- Blendin Electric Company
- The Feds infiltrate the Bluth Company using “Blendin Electric Company” as a disguise.
- Church of the Good Shepherd
- Bluth Company employees (as sheep) mistakenly take a bus labeled, “Church of the Good Shepherd.”
- Drive Safely
- When Lindsay arrives at the construction site, a member of Lupe’s family on the staircar hits his head on a sign that reads “Drive safely.” CONTEXT
- episode title meaning
- The titular “staff” refers to the Bluth Company employees; and is a homonym for “staph.”
- Footloose
- The game of bulldozer chicken is a send-up of Footloose, which Lindsay referenced earlier in the episode.
- leaving notes
- Tobias leaves a note to Lindsay, in which he crossed out the “the desk of” in “From the desk of Tobias Fünke, and he signed it “-T (Tobias).”
- masturbation
- Michael tells his staff to “take a three,” and they queue at the restroom, but can’t enter because Buster is inside.
- on the next Arrested Development
- “Tobias gets an insight into fear, and the employees find a new direction.”
- photos
- Buster’s photos with the sheep on Catalina are similar to Lucille’s photos with the cigarette smoker at Quantity Plus.
- “Hey”
- Buster greets a Bluth Company worker with “Hey, coworker.”
- miscellany
- bicycle, Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand, Catalina, chicken, curl up, Frightened Inmate #2, hammer, Judaism, masturbation, Mexico, New Warden, no touching, party, Quantity Plus, Rosa, Segway, sheep, sign, staircar, weekly bike ride
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- Broadcast 115
- Production 115
Originally broadcast
- March 14, 2004
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When Michael discovers the family is getting paid while not working, he puts them to work. Elsewhere, Tobias goes undercover to research his rôle.
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Quotes
Buster: But I love it here. And the language these guys use. Rough! One of the guys told me to take my head out of my bottom and get back to work. (Cackling laughter.) My bottom! (Laughing.)
Buster: Come on, you douche bags, we’re all on the same team!
G.O.B.: Don’t listen to him. He’ll never stand up to the Man. He’s a chicken. A chicken. Coka, coka, coka, coh!
Buster: My whole life you’ve called me a chicken. But that’s over now. I have nothing to prove.
G.O.B.: Coka, coka, coh! Coka, coka, coka, coh! Coka, coka, coka...
Buster: That is not how a chicken sounds. Chickens don’t clap! Chickens don’t clap!
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« Older posts#31 Quence wrote on February 08, 2006:
My most frequently quoted line from this episode:
Tobias: And who is this shiny building of a man?
#32 Blueberry Head wrote on February 20, 2006:
just noticed yesterday, at the beginning during michael and george michael’s bike ride, michael pops a cornball in his mouth
#33 Beamer wrote on February 20, 2006:
Yeah, great attention to detail there from the writers, since the episode takes place on a Sunday, and eating cornballs and riding bikes is part of GM and Michael’s little Sunday "ritual." Pity they didn’t really keep it up much in the show after this, though...
#34 Musty Old Claptrap wrote on February 20, 2006:
Well weren’t those episodes all about George Michael getting too old for the father/son trips? Obviously they wouldn’t keep it up if that were the case.
#35 Dideldamdam wrote on February 20, 2006:
Madnana wrote:Steve Holt! wrote:Gob on the Segway on the consturction site.
I just noticed something with GOB... he has a hard time getting through the ditches at the construction site on his Segway. Later, when he’s working at the site, he has a hard time pushing a wheelbarrow out of a ditch!
yeah, that’s great, gob has to do it the hard way while everybody else is using the flattened "path" 5 feet away.
also, gob is carrying the cement sacks from left to right while buster, behind him, is carrying a sack from right to left. good work efficiency!
#36 montaigne wrote on June 05, 2006:
has anyone noticed the employee with black shirt is always running last. in the elevator he is the last in, the last to get into the bus. the last to board the ferry and again last at the end of the show when they are in the trailer
#37 Musty Old Claptrap wrote on June 05, 2006:
Yeah, he’s the ’black sheep’.
#38 The_big_yellow_joint wrote on June 27, 2006:
Yeah thats so funny. Last in the lift, the bus and the ferry.
#39 Bear wrote on April 10, 2007:
From Top Banana "On the Next ..." :
Narrator: ... and Michael, realizing the banana stand is the only profitable part of the Bluth Empire, decides to rebuild.
G.O.B.: Couldn’t have called me? I can’t swing a hammer? (micheal hands him the hammer, Gob refuses it) I got a rabbit to buy.
In Staff Infection we finally learn the "cold hard bluth" : Gob CAN’T swing a hammer.
And I’m surprised no one has quoted probably my favorite line in this episode "the cleansing power of the pipe".
#40 Bear wrote on June 07, 2007:
After re-watching the entire season I believe this is my favourite episode ... very clever sheep jokes (the repeated "Bob !" in the copy room sounding like sheep cries 
) great overall dynamic (very "fast" episode), hilarious hermanos interactions on the construction site. I really love it.
