Arrested Development: What are your favorite moments so far?

[quixotic78]

(Just an aside: it’s really difficult to offer a synopsis of one gag, because it runs through so many scenes!)

Michael needs a favor from Gob – I forget what, but it’s not important. Earlier, Michael had denied Gob a giant banana from the Banana Stand, so Gob had to resort to buying a candied apple. Gob bites the candied apple, and cracks his tooth, resulting in a whistle whenever he says an “s.” So anyway, Michael is asking Gob for a favor, and it goes something like this…

G: I have two conditionsssss(whistle)… two termssssss(whistle)… one condition and one term!
M: [Always the perfect straightman] Let’s hear the term first
G: I get a double-dipped banana I want, whenever I want
M: Fine. And the condition?
G: I retain all rightsssss(whistle) to Mr. Banana Grabber, a Hamburgler-type character
M: Okay, but we’re back to single-dipped banana, and I retain animation rights.
G: Deal! (They shake hands). I can’t BELIEVE I gave up animation rights!

Later, Michael is giving a ride to a person he thinks is his mother’s housekeeper but isn’t (see what I mean about this show being hard to summarize?). She doesn’t speak English, so he’s kind of rambling on to himself.

M: Would he be someone who steals bananas? Or would he be a banana himself? Why would a banana want to steal other bananas? That’s not something I even want to think about!

Later in the episode, Lindsey is berating Michael for how awfully he treated Gob:

L: And even after he let you have animation rights to his Mr. Banana Grabber character!
M: What do you guys do, go to a chat room??

Finally, “On the next Arrested Development,” Gob is watching TV, and an animated banana on a Segueway rolls up, says, “Look over there, a sssss(whistle)eal!” and then swipes a banana away from a small rodent and eats it. Cut to:

Gob: [pissed] I can’t BELIEVE I gave up animation rights!

I don’t do it justice, naturally, but still – hee!

I also like the part where the Bluths are at a party and start chanting “SPEECH! SPEECH!” Of course, nobody gives a speech

Oh! And when Gob is president and he turns a dollar into pennies, and the board members scramble across the table to collect them.

So much other good stuff, but I’ve gotta get back to work.

[Smeghead]

@quixotic78

Finally, “On the next Arrested Development,” Gob is watching TV, and an animated banana on a Segueway rolls up, says, “Look over there, a sssss(whistle)eal!” and then swipes a banana away from a small rodent and eats it. Cut to:

Gob: [pissed] I can’t BELIEVE I gave up animation rights!

I don’t do it justice, naturally, but still – hee!

And isn’t the seal a reference to the “loose seal” that got Buster’s hand?

Oh! And when Gob is president and he turns a dollar into pennies, and the board members scramble across the table to collect them.

It’s better than that - he turns a HUNDRED dollar bill into a hundred pennies.

[Slacker]

@Smeghead

And isn’t the seal a reference to the “loose seal” that got Buster’s hand?

Actually, Mr. Banana Grabber pointed out a seagull, not a seal. This was long before GOB married “Blamey,” failed at taking care of her trained seal, released him into the ocean, where the animal subsequently bit Buster’s hand off.

[middleman]

Looking at the IMDB Memorable Quotes page, I realized that I missed a funny joke. Don’t know if anyone else caught it.

Narrator: Michael was having brunch with Sally Sitwell at a restaraunt called Skip Church’s Bistro. In addition to brunch, the restaraunt was known for an item on the menu called the “Skip’s Scramble”, an omlet that contained everything on the menu. Do not order the Skip’s Scramble.

The Bistro that serves Brunch is called Skip Church’s! HA!

[AmericanMaid]

@watsonwil

Looking at the IMDB Memorable Quotes page, I realized that I missed a funny joke. Don’t know if anyone else caught it.

The Bistro that serves Brunch is called Skip Church’s! HA!

In that same episode, doesn’t Barry Zuckercorn say he’s dining at Miss Temple’s? Double ha!

[middleman]

Nice.

[Thrillhouse15]

Two that pop into my head (sorry if I mess up the words a bit, I don’t have AD memorized- yet):

The time Michael had to trick his mother to meet with the very professional lawyer by telling her there was candy in his office. As soon as she enters the office he emerges from his hiding place saying, “I have a professional obligation to tell you that there is no candy in this office.”

And when Michael was driving the woman he thought was his mother’s housekeeper. She mumbled something about being “so scared,” and Michael said, “I know that one- ‘izquierda.’ Left turn it is!”

[AllShookDown]

When Buster stowed away in the trunk of the car (to escape Army) when everyone was taking off for Mexico to look for George Sr. They stop to drop the housekeeper off at her house. Buster thinks they’re already in Mexico and gets out of the trunk and because they’re in Lupe’s Hispanic neighborhood he continues to believe he’s in Mexico.

[edwino]

My all-time favorite line is kind of a bizarre choice:

(Buster is asking GOB for permission to date Marta"
GOB: I don’t know, that would be like her going from prime rib to weird brother of prime rib.

I also love the Happy Days references: Barry’s comb “eyyy” thing in the mirror for a split second in Season 1 and his jumping of the shark in Season 2.

I love Buster after the hook, when he can’t sleep. He sees the hand chair, his stuffed seal (that he won for marksmanship), then the clock, which reads “ALARM OFF” but covers up the “AL.”

The recurring quirkiness is the best thing about the show. Rarely do they use a good gag only in one episode: Tobias’s cat like nature, Franklin, the Star Wars kid, the Aztec Tomb, Buster’s juice fetish, etc. And you never know when they are going to come back.

I just hope that they bring back Annyong from school soon. He was funny, especially in his interactions with Buster (“Fatty”).