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Director |
Original Airdate |
Designation |
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"Pilot" (also available on DVD as an extended cut) |
Mitchell Hurwitz |
Anthony Russo and Joe Russo |
November 2, 2003 |
1AJD79 |
1
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| Michael anticipates becoming the new president of his father's home-building company, having put up with his family for years in order to achieve it. This includes living in the attic of a model home with his son George Michael, and learning his sister Lindsay, brother-in-law Tobias and niece Maeby to have been in town for a month without telling him. Instead, the position is given to his mother Lucille, shortly before his father George Sr. is arrested.
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| File:Arrested Development - Top Banana.jpg |
"Top Banana" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and John Levenstein |
Anthony Russo |
November 9, 2003 |
1AJD01 |
2
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| The family's frozen banana stand has burned down. Flashing back to a week before, we see the events leading up to this: Michael is trying to get George Sr. to tell him where company money is being hidden; George Michael has to work through his crush on Maeby when she begins working at the stand; and Tobias gets an audition for a commercial.
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| File:Arrested Development - Bringing Up Buster.jpg |
"Bringing Up Buster" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Rosenstock |
Joe Russo |
November 16, 2003 |
1AJD02 |
3
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| Lucille grows annoyed of Buster and leaves him to work with Michael for a day. Tobias takes over directing of George Michael and Maeby's school play to get closer to his daughter, but his false assumptions lead the production astray.
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| File:Arrested Development Key Decisions2.jpg |
"Key Decisions" |
Brad Copeland |
Anthony Russo |
November 23, 2003 |
1AJD03 |
4
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| G.O.B. announces his intent to escape from the prison holding George Sr., but can't privately pass a key he swallowed. In the meantime, Michael falls for G.O.B.'s girlfriend Marta while accompanying her to an awards show, where Buster accidentally flirts with Lucille's friend, Lucille Austero. Lindsay returns to her activist roots when trying to convince a man to get down from a Bluth property tree.
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| File:Arrested Development - Visiting Ours.jpg |
"Visiting Ours" |
John Levenstein and Richard Rosenstock |
Greg Mottola |
December 7, 2003 |
1AJD04 |
5
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| Michael convinces G.O.B. to seduce George Sr.'s assistant Kitty to gain bookkeeping information. Tobias and Lindsay begin attending marriage counseling. George Sr. reveals he's become horny - and wants a conjugal visit from his old lover.
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| File:Arrested Development - Charity Drive.jpg |
"Charity Drive" |
Barbara Feldman |
Greg Mottola |
November 30, 2003 |
1AJD05 |
6
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| In search of the company car among the family members, Michael is forced to send G.O.B. to break into a permit office at George Sr.'s encouragement, and to weather complaints of selfishness from family members participating in a charity bachelorette auction.
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| File:Arrested Development - My Mother, The Car.jpg |
"My Mother, The Car" |
Jay Martin |
Jay Chandrasekhar |
December 21, 2003 |
1AJD07 |
7
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| Michael and Lucille begin to bond while his siblings become especially ignorant. Lucille then pins a car crash on Michael, who was originally knocked unconscious in the passenger seat and is suffering short-term memory loss. Lindsay worries she's grown unattractive when she receives no attention from inmates while visiting her father.
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| File:Arrested Development - In God We Trust.jpg |
"In God We Trust" |
Abraham Higginbotham |
Joe Russo |
December 14, 2003 |
1AJD06 |
8
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| George Sr. is to be released for an afternoon to take part in a pageant of living art representations, playing God in Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Adam", while George Michael, Buster and Tobias, all with different motivations, argue over who plays Adam.
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| File:Arrested Development - Storming The Castle.jpg |
"Storming the Castle" |
Jason Cahill, Robin Green and Brad Copeland |
Greg Mottola |
January 4, 2004 |
1AJD08 |
9
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| After Lindsay says that Michael is too much of a good guy to make a move on Marta, he devises a plan to have the girlfriend meet G.O.B.'s second lover during his magic act. George Sr. discovers Judaism.
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| File:Arrested Development - Pier Pressure.jpg |
"Pier Pressure" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely |
Joe Russo |
January 11, 2004 |
1AJD09 |
10
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| A trap is set when Michael thinks his son has started using marijuana, when in fact Buster asked George Michael for the drug to treat Lucille Austero's vertigo. Maeby spends time bonding with her grandmother, to Lindsay's resentment.
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"Public Relations" |
Courtney Lilly |
Lee Shallat-Chemel |
January 25, 2004 |
1AJD10 |
11
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| After a series of negative publicity, Michael hires a female publicist for the family, who turns against them when he decides they shouldn't date in the interest of George Michael.
