michael · Gob · Narrator:Michael, George Michael, and Gob bond while burning the banana stand together — narrator: 'Michael, his son and his brother together enjoyed the cathartic burning of the banana stand.'
Michael:'You mailed that insurance check, right, Gob?'
Michael:'You mailed that insurance check, right, Gob?'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael confronts George Sr.: 'Burned it right down to the ground.' / George Sr.: 'Are you crazy? There was money in that banana stand.'
Prison Guard · Michael · George Sr.:'No touching! No touching!' — both Michael and George Sr. through the prison glass
Gob · Michael:Tag: Michael tells others the banana stand is being rebuilt; Gob complains: 'You couldn't have called me? I can't swing a hammer?'
Michael:Tag final line: 'I got a rabbit to buy.' — Michael or George Michael on the banana stand reconstruction
Michael · George Michael:George Michael burns himself on the Cornballer: 'Son of a bitch!' / 'You plopped it!' / 'I'll plop you!'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay to Michael about George Michael: 'Or, you could not eat the cornballs and let your kid lead his own life.'
Michael:Michael begins the proverb 'It's the poor carpenter that blames his shoddy tools for the...' and immediately burns himself on the Cornballer.
Michael · Lindsay:Lindsay bought a dress on the company credit card. Michael: 'You're returning that.' Lindsay: 'But...' Michael: 'Get a job.'
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Gob: 'I had another big fight with Marta.' Narrator explains Marta is a Spanish-language soap opera star. Gob: 'It looks like I'm going to be staying here for a while.' Michael: 'No, it doesn't. It doesn't look like that.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'Maybe I should be more like you when it comes to parenting. No borders. No limits. Go ahead, touch the Cornballer. You know best.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'When I was a psychiatrist — and this is before I became an actor—' Michael: 'You're still not an actor.' Tobias: 'Lovely.'
Buster · Michael:Buster overhears: 'That's cool. Mom packed me a change of clothes.' — Michael has just said 'This is not going to be a day at the beach.'
Gob · Michael:Gob is in a bathrobe at the office. Michael: 'Gob, what are you doing here, and why are you in a bathrobe?' Gob: 'I camped out in the boardroom last night.'
Buster · Gob · Michael:Buster is in his bathing suit at the office. Michael: 'why is he in his bathing suit?' Gob: 'Mom dropped me off to spend time with Michael.'
Gob · Buster · Michael:Gob on Lucille: 'Spend time with Michael, or to serve her own menopausal needs? She's always got to wedge herself in the middle of us, so she can control everything.' Buster: 'Yeah. Mom's awesome.'
Gob · Michael:Gob to Michael: 'Is this a business decision, or is it personal? 'Cause if it's business, I'll go away happily. But if it's personal, I'll go away. But I won't be happy.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'It's personal.' — then a long pause while Gob stares at him.
Buster · Michael:Buster attempting to handle a business call for Michael. Extended sequence of Buster failing at basic phone communication — 'We're excited. We want your business... And, uh, everybody at the Bluth Company... Here I go again.'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'Your son is gonna love it.' Michael: 'Well, I guess 3:40 is as good a time as any to call it a day.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias sees Michael arrive and immediately announces himself: 'Would you hold the work, please? Oh, Michael.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'Why, because of the play? You're just a stand-in.' George Michael: 'No, no. It's not the play. It's just... you know, I can't go on a million bike rides whenever you want me to.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. in prison: 'I couldn't break away from the poker game. Capital G was down to his boxers.' Michael: 'Strip poker?' George Sr.: 'Yeah, and it's tough. We can really only play about two hands.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Are you crazy? I'm a magician. I make my living with my hands. And if I'm going to be staying here...' Michael: 'Staying here?'
Gob · Michael:Michael: 'What, did that Mexican throw you out?' Gob: 'She's not that Mexican, Mom. She's my Mexican. And she's Colombian or something.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias to Michael about Steve Holt (now playing Beatrice): 'I wish I could say the same for Steve Holt. I don't know what the hell her problem is.' Michael: 'Her?' Tobias: 'Oh, uh, I'm sorry. I say that because I switched the parts.'
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'Perhaps if she dressed as a woman.' Tobias: 'She? Oh, for the love of God. She's playing a woman.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille to Michael: 'I'm not going to let you destroy my relationship with my son just because you don't have one with yours right now.'
Buster · Michael:Michael tells Buster he can make his own decisions. Buster: 'Michael. I wanna go with Mom.' Michael: 'You said that she shoots you down.' Buster: 'I was trying to fit in.'
Michael · Buster · Lucille:Michael: 'You were flying today, buddy.' Buster: 'Yes, I was flying... but a little too close to the sun.' Lucille: 'You let him go in the sun? Get in the backseat. I'll be right out.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael is in the kitchen waiting when Michael comes home. They decide to make cornballs together — and the Cornballer immediately burns them both.
Lindsay · Michael:What about the trees? — We're just gonna cover them up with blankets.
Michael:I'll never forget your wedding. [in response to Lindsay mentioning Neuterfest]
Lindsay · Michael:I care deeply for nature. — You're wearing ostrich skin boots. — I don't care about ostriches.
Gob · Michael:Michael! — That's Mom. Hide.
Michael:Gee, I wonder why. [after Lucille says Buster is self-conscious]
Michael:After we get that lot cleared, we're gonna have enough money for you to neuter thousands of animals. You can make dogs and cats a complete thing of the past. No more dogs and cats.
Gob · Michael:Of course, that is gonna conflict with my going to the Desis with Marta. — Well, life's a compromise.
Gob · Michael:Thank you. I knew you'd come through. / How'd I come through? / Gob, how'd I come through?
Michael:You might wanna find something a little stronger, Warden. [referring to the warden's drink]
Michael:You're Marta? [Michael's visible shock at how attractive Marta is]
Michael · Marta:Listen, Marta, I hope you don't mind driving. I took a cab here. — Well, my brother may have eaten them. [Michael explaining he couldn't find his keys]
Michael · Marta:I haven't hired a limo or anything. — I don't mind. — I think you might. [followed by the stair car pulling up]
Michael:Where are the stairs? [Michael arriving at the Desi awards, realizing there are no exterior stairs — because he has the stair car]
Michael:Did you win? I-I don't speak Spanish.
Michael:Okay. I'll see you when you realize what that bucket's for.
Michael:I can see why your mom likes it. It is a really nice tree. We've gotta get it torn down. That must die... stupid tree.
Michael:Good talk. [Michael, after Buster's passionate brownish area speech]
Gob · Michael:Where the hell are the stairs? — Oh! I thought you were kidding!
Michael:Hey, speaking of kidding, how serious are you about Marta?
Gob · Michael:Let me ask you something. How would you feel if I came down on you hard? — You're saying I'm not reading this right. — No, I'm saying I need to jump on you to break my fall.
Michael:That's why you never get out of the tree. [after Johnny Bark abandons his tree protest to pursue Lindsay, and the bulldozers immediately knock the tree down]
Lucille Bluth · Michael:He's fine. I'll be in the hospital bar. — Uh, you know there isn't a hospital bar, Mother. — Well, this is why people hate hospitals.
Gob · Michael:Hmm. You know what's funny? — Mmm. — I was gonna walk out of that prison last night and break up with her. Good thing you didn't bring the stairs, huh?
Michael:Mmm. Very funny. Yeah. It's hysterical. I'm lucky.
Michael:Well, you know, you gotta put family first. That's the stupid thing that I believe.
Michael:I've made a huge mistake. [Michael, alone, after realizing Gob is keeping Marta]
Doctor · Gob · Michael:Looks like the shiv would have done some real damage if it hadn't been for this. [holds up the swallowed key] / It was in your lower intestine. / So close.
Narrator · Michael · George Sr.:Narrator intro: 'Michael Bluth was visiting his father in prison... anxious to get to the bottom of some mysterious bookkeeping. George Sr. was also anxious, but less about the bookkeeping.'
Kitty · Michael · Narrator:Kitty says 'Your wife's on line one.' Michael's wife has been dead for two years. Beat. Kitty repeats: 'I said, your wife is on line one.' Narrator: 'But not immediately.'
Kitty · Michael:'That's actually not any of your business.' / 'My business. That's not any of my business.'
Michael:'Yeah, it's a real shame what's going on with this family. You're stuck by the pool, and Dad's getting picked last for softball.'
Gob · Michael:Gob is setting up an 'office' in Michael's workspace to write a 'strongly worded letter' to the warden.
Michael · Gob:Gob enters Michael's office: 'I wish I would've known you were coming. I am a mess.' / Michael: 'Don't know if a call from me would've changed that.'
Gob · Michael:Gob asks for Michael's chair to write his letter: 'Do you like my outfit?' / Gob: 'Not as much as I like what's underneath it.' / Michael: 'Gob!' / Gob: 'No, I need your chair. Get up.'
Michael · Narrator:Narrator: 'My God, she's repulsive.' — attributed to Michael's internal reaction to Kitty's obvious attraction to Gob.
Michael · Kitty:Michael offers Kitty a touch lamp as an incentive. Kitty responds: 'You're the one who needs therapy!'
Michael · George Michael:Michael arrives home happy that he won't have to visit prison. 'Hey, buddy! Came home early. Wanna do something? Anything. Anything at all.' / George Michael: 'I wanna visit Pop-Pop in prison.'
Michael:Michael tells George Michael prison is 'like a carnival. Without the half-person on the skateboard that grabbed your knee to steady himself.'
Michael:Michael: 'It's like a country club. All the guy does is eat ice cream and play softball all day.'
George Sr. · George Michael · Michael:George Sr. to George Michael in prison: 'I'm gonna die in here.' / George Michael's terrified reaction / Michael returns with ice cream sandwiches: 'One of these got smooshed, but don't let that ruin prison for you.'
Michael:One of these got smooshed, but don't let that ruin prison for you.
Michael · George Sr.:Michael to George Sr.: 'That's why I'm trying to get you out of here.' George Sr.: 'Maybe I've been in denial, but this place is breaking me, Mikey... and I'm alone here, but for you.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. on Lucille: 'Your mother's never shown her face.' Michael: 'She's never been here?' — Lucille's absence at the prison is revealed, immediately undercut: 'You should've heard the grief she gave me when I said I'd never show up again.' / 'You said... You said what?'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'I just haven't had sex in a month.' / Michael: 'You've been here two months.' / George Sr.: 'It's hard to gauge time.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael to Lucille: 'You know... there are certain things that he can't get from his children.' / Lucille: 'If you're going to say pride, you're wrong. He is proud of his children.' / Michael: 'Wasn't gonna say pride, Mom.'
Michael:Michael's increasingly tortured build-up: 'I think that you should... visit him... in an... intimate... marital... trailer.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'Did he say that he misses me? Does he need his wife's embrace?' / Cut to Michael's memory: 'Daddy horny, Michael.' / Michael: 'He said some wonderful things.'
Michael · Gob:Michael arrives home: 'Great news.' / Gob: 'Oh, good. I could use it.' / Michael: 'I just came from convincing Mom to have sex with Dad.' / Gob: 'God! What is wrong with you? That is disgusting!'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I Kitty.' / Michael: 'Gob, I just wanted you to get the information.' / Gob: 'Oh, I got the information.' / '...About the international accounts?' / 'I see what you're getting at. No, I didn't get any information.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'You just lost the touch lamp.' / Gob: 'What? No!' / Michael: 'The deal's off. I'm gonna use the touch lamp to set the mood in the conjugal trailer when Dad's nailing Mom!'
George Sr. · Michael · Lucille:George Sr. reacts to Lucille appearing in the prison: 'What the hell's your mother doing in here?' / Michael: 'You needed my help, and it was hard for you to ask, so I took it upon myself to bring her.' / George Sr.: 'That doesn't make you uncomfortable?' / Michael: 'The drive was a little awkward.'
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:George Sr. panics as Lucille approaches: 'Hello, George.' / George Sr.: 'What the hell's your mother doing in here?' / 'Oh, I've done a bad thing.' / 'There's someone else in that trailer, isn't there?' / 'I've done a terrible thing.' / 'I've done a repulsive thing.'
George Sr. · Michael · Narrator:'How long? When did this start?' / George Sr.: 'Oh, come on! This is the first time.' / Narrator: 'Every Friday for the last eight years.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'Family first.' / Michael: 'Take care of Kitty.' / George Sr.: 'I need you now.' / Michael: '"International accounts" need me?'
Michael · Gob:Michael offers Gob: touch lamp + office + 'what the hell... full use of the secretary.'
Michael:Michael returns to George Michael: 'I had to help out your grandfather... and then I had to vow that I would never help your grandfather again. Pretty much a normal day for me.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael worries that if Pop-Pop could be in prison, 'anybody could be there.' Michael reassures him: 'I got news... he's, uh... he's guilty.' / 'He is?' / 'Oh, yeah.' / 'Incredibly guilty.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael Bluth was fed up with his mother's extravagant spending. / 'Like it was yesterday.' / 'It was this morning.'
Michael:I enjoy bicentennials as much as the next guy, Mom, but we're not doing that.
Michael:He's weak. Speaking of weak, Mom, what do you got in there, gold bars?
Michael · Lucille:No more parties. Okay, Mom? / You're my third least-favorite child.
Michael:I can live with that.
Michael · Narrator:I'm sure there'd be somebody else out there that would appreciate her. In fact, Michael felt that man was himself.
Gob · Michael:I wanna throw Mom a party. / Would you... I just told Mom no more parties. / I know, Michael. That's why this is the perfect opportunity to throw her a surprise party. She'd never suspect it.
Lindsay · Michael:Michael, do you have any idea what would happen if I were to visit prison? / Hmm. / It would be pandemonium. / Mm-hmm.
Lindsay · Michael:It'd just give Dad one more reason to think that I've got nothing to offer but my looks. / Yeah, I got some of that... except he also didn't like my looks.
Gob · Michael · George Michael:She was having trouble even lifting up this bag of groceries. / All right. We will do the surprise party. / For Gangy? / Yeah, how did you know? / She called and invited us.
Michael:Come on. This is a Bluth family celebration. It's no place for children.
Michael:Mom, you've already got two strikes on your record. You strike one more person, and it's technically a spree.
Michael · Narrator · Lucille:Surprise! / And she was surprised... that her family didn't show up.
Michael:I mean, it would've been funny if it wasn't so... Well, it was kind of funny.
Michael:You know, Mom, I'm sorry you're upset. But if you were nicer, then maybe your kids would take better care of you... or wanna be with you more.
Lucille · Michael · Gob:I've been a horrible mother. / No, Mom. You're great. You've been a great mother. / Well, you know she's been a horrible mother, right? / You don't have to tell me.
Gob · Michael:Um, is it okay if I do it for Mom and not you? / Yeah. / 'Cause I really like Mom. / We know.
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:Michael, once again, arrived at the restaurant. — Surprise! — And once again, no one showed up.
Michael · Lucille:Get up. I told you. They don't support me. / I hate to tell you, Mom, but they don't support me either.
Lucille · Michael:You did that for me? / I let you drive, didn't I?
Michael:It's an idiot on a scooter at night? It's gotta be Gob.
Lucille · Michael:Hey, big shot, too busy to go to your mother's party? / Mom, that is not Gob. Mom! Mom!
Michael · Lucille:Yeah. I guess. How's my mom? She's so frail. / I'm fine. I'm fine. I was thrown clear.
Doctor/Nurse · Michael:Your mother asked me to pump you full of... / Children's aspirin. / Okay.
Michael:'Scoot'? Scooter. Was there a scooter involved?
Lucille · Michael:Oh, dear. I can't believe I did that. / I am so sorry. I'll get you some air. / I hardly felt it. In fact, actually, I didn't feel it.
Michael · Lucille:You know, I should call George Michael. I'm worried about my son. / I'm worried about my son. George Michael will be fine with his aunt and uncle. / I want you resting, not using the phone. Let me take care of you.
Michael:Totally cool. Didn't feel a thing. You know, Mom, I'm crazy about this aspirin. I can't believe we give it to children.
Michael · Buster:Buster, what's going on? What happened to your head? / Nothing. Gob was just teaching me how to hit it with a hammer.
Michael · Lucille:Gob was there. Gob was on his scooter. I think I wanted to hit Gob. Yes. That is exactly what happened. You wanted to give Gob a scare.
Michael · Gob:Gob, I want you to move back onto the yacht. / The yacht? What makes you think I'd want to now?
Gob · Michael:Wow. How hard did you hit that steering wheel? / I actually hit the back of my head.
Michael · Gob:Yeah. I kind of like you. / Yeah.
Michael · Gob:Michael, I need your help. / Coming. / Ow! I got hit back there. / Right! On the back of the head, which means that you couldn't have hit the steering wheel.
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Mom must have clubbed you with a champagne bottle or something so she could drive. / Gob, how'd you figure it out? / It's funny you should ask that... / No. He didn't figure anything out.
Michael · Narrator:I probably got hit on the back of the head because of Buster's rock. Hey, big shot! Which was behind the passenger seat. Which means that she picked you up and dragged you over to the driver's seat.
Michael · Gob:Mom can't pick me up. She could barely pick up that bag of protein bars. / Guess what? They weren't protein bars. They were gold Krugerrands.
Lucille · Michael:You were going to South America? / I don't think so.
Michael · Lucille:I don't even remember you ever doing that before. / I just want my children to love me. / Stop lying. Stop manipulating. Just be nicer.
Lucille · Michael · Gob:I'm a horrible mother. / No, no, Mom. You're great. / That's crazy talk. / You're a fantastic mother. / I can't believe what I'm hearing, Mother. / Oh, we do. We really love you.
Narrator · Michael:Michael's insurance takes another hit. / Ow! / I was definitely driving that time.
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:Narrator: 'Michael Bluth was fed up with his mother's extravagant spending.' Cut to Lucille asking for a yacht crew to throw the most lavish party this town has ever seen.
Michael:'I enjoy bicentennials as much as the next guy, Mom, but we're not doing that.'
Michael:'Speaking of weak, Mom, what do you got in there, gold bars?'
Michael · Narrator:'I'm sure there'd be somebody else out there that would appreciate her.' / Narrator: 'In fact, Michael felt that man was himself.'
Gob · Michael:'It'd just give Dad one more reason to think that I've got nothing to offer but my looks.' / 'Yeah, I got some of that... except he also didn't like my looks.'
Michael:'Come on. This is a Bluth family celebration. It's no place for children.'
Michael:'Mom, you've already got two strikes on your record. You strike one more person, and it's technically a spree.'
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:Surprise party #1: Michael arrives with Lucille at the restaurant. 'Surprise!' — and she was surprised that her family didn't show up.
Michael · Lindsay:'What about you? Neiman's?' / 'Prison. Then Neiman's. But only because I'm going back to prison, and they've seen me in this.'
Lucille · Michael:At dinner, Lucille delivers her guilting monologue — 'It's dry' / 'I've been a horrible mother' — and Michael immediately capitulates.
Gob · Michael:'Well, you know she's been a horrible mother, right?' / 'You don't have to tell me. But what was I gonna say?'
Gob · Michael:'Um, is it okay if I do it for Mom and not you? 'Cause I really like Mom.' / 'We know.'
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:Surprise party #2: Michael arrives again with Lucille at the restaurant. 'Surprise!' — and once again, no one showed up.
Lucille · Michael:'You did that for me?' / 'I let you drive, didn't I?'
Michael:'Hey. Is that Gob? It's an idiot on a scooter at night? It's gotta be Gob.'
Lucille · Michael · Random Man:Lucille leans out the window yelling at the scooter rider — turns out it's not Gob — and hits him with the car.
Random Man · Lucille · Michael:'Yeah. I guess. How's my mom? She's so frail.' / 'I'm fine. I'm fine. I was thrown clear.' / 'I only care about you.'
Michael · Doctor:'What did you give me?' / 'Your mother asked me to pump you full of... Children's aspirin.'
Michael:Michael can't remember the accident due to short-term memory loss. 'Scoot... Scooter. Was there a scooter involved?'
Lucille · Michael:'Rest up, sweetie. You gave me quite a scare.' / [Michael processes] 'Scare. Did somebody say, "Let's give him a sc..."' / 'What is the matter with me? Clumsy Clara.'
Michael:'Totally cool. Didn't feel a thing. You know, Mom, I'm crazy about this aspirin. I can't believe we give it to children.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael pieces together the accident: 'Gob was there. Gob was on his scooter. I think I wanted to hit Gob.' / Lucille (Bluth): 'Yes. That is exactly what happened. You wanted to give Gob a scare.'
Gob · Michael:Michael tells Gob to move back onto the yacht: 'What makes you think I'd want to now?' Gob reacts with suspicion to the offer.
Gob · Michael:'Wow. How hard did you hit that steering wheel?' / 'I actually hit the back of my head.' / 'The back of your head?'
Gob · Michael · Narrator:'Mom must have clubbed you with a champagne bottle or something so she could drive.' / 'Gob, how'd you figure it out?' / 'It's funny you should ask that...' / 'No. He didn't figure anything out.'
Narrator · Gob · Michael:'Hey, big shot!' [Flashback to Lucille yelling out the window.] Which was behind the passenger seat. Which means that she picked you up and dragged you over to the driver's seat.
Michael · Gob:'Mom can't pick me up. She could barely pick up that bag of protein bars.' / 'Guess what? They weren't protein bars. They were gold Krugerrands.'
Michael · Lucille:'Mom, you and I were getting along so well. I was thinking so highly of you. How could you make me think this was all my fault?' / 'Because if you knew it was my fault, you would've turned against me. And I had finally gotten you on my side. You were sticking up for me. I don't even remember you ever doing that before.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'Stop lying. Stop manipulating. Just be nicer.' / Lucille: 'But...' / [long pause] / 'You're right.'
Lucille · Michael · Gob · Lindsay:'I'm a horrible mother.' / 'No, no, Mom. You're great.' / 'That's crazy talk.' / 'You're a fantastic mother.' / 'I can't believe what I'm hearing, Mother.'
Michael:Michael's insurance teaser: car crash #2. 'Ow! I was definitely driving that time.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael doing 'a little fun' before work, which turns out to be cost-projection analysis for a mini-mall
George Michael · Michael:Wow. That's pretty cool you know how to do all that stuff. / Yeah. Well, maybe your old man is just a little bit cooler than you thought he was.
Michael:Stupid. Stupid chair. Very stupid chair.
Michael:Not stealing. Not. I'm the one that taught you stealing is bad, all right?
Michael:I'm fine, by the way. Frankly, your concern is getting embarrassing.
George Michael · Michael:I'm not against the insides. People need meat to survive. You are aware they don't remove it from the cow surgically, right?
Narrator · Michael:Michael wished Marta was his girlfriend. A secret he had only shared with Lindsay.
Michael:Neither would I. What career? The magic? Oh, the tricks. The little tricks.
Michael:Oh, sure. First you dump all over it, now you wanna know how it's done.
Michael:He is staying here. I just haven't seen him here... the foyer or the kitchen.
Michael:Tell her Gob is not staying here? Tell her Gob is screwing around on her? God knows where he is? Actually, that-that sounded okay.
George Michael · Michael:The noble one. The one who never wins. The loser. The fool.
Rollo · Michael:Get in. / What? / If you care about your brother, you'll get in this car. / Which brother?
Lucille · Michael:I'm so glad you're here. I want you to help me break up your brother and his girlfriend. / Well, I'm all for that. / He's locked on the balcony. / Oh. You meant Buster.
Lucille · Michael:She changed him as a baby. / Okay. That's about the creepiest thing I've ever heard.
Michael:That's why she didn't look surprised.
Michael · Buster:Sounds a little bit like 'dating Mom.' / It's starting to feel a little like it.
Gob · Michael:A magician. / I think you're confusing scary with silly. This guy was frightening. He was in a limo.
Gob · Michael:He wants to take my legs. / I-I don't... / The legs... The bottom half of my saw-the-lady-in-half trick.
Gob · Michael:No, not now. I'm showing him how to do the trick. / Two chicks curl up in a box. We call one the head and one the legs. / So that's how they do it. / God, I gotta stop giving these things away.
Gob · Michael:The old top half quit when she found out I was sleeping with the legs. / I guess word really gets around in there.
Michael · Gob:I get absolutely nothing out of it. / Well, you get a false feeling of superiority. / I know. That is nice, but this time, it's not enough.
Michael · George Michael · Gob:Why do I always have to be the one that has to set the good example for everyone? / Hey, guys. / Oh, that's why.
Michael:He said that, huh? Said that he's working, huh? Wow. Here? What else did he say? Did he tell you I gave him your message? Not that I'm the messenger, you know?
Marta · Michael:He said I was a treasure. / She's a treasure. And a once-in-a-lifetime woman.
Michael:Listen, Marta, Gob is... [long pause] ...a poet.
Michael · Rollo:And you will get your legs back. / How? / You're asking me to reveal my trick?
Lindsay · Michael:You're gonna put Marta onstage with the legs? / It's gonna blow up. Legs get upset. Marta gets upset. Marta leaves Gob, and I don't get shot.
Michael · George Michael:After Michael claims he's become a new, selfish man, the leather jacket appears to squeak/cause pain. George Michael: 'Did that hurt?' Michael: 'No.'
Michael · Tobias:Did you get a job or something? / No. No, I didn't. Unless you consider 'World's Coolest Daddy' a job.
Michael · George Michael:Yeah. I mean, we can't really change who we are anyway, right? / Wish you'd told me that before I threw away my Windbreaker.
George Michael · Michael:Oh, you bought a chair. / Uh, no, actually, I borrowed it. Like we talked about. / Well, I thought we decided that was like stealing. / Is that where we landed on that?
Gob · Michael:Where's the top half? / I have to teach her this trick. She's gotta fold her knees. / It's a fantastic trick. I don't want you to worry though. I've already told her.
Gob · Michael:Listen, I got you something... for being such a good guy... not that it's a surprise, you always are. / Oh, well, uh... / My watch. / I want you to have it. / Well, you've stolen so many things from me over the years. This is the first time you've ever given something back.
Michael · George Michael:Where's the leather jacket? / It's like you said... you can't change who you are. So what? So I don't have any hair on my arms or legs. So what?
Marta · Michael:You'd better tell Gob, the legs aren't coming. / Oh, my God. / I can't believe the legs would screw him like this. This is his one last chance. They'll never let him in the Alliance again. / You have to do something. This is so important to me and Gob.
Michael:Where am I gonna get a pair of beautiful women's legs on such short notice?
Narrator · Michael · Gob:So, the trick went forward as planned. / [Gob performs the trick; Michael is curled up in the box as 'the legs']
Michael:I'm okay with myself. I'm okay with myself.
Michael:This really worked better with the chair.
Michael · Gob:'I'm not an A.T.M.' 'I keep forgetting how hilarious you are.'
Michael · Hot Cop:'Aren't you guys gonna cuff him?' 'You wanted handcuffs?'
Michael:'It is unbelievable that you'd ask my son to score you pot.' [Michael confronting Buster while himself having just run an elaborate fake drug bust using strippers]
Michael · George Michael · Headmaster:Michael tells George Michael the next four years are about his future, then the headmaster reveals they now have a 'talking room' where students can talk to their heart's content, and George Michael's first words all day are 'Sounds like fun.'
Michael · Headmaster · Narrator:Michael assures the headmaster his family is 'back on track and no longer in any trouble' — cut immediately to the newspaper headline about the Klimpy's brawl.
Michael:'It's a ball of foil for my son.' — Michael explains what's in the foil while packing George Michael's lunch.
Michael · Narrator:Michael tells Tobias 'I never really noticed' about Jessie being cute — but the narrator immediately reveals he'd been working up the nerve to talk to her at the gym for weeks.
Michael · Jessie:Michael's flirting technique: 'Race you to the top of the hill.' Jessie brings a picnic lunch; Michael races anyway and arrives out of breath just as she's set up the picnic.
Michael · Jessie:'My relations are already a little too public. I'm Michael Bluth.' — Michael's pun in response to Jessie offering PR services.
Michael:Michael catches himself saying 'She's a little cutie pie' after claiming he never noticed Jessie was cute — escalating through 'cute,' 'she's cute,' 'she's a cutie,' 'cutie pie.'
Michael · Tobias:'That's not an option. / 'Cause you're scared? / No, because of George Michael. He still hasn't gotten over losing his mother. I just want to get him through high school; then we'll deal with me.'
George Michael · Jessie · Michael · Lindsay:George Michael gets a job at the banana stand, but the family (including Jessie) think he means a 'real' job — 'like a plumber or something' — and are shocked.
Tobias · Michael:'I truly believe that the universe wants me to be an actor and not a doctor. I'm just waiting for a sign.' / 'Here's your cash.' / 'Universal Shuttle picks you up at 8:00.' / 'Any sign, really.'
Michael · Jessie:The photographer takes a candid photo of Michael and Jessie as Jessie says 'Get one of Michael and me on a date.' Michael is shocked: 'A date? This is a date now?'
Michael · Jessie:Michael flirts by saying 'Can't it be a little bit of both?' about the date/business question, then asks 'How will I know which part of it is business?' Jessie teases him and Michael ends with 'Show me business again.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael comes home late from his 'date' with Jessie and tells George Michael that Jessie 'booked Gob a gig at Earl Milford's nursing home.' George Michael: 'Oh.' Michael: 'She's kinda something, isn't she?' George Michael: 'Yeah, I guess.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael both over-emphatically deny that Michael is dating Jessie: 'You're not dating her.' 'No, I am not dating her.' 'Absolutely not dating her.' 'Just you and me. The Bluth boys.' 'Bluth boys.'
Michael:Michael tells Jessie 'This might be moving a little bit too fast for him... for us. Me. Uh, for me.' — catching himself in real time.
Michael · Jessie:Jessie quits: 'Let's take two steps back and why don't you find yourself a new publicist.' Michael calls after her: 'Jessie.' She keeps walking. Michael: 'No. I was just saying your name as you walked away. I didn't...' Long pause. 'I have no follow-up.'
Gob · Michael:Gob calls Michael in crisis: 'I need her to spin something for me.' Michael: 'Well, that's too bad because I think she quit. What do you need her to spin?' Gob: 'Murder.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Murder, huh? Who died?' Gob: 'My career.' Michael: 'I'm going to go home now.' Gob: 'I lost a guy.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael arrives at Jessie's, ready to recommit, saying 'I really want to make this work' — but is cut off by Lucille storming in: 'Get away from my son!'
Michael:Michael: 'Hey, Mom. Kind of on a date here.'
Lindsay · Michael · Jessie · Lucille:The article Jessie planted: 'Lindsay's a combative, entitled princess.' Lindsay reads it and Michael confronts Jessie. The Bluth family food fight at Rud begins.
Michael · Jessie · Lindsay · Lucille:Michael confronts Jessie about talking to George Michael: 'You said that to my son?' / Jessie: 'Yeah.' / Michael: 'You're on your own. Ladies?' — and the food fight begins.
Headmaster · Michael · George Michael:The Milford School headmaster tells Michael: 'It looks like you won't be getting into this school. Are you disappointed?' Michael turns to George Michael: 'Well, are you disappointed?'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'I didn't want to go to that school, and Jessie's a psycho.' Michael: 'That could've saved us a little bit of time.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael tells Michael it's fine if he wants to date. Michael: 'Yeah? Thanks, buddy.' George Michael: ''Cause you know, I mean, four women, that is kind of sad.' Michael: 'All right. Thank you.'
Michael:Michael: 'That could've saved us a little bit of time.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'But, Dad, if you ever want to date anyone else, that's fine with me.' Michael: 'Yeah? Thanks, buddy.' George Michael: ''Cause you know, I mean, four women, that is kind of sad.' Michael: 'All right. Thank you.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'I know you got married in college, but that was your sophomore year. You had your whole freshman year to...' Michael: 'That's enough honesty for now. Thank you. Good night.' George Michael: 'There must have been girls at parties.'
Michael · Lucille:Anniversary? You asked me to throw a Valentine's Day party. — Did I? — You tricked me. — I deceived you, Mom. Tricked makes it sound like we have a playful relationship.
Michael:There was somebody for a while, but it was too much of a brother... bother.
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'That can't feel good.' — after Michael says 'It's fine. I'm over it.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'This was supposed to be my anniversary toast.' / Michael: 'And this was supposed to be my Valentine's Day party.'
Michael:'After all that, I was kinda hoping somebody would make a speech.'
Buster · Michael:Buster says 'Don't forget my girlfriend' to Michael's toast — Michael says 'That's who I meant' — implying he just confused Buster's girlfriend Lucille 2 with his own mother Lucille.
Michael:Michael nearly says 'George Michael and Maeby' in his toast, then catches himself — 'I almost said George Michael and Maeby.'
Michael · Marta · Narrator:Michael concludes his toast 'To love and happiness' — immediately cuts to Marta saying 'I love you all, Marta' and realizing it was Michael she wanted.
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay asks Michael for divorce advice, referencing his toast — 'Should I use Barry or just bolt in the night? I'm leaning toward bolt in the night.'
Michael:Michael says he's not judging — 'On the other hand, I am doing it anyway, so let me suggest...'
Lucille · Buster · Michael:Lucille interrupts the call: 'Can I throw out this yogurt?' — Buster responds with two simultaneous conversations, Michael has to manage both.
Michael:Michael advises Buster to move out — adds 'you don't want to take any chances with yogurt, Mom. Just let her throw it out' — addressing both simultaneously.
Michael · Gob · Marta:Three-way phone call confusion: Michael says 'nobody' is with him (Marta is there), Gob says 'well now I don't know what's going on.'
Gob · Michael:'If anyone's gonna go out with that girl, it's gonna be one of us. Right. Me. And I'm okay with that.'
Michael:Michael asks a soap opera crew member 'I'm looking for Hermano' — everyone points to 'their brother.' He follows the chain of pointing across the entire set.
