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My Mother The Car
This episode is ranked 43rd by readers.
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Lucille tries to convince Michael that he caused a car accident she was really responsible for. Lindsay visits prison but doesn’t get the reaction she hoped for.

References

episode title meaning
The title refers to the ’60s television show, My Mother the Car.
My Mother the Car
The theme for My Mother the Car can be heard while G.O.B. and Lindsay are watching TV.
on the next Arrested Development
“George Michael and Maeby sneak back into Les cousins dangereux and Michael’s insurance takes another hit.”
miscellany
bonding, children’s aspirin, fake IDs, hammer, I like the way they think, juice, Les cousins dangereux, My Mother the Car, panic attacks, party, protein bars, run over by a car, Segway, South America, World’s Worst Drivers, yacht, “Slut” shirt

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Lindsay, in a “Slut” shirt.
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George, Sr. reacts to Lindsay, in a “Slut” shirt.
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Lindsay, seen here in a “Slut” shirt, is proud that George, Sr. spent money on her.
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Lucille’s faked driver’s license.
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Quotes

Lucille: Oh, her comes the 10:15 conniption, right on time. Honest to God, Buster, it’s like every little thing makes you seize up in terror lately. I just have no idea where you get that from. Get away from that stove. You’re going to light your hair on fire.

Vote: ***** / Average: 4.52 (63 votes)
CONTEXT

G.O.B.: I was halfway to South America, but I couldn’t let you get away with it, because we’re brothers, Mom, and we kind of like each other.Listen

Michael: You were going to South America?

G.O.B.: I don’t think so.

Vote: ***** / Average: 4.52 (62 votes)
CONTEXT

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#37 Touchlamp wrote on March 03, 2006:

This is my favortie episode! I love Dr. Miller I wish he came back. This episode is so detached from the rest of the season. It has a lot of good G.O.B. moments. Best Best Best EPISODE EVER. COME"ON

#38 barbwyre wrote on March 25, 2006:

I’m sure all the other 3,999,999 viewers already noticed these things, but:



When Lindsay visits George Sr. in prison, he says "I use them to pay off the other guys to stop them from hollering obscenities at my... my little girl. But you keep coming back here, honey, and I’m going broke."



(He says little girl.....not daughter....get it?)



And when Lucille calls Michael her 3rd least favorite child, she’s really calling him her least favorite child.



I’m so good at noticing things months after the fact. And once I know the ending.

#39 Tada! wrote on March 25, 2006:

barbwyre wrote:And when Lucille calls Michael her 3rd least favorite child, she’s really calling him her least favorite child.




everyone knows lucille hates gob.

#40 barbwyre wrote on March 26, 2006:

I think she was just saying that to Michael because she was temporarily so mad at him. But I would agree that most of the time GOB is her least favorite.

#41 The_big_yellow_joint wrote on June 27, 2006:

I think its summed up with



Earlier that morning



"I dont care for Gob"

#42 Poster_Not_Found wrote on July 05, 2006:

This episode really supports Development Arrested’s idea that Lucille is an evil mastermind. In this episode, she's pure evil.

#43 Beamer wrote on July 05, 2006:

Can you please spoiler-tag that? Not everyone who reads these early episode threads has seen the later ones. Though you are right there. All the characters seemed a bit more exaggerated in this particular episode, anyway.

#44 plysak wrote on March 17, 2009:

The way that I understood it is, since Michael is her 3rd least favorite child, that makes him her 2nd favorite. Throughout the series, whenever Buster tries to break away from Lucille, she then turns to Michael to do what she would want Buster to do. So her the order of her kids, from most favorite to least, goes: Buster, Michael, Lindsay, and Gob.

#45 Frightened Inmate #2 wrote on March 17, 2009:

plysak wrote:The way that I understood it is, since Michael is her 3rd least favorite child, that makes him her 2nd favorite. Throughout the series, whenever Buster tries to break away from Lucille, she then turns to Michael to do what she would want Buster to do. So her the order of her kids, from most favorite to least, goes: Buster, Michael, Lindsay, and Gob.


But what about Annyong?

#46 Gomephrus wrote on September 28, 2012:

Here is the link to the score from this episode

http://www.filefactory.com/file/7bewa3ovh24l/n/My_Mother_The_Car_zip

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