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| "'''Queen for a Day'''" is the eighth episode of the ] of the American television ] ] '']''. It is the 30th overall episode of the series, and was written by producer ] and directed by ]. It originally aired on ] on January 23, 2005. | |||
| The series, narrated by ], follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, ], who made their money from property development. The Bluth family consists of ], his twin sister ], his older brother ], his younger brother ], their mother ] and father ], as well as Michael's son ], and Lindsay and her husband ]' daughter ]. In the episode, when the Bluth company stock is unfrozen, Michael sells his shares to buy a new Corvette and Tobias uses his shares to purchase a gay nightclub called the "Queen Mary". | |||
| '''"Queen for a Day"''' was the 30th episode aired of TV comedy series '']''. | |||
| == |
== Plot == | ||
| ] (]) comes across a box of love letters he had written but never sent to ] (]), and hides them in the attic, while at the studio, ] (]) tells Maeby that he is waiting on notes for a pile of scripts he sent her. ] (]) asks ] (]) to go dancing with him while he is on ], but Michael declines and ] (]) offers to go instead. ] (]), wanting a job at the Bluth company after being fired by ] (]), says that he wants a company car since he had one at Sitwell. ] (]) tells Michael how bored he is in the attic and asks for some reading material. ] (]) tells Michael that the company stock is unfrozen, and Michael asks if he could sell enough to buy a car, and Barry says as long as everyone doesn't sell it would be fine because they could lose control of the company. | |||
| After Maeby gets a paper cut from reading her scripts and quits, George Sr. is happy to have something to read, and begins to make notes on them. Michael buys an expensive sports car, and Tobias brings Buster to the "Queen Mary" where he meets ] (]), and Michael introduces ] (]) to Buster, who have the same interests as each other. Michael discovers that Lucille has had some work done in the bathroom, which stole some space from Lucille 2's apartment, and that she paid for it with her portion of the unfrozen stock. He learns that Gob is planning on buying a yacht, Lindsay promised her share to the country club, and Tobias had already bought the Queen Mary. Barry tells Michael that they're 2000 shares short of being the majority stock holders, and the current majority stock holder is a company called Standpoor, which Michael assumes is Sitwell since it's the opposite, and Lucille tells him that it's Lucille 2's company. | |||
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| Michael and Lucille decide to give Buster to Lucille Austero, taking him away from Starla. When he is confronted by a group of roughnecks outside the Queen Mary, Tobias recruits them as dancers. At the office, after Buster breaks up with Starla, Michael tells him to stick with Starla and says he'll take care of Lucille 2. Michael brings Lucille 2 for a ride in his new car, which retriggers her vertigo. Tobias takes his gang on the street where they meet a real gang which they try to turn to good, and are subsequently beaten and one of them is shot. Michael apologizes to Lucille 2 and confesses that the only reason Buster had asked her out that night was because they wanted to get control of the company again, and Lucille says that she loves the Bluths and agrees to give Michael the shares necessary for him to regain control of the company. Gob comes into Michael's office and says he slept with Lucille 2, and she's not going to give the shares back, but is going to make Gob president of the company again. | |||
| As George Michael is getting ready for school he comes across a box of love letters he'd written but never sent to Maeby. Michael comes in to offer George Michael a ride to school, causing George Michael to lay over the spread out love letters to hide them. George Michael tells Michael he's getting a ride in with the Veals and goes to hide the love letters in the attic. | |||
| === On the next ''Arrested Development''... === | |||
| Maeby meanwhile is at the studio when Mort Meyers asks he if she'd read the pile of scripts he'd sent her and that he's expecting her notes on them. Maeby uses her "Marry me" deflection to get out of this. | |||
| Lucille 2 pushes her wall back, giving Lucille Bluth's bathroom less space, Tobias sells the Queen Mary to Barry, and Gob becomes needy with Lucille 2. | |||
| == Production == | |||
