- creative license
- Helen Maria Delgado says “Yo es scared,” but “yo es” is gramatically incorrect in Spanish. CONTEXT
- disclaimer
- When G.O.B. buys a candied apple, the store has a sign that reads “Proprietor not responsible for dental damage.” G.O.B. later loses a tooth and he starts whistling when he talks.
- episode title meaning
- The title refers to both a charity and transportation event.
- on the next Arrested Development
- “Michael gets a lucky break when Helen makes the same mistake that he did, and G.O.B. kicks himself for a bad business decision.”
- T-shirt
- Lindsay is seen wearing a T-shirt for Neuter Fest ’98.
- miscellany
- A “G.O.B.”, balloon, Bananagrabber, bicycle, bonding, cartoon, charity, Courier Express, Evian spray, from whence it came, fundraiser, good grief, hospital, ice cream, Ladies of Literacy, mace, Mardi Gras, Neuter Fest, outsourcing, permit office, rape whistle, Save the Wetlands, set me up, staircar, surveillance video, wetlands, whistling
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- Broadcast 105
- Production 106
Originally broadcast
- November 30, 2003
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Lindsay tries to save the wetlands, while Michael tries to help a woman he thinks is his mother’s maid Lupe.
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Michael: I mean, I guess it would just be a guy who you know, grabs bananas and runs. Or, um, a banana that grabs things. I don’t know. Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don’t want to answer.
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« Older posts#36 egz03 wrote on January 23, 2006:
Good point. It’s very possible that he was a little sensitive about the whistling.
I’m still a stuck on this seagull thing though, and part of me is determined to make sense of it. Would a seagull ever eat a frog? It seems like this frog is a forest-dwelling frog, and I’m having trouble picturing a seagull in the woods. But then again, I’ve never seen bananas in the woods either.
#37 Hop on wrote on January 23, 2006:
I mean, I guess it would just be a guy who you know, grabs bananas and runs. Or, um, a banana that grabs things. I don’t know. Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don’t want to answer.
See, even Michael doesn’t understand it.
#38 GeorgeOscarBluth wrote on February 21, 2006:
Bananagrabber: (Lisps.) Look, a seagull.
G.O.B.: I never should’ve given up animation rights
how great, mr banana grabber (and michael talking about it) its the better thing of this episode
#39 photojoe wrote on December 30, 2006:
"Well im getting some ice cream, I can tell you that right now"
#40 coldfrog wrote on January 12, 2007:
I think the sheer randomness of it was sort of the point. The commercial was badly written, badly animated, and... well, just plain bad. Hence why Gob regrets giving up animation rights.
Isn’t Mr. Bananagrabber done in GOB’s voice? Maybe I mistook it when I heard it, but it sounded like him to me. Of course, it could have been the whistle too.
By the way, how many episodes has he showed up in... I know I’ve seen him a bunch more times (Mr Bananagrabber I mean), including in the video GOB makes for GM’s election (The Immaculate Election #214). Any other times you can think of?
By the way, hi, and obligatory wishing I had known about this show before it was TOOO LAAAATE.
#41 Chelpo wrote on January 12, 2007:
Welcome to the-op, coldfrog. Better late than never. And hey, you don’t have to deal with the heart-crushing disappointment of Fox cutting the order and then leaving everyone hanging for months before finally cancelling it! 
I think you might be right about Mr. Bananagrabber having GOB’s voice. What with the whistle and the hair and the taking free bananas, Mr. Bananagrabber is sort of the all around banana version of GOB. It’s too bad we never met Baby Bananagrabber. I would have loved to see Banana George Michael (or would it have been Banana Steve Holt! ?)
#42 LickMyLovePump wrote on January 12, 2007:
Chelpo wrote:the heart-crushing disappointment of Fox cutting the order and then leaving everyone hanging for months before finally cancelling it!
I haven’t thought about that for ages. Good memory.
#43 coldfrog wrote on January 12, 2007:
Chelpo wrote:It’s too bad we never met Baby Bananagrabber. I would have loved to see Banana George Michael (or would it have been Banana Steve Holt! ?)
Heh heh... I can see a tiny banana all pumping its fists in the air, shouting "Baby Grabber!" and then snatching a banana and eating it. And then finding out it is its cousin.
#44 Chelpo wrote on January 13, 2007:
How does a banana even have a cousin (or a father)? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don’t want to answer.
#45 Hey Brother! wrote on May 09, 2007:
I love how Lucille tries to sound casual on the phone, but is actually reading a scripted conversation. "I don’t want you to think that I am taking this more seriously than... you are... and unless you’re planning some grand romantic gesture, my feelings are just the teensiest bit hurt."
And then when he bids on her accidentally, her line just makes me crack up. "How grand! How terribly grand!"
I think Liza really carried a lot of this episode.
