- episode title meaning
- The title refers to both a publicist’s job and a mating ritual.
- homosexual
- Jessie says there are few “intelligent, attractive, and straight men” in town; and Tobias says that leaves him out.
- newspaper article
- On the newspaper with the headline “Bluth Matron In Brawl At Klimpy’s Family Style Restaurant,” lower down in the paper, there is an article titled “Musician sues restaurant over use of name.” This is a reference to the band Arrested Development suing over the name Arrested Development.
- On the newspaper with the headline “Cold Hard Bluths,” lower down in the paper, there is an article titled “Bum Gets Balloon.” George Michael had just told Michael that he managed to get rid of a bum at the frozen banana stand.
- on the next Arrested Development
- “G.O.B. holds a press conference of his own, and Buster moves to the kitchen.”
- spitting gum
- Michael spits out gum every time he tries to flirt with Jessie in the gym.
- miscellany
- Andy Griffith Show, Aztec Tomb, balloon, bicycle, Cloud Mir, curl up, fight, FOX 6, good grief, Ike and Tina Tuna, Judaism, Klimpy’s, loophole, Milford School, money-saving tips, Rud, shh, spin class, Talk Room, the band Arrested Development, universe
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- Broadcast 111
- Production 111
Originally broadcast
- January 25, 2004
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After negative newspaper coverage of his family’s public brawls, Michael enlists the help of cute publicist Jessica Bowers to improve the family’s public image. Following her advice, G.O.B. performs at a local nursing home and Tobias heads to Boston to resume his medical career. But after Michael starts, then fails at, dating Jessie, they endure a messy breakup, resulting in one final brawl.
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Jessie: No. There are very few intelligent, attractive and straight men in this town.
Tobias: Well, that certainly leaves me out. (Chuckles.) She... she said single. You did say single, correct? I...
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Buster: Uh, I’m unclear about what it is exactly you do.
Jessie: Excellent question. What a publicist does...
Buster: No, no, I was talking to George Michael. When did you get a job?
George Michael: At the banana stand.
Buster: (Laughs.) Oh, duh. I thought you meant, like, a plumber or something, and I was, like, when did that happen?
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« Older posts#70 fa3rie wrote on March 07, 2006:
Please could someone explain to me the Opie thing? When Jessica called GM Opie and then the narrator says she went to far and had better watch her mouth. I don’t understand it, and ive been curious about it ever since i saw it.
#71 leez34 wrote on March 07, 2006:
Ron Howard, the narrator, played Opie on the Andy Griffith Show.
#72 sbranno2 wrote on August 21, 2006:
After the refrigerator ice despenser fails, Lucille takes some ice from a medical icepack Linsday is using. Haha!
#73 Mr. M wrote on August 22, 2006:
| sbranno2 wrote: |
| After the refrigerator ice despenser fails, Lucille takes some ice from a medical icepack Linsday is using. Haha! |
I just noticed this for the first time yesterday.
#74 Guru wrote on August 22, 2006:
the PR chick in this episode is my favorite from the entire first season - she’s a hottie
#75 Hey Brother! wrote on May 09, 2007:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cao9ekqqzhU
Tobias acting was the highlight of this episode for me. Trying to pass for a tough guy is almost as funny as his reading. I also love how the scene becomes somewhat emotional with the start of that musical theme. It’s so perfectly corny.
"I don’t know if I’m cut out to be a... DeNiro or a... Regis, or a... Pinkett-Smith or what have you..."
David Cross was probably improvising that and it’s just so perfect!
Regis. LOL!
#76 -D(Danny) wrote on May 15, 2008:
I know no one has been on here in a year, but I’m still watching this and was wondering about the scene with Jessie talking to Maeby and GM in the banana stand. After Jessie walks away Maeby says, "she kinda reminds me of my mother." The line always passed by me because I thought it was a joke about Jessie and Lindsay both being conniving/selfish. But this seems too superficial in light of the shows writing, so is this maeby a call-forward to some story that never was written?
Perhaps Jessie is Lindsay’s biological sister since Lindsay was adopted? Or, if Lindsay was given in vitro fertilization then Jessie could be Maeby’s biological mom? Just a thought...
#77 -D(Danny) wrote on May 15, 2008:
Anyone else notice that when the Milford man is going into the Aztec Tomb he quickly brings his finger to his mouth, just like in the painting?
#78 Beamer wrote on May 15, 2008:
I noticed the Earl Milford painting callback too, but as for that possible call-forward with Jessie, I’m not so sure. She was only in the show for one episode and it really didn’t look as if they had any plans to bring her back at all. Granted, it’s still entirely possible (if any show was going to do something like that, it’d be AD) but I’m pretty confident the writers didn’t intend for it to be taken that way.
#79 smeddy wrote on May 15, 2008:
Maybe they meant it more than you’ll... never know... [smile]
I’ll have to rewatch it, but I like the idea