| Back at the house Buster comes in because he's on furlough and everyone is out dancing with their girl and he's at home sitting around with Lucille. Michael mentions that Buster should go out and meet women who haven't given birth to him. Buster asks Michael to go out with him but he says he schedule is too busy, Tobias offers to be Busters wingman even if it means him having to take a chubby. G.O.B. come home because he was fired from Sitwell Enterprises because he kept pushing his Single City idea which became Swing City which became F**k City. G.O.B. wants his old job back at the Bluth company but says that he wants a company car since he had one at Sitwell. G.O.B. also mentions that George Sr. gave him a company car, Michael goes upstairs to the attic to confront his father about this. While upstairs George Sr. tells Michael how bored he is in the attic and asks for some reading material. | |||
| "Queen for a Day" was directed by ] and written by producer ]. It was Fleming's first and only directing credit and Copeland's fifth writing credit.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arrested Development |url=https://directories.wga.org/project/192692/arrested-development/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=directories.wga.org}}</ref> It was the eighth episode of the ] to be filmed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-10-30 |title=20th Century Fox - Fox In Flight |url=http://www.foxinflight.com/tv/8/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030035137/http://www.foxinflight.com/tv/8/ |archive-date=2011-10-30 }}</ref> | |||
| == Reception == | |||
| At the office G.O.B. tries to convince Michael to give him his old job back and says he will prove to Michael that he deserves it... and then promptly leaves. Barry is waiting for Michael in his office and tells Michael that the company stock is unfrozen. Michael asks if he could sell enough to buy a car, Barry says as long as everyone doesn't sell it would be fine because they could lose control of the company. | |||
| === Viewers === | |||
| Back at the house in the attic Maeby is reading her scripts and gets a paper cut from one of them and calls it quits. George Sr. is only too happy to have something to read and he begins to make notes on them. | |||
| In the United States, the episode was watched by 5.20 million viewers on its original broadcast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disney General Entertainment Press – Disney General Entertainment Press |url=https://www.dgepress.com/ |access-date=2024-07-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| === Critical reception === | |||
| Michael goes to the car salesman to buy a modest economical car and ends up buying an expensive sports car. | |||
| '']'' writer Noel Murray praised the episode, and commented on how "After several consecutive ''Arrested Development'' episodes with strong main plots alongside the subplots and serialization, “Queen For A Day” is pretty heavily skewed to the serialized side".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2012-06-27 |title=Arrested Development: "Switch Hitter"/"Queen For A Day" |url=https://www.avclub.com/arrested-development-switch-hitter-queen-for-a-day-1798173305 |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en}}</ref> In 2019, Brian Tallerico from '']'' ranked the episode 68th out of the whole series, calling it "yet another mid-season sag of an episode."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tallerico |first=Brian |date=2019-03-18 |title=Every Episode of Arrested Development, Ranked |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/arrested-development-every-episode-ranked-worst-to-best.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Vulture |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| == References == | |||
| Tobias brings Buster to the Queen Mary where he meets Lucille 2, she just got back from a month long stay at the Plumb Clinc, a clinic specializing in the treatment of ]. | |||
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| Michael is called to Lucille's apartment where he learns that Buster is back with Lucille 2. Thinking that something urgent had come up Michael had asked Starla to bring some documents over to the apartment. Michael introduces Starla and Buster who have the same interests as each other (they both love their mothers). Michael discovers that Lucille has had some work done in the bathroom, a larger tub has been installed. Lucille was supposed to let some workers into Lucille 2's apartment but instead had them do work on her bathroom and had them move the wall a couple inches into Lucille 2's apartment, she paid for it with her portion of the unfrozen stock. | |||