Michael:'Son of a bitch.' — Michael's reaction when the chain of pointing leads back to the beginning or a dead end.
Lucille · Michael:Lucille, alone in her apartment, says she's 'never lived in the apartment alone' and fears she's 'not up to this.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael cites Caged Wisdom to Lucille — 'There is joy in solitude, Lucille. Try being alone. It just might make you happier.' Lucille: 'Honey, my happiest times here are alone.' — Immediately asks the building manager about the 'hole being available between 4:00 and 6:00.'
Michael:Michael: 'I don't even want to know what that means.'
Gob · Michael:She's at the house. She's at the house! I'm gonna speak very carefully in case she's with you. You're right. Right about what? She's there! What's going on?
Michael · Marta:Michael and Marta have a dinner conversation about relationships that is simultaneously about completely different things — he thinks she's talking about Gob; she's talking about Michael himself.
Michael · Marta:What the hell is he talking about? [Michael's confessional cut to Marta] What is she talking about? [Marta's cut]
Michael · Marta's Son:Michael bribing Marta's young son with cake to get information about 'Hermano.' 'I'll give you what you want if you give me what I want. Tell me everything you know about... Hermano.'
Michael:Michael bribes Marta's young son with cake to get information about 'Hermano' — 'I'll give you what you want if you give me what I want. Tell me everything you know about Hermano.'
Michael · Marta's Son:Does your mother love 'Hermano?' Sí, mi hermano. He's here? Sí. He's sleeping. Don't go in there.
Michael · Marta:Michael confronts Marta about 'lying and sneaking around, moving on to the next guy' — not realizing she's trying to tell him SHE'S moving on to HIM.
Michael · Marta:We can keep going around in circles, but maybe one of us should just come out and say what it is we want to say. / You're right. / It's not working with Gob.
Michael:This can never be. [Michael declares, storming out after completely misreading the situation]
Michael · Marta:Michael sees the gift bag, asks: 'What does te amo mean?' / 'I love you.' / '...And who's in there?' / 'Mi hermano.' / 'Brother.' / 'I've made a huge mistake.'
Gob · Michael:Gob's phone call: 'Maybe because you've only had sex four times.' / 'Four women! Not four times! And they talk to me because I talk to them.'
Narrator · Michael · Buster:Michael was sharing his bed for the first time in years. Unfortunately, it was with his younger brother, Buster.
Michael:I don't think us sleeping together is working out.
Michael:You're a grown man. You should be living with your mother.
Michael · George Michael:George Michael asks for help on his ethics essay about whether a preemptive strike is justified; Michael immediately starts dictating confident, glib answers and is annoyed George Michael isn't typing fast enough.
George Michael · Michael:I'm not sure if my ethics teacher would love if I cheated on my essay. / Well, you just passed my ethics test.
Michael:Yeah, that udder's been dry for a while now, hasn't it?
Gob · Michael:Gob calls Michael offering 'a couple of fun girls' as an olive branch after the Marta situation.
Gob · Michael · Buster:Besides, when was the last time you slept with someone? / Buster. / What time and where?
Gob · Michael:This is Shannon, the girl I've been telling you all about. / Yes. Girl, indeed... young girl. That's a young, young, young, girl. / Yeah, well, she's 18.
Gob · Michael:Shannon wouldn't go out without a chaperone, and so she's your date. (Nazhgalia, an older woman with a mustache, is Michael's blind date)
Michael · Nazhgalia:Oh... 'Nagarma,' you've got a mustache. / Hey! / I mean, you've got milk on your mustache. / Oh. / I mean, you've got a milk mustache. / It's adorable. You look like one of those 'Got Milk' models.
Michael · Lindsay:Hey, Linds, is it my imagination or does this rape room have the same floor plan as our kitchen?
Michael:Mmm. No ring. (Michael spots Ms. Baerly for the first time at Parent-Teacher Night)
Michael:Ethics... right and wrong. How can one thing can be right and another one be wrong? I mean, which is which, you know? I guess that's the 'Rrrr' of it.
Michael · Ms. Baerly:I had him, Mr. Daniels. How is he? / Oh, he, you know, had a stroke. / Thought you were joking. / No, I was just laughing 'cause you were laughing. / Right. No. Yeah. Gosh.
Michael · Ms. Baerly:Can a parent take a teacher out for a drink? Or... I don't know. Uh, do you have a wife? / Yeah, but she's dead.
Ms. Baerly · Michael:Have you ever been married? / Yeah, she died. / Ohh. God, why are we laughing? / I don't... Well, it's the Mr. Daniels stroke thing all over again.
Lucille · Michael:Michael, the little Korean is here, and I don't know what to do with him. At least, I think it's a him. You've got to strip them down to next to nothing before you can even tell.
Michael · Lucille:Yeah, Mom. I just spoke to Social Services and although they don't like to do this, if you can prove that it's a bad environment for a child — and I would suggest saying what you just said to me, don't change a word — they will take him back.
Lucille · Michael:Yes, Annyong. Excuse me. Oh, Michael? Call it off. / I'm keeping him.
Michael · Ms. Baerly:No, no. That was my Mom. She just had a 'little Korean' dropped off. / Ooh, that sounds good. Let's have that.
Michael · Ms. Baerly · Buster · Gob:Michael sneaks Ms. Baerly into the model home at night, and they are discovered by Buster and Gob — who independently are also sneaking in.
Gob · Michael:I'm sorry too, Michael, but it looks like we're even. You took something I liked. I took something you liked.
Michael · Gob:Listen, I know that you've been trying to get even with me about Marta. But got bad news for ya. I'm seeing somebody else. / Who? Who? / Just out of curiosity — I'm not gonna try to sleep with her.
Michael · Gob:Forget it. I thought this was behind us. / It is behind us. / Great. / When I sleep with her. 'Cause I'm gonna sleep with her.
Michael · Gob:She'd have to agree to it. / I don't anticipate a problem with that. / No? / No. 'Cause I've seen some of the dogs you like. / Right. / I just slept with one.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael has been up making a poster of Saddam Hussein in a bathing suit for Ms. Baerly because 'she loves Saddam Hussein.'
Michael · George Michael:You mean you love her like... like she loves Saddam? / No, no. I mean, like love her love her.
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Michael tells George Michael that Gob slept with Ms. Baerly — when actually Michael was the one dating her.
Narrator · Michael:Michael knew he had an ethical responsibility to tell his son the truth. / Yes. / Your Uncle Gob slept with her.
Michael:Gob, he just... He's not that exact of a target shooter, and he just kind of sprays it everywhere.
Michael · George Michael:Don't you think you should be taking somebody your own age? / Like your cousin. / That's a bad example, but...
George Michael · Michael:I defaced a rare book to get that picture of Saddam Hussein in a bathing suit. / 'What would Saddam do?' / Yeah.
Michael · Ms. Baerly:I told him that you slept with my brother. / That may be the most unethical thing I've ever heard. / Well, you've only been doing this half a semester.
Michael:Look, it was a preemptive strike. My brother would've tried to sleep with you.
Michael · Ms. Baerly:And you will not see me again. / Starting right now. (Michael lingers awkwardly at the door)
Gob · Michael · Narrator:I slept with the ethics teacher. I'm sorry. / What are you talking about? / Lindsay told me that you liked her and I'm not proud of this, but... Mrs. Whitehead. / In fact, Gob mistook the civics teacher for the ethics teacher Michael was dating.
Michael · Gob:Gob, Mrs. Whitehead was the civics teacher. / We both had her. / Yes, we have. And now we're even.
Michael:He said that you wanted her as a mother, and I said that was ridiculous — but then I met her and kind of fell for her and thought that she would kind of make a great mother.
Michael · George Michael · Ms. Baerly:Well, you know, I'm open to it. We're open to it. / Wow! / No, no, no, no. / I'm just saying someday, you know.
Ms. Baerly · Michael · George Michael:I'm not really into kids. / I'm just... I'm not trying to rush anything. / Hey! The lady said no, man.
Michael · Jeremy (Student):Hey, uh, you wanna dance? / Sure, why not? (Michael asks the student who just gave Ms. Baerly the cupcake to dance)
Michael:Michael, watching his son dance with his ex-date: 'I can't believe that would have worked.'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Michael's Saturday morning 'bike ride' with his son — Michael is driving a slow car alongside George Michael on a bike, multitasking work calls instead of being present
Michael · George Michael · Buster:Michael answers his phone mid-sentence to his son, causing Buster (on a bike nearby) to crash
Michael · George Michael:Michael takes a work call mid-bike-ride, nearly causes a crash, then says 'Nice instincts, son. Good reflexes.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'You get a paycheck from the Bluth Company?' / Lucille: 'It's important to the company that I keep up the image of my lifestyle.' / Michael: 'Illusion, Mom.'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'Does that mean I have to go to your office to get mine, too, or how's that work?'
Michael · Buster:Michael tells Buster he'll have to work in the copy room to earn his money. Buster: 'Okay. I accept. I'll take that job. I will work in the copy room.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael's staff meeting: 'Now, I know we've been putting in a lot of hours, but we've got to keep our heads down and power through, you know, and... sacrifice.' — and Lindsay walks in demanding a paycheck in the middle of it
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'Dad hired me out of college.' Michael: 'You quit college.' Lindsay: 'Yeah, well, I had a job. What was the point?'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay leaves the staff meeting when Michael says 'staff' — 'Well, you said staff.'
Gob · Michael:Gob arrives at the construction site claiming Kitty 'is starting to sound pretty damn sexy to me' over the phone — then Michael reveals it was Lindsay
Michael · Foreman:Michael to the foreman about Buster: 'I got Buster here to help.' Foreman: 'That's another guy.'
Gob · Michael:Gob yells 'Pick up the pace, douche bag!' at workers; Michael echoes 'You too, candy ass!' then pauses and says 'Candy ass.'
Michael · Lindsay · Narrator · Employees:Michael: 'They're sheep. They'll wander off, and you'll lose the sheep.' Lindsay: 'They'll be fine.' — cut to employees boarding Lupe's family reunion bus thinking Lindsay chartered it for lunch
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'All right? They'll wander off, and you'll lose the sheep. You've lost the sheep.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay shows Michael the completed proposal: 'It's right here, Michael. You weren't here and everything got done while I was in charge. See? Not so hard, what you do.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'You really think I could leave here and everything would be fine?' Lindsay: 'I think everything would be fine but you.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'If I didn't have that phone call from the zoning committee—' Lindsay: 'You'd have no reason to live. I'll have it forwarded to your cell.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael 'relaxes' at the beach by working on subdivision plans in the sand, barking orders at his son: 'These units aren't too close together. We can get away with this, right, people? All right. Just speed it up. Come on. Keep your heads down. Power through.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'Where is my phone?' George Michael: 'I used it to dig the B unit.' Michael: 'You what?' 'I'll get it.' 'No, no, you're gonna ruin it!'
Michael · George Michael:Michael is on the phone panicking about the subdivision caving in — cut to his sand castle collapsing into a 'giant pool'
Michael:Michael on the phone: 'Great. Now we're never gonna finish phase three... This whole thing is gonna cave in... Great. Now my sand castle has a giant pool in it.'
Gob · Lindsay · Michael:Gob: 'You'd bring in scabs, just like that?' Lindsay: 'Watch me.' — then Michael arrives and overrides everything
Michael · Narrator:Michael's solution to the zoning problem (no individual pools, one big communal pool) is revealed to have been inspired by his sand castle collapsing
Michael · Lindsay:Michael tells Lindsay she was right, suggests rewarding staff with a party; Lindsay: 'Right. I didn't mean tonight. Just some time in the future when we have some extra food and liquor.' — then immediately yells 'Lupe! I need help with the groceries!'
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael finally relax together; Michael: 'Thanks for coming out. I've been dying to get some time with you.' George Michael: 'That's okay. I know how much you care about me.' Michael: 'Unfortunately, so does the federal government.'
Gob · George Michael · Michael:'I'm still kind of tweaking my nipples... The presentation was great.' / 'Hey. Whoa!'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'George Michael, you should get to school.' / 'No, we're off for two weeks.' — Michael doesn't know about spring break
Gob · Michael:Spring break! It's my favorite holiday. Nothing gets me more excited. / 'I can see that. You might wanna button that shirt up.' / 'No, I'm good.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'It is a path to a lonely life where people mock you. And you don't even realize it.' / 'Michael, I'm a magi...' / 'I see what you did.'
Michael · Kitty:Michael: 'Kitty, these are not the files I asked for.' / Kitty: 'Oh, then I don't know what I shredded.'
Michael · Kitty:'Have you had a chance to type up that report yet?' / 'No, I have been Googling your father.' / 'So I've heard.'
Michael · Lindsay:Discussing inheritance: 'Buster got a perforated heart and Gob got that receding hairline, but you and I pretty much dodged the bullet.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'I'll take you down to see Nana if you split the money with me 60/40.' / Michael: '55/55.' / Lindsay: 'Deal.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'Much better. Man, I was really stuffed up there!' — gesturing below her chin, Michael looks up
Michael · Kitty:Kitty: 'Break? You were just out.' / 'That was my sick leave. This is vacation.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty describes going to Senor Tadpoles 'having a margarita made in my mouth' — Michael: 'There will be no margarita in your mouth!' / Kitty: 'Oh, yes, there absolutely will be a margarita in my mouth!'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty flashes Michael during the argument: 'Put the shirt back down and keep on moving.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'I work for your father. You don't have the hiring and firing power.' — after being fired
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. on Kitty's chest: 'Oh, my God, you paid for those, didn't you?' — implying he paid for Kitty's implants
George Sr. · Michael:Reaction beat: George Sr. imitates his twin brother's begging face for Michael
George Sr. · Michael:'Oh, God, there's nothing to hold on to down there. You're like a boy.'
George Sr. · Michael:'All these books are cooked!' / 'I'm sorry. I gotta do my job.' / 'And I gotta get out of prison.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'What the hell are you doing?' / Gob: 'Dad, it's misdirection. You're supposed to keep your eye on the shirt in the hat.'
Michael · Buster · George Michael:'Buddy, what are you doing here?' / 'I'm dying to see how he makes this yacht disappear.' / 'He's not going to make the yacht disappear. I told him that.' / 'It's driving me crazy. It's like a mind puzzle, an awesome mind puzzle.'
Gob · Michael:'Don't worry. He's gonna be covered with a blue dot. He approached me.' — Gob about George Michael being in a Girls With Low Self-Esteem video
Gob · Michael:Gob post-intimacy becomes 'really girlie' — 'He's my brother, and he's never even said 'Good job.' I just want him to love me, you know?' Michael: 'Wow, you get really girlie after, huh?'
Gob · Michael:Gob after sex: 'Wow, you get really girlie after, huh?' — Michael ignores this
Kitty · Michael:Kitty to Michael at restaurant: 'Who are you asking back, Michael? Me? Or these?'
Michael · Kitty:Kitty: 'I never really left, because we both know that you can't fire people.' / Michael: 'No, I did fire you, and now I'm hiring you back.' / 'You don't have authority over me.' / 'They don't have nachos here.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'Did you hear that, everyone? Michael Bluth is threatening me!' — then: 'I've gotta get out of here. I'm a part of the story. I can't be a part of the story.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'Isn't this much more fun, working with your Dad?' — George Michael's dead-eyed non-response
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'What did he say?' / George Michael: 'If I clean it up, it's not really a sentence.'
Lindsay · Michael · Lucille:Michael asks about Nana; Lindsay: 'I think Mom sent her to a nursing home, some gray, windowless room... against her will.' — cut to Lucille on phone
George Michael · Maeby · Michael:Michael asks George Michael how the weather is — George Michael answers 'Nice. Sunny.' — then Maeby plants the idea to sneak on the yacht without Michael noticing
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Michael, a magician never reveals his...' / '...I sunk it! I sunk the yacht!'
Michael · Gob:'You sank a $700,000 yacht?' / 'It's $900,000 worth of insurance on it. And got rid of the evidence. How about a "good job"?'
Maeby · Michael:Maeby: 'Um, well, if he's not here, I'd just have to say he's probably on the yacht.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael fires George Michael from the office to give him a real spring break: 'You're fired.' / 'Really? Can you fire people?' / 'Yeah. Go have a spring break.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'She'll turn up.' — about missing Kitty — cut to Kitty apparently having been grabbed for evidence
George Michael · Michael:Michael: 'Are you sure you're gonna be okay without Kitty?' George Michael: 'Don't you worry. She'll turn up.' [Long pause as Kitty is actually missing]
Police Officer · Michael · Narrator:'On the Next AD': Michael is questioned about Kitty's disappearance. 'She showed her knobs in the steakhouse, sir.' — police using 'knobs' as official terminology
Michael · Lucille:"I don't understand how a person can put their sex life in front of their work." / "He's a man, Michael. He needs a woman."
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:George Sr. wants to fight the case because of Cindi's secret encouragement — "I want to fight this thing. I can beat it. I know it for a fact." — mirroring her exact words
Michael · Lindsay:"I don't remember that." / "Well, you left during my solo."
Michael · Lindsay:"And I'm surprised my twin sister can remember that, considering she was repeating the ninth grade at the time."
Gob · Michael:Gob claims Michael has slept with fewer than five women; Michael neither confirms nor denies, and Gob says "Let's say 'five'."
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: "The next morning, Michael was wondering how to end his first one-night stand."
Michael:"Well, it's tough with your hands in the way." — Michael's comment when asked to show his smile
Michael · Maggie Lizer:Michael flashes back to Maggie saying "I have an irreversible case of ocular retinoblastoma" and he responded "Hey, I thought we said no more law talk"
Michael · Maggie Lizer:Flashback exchange: "I really can't see anybody right now." / "Oh, well, I can't see anybody ever. I'm blind." / "I'm wasted."
Michael:Michael's guilt monologue: "Come on. I took a blind woman home with no intention of dating her again? Please!"
Michael · Gob:Michael cuts off Gob's advice with "God! How do you not s—" then catches himself
Gob · Michael:Gob reveals he accidentally got married: 'She knows that I'm Gob Bluth, and we got married, and I just...' Michael: 'What?' Gob: 'Well, she was a darer.'
Maggie Lizer · Michael:Maggie: "I thought I smelled you coming." / Michael: "Mm. Yeah, here I am."
Michael:"You don't have any evidence of handsome." — Michael's response to Maggie calling him handsome
Michael:Michael offers to be Maggie's "Seeing Eye dog" on their walk
Michael:Michael starts narrating the park to Maggie: 'There's an elderly couple walking hand in hand... Three years is what I give them, and then one of them dies...'
Michael · Maggie Lizer:Michael describes the park to Maggie while secretly reading the plea document — his descriptions of the 'elderly couple' are actually him reading the plea
Michael:Michael confesses he didn't read the plea: "I definitely definitely read this uh... the first part of this first, uh, section." Long pause. "Uh, no. Did not read it."
Lucille · George Sr. · Michael:The family collectively decides to take the plea without reading it, persuaded by Lucille saying "It's so nice and thick."
Michael:Michael panics in court: "You gotta get more time. Get more time. She can smell me. She smells everything."
Gob · Lindsay · Michael:Gob: "That's the blind chick you slept with?" Lindsay: "Michael, you're in bed with the prosecution?" Gob: "It's genius. You can get all the information we need."
Maggie Lizer · Michael:Maggie gives Michael the government's entire case summary against the Bluth family — then asks "Do we have a case?" revealing she trusts a man she met in a bar to evaluate the evidence against his own family
Gob · Michael:"On the next" stinger: Gob encounters a maritime lawyer — "How am I ever gonna find a maritime lawyer?" / Michael's fake identity appears / "I trade trained seals for a living."
Narrator · Michael:Narrator introduces Chareth Cutestory as the false identity Michael gave himself
Narrator · Michael:He decided to keep seeing her so as not to appear superficial — the woman is blind and can't see his face anyway
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Gob shows up in a garish bright sweater because 'the wife likes me in bright sweaters' — but he only got married days ago on an escalating dare
Michael:Well, least you finally consummated it, huh?
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Okay, Michael. This makes matters better. Let's just destroy it and move on with our lives.'
Michael:I'm not sure that one made it down the mountain, Gob.
Michael:No one's gonna sue anybody. I'm not gonna have my son start abusing the legal system like the rest of this family. After all, we're gonna need it for years to come.
Michael:Well, I'm not the main idiot, but I'm the idiot in charge.
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 · 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.
Michael:This is the second most unethical thing I've ever done.
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.
Vet · Michael:Justice is blind. / Justice cannot be blind, Doc. He's got a handle and everything. Come on, boy.
Michael · Vet:Maybe his peripheral isn't great... but he's been leading a blind woman around. / I think she's been leading him around. / But that would mean that Maggie isn't blind.
Michael:Michael: 'Justice cannot be blind, Doc. He's got a handle and everything.'
Michael · Maggie:Oh, Justice, what is it, boy? What is it? Is there some jackass in my bathrobe?
Narrator · George Michael · Michael:George Michael spotted his father and, not wanting to appear to be abusing the legal system, found a place to hide. / Michael, determined to expose Maggie, hid to avoid tipping his hand.
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Michael also hides — 'Michael, determined to expose Maggie, hid to avoid tipping his hand.' Both Michael AND George Michael are hiding from each other at the courthouse.
Michael · George Michael:And for what it's worth, George Michael, you cannot let people get away with that. / It's just so hard to know what the right thing to do is. / I know it. It's not like there's some list of rules handed down to us from on high. / Watch your head.
Michael · Narrator:'It's not like there's some list of rules handed down to us from on high.' Ten Commandments fall on Michael's head.
Michael:Your Honor, the purpose of a court of law is to find the truth... after all, they say justice is blind. Surely, she has enough sight to catch the truth before it hits her in the face.
Narrator · Maggie · Michael:Unfortunately, Maggie had been temporarily blinded that day. / I can't see! / Bailiff. / That was my plan. What do you got?
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.
Michael · Ira Gilligan:Michael meeting with the company accountant named 'Ira Gilligan'
Michael · Ira Gilligan · George Sr.:The thermostat gag: Michael's office is freezing while George Sr.'s office (via satellite/adjacent) is hot — Ira keeps commenting on the temperature instead of the financial crisis
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I've gotta get rid of her.' / Michael: 'You know, I said two weeks ago that I thought it was a stupid idea. Suddenly Dad says it and it's good advice?'
Gob · Michael:Gob tells Michael to tell his wife he's 'insensitive and unreliable... something about how you can never confront people. You need someone to clean up your messes.' Michael: 'See, that's great. And that's just off the top of your head.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'I don't know. I probably stole it. I mean, if he says it's missing, it is. Unless he stole it. Hey, maybe he stole it.' / Michael: 'He's the one that said it's missing.' / George Sr.: 'Yeah, I probably stole it.'
George Sr. · Michael · Ira Gilligan:The Ira/IRA/Gilligan confusion escalation: George Sr. promises money will be saved in 'I.R.A.s' / Michael corrects 'It's Ira, sir' / George Sr. says 'Will be saved in Iras' / 'What the hell is this, Gilligan?' / 'It's Ira, sir. Please call me...' / 'Gilligan!'
George Sr. · Ira Gilligan · Michael:Gilligan has promised me that all this money will be saved in I.R.A.s. / It's Ira, sir. / Oh, I'm sorry, Gilligan. / Will be saved in 'Iras.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'Take him out for some fishing or something. Fun. Guy fun.' / Michael refuses / George Sr.: 'Oh, that's right. You hated fishing.' / Michael: 'No, I didn't.' / George Sr.: 'No, I'll get Gob. He liked it.' / Michael: 'I liked fishing. Where are you going? I'm fun.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'Yeah, well, I was wacked on Zanotab the entire time. I thought Zanotab was supposed to make everything a little bit better.' / Michael: 'For 15 minutes. Then it burns when you pee, and your marriage goes to hell.'
Gob's Wife · Michael:Gob's wife tells Michael 'Are you hitting on me? Gob said that would happen.' — after Michael was trying to convince her Gob is unreliable.
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Hey, Gob. It's a good thing you're not staying married to this girl. You've got her hating me... at least your version of me, which is actually you.'
Michael:Michael: 'I guess being your brother and solving all your problems for you doesn't qualify me as your best man.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Don't worry. You're still...' / Michael: 'What? Invited?' / Gob: 'No, I was gonna say you're still the guy I want solving my problems, but, yeah... Let me talk to Dad about that invite situation.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael's pitch for the fishing trip: 'We get to stay at a hotel, get up at 4:00 a.m., slap on the old seasick patch. We're gonna get out there on the choppy ocean. We're gonna catch ourselves a little lunch.' / George Michael: 'Oh, we get to eat it?' / Michael: 'After we gut it.'
Michael · George Michael:We get to stay at a hotel, get up at 4:00 a.m., slap on the old seasick patch. / We're gonna get out there on the choppy ocean. We're gonna catch ourselves a little lunch. / Oh, we get to eat it? / After we gut it.
Michael · George Michael · Gob · Buster:Michael: 'Not everything is strippers and booze and buckets of blood.' / George Michael: 'Why do you guys have buckets of blood?' / Gob: 'It's not real blood. It's corn syrup and red dye.' / Buster: 'Juice.' / Gob: 'We have unlimited juice? This party is gonna be off the hook.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael to George Michael: 'They think they're having fun, Son, but it's not lasting fun. It is fleeting fun, like a bachelor party. What we got here is lasting fun.'
Michael · George Michael · Pool Guests:Good night, Son. / Good night, Dad. / Marco! / Polo! / Marco! / Polo! / Marco!
Bachelor Party Guests · Michael · George Michael:Marco Polo game being played at the bachelor party pool, overheard by Michael and George Michael in their hotel room at bedtime
Michael · George Michael:Michael's manipulation: 'I'd hate to miss it, because I was too proud.' / George Michael: 'Wait a minute. Too proud? What does this have to do with too proud?' / Michael: 'Actually, that part was kinda just for you. I was just worried the whole thing wasn't gonna land unless I included the pride part.'
Michael:Michael arrives at the bachelor party: 'I'm here to support him, like all these, uh, hot men and Ira.'
George Sr. · Michael:Well, you're not gonna stay. I mean, this isn't your kind of scene. / Dad, please, stay out of it, all right? I'm here for Gob. Now, where are the strippers?
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'Well, you're not gonna stay. I mean, this isn't your kind of scene.' / Michael: 'Dad, please, stay out of it, all right? I'm here for Gob. Now, where are the strippers?'
Michael:Michael discovers the back room and sees what appears to be a dead body / stripper: 'Huh? Huh? Huh? I can handle a back room.' — then sees the stripper and immediately says 'I'm calling the cops.'
Michael · Gob · George Sr.:Michael gestures for Gob to punch George Sr. / George Sr.: 'Oh, no. No, no. Don't you dare, mister.' / Gob punches him.
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'You're the best man. You're my best man.' / Michael: 'Not if I have an actual ceremony, 'cause Dad would kill me, but...'
Gob · Michael:You're the best man. You're my best man. / Not if I have an actual ceremony, 'cause Dad would kill me, but...
Gob's Wife · Gob · Michael:Gob's wife bursts in: 'Gob, I want out. I'm in love with your brother.' — then corrects: 'In-law. Tobias. Sorry. I should have finished that thought.'
Gob's Wife · Gob · Michael · Tobias:Gob's wife: 'Gob, I want out. I'm in love with your brother.' / Gob to Michael: 'You did it again, you son of a bitch!' / Michael: 'No, no! She's...' / Gob: 'In-law. Tobias. Sorry. I should have finished that thought.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay mentions 'Mother's neck' as a 'bad investment' and Michael corrects: 'No, that was a good investment. It is easier to look at now, isn't it?'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'I want to have an affair. Now, I'm not sure with who yet, but I'll need lingerie, waxings...'
Lindsay · Michael:Michael: 'These are some real costs, Michael.' — narrator's line describing Lindsay's actual itemized affair budget
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'Why don't you pick something else to boost up your self-worth? How about charity? Why don't you get back to your roots?' Lindsay: 'Well, it has been a while.' Michael: 'You're gonna go get your hair done, aren't you?'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'Oh, that's funny. I meant a matter of L and D — Life and Death.' [the note read 'a matter of land']
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'You know, Mom, if you want an operation that's really gonna help him, you ought to have them finally cut that cord.'
Michael · Lucille · Narrator:Flashback young Michael: 'Tracy won't marry me. I won't get a job, and...' Lucille: 'Let Mama take care of it.' [Narrator: The next day, Mr. Vandenbosch was not in school. He was never heard from again.]
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'I seem to remember a certain grown man who completely fell apart two weeks ago when I taped over the Nova special that had the girl on it he liked.' Michael: 'That was Buster. That's my point.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. (on phone from prison): 'So listen. My twin brother's in town. I want you to take care of him. Give him ten grand from the uh, new cash. Just send him on his way.'
George Sr. · Michael:Michael: 'Do you know what it's like to have a sibling who has no source of income except for you?' George Sr. 'Just one? No. No idea. It sounds wonderful though.'
Michael · Jordan:Michael: 'Especially Jordan. He's just waiting for me to screw up, so he can blow the whistle on me.' [Jordan, who is present, says nothing — then immediately offers to be bought out]
Jordan · Michael:Jordan: 'You don't need a whistle-blower around here.' Michael: 'Interesting choice of words, Mr. Jordan.'
Michael · Board member:Board member: 'He kept one.' Michael: 'There's a good example of whistle-blowing. But you've kept yours, so it's hurting your case.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias to Michael: 'I just need to prove to my wife that I can act like a man. And it's not about sex. I don't just lie there, if that's what you're thinking.'
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'That's not what I was thinking.' Tobias: 'Sorry, I just...' [trails off]
Lucille 2 · Michael:Lucille 2's confession of love leads to a cascading confusion: 'I'm in love with your brother-in-law.' 'You're in love with your own brother? The one in the army?' 'No. Your sister's husband.' 'Michael? Michael!' 'No, that's your sister's brother.' 'I'm my sister's brother.' 'You're in love with me. Me!' 'I'm in love with Tobias.'
Michael:Michael: 'Actually, that time that was what I was thinking.'
Oscar · Michael:Oscar's reunion hug with Michael: 'Wow, you are like, like a rock. Oh, the tension! Come on. Oh, okay. That's plenty. Okay. That's the pancreas right there.'
Michael · Oscar:Michael: 'I have lemons, I make lemonade.' Oscar: 'I hate the lemonade business. I hate the grind. You have to grind so many... lemons.' Michael: 'You're not a very metaphorical person, are you?'
Oscar · Michael:Oscar: 'The love that was taken from me.' Michael: 'I hope that was the espresso machine.'
Oscar · Michael:Michael's phone answering machine spiral: 'Hi, this is Oscar. I'm off, pursuing my lady love. Leave a message. I'll get back to you next summer.' Michael: 'Hey, it's Michael. I know that you think that you've disappeared, but I will find you.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael walks in during Michael's suspicious phone call: 'Who's disappeared?' Michael: 'No one. Why do you ask? Have you seen someone?' George Michael: 'I've seen no one.' Michael: 'Then you haven't seen anyone that looks like Pop-Pop.' George Michael: 'No. Why? Has someone who looks like Pop-Pop disappeared?'
Michael · Board member:Michael at the board meeting: 'My dad screwed up... I guess that's why he's behind bars.' / 'It was his idea, and then I carried out the transaction.' Board member: 'That's even worse. Conspiracy to commit fraud.'
Michael · Lucille:Lucille hugs Michael. Michael: 'Why are you squeezing me with your body?' Lucille: 'It's a hug, Michael. I'm hugging you.' Michael: 'Why?' Lucille: 'Because you need your mother right now.' Michael: 'But I don't get along with my... Sorry. That was a knee jerk.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'No, Mom, come on. I don't want you to do anything. Hey! This isn't algebra.' Lucille is already on the phone. Michael: 'Mother! Do not make somebody dis... disappear.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'I'm sorry about yesterday. It was a moment of weakness.' Lucille reveals she bought out Jordan's shares. Michael: 'With what?' Lucille: 'With the money you tried to spend on that lemon grove.' Michael: 'You got it back. How?'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'You know about what I was saying about how people outlive their usefulness?' Michael: 'That was out of line.' Lucille: 'I know. But you made a good point. Maybe I do need something to occupy my time, other than my children.'
Michael · Board member:Michael: 'Well, if you do want to spend it together, it's fine with me.' [Lucille joins the board; title card or visual implies Michael immediately regrets this] Board member at the end: 'Why have we been spending so much money on whistles?'
Lucille · Michael:On the Next Arrested Development: Lucille says 'I remember a young man who used to say But I don't have bad dreams in your bed!' and Michael says 'That was Buster.'
Michael:Michael: 'I cannot kill this joke.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'If you give someone permission to use a tissue, you can't be upset if they blow their nose. Right? I mean, right?'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay's 'hand-me-down from Mom' with price tag still on it
Michael:Michael: 'Only two of those words describe Mom, so I know you're lying to me.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'Unless you're stealing or working, I'm pretty sure it is.' (re: money for clothes)
Michael:'Okay, so you can run faster than me. But you can't make me work.'
Michael:'See that? Who knew you were such a good little climber?' — Michael complimenting Maeby for climbing to escape him
Annyong · Michael · Narrator:Annyong appears as Lucille's date to the soccer game and says 'She don't want other soccer moms think that she a single mother. She old school. I liked it better when he just said Annyong.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'Damn it! Can't you just find somebody else, please, to look like your husband?' / Narrator: 'In fact, there was someone else who looked like Lucille's husband...'
Michael · Maeby:Michael and Maeby's honesty bet: 'I would like to see if you could go one day without telling a lie. Just one whole day without being like your mom.'
