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Family Ties
Written by Rob Weiner.
Revision: 1.4
Narrator: It’s Arrested Development.
Narrator: Michael Bluth believed he just made a shocking discovery.
Michael: That might be an older sister that we’ve never met.
Lindsay: Wow! Look at the beak on that bird.
Obviously, Lindsay doesn’t realize she’s talking about her own beak.
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4.35 (34 votes) Narrator: Michael found the picture in a secret room while looking for incriminating evidence against his father.
Michael: I have an older sister?
Michael: Don’t you kind of remember having an older sister?
Lindsay: Not at all. What? Do you?
Michael: A little bit. You know, I mean, Nellie does sound familiar. Mom and Dad clearly were trying to keep this hidden from us.
Lindsay: But this could be anybody. This could be a deformed neighbor or...
Michael: A child that Mom and Dad gave up for some reason, and whose identity they’re now using to pin their crimes on. You know, the prosecutor said that there was that account with money in it labeled “N. Bluth.” Her name is Nellie.
Lindsay: Michael, do you remember when you thought there was a mysterious “Mr. F” out to get you?
Music: / Mr. F... /
Michael: Yeah, but that was retar... misguided.
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4.56 (115 votes) Michael: This is different. This is “N. Bluth.”
Music: / Different. /
Lindsay: Well, why don’t you just go to Dad and ask him who Nellie is, point-blank?
Michael: So he can just cover it up and lie? I can’t stand to hear one more lie out of this family.
Tobias: Oh, there’s the woman I’m sexually attracted to.
Michael: Okay, but that’s the last one.
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4.59 (81 votes) Tobias: Well, I’m off to the the gym to prepare for our tryst.
Michael: Tryst?
Tobias: Yes. Lindsay and I are planning a night of heterosexual intercourse.
Michael: You can just say intercourse.
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4.60 (119 votes) Lindsay: We talked about it last night.
Narrator: ... after a disappointing attempt at lovemaking.
Tobias: Aw, this isn’t going to happen. I just want you to be satisfied.
Lindsay: Oh, T, you’re always thinking of others.
Tobias: I tried that. It didn’t work either.
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4.57 (72 votes) Lindsay: Well, you know, maybe I would be more attracted to you if you were in better shape. You know, if were just more muscular and masculine. Does that make me shallow?
Tobias: No. I was going to say the same thing to you.
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4.57 (72 votes) Tobias: Maybe we should take a little time to work on ourselves, and then we’ll plan a special night in seven or eight days.
Lindsay: Or a couple of weeks.
Tobias: Let’s say three weeks.
Lindsay: We’re going to go for it in a month.
Tobias: Starting at the start of next month.
Lindsay: And we’re going to call it a 31-day month.
Tobias: Even though is particular month has 30 days.
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4.42 (43 votes) Lindsay: Oh, you know what? I’ve already prepared a list of “won’ts.”
Tobias: Oh, you’re lot going to believe this. My list of “can’ts.”
Michael: Marital love can be so romantic.
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4.49 (41 votes)