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| Michael returns home to make sure the others have no spent their unfrozen stock. He learns that G.O.B. is going to get a yacht, Lindsey promised her share to the country club and that Tobias bought the Queen Mary. | |||
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| Michael is in the office asking Barry about the company stocks, he learns that they're 2000 shares short of being the majority stock holders the current majority stock holder is a company called Standpoor, which Michael assumes is Sitwell since it's the opposite. Lucille calls wondering if the Bluths had really lost contol of the company, Michael mentions Standpoor and Lucille tells him that it's Lucille 2, Standpoor because she can't stand up without falling down. Lucille says that Lucille 2 is trying to get back at her for the wall moving. Michael and Lucille decide to give Lucille 2 Buster, taking him away from Starla. | |||
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| Meanwhile Tobias is in front of his newly purchased club, The Queen Mary, discussing a mistake the sign maker made, writing "Tobias is Queen Mary" instead of "Tobias's Queen Mary" when he is confronted by a group of roughnecks, really the Hot Cops hired by Lindsey to scare Tobias into selling the club. Tobias ends up recruiting the gang as dancers. | |||
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| At the office Buster breaks up with Starla, once Michael learns of this and the fact that Buster didn't sell his stock as to not hurt the family Michael tells Buster to stick with Starla and says he'll take care of Lucille 2. Michael brings Lucille 2 for a ride in his new car, which retriggers her vertigo. | |||
| That night Tobias takes his gang on the street where they meet a real gang which they try to turn to good. They are subsequently beaten and one of the Hot Cops is shot. | |||
| Back at the Tobias is Queen Mary Michael apologizes to Lucille 2 and confesses that the only reason Buster had asker her out that night was because they wanted to get control of the company again. Lucille 2 mentions that she loves the Bluths and that she's had an order to buy all outstanding Bluth Company stock. Lucille 2 agrees to give Michael the stocks necessary for him to regain control of the company. | |||
| The next day G.O.B. comes into Michaels office and says that he's fixed all the company's problems. We find out that G.O.B. 'ed Lucille 2 and that she's going to make him president of the company again. As president G.O.B. mentions that he's going to need the company car. | |||
| In the "On the next..." we see Tobias selling the Queen Mary to Barry. | |||
| ==Episode Notes== | |||
| {{spoiler-about|this and future episodes}} | |||
| ===References=== | |||
| * '']'' - The night that the prison George Sr. stayed at had both a movie night and a knife fight was when the movie shown was Soapdish. | |||
| * '']'' - George Sr. asks "Pop-Pop gets a Grisham?" When he's telling Michael how bored he is in the attic. | |||
| * '']'' - Starla says that her mother and Quincy Jones are the two most important people to her. | |||
| * '']'' - Barry mentions that his lawsuit against the LA Kings is moving forward, mentioning "Maybe I stood above the ]® and a puck hit me, it could happen". | |||
| * '']'' - Tobias sings this song in the Queen Mary | |||
| ** '']'' - When Tobias sings New York, New York, Lucille 2 says "Everyone thinks they're Frank Sinatra." | |||
| * '']'' - Michael buys a Corvette as the company car in this episode. | |||
| * '']'' - Barry gets his knowledge about private stocks and their acquisition from Ask Jeeves. | |||
| * '']'' - When Oscar mentions that they're going to need a new floating thermometer he also asks for Lucille's Blue Cross number implying he's done something with it that now requires medical attention. | |||
| * '']'' - The Hot Cops mention wanting to do Rent when Tobias recruits them. | |||
| * ] - Poster outside the Queen Mary. | |||
| ===Callbacks/Running Jokes=== | |||
| * ''Incest'' - When George Michael is getting ready for school him comes across a box of love letters he'd written but never sent to Maeby. | |||
| * ''Marry me'' | |||
| ** Maeby uses this deflection when Mort Meyers asks Maeby if she'd gotten the scripts he'd sent her because he needs her notes on them. | |||
| * ''Tobias is gay'' | |||
| ** When Buster comes to the house because he's on furlough and everyone is out dancing with their girl, Tobias mentions "My schedule is as open as my relationship with my wife. So why don't we pair up?". | |||
| ** In the same scene Tobias mentions that he could be Buster's wingman and continues to say "Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up". | |||
| ** Tobias brings Buster to a drag bar saying "This place is exactly what I'd hoped for." | |||