Michael · Maeby:Maeby: 'Fine. I'll do it if you do it.' / Michael: 'That-a-girl. This is gonna be fun. I win.'
Officer Taylor · Michael:Detective: '...the disappearance of Kitty Sanchez. Apparently you're the last person to see her... alive. Or around town or whatever.'
Michael:Michael: 'She was my secretary, but she left. Or I-I fired her.' — immediately undercutting his own alibi
Michael:Michael: 'I certainly didn't... didn't kill her and drop her in a back bay. Boy, I hope that's not what happened to her. I'm sure it isn't.'
Michael · Narrator:'And apparently a fun one.' / 'Let's go see what's going on in the back room.' / Narrator: 'Were those the last words Kitty ever heard?'
Office Worker · Michael · George Michael:Someone at the office: 'I think that's her right behind you there.' — pointing to Kitty alive on TV; George Michael: 'And that's the boat that Uncle Gob blew up.'
Michael · Maeby · Detective:Michael arrives at police station with Maeby; detective: 'I didn't know you had a daughter.' Michael: 'I don't.' Maeby: 'I thought you wanted me to call you Daddy?'
Barry · Michael · Maeby:Barry: 'I do think that we should lie.' / Michael: 'We don't lie in this family.' Maeby's soda errand used to avoid her hearing Michael lie
Lindsay · Michael:Michael on the phone as chaos erupts: 'Michael, I'm not as bad an influence as you think I am.' / Michael: 'Well, you're not a great one.'
Michael:Michael: 'It's just you're getting a little too manly for Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.'
Michael · Narrator:'I've put a bounty on my own head.'
Michael:Michael: 'I hate Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.'
Michael · Lucille · George Sr.:'Nothing works in this house.' / 'Tell me about it.' / 'Is that a shot at me?'
Lindsay · Gob · Michael:Lindsay announces her new business: 'Beads.' / 'Bees?' / 'Beads.' / 'Beads?' — the three-way phonetic confusion between Gob, Lindsay, and Michael
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'But... I'm the oldest.' Michael: 'The matriarch, if you will.' Gob: 'Sure. I will.'
Gob · Michael · George Sr. · Barry:Gob: 'I won't do it. I'm afraid of what I might know.' Michael: 'You? No one wants you. Does anyone want him?' / 'Who would want him?' / 'They don't want you.' Gob: 'Good.'
Michael · Lucille · George Sr.:You? No one wants you. Does anyone want him? / Who would want him? / They don't want you.
Kitty · Michael:Flashback: Kitty lifting her top — 'Say good-bye to your company, Michael. And say good-bye to these.' / Michael (present): 'Guess I do get to see them again, huh?'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'Can we please have one conversation that's not about my rack, Michael?'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'I'd like to be in charge of the Bluth Company.' Michael: 'Well, I want a hamburger and French fries, but I can't have the bun or potatoes. Get real.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I think we're gonna be seeing Pop-Pop sooner than we thought.' George Michael: 'Do you hear that rattle? It is very worrisome.'
Tobias · Michael:So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go upstairs and run the shower. / Let me know if it's too loud in the kitchen.
Michael · Lindsay · Narrator:Michael: 'It's Dip-A-Pet all over again.' Narrator: 'Lindsay also had a brief foray into what she had then hoped would be the burgeoning fad of custom pet coloring.' — cut to Lindsay chasing a pet
Narrator · George Sr. · Michael:Narrator: 'There's a good chance I may have committed some light treason.' / George Sr.: 'This might even be considered light treason.'
Michael · Gob:Michael's list of what being 'in charge' actually means: 'a sister who takes your money and throws it away; a mother who you can't trust; a company whose founder may be on trial for treason. Is that what you want?' Gob: 'What kind of vacation time does it offer?'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'Well, Saddam owed us money. You didn't realize that he wouldn't pay?' Michael: 'Your mom had a good feeling about him.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'Oh! Barry. Did you talk to a doctor?' Michael: 'I did. I have poison oak. Do you believe it? Where the hell did I get that?'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I want to pack up and desert the family, and you don't want to. Is it this new girlfriend?' George Michael: 'No, it's because of the family. I like the family. I mean, if we leave, who's gonna take care of these people?' Michael: 'I don't know. The state or the police. Maybe the Magicians' Alliance will pick up some slack.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael decide not to answer the phone. [Phone rings]. [They let it ring]. [00:18 silence]. Michael picks up anyway: 'Hello?'
Nurse · Michael · Gob:He keeps trying to get this I.V. out of his arm. I don't understand why. / It's just glucose. / We're all trying to stay away from sugar.
Michael · Gob:Michael: '[George Sr.] keeps trying to get this IV out of his arm. I don't understand why. It's just glucose.' Gob: 'We're all trying to stay away from sugar.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'He never got a chance to see my bee business take off.' Michael: 'Hey, come on, now. Dad's gonna be around another 30 years, Gob.' [pause] 'Your business, uh, might not.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'I didn't even know we were calling him Big Bear.' Gob: 'We never had a chance to!'
Michael · Family:Michael: 'I feel awful. I should have been here.' Family: 'You should've been here.' Michael: 'I feel like I covered that.' / Family member: 'Well, you didn't say it.' Michael: 'I feel awful. I should have been here.'
Doctor · Michael · Family:Doctor: 'Can we go in there?' Michael: 'If you want. Not a lot to see.' / Michael: 'Maybe not for you, but for us.'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator intro: 'This is Michael Bluth. Right now he's taking his son, George Michael, to start a new life in Arizona.'
Michael:Michael: 'We are free. We're gonna follow our dreams... and the best part of it — not working for the family anymore.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'Don't you always say, Family first?' Michael: 'Yes I do, but that is not a family, okay? They're a bunch of greedy, selfish people who have our nose.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'And Aunt Lindsay.' Michael: 'She's not my real aunt?' 'Not her real nose. Got a picture of her when she's 14 in a swimming cap. She looks like a falcon.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael imagines his family panicking: 'I'd love to see the look on their faces right now. Where'd he go?' — cut to Lucille on the phone calling for him
Lucille · Buster · Michael:Buster holding Lucille's 'rape horn.' Lucille: 'Yes. I have a rape horn, Michael. Because you took away my Mace.'
Michael:Michael: 'Yeah, like anyone would want to R her.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'I don't know why you're not taking this I'm out of here seriously, but I am out of here, seriously.' Lucille: 'Let's face it, Michael, you've made this threat before. Tell me. When.' Flashback montage of Michael repeatedly saying 'I'm out of here' in various contexts.
Michael:Michael: 'Oh, that's rich. Huh. I need... you.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Gob, instead of always coming to me asking for money saying I've made a huge mistake—' Gob: 'I've never admitted to a mistake. What would I have made a mistake about?'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'Lindsay, instead of sleeping in twin beds, why don't you and your husband take the master bedroom? It's not like you've never come to me with your marital problems saying, Oh help me Michael, I think my husband might be a...' [cut]
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'And so, once again, the guys were on their way to Phoenix, never to look back.' — immediately followed by Michael turning around
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'It's just the lab calling. We'll give him the bad news in Phoenix.' George Michael tells on Michael for saying Phoenix again.
Michael · George Michael:Michael offers George Michael to sit on his lap and drive. George Michael: 'I think I might be [too old].' Awkward pause.
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'Do you remember what we say about the family?' George Michael: 'Uh, it's not Aunt Lindsay's nose.' Michael: 'Yes, but no... We say we don't need them.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay doing an exercise video: 'It comes from knowing you're toned and fit.' Michael: 'I see you've found an exercise tape made for people as lazy as you are.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'I do have a love life.' Michael: 'One night in the master bedroom and you got yourself a love life again?'
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'I better get over there before he brings the whole company down. It's only been three hours. How much damage could he really do?' Narrator: 'And release... In three hours, Gob had done $45,000 in damage.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Hey, where's my desk?' Gob: 'Oh, I think it's the massage table in the break room now.'
Michael:Michael: 'They approved me unanimously. Why wouldn't they? You've only lost them $99 so far.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I need you? Oh boy, that's good. Can't wait to call the guys in to hear this one.' Then can't figure out the intercom for 30 seconds.
Tobias · Michael:Tobias, painted entirely blue, enters the wall Michael is hammering: 'Are you blue? Only in color, Michael. Only in color.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'No, I'm afraid I just blue myself.' Michael: 'There's got to be a better way to say that.'
Michael · Lucille · Buster · George Michael · Gob:Michael: 'None.' Family members simultaneously shouting needs: 'Oh God, okay fine I need you.' / 'Mom volunteered me for the Army just because the fat man dared her.' / 'I lost my wig. My Uncle Sam wig.' / 'Michael, I am sitting on some very hot information here. I know too much. I've got the thingy. Half in English, half in scribbly.'
Michael:Michael: 'Well, I hate to cancel my medical follow-up in Phoenix, but you give me the corporate checkbook, I'll see what I can do.'
Doctor · Michael · Lucille · Lindsay:Doctor: 'It... looks like he's dead.' Family gasps. Doctor: 'It just looks like he's dead. He's got, like, blue paint on him or something. But he's going to be fine.' Family turns on doctor.
Michael:Michael: 'Just to be clear. It looks like he's dead, or he is dead?'
Michael:Michael intervenes as the police try to arrest someone: 'Hey, hey, that's not my dad. That's not the guy you want. If you want anybody it's me.' Police are confused. Then: 'I got to turn myself in or make bail, um, maybe by, like... 8 o'clock.'
George Michael · Michael:Can I bring Ann? / Who?
Michael:She's got a little hard-boiled egg going there.
George Michael · Michael:Are you okay? / I don't feel so good.
Michael · George Michael:George Michael wants to buy Ann some diamond cream. / Her?
Michael:I'm sure that Egg is a very nice person.
George Michael · Michael:It's Ann. Her na- / all your money getting her all glittered up for Easter.
Michael:If you had a business model, then by all means, go in there and do your little dance.
Gob · Michael:Rock, paper, scissors for it. / No, no, I'm not interested in doing— / One, two, three. / Paper covers rock. / It is a rock though. It should beat everything.
Michael:There's not a lot of logic to it. It's like on a boat with 'Women and children first.' Why should they—
Gob · Michael:The Seaward. / You're not getting a boat. / One, two, three— / No, not gonna do it. / Paper covers rock. / Fine. But rock sinks boat.
Lucille · Michael · Oscar:I heard zoo noises. It's nothing. Go back to bed. / So, everybody's still up, huh?
Michael · Lucille:You volunteered him. / I knew you were going to throw that in my face.
Michael:Don't worry about it, okay? They're never gonna take him anyway.
Michael · Lucille:Hey, why don't you volunteer Oscar? That would solve both of your problems. / He'd never cut his hair. / That hair.
Narrator · Gob · Michael:Gob was hurt. / Bye, Pop. / Hey, whoa, whoa — was that Dad? / Yeah, I had to, uh, jump off.
Michael · Gob:Did he wanna talk to me? / No, he wanted to talk to the president. / I have no problem with that.
Michael:We can't build a house in two weeks. Also, I'm not sure how 'Solid as a Rock' helps people forget the fact that we built houses in Iraq.
Michael:I built that company, that house, and I'm gonna be cutting the ribbon whether we're all pretending that you're president or not.
Michael:Well, actually, I figured, give Gob a chance, you know? The guy doesn't get a whole lot of attention in this family.
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Gob charged at Michael with the scissors — but Michael, as he always did, picked rock — which beat scissors.
Gob · Michael:Nobody looks good in this. / Especially that little dude. / That's Ann.
Gob · Michael:Who's— / It doesn't matter.
Gob · Michael:Hello? They hung up. / They hung up on me. / Did I hang up? / I meant to hit speaker. / Oh. / You gotta hit the line first.
Gob · Michael:Hello? They hung up. / They hung up on me. / Hiya, guys. / I couldn't get the money. I don't know what happened.
Michael · Gob:I couldn't get the money. I don't know what happened. / I'm impressed you hung up. / Did I hang up? I meant to hit speaker.
Gob · Michael:We almost did it though, didn't we? / We almost pulled it off. / No, it wasn't even close. / Yeah, a lot of people got hurt. / This was very, very bad. / Not great. Not great.
Gob · Michael:Gob reads 'circumvrent' then 'circumverate' — Michael corrects: 'Circumvent.' Gob: 'The old reach around.'
Michael · Starla:Starla brings photo-sized photocopies. 'When you said you wanted photocopies, I thought you meant you wanted them on a photo printer.' Michael: 'Tell you what. From now on, we're gonna use just the big printer.' Starla: 'Okay. You're a perfectionist.'
Gob · Michael · Lindsay:Gob: 'No problem. I'll just call up some of my friends.' Michael and Lindsay beat: 'What?' / 'What friends?'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'I hired him a hundred years ago to find out if your father was cheating on me. He never did find anything.' Michael: 'Well, he can't be very good then.'
Gob · Gene Parmesan · Michael:Michael: 'If I could find Dad, I'd be off the hook. I could be president again.' ... Gene: 'Mexico.' Gob: 'You get the country for free. The city — that's gonna cost ya.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'You know, he's doing it [joining the army] just to spite me.' Michael: 'Then why are you throwing him a party?' Lucille: 'Just to spite him.' Michael: 'You guys have such a healthy thing going.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael mentions Ann; George Michael shows a photo. Michael: 'I guess I thought she was with another family.' George Michael: 'She's kind of my girlfriend.'
Michael:Michael: 'It's like you're hoggin' her — like you're a little Ann hog. Okay? Don't be such an Ann hog.'
Michael · Narrator:'And 8:01. Curtain has risen.' — Michael checks his watch as soon as he asks Tobias if he's free
Michael · Gob · Narrator:Narrator: 'Michael and Gob had been to Mexico once before. Chiclet? Chiclet?' / 'You're the Chiclet! Not me!' — Narrator: 'Unfortunately, in Mexican culture, this was a much more inflammatory gesture.'
Buster · Michael:Buster dramatically declares 'It's too late for apologies. I'm going to the army.' — then immediately: 'Get me out. You've got to get me out.'
Michael · Starla · Gob:Blueprint of George Sr.'s face printed on the big printer — 'She used the big printer. I'll give her that.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'Ann Hog's coming? I thought it was just the two of us.' Michael: 'Just Ann.'
Michael · Narrator · Buster:Michael: 'I'm gonna have to start putting people in the trunk.' Narrator: 'In fact, at that moment, Buster was climbing into the trunk.'
Michael · Mexican workers:Michael finds the stair car in Mexico. Mexican workers interpret the blueprint of George Sr.'s face as construction plans. Worker: 'Oh, yeah. Sure, señor. No problem. When do you want us to start building?'
Michael · Ice:Ice stops Michael. Michael: 'Gene? There's no way you're that good.' Ice: 'Name's Ice. Gob hired me to stop you from fleeing the country.'
Michael · Ice:Michael tries to show Ice a photo of George Sr.: 'No, this — That's actually him. He's just — He's much smaller in real life.' Ice: 'I can see that's a man.'
Michael · Maeby · Narrator:Michael and Maeby conversation: Michael thinks they're talking about Ann; Maeby thinks they're talking about Lindsay. Narrator: 'At no point were Michael and Maeby talking about the same person.'
Narrator · Michael · Ann:Narrator: 'Unfortunately, this left the girl Michael was determined to get to know alone in Mexico.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'Yeah. We won.' [Re: the drive back from Mexico]
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'That cousin of yours is a hell of a girl. Too bad you can't date her.' / George Michael: 'No. I meant — Wait, you wouldn't have a problem with that?'
Michael · Narrator:Michael realizes he left Ann in Mexico. Long pause. 'She's gonna be fine. We just gotta beat the sun.'
Michael:Michael: 'Hey. You think I'm happy about this? But, hey, we are getting that trip together we wanted, huh? And look. Two exits to LEGOLAND.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael rescues Ann in the church. 'You are Ann, right? Yes. Of course you are.' / 'It is. We got her.' / 'I think we're crashing some poor guy's wake.'
Gob · Michael:Gob runs up: 'Michael, Michael, Michael! / Fleeing the country. You bastard.' — Michael: 'No. I'm still not fleeing.'
Michael · Ann:Michael to Ann: 'Yeah? Way to plant, Ann.'
Michael:George Michael: 'I'll be in your car.' Michael adds: 'George Michael, uh, listen. Why don't you and Plant wait in the stair car.' [calling Ann 'Plant']
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'That's his girlfriend? Is she funny or something?' Michael: 'Don't worry about it.'
Michael · Gob:Gob: 'The only reason I didn't ask you to come is because of your chicken impression. We sure did get in a lot of trouble for that last time.' / Gob starts doing the chicken impression. Michael: 'Hey, no. You're doing it again.'
Gob · Michael:Gob does his chicken impression — Michael says 'We sure did get in a lot of trouble for that last time.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I went to our mother because I don't have any friends.' Michael: 'Oh, that's funny.' Gob: 'Thank you.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Not crazy about? Or not crazy about your son growing up?' / Gob: 'Maybe — Maybe you're right about that.' / 'See? You are a friend.' Michael: 'You know, I'm — I'm always gonna look out for you.'
Gob · Michael · Ice:Gob: 'See? You are a friend.' — Michael nearly has a genuine moment — then Ice tackles Gob from behind
Gob · Ice · Michael:Ice tackles Michael. Gob: 'Sorry. I did see him coming. It's just... I kind of wanted to see where you were going with that.'
Michael · Gob · Gene Parmesan · Ice:Michael arranges for Gene and Ice to be Gob's paid friends for the weekend while they look for George Sr.
Michael · Narrator:Michael pays Gene and Ice to be Gob's friends for the weekend while they search for George Sr.
Michael · Ann:Michael sits with Ann to get to know her: 'Ann, why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?' Long silence. Reaction beat.
Michael · George Michael:Michael returns to work and rattles off Ann's school details: algebra test, Mr. Mason, Kim Cho cheating. George Michael: 'Wow. You really got to know her.' Michael: 'Well, we did spend three hours together in that car ride.' / 'So, what'd you think?' Michael: 'I don't like her.'
Narrator · Michael · Gob:Michael was adjusting to his new position as vice president, which meant doing the work of the president, his brother Gob.
Gob · Michael:So, did you see the new Poof? / His name's Gary, and we don't need any more lawsuits.
Michael · George Michael · Ann:George Michael has closed the banana stand to spend time with Ann; Michael tells him to keep his phone on and calls him 'pal.'
Michael:Michael: 'Oh, she's still goin'? Listen, I'll talk to you later. I'm very excited.'
Michael · Ice:Confusion about who killed whom: 'I'm sorry — he killed a guard?' / 'No, the guard killed him.'
Michael · Lucille:Family members sentimentally recall George Sr.'s favorite toothpaste: 'It was that Glisten. He swore by that Glisten. I can still hear him now: 'Who left the cap off my [bleeps] Glisten?'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'This about getting into Poof? / I mean, how does that not get me a cover?'
Michael · George Michael:Michael, upon hearing 'grandfather is dead,' asks: 'Are you okay? What? Is Ann telling everyone?'
George Michael · Michael:It's your grandfather. Apparently, he's dead. / Are you okay? / Yeah. / I'm sorry, what were you saying about Ann?
Michael · George Michael:After hearing his grandfather is dead, Michael asks: 'Are you okay?' George Michael says yes. Michael: 'She wasn't for us. For those other guys.'
Michael · George Michael:She wasn't for us. / No, she's a great girl. / For those other guys. / You think there are other guys?
George Michael · Michael:George Michael tells Michael his 'grief is taking the form' of eating his grandfather's favorite foods in his room.
Michael · Tobias:Michael thinks George Michael is hiding Ann in the attic — 'From who, the Nazis?'
Michael · Tobias:Tobias cries about how amazing George Sr. was; Michael says 'That was actually an example of how not so amazing he was,' referring to something George Sr. did.
Tobias · Michael:Tobias's 'Here he comes. Here comes John Wayne. I'm not gonna cry about my pa. I'm gonna build an airport, put my name on it.' — then: 'Why, Michael? So you can fly away from your feelings?'
Michael:Michael's grief breaks out not through tears but through: 'Hey, where the [bleep] are my hard-boiled eggs?!'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille on Oscar wearing George Sr.'s suit: 'Tell my brother you don't wear a dead man's pants. Shame on him. And you say that to him. Say it to me like you're gonna say it to him.' / 'I'm probably not gonna say it to him.'
Michael · Gob · Ann:Michael shows Gob Ann, the girl who 'ripped his heart out, whose face will always be etched in my mind' — cut to Ann's unremarkable face.
Michael:Michael invites Ann to the wake: 'It's as Ann as the nose on Plain's face.'
Buster · Michael:Buster arrives at the wake in a military outfit Gob got from strippers — 'All regulation, Michael. To get the top right, the pants had to be a little snug.'
Narrator · Michael · Buster:Michael remembers what Buster did to 'what he thought was Rose's car with what he thought was Rose's favorite toy.' — Cut to: driver being attacked.
Michael · Various Family:Anyone. / Anyone? / Perhaps my son George Michael would like to say something.
Michael · Ice:Michael's eulogy is interrupted by a blender: 'Ice, can we just cool it on the smoothies for right now?' Family: 'There are smoothies?'
Gob · Michael:Gob asks Michael to move the eulogy outside 'so I can time being lowered into Dad's grave with your big finish.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael says 'I have Pop-Pop in the attic.' Michael interprets this as: 'The mere fact that you call making love 'pop-pop' tells me you're not ready.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael spots Glisten toothpaste in the dirt and suddenly realizes George Michael's 'Pop-Pop in the attic' meant the actual George Sr.
Narrator · Michael:Michael noticed something in the dirt. [Sighs] Glisten. / And suddenly he realized what his son meant when he said he had Pop-Pop in the attic.
Michael · Lucille · Ice:Michael tells Ice: 'My mother has something to tell you.' Lucille: 'I find you very attractive.' Ice: 'She cleans up nice too. Trust me.' Then: 'I think I'm finally off the clock.'
George Sr. · Michael:Thanks, Mikey. / Yeah. Well, now it's our secret.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael reveals Ann was 'so moved' by Michael's eulogy that they got back together — Michael: 'Ah! Oh, is that great.'
Michael:Michael: 'Okay, let's go dig up your uncle.'
Michael · George Sr.:'On the next': Michael: 'No, Pop-Pop does not get a treat. I just brought you a [bleep] pizza.'
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:Narrator: 'It's a new prosecutor. It's a whole new beginning. A new day, a new case, a whole new set of lies.' / Michael: 'I'm not lying anymore, Mom.' / Narrator: 'Michael was lying.'
Michael · George-Michael · Narrator:Michael tells George-Michael that Ann got him a B-minus. George-Michael: 'Well, it wasn't Ann. She's an expert in math.' Michael: 'Isn't that cute?' / Narrator: 'Is it?'
Michael:Michael suggests George-Michael needs glasses for grades, not eyesight: 'Maybe it's your eyes. Maybe you need glasses. For your grades.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay's raspy, hoarse voice. Michael: 'What's wrong with your voice?' Lindsay: 'Nothing. I've been going out.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'That's why they call it "scoring."' Lindsay: 'Maybe in the '70s.' Lindsay: 'That many?'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'Instead of competing with Tobias, why don't you try spending more time with your daughter?' Lindsay: 'Why? Tobias doing that?'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay (after the Steve Holt moment): 'You know what? I think I am going to spend more time with my daughter.' Michael: 'I can't promise you I won't tell the prosecutor about that.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael finds George Sr. in attic wearing his dead wife's maternity clothes.
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'Where are the eggs?' George Sr.: 'Doctor says they're bad for the baby.'
Michael · Wayne Jarvis:Michael on Gob: 'He's twice tried to microwave a Ding-Dong while it was still in its foil... twice.' Wayne Jarvis: 'Twice?' Michael: 'Two times.'
Wayne Jarvis · Michael:Wayne Jarvis: 'Things could get very messy for you, Michael, unless you have something to bargain with, like, say... a fugitive.' Michael: 'I don't know where to find such a thing.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'Can I have a moment alone with my client, please?' [to Jarvis and aide] 'Did you follow any of that?' Michael then explains the obvious deal being offered. Barry: 'Do you know where your father is? No, wait, don't tell me now. Okay, if you know, give me a high five.'
Michael · Oscar · Narrator:Michael suggests Oscar should 'take a leap at freedom like my father' and 'run.' Oscar: 'Is that her rape horn?' Michael: 'It's more like a starter's pistol.' / Narrator: 'Run.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. holding broken device: 'Hey, by the way, I broke this thing. What the hell is it, anyway?' Michael: 'That's a breast pump, Dad.' George Sr.: 'Oh, well, I did not use it for that.'
Wayne Jarvis · Michael:Wayne Jarvis: 'I was once called the worst audience participant Cirque du Soleil ever had.' Michael: 'This is a big accusation.' Jarvis: 'Well, Michael, I did not find their buffoonery amusing.'
Lindsay · Michael · Narrator:Lindsay claims Oscar disappeared 'because of something you said to him.' Michael: 'I can't talk right now.' Narrator: 'Really? What's wrong with your voice?' Michael: 'I can talk — sure.'
Michael · Lindsay:Lindsay tells Michael she ran into Steve Holt. Michael: 'Wow. Everything about you is so womanly. You're everything a woman should be.' Lindsay: 'Thank you, Steve.'
Michael · Wayne Jarvis:Michael's reaction after being presented with satellite photos of 'WMDs' — then discovering they're Tobias's body parts
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'But Mom isn't the only one "finding love" where she least expects it — her words.' George Sr.: 'Whoa-whoa. "Finding love" — she said that? Where, here?' Michael: 'Yeah, she won't shut up about him. She said "tingling" like, 75 times.'
Michael · Lucille · Oscar:Michael: 'This is going to sound like a strange question. Have you seen Dad?' Lucille: 'Of course not. And I'm not talking to you. You tried to scare away Oscar, which didn't work. He's back. I just, uh, I just want to have sex with you. That's, that's all I'm good for.' Michael: 'Did you hear that?' Narrator: 'He said he just wants to...' Michael: 'Good-bye, Mom.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael to George Sr.: 'You deserted her, Dad. You know, you escaped, and then you faked your death. I'm not so sure she sees you as that reliable.'
Wayne Jarvis · Barry · Michael:Wayne Jarvis: 'Michael, when we started talking to you, we didn't have anything. But now... we got something. And you're going to do time for it.' Michael: 'Those are the pictures?' Barry: 'They're all over the news.' Michael: 'Those are balls.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'This close, they always look like landscape.' / Michael: 'Nope, you're looking at balls.'
Michael · George-Michael:Got the glasses. / Now you'll do better on those math exams. / I think I blew the eye exam too, because every time I take these off, I feel better.
Michael · George-Michael:George-Michael gets glasses: 'Got the glasses. Now you'll do better on those math exams.' George-Michael: 'I think I blew the eye exam too, because every time I take these off, I feel better.'
Michael · George-Michael · Narrator:Michael looks at George-Michael's glasses: 'Hey, I've seen this before.' Narrator: 'For a while, George-Michael had shared a room with his Uncle Tobias.' [Flashback or implication that these are Tobias's glasses]
Michael · George Sr.:George Sr. in attic: 'You know, you deserted her, Dad... I don't know whether it's just Tracy's maternity clothes, but it's very nice to see a softer side of you.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. smells Michael's clothing: 'You found her perfume, huh?' Michael: 'There was just a little left in the bottle. That was the end of it.' George Sr.: 'It's nice on you.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Another one of Dad's suits?' Michael: 'Hey, I'm the President now. Filling Dad's shoes. Literally. Except his shoes don't fit. But I did finally got into Dad's pants. Although I had to have the crotch taken out a little bit.'
Michael · Narrator:Narrator describes a past Christmas party: Michael turning down gifts and directing them to charity barrel while telling an employee 'We just can't have them resent us.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'If I show up with you, it'll just make me seem like I'm a mother.' Michael: 'I've never thought of you that way.' Lindsay: 'That's sweet.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'I can't. I'm supposed to go to Ann's parents' Christmas party. We're making yams.' Michael: 'Tonight? Tonight is the office party.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I think Ann's parents are having their party on Bethlehem time, which is pretty early.' / Michael later: 'You be with Yam. It's fine.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'When I thought your first wife was driving us apart, I did not make a stink.' Michael: 'You complained all the time, and she was my only wife. And she died.' Lucille: 'Yeah, well. See, things have a way of working themselves out.'
Michael:Michael examines the 'break-in' and finds the glass is on the outside: 'I doubt anyone was trying to break in, Mom. If anything, someone was trying to break out.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'And if anybody does anything with my sister Lindsay, I'll take off my pants, I'll shave my [bleep], and I'll personally [bleep]...' Michael: 'Let's get this going.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'You have no idea what it's like to be abandoned by your son.' Michael: 'Do you see my son? He chose his girlfriend over me.' Lucille: 'How the worm has turned.' Michael: 'Look who feels the sting of an ungrateful child.' Lucille: 'Mother, you have to receive something to be ungrateful.'
Lucille · Buster · Michael:Lucille: 'You have no idea what it's like to be abandoned by your son.' Buster: 'Look who feels the sting of an ungrateful child.' Lucille: 'Mother, you have to receive something to be ungrateful.'
Michael · Tobias · Narrator:Michael leaves a voicemail for Tobias asking him to go to Lucille's. The voicemail is accidentally routed to Michael's home — where the Blue Man Group is performing for Tobias. 'The Blue Men!' / 'You have 101 unheard messages. First message.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'Hey, I was talking to the sound guy, and he said he's got this karaoke thing.' Michael: 'Yeah, let's do it. Put the first song on in the book.' — They have no idea what they're about to sing.
Michael · Maeby:Michael and Maeby sing 'Afternoon Delight' as a duet — a cheerful karaoke performance of a song with explicit sexual lyrics, neither realizing the content. Intercut with Lindsay and George Michael each feeling abandoned.
Michael:Michael: 'Hang on, Maeby.' [stops singing mid-lyric when he registers what he's been singing]
Gob · Michael:Gob to Michael after firing everyone: 'I did the right thing, Michael. If I don't fire them, how do I teach a lesson to the others?' Michael: 'There are no others. You fired everyone.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Maybe we're better off with me being business-like and you being the good-time, useless party guy.' Gob: 'It got us this far.' Michael: 'Mm-hmm.'
Gob · Michael:Gob on the roast tradition: 'Oh, God, how they used to laugh with me.' Michael: 'At you.'
Michael · Oscar:Michael to Oscar on road trip: 'My mom is very stressed out, and she needs something that I can't give her. Maybe a little "Afternoon Delight"?'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille (on phone): 'I was almost attacked last night, in my own home. I walk in and there's a colored man in my kitchen.' Michael: '"Colored"? What color was he exactly?' Lucille: 'Blue.'
Oscar · Michael:Oscar: 'Well, sure. The question is, which way do I try to get it in her?' Michael: 'I don't need any details.' Oscar: 'Maybe I'll put it in her brownie.'
Gob · Michael:Gob watching Michael and Maeby together: 'Look at that. They're all over each other. With their little secrets.' Michael: 'Well, what can you do, right?' Gob: 'Yeah.'
Gob · Michael:Gob, after being hoisted and slammed by Buster, hears the crowd laughing: 'They're laughing with me, Michael. They're laughing with me.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael and Michael, rebuilding the banana stand again, hear 'Afternoon Delight' playing. George Michael: 'Does not seem like it would be that dirty.' Michael: 'It is catchy. That's the thing.'
Michael:Let him see he's not the only one who builds solid houses, you know?
Michael · Narrator:I think he'll be pretty impressed, knock on wood. [wood collapses/clatters]
Michael:The repeated 'knock on wood' callback — Michael says it again and something falls again
Gob · Michael:Ann? Hmm. That'll play well with Sitwell. 'Where's your son?' 'He's out with Ann.' 'Who's Ann?' 'Don't ask me, I'm just the boy's father.'
Buster · Michael:He said he would help me on this essay for The Old Man and the Sea... You have to read this, and then explain it, and — this is important — say it in my own words. Smart, but not too smart. Let's have a four-syllable max.
Michael · Gob:The only help we need is from each other. — And apparently whatever's in that bottle.
Lindsay · Michael:Since I've been taking this again, I've been getting along great with my husband. — You're taking it for the side effect, aren't you?
Michael · Narrator:Well, you certainly tried. You guys wore matching outfits till he was 12. [Narrator:] Even once on a magazine cover that had been mocked within the family for years.
Lucille · Michael:Get me a vodka, rocks. — Mom, it's breakfast. — And a piece of toast.
Michael:It's called alopecia, and I'd appreciate it if we could all be sensitive to it, okay?
Lucille · Michael:Then why is he always waving giant $10 million checks over his head every time some— Go ahead, Mom. Finish your thought. 'Every time some children's hospital needs funding'?
Michael · Sitwell:Sorry that my son couldn't be here — Let me guess. Girlfriend. — You know, it could be worse. He could wanna marry your mother. [laughs] — Oh, I'm sorry. Is your family not laughing at that yet?
Sitwell · Michael:You know, Sudden Valley conjures up the image of a sinkhole, no? — I told that to Dad. — I'm thinking — Paradise Gardens. [wind whistles] — I swear to God, I have that written—
Michael · George Sr. · Narrator:Sudden Valley just sort of implies that something awful could happen all of a sudden. — Plus, it's on a hill. — What are you taking, stupid pills? Come on. Save us some money.
Michael · George Michael:What do you think of when you hear the words 'Sudden Valley'? — Salad dressing, I think. But for some reason, I don't wanna eat it. — Right. But 'Paradise Gardens.' — Yeah. Okay. I can see marinating a chicken in that.
George Michael · Michael:'Cause you know this game is kind of our thing. But Ann's amazing. You know, she could play my position. — You should be playing the field... there, in right, you know?
