Episode Transcript
Written by Jim Vallely and Mitchell Hurwitz.
Revision: 1.5
Narrator: Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It’s Arrested Development.
Narrator: Michael Bluth began his day with something he’d never seen before.
Jim Cramer: (On television.) I’m hearing good things about the Bluth Company. What do you think?
Narrator: Good news about his family’s housing business.
Jim Cramer: Old Man Bluth’s in jail. I think his son is running the company. Doesn’t seem like a total moron to me. You know what? I’ve had this thing as a triple sell, and I am upgrading it, right here, right now! I think this thing could even go as high as a “Don’t Buy.”
Michael: “Don’t Buy!” Huh? Mom, did you see that?
Jim Cramer: Don’t buy Bluth!
Michael: You build a house that’s good, people are going to want to come... (Trips and falls into sinkhole.) The sinkhole spread a little bit more last night?
CC: Ow, okay... That didn’t hurt too bad that time.
Anyway, I’m going to go to the prison. I’m going to tell Dad about this news.Lucille: I thought you said we shouldn’t visit him.
Michael: Uh, visit, no. Gloat, yes. I’ve worked very, very hard for this. I sold the cabin property to keep us afloat. I haven’t had any time to spend with my son.
Lucille: Well, now you can spend time with my son. I want your brother Buster to come live with you. And it’s not because he has that horrible hook for a hand now. It’s the snoring. Listen to this.
Lucille: You won’t even know he’s here.
Lucille: I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I went off my post-partum medication.
Michael: You were still taking that? You had Buster 32 years ago.
Lucille: And that’s how long I’ve been depressed about him. Actually, I did go off it in the early ’90s, but I didn’t like what happened to me.
- Lupe’s sweatshirt
- In the 1994 flashback, the Bluths’ maid (neither Lupe nor Luz) is wearing a Bush/Quayle sweatshirt, once again demonstrating a family maid wearing an outdated clothing item, since Bush/Quayle lost the 1992 election.
- Susan Smith
- The news story is about Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons.
- Native American tribal ceremonies
- In the 1994 flashback, Buster is seen beating on a Native American drum.
John Beard: Claiming she could take it no more, the young mother released the emergency brake, allowing her car to roll backwards into the nearby lake.
Lucille: Good for her!
Michael: Why’d you go off them this time?
Michael: Maybe you should get away from Buster. Why don’t you go up to the cabin in the woods?
Lucille: I thought you said we sold it.
Michael: We sold the property. I worked it out so that we could relocate the cabin, but it is going to be up in Tahoe for another couple of days. Maybe you can take a date up there.
Michael: Please get back on the meds, Mom. We miss the old, old you.
Door creaking.