| ** Tobias was dancing with "what turned out to be" the Queen Mary's owner at the club. In his defense he says "Oh, he really, really did look like a woman." | |||
| ** The sign on the Queen Mary is changed to "Tobias is Queen Mary" after Tobias assumes ownership. This is a mistake as it should read "Tobias' Queen Mary", although instead of seeing this as the error, he mentions that it's not too bad, and he could just paint over "Mary". The sign would then read "Tobias is Queen" | |||
| * ''Bleeps'' | |||
| ** When G.O.B. keeps pushing his single population housing development the name evolves from Single City to Swing City to City. | |||
| ** When G.O.B. tries to convince Michael to hire him back he says "I'm an ideas man, I think I proved that with Mountain. | |||
| ** When Maeby is reading scripts in the attic she gets a paper cut from one of them and says "Ow, back to film school ." | |||
| ** While describing how G.O.B. tried to fix the company's stock problem the narrator says "So G.O.B. Lucille 2." | |||
| * ''Hop-ons'' | |||
| ** When Michael confronts his father about him giving everyone a company car but him, he says that he driving a staircase and that it smells like gas and he gets hop-ons. George Sr. says "Well of course you're going to get hop-ons." | |||
| ** When Michael is at the car lot the salesman said that Michael took down their banner with the stair car he replies "Yeah. Sorry. I got a hop-on. I got distracted". | |||
| * ''Her?'' - When Michael tells his father that George Michael doesn't like to be seen in the stair-car. His father replies "But he likes being seen with that girl." Michael says "It makes no sense. I know." | |||
| * ''Banner'' | |||
| ** George Michael is embarssed to be seen in the staircar since it took down the homecomming banner | |||
| ** Michael took down the car sales lots banner with the staircar. | |||
| * ''Come on'' - When Michael asks G.O.B. if he had sold his stock, G.O.B. replies "What? No. I'm trying to get a job from you. Mikey. Come on." | |||
| * ''Wink'' | |||
| ** When Barry explains why he's wearing an eye patch he says "You can't see it. I just winked." and Michael winks back. | |||
| ** When Maeby goes to thank George Michael for annotating the scripts, she thanks George Michael for his "notes" and tells him not to tell anyone, afterward she gives him a wink. | |||
| * ''Sitwell's Hair'' | |||
| ** G.O.B. steals Sitwell's dress eyebrows when he gets fired. | |||
| ** In the office G.O.B. is wearing Sitwell's eyebrows saying that "They make me feel dressier". | |||
| * ''Blue dot'' - The blue dot makes an appearance when George Sr. gets up from a bean bag chair wearing a bathrobe. | |||
| * ''Hot Cops'' - The hot cops are hired by Lindsey to scare Tobias into getting rid of The Queen Mary, Tobias recruits them as his personal gang of dancers. | |||
| * ''Vertigo'' - Lucille 2's vertigo is cured and subsequently retriggered in this episode. | |||
| ===Hidden/Background Jokes=== | |||
| * ''Freedom'' - The "Freedom" sign carrying guy is in the Queen Mary when Tobias and Buster go visit. | |||
| * When Tobias sings New York, New York, Lucille 2, played by Liza Minnelli, says everyone thinks they're Frank Sinatra. Liza Minnelli originally performed the song in the movie with same name, two years later however the song was performed by Frank Sinatra and it became associated with him. | |||
| * A sign outside the Queen Mary shows pictures of ]. | |||
| ===Character Cameos=== | |||
| * ] appears as ] | |||
| * ] appears as ] | |||
| * ] appears as ] | |||
| * ] appears as ] | |||
| ===Foreshadowing/Future References=== | |||
| ===Goofs=== | |||
| ==Sources== | |||
| ] | |||
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8th episode of the 2nd season of Arrested Development| "Queen for a Day" | |||
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| Arrested Development episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 8 | ||
| Directed by | Andrew Fleming | ||
| Written by | Brad Copeland | ||
| Cinematography by | Greg Harrington | ||
| Editing by | Richard Candib | ||
| Production code | 2AJD08 | ||
| Original air date | January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23) | ||
| Running time | 22 minutes | ||
| Guest appearances | |||
| Episode chronology | |||
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| Arrested Development season 2 | |||
| List of episodes | |||
"Queen for a Day" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development. It is the 30th overall episode of the series, and was written by producer Brad Copeland and directed by Andrew Fleming. It originally aired on Fox on January 23, 2005.
