- blow myself
- Tobias says he “blue myself,” referring to self-painting.
- Blue Man Group
- Michael pretends to be “Doctor Blumen,” foreshadowing the storyline with the group. CONTEXT
- Chemical Ali
- FOX 6 credits a model home in Iraq to “Chemical and Mrs. Ali.”
- cutoffs
- Tobias is seen wearing cutoffs after he painted himself for the Blue Man Group.
- episode title meaning
- The title is a play on Friends-style titles.
- George W. Bush
- G.O.B. sat with the Saddam documents for seven minutes; George W. Bush sat reading a children’s story for seven minutes after the 9/11 attack. CONTEXT
- H.O.O.P.
- Lindsay is wearing a “H.O.O.P.” T-shirt during the “monkey freedom rally” setback.
- homosexual
- Tobias says he is glad to be “back in a queen,” referring to the bed.
- Michael Moore
- The fat documentary filmmaker is a spoof of Michael Moore, whose documentary, Fahrenheit 911, included a segment where he asked senators to enroll their sons or daughters. CONTEXT
- monkey freedom rally
- Lindsay holds a sign which reads “Free this orangutan.” The fact that orangutans are apes, and not monkeys, serves to reinforce Lindsay’s ignorance. CONTEXT
- on the next Arrested Development
- “Lindsay almost stumbles upon a dating opportunity, but instead is admitted to the hospital with a fever of 104; Michael finally gets the corporate checkbook, only to find that the family has gotten to it first; and Barry lands in jail.”
- “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
- G.O.B. denies ever saying he made a mistake, forgetting his famous line, “I’ve made a huge mistake.” G.O.B. later tells Michael, “You’ve made a huge mistake.”
- miscellany
- Army, balloon, Blue Man Group, catlike agility, charity, Christmas magic show fiasco, cookies, family dinner mishap, family first, father figure, Final Countdown, FOX 6, Friends, George W. Bush, good grief, hammer, hiding valuables in walls, homosexual, hospital, interrupted speech, Kegel exercise, margaritas, monkey freedom rally, more than you’ll ever know, nose job, not pictured, Oscar is Buster’s dad, Phoenix, AZ, picking scabs, police brutality, queen, rape horn, run over by a car, Saddam Hussein, seal, staircar, surveillance video, T-shirt, ta da, telephone, U.C. Irvine, universe, wink, yearbook, “He said some wonderful things.”, “I’m having the time of my life”
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- Broadcast 201
- Production 201
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- November 7, 2004
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Last season’s scene-stealing guest star, Henry Winkler, returns as George, Sr.’s legal counsel. George, Sr. is apprehended after his jailbreak - but the police have mistakenly caught Oscar, George, Sr.’s twin brother. With George Sr. at large, Michael is next in line to be prosecuted for the crimes of the company, and must come up with funds immediately to stay out of jail. Too proud and angry to ask his family members for help, Michael is further vexed to find out that they are doing perfectly well without him - Lindsay and Tobias have decided to have an open relationship, Tobias auditions for The Blue Man Group, G.O.B. is running the company and Lucille has asked Oscar to move in to be a role model for Buster.
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Quotes
Michael: You haven’t auditioned yet?
Tobias: Oh, no, no. I’m not in the group yet. No, I’m afraid I just blue myself.
Michael: There’s got to be a better way to say that.
Michael: Just to be clear. Looks like he’s dead, or he is dead?
Dr. Fishman: It just looks like he’s dead. He’s got like blue paint on him or something. But he’s going to be fine.
G.O.B.: What is wrong with you?
Maeby: This bleeping doctor!
Dr. Fishman: I’ll let you celebrate privately.
Lucille: We want this comped!
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« Older posts#71 gobfather wrote on July 05, 2007:
In this episode, Gob says something like "I got the thingie Michael, half in English, half in ..."
The transcript says "squibbly" but squibbly isn’t a real word. It sounds like it could be scribbly or squiggly, but my friend and I are having a heated debate about it.
Anyone care to shed some light on the topic?
