Arrested to Arrested Development: 119 - Best Man For the Gob

"Gilligan killed the skipper--I mean, stripper!"

It is absolutely no secret that I tend to fall for the episodes where fast paced events take place, secrets and dastardly plots are whispered and lies and betrayal create plans that ultimately fail on a large scale... But then again, those tropes are nothing new to a show like Arrested Development.

  It's very reminiscent to Pier Pressure in the sense in that it's related to a secret operation, many players involved, including Buster, who help ruin the operation and an involvement of male strippers dressed up as policemen... and other guests.

Great moments include:

"Annyong"


























Michael's office being either too cold or too hot...














And essentially, the breakdown of the plot and highlight of the episode is as follows:
  • Gob is to have a bachelor party for his new marriage with Amy Pohler.
  • Gob picks Papa Bluth, not Michael, as his best man.
  • Papa Bluth wishes to take down Ira Gilligan, whom he believes is plotting against him and the company.
  • Gob strategically places a narcoleptic stripper in a giant cake, to which he plots to frame a murder on Gilligan when the "dead stripper" is exposed.
  • Buster craves a sugar rush when he gets a hold of Annyong's juice...
  • ...But it's not enough of a rush so he drinks the two buckets of fake blood, made from "juice," used to frame Ira.
  • ...Which is still not enough, so Buster heads to the back room where he digs into the cake where the narcoleptic stripper is revealed

  • The events inconsequently don't go according to plan when the framed murder doesn't get Ira to flee the country.
  • And Michael, the true best man, helps Gob realize it was a terrible idea from the start.

Oh, and Tobias attempts to revamp his hippie Funke family band, to which a desperate George Michael and a love struck Amy Pohler back him up with Lindsay and Tobias ditch the singing.

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