- creative license
- Lucille couldn’t have expanded her bathroom into Lucille 2’s kitchen since their apartments are across the hall.
- Freedom sign
- The man holding the “Freedom” sign is seen in the Queen Mary. CONTEXT
- homosexual
- Tobias buys the Queen Mary, though the sign accidentally reads “Tobias is Queen Mary.”
- Klimpy’s
- Buster and Starla hit it off at Klimpy’s. CONTEXT
- New York, New York
- Lucille 2 says “Everyone thinks they’re Frank Sinatra,” when Tobias performs New York, New York at karaoke; but Liza Minnelli actually performed the song first in 1977, and Frank Sinatra remade it in 1980. CONTEXT
- on the next Arrested Development
- “Lucille 2 reclaims some space, The Queen Mary changes hands once again, and G.O.B. gets needy.”
- gaffe
- The Narrator says Michael dropped off Lucille 2; however, in the scene prior, Michael had agreed to call her a cab. CONTEXT
- miscellany
- anvil, askjeeves, Card Sharks, chronic vertigo, deflection, farting, featured music, Frank Sinatra, graham cracker, hop-ons, Hot Cops, L.A. Kings, Mary, Plumb Clinic, queen, Queen Mary, Quincy Jones, Riley Weston, Sitwell Housing Inc., Soapdish, West Side Story
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- Broadcast 208
- Production 208
Originally broadcast
- January 23, 2005
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When Michael learns that the company stock has been unfrozen, he decides to sell a little to buy a car. Unbeknownst to him and despite warnings from their attorney, the rest of the family sell off their stock as well and they lose control of the company. Meanwhile, Lucille 2 is back, only to discover Buster is dating the new secretary.
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Buster: Mom is becoming a little controlling.
Michael: What tipped you off? When she locked you out on the balcony again?
Buster: That was half my fault. I thought I saw a graham cracker out there.
Michael: You baited the balcony?
Lucille: Prove it.
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« Older posts#63 Franklin_wannabe wrote on August 08, 2005:
The Queen Mary was really funny though... "Tobias is Queen Mary", and then how he just said that they could paint over the word "Mary". That would have been good... "Tobias is Queen"! And the way Buster kept referring to Lucille as the girl in his life... priceless! Especially when he said that she doesn’t make him hear music, because she listens to talk radio.
#64 Lou wrote on October 24, 2005:
I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this episode - the return of Lucille 2, now with a different Bluth boy, the dress eyebrows and Tobias’s poorly chosen phrases. It definitely doesn’t deserve being thought of as worst episode ever.
One thing that I thought was clever was the narrator’s emphasis on the word "conned" when explaining Maeby’s new job at the studio. Because she got the job by going with Tobias to the studio for his audition for Confidence man #2 and he didn’t think she knew anything about being a con man (or woman), as seen in the previous episode (Switch Hitter). It just shows how brilliant the writers are and how much attention they pay to every word. Obviously there are plenty of other examples of this point, but no one had mentioned this particular one yet.
#65 T-Bone wrote on February 02, 2006:
Did anyone notice that the staging of the scene where Michael signs for the Corvette is identitical to the scene where GOB signs for the Seaward? A guy on each side, with one saying, "And sign again here..." or something smiliar.
#66 Musty Old Claptrap wrote on February 02, 2006:
I noticed that, not the first time round though.
#67 MotherboyXXIX wrote on March 27, 2006:
just noticed for the first time that when GOB is in Lucille 2’s apartment, and as he says "that’s why all your stuff is sticking out," he looks down at her chest. HAHAHA!!!
#68 MotherboyXXIX wrote on March 27, 2006:
seriously- has there even been another tv show whose writing was so brilliant? not only is it just flat-out funny, it’s almost mind-boggingly intricate at times. i’m still catching things watching an episode for, like, the sixth time. how is such creative brilliance even possible?
#69 Josiwe wrote on July 25, 2006:
Oscar (Interrupting Lucille’s phone call): "I think we’re gonna need a new floating thermometer. And can I have your, uh, your Blue Cross number?"
Priceless
#70 Nicholas Angel wrote on June 02, 2007:
This episode is probably one of the weaker ones, but it’s still good.
#71 Bear wrote on July 13, 2007:
About the Sinatra line : in the DVD, the english subtitles read "Everyboby thinks OF Frank Sinatra". I can’t tell if that’s accurate (though I’m inclined to think it must be) because she’s mumbling, but then, wouldn’t it be a reference to Liza Minelli’s rendition being overshadowed by Sinatra’s famous version.
#72 IraqPaperScissors wrote on April 30, 2008:
This is a response to the question in comments #51-53 (whether Michael’s scene driving the red convertible is a reference to anything in the past).
I’m SHOCKED that there is no mention here of the obvious Teen Wolf Too reference! In Teen Wolf Too, Jason Bateman’s character has a long montage driving around town (too fast) in a red convertible with totally 80’s hair. It’s unintentionally hilarious because it follows immediately after another musical montage of his character’s sports training. There is about 4 minutes of nothing but cheesy montages.
While there is also a joke here in Queen for a Day that Michael looks like Lucille 2 (with the windbreaker, hair, red jacket, and "mole") the Teen Wolf Too reference is unmistakable!
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