The series, narrated by Ron Howard, follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family, who made their money from property development. The Bluth family consists of Michael, his twin sister Lindsay, his older brother Gob, his younger brother Buster, their mother Lucille and father George Sr., as well as Michael's son George Michael, and Lindsay and her husband Tobias' daughter Maeby. In the episode, when the Bluth company stock is unfrozen, Michael sells his shares to buy a new Corvette and Tobias uses his shares to purchase a gay nightclub called the "Queen Mary".
Plot
George Michael (Michael Cera) comes across a box of love letters he had written but never sent to Maeby (Alia Shawkat), and hides them in the attic, while at the studio, Mort Meyers (Jeff Garlin) tells Maeby that he is waiting on notes for a pile of scripts he sent her. Buster (Tony Hale) asks Michael (Jason Bateman) to go dancing with him while he is on furlough, but Michael declines and Tobias (David Cross) offers to go instead. Gob (Will Arnett), wanting a job at the Bluth company after being fired by Stan Sitwell (Ed Begley Jr.), says that he wants a company car since he had one at Sitwell. George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) tells Michael how bored he is in the attic and asks for some reading material. Barry (Henry Winkler) tells Michael that the company stock is unfrozen, and Michael asks if he could sell enough to buy a car, and Barry says as long as everyone doesn't sell it would be fine because they could lose control of the company.
After Maeby gets a paper cut from reading her scripts and quits, George Sr. is happy to have something to read, and begins to make notes on them. Michael buys an expensive sports car, and Tobias brings Buster to the "Queen Mary" where he meets Lucille Austero (Liza Minnelli), and Michael introduces Starla (Mo Collins) to Buster, who have the same interests as each other. Michael discovers that Lucille has had some work done in the bathroom, which stole some space from Lucille 2's apartment, and that she paid for it with her portion of the unfrozen stock. He learns that Gob is planning on buying a yacht, Lindsay promised her share to the country club, and Tobias had already bought the Queen Mary. Barry tells Michael that they're 2000 shares short of being the majority stock holders, and the current majority stock holder is a company called Standpoor, which Michael assumes is Sitwell since it's the opposite, and Lucille tells him that it's Lucille 2's company.
Michael and Lucille decide to give Buster to Lucille Austero, taking him away from Starla. When he is confronted by a group of roughnecks outside the Queen Mary, Tobias recruits them as dancers. At the office, after Buster breaks up with Starla, Michael tells him to stick with Starla and says he'll take care of Lucille 2. Michael brings Lucille 2 for a ride in his new car, which retriggers her vertigo. Tobias takes his gang on the street where they meet a real gang which they try to turn to good, and are subsequently beaten and one of them is shot. Michael apologizes to Lucille 2 and confesses that the only reason Buster had asked her out that night was because they wanted to get control of the company again, and Lucille says that she loves the Bluths and agrees to give Michael the shares necessary for him to regain control of the company. Gob comes into Michael's office and says he slept with Lucille 2, and she's not going to give the shares back, but is going to make Gob president of the company again.
On the next Arrested Development...
Lucille 2 pushes her wall back, giving Lucille Bluth's bathroom less space, Tobias sells the Queen Mary to Barry, and Gob becomes needy with Lucille 2.
Production
"Queen for a Day" was directed by Andrew Fleming and written by producer Brad Copeland. It was Fleming's first and only directing credit and Copeland's fifth writing credit. It was the eighth episode of the season to be filmed.
Reception
Viewers
In the United States, the episode was watched by 5.20 million viewers on its original broadcast.
Critical reception
The A.V. Club writer Noel Murray praised the episode, and commented on how "After several consecutive Arrested Development episodes with strong main plots alongside the subplots and serialization, “Queen For A Day” is pretty heavily skewed to the serialized side". In 2019, Brian Tallerico from Vulture ranked the episode 68th out of the whole series, calling it "yet another mid-season sag of an episode."
References
- "Arrested Development". directories.wga.org. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
- "20th Century Fox - Fox In Flight". 2011-10-30. Archived from the original on 2011-10-30. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
- "Disney General Entertainment Press – Disney General Entertainment Press". Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- "Arrested Development: "Switch Hitter"/"Queen For A Day"". The A.V. Club. 2012-06-27. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- Tallerico, Brian (2019-03-18). "Every Episode of Arrested Development, Ranked". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-07-07.