Ok, hm? Michael and Portia deRossi are brother and sister, right, and those are their respective kids? Or what did I miss?
This is an obvious one, but my father almost peed himself at the scene where the jailed dad made a yarmulke out of part of his shoe.
It was often suspected that Maeby was adopted. As it turns out, Lindsay was adopted. Her natural father was Sitwell (Ed Begley Jr.). Wouldn’t that have made her Christine Taylor’s sister? Anyway, when Lindsay found out, when she was fighting with Lucille, she proudly and defiantly announced “I’m going to marry Michael!”
Well, I finally got THAT joke.
How about Maeby’s alter ego, Shirley.
Maybe. Surely.
-Joe
Here’s the video I mentioned earlier: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GNv6-HlMVuw
And the yacht that they had (before GOB made it disappear) was named the “Lucille”.
I can’t point to one particular joke, but what always amazes me when I go back and watch the episodes is how incredibly common the incest jokes are. George Michael and Maeby, Michael and Nellie, Maeby and Steve Holt, Michael and Maeby, George Michael and Lindsay, Michael and Lindsay, Buster and Lucille (2).
I don’t think this is entirely accurate. The Bluth’s only adopted Lindsay to spite (and out-humanitarian) Sitwell, who was going to adopt her otherwise.
I was watching “Afternoon Delight” today, which features a big joke about Michael and Maeby and then Lindsey and George Michael, singing the song together, getting to lines like “and the thought of rubbin’ you is getting so exciting,” and getting very embarrassed.
Here’s another delayed-action joke: when Buster is supposed to report to the Army, he (according to the narration) “got hooked on the claw-grab game” at the arcade. What did he win? Among other things, a stuffed seal, of course.
Oh, and before the adoption plot, there was the issue of Maeby’s genetic parentage - after Tobias mentioned, “And then we couldn’t conceive . . .” but got distracted, George Michael asked Lucille about it and she said, “She’s not real - they made her in a cup, like soup.”
Not quite as good as the VW commercial reference, in the episode where GOB takes Lucille II out to dinner, Will Arnett reads the menu in his voiceover voice. I don’t know it, but there probably there’s a specific commercial that he did for a restaurant; he’s done a fair amount of voiceover work and it was recognizable when he did it.
Oh my God. That is hilarious!
Thanks! I feel I should buy the DVDs and learn everything I can. 
That’s a great scene. (“No, go that way. It can’t look like we’re together.”) There’s also the time that Lindsay tells George Michael that she’d be happy to fill the role that he wants Miss Barely to fill, thinking that it means being motherly, rather than being his lover. And Maeby blurts out “Marry Me!” to Michael at least once.
“Chicken Fingers”
wiggles fingers
“With club sauce”
GOB is great. Remember when he’s doing a magic trick with cards? “And he showers her with Diamonds! Or clubs. Covers her with club sauce!”
Also the scene with GOB trying to figure out what is allowed with Atkins.
“Macaroni…let me finish, salad”
And Buster and Lucille I. And a vacuum cleaner. There was also Lucille and Oscar.
And let’s not forget Jason and Justine Bateman. She was great in that role. She blew me.
Away.
It wasn’t until recently that I got Ann’s name. She was fat (though I didn’t think so), like a veal.
What I didn’t get the first time around was when Ann and GM were protesting the movie Dangerous Cousins, GM’s protest sign said “It’s a gray area at best.”
Still, where’d the lighter fluid come from?
“I think George Michael is hiding Anne in the attic.”
“From who, the Nazis?”
Besides this line being downright funny by itself, I really enjoyed how proud Lindsay’s looked after she said it.
I like her yearbook picture - Her nickname is listed as “Egg,” (Michael’s name for her), she’s in the math club, and her quote is, “We were supposed to have a quote?” But best is that under her picture it says, “Ann Veal (Not Pictured).”
“The printed a retraction in the spring supplement.”
On the poster for Les Cousins Dangereux:
“A relative masterpiece of complex eroticism.” - Tim Goodman, SF Chronicle.
As an aside, I heard the song **The Final Countdown ** on the car radio a few days ago. All I could think of was Gob dancing around with a knife between his teeth. It made me laugh.
I ALWAYS think of GOB when I hear that music now.
More incest jokes - Operation Hot Mother and Operation Hot Brother, both courtesy of Buster.
-Joe