Michael:I got Aunt Lindsay playing this year. I can't very well pull her off the roster. — Let's make Ann the backup, okay? Very good way to think about her... as a backup.
George Michael · Michael:Maybe — Maybe now I'll get a kiss. — Okay. — Oh. I meant from Ann. — Yes, I know. I just want to get in there first. [quietly] Okay.
Michael · Lindsay · Narrator:Lindsay, wake up. I need you to play on the softball team. — [Narrator:] Lindsay felt the intended effect of Teamocil — a sense of camaraderie. — Count me in, Michael. Happy to help the team.
Michael · Gob:What about if I help you with your work over at Sitwell? — You'd do that? — Sure. You really want me to succeed at Sitwell. — Well, I just — Hey. Come on. I really want you to be over at Sitwell.
Gob · Michael:So get this. Sitwell loved my ideas. — Well, my ideas and I knew it. That's great. — You know, Dad never complimented any of those. — Here's the thing. I need more. — There were 34 proposals in there.
Michael · Lindsay · Narrator:Lindsay, did that oven vent hit you? Your foot is bleeding. — My foot is bleeding. — [Narrator] Teamocil may cause numbness of the extremities.
Michael · Lindsay · Narrator:You're gonna be able to play on our team, right? — Why do you think I'm taking Teamocil? — To curb your sex drive. — That's right. What team are you talking about? — [Narrator] It may also cause short-term memory loss.
Michael · George Michael:Okay. Looks like I'm gonna need that female backup player after all. — And Ann's really good at softball, huh? — Yeah. She's amazing. You know, she's got this low center of gravity. You can't knock her over. — Well, I could knock her over. — Dad, I'm telling you, you can't. — They call her 'The Wall,' you know? — Well, that's great. But I could knock her over. I won't, but I could.
Michael · George Michael · Narrator · Gob:You better pull an ankle or something. — Come on, George Michael! Get that ball in there! — [Narrator] Then he went headfirst into The Wall. — I'm safe. — You're out! — Out? I was safe! I'm safe!
George Sr. · Michael · Gob:Stop with the Tweety Bird dance, you moron. — Dad? — He made the call. You're out. What are you doing? — Shush, shush, shush. — Dad? — He's safe. — What the hell are you doing here? — I'm taking care of what you screwed up. You blew it again, Michael.
George Sr. · Michael:Stop with the Tweety Bird dance, you moron. / Dad?
Michael · George Sr.:I even stooped to cheat here at a softball game. — You've been talking to each other. How come nobody called me?
Gob · Michael:Yeah, and Stan Sitwell liked my ideas. He really believed in me. — My ideas. — Well.
George Sr. · Michael:I'm proud of you. — Really? — Yeah. See ya.
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Michael, I could've sworn I just saw Dad. — Or not. I think hallucination is one of the side-effects of Teamocil. — [Narrator] It isn't.
Gob · Michael:Sorry I didn't blow the game. — No. You did the right thing... and you finally got Dad to one of your ball games. — Screw him. — Yeah. [whistling through teeth] I miss him so much.
Michael · George Michael:Michael offers George Michael a ride: 'You don't need to be penned up with them. I'll drive you both. We'll take the stairs.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael explains kids are still talking about Michael 'taking down that homecoming banner' with the stair car
Michael:Michael's internal monologue: 'I've got to get a new car.'
Buster · Michael:Buster explains why he's home: 'everybody's out dancing with their girl and I'm home sitting with Mom.' Michael: 'Mom doesn't wanna go dancing?' Buster: 'I think the age difference is really starting to catch up to us.'
Michael:Michael suggests Buster meet women 'who didn't give birth to you'
Michael:Michael's reaction beat: 'Boy, that's enough family stuff for today.'
Gob · Michael:Gob stole Sitwell's dress eyebrows. 'He's not gonna be happy about that.' / 'No, especially when he goes to the opera with two mustaches on his forehead.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Are you serious? Dad gave you the Camaro? I thought you won that on Card Sharks.' Gob: 'Michael, I was never on Card Sharks. Dad told us not to tell you.'
Michael:Michael: 'I'm driving a staircase, for God's sake. It smells like gas. I get hop-ons.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I'm gonna prove to you that I'm worthy of rehiring if it takes every ounce of determination that I've got.' Then immediately leaves.
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Where are you going?' Gob exits. 'Did you want me to stay and do that?'
Michael · Barry:Michael dictating a letter to investors, Barry suggests perfect wording, then: 'Uh, yeah. Wh-What you just said was perfect. Why do you want me to write it?' Michael: 'Just send it out on your stationery. And do it quickly. I have a car to buy.'
Michael · Car salesman:Car salesman: 'Oh, something like this? We have, like, 400 of these.' Michael: 'I don't need anything too popular.' Salesman: 'Oh, they're not popular. We have 400 of them.'
Michael · Car salesman:Car salesman recognizes Michael: 'Oh, you're the stair car guy. You took down our banner.' Michael: 'Yeah. Sorry. I got a hop-on.'
Michael · Car salesman:Salesman lists the car's negatives — no back seat, attracts tickets, insurance costs as much as the last three cars — and Michael fixates on the free windbreaker: 'The windbreaker? Windbreaker comes with it too?' 'I'll take it.'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'Michael had just indulged himself with an expensive sports car—' [cuts to Michael already at the dealership signing] 'And here again, please.'
Michael · Buster:Lucille locked Buster on the balcony. Michael: 'What tripped you off? When she locked you out on the balcony again?' Buster: 'That was half my fault. I thought I saw a graham cracker out there.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'You baited the balcony?' Lucille: 'Prove it.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille sold stock after reading Barry's letter. Michael: 'I sent you that letter. It says not to sell.' Lucille: 'It does? I stopped at "unfrozen."'
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'Did you guys not read the letter?' Narrator: 'None of them had read past the word "unfrozen."'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'Hey, Dad, is that your new car in the driveway? I can't believe you got a Corvette!'
Michael:Michael: 'It's a company car.'
Barry · Michael · Gob:The hostile company is called 'Standpoor' — 'as in the opposite of Sitwell... which is run by a hairless man who could be very upset with you right now.' Michael: 'What would he have to be upset with me about?' [beat] 'You're wearing his eyebrows?'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael's phone call: 'Kind of. To something called Standpoor. Yeah, it's Sitwell.' George Michael on the other end: 'It's Lucille Austero.' Michael: 'Lucille 2?' 'Standpoor, because she can't stand up without falling over.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'Give her Buster.' Michael: 'What?' Lucille: 'We need our company back.'
Michael · Buster:Michael's metaphor to Buster: 'You know, you want something sensible, you end up getting pushed into something flashy.' Buster: 'What does that mean?'
Michael:Michael to Buster: 'Don't you think you belong in a Lucille?'
Buster · Michael:Michael realizes Buster didn't sell his stock. Buster: 'Your letter said not to, and I would never want to hurt the family.'
Michael:Michael tells Buster to go back to Lucille 2: 'I'll take care of Lucille 2 for you. Let her down easy. That right knee could go at any time.'
Michael:Michael confesses to Lucille 2 that he sent Buster to date her to get the company stock back. 'The only reason that he asked you out tonight was because I wanted him to get the stock back from you so that I could regain control of the company. But I would— I'd rather have my brother back. So— I'm sorry.'
Lucille 2 · Michael:Lucille 2: 'Actually, there is a condition.' Michael: 'Anything.' Lucille 2: 'Call me a cab.' Michael: 'Ah, because of my driving. Yes.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'I fixed everything.' Lucille: 'Oh?' Michael: 'With the business. It's all taken care of.' Michael: 'You didn't think I could, but I did.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Oh, and she's not gonna give the shares back now.' Michael: 'You just said that you fixed everything.' Gob: 'Oh, I meant my problems. Yeah, she's gonna make me the new president.'
Michael:Michael: 'You don't need to prove yourself to me, little brother. You will always have a job here. But I do need the keys to the company car.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael asks if anyone would miss the 'Peter and the Wolf read-along record,' Michael says no, it's part of the model home decorations.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael corrects 'Christian Music Bonfire' — it's not a 'Christian Music' bonfire, it's a Christian 'Music Bonfire' — they burn satanic music.
Michael · Narrator:Michael's only music is 'either instructional or humor,' and he's particularly fond of the Jerky Boys.
Michael:The Jerky Boys clip plays: 'I wanna buy a house, Dad. It's gotta be big. You said Dad, buddy. Shut up, Jerky.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille opens with: 'Michael! How would you like me to owe you a favor?' — then immediately asks him to bid on her at the charity auction.
Michael:Michael: 'Okay. Now I'd like to use up my favor and decline.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'And you're embarrassed to have Oscar bid on you.' Lucille: 'With his two pair of pants? You bet.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille asks: 'Did nothing cancel?' when Michael says he has the afternoon free.
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'I need to prove to her that I'm not just a man, but a man's man.' Michael: 'I think she knows that.'
GOB · Michael:GOB screams 'JESUS! IT'S THE WOLF! THAT IS THE WOLF! THE WOLF IS UPSTAIRS!' — it's just the Peter and the Wolf record.
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'I think it's just my son's Peter and the Wolf record.' Tobias: 'I thought that was a homefill.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'My back is in knots. I haven't had a massage since prison.' Then: 'Hope that was forced.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael says 'We're done pampering ourselves in this family' — cut to him immediately calling to order the biggest air conditioner available for the banana stand.
Michael:Adult Michael, after the flashback, desperately says: 'We're not gonna be sticking anything. Not-not gonna stick a thing.'
Michael:Michael, working at the banana stand, trying to look impressive to Sally: 'No, no, no. Filling in for my son.'
Michael:Michael calling Sally 'Sally Stickwell' instead of Sitwell.
GOB · Michael · Sally:GOB to Sally: 'Because the guys wanted to stick it to me.' Michael: 'What? No. I never—' GOB: 'Michael used to say that.' Michael: 'No, I didn't.' GOB: 'You said other stuff.' Michael: 'I absolutely did not say that.'
GOB · Michael:GOB: 'Smooth, Michael, like her father's head, chest, arms, legs and ass.' Michael: 'What are you talking about?' GOB: 'He's hairless, Michael. It's a condition.'
GOB · Michael:GOB: 'I hate the guy, but at least he's got...' Michael: 'Satiny and smooth probably.' GOB: 'I'm just different than you, GOB.'
Michael · GOB:Michael reveals GOB's high school scheme: siphoning gas from a girl's car, then showing up to say 'Car troubles?' and driving her in his car.
Michael · GOB:GOB: 'It's called taking advantage. It's what gets you ahead in life.' Michael: 'Like you did with our biggest shareholder, Lucille Austero.'
GOB · Michael · Buster:GOB: 'You just let Sally Sitwell slip away right when she was ready to go.' — then: 'You were scared.' Michael: 'What are you talking about?' Buster falls off his Segway or stumbles. 'I hurt my ankle yesterday shooting hoops or something.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael to Lucille re: the auction: 'Start at five grand. If there are other bidders, back off gracefully. Shout out, I get her 364 days a year for free, or something.' Lucille: 'You're not gonna hear that phrase.'
Michael · Sally:Michael shows up at the country club and is forced to wear the club jacket — 'I can't wear this. I look like I'm 16.' — then Sally arrives.
Stan Sitwell · Michael · GOB:Stan Sitwell reading the dessert menu to Lucille 2: 'An assortment of ice creams and sorbets.' / 'You all right with him reading to your girl?' / 'Not my girl.'
Michael · Narrator · George Sr.:Michael's credit card is declined at the club — 'In fact, the increased activity on Michael's card was his father's.' — cut to George Sr. having a hot tub installed in the attic.
Michael · Sally · club clerk:Michael at the club: 'Can you put this on my mother's card?' Clerk: 'Your mother? No. She's a pool member only.' / Sally: 'You'll excuse me if my tone is not polite, but this is more polite than she has ever talked to me.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. has installed the hot tub in the attic; it's now cooking teriyaki chicken: 'I tried to drink some of the water, and it was too hot, and it tasted like soy sauce. I think the teriyaki chicken burst.'
Michael:Michael: 'That's why people typically don't cook in these things or install them in attics.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'Is that veal marsala stuck in the intake?' George Sr.: 'They all look so good on the boxes.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'You know, it's good you backed off Sally. I don't need that guy saying his daughter's sticking it to my loser son.'
Michael:Michael: 'The reason I never went after her is because you're always pushing me. But now that I know that I don't have your approval, I think I'll finally go for it.'
Buster · Michael:Michael asks if there's a waiting period for the tranquilizer rifle. Buster: 'It turns out there is. Two weeks?' / 'There is a gun show loophole. What timing, huh? Right out back they were having one.'
GOB · Michael:GOB's 'Car troubles?' scheme re-enacted — 'Probably shouldn't do the fireball when you siphon the gas.' / 'I guess this flint's still got a little life left in it, huh?'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'Michael did look heroic as he went to put out the fire. Unfortunately, Sally arrived too late to see him that way.'
Michael · Sally:Sally arrives at the burning car. Michael's explanation: 'Car trouble.'
Sally · Michael · hospital clerk:At the hospital, Sally tells Michael she has to go to the charity auction. Hospital clerk: 'I'm sorry, sir. Your Blue Cross Blue Shield was denied. We've called your mother.'
Michael:Michael tells someone to start draining the hot tub — 'It's going back.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'I haven't been the perfect husband. I admit that. But now is my chance to be a hero.' — then begs Michael for money to bid, describing why: 'You shot her in the ass with about four ounces of horse tranquilizer.'
Michael · Tobias · Auctioneer:Michael accidentally bids $5,000 on Lindsay when trying to help Tobias
Michael · Auction MC:Michael accidentally bids $5,000 on the tranquilized Lindsay — 'I've got $5,000 and I need that for Sally, but if you wanna make a low bid...' — MC: 'Five thousand dollars. For that? Sold.'
Stan Sitwell · Michael:Stan Sitwell at the auction bids on Sally. Michael says: 'You're not bidding? I was hoping you would.' Sitwell: 'You're a good kid. You always have been. Not like that showboat of a father of yours, if you don't mind me saying.' Michael: 'I've called him so much worse.'
Michael · Stan Sitwell · Sally:Michael bids $15,000 on Sally. Sally is stunned; Sitwell says: 'This puts a lot of pressure on me.' / 'It's for a good cause. I heard it was to reseed the greens.' / 'Gonna be a lot of shifts for you at the banana stand, huh?'
Michael · Sally · Auctioneer:Michael bids $15,000 on Sally; Sally's reaction: 'This puts a lot of pressure on me.'
Michael · Stan Sitwell:Michael reveals he sold the Corvette to cover the bid — to Sally's father. 'My father can't drive a convertible.' / 'Mind if I open it up?' — and Sitwell immediately takes it for a joyride.
Sally · Michael:Sally: 'I'd almost rather date someone my father doesn't approve of.' Then she walks away from Michael — who her father DOES approve of.
Michael:Michael, alone after Sally leaves: 'That-that-that is like me. That's exactly like me!'
Michael:What tipped you? The falling profits or that we're a regular feature on Bill O'Reilly's 'Most Ridiculous Item of the Day'?
Lucille · Michael:Lucille calls Lucille 2 'that bitch!' and Michael corrects her: 'You're not at home, Mom. She doesn't live next door when you're here.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'She's trying to prove she's closer to my children than I am — but the joke's on her, because she doesn't know how little I care for Gob.' Michael: 'Think that makes the joke on Gob.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael asks if 'Gangy' had an accident, visibly concerned; Michael reassures him it was just her drink.
Michael · Narrator:Michael tells George Michael the Valentine's basket is 'for us' — narrator immediately cuts to Michael at Sitwell Enterprises trying to set up a date with Sally.
Michael · Stan Sitwell · Narrator:Michael at Sitwell's: 'This is not for her. It's for my son. Just don't tell her I came by.' — The narrator reveals Michael was actually talking to Sally's father the whole time.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael finds Kama Sutra oil in the Valentine's basket. Michael: '[Clicks Tongue] Maybe it's not for us.'
Michael:Michael: 'It's just — there are so many poorly chosen words in that sentence.'
Michael:Michael: 'Buy yourself a tape recorder. Record yourself for a whole day. I think you're gonna be surprised at some of your phrasing.'
Lindsay · Gob · Michael:Lindsay imitates a chicken at Michael for being too scared to ask Sally Sitwell on a date. Then Gob joins in. Then they're both doing chicken impressions at Michael.
Lindsay · Michael:Oh. I have to go with Tobias? / Lindsay, your husband really wants this to work. / Come on. Let me play Cupid this year. / I thought he went already.
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'I think the answer to this problem is money. This may just be me having my head against a hundred-degree furnace for an hour, but maybe we should bring in Jack Dorso.'
Lucille · Jack Dorso · Michael:Well, he certainly sounds vital to me. / [Shouting] Walk, Dragon! Walk! / Enter the room! / He's half deaf. It was a stupid, stupid hire.
Michael · George Michael:Jack makes a gobbling noise and Michael comments 'He's kind of scary, that guy, huh?' George Michael: 'Not to me. I think he's kind of cool.'
Michael · George Michael · Jack Dorso · Dragon:Michael: 'Well, why don't you go get your kiss from Mr. Cool Half-Man?' George Michael: 'I'd be fine with that.' — Then he goes over and Jack is shaken by Dragon and begins gurgling uncontrollably.
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay admits she never went to Sitwell as Michael asked. Michael: 'I give you one thing to do for the business, and you can't even do it.' Lindsay: 'I mean, if you'd tried and failed, I'd understand, but you didn't even try.' 'So I didn't even fail, and I don't see you giving me credit for that.'
Jack Dorso · Michael · Dragon:Jack Dorso is perched on the edge of the building's balcony. Michael: 'Do you think you should be perched on the edge of the building like this?' Jack: 'Oh, Dragon's got me.' Dragon is in the bathroom.
Michael · Narrator:Michael offers his sister to Jack Dorso for money. Narrator: 'Michael was torn. The business meant the world to him, but his sister's honor — ' Michael: 'Let's do it. Let's go share the good news.'
Michael:[Inhales] He said he'd like to sleep on it.
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'You are pimping out your sister?' Michael: 'You were pimping out my mother.' George Sr.: 'Yes, because she was sleeping with my brother, but your sister?'
George Sr. · Michael:You are pimping out your sister? / You were pimping out my mother. / Yes, because she was sleeping with my brother, but your sister?
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'I just screwed my brother-in-law.' Tobias appears: 'Well, I'm all grown up now.'
Jeff · Michael:At the Four Seas Hotel, the horse coordinator Jeff monologues to Michael about the horse experience and juice: 'You'll meet him again at the end. Plus, he gets you your juice. Not your first juice, but the one you get at the spa.' Michael: 'That's right. You've done this before.' Jeff: 'But not with a lovely lady. Jeff doubts one's coming at all, don't you? Sorry. Sorry.'
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'Hey, did you ever get that tape recorder?' Tobias: '[Chuckles] You're funny. Come on, boy. Hoo-cha-cha!'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'Perhaps I should buy you that tape recorder. Do you have any idea how often you say the word 'afraid'?' Michael: 'Well, I know I used it in the Jacuzzi. And I apologize for that. I thought it was a pool toy.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias psychoanalyzes Michael: Michael makes up 'imaginary problems like this merger' because he's afraid to ask Sally out and say 'No.' Michael: 'You're probably right — about me being afraid of the word 'No,' but the merger's real.'
Tobias · Michael:Lucille! Lindsay? / Wait, wait, wait. Lindsay's here? With two men? / Sort of one and a half.
Michael · Tobias · Lucille 2:In the robe confusion, Michael doesn't recognize Lucille 2 and says 'And, miss, I don't know your name' — then Tobias appears and reveals Lucille 2 is there.
Michael:Sitwell and Lucille 2 at the spa together. Michael: 'Romantic? So the company isn't being taken over... so Lindsay doesn't have to be with Uncle Jack?'
Michael · Gob · Buster:Gob's defense of Lucille 2 leads to a confrontation. Michael: 'She's my girlfriend, pal. Take him down, Buster.' Gob: 'Your girlfriend? That's why you were in her robe and slippies. You weren't trying to get into her head. You were trying to get into her... robe and slippies.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'I'm gonna try and lowball her.' Gob: 'Not while we're around.' — suggesting they'll somehow prevent a lowball offer.
Jack Dorso · Michael:Jack: 'I guess the deal's off now, now that I actually need you to help us out?' Michael. Jack: 'I'll make you a deal. You carry me, and I'll carry you.' Michael: 'Thanks, Uncle Jack.'
Jack Dorso · Michael · Tobias:Jack examines Tobias's leg injury using duct tape. Michael: 'I think this duct tape is the only thing that's keeping the ankle on.' Jack: 'Oh. Right around there. Oh. I think you're right inside me now.'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator reveals that their eight dates included 'a record-tying three lovemaking sessions in one night for Michael,' punctuated by Michael's offscreen 'Yes!'
Sally · Michael · George Michael:Sally suggests they'd have had 'an entirely different kind of child' if they'd gotten together in high school, while Michael's actual son George Michael is shown nearby.
Michael:Michael's awkward aside 'She's a shot-putter. And I'm dating her.' after the kids leave the table.
Michael · George Michael:Michael asks 'Who?' about Ann, then backtracks: 'I meant, uh, her.' — the running 'Ann? Her?' gag.
Michael · Lindsay:'Yes!' Michael's offscreen exclamation is followed by Lindsay asking 'Did you call my name?' / 'Absolutely not.'
Gob · Michael:Gob can't remember his wife's name. 'Krindy.' 'Name's not Krindy, Gob.' 'Ah, Saul Zentsman. No, that's her lawyer.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael suggests they take responsibility for their relationship failures. Lindsay: 'I think it's Mom's fault.' Michael: 'I was gonna say the exact same thing.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'Like, say, signing him up for the army during wartime.' Lucille: 'What the hell was I supposed to do? Michael Moore confronted me in front of the whole country.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael corrects Lucille: 'First of all, it wasn't Michael Moore. It was a look-alike. And it wasn't in front of the whole country. It was for a bit on Jimmy Kimmel Live.' Lucille: 'I don't know who that is, and I don't care to find out.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'Oh, well, I got Michael out of his marriage, didn't I?' Michael: 'Actually, she died.' Barry: 'You're kidding. I've been taking credit for that for years.' / 'Credit?'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator explains Maggie was 'both pretending to be blind and prosecuting the family' during her affair with Michael. 'It was with her he'd first set the three-time record. Yes!'
Michael:Michael to Maggie about the knitted item: 'Too bad the trial's not going longer. She could've knit you something that fit.'
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?'
Michael · Sally:Michael explains to Sally that Maggie said it wasn't his baby — 'She said it wasn't mine, so—' Sally: 'Why are you telling me this?'
Michael:Michael says 'All I could see was her giant chest— box. She had this— Some people call it a chest. I call it a box.'
Lindsay · Tobias · Michael:Lindsay and Tobias agree to break into Maggie's house to collect a urine specimen. Lindsay: 'We will be like Tracy and Hepburn.' Tobias bursts in: 'What do you say, you old poop?' Michael: 'Oh, God, he's Hepburn.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille declares 'I am done with Buster. He pushes my buttons.' Michael responds: 'He also zips you up and sands your elbows.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille claims Buster is 'pretending he's going to war. Mr. Big Shot.' / Michael: 'Wait a minute. He said he's going to war? Aren't you worried?'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'I need macaroons.' Michael: 'Oh, you're high!' / Lucille: 'Oh, well, you can win every argument like that, but that does not make you right.'
Michael · Lucille:'You're high!' / 'You're drunk!' — Michael and Lucille argue back and forth as the pipe grinds.
George Sr. · Michael:Michael catches George Sr. leaving the attic to visit the Ford dealership; George Sr. defends it: 'Have you seen the new Ford Mustang? You could hump that hood.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. claims he has 'never left the attic.' Michael: 'Two days ago. Right? Saw you floating around the Ford dealership.' George Sr.: 'Yeah, well, have you seen the new Ford Mustang? You could hump that hood.'
Michael:Michael: 'There's so much I don't understand about the law.' — said while stalling Maggie so his family can break into her house.
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:Michael: 'If you pull her hair, she'd cry or something. This one kinda does that too.' — about Sally Sitwell
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.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay's recorded message plays on Michael's phone: 'Hey, so what's the deal on Zuckerkorn? 'Cause you know my fat case — it's really pretty thin.' / 'Lying, untrustworthy—' 'Yeah.' 'Plus, I heard he hangs out at rest stops.'
Michael:Michael confronts Maggie with the fat suit: 'Which one are you wearing right now? Is this the ready-to-burst model?'
Michael · Narrator:Michael breaks up with Maggie: 'Good-bye. It's been fun—' [pause] '—not.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael says he'd never date anyone without George Michael being okay with it. George Michael: 'You don't have to do that.' Michael: 'Great, because I didn't do it this time.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael on Maggie: 'Didn't she turn out to not be blind though?' Michael: 'Exactly.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael says Maggie might not really be pregnant because she lies. George Michael: 'Boy, you really are my kid.' Michael: 'Good. Apparently, so is this one.'
Michael · George Michael · Lucille:Michael tells George Michael he'll have to be the 'baby of the family.' George Michael: 'Um, Maeby's younger than me.' Michael: 'You're never going in the ocean! Never!'
Doctor · Lucille · Michael · Lindsay:Lucille: 'Not Dr. Wordsmith.' Then: Doctor says Buster 'is going to be all right' meaning he still has his right hand, not that he'll recover. 'He's lost his left hand, so he's going to be "all right."'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'And my hand is off to you.' Then hysterical laughter from himself, forced laughter from Michael.
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'A seal didn't bite your Linus off, did it?' Michael: 'No, a seal didn't bite my Linus off.'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'Then go to her. Ask for her hand.' Michael: 'And maybe I'll get one for my brother while I'm at it.'
Buster · Michael · Lucille:Buster's hook (temporary prosthetic) gets caught and causes him to scream. Everyone panics. 'Whose idea was the temporary hand?'
Barry · Michael:Barry the lawyer: 'She's in the bar. What a spanking I gave her in court today.' Then he spanks Michael. Michael: 'Did you spank her?' Barry: 'No!'
Michael · Police Officers:Michael confesses the break-in to police officers who are currently investigating... the break-in he's confessing to.
Michael:Michael on the potential Harvard sperm donor father: 'He's probably some geek Simpsons writer's kid.'
Michael · Narrator:Narrator: 'Michael had always thought of himself as that great a guy. The kind of guy who could raise someone else's baby.' Michael: 'Of course I am.' Narrator: 'But he wasn't — and he regretted it the moment he said it.' Visual of Michael mouthing silent words.
Michael · George Michael:George Michael is sent to get Uncle Buster a bandage 'for his forehead. And while you're at it, get two.'
Lucille · Michael:Narrator: 'And later, Lucille could not contain her guilt any longer.' Lucille: 'I did this. I prayed that God take anything he wanted from us so that Buster wouldn't have to go to war.' Michael: 'Oh, Mom. After all these years, God's not gonna take a call from you.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I did this. I think that the seal with the yellow bow tie might be the one that I released into the sea after giving it the taste for mammal blood.' Michael: 'Okay. You've got a better case than Mom does.'
Michael · Lindsay · Tobias:Michael asks where 'your child' is. Lindsay and Tobias: 'I don't have a child, Michael.' / 'We don't have a child, Michael.' Then both realize: 'Did you mean Maeby?'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I'll find somebody who wants an adventure.' Then immediately: 'George Michael, how would you like to get away from Uncle Buster?' George Michael: 'I'd really like that.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I'll find somebody who wants an adventure.' / [whispers to George Michael] 'George Michael, how would you like to get away from Uncle Buster?'
Michael:Michael can't fit through the doggy door: 'I can't fit through that doggy door. But I am gonna risk being caught out here. Be careful.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael retrieves a phone number taped to the outside of Maggie's door — he never even went inside. Michael: 'It's probably the Sparkletts guy.'
Michael · Police Officer:Police officer informs Michael his partner is inside Maggie's house with his gun drawn, just as Michael claimed they were 'just waiting to see if Maggie's home.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael introduces the situation to George Michael: 'In there is the father of the child that Maggie wants me to help her raise. And he probably doesn't know that she's got another man involved.'
Michael · Taylor · David:Michael confronts the address, expecting a romantic rival. The door is opened by a gay couple. 'There's a father. There's two fathers. David!' / 'I'm making gravy.' / 'That bitch is gonna keep our child.'
Taylor · David · Michael:The song 'Hot Cops' plays as Michael is surrounded by Taylor and David at the door.
Michael:Michael: 'I just hope you find out which one of you can breast-feed.' Then immediate embarrassed backtrack.
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'For once, I'm one lie ahead of Maggie Lizer's lies.' Narrator: 'In fact, Michael was one lie behind her.'
Michael:Michael in the hospital room with Maggie: 'Is this our little bundle of... two gay cops' baby?'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Michael tells George Michael: 'You're the only son I've ever needed.' Bell dings. Narrator: 'That's all the adventure I've ever needed.' Then Michael sends George Michael to 'M. Main floor.' Narrator: 'But M didn't stand for main floor.'
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.'
Lucille · Michael · Narrator:Lucille is already dressed, made up and waiting for Michael at an ungodly hour — narrator notes 'which put her wake-up time in the 3:00, 3:30 area'
Lucille · Michael:'I'm so hot.' / 'If you were hot, Mother, we would win.'
Michael · Lucille · Narrator:Michael: 'That could have something to do with the fact that a seal ate his hand.' / Lucille: 'I don't know what it is.' / Michael: 'I think that's what it is.' / Lucille: 'Who knows?' / Narrator: 'It was that.'
Michael:'I mean, look how he zips now.'
Lindsay · Michael · Lucille:Lindsay: 'I'm so glad there wasn't one of those for daddies and daughters.' / Michael: 'Of course they have father-daughter dances.' / Lindsay: 'They do? He never took me?' / Lucille: 'It was before we did your nose. Toodle-oo.'
Michael · Lindsay:'You're up awful early.' / 'Well, my marriage is falling apart. Tobias is back with Carl.'
Michael:Michael says 'I respect my son's choices' and immediately follows with 'George Michael, I don't think you should be going on this Promise Land thing.'
George Michael · Michael · Maeby · Narrator:George Michael: 'What? Why? Because I'd miss school?' / Michael: 'No.' / George Michael: 'You get to miss school for that?' / Narrator: 'And that's when Maeby decided to become a devout Christian.'
Maeby · Michael:Maeby: 'Do you guys know where I could get one of those gold necklaces with the "T" on it?' / Michael: 'That's a cross.' / Maeby: 'Across from where?'
Gob · Michael:'What about her cans? She have big cans?' / 'You don't remember her at all?' / 'It was one night of wild passion.' / 'And yet you didn't notice her body.' / 'I like to look in the mirror.'
Michael · Gob · Narrator:'That would be disgusting if you'd actually slept with her, but I don't think you did.' / 'I did! And it was disgusting.' / Narrator: 'They didn't, but it would have been.'
Gob · Michael · Buster:Buster arrives at the dock by crashing through the car window — Gob: 'Or we could make sure it's the right seal first? I mean, why get his hopes up?'
Buster · Michael · Gob:Buster enters with his hook: 'I really hate this stupid hook. But I certainly can't walk around like this.' / Michael/Gob: 'Why not? / Very handsome.'
Barry · Gob · Michael:'That tracking device tells me he was raised in captivity. There's no way he stood a chance out in the real world.' / 'See that? He was a victim too.' / 'You both were too sheltered to learn how to protect yourselves.'
Michael · Buster:Michael asks if Lucille Bluth checked in; the desk clerk says no — Michael: 'She knows you're after her.' / Buster: 'She does?'
Michael · Buster · Random Boy:Michael and Buster mistake another mother-son pair in matching outfits and try to rescue the boy: 'Take me with you! No, please! Please!' / 'It's the wrong child.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael spots a 'very bored-looking little Sonny Bono on that balcony' — meaning George Michael in the sailor suit variant.
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'I have an idea. It is time I used something I trained for in army, but I never got a chance to do.' / Michael: 'You cannot zip-line over there!'
Michael · Buster · Narrator:Michael: 'I create a diversion, and you grab George Michael and go. We need a name.' / Buster: 'Maybe "Operation Hot Mother."' / Narrator: 'No, let's try to top that.' / Narrator: 'They never did.'
Michael · Buster:Michael to Buster: 'I thought that you would be a little different, but you're not. I was wrong, okay? I'm sorry. You know, you're as good a brother as you ever were.'
Michael:'I'm Peter Pan, and you're Captain Hook. We'll pretend it's a costume. Let's dance.'
Michael · Buster · George Michael · Narrator:Michael, Buster, and George Michael arrive at the Promise Land — Buster holds a 'Saddest' trophy
Michael · Buster:Michael: 'That was a very competitive category.' / Buster: 'Oh, don't I know it.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael was surprised to find the house still a mess a week after the fumigation — narrator reveals Michael was hiding his father in the attic, making his request to clean up self-sabotaging
Michael:If you weren't all the way on the other side of the room, I'd slap your face.
Michael · Lindsay:You didn't even notice he'd gone, did you? / I did notice we'd stopped TiVoing the Christopher Lowell show.
Michael:That is what we call working. Something you might want to try next time you're at the office.
Michael:His self-esteem is low enough as it is, and I have no idea why. He's such a great kid, you know. And everybody loves him. He's George Michael.
Michael · Ann · George Michael:Michael claims to have been student body president; it emerges he lost — 'Who remembers?' / 'I know I would remember.' / 'I didn't say I won. I said I can't remember.' / 'Good memory.'
