Making A Stand
Written by Mitchell Hurwitz and Chuck Tatham.
Michael: What’s going on? You just thought you’d put the stand right here?
G.O.B.: Did the research. Did you know that more frozen bananas are sold here on this boardwalk than anywhere in The O.C.?
- The O.C.
- Michael tells G.O.B. not to call Orange County “The O.C.,” similar to his comment to George, Sr. in For British Eyes Only.
Michael: Don’t call it that.
G.O.B.: Also, gonna need a check, ’cause I went out of pocket on the new sign. Oh, and I need some bananas and some chocolate from the other branch.
Michael: Just take the sign down. Take the whole booth down. You’re cannibalizing our business.
G.O.B.: You’re just scared of a little competish.
Michael: You know, you guys don’t even have bananas, so I’m not too worried. In fact, you know what? Me and my son are gonna kick your little shack’s ass.
George Michael: Dad, it’s okay. We can just work together with them.
Steve Holt: Dad, that makes sense. We don’t really even know the recipe.
George Michael: There’s no recipe, you just freeze a banana, then you stick it in the...
Michael: Don’t tell them!
Steve Holt: Stick it in the what?!
G.O.B.: It’s okay, son. We’ll figure it out! When we do, We’ll be the laughingstock of the boardwalk.
Narrator: Meanwhile, Lindsay was preparing for her own competition.
Bob Loblaw: This is Treat. He’ll be representing you. He started off as my paralegal, but he’s a lawyer now.
Treat: As of next Monday.
Bob Loblaw: Well, we’ll fudge that.
Bob Loblaw: Lindsay, just do me one favor. Don’t mention me by name when you talk about your future plans for dating. It reflects poorly on me.
Lindsay: Right, right, the conflict of interest.
Bob Loblaw: Yeah, that, too.
Tobias: Hello, Lindsay.
Lindsay: Tobias. Did you get a lawyer?
Tobias: Only the best-looking and best educated lawyer in the whole O.C.
- The O.C.
- Bob Loblaw tells Tobias not to call it “O.C.”, similar to Michael’s comment earlier in the episode and in For British Eyes Only.
Bob Loblaw: Don’t call it that.
Tobias: Okay.
Bob Loblaw: Bob Loblaw. How are you?
Tobias: Bob’s representing you?
Narrator: He was.
Narrator: One day earlier, Tobias had spoken to him on the phone.
Bob Loblaw: ...whether or not those promises were made explicit.
- explicit promises
- Tobias responds “You want me to be explicit?” to Bob Loblaw’s question about whether “those promises were made explicit,” directly paralleling Lindsay’s response in Forget-Me-Now.
Tobias: You want me to be explicit?
Narrator: And that night, Buster arrived with a post-op Lucille.
Michael: There she is.
Lucille: (Mumbling.)
Buster: She wants to know where you want to put her.
Michael: She can take my room.
Lucille: (Mumbling.)
Buster: She wants to know if I can sleep there, too.
Lucille: (Mumbling.)
Buster: She said that’s very important to her. All right, I’ll meet you up there, Mother.
Lucille: (Mumbling.)
Buster: You better not lock it! I’ll kick it in!
Buster: Oh, by the way, Doctor said no kissing her on the face for one week. I was like, “Make it two weeks! See if I care!”
