Maeby: "I know, it's our parents' faults. We should teach them a lesson."
George: [Laughing.] "Yeah... yeah... No, I-I don't think so."
Police: "Prepare to be boarded! Prepare to be boarded!"
George: "I knew it was against the law!"Gob: "Look, just stay in the box. I'll make you disappear."
Michael: "Okay, guys, um... they are gonna keep Dad in prison at least until this gets all sorted out. Also the attorney said that they're going to have to put a halt on the company's expense account."
[Everyone gasps.]
Michael: "Interesting. I would've expected that after 'They're keeping Dad in jail.'"Stranger: "I'll be honest, I'm just more comfortable with an Alliance-approved magician."
Gob: "Aw. Give 'em hell of a show, champ."
Stranger 2: "(Bleep) off, traitor."Dad: "They can not arrest a husband and wife... for the same crime."
[Dad winks and sips his beverage.]
George: "Yeah? I don't think that that's true, Dad."
Dad: "Really?"
[George nods. Dad takes off his glasses.]
Dad: "I've got the worst (bleep) attorneys."
6/10
Being a serial 'I'm gonna start watching this show but only watch the first few episodes but when I decide to carry on I have to watch from the beginning again', I got a bit bored during the pilot as I've watched it a few times before. Still, I really think this sets up for some great comedy. The family are outrageous and the style and editing is cute if a little dated but it is interesting.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-06-01T04:10:18Z
[7.3/10] Only rating this one so low since I know the heights this hits later. The pilot isn’t as crisp in its editing and jokes as the show would later become, but it’s still a great intro the show and its comic sensibility. You get a good sense of who each of the Bluths is, why they’re terrible, and it sets up lots of the basic premises of the show -- like Michael trying to save the family, the model home, George Michael’s crush on Maeby, Tobias’s fluid sexual orientation and desire to be an actor, etc. etc. etc.
Plus there’s the great little setups and misdirects, like Buster’s cartography, panic attacks, and drum skills arising at funny moments, or the monopoly game coming back. And you get nice character establishing moments, like George Michael parroting things Michael says without knowing what they mean, or Lindsey’s faux-activism and GOB’s magic fascination. And man, while it took some time for various bits of the show to really ramp up, the back-and-forth between Michael and Lucille is classic right out of the gate.
Overall, a fine start for the show that would have been a stellar outing for most other series, but falls somewhere in the middle of the bell curve for AD given how great it gets down the line.