- chicken
- G.O.B., Lucille, and Lindsay all perform their chicken dances, and George, Sr.’s “coo-coo ca-cha” chicken dance is seen for the first time. CONTEXT
- disclaimer
- The sign by the flight of the Mary Poppuns reads: “Caution: Please stay off my landing port... I’m not the tourist killing sort... But if you have a working girl to kill, please let her stay while I do my will.” CONTEXT
- Donald Rumsfeld
- When Michael says a photo with Saddam Hussein is not always a career ender, an image of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is shown shaking hands with Saddam in 1983. CONTEXT
- head shot
- Tobias’s headshot is captioned “No reality” which overtly indicates his unwillingness to act in reality shows, but ironically indicates his denial of reality. CONTEXT
- homosexual
- Tobias says he would like to be in G.O.B.’s “prostate-ticular,” and later says he can “taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth.”
- horny
- Lucille tells Michael, “Mama horny,” similar to George, Sr.’s expression in Visiting Ours. CONTEXT
- Mary Poppuns
- According to the sign in the background, “Ms. Poppuns is an original creation of Wee Britain and is in no way meant to invoke the character of the popular novel, musical or stage show ‘Mary Poppins’. Our Ms. Poppuns has neither the trade-markable qualities of being a nanny nor the power of flight, but instead is a cleaning woman who transports herself with the aid of a guide wire and a sturdy cane as she fights the likes of Jack the Ripper every weekday at quarter past and half after every odd Greenwich mean hour.” CONTEXT
- No. I love it!
- When G.O.B. asks Steve Holt if he likes magic, Steve’s response of “No, I love it” parallels Carl Weathers’s response to Lucille 2 about ham. Not that there’s any parallel between magic and ham. CONTEXT
- Saddam Hussein
- A photograph shows George, Sr. shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1998. Saddam’s apron is subtitled “You’ll take it the way I make it.” CONTEXT
- Soup Nazi
- George, Sr. claims that he thought Saddam Hussein was the Soup Nazi, a character on Seinfeld. CONTEXT
- miscellany
- BBC, bird, FOX 6, James Bond, Mary Poppins, Seinfeld, The O.C., The Yellowfang, thing of candy beans, type, Wee Britain
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- September 26, 2005
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To save money on expensive attorney fees, Michael tells George, Sr. to plead guilty, but George, Sr. proclaims his innocence and says he was set up by an underground British group. Michael goes to “Wee Britain” to investigate these claims, and meets a beautiful British woman, Rita, whom he asks out on a date. Meanwhile, Lindsay tries to flirt with the family’s new attorney and ends up being charged for her time, and G.O.B. stages an elaborate magic trick to get out of spending time with his son.
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G.O.B.: But it’s not like envy, or even hungry.
Michael: Could it be love?
G.O.B.: I know what an erection feels like, Michael. No, it’s the opposite. It’s... it’s like my heart is getting hard. Maybe I am ready to be a father.
Lucille: He’s just jealous that I have a man back in my life. And guess what else is back?
Michael: My breakfast?
Lucille: My friskiness. (Whispers.) Mama horny, Michael.
Michael: No, it’s my breakfast. I’m amazed Dad hasn’t strangled himself with his belt yet.
Lucille: Oh, we’re into all kinds of freaky stuff.
Michael: Why do eat breakfast before I come here?
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« Older posts#611 ThoseAreBlueToo wrote on January 14, 2006:
This episode is called British Bombshell I think
#612 100georgemichaels wrote on January 14, 2006:
thats what it was originally called, but it got changed to "For British Eyes Only" at the last minute. My cable box first said it was called "British Bomshell", but it changed on the day it aired, so i guess it was a last minute desicion.
#613 WhoamI wrote on January 15, 2006:
Is this the episode with the Bluth Family Chicken dances? Because IMO that part sucked. Too idiotic and unrealistic.
#614 LickMyLovePump wrote on January 15, 2006:
Too idiotic and unrealistic
I think that’s the whole point. Michael would think the exact same thing
#615 Musty Old Claptrap wrote on January 15, 2006:
Since when is everything in AD realistic anyway?
#616 I ate all your bees wrote on January 15, 2006:
Surely if he was truly british, he wouldn’t bother brushing his teeth at all and use the spare hand to fit an extra cigarette in?
#617 Beamer wrote on January 15, 2006:
WhoamI wrote:Is this the episode with the Bluth Family Chicken dances? Because IMO that part sucked. Too idiotic and unrealistic.
I don’t really think so... the Chicken dances have been a part of the show since Staff Infection in Season 1. Everyone in the family has a different one, and we know from Ready, Aim, Marry Me that they like to join in with eachother when doing them. Granted, four people at once was a bit excessive, but I still laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, and isn’t that what really counts?
If there’s anything "idiot and unrealistic" about this episode, it’s all the stuff with Wee Britain, though given what we find out about it in The Ocean Walker, it does sort of make sense, I suppose.
#618 ACR wrote on January 15, 2006:
Hey, isn’t that why we love AD because of that mix of unrealistic (your words!), slapstick, satire, one liners etc.etc. - its the perfect concentrations of each of these that no other show seems to be able to achieve.
I cracked up the first time I saw those chicken dances - and even throughout the seasons each time we saw someone else do one - it was a real treat to finally have all the adult characters do a chicken dancce.
#619 Busty wrote on April 23, 2006:
Geroge says he mistook Saddam Hussein for the Soup Nazi in this episode. Larry Thomas later plays a saddam look a like in ’Exit Strategy’ BRILLIANT!!!!
#620 jhny wrote on April 30, 2006:
I love the foreshadowing at the start of this episode.
In the Previously on Arrested Development section, Micheal says to his son:
"I don’t even have a girl, much less a stupid one."
