Arrested Development (TV series)/Recap/S1/E01 Pilot: Difference between revisions

At the party, when Michael's moment finally comes, he discovers that the person his father was intending to make a partner was ''not'' himself, but his mother. However, his disappointment is short lived, as right after the family gets together for a group portrait, the SEC closes in on George Sr. and arrests him for embezzlement. Michael informs his family that his father will be kept in prison, and that the family will no longer have access to the company's funds. After they react strongly to the latter (but not the former), Michael announces in disgust that he's leaving the family forever. However, after realizing that only he can keep them together, they stage an intervention- or rather, an imposition, to tell Michael to help them. Michael [[Refusal of the Call|refuses initially]], explaining that he has gotten a job in Phoenix, but reconsiders after George Michael confesses that he wishes they'd stay together, since he's been so lonely since [[Missing Mom|the death of his mother]]. The episode ends with the family gathered together around a Monopoly board, sans George Sr.- who, it turns out, is loving his new life in prison.

 

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== The pilot of ''Arrested Development'' provides examples of: ==

** George Sr. notes that he has "the worst fucking attorneys". Episodes later, we meet the family's terrible attorney, Barry Zuckercorn.

* [[Got Volunteered]]

* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Lucille's first chronological scene has her lamenting that someone has cut off the foot of her fox.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of the homosexuals on the boat is holding a sign that reads "Sailors for Seamen".

* [[How We Got Here]]: We start at the boat party, then cut to the beginning of that day.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Lucille's reaction to the homosexual protesters:

** Lindsay, at a wine-and-cheese fundraiser to "Stop the Hunger":

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The introduction to the [[Running Gag]] about Gob's "illusions".

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Maeby concocts a plan to [[Running Gag|teach their family a lesson]] about never seeing each other by kissing George Michael in front of their parents.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

'''Buster:''' They have boats? }}

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]:

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: Buster playing his ceremonial drum as Michael tells Tobias, Lindsay, and Lucille that they're going to have to fend for themselves.

* [[Man On Fire]]: Lucille say that everything homosexuals do is so flamboyant it makes her want to set herself on fire.

* [[Missing Mom]]: George Michael wishes his family would stay together because it's been kind of lonely since his mom died.

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Michael initially refuses to help the family.

* [[Rimshot]]: Heard after George Sr. tells his family "it's a party, not a shareholders' meeting".

* [[Squick]]: "Sounds like you saved enough skin to make ten new boys."

* [[Stealth Insult]]: Michael's ''first line''.

'''Michael:''' You can't just comb that out and reset it? }}

* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]:

* [[The Other Darrin]]: T-Bone is depicted as a fairly slender guy in the [[Next Episode Preview]] at the end. T-Bone in the next episode looks completely different.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Buster, reading a map: "Obviously, this blue part here is the land."

 

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