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* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Subverted: she's actually a {{spoiler|'''M'''entally '''R'''etarded '''F'''emale}}. ''Mr. F!''
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Lucille and George Sr.
* [[Narrator]]: [[Ron Howard]].▼
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** George Oscar "Gob" Bluth = John Ellis "Jeb" Bush.
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'''Tobias:''' It isn't pronounced like that.
'''Buster:''' It's not the pronunciation I was worried about. }}
▲* [[Narrator]]: [[Ron Howard]].
* [[The Not-Secret]]: Tobias' "Mrs. Featherbottom" act isn't fooling anyone. It doesn't help that it's a transparent rip-off of ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'' (with a bit of ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' thrown in).▼
* [[Not Blood Related]]: George Michael desperately looks for evidence that he and Maeby are [[Not Blood Related]]. In the end, it turns out that {{spoiler|they're not... because Lindsay isn't}}.
** Also, the Bluth's "uncle" Jack Bullet, who they ''exclusively'' refer to throughout the episode as as "Fake Uncle Jack", likely because a major plot point of the episode is {{spoiler|his sexual desire for Lindsay}}.
*** "...and remember, he's ''not really their uncle.''"
▲* [[The Not-Secret]]: Tobias' "Mrs. Featherbottom" act isn't fooling anyone. It doesn't help that it's a transparent rip-off of ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'' (with a bit of ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' thrown in).
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Lucille Bluth's best friend/social rival is Lucille Austero, played by Liza Minnelli. When the name confusion is not being [[Played for Laughs]], the show refers to her as Lucille Austero, or Lucille Two. To a lesser degree, there's a bit of a theme with the names of most of the male Bluths. There's George Sr, Oscar, George Oscar (GOB), Michael, and George Michael. The only one to escape this is Buster.
** Tobias also has a brief relationship with a Transvestite(which he believes to be female) bodybuilder named Michael.
** There is, however, only one Steve.
*** STEVE HOLT!!!
* [[The Only Way They Will Learn]]: Extreme "lessons" are a theme of the series, from Maeby's [[Kissing Cousins]] scheme to the lessons the Bluth children learned at the hands of J. Walter Weatherman.▼
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Michael Bluth is all too aware of this trope.
▲* [[The Only Way They Will Learn]]: Extreme "lessons" are a theme of the series, from Maeby's [[Kissing Cousins]] scheme to the lessons the Bluth children learned at the hands of J. Walter Weatherman.
* [["On the Next..."]]: subverted; they're almost always one-off jokes based on hanging plot threads of the episode they accompany. Of course, there ''are'' a few [[Double Subversion|Double Subversions]] where the preview is actually true...
* [[Outdated Outfit]]: Lupe's hand-me-down jumpers
* [[Parental Sexuality Squick]]: Comes up a lot, considering Lucille's considerable libido.▼
* [[Parent with New Paramour]]: Played with throughout the series with each of Michael's new love interests.
** They have one of the major obstacles to Michael forming a new relationship being fear about the effect it might have on his son, even though George Michael tends to approve and be encouraging.
▲* [[Parental Sexuality Squick]]: Comes up a lot, considering Lucille's considerable libido.
* [[Person as Verb]]: ''"Don't go all Michael on me."''
* [[Police Brutality]]: A running gag in which George Sr. or Oscar (or one disguised as or mistaken for the other) gets tackled by police and one officer clubs him on the head with a nightstick.
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