Tobia's little hotpants. I hope this is just the beginning.
Narrator: "Michael Bluth had called a meeting with the family's long-time attorney to discuss his father's incarceration."
Attorney: "I am so sorry. It was a client."
Wayne Jarvis: "We're going to get this company's name back to where it started."
Michael: "Or hopefully higher."
Wayne Jarvis: "I didn't say that. Don't hold me on that."
Michael: "I won't, and I appreciate that to a wonderful degree."
Michael: "Yeah, he's here."Mum: "Why did you do this?!"
Lindsay: "We were trying to teach you a lesson."
Mum: "You idiots. If he sees me with Wayne..."
Michael: "We'll be stuck with Barry."Gob: "Michael! I'm on to you! The Spanish lessons, the lawyer! If you're heading for Portugal, it's due south!"
7/10
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-06-08T02:11:34Z
[8.6/10] As a rewatcher, there’s so much to celebrate from this episode. First appearance of Barry Zuckercorn! First appearance of Wayne Jarvis! First time we’re ever introduced to the fact that Tobias is a never-nude!
But it’s not just the beginnings of great things, it’s an awesome episode all to itself, with so many great and uproariously funny individual plot threads that intersect in clever and hilarious ways. The best of them is the main story, where Lucille dislikes that Michael and Lindsay are getting along, and so comes up with myriad ways to turn them against each other. How well she manages to play that game, with Michaels and Lindsay’s abortive attempts to get back at their queen of machinations mom is great.
There’s more great Buster-Lucille 2 material, with Buster unloading his role as Adam in the living painting pageant so he can go out with Lucille, only to realize it would expose his secret to his mom. It’s broad, but funny.
The same goes for GOB mistaking Michael trying to impress Marta by learning Spanish and Maeby trying to get her parents’ attention with a fake plane ticket for the idea that Michael is skipping the country. The way it turns into a boy-fight, replete with George Sr. trying to run away in his god costume is superb.
But the best subplot is the nevernude stuff. For one thing, George Michael trying to wear the muscle suit all the time is just a ridiculous image, but Tobias’s misplaced efforts to support his nephew in what he believes to be a shared condition just crack me up every time.
Overall, this is the show firing on almost every cylinder.