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| File:Arrested Development - Marta Complex.jpg |
"Marta Complex" |
John Levenstein and Jim Vallely |
Joe Russo |
February 8, 2004 |
1AJD11 |
12
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| On Valentine's Day, Marta begins to fall for Michael, to his and G.O.B.'s misunderstanding; George Michael investigates his cousin's parentage for validation of his crush; Buster moves out of his mother's aparetment; and Lindsay wants a divorce from Tobias.
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| File:Arrested Development - Beef Consomme.jpg |
"Beef Consomme" |
Chuck Martin & Richard Rosenstock |
Jay Chandrasekhar |
February 15, 2004 |
1AJD12 |
13
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| An arraignment hearing for George Sr. in which the family must appear is jeopardized as Michael and Marta feel guilt in starting a relationship behind G.O.B.'s back, while he goes hunting for the man he believes to be sleeping with her.
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"Shock and Aww" |
Chuck Martin & Jim Vallely |
Joe Russo |
March 7, 2004 |
1AJD13 |
14
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| Michael moves on to George Michael's ethics teacher before realizing he and his son share an attraction to her; Lucille's newly adopted Korean son, Annyong, arrives to Buster's annoyance.
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"Staff Infection" |
Brad Copeland |
John Fortenberry |
March 14, 2004 |
1AJD14 |
15
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| Discovering the family had all been on the company payroll for doing nothing, Michael forces the family to work. G.O.B. and Buster to join a construction crew, while Lindsay works as Michael's receptionist. Annyong begins working at the banana stand. Tobias joins George Sr.'s prison to research an acting role.
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"Missing Kitty" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and John Levenstein |
Joe Russo |
March 28, 2004 |
1AJD15 |
16
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| Michael and George Sr. argue over the firing of Michael's assistant and George's mistress Kitty. G.O.B. announces his intentions to sink the company yacht in a magic act on the beach, causing George Michael to find an idol in him.
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"Altar Egos" |
Barbara Feldman |
Jay Chandrasekhar |
March 17, 2004 |
1AJD16 |
17
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| Michael has a deceitful one-night stand with a blind prosecutor, Maggie, who is arguing against his father, while George Sr. uses an undercover FBI agent who has fallen for him for information on the case.
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"Justice Is Blind" |
Abraham Higginbotham |
Jay Chandrasekhar |
March 21, 2004 |
1AJD17 |
18
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| George Sr. wants G.O.B. to sneak into Maggie's house for evidence, but he instead sends Tobias, who breaks in while Maggie is still home, hoping to sneak around her. Michael, however, finds out her seeing-eye dog is blind, and thus Maggie must have been able to see all this time. George Michael confronts Maeby for posing as a terminally ill twin sister Surely.
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| File:1AJD18PullingtheRipcord.jpg |
"Best Man for the GOB" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Rosenstock |
Lee Shallat-Chemel |
April 4, 2004 |
1AJD18 |
19
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| After a quickie marriage on a drunken whim sticks, G.O.B. demands a belated bachelor party from Michael. Michael instead tries to plan a fishing trip with George Michael. George Sr. plans to use the party in an elaborate attempt to scare an accountant out of testifying against him. Tobias attempts to convince Lindsay to reform a pharmaceutical jingle-based family band.
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| File:1AJD19Whistles.jpg |
"Whistler's Mother" |
John Levenstein and Jim Vallely |
Paul Feig |
April 11, 2004 |
1AJD19 |
20
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| The family each beg money of Michael when the company funds become unfrozen. George Sr.'s twin brother Oscar shows up to attempt an affair with Lucille, and Michael makes a bad business deal with him after his father wished Oscar to have some of the money. Lindsay protests the Iraq War after her stylist is deployed.
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| File:1AJD20Soccer.jpg |
"Not Without My Daughter" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Rosenstock |
Lee Shallat-Chemel |
April 25, 2004 |
1AJD20 |
21
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| Michael is hesitant to continue a tradition in which George Michael accompanies him on Take Your Daughter to Work Day, opting instead to take niece Maeby with him. He partly regrets this when the police question him in an investigation of Kitty's disappearance. Lindsay begins working at a clothing store to her embarrassment, which leads her to claim to be shoplifting. This in turn becomes a personal challenge to magician G.O.B.
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| File:1AJD21Hospital.jpg |
"Let 'Em Eat Cake" |
Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely |
Paul Feig |
June 6, 2004 |
1AJD21 |
22
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| Michael and George Sr. prepare for a polygraph test on the company's business dealings. Kitty attempts to blackmail the company with information against George Sr. George Michael gets a new girlfriend, Ann, to Maeby's jealousy. Lindsay and Tobias enjoy new success when a book Tobias had written years earlier gains an audience. George Sr. escapes from prison.
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