Development Arrested
Written by Richard Day and Mitchell Hurwitz.
George Michael: Uncle G.O.B.?
G.O.B.: What are you doing here? How’d you find me?
George Michael: My Dad said that you were living down here with your girlfriend.
G.O.B.: You know about her?
George Michael: Who?
G.O.B.: Ann.
George Michael: Her?
- inner-beauty pageant
- G.O.B. has been dating Ann 2.0 since the pageant at the Church and State Fair, when he said that the third place contestant is “a little bit plain” and has “super low self-esteem” so he “step[s] in and [lays] her crown ...
Narrator: G.O.B. had been dating Ann since he awarded her third place in an inner-beauty pageant.
- Holy Trinity
- The Holy Trinity scene continues from Family Ties, revealing Ann 2.0.
G.O.B.: What? I thought that’s what all you guys lived for!
Narrator: ...while G.O.B. debased everything they believed in.
G.O.B.: What about you? You game?
Ann 2.0: It’s really not that big of a deal, George Michael. I’m 18 now, and besides, we really haven’t even done anything.
G.O.B.: Practically nothing. But what are you going to do? The girl obviously needs a man.
Narrator: And that’s when George Michael became one. Ann was upset.
Ann 2.0: (Screaming.)
Narrator: As was Buster when he saw the ship where the party was to be held.
Buster: (Whimpering yell.)
Michael: Shh, shh.
Buster: (Whimpering.)
Michael: Come on.
Narrator: And so Michael accepted his congratulations, all the while looking for his son. And Buster was approached by his loving father.
Buster: Do you think there’s any chance this ship could break away from the dock?
George, Sr.: We’re on a ship?
Buster: Uh...
Narrator: And Maeby was trying to get the family to sign away the rights to their life stories.
Maeby: Boy.
Buster: Oh.
Maeby: TV is not as good as it used to be, huh, Uncle Buster? But you can help me out by signing my petition to make it better.
Buster: Oh, I kind of like Skating with Celebrities. Excuse me.
Narrator: And Lucille was trying to get signatures, too.
Narrator: And G.O.B., angry at Michael for sending his son to the docks...
G.O.B.: We’re not related?
Narrator: ...went into a kind of knee-jerk revenge mode.
Lindsay: (Sighs.)
G.O.B.: Why go for the best when you can go for the rest? Of your life with a younger man?
Lindsay: (Slaps G.O.B.)
G.O.B.: Kitty likes to scratch. (Yelling.) Oww! Mom! Mom!
Lucille: Take these forms to everyone in the family and promise them 100 grand if they sign.
Narrator: And that’s how Maeby found a way to get signatures on her release forms.
