GOOD GRIEF - Arrested Development S2 EP4
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GOOD GRIEF - Arrested Development Season 2 Episode 4
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Created by Mitchell Hurwitz
Cast: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Wil Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Ron Howard
Review by John Huelsman
Georg is declared dead in Mexico, and the Bluth family holds a wake for their dead family member. Meanwhile, Georg isn't dead, and has returned to USA, only to be found by a newly dumped Georg Michael.
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This is quite possibly one of my favorite episodes up to this point. Absolutely hysterical…and for the first time it feels like every character is of good use in this episode.
Lucille hires Ice to find her husband in Mexico – and he finds proof that George has been killed. The family begins to grieve in their own ways – Lucille wants to find the will, Gob wants to perform a magic trick, Lindsay wants to flirt out of respect for her father, and Michael wants to throw his father a proper wake.
But, of course, George really isn’t dead. That’s way too tragic of an event to happen in a show like this. George finds a loophole in the Mexican system and has Mexico fake his death. We learn this when George Michael finds him hiding underground and allows him to hide in the model home’s attic. The way George looks is very similar to the way Saddam Hussein was captured, which is I’m sure intentionally done due to Hussein’s role in the plot of this show.
The absolute best aspect of this episode is Gob. He steals this episode. He wants to perform a great magic trick at his father’s wake’s expense. Since they do not have their father’s body, he wants to be buried alive and show people how he can escape (through an opening nobody knows is there). Of course, it goes unbelievably wrong and he ends up being buried alive. I love the last line of the episode spoken by Michael to George Michael. “Okay, let’s go dig up your uncle.”
I don’t really find Maeby and Lindsay’s storyline as funny as the others in this episode, but it does lead to a few good laughs. Maeby urges her mother to date Ice because she feels if her mother has an affair she can prove to Barry Zuckercorn that she’d be better off on her own in the streets. Lindsay flirts with Ice, believing her deceased father has always wanted her to be with someone other than Tobias. So in the name of her father, Lindsay wears a tight shirt that says “SLUT” and bats her eyes. Good stuff.
I really like the Buster flashbacks. He has a history of not dealing with sad news well – like when his bird died he destroyed the kitchen (believing it to be the housekeeper Rosa’s home). There is also a flashback of Buster as a young boy throwing the dustbuster (which he thought was Rosa’s favorite toy) at a bus (which he thought was Rosa’s car).
The episode title “Good Grief!” clearly is a Charlie Brown reference. This is one reason why I love this episode so much. Every time a character gets slightly depressed, they walk away with the bowed head and slumped shoulders to the sad piano music from Charlie Brown. George Michael does this after Ann dumps him, George does it after finding out about Lucille’s affair with Oscar, and Gob does it after making it on the cover of Poof Magazine as Poof Goof of the Year. The absolute best use for this goes to Tobias, though, as he walks away sadly after realizing all of his hard-boiled eggs are missing from the refrigerator. “Where are my f*****g hard-boiled eggs!”
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