Arrested to Arrested Development: 115 - Staff Infection

 "No teaching!"



After almost an entire season of running around causing misbehavior and not actually making any genuine contribution to the working world, yet still somehow making money, the Bluth family finally gets to some real work.

  Michael, literally being the glue holding the family together (as the intro credits always remind us), is a strong, bold individual indeed for having not snapped at the fact that almost every member in his family is a useless waste of air. I say that lovingly of course, but with his family being so dumb, misguided and lazy you'd wonder why the guy hasn't taken his son and walked out yet... As for a true family guy, Michael realizes what we realize... That it's the essence of family that holds them all together, something they've been holding on to no matter how rough the going gets and here, the going gets really rough.

  Michael finds himself in a string of incidents where members of his family come to him for money or they reveal they're making money without actually earning it, a trait that would become a trope on this show, and so Michael Bluth puts his foot down. He doesn't snap, but he puts everyone to work.

  By putting Lindsay in Kitty's position as the primary secretary and putting Gob and Buster out in construction, the family lasts only so long before things get out of hand.

  Let us not forget Tobias' version of "work" getting himself imprisoned, with the assistance of James Lipton, to study fellow prisoners as motivation for his upcoming role as "Frightened Inmate #2." It continues to amuse me that Tobias, being the brother in law, is the outcast of the family. While Buster is the re-run, it continues to be Tobias who seems so distanced from the family he both cares about and abandons so dearly.

And while Gob tries to make a chicken out of Buster...


"Chickens don't clap!"


The Seinfeld moment of the week goes to Lindsay in the following string of events:
  • Michael finds out Lucille is receiving income from Michael's job
  • Michael gives Lupe, Lucille's maid, the day off
  • Lupe plans on meeting her family at the Bluth parking lot for a family reunion
  • Michael puts Lindsay in charge so he can spend time with his son
  • Lindsay tells the sheepish employees (we'll get to sheepish in a moment) she's taking them out to lunch
  • Employees get in the bus, reserved for Lupe's family, waiting for them in the parking lot
  • Lindsay finds Lupe's family in the parking lot, assuming they're mexican laborers
  • Lindsay brings Lupe's family to break up the "chicken fight" by threatening to use these "Mexicans who are willing to work," if they aren't.

This made for a real staff infection indeed, for both sheepish employees and the sheepish family.

Oh, and this also marks the first appearance of Buster's traumatizing sheep incident.



But let us point out the absolute highlight of the episode as we learn a new valuable lesson in Orange County prison...
White Power Bill: I got worse plans for you if you keep trying to convert my team.
George Sr.: Okay, hold on. Hold it now, hold it. Now I'm doing no such thing and both of our religions have a lot to offer. There's the Jewish notion of heaven, and that it can be obtained here on earth, and there is your belief in the cleansing power of the pipe.
White Power Bill: No more teaching from you!
George Sr.: No teaching! No teaching!

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