Anyone catch it last night? I think I laughed harder than I have all season. I especially like any conversation or situation involving Buster.
Michael makes a toast to the relationships around the room:
Michael: To Buster and Lucille!
Buster: And my girlfriend!
Michael: Yeah that’s who I meant buddy.
Especially his mom’s interference in his and the other Lucille’s relationship…
Lucille (Bluth): Guess who’s coming to dinner? (as she comes around the corner with Carl Weathers)
Lucille: Oh my, do you like ham?
Carl: No, I love it! (Everyone laughs, Buster looks on nervously)
I was really rolling when Buster walked out on his mom and dragged a sloppy bundle of his belongings across the hall to Lucille’s apartment. Carl (who has been talking about stew over the whole episode) answers.
(all paraphrased)
Buster: Carl Weathers? What are you doing here?
Carl: We’re not doing anything wrong, just two adults gettin’ a stew on.
Buster: Ok, I don’t know what that means.
Other random quotes from the show:
Lindsey (to Maeby): Look, I know you got a “crocodile” in spelling, but… (the narrator had just explained that Maeby’s old school was a little odd)
Lucille Bluth: Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire.
The show was too painful to watch. Between poor George Michael and Michael I was so embarassed that I had to hide my face.
Tobias, the Nevernude, a pathology not yet recognized by the DSM-IV, is going to have to do a prison shower scene. Brilliant!
I saw the briefest clip of De Rossi commenting on drama vs. comedy and she said something to the effect that comedy is much more rewarding because in the end, you get a laugh.
I have to say, this week’s episode made me realize that this is the funniest show I’ve seen in a really long time. It is damned funny. I started watching it mainly because David Cross was on it, but I think everyone’s at a really high level on AD, not just him. Did you catch George Sr.'s infomercial for his motivational tapes, Caged Wisdom? Awesome. I think the crocodile bit was from last week, wasn’t it?
I love this show. Several laugh out loud lines and scenes in every episode. In addition to the ones already mentioned about last night, I got a big kick out of…
Lindsey (to Maeby when she moved into her room)
paraprased – We’re going to be a little more normal here. George Micheal will be sleeping with my husband.
The scene where Lucille Bluthe realizes the joy of living alone was perfect.
I loved the episode where one of Gob’s pigeons got loose in his mom’s house, and Buster was trying to wack it with a broom. “It walked on my pillow!”
Lindsay driving the Bluth stair car thing was hilarous. Michael warns, “Watch out for climb-ons. You will get climb-ons.” She proceeds to take it to the prison to visit her father, parking it near the wall. Immediately criminals proceed to run up the stairs and over the wall.
Every word that George Michael says to Maeby is classic.
George: “Whatcha doing?”
Maeby: (something bizarre)
George Michael: “Cool!” (it doesn’t translate well to text, but the shakiness in his voice whever he speaks to her is hilarious)
Maeby buys a bunch of leather to piss off her mom. Tobias notices, and goes out to buy some too in a feeble attempt to bond with her. At the store:
Tobias: “I’m looking for something that says ‘Daddy Likes Leather.’”
Clerk: “You mean leather daddy?”
Tobias: “Yes!”
One of George Senior’s earlier inventions was the “Corn Baller”, a dangerously hot-to-the-touch device that makes some kind of cornbread balls out of wads of dough. A few people were using it at one point, and Lucille was concerned that Buster was getting left out, and misremembering the name of the device somewhat.
“Everyone’s laughing, and riding, and cornholing except Buster.”
On a related note, from last night’s episode while Buster was arguing with his mother. He sniffed, and she grabbed a tissue and pressed it to his nose.
“Blow!”
“Mother! I can blow myself!”
Oh man. That storyline just kept getting funnier.
Tobias(in the “leather daddy” outfit"): “To the Gothic Castle, please.”
Cab driver (thick Cockney accent): “Th’ Gothic Asshole?”
Tobias: “That’s what I said.”
The repeated use of the one-armed man by George Sr. to teach his children a lesson. “That’s why you don’t distract your father while he’s driving!” Ending with the great “That’s why you don’t teach lessons!”
lol yeah he’s awesome. “And that’s why you don’t teach people lessons!”
I liked earlier in that episode when Michael was inquiring about him:
Michael: “So where is this one-armed guy?”
Dad: “You killed him when you left the door open while the air-conditioner was on.”
I gotta start watching this again. I stopped when the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm started. But hell, I can watch the encore of CYE on Monday.
Between CYE on HBO and AD on Fox, Sunday at 9:30 p.m. EST is the funniest half-hour on television…evar!
Only loosely related: In graduate school one of my profs was grading our quizzes with smiley or frownie faces. One of the guys in the class totally screwed up this quiz and he knew it, so he put his own frownie face on the top of his quiz. When he got it back, the prof had merely written “Yup” with an arrow pointing to the frownie face. Good times.
Just a great, great show. I fear for its future, since it’s impossible to describe and the plots are so complex that it’s hard to get people to watch. But I love it.
Maybe to try and avoid being typecast in the future. Ole Carl hasn’t had a great movie career as of late- as far as I can tell Predator (love the chessy clip from it BTW) was the last decent thing he has been in. Always good to show another side. Besides, maybe they have a good craft table!