Michael:Michael's account of losing the election: 'the other guy won the actual title, although there were plenty in the school that wanted to overturn the decision. I said, Let's not put the school through that.'
Michael · Gob:Michael tries to fire Gob but doesn't know how to call security: 'How do you call security on this thing?' / 'You hit pound-0-0.' / 'Pound is tic-tac-toe, right?'
Michael:Michael to Maeby: 'Your Uncle Gob doesn't not-work here anymore.'
Maeby · Michael:Maeby learns about her parents' separation from Michael by accident and says: 'Maybe I should just start keeping some secrets of my own.'
Maeby · Michael:Maeby to Michael: 'Marry me!' then immediately: 'I'm so sorry. I forgot who I was talking to.'
Michael · Ann:Ann is using the Bluth company copier to make campaign posters for George Michael — Michael asks 'How do you know Steve Holt? Are you in AA?'
Ann · Michael:After Michael reluctantly agrees to go to the school, Ann hands him campaign posters to put up: 'And do you think you could put up a couple of these when you're there? 'Cause I was really not in the mood to go down there.'
Ann · George Michael · Michael:George Michael's campaign poster — 'We're going to use your idea, and really highlight being chaste.' — the poster is shown to be deeply weird/explicitly religious in content
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'I'm not that perfect. I pushed George Michael into running for office and I think he's going to get crushed by this kid Steve Holt.' / Lindsay: 'Yeah, I'd vote for him.' / Michael: 'Well, too bad Dad's on the lam.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. has a religious awakening in the attic and tells Michael: 'Our Heavenly Father let his son die so that our sins could be absolved.' / Michael: 'Great, so you're a Christian now.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'I'll call the warden for you. You can ask him yourself.' / George Sr.: 'Well, I think that's for fresh crimes.'
Michael · Gob:Michael apologizes to Gob and manipulates him into helping: 'The guy that he's running against is basically a young you.' / Gob: 'Wow. Won't be easy to win a race against myself. Of course, if anyone can do it, I can.'
Michael:Michael: 'He just needs to beat the Indian kid.' — treating third place as the realistic campaign goal
Michael:Michael: 'The mere fact that you think you can says to me that I shouldn't let you. Of course, we both need the work.'
Gob · Michael:'Uh, good point, Two Percent.' / '2%, huh? Is that how little I lost by?' / 'Lost by?' / 'It was close.' / 'That's all you got.'
Ann · Gob · Michael:Ann storms out of the campaign meeting: 'I can't support this.' / Gob: 'And neither can the Christian kids that were going to make you president.' / Michael: 'She's wh... Ann?' / 'I think she's really upset about this.' / 'She'll forgive you. You're George Michael!'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Yeah, okay. We need to pull the videotape.' / Gob: 'My tape? Why?' / Michael: 'I made a huge mistake.' — George Michael's tape has already gone out; Steve Holt's video has revealed he doesn't know his father
Michael · George Michael:Post-election results: Steve got 'Steve dropped out of the race. He wants to spend time finding his real father.' / Rav Nadir wins with 97% / 'That leaves 3%.' / 'You did better than I did when I ran.' / 'No, I tied with Bart Simpson and School Sucks.'
Michael · George Michael:As George Michael laments, a kid walks by and says: 'Hey, Star Dork!' / Michael: 'Hey, he knows you now.'
Michael:Michael watches George Michael and Ann depart and says to himself: 'Got to do something about that kid's self-esteem.'
Michael:Michael watching them leave: 'Got to do something about that kid's self-esteem.' — the very problem he set out to fix, now worse
Narrator · Michael:Narrator undercuts Michael's claim about blueprints: 'Well, that part wasn't true. But they would've.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay reveals she needs a break from Mrs. Featherbottom — who IS Tobias — and wants Michael to hire him so she gets relief from her own husband in disguise
Lindsay · Michael:'No. She's the only one who can hand wash my delicates.' / 'Yeah, the real Tobias wouldn't do that.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias produces a résumé from 'Gobias Industries' — pronounced with a hard G — which stands for 'Go buy us a cup of coffee'
Michael · Tobias:'It looks like you might be a little too qualified' — Michael finds a way to reject Tobias after the Gobias reveal
Tobias · Michael:Tobias appoints himself Michael's new assistant on the spot without being hired
Tobias · Ted · Michael:Tobias ejects Ted from the office: 'No. Well, then, Ted can get the hell out of this office!' — then announces 'And that's how you keep out unwanted visitors'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay mentions an Eastern medicine store called 'Ancient Chinese Secret' — both characters say the name simultaneously in a recognizing tone
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Looks like you're looking for dragons, in the future.' — on seeing Gob with a sword
Gob · Michael:Gob cuts himself on the Sword of Destiny immediately after being told to be careful; insists it's not blood; Michael confirms 'Yeah, that's blood.'
Michael:'Really picked up steam there at the end' — Michael's response to Gob's pitch ending with 'and you ram the Sword of Destiny into my belly'
Michael · Gob:'You're losing blood, aren't you?' 'Probably. My socks are wet.' — Gob's casual acknowledgment of potentially fatal blood loss
Michael · Gob:'Sorry.' / 'You'll be sorry!' / [Beat] 'Wait, that doesn't work after his line.'
Narrator · Michael · George Michael:Narrator: 'And Michael rushed home to teach his son to drive' — followed immediately by Michael explaining the stair car's quirks
Narrator · Michael:Michael is immediately hit (presumably by the stair car steps) mid-lesson, the narrator commenting: 'And that's when Michael decided that perhaps it was time for a sick day'
Narrator · Michael:Michael gets hit by the stair car during the lesson. Narrator: 'And that's when Michael decided that perhaps it was time for a sick day.'
Tobias · Michael:Mrs. Featherbottom (Tobias in disguise) arrives to nurse Michael: 'My baby is sick, but Mother is here to nurse you.' Michael: 'Well, now I'm a little sicker.'
Michael:Michael mid-sentence claiming to be in control: 'I'm in charge and I'm in con— I'm peeing. Am I peeing?'
Doctor · Michael · George Michael:'I'm sorry to say this, but it's too late for me to do anything for your son.' / 'Let him keep talking.'
Michael:Michael uses the doctors-as-authority-figures as a lesson in deference, saying employees need to respect him 'just like the employees at the Bluth Company need to respect me' — while literally peeing himself
Michael:Michael, sedated, deferring to Dr. Stein: 'Whatever you think, Doctor. You see, he's the authority here. We need to respect him just like the employees at the Bluth Company need to respect me.'
Lucille · Michael:'Tobias said he's handling it with the FBI and the employees have everything under control.' / 'No, that's the worst thing possible.'
Michael · Ted:Michael arrives to find the office empty, catastrophizing — then discovers the employees have solved everything by moving floors
Michael · George Michael:Michael decides to 'give up some authority' and lets George Michael drive — George Michael immediately runs over Michael with the car
Michael:Michael: 'I want the other doctor back.'
Narrator · FBI Agent · George Sr. · Michael:FBI footage reveal: 'We think it's a terrorist training film.' Cut to: George Sr. yelling at Michael while Michael does push-ups. 'You're not half the man he was!'
Michael · Narrator:We just call it a sausage. [Narrator] The family, of course, knew it was Tobias...
Michael:Having my day ruined with whatever you're about to ask me to do.
Michael:He is aware that he's not married to you, right?
Lucille · Michael · Franklin · George Sr.:Why do you have the baby monitor out? / She wants her man back. / On my son. / Yo, man. You're gonna get your sorry white ass thrown in jail.
George Michael · Gob · Michael:Gangy's having an anniversary party? / Seems that way. / Is Franklin gonna be there? / See that, Mike? Kids love Franklin.
George Michael · George Sr. · Michael:I feel like God moved her here from Ohio to be with me. / [George] Her? / Well, that's the first I've heard of this. / Well, then who said 'Her?' / Me. That was — That was me. / But, um, her?
Michael · Tobias:I had it once. A man I loved — / [Tobias enters] Here's young Maeby's blouse. / And then things took a turn somehow.
George Michael · Michael:Hey, Dad. Can you drive me to Ann's? / N-N-N- / Y-Yes. / Great. I'll wait in the car.
George Sr. · Gob · Michael:[George] Get your loser hand out of my ass. / Hello, Son. / Oh, Dad. I thought- Dad? / This is where you've been hi- Michael.
Pastor Veal · Michael:Oh, are you a churchgoing man? / I am. Sometimes. Yes. I don't go religiously. / I mean, I'm not a nut about it. / Because there is no such thing as a nut when it comes to religion, Pastor.
Michael · Pastor Veal · Mrs. Veal:This is your wife. Didn't — Didn't realize you could remarry. / What? / Is this Ann's mother? / I'm Mrs. Veal. / I'm sorry. I just — I did not expect somebody so young. / Next you're gonna say how Ann and I can be sisters. / No, I'd never say that.
Pastor Veal · Mrs. Veal · Michael:Oh, my gosh. / Oh, my gosh. / Well, that is something to celebrate. Can we open up some sparkling apple cider? / No. / Oh, did you want us to go down to the liquor store and get you some liquor?
Michael · Gob · Franklin:Hey, Gob. Mom wants Franklin at the party. / Yeah. What? / No, no, no. I don't want to talk — Hey, Franklin.
Michael:Only so that they'll disapprove of us... And after Mom's second vodka, and after Buster's second juice box, they're gonna forbid Ann from even seeing my son.
Michael · Narrator:You'll understand when Maeby starts getting proposals. / [Narrator] Actually, Maeby had given two that day.
Lucille · Mrs. Veal · Michael:Are you sure this isn't her sister? / What a lovely thing to say. / That's an awful thing to say, Mom. Please.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:I'm so eager to meet your husband. / Yeah. Dad escaped from prison. Did you not know that?
Police Officer · Michael · George Sr. · Franklin:Is that Mr. Bluth there? / He's got us, Dad. Come on out. / He's talking to you, you idiot. Cover. / I ain't your daddy!
George Michael · Michael · Mrs. Veal:I was thinking of giving her, like, a pre-engagement — / Ring? / Wow. That catches me off guard, George Michael. I'm not sure about that. / I think it's gonna backfire on you... And you can't. It's very sacred. / Sacred. / Yeah. That's it.
Michael:The mere fact that you're laughing about marriage means that you're not ready, okay?
Michael · Lucille · Franklin:Well, I just had an old friend who wanted to tell you how much I miss you! / Oh, who let this little black — [Bleeps] / Hey, Brother.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:Mrs. Veal admits to Michael she agrees the kids are too young — 'perhaps there's someone else they're meant to meet' — then immediately starts flirting: 'Take me. Take me to your secular world.'
Michael · Mrs. Veal:Perhaps there's someone else they're meant to meet. / Well, let's just say that in the secular world, one finds oneself with their fair share of temptations. Not that anyone would ever act — / [Mumbling] / Take me. / Take me to your secular world.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:I can't believe we're making love. / What are you talking about? We're not making love. / I want to please you secularly.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:But you kept telling me how beautiful I was. / I was surprised because of Ann. / Well — Why because of Ann? / Because of an old wives' tale.
Tobias · Michael:Jolly news, governor. Young master's proposing. / George Michael? I told him not to. He said he wouldn't. / Well, this was before he saw you pounding that sweet piece of veal.
Tobias · Michael:Oh, he left with Lady Lindsay — / Tobias, where are they? / It is me. It's Tobias.
Michael · Tobias:We're tryin' to figure that out. Apparently Pop-Pop kidnapped Gangy, and I have no idea where George Michael is — or Lindsay. / I just saw them drive off. They're gonna go look for Bland.
Maeby · Michael:Who's the hottie? / This is Ann's mother. / Her?
George Sr. · Michael:But first — / Uh, Dad — / we make love. / The partition doesn't go all the way up, remember?
Michael:Seriously, Dad. The radio doesn't work either.
Pastor Veal · Michael · Mrs. Veal:You kissed my wife? / No. She started kissing me. / You really should lock that down.
Pastor Veal · Michael:You kissed my wife? / No. She started kissing me. / You really should lock that down.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:[Mrs. Veal] Terry, I don't know what happened. I fell under the spell of that horrible secular family. Forgive me. / Could've used that horrible family stuff about a half hour ago.
Mrs. Veal · Michael:Mrs. Veal: I fell under the spell of that horrible secular family. Forgive me. / [Michael] Could've used that horrible family stuff about a half hour ago.
Michael · George Michael:You need to get to know each other better... and then you can be comfortable going all the way with it. / Do you mean it? / Yes. This time I'm being honest with you.
Michael · Lucille:Michael calls Lucille the laziest person in the world from across the room, while she sits doing nothing amid the mess
Narrator · Michael · George Sr.:Narrator reveals Michael asked Lucille to call the fumigators 'long before he began hiding his fugitive father in the attic'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael didn't notice Tobias had moved out; he only noticed they'd stopped TiVo-ing The Christopher Lowell Show
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: How's Maeby taking it? / Lindsay: 'She was so excited the hot water was lasting longer. How could I have the heart to tell her it's because her father moved out?'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'I figured out a way to make money while I'm working.' 'That is what we call working.'
Michael:Michael talks up George Michael's self-esteem: 'He's such a great kid, and everybody loves him. He's George Michael!'
Michael:'Unless he knocks her up like you did with his mother. Plus, she's religious. If that one gets pregnant, it stays pregnant.'
Michael:'Believe me. I dated a chick like that once in high school. No, I didn't.'
Michael · Ann · George Michael:Michael interrupts Ann and George Michael's intimate-sounding exchange about 'doing it' — it's about cigarettes
Narrator · Michael:Star Wars theme plays when Michael suggests George Michael run for president because 'you are George Michael!'
Michael:Michael's convoluted non-answer about whether he won the student body president election: 'Didn't say I won. Said I can't remember... I seem to remember the other guy won the title, although there were plenty who wanted to overturn the decision... I said let's not put the school through that.'
George Michael · Ann · Michael:George Michael says 'I'll do it. I'm pumped.' — Michael thinks he means the campaign, Ann thinks she meant... something else
Michael · Gob:The board member Gob thought was an investor voted against Michael because he thought Gob was an actor/entertainment
Michael · Gob:Gob fires Michael; Michael fires Gob back; they argue over who fired whom while Gob can't figure out how to call Security
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'No. I'm the president.' Michael: 'No. You lost the presidency, just like you did in high school when you refused to play dirty.' Gob: 'Worked when I ran.'
Michael:Michael to Maeby: 'Your uncle doesn't not-work here anymore.'
Maeby · Michael:'Marry me.' / 'I'm so sorry. I forgot who I was talking to.'
George Michael · Ann · Michael:George Michael: 'We're gonna use your idea and highlight being chaste.' Campaign poster reveals: 'GEORGE MICHAEL: TASTE THE CHASTE.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael arrives and compliments the clean house — Lindsay takes credit, and Michael notes: 'I think he misses his daughter.' revealing he recognized Tobias instantly
Michael · Lindsay:'I think he misses his daughter.' — Michael noticing Tobias/Featherbottom's behavior, without recognizing it's Tobias
Michael · Lindsay:Michael: 'I'm not that perfect. I pushed George Michael into running for office, and I think he's gonna get crushed by this kid Steve Holt.' Lindsay: 'Yeah. I'd vote for Steve.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.'s religious epiphany in the attic, invoking 'Our Heavenly Father let his son die so our sins could be absolved' — Michael: 'Great. So you're a Christian now.'
Michael · Gob:Michael tells Gob: 'The guy he's running against is basically a young you.' Gob: 'Wow. It won't be easy to win a race against myself. Of course, if anyone can do it, I can.'
Michael:Michael: 'He doesn't need to beat him. He just needs to beat the Indian kid.'
Gob · Michael:Gob to Michael: 'Good point, two percent.' Michael: 'Two percent, huh? Is that how little I lost by?'
Michael · Gob:'How stupid do you have to be to say something like that? You're not wanted here!' — Michael to Gob, then Gob heckles Steve Holt: 'Sure you didn't make that video in a cave?'
Gob · Michael:Steve Holt's video is produced by Ann Veal. Gob shouts 'Evil!' at Ann on screen. Michael: 'This kid's popular?' Gob: 'Looks like a chick I did once in high school.' / 'Get a haircut!'
Michael:Michael: 'I've made a huge mistake.' [They try to pull George Michael's video tape]
Michael:Michael: 'Guess I underestimated the religious vote.'
Michael:Michael: 'Well, that leaves three percent. You did better than I did when I ran. I tied with Bart Simpson and 'School Sucks.''
Michael:'I tied with Bart Simpson and "School Sucks."'
Michael · George Michael · Kid:Kid yells 'Hey, it's Star Dork!' at George Michael. Michael: 'Hey, he knows you now.'
Michael:Michael watches George Michael leave happily with Ann: 'Gotta do something about that kid's self-esteem.'
Inspector · Michael:The drain pipes aren't hooked up — just empty under the house. Plus there's a lot of blue paint down there. And some pieces of denim?
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'Where the hell do you want me to go? Back to your mother's?' / 'I believe there's a freeloading loser in my bed.' Michael: 'Buster just lost a hand. He's going through a lot.' Lucille: 'I'm talking about Oscar.'
George Sr. · Michael · George Michael:George Sr. references 'Dangerous Cousins,' a French movie they tried to sneak into — Michael stammers and denies remembering it.
Michael · Tobias:Michael finds Tobias's resignation letter and says 'I'm sorry, Tobias. Do you work here?'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'Do I work- I developed an eating disorder being your assistant, Michael.' / Michael: 'I never saw you at the desk.' / Tobias: 'Well, excuse me if I was too busy on my knees in front of the toilet, Michael.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias booked a 4pm meeting with Kitty without telling Michael. 'Why didn't you tell me?' / 'Oh, this is my fault too?'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'You asked me for $5,000 so that you could invest in a Franklin CD. Now, I assumed that you were talking about the mutual fund and not a compact disc of you singing to your hand.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Maybe the reason I didn't say anything is 'cause I didn't want to embarrass you. It's my favorite, favorite record.' Gob: 'Well, then you [bleep] up.' [Sobbing]
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Crying like a couple of girls.' Michael: 'Aw, you're the only one crying. But I love the music.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'And the card with your face on it?' Gob: 'And the healing.' Michael: 'Home run!'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty's rehabilitation: 'I have a sponsor now. [Whispers] He's famous.' / 'That's great.' / 'I can't tell you who he is. But let's just say that he was on Night Court.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty helpfully narrows it down: 'It's not Bull. It's not Harry Anderson. He's white.' Michael: 'I know who it is.'
Kitty · Michael:Kitty: 'Don't suppose I can get that in writing.' Michael: 'You did try to blow me up.' Kitty: 'Sorry about that. Just don't piss me off again.' [Cackles]
Michael:Michael: 'Okay, let's just all put our tops down. Just put 'em on down.'
Police Officer · Barry · Michael:Police officer: 'Are those balls? 'Cause the last time we were here, they were balls.' / 'These are not balls.' Michael: 'I wish they were balls.'
Narrator · Gob · Michael:The incriminating photo is actually the card from Gob's unopened CD — the card with Gob's face on it, found by a traffic camera
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I've got him stashed away somewhere safe now.' / Michael: 'Get him, quickly, otherwise I'm gonna be stuck in here.' / Gob: 'Good! I hope you rot in here!'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'And guess what else? Dad kissed me.' Michael: 'How? He looked pretty unconscious in that picture.' Gob: 'I didn't say he was totally into it.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael calls Lucille while in police custody to lie about being 'on a business trip' — Lucille: 'Why can't the girl at work do it?' Michael: 'Tobias? I sent him on a date with Kitty to keep her off our backs.'
Narrator · Gob · Michael:Guards play Gob's confiscated CD — the racial harmony ventriloquism album — in the prison. Michael hears it and realizes he can't turn Gob in.
Michael:Michael: 'I'm sick of you needing constant validation for screwing up.'
Gob · Michael:[Grunts] — Gob actually attacks Michael in front of the courthouse
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'That's the kind of joke he would have loved.' Gob: 'Oh, man!' [Sighs]
Stock Analyst · Michael:Stock analyst upgrades Bluth Company from 'Triple Sell' to 'Don't Buy' as if it's good news
Michael · Lucille:Michael says he's going to the prison to 'gloat' rather than 'visit'
Michael:Visit, no. Gloat, yes.
Michael:This sink hole spread a little bit more last night? Anyway, I'm gonna go to the prison.
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'You seem more villainous than usual, Mom. Are you sober?' Lucille: 'Michael, it's 8:00 a.m.' Michael: 'So, it's not that.'
Michael · Lucille:Lucille went off her postpartum medication — 'You had Buster 32 years ago.' 'And that's how long I've been depressed about him.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille says mood-altering medication leads to street drugs because 'this very handsome young doctor said so on The Today Show' — that doctor was Tom Cruise
Michael · Lucille:'That was Tom Cruise, the actor.' / 'They said he was some kind of scientist.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael asks 'How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?' — he is talking about the cabin but the line lands as an insult to Lucille
Michael:'Please get back on the meds, Mom. We miss the old, old you.'
Michael · Gob:'Mine's sadder.' / 'I don't see you crying, robot.' / 'You taste these tears. Taste my sadness.'
Michael:Michael flatly refuses to lick Gob's eye: 'No. Not gonna lick your eye, okay?'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Taste the happy, Michael. Taste it.' Michael: 'Tastes kind of like sad.'
Michael:Michael: 'I think the President of a Don't Buy company can afford to take a day off.'
Michael · Narrator:'There's only one sleeping bag, so we're gonna have to double up. Pigs in a blanket.' — immediately cut to: 'Sorry, pal, something came up.'
Michael · Oscar:Michael visits prison to gloat at his father — but it's Oscar, his father's twin, who no one believes
Michael · Oscar:Michael: 'There's nothing you can say to make me believe that you are not my father.' Oscar: 'I understand. Your child comes first.'
Michael · Lindsay · Lucille:Michael returns to the office and sees the 'Don't Buy' news — employees celebrate — then Michael sees the ticker on Lucille's butt from the copier
Michael · Oscar:Michael finally realizes: 'Oh my God, you're Oscar.' Oscar: 'Dot com.'
Lindsay · Michael:My husband dumped me and ran off to Vegas with Kitty, that bleached blonde whore. / Well, he's definitely got a type.
Michael · Lindsay:Michael tries reverse psychology on Lindsay: 'The only reason you want Tobias is because you can't have him' — Lindsay immediately proves him right by not wanting the car once she can have it
Barry's Assistant · Michael:Barry's assistant reveals Barry 'says a lot of things he doesn't mean' — including that he's been visiting George Sr. in prison when he's actually been in Reno
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'It's not happening, is it?' Michael: 'Something came up.' — The second cancellation
Michael · Person in Reno:Michael asks for 'the seedy underbelly' of Reno — 'The Christian League had the Seedy Underbelly shut down. Now it's a Swallows.'
Tobias · Michael · Narrator:Tobias is working at Swallows as a waiter — having 'destroyed his life' to join Blue Man Group, only to find the role was already cast
Kitty · Tobias · Michael:Lindsay reveals Kitty's blue handprints — Tobias: 'Say goodbye to these!' — the handprints are also blue
Michael:Michael's rapid deduction: 'Dad's in Reno, Kitty's in Reno, Dad's in Kitty, and he must be a Blue Man.'
Tobias · Michael:'I just have to break down the salad bar and set up the leather pony.' — Michael: 'What's a leather pony?' Tobias: 'I don't know. We don't have that at lunch.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael tells Lindsay he found Tobias — 'I'll just bring him back with me. Against his will. Well, knock him out if you have to. He's my husband.'
Barry · Michael:Barry shows up with $250,000 and a passport for George Sr. — '...Just a passport.' 'Well, I was up for so long.'
Barry · Michael:Michael fires Barry. Barry: 'You're my only client. What am I supposed to do now? Turn tricks on the street? How much do you think I can get for that? What about making out? $50, or is that just L.A.?'
Gob · Steve Holt · Michael:Gob and Steve Holt are both at the hotel getting cabin keys, calling each other 'son' — 'I'll go buy some fishing stuff, son.' 'Where did you get this kid?'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'I wish he could be my dad.' Michael: 'Okay, your dad's not trying to find you, your son is. That kid's your son. You're the dad.'
Michael:Michael sees his own son in the parking lot in Reno and says 'He drove all the way up here to be with me. Wow.' Then: 'Well, I guess I'm no better than...' [pause] '...No, I'm better.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael wakes up in the car — 'You were out like a light, pal. Our dreams are about to come true.' He thinks it's Maeby: 'Definitely. We are going camping.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael promises to tell the cops about Oscar 'before' taking his son camping — framed as a moral concession — 'Your uncle Oscar can stay in prison one more day, right?'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:The cabin has had its bedrooms 'trucked off' — Michael and George Michael are in an empty living room shell of a cabin
Michael · George Michael:George Michael says his problem is 'about a girl' — Michael: 'Is it about Ann?' George Michael: 'No.' Michael: 'Of course I'm gonna like it. I like Ann.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. appears from under the cabin floor: 'Dad, what the hell are you doing?' 'Sorry. I can't let you let Oscar out of prison or they'll come for me. How do you like the cabin?'
Michael:Michael suggests Buster get a girlfriend, then immediately pivots: '...A pet. How about a turtle?'
Buster · Michael:Can't you keep my hand to yourself? / 'Used it for something'?
Lucille · Michael:My breakfast? / My friskiness. / Mama horny, Michael.
Michael · Lucille:I'm amazed Dad hasn't strangled himself with his belt yet. / Oh, we're into all kinds of freaky stuff.
Michael:Why do I eat breakfast before I come here?
Michael · Gob:A guy that kind of looks like you? / No. Not how I do the trick. / Even if it was, how'd the look-alike get up there? He was hiding behind this mirror here?
Gob · Michael · Narrator:He'd been ducking him ever since. / Tom? Come on over here. I've got a vitamin for you. / He's the one who can't see me. / Because you were hiding in the trick? / Illusion, Michael.
Michael:Starting to see why you want that divorce.
Tobias · Michael:Lot of that was the coma. / Yeah. I've heard your side of it.
Michael · George Sr.:You're the one that said no to prison. / I was wrong. There you just had to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it.
George Sr. · Michael:We need someone big behind us. Our own private Matlock. / I got him. / Got who? / Andy Griffith.
Michael:Andy Griffith wasn't the bombshell?
George Sr. · Michael:I'm a patsy. I was set up — by the Brits. / Don't call it that.
Michael · George Sr.:We've got a picture of you with Saddam Hussein. / I thought that was the guy who played the Soup Nazi.
Michael:Not in every case. [re: a photo with Saddam ending your career]
Michael · George Sr.:Why does everybody think that I'm scared of girls? / Because you're a chicken. You're a chicken.
Michael:Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?
Michael · Lindsay:Lindsay, I did get you a car. / Is it the Lexus? / It's more like a Lincoln. / Oh, come on! There's no satellite radio, but there's a banjo in the closet. And watch out for live-ins.
Michael · British Clerk:Don't I look kind of British? / Perhaps if you're willing to lose 20 pounds.
Narrator · Michael:The clerk was asking for a bribe — but this was lost on Michael. / You guys do go for the jugular.
Michael · Rita:I will pay you. / You'll pay me? / Not for sex. You're gonna think I'm Jack the Ripper, right? / Didn't he kill prostitutes or... / I'm not a prostitute. / Then I shall let you live.
Michael:This is my worst hello. Let me try again.
Michael · British Clerk:I thought you said you were open till 8:00. / Oh, yes — GMT. Everything here is on Greenwich mean time.
Rita · Michael:I like to think they teach me. / Like what? How to eat crayons, throw tantrums... / Oh, no. Not when I'm there. I'm very good.
Michael · Rita:It's turning into one of my worst good-byes. / Farewell, and, uh... our paths shan't cross again. / As you like it.
Michael · Rita · Mary Poppins performer:A Mary Poppins performer hits a tourist; Michael and Rita laugh, then Michael says 'I'm sorry, it's wrong to laugh' — and immediately uses it as an excuse to stay and ask her out.
Michael:And I shall drop you off alive, hooker or no.
Michael:And I shall drop you off alive, hooker or no.
Michael · Lindsay:I wanted to tell you that I got myself a date with a beautiful woman named Rita, and you're the chicken, not me. / Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck...
Michael:Okay. That's a pretty good chicken.
Michael:Wow. Dad was not kidding about their breath.
Michael:You know, the feeling that you're feeling, it's just what many of us call a feeling.
Steve Holt · Gob · Michael:Hey, Dad? / Whoa! / It's my son, Gob.
Michael · Narrator:You know, and what is it with the fathers in this family always trying to deceive their... [Michael realizes George hired the British threatening man]
George Michael · Michael:That's a woman's wig. / I was told it was a bob.
Michael:It's a wonderful performance. You're a regular Brad Garrett.
Michael:But I don't watch TV at 3:00 in the afternoon...
Michael:But I don't watch TV at 3:00 in the afternoon.
Michael · George Sr.:He said he was gonna come after somebody stupid in our family. / That could be Buster. / Could be Gob.
Michael · George Sr.:He said he was gonna come after somebody stupid in our family. / That could be Buster. / Could be Gob.
Michael · Rita · Narrator:Sorry, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not gonna be needing your passport after all... So it's bye-bye to Rita, then? / Yes, I'll shake your hand good-bye... I was wondering if you might want to... / I wouldn't. I'll make you blue.
George Sr. · Michael:We lost Andy. / What are you talking about? / He didn't like his trailer. / He thought we were making fun of him. / No one was making fun of Andy Griffith. I can't emphasize that enough.
George Sr. · Michael:We lost Andy. / What are you talking about? / He didn't like his trailer. / He thought we were making fun of him. / No one was making fun of Andy Griffith. I can't emphasize that enough.
Michael · George Sr. · Judge:We plead... not guilty. / Order in the court! Who let a flashbulb camera in?
Judge · Michael:how do you plead? / We plead... not guilty.
George Sr. · Michael · George Sr.:That's Rita? / Yeah. / Wow. She is way out of his league.
Michael · Rita · Narrator:And then, just to prove to himself he wasn't a coward, he went one step further. [Michael kisses Rita]
Narrator · Michael · Lindsay:Michael was heading to work when he saw something he had never seen before lunch, his twin sister Lindsay.
Michael · Narrator:Michael asks 'Snog? Is that another one of your new British-isms?' after unconsciously using the word himself
Michael:Michael: 'Did I say snog again? Oh, bloody hell.'
Michael:Michael's advice to Lindsay: 'Find something you're good at and share it with her. And while you're at it, share it with us, too.'
Michael:Michael's phone check: 'Oh my God! Did I miss a call?' — it's a voicemail from Rita saying she's on her way to the train station
Michael:Hi. Where are you going and how long you going for?
Michael · Rita:Michael's out-of-breath excuse: 'I wasn't hurrying to come stop you. I was out for my daily, uh...' — and then Rita reveals she won an Olympic silver medal in running
Michael · Rita:'But you take my breath away.' — delivered by a winded, clearly-out-of-shape Michael to an Olympic runner
Michael · George Michael:George Michael wants to go fabric shopping with Ann; Michael says 'I think we can go butcher.'
Michael:Michael's method for remembering Ann's name: 'her body's kind of shaped like a...' — implying 'Annabelle' because Ann's body is bell-shaped
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'She's the belle of the ball.' — then George Michael reveals Ann is a contestant in the beauty pageant, not running the lights.
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'It's an inner beauty pageant.' Michael: 'Ah! There it is.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Come on, I lie to yours all the time.' — responding to Michael refusing to lie to Steve Holt
Michael:Michael: 'Have I missed this euphemism?'
Steve Holt · Michael:Michael: 'He's hiding from me, isn't he?' — Steve Holt's accurate read of the situation
Michael:Michael: 'You know, you got to stop saying your name all the time.'
Steve Holt · Michael:Steve Holt! / Uncle Mike! (repeated) Both men felt good about themselves.
Michael:Michael's voicemail to Rita announcing the triathlon — 'Just want to let you know that I'm running the triathlon at the fair, and if you're back in t...' — immediately embarrassed by himself mid-message
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. on triathlon difficulty: 'People lose control of every bodily function. Didn't you ever see that video? It's like your mother on New Year's Eve. Actually, Lucille went down faster.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. accidentally functions as the 'Startled Straight' example by scaring Michael with triathlon horror stories — 'You see? Perfect for this Startled Straight thing.'
Steve Holt · Michael · Narrator:Steve Holt gives Michael pills he calls 'Oxy-Incontinent' — 'they keep you from being incontinent.' Narrator: 'Steve didn't have that quite right.'
Michael · Narrator:Narrator reveals the triathlon is tricycles, inflatable pools, and fathers/sons manacled together. Michael: 'What the hell is this?'
Michael · Steve Holt:Michael: 'I don't know what was in that pill, but I do not feel great.' Steve: 'Gonna get a little worse before it gets better.'
Michael · Narrator:Hey, do this with me! / And that's when Rita noticed Michael. / Wait for me! Wait for me!
George Michael · Michael:And it's no place for wimps. George Michael, you have a family, okay, and I'm the wimp, not you... because I could not take you being away in the Army.
Michael:Michael to George Michael: 'I'm the wimp, not you... because I could not take you being away in the Army.'
Michael · Buster:Michael: 'I think I'm gonna go get one of those corn dog crosses.' Buster: 'With all the crucifixins?'
Rita · Michael · Narrator:Rita: 'You're a complete and utter (bleep).' Narrator: 'I can't believe we had to bleep that. It would have been such a nice moment.'
George Sr. · Michael:A suit! Dad, it's a Jack Welch. I want you to look under the pants.
Michael · George Sr.:Dad, I hope you kept the receipt. — You wanna return that? — No, I wanna deduct it.
Michael:He would only like it for the receipt.
