Uh, no, it really started last season (I thought she was bloomin’ plenty in the pilot).
But her, uh, face certainly looks older.
Hey, I applaud them for finding an actual 14 year old, though it makes my crush on her feel all the more wrong. Maybe if she, Bend it Like Beckam era Keira Knightley, and the girl would plays Hermoine had a mud wrestling match… Jailbait thread. There’s a thought.
Anyway, I taped this episode as I was out during the original airing and I had to rewind the first scene with the Charlie Brown Xmas music about five times before my brain would accept that I just saw a dog laying ontop of its doghouse a la Snoopy. I also appreciated GOB musical choice when he was being buried (Europe’s Final Coutdown).
I must have missed an episode. Who is the Asian boy that pops up at random?
Who? Annyong? He’s the Korean boy that Lucille adopted because Buster wouldn’t eat his vegetables.
That’s Annyong, the Bluth child adopted from Korea.
Final Countdown is a trademark for GOB…he also used it when he “disappeared” the Bluth yacht last season.
Annyong obviously never came back from seeing the Star War. 
Goddamn, I love this show. I mean, just think of the absurdity of that answer, and how it’s just…well…accepted.
I love it.
Annyong isn’t his name, BTW, it’s the Korean word for hello. Which is why whenever anyone says what they think is the boy’s name, he politely responds “Annyong” and the show provides a subtitle: “Hello.”
–Cliffy
I love how forgettable Ann is
Michael to Ann: I wasn’t sure you’d get my message.
Ann: It wasn’t a message, we had a convesation.
I almost feel sorry for the actress playing Ann…
“It’s as Anne as the plain on her face.” 
Now whenever I hear that song I will always think of GOB on stage with a knife in his mouth waving playing cards around in front of a purple curtain.
“Illusions, dad. Tricks are something a whore does.”
This is actually the only thing that even remotely bothers me about the show. If he were really a Korean boy saying hello to his new parents, he wouldn’t say, “Annyong.” That’s like a slap in the face to his new parents. He would say, “Annyong-hasaeyo,” the more formal version you use to speak to your elders and anybody else you’re supposed to show respect to. He’d only say “annyong” to people in his age group or younger.
Aside from that, I almost choked to death on my ice cube when I heard the Charlie Brown music and then saw the beagle on the dog house. I also love how you can still see the blue paint all over the house. Man, what a great show. It’s so far above and beyond almost everything else on right now that my television actually weeps digital tears when I force it to show me something else.
Not only blue paint, there was also the hole in the wall half hidden by the bookshelf.
In the scene where George senior does the snoopy walk in Panama, theres a Telephone and the word
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written on the wall behind him. The camera seems to focus just a bit too long on that shot, does it have any significance I’m not getting?
This always bugged me because in the first season they always played it straight. Even though everything else was so real, we were expected to believe Buster was a weirdo because his mother was pregnant for 11 months.
And the way they treat Ann also really bugs me. In her first epsiode I don’t think she spoke and she was just a fat girl across the room. But now that they’ve focused on her she seems cute and funny and if George Michael can’t have Maeby, what’s wrong with this girl? The whole thing just seems odd.
Of course, I can’t wait for the episode when George Michael and Maeby realize they’re perfect for each other.
You all know it’s going to happen! 
What was hinted at in last season’s finale: Annyong and George Michael be rivals for Maeby’s affections.
Cockblocking. Always classy humor.
I’m still waiting for Annyong’s control of the Bluth empire because he’s secreyly 18 to factor in…
How Michael treats Ann is just hilarious. They forget her in Mexico. Michael forgets he talks to her. And seems so dissapointed when George Michael says they are getting back together (or that he is really liking her). Brilliant!
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the single funniest exchange in the episode (dare I say the season?):
“George Michael’s hiding Anne in the attic.”
“From who, the Nazis?”
I had to pause it because my roommate and I fell down laughing for ten minutes.
The show was in danger last season, but especially after the Emmy, FOX has started promoting the hell out of it (notice that they’ve also moved it to after The Simpsons?). I don’t think FOX would be quick to pull the plug even if it’s struggling, it sounds like they actually want it to work.
Thank God it won that Emmy :D.
But Annyong doesn’t give a flop. He’s not respectful and doesn’t wish to be; Lucille’s just his patsy.
–Cliffy