- amazon.com
- Amazon sells Tobias’ book, The Man Inside Me for $14.97, and the site indicates that customers who bought the book also bought: Families with Low Self-Esteem, Caged Wisdom: Musings from Prison, Girls with Low Self-Esteem on VHS, and The Low-Carb Gay, Bi, and Transgender Diet by B. J. Zuckerkorn. CONTEXT
- book reading schedule
- According to the display at Livres Aux Folles, Tobias’ book reading schedule is: “Saturday, Sunday, Here, There, Another Place, Another Time, Everywhere, Monday, Monthly.” CONTEXT
- Freedom sign
- A man holding the “Freedom” sign is seen at Tobias’ bookreading for The Man Inside Me.
- Liberty Leading the People
- During Trisha Thoon’s report on American troops making themselves at home in one of Saddam’s palaces, an American soldier is seen examining the censored Delacroix painting (a black bar is painted over Liberty’s breasts). CONTEXT
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Maeby says Ann “barely had a face,” and calls her Annie McNoface. The actress, Alessandra Toreson, played Malcolm’s girlfriend in an episode where her face was never shown. CONTEXT
- Mommy, What Will I Look Like?
- According to the sign: “Easy one step process. Simply put your baby on our patented bed and snap, it’s done! In just moments you will receive a print of what [your] beautiful child will look like when he or she [...] Disclaimer: Not responsible for end results. For complaints, contact God at 800-555-[...]”
- on the next Arrested Development
- on the next season of Arrested Development: “the family grapples with the news they had just heard, Maeby’s life gets a little more complicated, and Kitty helps George, Sr., escape.”
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The nurse on duty is Nurse Ratchet.
- Saddam Hussein
- The Bluth Company was, in fact, responsible for building Saddam’s palaces.
- soda
- George Michael has a sandwich and a soda (while on the Atkins diet) when Michael approaches him to leave. [According to the DVD commentary, this was a mistake.]
- taker
- Michael says Lindsay is a “taker,” a callback to Best Man for the GOB, when Tobias says the family are “pushers not takers.”
- Visiting Ours
- The hospital sign with “Visiting Hours” has the “H” missing.
- miscellany
- Alliance of Magicians, balloon, bear, bird, Caged Wisdom: Musings from Prison, carbohydrates, Dip-A-Pet, escape attempt, Families with Low Self-Esteem, FOX 6, Girls with Low Self-Esteem, Hindsight with John Beard, homosexual, hospital, juice, let me finish, light treason, Livres Aux Folles: Books of a Feather, Mardi Gras, mini-mansions, no touching, North Roast Coffee, Sea Wind, shoddy workmanship, soda, teaching lessons, The Man Inside Me, “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
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- Broadcast 122
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- June 6, 2004
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The family heads for the hospital when George Sr. has a heart attack, only to discover he is en route to Mexico with Kitty; Lindsay decides to leave Tobias but is stopped when a book he wrote several years before becomes a gay bestseller; Maeby is jealous when George Michael likes another girl; Buster and Annyong compete for women.
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Lindsay: Is that a shot at me?
G.O.B.: Probably.
Lindsay: Because, for your information, I have a job.
Michael: Really? What kind of job?
Lindsay: Beads!
G.O.B.: Bees?!
Lindsay: Beads.
G.O.B.: Beads?!
Michael: G.O.B.’s not on board.
G.O.B.: I’ll handle this one, Michael. Don’t you worry. It will take a lot more than a heart attack to kill that old bear. Old bear! He likes the honey. He never got a chance to see my bee business take off.
Michael: Come on, now, Dad’s going to be around another 30 years, G.O.B. Your business, uh, might not.
G.O.B.: You’re a good brother, Michael. Heart attack never stopped old Big Bear.
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« Older posts#36 Honei wrote on May 02, 2006:
I’m sorry, but I just have to restate this again (indulge me)
"Beads."
"Bees?"
"BeadS"
"Beads??!"
.......
"We’re gonna need a lot of money; beads aren’t cheap. Are beads cheap?"
Just the way he says it, all authoritative. Hehee.
#37 waytoplant wrote on May 24, 2006:
Rewatched this on DVD last night and was reminded of how bleeping funny it is.
It’s paydirt for GOB fans. Not only does it have all the hilarious bits noted previously (bees/beads, old Big Bear, etc.)
but also other GOB classics:
- "Macaroni . . . let me finish. . . salad," along with the rest of his completely nonresponsive dialogue with Kitty
- The brilliant monologue at the hospital starting with "I’m in charge now. I speak for this family" to "I’m sick of doing everything for this family."
- "Oh, that is just great. Now I’m expected to climb back on top of Kitty and do my thing again. I mean, this family runs into problems and it’s ’Oh, let’s have G.O.B. (bleep) our way out of it.’" Plus Lucille’s expression, of course.
- "the matriarch, if you will"
#38 apple2991 wrote on June 27, 2006:
Perhaps I am being entirely obtuse here, but is there a hidden joke or meaning to the "bees" theme throughout the episode?
I understand it is just funny, and I may be looking for too much meaning. The part I particularly don’t understand is why GOB is tackled by the guards in prison and Lucille says "They don’t allow you to have bees in here." Is this a reference to something else in the show (or something else in pop culture), or is it just isolated randomness?
#39 Beamer wrote on June 28, 2006:
Have YOU ever tried to take bees into a prison? One word of advice: Don’t.
Although, in all seriousness, I’m pretty sure it’s just isolated randomness. And a great joke about how stupid Gob is. I mean, come on! He thinks that bees would make a good gift! That one little idea alone just says so much about his character. 
#40 Musty Old Claptrap wrote on June 28, 2006:
"or just as gifts" has to be one of my favourite GOB lines, he sounds so sincere and excited about his little bee business.
#41 Warren wrote on July 01, 2006:
TObias keeps bring up "douche chill" in this episode. what dose this refer to?
#42 vcalzone wrote on July 01, 2006:
slang to describe something awkward. More that isn’t really suitable to put here at the Urban Dictionary.
#43 yellow bowtie wrote on August 06, 2007:
i’m curious about a reference in the "learn" section of the episode:
taker
Michael says Lindsay is a “taker,” a callback to Best Man for the GOB, when Tobias says the family are “pushers not takers.”
is it just me or does this never happen? i remember michael referring to lindsay as a "taker" in the one where they build a house, but nothing at all like that in this episode. the script search i ran backed up my claim. still i’m curious if it’s me that’s missing something.
#44 Phil Love AD! wrote on August 06, 2007:
yellow bowtie wrote:taker
Michael says Lindsay is a “taker,” a callback to Best Man for the GOB, when Tobias says the family are “pushers not takers.”
is it just me or does this never happen?.
It’s not just you, it indeed never happens.. well, not in this episode anyway.
#45 Cheeseball701 wrote on September 20, 2009:
I found a couple of subtle call-forwards:
-Kitty asks George to have "one conversation not about my rack" which is a call-forward to the model homes in iraq.
-Annyong and Maeybe play reversi during the "On the next season of Arrested Development" segment. Which I think points to the use of that segment to have big reversals in the plot of the show.