Michael:Okay, that's, uh, that wa... that was fun. Still, the land probably shouldn't have given out beneath us.
Michael · Rita:if they find out about this... that we haven't started building... they might not come through with their investments. — I won't tattle.
Michael · George Sr. · Tobias:Well, maybe you oughta see a doctor. — Yeah, but he's too busy going to the gym to see his friend Frank. — Oh, we're more than friends. I'm kind of his spotter. — Missed a spot.
Tobias · Michael · Narrator:She's that Rita Leeds? Wasn't she on the cover of Newsweek? — No. — Yes. — Michael was thinking of this man.
Michael · Tobias:The whole backside has moles. — That's Frank's problem too.
George Sr. · Michael · Larry (surrogate):So I've hired this guy to be my eyes and ears. — You know, Dad, this guy costs us a fortune. — He's worth every penny. — Hey, I didn't say that.
George Sr. · Michael · Lucille · Tobias:Somebody tipped them off that the property wasn't ready for building. Which it would have been if Michael hadn't been so busy with his English muffin. — Typical. — Delicious. — I need a drink. — I'll take an English muffin.
Michael · Gob:They, uh, come from a culture that values honor and respect. And Godzilla!
Buster · Michael · Lucille:Godzirra! — Just sit down. — Okay, guys. — Godzirra!
Lucille · Michael:What? We're out of vodka. — Sorry. I thought you were doing Godzilla.
Michael:Let's start with my family's misdemeanors and then push right on through to the lighter treasons.
Michael · Rita:Then he siphoned off the entire pension fund into a dummy corporation, filed for bankruptcy, and used... Do you know any other songs?
Buster · Michael:What doesn't make any sense is why she's dating you. — No, that's a good point.
Tour guide · Rita · Michael:Look! It's Malcolm in the Middle! In the middle of shooting, I guess. Oh, that's okay. It's more important to show how we make the show than actually make it.
George Michael · Michael · Narrator:They dropped off the package you sent, but I don't think I'm old enough for it. — Of course you are. I want you to have a little fun. You're not gonna break anything. — But of course, Michael thought he was talking about the train set. Not the extremely dangerous jet pack the boy had just found at the front door.
George Michael · Michael:Well, what if I crash it? — That's half the fun.
Michael:You lied to me, Rita! You made me turn against my family. But it's over now.
Michael:Rita set me up. She set us all up. This beautiful, funny, brilliant woman was a spy. Everybody was right. It was too good to be true. And I... am turning her in. Let me tell you something else. I would not want to be the next woman who tries to fool me.
Michael:Let's go ahead and close the curtains, and not accept any money while we're ahead.
Michael · George Michael:Okay, that's no surprise. George Michael? — Dad, I-I'm sorry. I can't fly it very well, all right? I think I would rather have the Welch.
Michael:I didn't buy you that. I bought you the train set, which you guys just destroyed.
Michael · Tobias:What is that? It's feedback. Is someone else wired? — Oh, that's me. My friend Frank wired me.
Michael:Oh, my God. Tobias Fünke. You're Mr. F. Which means that man was Rita's uncle. What have I done?
Michael · Rita:Marry me. — What? — Let me marry you. You can get a green card, you can stay and we can just see if this works, you know? It sounds crazy, but this will give us a chance to get away from both of our families and see if this works. Might be fun.
Michael · Rita:What's that? — A prize. A lovely, lovely prize.
Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:Michael announces he's getting married; parents respond 'Who the hell to?' / 'Who do you think? Rita.' / 'Her?' / 'Why?'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'She needs a green card to stay in the country.' George: 'There it is.' Michael: 'She needs a green card to stay in the country, BECAUSE, secondly...'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'Let's just all relax, and remind ourselves that we don't have any money.' George Sr.: 'She's already gotten our money!'
Lucille · Narrator · Michael:Lucille: 'People just see what they want to see. If she loved you, she'd show it.' — Narrator: 'Michael was worried — his mother may have been making sense.'
Lucille · Michael · Narrator:Lucille: 'People just see what they want to see. If she loved you, she'd show it.' Narrator: 'Michael was worried — his mother may have been making sense.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias in a wheelchair/dolly: 'No, no, no, it's a dolly to help videotape your nuptials.' Michael: 'I don't think I need any footage of my nuptials.'
Rita · Michael:Rita offers: 'Maybe you should see a bubuman.' Michael: 'A... bubuman?' Rita: 'Oh, uh, a doctor. It's a British expression. Like they say go-up box instead of elevator.'
Gob · Michael:Gob immediately assumes Michael wants a magic show at the wedding, talks over Michael's attempt to clarify, and declares 'You want me to do a magic show at the wedding. I'm on it.'
Gob · Michael:Gob's magic show flashback: fire at previous wedding. 'Put her out! Put her out! Tracy! Thank God we already did the pictures.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'This is why I'm calling it a Witness, and not a Best Man.' / 'All you have to do is watch.' Gob: 'Oh, I'm not going to spend this kind of money and not watch.'
Michael · Lindsay:Michael asks Lindsay when she realized she and Tobias had no chance at a physical relationship. Lindsay: 'Oh my God, do you think we have no chance at a physical relationship?' Michael: 'Just now.'
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay: 'Ask her to stay over at a hotel with you tonight. She's going to know what that means.' Michael: 'That is not a bad idea.' Lindsay: 'Don't... don't do that.'
Michael · Gob:Michael negotiating with Gob: 'Love for her to walk. And not to drown. Or fly through the air. Or catch on fire. Is she allergic to cat fur?' Gob: 'Oop — no tigers.'
Michael · Rita:Michael suggests to Rita that they go to a hotel for 'some alone time.' Rita: 'Maybe our rooms could touch.'
Michael · Rita:Rita and Michael negotiating 'sleepover': 'I was thinking maybe we could be in the same room.' / 'Be in the same bed.' / 'Oh I see what you mean, a real sleepover.'
Rita · Michael:Rita: 'Well, maybe I should go home and get my things. I do kind of miss my jammies.' Michael: 'I think they're going to have a lot of that stuff there.' Rita: 'And my tiny teddy.' Michael: 'Good. Yes, get that.'
Michael · George Sr. · Narrator:Michael calls his father from the hotel — awkwardly claims Rita is 'in the shower.' George Sr.: 'I'll wait.' Narrator: 'Let's wait.'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'And that local calls were $2.95 a minute.' Michael: 'Come on!' Narrator: 'That's where they get you.'
Rita · Michael:Rita: 'Trevor locked the door. He doesn't want me to be with you.' Michael: 'What, he locked the door? You can't unlock this door?' Rita: 'I can't even see half the locks! They're invisible. Trevor's the only one who can see them.'
Michael · Rita · Narrator:Michael and Rita escape on... something. Rita cheering 'Yay! Michael! Yay!' as they flee. Then they hit something: 'I hate that (bleep) doll.'
Michael:Michael's grand romantic speech: 'Nothing can stop us now. Nothing in the world of man nor beast, nor time is...' — interrupted by the staircar.
Rita · Michael:Rita: 'I want to have sexual relations.' Michael: 'Mere fact that you call it that tells me that you are ready.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael appears at the hotel room door unexpectedly. Michael says: 'Um, go ahead and... talk out here.' — massive understatement.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael arrives having spent the day with Rita: 'We just got back from the bumpaddle courts. Tomorrow, I'm teaching her baseball.' Michael: 'Yeah. That may take a while.'
George Michael · Michael · Rita:George Michael's videotape of Rita playing with the plastic fruit bowl — eating a plastic banana, going back for the grapes. Michael and George Michael watching in silent mortification.
Michael · George Michael:Michael to George Michael about the plastic fruit: 'It's the plastic fruit, Dad.' Michael: 'It's very convincing fruit, okay?'
Michael:Michael: 'Well, you know, they don't even have bananas in England, okay, son?'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael: 'I think she might be... retar... retarded.' Michael: 'I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.'
Rita · Michael:Rita appears with a small stuffed bear: 'Say hello to my tiny teddy.' Michael (horrified): 'Oh! Tiny Teddy!'
Narrator · Michael · Rita:Narrator: 'And that's when it dawned on Michael.' — then plays back: 'Oh, you teach kids, huh?' / 'Oh, I like to think they teach me.' / 'That way I can see if you have a monster.' / 'Be careful.'
Michael:Michael: 'I've made a huge mistake.'
Michael · Rita · Narrator:Michael 'tests' Rita: 'How many houses are there in the British Parliament?' Rita: 'Seven.' Michael: 'Are there?' Narrator: 'The answer is three.' Michael: 'Does sound about right.' Rita: 'Three is the correct answer.'
Michael · Rita:Michael uses celibacy as an excuse: 'I think that we should wait until after we're married.' Rita: 'Married! Married, married, married!'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator: 'And Michael felt he deserved a $15 thing of candy beans.'
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:George Sr.: 'Where did you get this firecracker? I love her, Michael.' Lucille: 'So do I. I want to kiss my new daughter-in-law.' — Then pushes to kiss Rita on the lips. Michael: 'No, no, Dad, please take it easy.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'The rest will just be little happy surprises along the way. Like you said.' Michael: 'Yeah. With the exception of the retard thing.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'She's rich.' / Lucille: 'This is a new low, even for you, Mom.'
Michael · Lucille · Larry:Michael: 'Larry go to a mirror!' — followed by rapid firing: 'You're fired.' / 'You're fired.' / 'What?!' / 'It's over.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael fires the wedding staff mid-ceremony: 'You're fired.' / Lucille immediately echoes: 'You're fired.'
Michael · Wedding Coordinator:Michael and wedding coordinator: 'And this is how you tell me, in the middle of a wedding?' / 'You shouldn't have said anything.'
Michael:Michael: 'There wouldn't be any real intimacy, and it would be the strongest marriage in the family.'
Michael · George Sr. · Lindsay:Lindsay runs out at the reveal, wearing an inside-out bridesmaid's dress. Michael: 'You better catch her, Dad.' George Sr.: 'That's not gonna be easy. She's an Olympic Silver.'
Rita · Michael:Rita to Michael: 'I didn't know until they told me.' Michael: 'No, I'm just a narcissist who was too self-involved to see the truth.' Rita: 'That makes no sense to me.' Michael: 'Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm being too hard on myself.'
Michael · Rita:Rita: 'And you deserve to find somebody a lot more like you.' Michael: 'I don't think that either of us would be happy.'
Michael · Rita:Michael: 'You're gonna be across an ocean.' Rita: 'Well, you can always walk.' Michael: 'Not on the water.' Rita: 'Oh, Michael, you're such a grown-up.'
Rita · Michael · Gob:Rita appears to walk on water — or at least, it looks like she does. Michael and Gob watch.
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Hang on a sec. That's part of your trick, right?' Michael: 'No.' Gob: 'That's not my trick, Michael.'
Michael · Lucille:You look pretty, Mom. / What do you need?
Narrator · Michael:Michael had been so devastated by their breakup that he'd even broken out the old guitar.
Lucille · Michael:Maybe you should talk to someone. / Like my mom? / I don't know, does she play guitar?
Lucille · Michael:And how about that little piece of tail on her? Cute! / I've opened a door here that I regret.
Michael · Lucille:The guy who ran Dad's prison? He's here now installing cameras because of all your father's escape attempts.
Lindsay · Michael · Gob:Warden Gentiles likes her? / Likes her what? / No, I mean, likes her. Like, is attracted to her. / Who's the 'her' in that sentence? / Mom. Warden Gentles likes Mom. / 'Her?'
Michael:I don't want Mom mixed up with the sort of creep that would have her as a fetish.
Michael:Hey, I don't need to take my mom to a gala, okay? Only losers go to those things with their parents, I'm going with my son.
Michael · Gob:I can't stand by and watch Mom get hurt. I have to get down there. / This is heartbreaking. / Got to get this for the video.
Lucille · Michael:That man is being wonderful to us. / And that doesn't concern you, Mother? For all you know, he could be trying to seduce you. / Oh, Michael, you're crazy. I certainly hope so. / I'm trying to seduce him.
Michael · Lucille · Lindsay:Who's the 'I' in that sentence? / Me. / You? / Her.
Michael · Gob · Lindsay:Mom wants to sleep with the warden. / What? Oh, God! / Great. / Great? / The man is old enough to be her contemporary, Lindsay.
Michael:Plus, she's married, okay? She can't be writhing around underneath...
Gob · Michael:No, I don't have a sense of propriety, my God. / Gob, we've had this conversation. / When? / The last time you ended up seeing Mom and Dad go at it.
Lindsay · Michael:Well, how about when she was sleeping with Uncle Oscar? / The guy looks just like Dad. I don't know, he's family. It seemed very natural they'd be together.
Michael · Buster:I got some bad news about Mom. She's planning on spending the night with another man. / Gob? / No, not another brother.
Michael · George Sr.:Dad, I've got some bad news about Mom and Warden Gentles... dating. / Better sit down. / Okay, what's the news? / They're dating. / Oh, yeah, because she's my wife. Oh, yeah, damn it.
George Sr. · Michael:Besides, it's only dinner in the office. It's not Le Cirque. / How'd you know it was in his office?
Michael:She's working the warden. You're making fake heads. You're planning an escape.
Gob · Michael:Honey, the car is here. / Hey. Do you need a ride? You'll have to lie down.
Michael · Lindsay:Mom was just using that warden to try to get Dad out. She's not trying to seduce him at all. / Oh, no, she is. She's spending the night with him. She just called to ask me to bring her a tube of vag... ...table paste. Hi, George Michael.
Michael · Narrator:I'll just stay here and read. / But this, too, would prove challenging, as the family had no books. / Other than those.
Michael · Gob:Come on, Gob, you were gonna break out of this place once, I know you can help me break in. / It's not a Jamba Juice, Michael.
Michael:Shouldn't be that hard to break into.
Michael · Gob · Narrator:Now just make sure you tell me before you hit any buttons. / Good. Now we know what the strap was for. / Okay. Under the crotch. / Need a new plan. Yeah.
Michael · Gob · Narrator:Wish I knew the layout of this place. / Way ahead of you, Michael. Drew a map of it on my stomach. It's upside down, so it might be a little awkward. / It was awkward.
Gob · Michael:Graft versus Host. / Sounds like a tennis match between Steffi Graf and Happy Days star Donny Host. / It's Most. / But it's far deadlier.
Lucille · Michael:Did you like the chlamydia thing? I gave him that. / You gave him chlamydia? / He had crabs, and I said, 'You're gonna get laughs.'
Michael · George Sr.:If Dad doesn't care, there's no real threat. And, I guess, just knock yourself out. / Where's Gentles?! I'll kill him!
Warden Gentles · Michael:Sorry about the wait. George? / If you're here, who do we have in the delousing tank? / I'm guessing Oscar.
Gob · Michael:Is it my turn to speak yet? I've got a good one. / We're gonna wait till after lunch for the tricks. / That's not a trick, Michael. It's a business opportunity.
Gob · Michael:Anyway, it involves us making some money with our Mexican friends from Colombia. / I think they're called Colombians. / Oh, I forgot, we're being politically correct now.
George Sr. · Michael:Translation: Wish I'd thought of that. / Nice translating, Dad.
Gob · Michael · George Sr.:It's not stupid. You're stupid. / Nice pout, Dad.
Narrator · George Sr. · Michael:He's calling you a liar. I don't want your cards, Michael! / He believed it created a competitive spirit... He also believed footage of the tussles would be a big hit in the burgeoning home video market.
Lindsay · Michael:How do you think I feel? You weren't even in the tapes. / Uh, no, I was talking about my marriage.
Lindsay · Michael:...plus fit an eyebrow pluck in there all before the weekend. / Perhaps you can talk to Maeby while you're getting your eyebrows plucked. It'll look like your eyes are watering 'cause you're sad.
Lucille · Michael:Que? / What's Spanish for 'I know you speak English'?
Michael · Lucille:Mom, if you're gonna speak to these guys like this, you might want to sleep with one eye open. / Actually, I'll be sleeping at your place.
Michael · George Sr.:I see, the apartment's not the only thing getting a face-lift. / Hope you kept your punch card, you're about due for a free one.
Michael · Narrator:You guys are both gonna be sleeping with your eyes open. / Mom, however, will not have a choice.
Michael:Well, as always, Gob, a mixed bag there, but the middle part sounded pretty admirable for a second.
Gob · Michael:Did you know that more frozen bananas are sold here on this boardwalk than anywhere in the O.C.? / Don't call it that.
Michael · George Michael · Gob:There's no recipe, you just freeze a banana, then you stick it in the... / Don't tell them! Stick it in the what?!
Michael · George Michael:When we do, we'll have the last laugh. / We'll be the laughingstock of the boardwalk.
Buster · Michael:There she is. / She wants to know where you want to put her. / She can take my room. / She wants to know if I can sleep there, too. She said that's very important to her.
Michael · Buster · J. Walter Weatherman:Got a new hand? / Oh, yeah, I'm trying it out. Guess who I ran into at the prosthetics shop while I was waiting for Mother. / Sorry, no refunds. And that's why you don't take your foot out of its wrapper.
Michael · George Michael:How you doing there, Champ? / Is my name 'Champ'? / It's so hot...
George Michael · Michael:Dad, are they strippers? / If I know your uncle, they're at least strippers.
Michael:A Hefty bagful of pesos.
Michael · Activist:'The only scary thing about a one-arm man trying to scare someone is the fact...' / '...that he feels that his one arm is good for nothing but trying to scare somebody.' / It's upside down. / Well, let's see you try to put a button on with this.
Michael · Lucille:What is more pathetic than grown men being scared of their father? / I'm thirsty.
Michael:There's an off chance they might just want to take you, leave the ankle. But... anyhow.
Michael · Painter · Michael:Maybe pose as Colombians? / But we are Guatemalan. Won't he know the difference? / I think anything south of San Diego will be just fine.
Michael · Gob:CD... CD one! CD one! Track two! Track two! Put the hostage here by the ottoman! Get it out of here! What's it doing in here?! Ottoman out!
Michael · George Sr. · J. Walter Weatherman · Gob:This is all fake. These guys are painters! / I'll kill you! / Oh, God, my arm! / Dad, you just shot off this... this guy's arm.
George Sr. · Michael · Gob:Now who's the stupid one now? / Thank you, Gob. / 'Gob?' You told him? I thought we were a team.
Gob · George Sr. · Michael:It's not fun feeling stupid, is it? / You son of a... / Wait a minute, I have to get my camera.
Michael · George Sr. · Gob:Cheat out. / I will kill you! / You're going out of frame.
Narrator · Gob · Michael · George Sr.:And that's why you don't pit Gob and me against each other. / Yes! Yeah! / You set me up. / That's right! / No more 'Boyfights.' / J. Walter Weatherman was in on it, too? / Right from the very start.
Michael:And that's why you don't pit Gob and me against each other.
Police · Michael · Narrator:Freeze! Drop the gun. / We're just trying to teach this guy a lesson. / Drop the gun! / Oh, my God! Buster's good hand just... came... flying off.
Michael · Lucille:Mr. Loblaw no longer works for us, because someone wanted a boyfriend.
Michael:I was talking to Lindsay, actually, but he was clearly turned off to the both of you.
Michael · Lucille:The only time you ever cooked for us was the morning Rosa's mom died. You gave us cereal in an ashtray.
Michael · Narrator:'Save Our Bluths' — S.O.B.s
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael · Lindsay:Yes, he's a regular Freddy Wilson, that one. / I don't know that reference. / I don't either. / I don't know either.
Tobias · Michael:I think he may have developed what we in the soft sciences refer to as obsessive-compulsive disorder. Or the O.C. disorder. / Don't call it that.
Michael:It says 'over.' Probably have to crack this open to be sure, but this sounds like an expulsion letter.
Michael · Lucille:What kind of boarding school would lose track of its students? / Openings is not a boarding school.
Michael:I don't want to just round up a bunch of famous people that have nothing to do with our family as some sort of cheap stunt.
Andy Richter · Michael:Oh, I'm Andy. / Oh. / Sorry. / Oh, hey.
Michael · Andy Richter:How'd you feel about coming to a fundraiser at our house? / How much does it pay? / It's just a free dinner... / I'll be there.
Andy Richter · Donny Richter · Michael:Ugh, he's such a pig. / You should know about bad-mouthing family members.
Lucille · Michael · George Sr.:Is he following people to their cars again? / He's a waiter! / He is? Well, that's great. / No, it's not great.
Michael:Am I the only one that thinks this family is finally becoming sympathetic and relatable? I mean, that's what people want to see.
Michael:Sometimes you say you hate your dad to get a good grade or you like him to make some money.
Michael · Rocky Richter:It's Andy again, isn't it? / Rocky. / Andy's the pig. / Well, you're not exactly... / I'm his stunt double. You think I like this? I disgust myself.
Michael · Rocky Richter · Andy Richter:It's Andy again, isn't it? / Rocky. / Andy's the pig.
Rocky Richter · Michael:Somebody sent my brother Donny a basket of poison muffins. / It could've been the Muffin Man. They never caught him. / How do you know about that? / I saw it on Why We Were Scared of the '70s.
Michael · Lindsay:What is going on? They're getting restless. / I can't offer to [bleep] him in front of their husbands.
Michael · Lindsay:Poached salmonella? / It'll be fine, I'll just put the sauce on them. / What kind of sauce is that? / Wait, this is the water I thawed the chicken in. / Oh. Well, that should go with chicken.
Emmitt Richter · Michael:I'm not Andy. I'm Emmitt. Andy sent me over to let you know that he's not going to be able to make it tonight.
Michael:Andy Richter is singing at the Fire & Ice Ball? I should send Andy a little basket of poison muffins, too.
Michael:I should send Andy a little basket of poison muffins, too.
Michael · George Sr.:Muffins? Oh my God, Dad. You're the Muffin Man? You poisoned 25 teachers during the '70s? / Just the first two. The others were copycats.
George Michael · Michael · George Sr.:Muffins? / Oh, my God, Dad. / You're the Muffin Man? / You poisoned 25 teachers during the '70s? / Just the first two. The others were copycats.
Michael · George Michael:Me, too. You know, I seem to... I threaten people who I don't feel support me. / He poisons them.
George Michael · Michael:OCD? No, I'm just cleaning up after Aunt Lindsay. She never turns things off.
Michael:Well... guess that explains why I saw the hedge trimmer zipping around the driveway.
Michael:I did it again, didn't I? I'm so self-centered.
George Michael · Michael:I love my cousin. / Love you, too, pal.
Michael · Narrator · Director:They're all sending in donations. And you know what the key was? Your speech. It didn't sound desperate. / Well, I guess it really doesn't pay to be desperate. / It sure doesn't. And... cut!
Michael:Well, they've got one guy who won't be talking. That is, unless there's a hand inside of him.
Gob · Michael:I gotta tell Franklin. / I think he meant 'get Franklin'.
Gob · Lucille · Michael:He certainly hasn't heard anything from me. Mother doesn't know anything, either. / I don't know anything. / Well, you both certainly act innocent.
Gob · Michael:Whoa. I did not say that. / You did, Gob. Your mouth moved. Your hand didn't.
Michael · Buster:No one is going to lie on that stand. And no one is going to betray the family. / [Cut to: Buster rocking and humming nervously]
Jan Eagleman · Michael:I'm doing a tech rehearsal for my new show, Judge Reinhold. / You know that there's an actor by that name, right?
Michael · Jan Eagleman:So, you're doing this because your name is Judge? / Honestly, this is the first time I put those two things together.
Michael · Jan Eagleman:Maybe we should take Judge out of the title, and go with my original title, Mr Reinhold's Courtroom. / No, no, no. We're changing the name.
Michael · Jan Eagleman:We are going to need a defence attorney, right, for the mock trial? And that's not gonna be cheap. / You know the case. Why not you?
Michael:Yes. Yeah, it'll give me a chance to show my dad what I can do. / I'll show him. I'll make a fool out of him.
George Sr. · Michael · Lucille:He got into your brother's pills. Not the Forget-Me-Nows? / He asked me for them. I didn't know. I thought he was dating again.
Michael · Lindsay:Let's go ahead and wait outside. / So, you come here often? Cute button.
George Sr. · Michael:Oh, the red tape. / Looks a little bit more like Red Prawn, Dad. It's the shrimp fest.
Michael:Right now, he doesn't know who B. Bluth is.
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:It's so good to laugh again. Feels good. It does. / They say seven minutes heals all wounds.
Michael · Doctor · Narrator:Could that mean that he's faking it? / Highly likely this is fake, although there doesn't seem to be very much brain activity. / No, that's him.
Michael:Given up hope on Buster pretty quickly there, Lindsay.
Michael:Looks like there's a secret room in this one, off the hallway. Wonder if we've got that. I'm gonna go check that out.
Michael · Narrator:Nichael Bluth? / Am I N. Bluth?
Michael · Tobias · Talking Magazine:And for some reason this stack of bodybuilding magazines. / Well, I guess your dad must've had these from way back when, huh? / My name is... / That seems kind of current.
Michael · George Sr.:I'm N. Bluth, aren't I? Legally, that's my real name.
Michael · George Sr.:Shrimp Fest is over, Pop. / Really? Better go to Chili's.
Michael · Gob:What's this? / Just practising my testimony in a fake witness box. / And you couldn't have just taken my stuff off the desk first or unplugged my computer?
Michael:Wow. Sounds like you could use some tricycling.
Michael:Your lips are still moving, and you stole the doctor's tape recorder?
Gob · Michael:You know what? Dad was right. If you really cared about this family, you'd be more supportive of me in this. / Gob, I'm not gonna turn this mock trial into some kind of... / You were gonna say 'mockery,' weren't you? / I was in trouble, like, three words into that.
Wayne Jarvis · Michael:In our case, Judge Reinhold is both. / Did he get E.P.? / Sure did. / Good for him.
Michael · Narrator:Hey, you guys know about this room, too, huh? I'm just looking for some evidence for my trial against Pop-pop. / For Pop-pop.
Judge Reinhold · Michael:Wow, thank you. That's the first time I ever got a standing ovation before the show. / They're not clapping. / They don't in a courtroom.
Jan Eagleman (prosecutor) · Michael:Your witness. / I have nothing.
Michael · George Sr.:I have no cross at this time. / Well, this is why you're not handling my real defence.
Michael:Look at that. You just blew your wedding speech.
Michael · Franklin · Judge Reinhold:State your name. / My name is Judge. / What kind of name is that, magazine?
Jan Eagleman · Michael:I'm just gonna go ahead and jump in right here. / I have nothing for him.
George Sr. · Gob · Michael:Well, listen, have fun out there, because this is the last time you're gonna see this side of a courtroom — Franklin? You're calling Franklin, Mikey? / I sure am, pal. I support my brother.
Michael · Wayne Jarvis (from tape):Would you please press the play button on the tape recorder inside the puppet? / If you don't do it, we're gonna go after N. Bluth, and we think that's you.
Narrator · Michael:And Michael discovers that he wasn't N. Bluth after all. / I have an older sister? / So much for not abandoning family.
Michael:Wow! Look at the beak on that bird.
Michael:Yeah, but that was retard... misguided.
Gob · Michael:The... something of my ways. / Wisdom? / It's probably wisdom.
Michael · Lucille:I actually meant Lindsay and Nellie. / You call him that, too? / It's so nice to be able to talk like this.
Michael · George Sr.:That's not a real gold necklace, is it? / Well, it wasn't really your 50th birthday.
Michael · George Sr.:It's bad enough you got Buster faking a coma just so he doesn't have to testify. / I've been trying to get him out of that coma. It's costing us a fortune. He's sleeping us dry.
Michael · George Sr.:Not a Nick or a Nellie? / Just the one who married Lindsay.
Michael · Employee Tom:Like Tom here. / I'm 30.
Michael:Michael sees 'Nellie' file on the old computer and then 'Gob's Program' listed before it.
Tobias · Michael:K-Y Pro, huh? / Hey, don't get any moisture on these bab...
Michael · Tobias:Kind of remember these being faster, you know? / Yeah, well, we were probably all so jacked up on amyl and disco music, we didn't notice.
Tobias · Michael:I was hoping to have a jaw session with you. / Well, why don't we just say — as long as that means a talk.
Tobias · Michael:I find myself attracted to someone who is not my wife. / What's her name? / Michael. / Can you believe it? / You're married to my sister.
Tobias · Michael:Don't you think I know that?! / I-I'm not interested in you that way. / What way? / Pick one.
Michael · Tobias:Hey, coulda, shoulda, woulda. Hey, hey. No, no. Ooh, look, number's up. / Well, it would've been a seven.
Michael · Nellie · Narrator:Michael and Nellie bond over an elaborate, boring locker story that goes nowhere — the narrator cuts away to check on other characters.
Michael · Nellie · Narrator:How did you get into this line of work? / Well, I was buried in loan debt from business school, so I started whoring myself out. / Not that there weren't clues.
Michael:You'd be filling, like, three openings.
Michael · Nellie:She's absolutely amazing at that stuff, right? / You do do finances and stuff, right? / I do all sorts of scenes.
Michael:Don't be afraid to put her in any position that you want, okay?
Michael · Lindsay:She's a little bit more like me. / It's like we finish each other's... / Sandwiches? / Sentences. / Why would I say...? / Sandwiches? / That time I was going to say sandwiches.
Michael:No, you'd just go out and you'd just whore it up, Lindsay, you know?
Lindsay · Michael:So I guess you haven't told Nellie what you're thinking. / No, I have not. I've been waiting for the right time.
Michael · Franklin:she's got this old boss that's claiming he wants a percentage. / Yo, man, you owe me money. / I ain't no dummy. / It better be soon or you're going to feel my hand up your (bleep).
Lindsay · Michael:That's funny. I'm going out tonight for drinks, too, with an exciting new man. / Really trying to make that marriage work, aren't you?
Michael:I stand corrected. / And disgusted.
Tobias · Michael:That's why sometimes life is about making difficult... / Sandwiches. I know.
Michael · Tobias:Next to that guy? / What guy? / That guy. / No, that's her. / Him? / That's a girl.
Michael:I think the name 'Michael' is making you look for a man.
Nellie · Michael:There's no denying that there's a heat between us. / I'd like to deny that. / I know you feel it, too. / This burning desire. / I-I-I don't feel anything. I feel a burning mutual respect.
Nellie · Michael:I've got an outfit that's going to turn that respect into something fun. / Respect is fun.
Michael · Franklin/Gob:You want to be her pimp? / You got to settle up. / Pimp? You mean that she's...? / A lady of the evening. Working girl. / She turns illusions for money... / ...tricks.
Michael · Narrator:Franklin is Frank? / Mr. F.
Gob · Michael · Gob:Maybe we can give him a family discount. / Family discount is right, Gob. This is the sister that I've been talking about. / Maybe I should have been getting a family rate.
Michael · Gob · Nellie · Gob:How do you know her? / Met up with her after a show. / And you did things with her? / He didn't. / I did. / Well, if you consider crying like a girl doing something.
Michael:Honestly I'd take some of the cry out of that.
Gob · Michael:But I am not a pimp, Michael. She needed protection. So I make some threats, wear this hat, and I collect my ten percent. / Yeah, that's a pimp.
Michael · George Sr.:I know who N. Bluth is. It is Nellie. And I found her. / That's your sissy cousin Larry. Even then we knew. That's why we called him 'Nellie.' Do you not know that expression, Michael? I thought we were on the same page here.
Michael · George Sr.:She's not my sister. / I let her into the company. / You didn't give her access to the cash, did you? / She said she liked me. / She's a prostitute! That's her job!
Michael · George Sr.:What? The N. Bluth account? That is your account? / Maybe. / But it's only embezzlement if you spend it outside the company.
George Sr. · Michael · George Sr. · Michael:She got to it. / Well, there goes the company. / Okay, now, hold on now. Let's not panic because I-I know someone who can find her. His name is Frank. / That's Gob's puppet.
Michael · George Sr.:You haven't heard from Oscar lately, have you? / No. / Okay.
Michael · Ted:Hey, Ted, what's going on? / Nellie got all of us our checks and these great new computers and have you been...?
Michael · Nellie:What did you do with these guys, exactly? / They mostly just cried.
Michael:Well, the fact that you didn't steal it might actually be proof that you're not [my sister].
Nellie · Michael:I make 300 grand a year. / Marry me.
Lindsay · Michael:Lindsay, when asked how to respond to deposition questions about financial impropriety, says she'll 'unbutton my shirt a bit and give him this look.'
Tobias · Michael · Narrator:Tobias explains finishing off the vodka: 'It goes bad once it's opened.' Michael: 'I think that's another one of Mom's little fibs. You know, like I'll sacrifice anything for my children.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias says the prosecution 'asked for old photos and documents so I went and got these out of the secret room.'
Michael · Tobias:Michael: 'The prosecution is not a TV show.' Tobias: 'These guys will bend the law to enforce the law. Tell me that's not a CBS franchise.'
Michael · Tobias:Michael's non-response when Tobias asks 'Including me?' about the prosecution coming after the family, followed by Michael awkwardly pivoting to Maeby's birthday.
Narrator · Michael · Maeby:Narrator: 'Actually, he'd already told her about it.' — immediately after Michael says he's planning a 'surprise' party for Maeby.
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:George Sr.: 'Well, I'm off, my love. You see, sometimes shame can be fun.' — then instantly corrects to 'Secrets. / You said shame. / He said shame.'
Gob · Michael:Gob reveals he's going to Iraq for a USO tour doing a 'Christian magic act' — dressing as Jesus and walking on water.
Gob · Michael:Gob says 'I do the wine into water...' Michael corrects 'It's water into wine.' Gob: 'Then I emptied out all your wine bottles and filled them with fake stuff for nothing.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'You're just jealous that I am the son that the father has asked to do his work in the Holy Land.' Then: 'And he won't bump me up to business class.'