#72 I ate all your bees wrote on July 05, 2007:
It’s most definitely "squibbly" in my mind. Whether or not a word exists wouldn’t matter to Gob.
#73 Beamer wrote on July 05, 2007:
gobfather wrote:The transcript says "squibbly" but squibbly isn’t a real word.
That’s the entire joke. He has no idea what word to use so he just invents one he thinks is right. Classic Gob.
#74 yellow bowtie wrote on August 06, 2007:
i’ve got a question. according to wiki:
Although this episode takes place the day after Let ’Em Eat Cake, it was in fact filmed several months later, hence why some of the characters (notably Lindsay) look different, and the kids have matured slightly since the last episode.
how do we know this exactly? i can’t recall everyone but i’m pretty sure they’re all wearing the same clothes from LEEC in TOWML which would imply to me that TOWML starts on the same day that LEEC left off.
another observation being since michael was ready to leave for phoenix the same day in LEEC, why would he stay the night after deciding he was leaving again?
also one of the first exchanges of the episode:
Michael: I’d like to see the look on their faces right now. (Imitating.) Where’d he go?
George Michael: Or they’d think we just headed home. Actually, you know, that’s kind of what I thought until I heard about all that Phoenix stuff.
"or they think they just headed home" from the hospital, but instead head straight for phoenix.
anything that works against this theory?
#75 Phil Love AD! wrote on August 06, 2007:
yellow bowtie wrote:i’ve got a question. according to wiki:
Although this episode takes place the day after Let ’Em Eat Cake, it was in fact filmed several months later, hence why some of the characters (notably Lindsay) look different, and the kids have matured slightly since the last episode.
how do we know this exactly? i can’t recall everyone but i’m pretty sure they’re all wearing the same clothes from LEEC in TOWML which would imply to me that TOWML starts on the same day that LEEC left off.
another observation being since michael was ready to leave for phoenix the same day in LEEC, why would he stay the night after deciding he was leaving again?
also one of the first exchanges of the episode:
Michael: I’d like to see the look on their faces right now. (Imitating.) Where’d he go?
George Michael: Or they’d think we just headed home. Actually, you know, that’s kind of what I thought until I heard about all that Phoenix stuff.
"or they think they just headed home" from the hospital, but instead head straight for phoenix.
anything that works against this theory?
It does take place on the same day, but was filmed probably a few months after LEEC so the characters might look a bit older or whatever, although I never noticed a difference.
Again, this is just people nitpicking at details, most notably on how the characters look different, although in reality you really can’t tell. I think it probably should be edited to say it takes place on the same day. But this is just another example of the inattention to detail that wiki is known for.
#76 Blueberry Head wrote on August 06, 2007:
yellow bowtie wrote:how do we know this exactly?
another observation being since michael was ready to leave for phoenix the same day in LEEC, why would he stay the night after deciding he was leaving again?
This is the first episode of the second season, the first and second seasons weren’t filmed one right after the other.
Haven’t watched the show in a while, but if my memory serves me correctly, they couldn’t go Phoenix because Michael couldn’t leave the state, due to George Sr.’s legal problems.
#77 yellow bowtie wrote on August 06, 2007:
Blueberry Head wrote:yellow bowtie wrote:how do we know this exactly?
another observation being since michael was ready to leave for phoenix the same day in LEEC, why would he stay the night after deciding he was leaving again?
This is the first episode of the second season, the first and second seasons weren’t filmed one right after the other.
Haven’t watched the show in a while, but if my memory serves me correctly, they couldn’t go Phoenix because Michael couldn’t leave the state, due to George Sr.’s legal problems.
i know that. i’m saying they both take place on the same day storywise. filmwise there’s definitely a several month gap between the two.
#78 Phil Love AD! wrote on August 06, 2007:
i know that. i’m saying they both take place on the same day storywise. filmwise there’s definitely a several month gap between the two.
I think even the members of the-op would agree on that one.
#79 Blueberry Head wrote on August 07, 2007:
Oh, I see what you did there.
Yeah, I don’t know.
#80 attys wrote on April 13, 2010:
Is it Jeffrey Tambour saying "No touching!" at the end when Barry is in jail?
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