Arrested to Arrested Development: 121 - Not Without My Daughter

"Three guys hanging out together... what could be more butch than that?"

All the season's plot lines begin to weave together, new plots are executed (some failed) and with "Bring your daughter to work day," just about everywhere, we are left with a great precursor to the end of our Arresting first season.

  After George Michael is turned down by his father in bringing him to the office for an annual "bring your daughter to work day" trans-gender joke that he just might be getting too old for...

Oh boy, Michael Cera...

...Michael instead takes Maeby, feeling her parents are irresponsible role models (and only 21 episodes later mind you), leaving George Michael with his two uncles, Gobias for the day, whom after brief debate, decide they would spend their male bonding by taking an excursion to the mall.

  At the mall, Lindsay brags how she gets away with shoplifting by trying on an outfit, incognito, and simply waltzing out of the shop without paying for it, as a magic act, obviously setting Gob off as he is on a mission to expose the "secret" to her trick.

  And after Maeby's failed attempts at tuck-and-rolling out of the stair car on the way to the Bluth office, Michael explains to her, like he did to George Michael in the beginning of the season, how important family values are.

"Family... What's better than hanging out with family?"
[Phone rings]
"Aw ****, it's my mother."

Lucille in a desperate "family emergency" reveals that she wishes for Michael to break up Buster and Annyong's dispute before Annyong's soccer game, to which Oscar, wanting to play more of a role in Lucille's life, offers to drive the family over.

  Meanwhile, at the office, Michael is interrogated for being responsible for the absence and possible death of Kitty after he had fired her and she made a scene at dinner accusing him of threatening her.

"You're the last person to have seen Kitty alive... Or dead... Ya know..."

The recurring gag this episode is that it seems that it's "Bring your daughter to work" day just about everywhere as the police officers, comically revealing little girls in adult situations.

Officer 1: "These are our daughters--Oh God, where are they!?"
Officer 2: "I'm on it!"[Immediately gets on the walkie, sprinting out of the room]

This also occurs in Orange County prison when George Michael Sr. gets a visit and as expected, encounters human interaction in the smallest form.

"No touching!"

And while Buster tells off Oscar, making him leave the family alone, after interrupting Annyong's soccer game after being called fat, it is only a forlorn Oscar who is proud of Buster standing up for himself; the only person who was proud of him the way he wished his own father was.

  The true highlight of the episode was the Gobias-George Michael combo in the mall and I'm convinced that any character who's story is attached to Gob or Tobias, will automatically be a highlight. The two are ridiculous enough, individually. But joined forces? This show has been begging for a formula of pure comedic mayhem featuring these two. This also gives some extra, non-Maeby light to George Michael's character who without the morally responsible supervision of his father, tends to obviously cause nothing but mischief under the watch of his two rebellious, goofy uncles who plot to take down Aunt Lindsay's shoplifting scheme in public... 

Well that part is essentially only Gob's idea as Tobias mysteriously departs from the group before they create a dastardly plot...

George Michael: "Say what you want about America, thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!"
Gob: "...Who said anything bad about America?"

Long story short...

• Gob buys a bunch of mice to let loose in the store.
• In a state of false panic, Gob plots to expose Lindsay shoplifting.
• But of course Tobias, with a new job as head of security of said clothing store, tackles Gob to the ground as a suspect.
• And of course the one blew the whistle on Gob was somebody's daughter.

In what ended a wonderfully messy, chemistry-driven character combo by all members of the Bluth family.