George Sr. · Michael · Lucille:George Sr. says Buster 'took coma' and Lucille 'took rehab' as legal excuses. Michael: 'You're going to rehab again?' George Sr.: 'I'm bringing Lindsay. I'm worried about her.' Lucille: 'Did you get the corkscrew?'
Michael:Michael: 'How do you come up with these?' — reacting to Lucille's wine-into-alcohol myth.
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr.: 'This constant bickering is going to put me in a coma!' Michael: 'Nice try, Dad.'
Wayne Jarvis · Michael:Wayne Jarvis reveals the two people who checked into Shady Pines under the names 'Lucille Bluth' and 'Lindsay Funke' are not Michael's relatives.
Wayne Jarvis · Michael:Jarvis: 'Also, for someone in a coma, your brother Buster has made an impressive 15 phone calls to radio stations alternately requesting I Will Survive and...' — 'She's Out of My Life.'
Michael · Wayne Jarvis:Michael and Jarvis try to watch Gob on the news. The segment keeps being delayed by ads for insulin delivery and other commercials. Michael: 'I'm sure it's coming right up.' / 'I'm sure it's right after this series of ads.' Jarvis: 'Why don't we just go online?' Michael: 'Cool your Japanese jets.'
Buster · Michael:Buster claims to speak Arabic. Michael: 'You speak Arabic?' Buster: 'La-ach-ha-tem.' Michael: 'What's that mean?' Buster: 'No, I was just clearing my throat, but I think it actually does mean laundry but like, a child's laundry. We don't really have a word for it.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'So you ready for Operation Hot Brother?' Michael: 'I'm not ready to call it that.'
Gob · Michael:Gob, found in prison, greets Michael with: 'Oh, I missed you, Michael! All right. Or should I say robot. What, 'cause I'm not crying? Maybe you don't have enough RAM to understand this, Michael, but there's such a thing as brotherly love.'
Gob · Michael:Gob admits George Sr. asked him to 'torch a couple model homes' in Sadr City — 'Dad's just trying to keep information out of the hands of the Iraqis.' Michael: 'I have a feeling he was trying to keep it out of the hands of the federal marshals.'
Saddam Look-alike · Michael:The Saddam look-alike asks if Michael is there to 'fix the air-conditioning' — implying the Bluths are known in Iraq only as HVAC contractors.
Michael · CIA Agent (Gob):Michael finds a nuclear warhead. CIA agent: 'Looks like a mid-range nuclear warhead. Has a range capacity of 4,000 to 5,000 nautical miles.' Michael: 'You've got a pretty sophisticated knowledge of this technology.' CIA agent: 'My God, it makes me want to have an ice-cream cone. Doesn't this make you want to have an ice-cream cone?'
CIA Agent · Michael:The WMD turns out to be a 'Homefill' — the same company that makes fake props for model homes. 'It's the company that makes the fake stuff we fill the model homes with.'
Buster · Michael:Buster tells Michael: 'You might not even be related to us... 'Cause Gangee once said to me, your mom might not have ever even been pregnant with you.'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'Okay, now you're just saying that to make me feel better.' / Michael: 'No, I'm... I wouldn't.' / Buster: 'Everyone still loves you. Some more than others.'
Michael · Buster:Michael: 'Okay, now you're just saying that to make me feel better.' Buster: 'No, I... I wouldn't.' — Michael treating 'you might not be our relative' as a comforting fib.
CIA Agent · Michael · Gob · Buster:CIA agent: 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to take you guys out.' Michael: 'Take us out? Where?' Gob: 'I could really go for some Italian.' Buster: 'There is an Olive Garden in Mamoon.' Michael: 'I think he means to shoot you in the head.'
Gob · Michael · CIA Agent:Gob: 'Well, don't be mad, but I have been sending the pictures from my cell phone to my friend.' CIA agent panics. Michael: 'Well, who knows who she sent them to?'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'Looks like you are a hero, Buster.' — addressing himself. Michael: 'We both are.' Buster: 'Well...'
Gob · Michael:Their reward demand from the CIA: 'We're going to need some business class tickets home. And direct flights. None of this stopping in Phoenix bull[bleep].'
Saddam Look-alike · Michael · Gob:'On the Next': Michael and Gob encounter the 'real Saddam.' 'You've got the wrong guy. The real Saddam has a scar on his head. I'm No Scar. Dot com.'
Michael · George Michael:What have I always said is the most important thing? / Family. / I was gonna say breakfast, but...
Michael · Lindsay · Lucille:Stan Sitwell's always had a wild hair to buy this business. It's the only hair he's got. / He's an alpaca. / He has alopecia.
Michael:That sounds like a lot more than it actually is. You've already spent $1,200 on eggs, and that would be it forever.
Michael · George Michael · Maeby:Keep in mind, we are building something for our kids... it's also for George Michael and Maeby's kids too. / We can't have kids! / It's not even an option really.
Michael:You know, being twins, our birthdays are pretty close to one another.
Michael · Buster · Lindsay:A 40-year-old woman has as much chance of getting married as she does of getting attacked by a shark. / Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were going to say seal. / Or a seal. / Oh, God!
Michael:No bully ever would be.
George Sr. · Michael:Oh! Well, your mom's not gonna allow for that. She'll do whatever it takes to get her way.
Michael · Gob:You might wanna untie these ropes first. / Don't tell me how to flee, Michael.
Michael · Gob:Perhaps you can tell me how you can afford a boat. / You mean on the paltry 1,500 a week you give me? / I give you 500 a week. / Yeah, well, somebody's drawing a little one on those checks. No big deal.
Gob · Michael:You give a man a fish, he'll eat for a night. / If you teach a man to fish... / He'll wanna use your yacht.
Michael:It can't be worse than hearing that just was.
Michael · George Michael:Me too. / What do you mean, Son? You kissed? / Even a little more than that.
Michael · George Michael:She's a blood relative. / I know. I've seen the blood.
Michael · George Michael:How long has this been going on? / I don't know... 53 weeks?
Michael · George Michael:Whatever happened to that Ann we were both so crazy about? / Yeah, Ann is the girl for us.
Michael · Lindsay:Are you drunk? / A little. We need to talk. / I mean, can you imagine anything more inappropriate? / Hey, I guess you can.
Lindsay · Michael:I'm not your sister. / What? / I'm adopted. And I'm three years older.
Michael:I'm just not that into older women.
Michael · Tobias:You can't do that. / They're my shares. / No, I mean, you can't spoon me like that.
Michael · Tobias:We need a new venue for the shareholders' party, and it cannot be a boat. / Now, if you can find something, maybe I can fudge the books. Get you a Bluth Company salary. Maybe call you an events coordinator.
Lucille · Michael:We'll pay them off. We'll call it an accrued cash dividend. But they won't get their money until they sign a document at the party promising not to sell for 10 years. / So it's embezzlement, bribery and conspiracy? / And a whole lot of love. / All right, and perjury.
Tobias · Michael · Buster:We're having it at the Queen Mary. / Queen Mary? That's a ship. / Oh, no, no, no. It's a chain of popular nightclubs. / Although I haven't been to this particular location. / It's on the Long Beach Harbor. / That's the ship. / Don't worry about it. They've actually welded it to the dock.
Tobias · Michael · Lucille:Although I should call the Hot Cops and tell them to come up with something more nautically themed. / Hot Sailors. / Better yet, Hot Se... / I like Hot Sailors. / Mm, me too.
Michael · Narrator:My brother Gob, who I know would never do anything to hurt anyone in this family. / Except for dating his nephew's girlfriend and hitting on his adopted sister.
Michael · Buster:Buster, who faced his biggest fear to be here today. / Second biggest.
Michael · Buster:Buster, who faced his biggest fear to be here today. / Second biggest.
Michael:And my sister, Lindsay. Yes, she is my sister, no matter what any piece of paper says.
Michael:Lindsay and her husband, Tobias... deep down, they both love each other very, very much.
Michael · Gob:Yeah, well, where is George Michael, by the way? / He came by the yacht. Gave me this shiner. / He hit you? What for? / You know teenagers.
Gob · Michael:He came by the yacht. Gave me this shiner. / He hit you? What for? / You know teenagers. Probably lashing out at you because of who I'm dating. / Who are you dating? / Ann. / Her?
Michael:I've made a huge mistake.
Investor · Michael:That's who you're putting in charge? / I've made a huge mistake.
Michael · Stan Sitwell:Will you take the company for 20% above market? / Ten, and I'll take the company off your hands right now. / Fifteen and I'll throw in Nellie. / She's 40. / Twelve.
Gob · Michael · Gob:Are those police boats? / Oh, my God, the SEC. / They still have boats?
Michael:I can't help but enjoy the irony that you might be losing three years of your life.
Oscar · Michael:George invited me. Oh, stupid. / Oscar, when are you going to learn there's no such thing as free shrimp?
Michael · Annyong / Hello:Or someone who used to be. / Annyong? / Annyong. / Annyong? / Annyong. But my real name is... / Hello. / Hello? / Annyong.
Michael · George Michael:Buddy, Maeby is not your cousin. / What? / Yeah, I found out a couple days ago. Aunt Lindsay was adopted. / Why didn't you tell me this? / Because you can't be with Maeby. You're 15.
Michael:She might not be a blood relative, but she is still family, and that's a bond that lasts forever. You don't wanna rock that boat.
Michael · Narrator:What the hell was that? / It was his mother, who moments earlier had taken control of another queen.
Unnamed Family Member · Michael · George Michael:Gangy's trying to make a break for it. / I guess we should go back. Family sticks together, huh? / Yeah, on the other hand, we do have a full tank of gas, a house in Cabo, and 500 grand in cashier's checks. What say we give them no choice but to keep themselves all together for a while?
Michael:Yeah, on the other hand... we do have a full tank of gas, a house in Cabo, and 500 grand in cashier's checks.
Michael:What say we give them no choice but to keep themselves all together for a while?
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'You're afraid she'll turn on you.' George Sr.: 'Won't even leave the table during a dinner party.'
Narrator · Michael · Lindsay:Narrator: 'So, after getting briefly creepy with her brother... / Michael: I'm just not that into older women.'
Michael · Lucille:Michael: 'Stop with the prayer hands. It just looks like you're out of ideas.' — Lucille dismisses Lindsay's new spirituality as performance.
Michael:Michael: 'Seriously, shoot me if you ever catch me doing that.' (immediately after saying 'stop with the prayer hands')
Narrator · Michael · Lucille:At the time of this family meeting, 2,000 rupees was $36. / I wouldn't. / Of course you wouldn't, Michael. You never accept help from anyone.
George Sr. · Michael · Narrator:George Sr. at the MRI facility, seeing Michael: 'I wanted to speak to you... in person.' / Michael: 'Then you're here to apologize; that right?' / George Sr.: 'Sure.' / Narrator: 'Although, he covered pretty well. And of course to see you at Orange County Im-a-gine.'
Michael:Michael: 'Hey, don't get me started on the Cinco, Dad. I haven't been to one in 20 years. There's gonna be blowback there; it's just gonna happen. You can't swim in that bay for a month after without getting nacho cheese sauce in your hair. It's coming.'
George Sr. · Michael:Michael worries Gob will make Sudden Valley 'less valuable.' George: 'Which I told you was gonna happen, by the way.' Michael: 'Oh, here it is. Here it is.' George: 'Yeah, there it is! Knew it was coming.'
Gob · Michael:Gob and Michael's road rage standoff at Sudden Valley, each claiming right-of-way with escalating 'Mine! / My right of... way!' before reuniting
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Actually that was a memorial to the death of Pete the mailman.' Michael: 'I knew that.' Gob: 'I brought one, too — size of the man's heart. I just got to figure out how to get it out of the car. If I could remember how I got it in.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'That's not from your Christian magic act?' / 'Christian magic act?' / 'If I were Muslim, would you say "Muslim magic act"?' / Michael: 'No, but it is hard to imagine any Muslim handcuffing himself to a glittery cross and living to tell about it.' / Gob: 'Yeah, well, the Christians aren't so (bleep)-hot about it either.'
Michael:Michael: 'No, but it is hard to imagine any Muslim handcuffing himself to a glittery cross and living to tell about it.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'My personal life is off the charts. I've met someone. Can't really give you any information — kind of famousy.' / Michael: 'Well, good for you. I also met someone. Also famousy. Can't give you any information.'
Michael · Narrator · Rebel Alley:Michael's girlfriend is revealed to be 'Ron Howard's girlfriend' — actually Ron Howard's illegitimate daughter — 'a fact unbeknownst to many'
Michael · Gob:Michael's confusion about Ron Howard: 'You don't have to worry about Ron Howard. I mean, he's not competition for you. Yeah, I mean, the guy's like 100 years old. What's he gonna do, poke you in the eyes?' / Gob's realization: 'Oh, you're confused. Ron Howard directed Apollo 13. You're thinking of Moe Howard, the angry stooge who's been dead for a quarter century.'
Michael · Gob:Michael says he can't 'call [his son] and ask him.' Gob: 'You know what, Michael? I'll call him for you.' Michael: 'Really, you'd do that for me?' Gob: 'It's the least I could do. You've given me a new sense of purpose.' Michael: 'Did you actually have an old one? 'Cause it always seemed like you were just looking for the easy way out.' Gob: 'Yeah, that was it.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Did you actually have an old one? 'Cause it always seemed like you were just looking for the easy way out.' / Gob: 'Yeah, that was it.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael tells George Sr. he'll 'get Lucille 2 against the wall.' George Sr.: 'No, no, no, no, no, she cannot know about this wall.' Michael: 'Fine, I'll get her up against the top of the staircar. I don't care, it's gonna happen, though.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael: 'Fine, I'll get her up against the top of the staircar.' — George Sr. has said he doesn't want Lucille 2 to know about 'the wall'
Lindsay · Michael:Scene transition: 'Lindsay surprises Michael after a long absence from his life.' / Lindsay: 'It's been a long time.' / Michael: 'Oh, this is a little embarrassing. But I have been meaning to get down there, so let's just...' / Lindsay: 'You're right, I mean, it's not like we're even technically related.' / 'Okay, well, then I'll start with a smear.'
Narrator · Gob · Michael:Gob was feeling bolder, which was perhaps why Michael returned home to find this. [Gob is nailed to a cross in the living room]
Gob · Michael:And yea, as if to be arisen the third or fourth day with all the magic of... 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 don't remember a biblical passage where Jesus came out of a boulder. Is it in there? Oh, no, no, no, the boulder's my escape plan. They think I'm somewhere else. I'm actually in the boulder.
Gob · Michael:I have a bee company. You stole my idea? Uh-huh, I did not steal your... We sell... It would take hours.
Gob · Michael:What if I don't actually get married? I don't think you'd need a best man, then, right? No, I guess, at that point, it'd really be more assistant.
Michael · Gob:Yeah, I know you're in the boulder. But how'd I get in the boulder?
Michael:But if you really want to blow him— away, you know the wall issue that everyone is talking about?
Lindsay · Michael: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 girl I've been telling you about — she likes nice things, and if everything goes well tonight, I think I may want to take her out for a nice dinner. / You really like this girl? / She's Tracey. / Oh. / Fat Tracey or thin Tracey at the end?
Michael · Lindsay:You'd do this for me? / I will if you... / Yeah, sure, fine. / Yeah? / Yeah, I'll talk to him about the wall. / Good. / I mean, I want to change politics. / Great. / What's in it for me?
Michael:We got a light aircraft right in the middle of the freeway.
George Michael · Michael:I bet we're sitting in the exact same traffic. This is a mess. / Oh, God, they're forcing us off. Oh, they're closing the lanes.
Lucille Bluth (on phone) · Lindsay · Michael:Who's the cheap redhead? / Well, hello. / Hello. / Indeed.
Lindsay · Michael · Narrator:Great to see you. And you look so good. / So do you. I do hate the campaign, okay, but I'm changing him. I'm his key advisor. / Although without an office, she was forced to advise him in the back of his limo. And soon she was advising him all over town. And he respects me for it.
Lindsay · Michael:Oh! My name is Cindy Featherbottom. / Right. Oh, and I used to be a real estate tycoon, now I'm an impressive producer. Got it? / Got it.
Michael · Lindsay:Uh, she is... um... [long pause] / High school. / Brother and sister. / We can't be brother-sister — she knows about the family. / We don't. / Just met. / Yeah, so, but let's eat.
Rebel Alley · Herbert Love · Michael · Lindsay:Aren't you glad your teenager's not here to see this? / You have a teenager? / I'm a movie prod... / Movie producer. / Producing a movie right now — Rebel's in it for Imagine Entertainment. / Oh! Is that Ron Howard's company?
Herbert Love · Michael · Rebel Alley:I don't want to be the one to say it, but I hate that guy. He's just another Hollywood liberal big shot. / Oh. There are a lot of those Ron Howards out there that do abuse their power, but I will tell you, sir, that I do not do that. / Well, don't you have to have power to abuse the power?
Michael · Lindsay:I am not going to sit here and defend Ron Howard to someone who's never achieved half of what he's achieved. / Are you saying that to him or to me?
Herbert Love · Michael:I am also not one of those Beverly Hills billionaires who can't go two minutes without putting his phone to his... / I got to take this. Hold on one second. Hello? / Hey, George Michael...
Herbert Love · Lindsay · Michael:Now that is one redhead I do not want to have sexual relations with. / Well... / So... are we having dessert? / No. / No. Uh-uh. / Well, I don't want to be the one to say it, but if we are not going to have dessert, then I think I am going to leave. / Oh, no. / But we're going to discuss those new positions tonight. Wasn't that the plan? / I think the best position for me to be in tonight is with my wife, and tomorrow I'm taking my wife and children to see the beautiful American ocean.
Michael · Tobias:Tobias: 'There are no schools or libraries or Internet or playgrounds within 20 miles of here.' / 'You know, it's funny, I've been looking for a place to live, and that fills virtually every parole requirement I have.'
Argyle · Michael:Lucille 2's brother Argyle: 'I'm a tall drink of water, and he's the chaser. Should be flipped, right?' — Michael: 'No, because here's another joke: you owe my sister $700,000, and I'm going to chase you down until you pay up.'
Tobias · Michael:Michael vaguely describes his relationship problem to Tobias. Tobias: 'I appreciate your bravery. And I know everything seems doomed now...' / 'but trust me... we are (bleep). You're (bleep). (bleep). I mean, unless some sort of miracle coincidence happens.'
Tobias · Michael:Tobias: 'What I'm going to do for you, Michael, is I am going to go there with you for moral support and I will act as your assistant and maybe I'll do my famous gay character. I don't think you've seen that character.' / Michael: 'I think I have.' / Tobias: 'Mm... I don't think so.'
Ron Howard · Michael:Michael: 'I don't have them.' / Ron: 'Done.' / 'Okay, well, thanks for coming.' — Ron immediately ends the meeting
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael explains he wants Ron to 'let go' of Rebel — Ron reveals she is his daughter: 'She's my little num-num.' / 'Sure.' / 'I've changed her, I've bathed her.' / 'Well, now you want to bathe her.'
Ron Howard · Michael:Ron: 'Did you not know that I'm Rebel's dad?' / Long pause. / Michael: 'I knew that part.'
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael trying to recover: 'But I, I also — I thought that, that, that, that you might also be... her...' / Ron: 'Her lover?' / 'No.' / Ron: 'Well, this is hardly an episode of Happy Days.'
Ron Howard · Michael:Ron Howard: 'I never let personal matters interfere with business. However, you should know she's dating someone else, and I'll do everything in my power to make sure she never dates you again.' / Michael: 'Incredibly fair of you.'
Michael:Michael, post-meeting: 'I'm gonna start wearing a hat when I get my hair cut, too.'
Michael · Tobias:Tobias signs the movie release, Michael says 'Yes, absolutely, thank you.' — then Michael immediately says 'You're out of the movie.'
Gob · Michael:The Julie Bowen exchange — both brothers claim to be dating someone 'famousy' and immediately suspect it's Julie Bowen
Gob · Michael:'Well, that's a funny way to phrase it' — Michael says 'I have not seen Julie Bowen' instead of 'I am not seeing Julie Bowen'
Gob · Michael:Gob asks Michael to pretend to be his boyfriend to get into a gay club to destroy Tony Wonder, and Michael says 'I'm going to say no, thank you. And don't you think it's a little inappropriate? I am your brother.'
Gob · Michael:Gob presents a 'T' wedge as proof Tony Wonder sabotaged him. Michael says 'Jesus.' Gob replies: 'No, that would be a J. This is a T.'
Gob · Michael:Gob arrives at the wrong Little Ballroom — a children's ball pit venue. Michael is there.
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'First of all, that's very dated of you, Michael. He's don't like to be called she's and I don't who this he-man is...' Michael: 'No, no, it's a she. My girlfriend. Rebel. Rebel Alley. Where is she?'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'I know what you do. Mom told me you were bragging about seeing somebody in showbiz. Then I see a frozen dove in a freezer.' Gob: 'That could be anything.' Michael: 'It said Love each other on the foot band.' Gob: 'Yeah, that does sound like one of mine.'
Michael:Michael: 'If I want to see bad acting, I'll go see Tobias in A Jew Comes to Dinner.'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'If ever we were gonna have a fight, Michael, this would be the safest place to do it.' / Michael: 'Right! Let's do it!' / Gob: 'This gay bar would be the best—!' Michael: 'Let's do it!'
Gob · Michael:Gob running from Michael through a ball pit: 'You'll never catch me, Michael!' / ♪ You raped and pushed and struggled / All those balls in the air... ♪ / 'You have to find me, Michael!'
Gob · Michael:Michael: 'With who?' / Gob: 'With sex offenders.' — the reveal of who Gob filled the homes with
Michael · Lucille · George Bluth Sr.:Michael visits Lucille, gets a black eye; Lucille assumes it's from Gob; then discovers George Senior was on the call with Gob; the call gets passed around on hold while everyone tells each other 'you're out of the movie'
Lucille Bluth · Michael · George Sr.:Michael goes back to Lucille and while relaying the story, George, Sr. calls in on the phone — 'I beg your pardon? Did you say George? Is that Dad? 'Cause he's the one who told me to hire Gob.'
Michael:Michael's long speech to Gob about feeling shame: 'If you were ashamed of being in love with a man, suddenly discovered these new feelings... tried to convince yourself that the sex you were about to have was with yourself, but it turned out to be him... then I might say something like, Homo much?'
Gob · Michael · Narrator:Gob gives Michael the forget-me-now pill — Michael takes it, forgetting Rebel Alley; Gob remembers. Narrator: 'Stupid, forgetful Michael.'
Narrator · Michael:Michael wakes up and the TV is showing an anti-abortion ad: '700,000 abortions every year...' Narrator: 'The amount of money he owed because Tobias wanted to mount this abortion.'
Narrator · Michael:Narrator recaps that Michael told George Michael 'She might not be a blood relative, but she is still family' — recontextualizing why George Michael backed away from Maeby.
George Michael · Maeby · Michael:Michael shows up as George Michael's uncle; Maeby says 'Didn't say it was your cousin.' George Michael: 'Now, that's smart, let him think there's a girl in here.'
Michael:'He's the worst. See, I think if George Michael and I didn't have each other as roommates, we'd be going crazy.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael: 'You should see his Facebook page. Doesn't have a friend on it.' Narrator: 'Of course, that last part had nothing to do with Fakeblock... but it did help George Michael's self-esteem.'
Michael · Maeby:Maeby gets Michael to sign a document for 'a movie about the family.' Michael: 'Is that still happening?' Maeby: 'What do you mean?' Michael: 'I got to tell you, I think movies are dead. Maybe it's a TV show.'
Michael · George Michael · Bluth Family:George Michael's college send-off: the family gives him a check, Michael storms in to rip it up, demanding everyone watch him tear it apart piece by piece — 'That's it. Rip it. Couple more.'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:The narrator says Michael 'did make sure his son got a car' as Michael shouts 'Get out of here' and shoves him toward a car
Michael · George Michael:Michael arrives at college: 'Pete died.' / 'Oh, God. Who's, uh, Pete?' / 'Don't worry about it.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael sees the mustache and says 'Probably gonna want to shave it off before the start of next quarter. Otherwise they're gonna think you're a musician, huh?' — immediately undermining George Michael's new identity
Michael · George Michael:The privacy software pitch becomes 'Sounds like you guys are working on your privacy software, huh?' — Michael interprets the dorm voting conversation as privacy software development
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael are leaving simultaneous voicemails for each other — Michael excitedly describing a plane crash traffic jam while George Michael hopes it keeps Michael away from the club
Michael:Michael's traffic jam monologue escalates to: 'Bet you 500 bucks they find a dead kid behind the stick. Or maybe on the dead dad's lap whose only fault was loving that kid too much and letting him fly the plane.'
Andy Richter · Michael:Andy Richter: 'Oh, yeah, sure. Whatever you want... it's on Andy.' / 'Thank you.' / 'It's on this rich a--hole. Bye.'
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael to Ron Howard: 'A month ago, I would have told you that he and I were exactly the same, that we were twins. But now, I wouldn't even think of my son as my brother.'
Michael:There's about 400 witnesses that are ready to throw her underneath the boat. I don't think I can even help.
Buster · Michael:And do you want to hear something so surprising? She started out as my mother figure. / Not surprising.
Michael · George Michael:Michael encounters George Michael leaving Rebel's building. Neither knows the other has just been there. Michael: 'I'm visiting. My girlfriend lives here... Rebel.' George Michael: 'Wow. So you're gonna work it out with your girlfriend. Good for you. That's great news. Great to see you again.'
Michael:My brother Buster has something better than a hook. A robot hand.
Michael:If she could go that unlikable.
Kitty · Michael:They're Imagine dollars. They're redeemable in the gift shop. That's Ron Howard. Brian's on the 50.
Michael · Gift Shop Employee:I think I'm gonna take one Gung Ho kimono, okay? Oh, and maybe a Brian wig. That's fun. Oh, we only sell these as a set.
George Michael (voicemail) · Michael · Gift Shop Employee:You've reached George Maharis. Did you want that Rebel Alley hair? Oh. Uh, no no. That's... that is mine. I came with that.
Michael · Buster:show your hand / This is one of only two things the Army warns us about when they issue these.
Buster · Michael:Maybe that's a role I can play in your life. Don't say... Mom. Mmm.
Michael:I thought you were gonna say Dad.
Buster · Michael:What? In person? Yeah. Uh, no. On the phone.
Michael · Narrator:Just Mama's worst nightmare. Buster's missing. Oh, and his bath has gone cold.
Michael · Buster:Maybe have a full psych panel while you're in there, too. Oh, those things are so easy to beat.
Buster · Michael:[Buster laughs] What's so funny? You always come back to save the family. We joke about that all the time.
Michael:Covered a lot of ground there.
Michael:Perfect. If that's what happened, tell them.
Michael · Buster:She's gonna be as dry as, uh... well, Lucille 1. I can hear Mother winking now.
Michael · Buster:You already got into the candy bears, huh? This is literally one of only two things the Army warns about when they issue these.
Michael · Buster:You already got into the candy bears, huh? / This is literally one of only two things the Army warns about when they issue these.
Narrator · Michael:Hi, it's Lucille Austero. I've been looking for you. Note, I mean. I know, I'd left you a note... This is why you always... leave a note.
Michael · Narrator:Hi, it's Lucille Austero. — No! — I've been looking for you. / Note, I mean.
Michael:Where's that from?
Michael · Narrator:Michael was also heading to Mexico. And after taking care of one last bit of business... Uh, yeah, I'm completely sure he's been gone 72 hours. As a matter of fact, his bath has grown cold. So that's, uh, an alarm bell right there.
Michael · Narrator:No pictures, thank you! Put your phones down. We take the pictures. When the fleet of recovery vans arrived from the search engine Michael had been working for, he discovered that the car that takes the pictures was no longer under his control.
Michael · Narrator:Michael had been at Search for a month. In that time, he'd developed himself physically... And then lunge. Duck, sweep the leg, lunge.
Michael · Narrator:Ted, I think you see your daughter coming. You're not expecting this, but she's coming in hot with a right... He'd gotten to teach a class he'd successfully persuaded management to try out. Mona, I know your husband's down, he probably needs medical attention, but you got another son on your flank.
Michael:And everybody, we're going to duck, sweep the leg, and lunge. And he comes back again. And we sweep the leg and lunge. That's great. Everybody put down your cactus. Let's all huddle up.
Michael:Wow, satisfy an old dream. Boy, do you really have to spend 1,000 bucks on the gear, though? Not if you have your own. Mm. Yeah. Well, not here, but I could drive home and get it. Course, I could see my family.
Michael · Instructor/Employee:Wow, satisfy an old dream. Boy, do you really have to spend 1,000 bucks on the gear, though? / Not if you have your own.
Michael:Hola. Window cleaner!
Tobias · Michael:Until right at the end there. [Tobias's blue paint seen by the family — his disguise as window cleaner fails at the crucial moment]
Narrator · Michael:She forgave the debt. And feeling bad that he'd been forgiven by someone he wanted to forget, he decided to thank her in person.
Michael:I should ask if she wants to get pre-pre-engaged.
Michael · G.O.B.:G.O.B.! I haven't seen you in a year! It's been two months. Get your hands off. Oh, yeah? What's the last thing you remember us doing? What do you remember? What? No. Enough!
Tobias · Michael: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.
Michael · George Sr.:And is that part of what you look so confused about? It is on the list.
Michael:She flew the coop. In the middle of running for Congress. I mean, no one remembers seeing her since Cinco de Cuatro.
George Sr. · Michael:You know our family motto. We forget, but we never forgive. I remember the framed needlepoint.
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?
Michael · Family member:Is anyone else noticing that the family isn't quite, uh, as we remember them? In what way? That is not Buster.
Michael · Buster:Michael finds Buster at the police station just as he declared he was leaving to focus on his son. The awkward coincidence of Buster being right there as Michael exits.
Michael · George Michael:Briefly. You going to the family thing that we're... Giving to ourselves? Huh? Yeah. I, uh, can't make it. Yeah? No? Should I tell them? Well, you know, listen, I-I wasn't gonna go, so don't-don't not go, because I'm... you know. You're the reason I would go.
Michael · George Michael:Oh, yeah? You got plans, huh? Well, we make plans, and God laughs. That's right. Right? No, I always want to make plans, but... You don't want to be laughed at.
Michael:Only reason I ask, 'cause I'm going on a scuba trip. Um, yeah, came back in town to get my gear. Only reason I'm here, um, you know. It's a last-minute thing. Several weeks at sea. You'd hate it. So, yes.
Michael:I mean, so much of life is, uh, plans. It would just be the same joke over and over. So he's... It's not funny anymore. What's he laughing at?
Michael · George Michael:The thing with, um... So, Rebel, you know, 'cause she... I wanted to say, between the two of you, you know, if you ever felt like... Because, like, she's indicated that things were... I don't know what she said, but maybe things were not quite wrapped up completely with... Between me and her?
Michael:You know, I broke up with her. You know, I show up there, I got a cactus, for God's sakes, you know, which is... that's the universal sign for 'things are over.'
Michael · Narrator:Well, if you ever change your mind, I ain't going nowhere. / Michael didn't know why he said the next thing out of his mouth. Maybe it was relief that he didn't have to break up with her, but for some reason, he came up with...
Michael:No, I told her. You know, I even said, 'Y'all are it for me.' You know. Go a step further and say, 'Y'all ain't going nowhere.' She's it. I don't know why she wouldn't think I was... wasn't going nowhere.
Michael · George Michael:'Ciao.' / 'Bella.' — the elevator closes as Michael and George Michael part without resolving anything.
Michael · Tobias:That's it, I'm out of here! Michael returns for his bag. Okay, I get it. Is that supposed to be me? No, that's my impression of Tobias doing you.
Tobias · Michael:Tobias doing Tobias. Yep? / I don't care. I'm... All right.
Michael:Well, we've put a lot of people in Sitwells, too.
Michael · Narrator:Just to see the roof of a Rite Aid? Which was the first that G.O.B. had heard of the view.
G.O.B. · Michael:It used to be a 2 Hour Teeth, the whole place. Yeah, I remember the screams.
G.O.B. · Michael:Boy, what's a bike tire doing on the roof of the Rite Aid? Yeah, that's the $14,000 a month question, isn't it?
Michael:I'm assuming that's where the conference table went. It's probably too big for that room, and I would get it out, but I can't quite remember how I got it in there.
Michael · George Sr.:Then why did you move into your son's dorm room? That was a year, okay? And not even a full year, because I got there at Thanksgiving.
Tobias · Michael:Uh... George Michael? Father. It's me, George Michael.
Michael:I don't understand a thing you said.
Michael:I didn't know there was such a thing.
Michael · Narrator:My wife died there. Ovarian cancer, actually. He's a liar. And... He shouldn't have said that. Ignore the man.
Lucille · Michael:Because we love you. And nobody wanted your feelings hurt. Mm. That was rule one. Rule one? It slipped down a little when we put in the new floors.
Michael · Lucille:My mother died here. G.O.B. was born here. And I'm sure you've heard, it was also your father's pad. Only from the next room. Please believe me, if I could turn back time, I never would've answered that door.
Lucille · Michael:We can't have Lucille Austero! [Echo] We can't have Lucille Austero. [Echo] She's running against Lindsay, for God's sake. [Echo] For God's sake.
Michael:You're trying to teach me a lesson. You're trying to get even because I'm trying to teach... I don't know why you're trying to teach me a lesson, so lesson not learned, Mother.
G.O.B. · Michael:I'm making this into a trophy for Dad. I can't wait to see the one you got yourself.
Michael · Lucille:Got my answer. You really don't care about your children's feelings, do you? Oh, you're one to give parenting lessons. I hear I'm not the only one whose son has a nasty left hook.
Michael · Lucille:You know, at least he did something that we have not been able to do. He stood up for himself when his father was wrong. In fact, it might be the thing that I'm most proud of him for. Hope he knows that. Uh, he definitely does not.
Michael · Lucille · G.O.B.:Goodbye forever. See you tonight. See you tonight. See you tonight.
Michael · George Sr.:What are you doing in George Michael's bed? Oh... just a little... just a little weep and sleep, you know.
Michael · George Sr.:I know about the cottage. I hated that rule. Okay. I hated both rules. Oh, yeah, the towels. How'd you get past the guard gate? I came from the water. I knew it. I told her. I told her, 'He's gonna take us from the beach.'
George Sr. · Michael:Because your mom is being courted, Michael. Someone is fawning all over her. I knew she had Buster. No. I knew it. This one's not Buster. I mean, I wish that guy was Buster. Him I could fight, you know? You see, this guy got past me.
George Sr. · Michael:I knew I should've sold that property when Stacy died. Tracey. No, we would've lost a fortune if we sold when Tracey died. No, Stacy was the paralegal I used to bring out there who went into insulin shock at the very height of the market. Sad.
George Sr. · Michael:I mean, he's attracted to her. He's attracted to her. I'm sorry. Why would he be attracted to her if he's blind? And how did he burn off his fingertips? I have no idea what you're talking about. I may have added the fingertips. I assume if he's blind, he's gotta feel her face. But you said you never saw him touch her face? I never said he was blind.
Michael:I just told my son that I broke up with the woman that he's seeing, and in retrospect, I don't know, maybe she did not hear 'I'm leaving' when I said, uh, 'I ain't going nowhere.'
George Sr. · Michael:Right? But if she tells my son, uh, what I said, you know what he's gonna say. Uh, 'You lied, and that's worse.'
Michael:Yeah, you know, they can't wait to say stuff like that.
Michael · George Sr.:You gonna be okay here? I ain't going nowhere. Perfect.
Michael · Narrator:Narrator sets up the cactus as a breakup signal — 'I got a cactus, for God's sakes. That's a universal sign for things are over.' — while the actual message was 'I ain't going nowhere.'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Both Michael and George Michael independently claim to have plans with Rebel, each lying to the other, with the narrator revealing both are lying.
Michael · Narrator:Michael, seeing his son approach, 'decided to be the adult in the relationship and avoid conflict by squatting in a bush.'
Michael · Cop:Michael is discovered squatting in the bushes by a cop — the cop says 'Oh, this one, too?' when Michael explains there's a woman obsessed with him.
Michael · Cop:Michael asks about Buster — 'Did anybody claim him?' — as if Buster is lost property. Cop confirms: 'They got him. I had a feeling.'
Michael · Cop:Michael sees where the cop lives — 'I live here' — and responds, 'Oh. Didn't know they paid you that fair.' Then: 'Yeah, good for you.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael offers to 'run up' Michael's breakup message to Rebel to 'save you a trip,' with the condition 'Make sure she doesn't think you're trying to break up.'
Michael · George Michael:The scuba exchange: 'You reconsidered the scuba trip? Oh, God, it's tempting as hell... You're in love. So in love. Maybe next time? Promise? I do.'
Michael · Narrator:Michael 'handed his son a breakup cactus' — the narrator retroactively reframes the cactus as a breakup gift to George Michael.
Scuba Instructor · Michael · Narrator:The scuba instructor: 'Know what your number one tool is for a scuba diver? Your sun.' Meanwhile Michael is having a breakdown about leaving his son.
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael shout increasingly emotional declarations at each other from the boat and dock as it moves farther away — 'I don't want to leave things emotionally ambiguous!' / 'I don't want to leave without having some sense of the value of this relationship!'
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:'And without the ability to speak, they resorted to a language they'd learned long ago.' — Michael and George Michael communicate via hand signals learned in a previous scene/season.
Michael · George Michael:George Michael explains he jumped in because he dropped his prize and was trying to find it. 'I would've been fine.' / 'Maybe I was trying to save you.'
Michael · Lucille:'Want to save me? Stop playing games with me. Stop trying to teach me a lesson by hiding Buster.' / 'We would never make you worry. We love you. That's why we got rid of your $700,000 debt.'
Michael · Lucille · Narrator:Michael's theory about the fake Buster: 'I declared Buster missing, and then they were gonna try to teach me a lesson, right? By having the fake Buster over at Lucille 2's today when I walked in.' Response: 'How did they know you were gonna walk in today?' / 'It was a last-minute trip. You just came down to get your scuba gear.'
Michael · Narrator:'I wanted to make it clear that I'm never coming back again.' Michael immediately after: 'Okay, I will stay.'
Michael · Lucille:'That would wipe me out, Mom.' Lucille: 'This is your fault. You lied to us about Buster being missing to teach us a lesson.' Michael: 'Because you lied to Buster that I agreed to look after him.'
Michael · Lucille:Only one family member is allowed in to see Buster. 'You're the one he's gonna want to see.' / 'He didn't want to see me last time I talked to him. He said he was all grown up and found a new mother.' / 'What a baby thing to say.'
Michael:'I think this is a job for the man in charge... of the president, so, Dad.'
Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:'No, the only way you're stabbing anything is if you have a knife.' / 'That's what he meant.' / 'That's what I meant.'
Buster · Michael:Buster: 'I can smell her on you.' / Michael: 'Ah. Right. I forgot, you're good at that.' / The story about Buster being lost in Nordstrom's because Lucille changed her perfume.
Buster · Michael:'He should never have lost his job for that. What happened? He was just giving me a Fanta! I know I should've spoken up for him, but I was only a boy. Barely out of my teens. I didn't...' 'Currently.'
Michael · Buster:Michael: 'Yeah. That never happened.' Buster: 'It was at Nordstrom's...' Michael: 'Yes. And we found you in the break room with the Chanel man.'
Buster · Michael:Buster waived his rights to an attorney. 'What for?' / 'You told me to.' / 'Plus, I didn't want the evidence guy to have walked all that way for nothing.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'Legally, it's the only place they can't record you when you talk to inmates.' / Michael: 'I don't think that's true.' / Barry: 'Really?' / Michael: 'I got the worst clients.'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'I prefer things face-to-face.' / Michael (aside): 'Less chance of a misunderstanding.'
Barry · Michael · Bluth Family:Barry arrives at the party: 'You guys, you are the best! This is so wonderful!' Everyone expects Buster. 'Barry? Where's Buster?' / 'In jail.' / 'Is this your cover just to throw me this party?'
Michael · Barry:'So, you're saying I paid to bail you out?' / 'You weren't gonna leave me there, were you?' / 'I did not know you were in jail.' / 'That's why I like to do things face-to-face, okay? Understood.'
Michael · Lucille:'I've never heard a man ask that question.' / 'Nor have I.'
Michael · Barry:Michael accidentally bails out the family attorney instead of Buster
Barry · Michael:Barry asking 'Couldn't you embe... Borrow from your company?' and then suggesting George Michael's company
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'What part of Mom is the fancy?' and 'Oh, God, the thought of your feet.'
Michael:Michael: 'I'm glad you have someone to talk to.' [then immediately] 'Well, maybe I'll go check on Buster.'
Michael:Michael: 'Mom really has him fancy-whipped, huh?'
Barry · Michael:Barry asking whether the press blackout covers 'scripted' shows as well as reality — 'Why would there be a scripted about the family?'
Barry · Michael:Barry: 'Weren't you working on one with Ron Howard?' — the Ron Howard docuseries meta-reveal
Gob · Michael:Michael: 'Can't. Kitty hates me.' / Gob: 'First, you eat it with Buster, then you step in it with the movie, and now you're eating what you stepped in, because Kitty hates you.'
Gob · Michael:'Geo-bead' — Gob uses one of George Sr.'s made-up expressions meaning 'screw-up'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'Would that be helpful if I did? Or am I just being a G-O-B?' / Michael's pause / Gob: 'G-O-B spells Gob, you geo-bead'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'Why are you even still here? Go find your wife.' / Gob: 'I don't know where she is.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael overhearing that Rebel doesn't want George Michael to meet her family — and then Michael's 'I failed the Ron test big-time' confession
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'I also thought that he was... Her... Her lover? / George Michael: Boss.'
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael: 'No. No, well, I had a great role model.' / Ron: 'Aw, bless you.' / Michael: 'Yeah, I also had a...' / Ron: 'Well, bless you.'
Michael:Michael's confused internal monologue: 'I had to give her Buster. The movie couldn't be me and George Michael. We were both dating Rebel, and she didn't know that he was my son.'
Michael · Gob · Narrator:Gob's confession: 'Who were you dating?' / Michael: 'Julie Bowen!' — and the narrator reveals it was actually Tony Wonder
Michael · Gob:Michael and Gob discussing whether it 'never made sense' that Rebel liked George Michael — each talking about themselves
Michael · Gob:Michael and Gob: 'The only mother figure he's ever had in his life was... Oh, it was Mom.' / 'Yeah... Huh, poor kid.' / 'I can't imagine.' / Pause / 'Wait, we had Mom.'
Michael · Gob:Michael: 'I believe in you. You can do her.' / Gob's confused look / Michael: 'This. You can do this... to her.'
Michael · Kitty:Michael suggesting they 'get a room' so he can 'say hi to Ron' — and Kitty revealing Ron isn't in the office because of 'some family event'
Gob · Michael:Gob: 'You can't make me touch her hair.' / Michael: 'I'm not gonna touch her hair.' — Michael coaching Gob by reassuring himself
Gob · Michael:Gob seeing Michael's text 'Did you trick her into it yet?' and responding 'Trick her into what?'
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael crashes the Howard barbecue and finds Ron — 'Prayer hands.' Ron: 'Yeah. Listen, a lot of stuff has changed with the family.' Ron: 'Oh, has it gotten out?'
Michael:Michael tells Ron Howard that Buster might have killed someone 'with his robot hand' — then immediately says 'it's hush-hush'
Reed Howard · Ron Howard · Michael:Ron Howard's son Reed: 'My dad knows how to read.' / Michael: 'I see why you named him Reed. He seems smart.'
Ron Howard · Michael · Jocelyn:Ron calls for scripts — assistant says 'Streaming contracts, cable or broadcast?' / Ron: 'A streamer!' / Michael: 'No residuals.' — rapid-fire industry lingo as absurdist detail
Ron Howard · Reed Howard · Michael:Ron Howard's son Reed: 'Also, can you start the music?' / Ron: 'I don't know how to, Reed.' / Michael: 'I must've heard that. I must've heard that. Right? Sure. That, uh... so you get... Do you get the scripts read to you?'
Ron Howard · Reed Howard · Michael:Michael meets Reed: 'This is my son, Reed.' / Reed: 'My dad knows how to read.' / Michael: 'Yes. Nice to meet you. Uh, yeah. Whenever. I see why you named him Reed. He seems smart.'
Michael · Bryce Howard:Michael runs into Bryce Howard and mistakes her for Rebel — 'I'm sorry, but I just can't, Reed.' / 'Oh, talking to your brother Reed. I get it.' / Bryce: 'I'm sorry, who are you?' / Michael: 'I'm avoiding the three-legged race.'
Bryce Howard · Michael:Bryce Howard about Rebel and George Michael: 'Listen, you dodged a bullet. She's a user. She's got a new guy. And she's using him. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure it's not for his body.'
Michael:Michael defending George Michael's body to Bryce: 'I don't know the guy, but I saw a picture. I think he's got a great build. You know? Um, he's wiry. You wouldn't want him to be taller. I like the young man's body. Okay? I do.'
Bryce Howard · Michael:Bryce: 'Still, such a kiss-up. He's even dyed his hair Dallas Howard Red.' / Michael's horror / Bryce: 'But you're not supposed to leave it in that long. Look at him. Ugh. He looks like a jack-o'-lantern.'
Bryce Howard · Michael:Michael tries to exit: 'I don't want the user to create a dramatic scene.' / Bryce: 'No. Don't worry about that. I have seen her get laughs doing The Glass Menagerie.'
Rance Howard · Michael:Rance Howard (Ron's elderly father): 'I thought you worked here.' / working the valet while keeping an eye on his son
Michael · Ron Howard:Michael decides to go forward with the docuseries so he can 'keep an eye on the woman who might be using his son' — by putting her in the show
Ron Howard · Michael:Ron Howard enthusiastically planning the jailhouse interview: 'Nice low-angle shot for the close-up... Oh, a wide shot. Tell it in one image.' / Michael: 'Yes, a wide shot.' / Ron: 'Wide shot.'
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'They'll drop the charges quicker than you can blink your...' / Michael: 'Initiate, at least, the blinking of the eyes. The opening of the eyes is, uh, a bit of a guestimate lately.'
Lucille · Michael · Narrator:Lucille: 'And what if Buster chokes?' / Michael: 'I guess that's what Ron's for.' / Narrator: 'That would prove to be a very... No, you'll see on the next "On the Next."'
Michael · Buster:She said that I could make up whatever reason I want. You tell me what is easiest on you.
Michael · Buster:Hmm, no, it's too mean. / She hates you, Michael. / We'll use that one. Sure.
Buster · Michael:Or she's busy frolicking on the beach with Dusty, her trophy son. / I should never have put that image in your mind. / The good news is, you thought I said 'frolicking.'
Buster · Michael:Lucille 2's head in a box? / Spooky.
Buster · Michael:Now inside the stair car are two heads. One bald, one spiky. / Spooky.
Michael · Buster · Barry:What's the beach cottage? / I found out, Buster. / Oh. / What a relief. / Yeah. / I almost said 'the cottage.' I changed it to 'ing on the beach.' / It's 'frolicking.' / 'Frolicking.'
Michael:We're sticking with that, huh?
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:Um, can I speak to you privately for a moment? / Oh. Yeah? / You need to speak privately? / Oh, it's just so mundane. I don't want to bore everyone. / I'll get out of your hair.
Michael:No, no, no, no. I told you I'm not gonna be taking your money. And it's 75 grand that I'm not gonna be taking because the bail went up.
Michael · George Michael:Buster tried to strangle a, uh... Well, he technically did strangle a skinhead. / Very cool.
Michael · George Michael:People are gonna think, 'Here comes the next Steve Gobs.' / They're gonna want... / Jobs.
George Sr. · George Michael · Michael:Look at this. Three generations of Bluths in one place. Anybody have a camera? / On my phone. / Yes, sir. / Oh, no. / It's a figure of speech. I gotta run.
George Michael · Michael:How'd you know I had red hair? / Did you see it on Instagram? / Yes. I did. I did. I did. / Just didn't want to embarrass you. / Showed up on my e-mail this morning. / So you use Instagram? / Mm-mm. No, no. Your uncle showed it to me. You know me. I'm a 20th-century guy. You can keep that futuristic stuff.
Michael · Prismo (smart speaker):Okay, Prismo. Begin. / User, Michael Bluth. Lost my keys. / Okay, Prismo, reverse. / I will. And how was... / Mom's fucking cottage / ...with Gob.
Michael · George Sr. · George Michael (off-phone):What's the bell? / Oh, there's this Salvation Army Santa Claus guy who's just going from car to car here. / Ice cream? / Stop screaming and get off the highway!
George Sr. · Michael:Oh, there's an Andersen's Pea Soup, so I think I'm gonna buy him soup. / That's George Michael. I gotta go.
George Michael · Michael:I'm approaching, uh, Andersen's Pea Soup. / Oh, that's north. You said you were going northeast. / Well, I'm headed north, then I'm headed east. Otherwise you don't pass the Andersen's P.S.
Michael · George Michael:That's, uh, we got a Danish girl ringing a bell in front of, uh, A's Pea Soup. / Ice cream? / Ice cream? What's that about ice cream? / No, thank you. Uh, nein, danke.
Michael:I would've been embarrassed if I was making Buster rot in prison, while I was hiding Lucille down in Mexico.
Michael · George Sr. · George Michael:I can't believe you're suspicious. / You have to trust me. I don't know where Lucille 2 is. / Dad, trust is a two-way street.
George Michael · George Sr. · Michael:That's Lucille 2's car. / I swear to you, I didn't know she was here. I... / You're probably not impotent, either.
Michael:Get in the Anustart, and I'll follow. Go.
Michael · Tobias:Follow Lucille 2. If we get her, Buster goes free. / Ooh, triple fun!
Michael · Barry · George Michael:Three, four, five, six, seven, eight flat tires? / Yeah. / Who do we sue? / You, until we find out who put down the spike strips.
Michael · George Sr. · Mexican Romney spokesperson:Your land? / This is Bluth land. / This has been Romney land since my great-grandfather settled here. / Along with our 18 great-grandmothers.
Michael · Gob:I'll pass. / Yeah, that's what I thought of you.
Michael · Gob:Do you remember high school commencement, when they asked you to represent all the kids that were being left back, and then you had to quickly find a replacement for Buster who was too afraid to be sawed in half? So you're saying nothing's worse than the sound of the dog screaming?
Michael:No, I just meant you're not a very good magician.
Lucille · Michael:There are cameras everywhere. / Well, that... something you ought to have thought of with regard to Lucille 2 and Oscar in Mexico.
Lucille · Michael:Do you have a tissue? / You haven't needed a tissue since Nixon resigned.
Michael · Narrator:Michael unicycling as part of the parade to reach the D.A. — 'who had done some light unicycling in college'
Michael · Narrator:Although a less complicated plan emerged. / [Michael approaches D.A. and simply asks to parade alongside her]
Michael · D.A. Lottie Dottie:Michael joins the D.A.'s float: 'Do you mind if I just parade with you for, uh, just a minute?' D.A.: 'Oh, you must be Buster's brother. Hop in.'
D.A. · Michael:Oh, my God. This is so embarrassing. I mean, what can I do? How can I make this right? / You gotta release my brother from prison. / We did.
Michael · D.A.:You did? / I mean, it has to be processed out, but he wanted to be in a parade.
Michael · George Michael:What were you playing... Ron and Brian? / Go to Mexico. / Was the name of the game? / We were bored.
Michael · George Michael:Michael: 'Should I tell her that my son and my niece were playing Ron and Brian?' George Michael: 'Go to Mexico.' Michael: 'What's that?' George Michael: 'Ron and Brian Go to Mexico.' Michael: 'Was the name of the game?'
Michael · George Michael:I do think that we should make a one-time exception to the rule 'Always be straight with everyone,' hmm? I mean, honesty is always the best policy, but... / It's just not the only one. / It's one of a bunch.
Lucille · Michael:Not in front of the grandkids. I don't want them to know about the shady business scams that go on in this family. / We lied to investors, so we have no product and we're two million dollars in debt.
Michael · Lucille:The next welcome home party's gonna be for us. / Oh, don't be ridiculous. My name isn't on anything.
Michael:So they escaped from prison a half hour before he was gonna be legally released?
Adhir · Michael:We forgot the debt. / Basically, what we did was we absorbed everything, including you.
Michael · Adhir:And does Gob know that we're copresidents? / Gob doesn't know that there's a B in the word 'debt.'
Michael:You know, Dad, this is an electric car. So, the only thing you're killing is my battery.
Michael:Meanwhile, your mother is banging every beach rat that ever dropped out of a race.
Michael:Or Uncle Oscar did, I don't know. I lost the thread on that one.
Michael · Narrator:Boy, you have to have balls of steel to survive in a hole like that. / And the same could be said for prison.
Michael · Adhir · Gob:And $10,000 for a printer? / 10K. / Good Gob. Good K.
Gob · Michael:Well, to be fair, it's a 3-D printer. / Why do we need a 3-D printer? / Well, to be fair, it's a 3-D dental printer. / But they're worth twice what I got them to leave them here for... what do we care if it takes two and a half hours to print some molars?
Michael · Gob:Can you just get me a copy of the receipt? / Hey, you want to spend a couple hundred bucks on a 3-D receipt, I'll have it printed and in your mouth before sunset.
Michael · Gob:Where are you getting your capital? / Capital money.
Michael · Gob:I'm just here to help. I'm not going to trump you. / Oh, well, Michael, don't worry, 'cause I already went there. / ♪ Balls in the air... ♪
Michael · Gob:You know, the easy choice would be to quit. / There it is. / We've got an opportunity to save the company... / I quit.
Michael:I shouldn't have called it the easy choice.
Michael · George Michael:Michael finds George Michael in his old bedroom throwing a tennis ball against the wall — and the description of missing the ball as a metaphor for self-recrimination
Michael · George Michael:The Smile Maker dental printer prints 'Gated Community' file with everything rendered in teeth — 'That explains that toothbrush next to the warning sign'
Michael · George Michael:'And you see how they spelled "byte" without a y.' / 'No, this is for dentists.'
Michael:Michael: 'This is why you have a billion-dollar software company and your old man has to hit "popcorn" on the microwave any time I want to heat something up.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael explains how to use the microwave; Michael insists 'mine does not work that way' then immediately pivots to 'popcorn sounds good, let's go make some'
Michael:'But popcorn sounds good. Let's go make some of that.'
Michael:Michael tells George Michael: 'You're dating the girl of my dreams. Your dreams. You know what I meant — my dreams are your dreams.'
Michael:Michael on spending 5.5 weeks at 'the Search campus' and texting with one hand as proof of tech competence
Michael · George Michael:George Michael's rousing 'The Bluth boys, we find a way. We're winners.' immediately followed by 'Hey, so, non sequitur, what do you know about bankruptcy?'
Michael · George Michael:'And... open your eyes.' / 'Was I supposed to close them?'
Michael · George Michael:Michael and George Michael reminisce about their dream of working together: 'Have lunch together, work out in the late afternoon... drive home together, shower up, grab dinner, PJs on, teeth brushed... a little kiss good night and off to bed.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'I'm not sure it's a good idea... I'm feeling anxious as it is.' / Michael: 'This is just gonna be great, isn't it? It's gonna be so much fun!'
Michael · George Michael:The 3D dental printer has printed the 'Gated Community' file — and it comes out as a map made entirely of teeth
Narrator · Michael:The printer is so slow that the narrator explains 'the speed of the printer made it very clear why Two Hour Teeth went out of business'
Michael · George Michael:Visual gag: Michael and George Michael impatiently watching the printer crawl, cutting to them shouting 'Come on! Come on!'
Michael · George Michael:The printer finally finishes and the map has 'Make Background Tongue' enabled, producing a map of a tongue instead of a border wall
Michael:Michael presents his wall evidence: 'This was a file on a computer drive called Gated Community.'
Michael · Lucille:'This is a border wall between Mexico and America.' / 'That doesn't look like a mouth to you?'
Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:'There's Chinese Romneys?' / 'No, the only Romneys are the Mexican Romneys.' / 'Well, and the regular Romneys.'
George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:'The Mexican Romney said no refundo.' / 'They're Chinese.' / 'There's Chinese Romneys?' / 'No, the only Romneys are the Mexican Romneys.' / 'Well, and the regular Romneys.'
Michael · George Sr.:Michael's advice: 'You made a mistake. You lost the money. You feel bad. Nothing you can do. You hope they understand.' / 'I have no idea what you're talking about.'
George Sr. · Michael:'This generation. They go to one therapy session, and all of a sudden their parents are terrible people, because they once sold tract homes to... God, who even remembers now?' / 'Saddam Hussein.' / 'Yeah. So... I mean, something like that.'
Narrator · Michael:Michael 'got off on his son's floor, which he claimed was a force of habit'
Michael · George Michael:The paycheck from the banana stand turns out to be made out to 'George Michael' as a 'topping' — 'Payment of two drums of dried George Michael. A cocoa-based, non-digestive colorant.'
Michael · George Michael:'There's always money in the banana stand.' / 'Right. Where is that from? Is that from something?'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael notices the banana stand income never appears in the books — which leads to discovering the Cayman Islands check
George Michael · Michael:'That's an island. This is a check from the Cayman Islands.'
Michael:Michael tries to reclaim the Cayman Islands check: 'But, uh, give it to me. It's not even for you. It's for toppings.'
Michael:Michael narrates to himself: 'Where are you, banana stand money?'
Michael:Michael finds the 'there's always money in the banana stand' inscription — then concludes: 'That's gotta be from South Park.'
Michael:Michael on his mother's sudden warmth: 'That's what's off.'
George Sr. · Michael:George Sr. claims he 'dug a little bit deeper and found some extra capital' — Michael asks how much; scene is interrupted before the answer lands
Michael · George Michael · Narrator:Michael anticipates George Michael's disappointment about Fakeblock — 'as George Michael prepared himself for his father's disappointment' — and then Michael erupts: 'You what? That's so great!'
Michael · George Michael:'Mr. Big Business, sold your company. How do you feel?' / 'To be honest, I feel incredibly relieved... We had to pay off the employees, and the bank took the rest of it, but I'm glad I'm back at zero.'
Michael:Michael bought Fakeblock through 'B.S. Enterprises' — which stands for 'Banana Stand' but is also 'Bullshit' and 'Bluth and Son'
Michael:'I bought you! I had to use a shell company because I knew you were gonna give me a discount, and I wasn't gonna have that.'
Michael:'I'm not gonna get involved in any of that tech stuff, even though I did spend that couple of months at the Search campus. But I'm not gonna start coding, 'cause if Fakeblock doesn't work, we lose both companies for good.'
Michael:'You thought it was over. Look how emotional he is, huh?... Listen, that's why I stepped in. Fakeblock ain't going nowhere.'
Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:The episode's escalating 'mildly displeased' callback — Michael says he's 'mildly displeased' echoing Dusty's warning; George Sr. says 'they will be mildly displeased'; everyone uses the phrase
Michael:'You just can't say I made a good decision. Dad, I'm mildly displeased about something. This. This is what I spent your money on. Look at him.'
Michael:'Dad, I'm mildly displeased about something.' — Michael uses the exact phrase to his father in a completely different (minor) context
Gob · George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:'Wait till you find out who the new president is.' / 'Oh, no.' / 'Did somebody say, Wait until you find out who the president is? Yes, but then we figured it out, and your father said, Oh, no.' — Gob's revised entrance
Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:'So we've got $3 million tied up in something Gob's in charge of?' / 'Maybe we could just hire him, like, a really good assistant.' / 'One step ahead of you.'
Michael · Oscar:Oscar re-emerges: 'Well, look who finally decided to show up. Steve McQueen from The Great Escape.' / 'I take it you saw the unwanted posters?' / 'Yes, and I got the hint. No one was chasing after me.'
George Sr. · Michael:Well, Buster doesn't know what the hell he's talking about! / I think Buster was actually talking about Mom.
Michael · Gob:You bought me a dorky, lame, stupid, gay magic kit? / What? No. This is for me.
Michael · Gob:Does it come with that bird? / No, I gotta get a bird. But I'll get a bird.
Michael:Mom tightened it when he tried to put that starfish in his mouth.
Michael:'Yeah, but he's had a good summer. He's made friends.'
Michael:Is anybody else worried she's ruining us?
Buster · Michael · George Sr. · Lucille:Take that back! You take that back! We're normal! We're normal! / Okay. Down, down. / Easy, Buster. Easy, boy. / Sit.
Lucille · Michael · George Sr.:Magic is for girls. / And your bird's gonna die, Michael. / And when it does, it'll go back to... whence it came. / Back to whence it came.
Michael · Lucille:Mom, you had him on a leash until he was six. / Well, if that leash screwed him up so badly, why does he still want to wear it?
Tobias · Lucille · Michael:A young, one-armed, Iraq War vet suffering from PTSD, raised by a young mother who had him at 17, whose only flaw was that... she loved him... too much. / Actually, I was 37. / Well, no one would believe that.
Lucille · George Sr. · Michael:We want the best. / Well, how are we gonna pay for that? We don't have any money. It's all tied up in Fakeblock. Thanks, Michael.
George Sr. · Michael:'Get us back on our feet.' / They're... They're threatening our feet?
Guilty Guys · Michael:The Guilty Guys' first week of 'leaving no stone unturned' consists entirely of ruling out Ann Veal — for $7,000
Michael:I mean, Jesus Christ, $7,000 to find out that Ann Veal had nothing to do with Buster's case?
George Michael · Michael:You sold the company? / A little. / You can't sell a company a little. That's like saying you're a little bit tired. / You don't think you can be a little bit tired?
Michael · George Michael:'It's over now? A little.' — George Michael's 'a little' callback
George Michael · Michael · George Sr.:Well, you know, I'd be careful of promising even a little. You know, some people, you give them an inch, and they take... / A foot. / They're threatening our feet? Is it a foot now? They shortened it.
George Michael · Michael:'Some people, you give them an inch, and they take... A foot.' — George Michael's callback
Michael · George Michael:I don't want to talk about it, okay? / What? / Why don't you go back downstairs and get to work on that software floor? / Shut the door on the way out.
Michael · Narrator:Just no rush on the software, but just... ASAP. Chop, chop. / Well, not 'chop, chop,' not... That's a bad choice of words. For Christ's sake.
George Sr. · Michael:That's what I'd do if it were one of my kids. / Did you want me to fire him for you? / No. That's nice of you. / I mean, it's not... It's not nice. Sorry.
Unknown Speechwriter · Michael:It's hard to find one where the wall builder isn't, you know, starved to death by his own wall, or dies of loneliness by his own wall. Or, of course, is crushed to death by his own wall. / Yeah. We don't want to blow the ending anyway. / Ah. Then you'll hate the one about the honeybee.
Michael:In a modern world where there are certainly more threats greater than a 34-year-old hard-working migrant hoping to send money home to feed his wife and three young... future rapists.
Michael:Of course, I'm talking about the threat of cyber.
Michael:We meant to do this, folks, so nobody was deceived.
Michael · Gob:I had a shovel for you. / No, it's okay. I wanted to come in hot, make a show of it. / God, did you see the look on their faces? / Just when you said two weeks to the unveiling. / Right? / And when you turned and went after them.
George Michael · Michael:George Michael fires Michael — 'You're fired.' / 'You have more shares than me, so you could fire me.' / 'I just did.'
Michael:I was hoping to stall for six, but your uncle announced an unveiling in two weeks.
Michael · George Michael:I can tell you what your grandmother would do. Um... / You're fired. / She does go right there, but obviously I don't think that you would go that far. / You have more shares than me, so you could fire me. / I just did.
Lucille · Michael:Family pageant critique: 'A little more Magnum, PI, a little less Higgins'
Lucille · Michael:Stan Sitwell's eyebrow: 'Oh, for God sakes. Is that Stan Sitwell's eyebrow? I... I just told him he didn't leave it here!'
Guilty Guy lawyer · Judge · George Sr. · Lucille · Michael:Guilty Guys plead 'guilty' for Buster
Judge Spencer Stanley · Michael:Judge's speech interrupted: 'it is not often in the course of a jurisprudence career that a judge has the... I want to say privilege...' / 'Sorry. Did... Did they say guilty?'
Michael:Michael: 'They're gonna do one of their slimy cheat-the-system shortcuts that never works instead of postponing the trial?'
Michael:Michael: 'I even had to use my show business connections to get a film crew to rent out the cottage for a couple of days... and that was the real payment, just to see her reaction to a boom operator standing on her bed, it was worth it.'
Michael:Allegedly.
Michael · Narrator:Michael has been ignoring Lucille 2's calls, believing she disappeared — then realizes the voicemails are all about the same topic and erases them: 'Uh, I guess I erased them. Yeah, fine. Sure, we'll try it your way.'
Michael · Lucille · Gob:Visual gag: Michael performs a magic/juggling act with confetti coming from his hat, and Lucille asks 'But where did the confetti come from?' — 'From Michael's hat. Honestly, these are so easy.'
Lucille · Michael:The prosecutor cut her hair and the Bluths whisper: 'Does she look rattled to you?'
Lucille · Lottie · Michael:Prosecutor praises 'the most charitable, vibrant, balanced, beautiful woman named Lucille this town has ever known' — Lucille Bluth snorts 'Burn,' then clarifies: 'It's just that my mother's name is Lucille as well, so the burn was on her.'
Michael:Michael: 'Oh, my God, he's a motherboy.' — realizing Dusty is the son version of what Buster is
Lucille · Michael:Lucille: 'All right. I made an awful choice, but did I give you a hard time when you gave all our life rights to Imagine Films to make some TV show?' Michael: 'Yes, you did.' Lucille: '...That was somewhat amiss of you.'
Michael:Michael's assessment of Lucille's bet on the DA calling a mistrial: 'She offered him gum.'
Michael:Michael: 'I don't think I have heard you apologize since... since people used to use that phrase to apologize.'
Michael:Michael: 'It occurs to me that he may not come back from recess unless he hears a bell. I'll get him.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael says he's 'free now so I'm gonna try to help out in court' and George Michael notes he found 'A Copy of A Few Good Men.' Michael: 'Look at that. How'd that get there?' Then reveals he's looking for his maritime law diploma as proof he passed 'what they call the wet bar.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'The drop stairs were down, and you were yelling, "Where is it?"' Michael: 'Oh, that helps, too.'
George Michael · Michael:George Michael listing all the ways Michael has inserted himself: 'You dated my girlfriend. You moved into my dorm room. You bought my business.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael and Michael discover that Fakeblock actually exists (sort of) — Michael tries the software and says: 'I cannot even get past the logo, so you're close.'
Michael · George Michael:Michael thinks George Michael is saying Rebel isn't over him; George Michael clarifies: 'No, Fakeblock. It's fake. There is no privacy software. I made the whole thing up.'
Michael:Michael: 'I do wish that I had not removed all of my privacy software and replaced it with Fakeblock, but on the other hand, it does explain why Pemender from Kuala Lumpur keeps signing into my LinkedIn.'
Michael · George Michael:George Michael: 'The Chinese are gonna kill us.' Michael: 'I'll get us out of it.' George Michael: 'Please don't.'
Michael:I think. I, uh... I... I, uh...