SAD SACK - Arrested Development S2 EP5
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SAD SACK - Arrested Development Season 2 Episode 5
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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
Some unfortunate pictures of Tobias wind up on the internet, which the military mistakes for pictures of Iraq and proof that the Bluth Company was building houses over there. Wayne Jarvis, the family's former attorney, makes Michael an offer he cant refuse. Meanwhile, Buster seeks GOB's help to provide motivation for his Army training.
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There’s never a dull episode of this show, but I feel some episodes are starting to “appear” not as funny because the other episodes raise the bar so high. This episode is definitely brilliant and steps above most you’ll see on television, but it’s still just average to me compared to a few other episodes this series has forked out.
Buster is struggling with the Army. In training, he cannot get himself over the climbing wall. He thinks back to his childhood and we get some more good flashbacks of Gob pushing Buster around. Buster thinks Gob is just what he needs to get motivated. Gob helps Buster out in the only way a bullying older brother can…by scaring him into actually climbing over the wall. It works.
I like the reappearance of Barry Zuckercorn’s male secretary who is obviously homosexual. Last time we saw him, he sued people for any mean thing they might say at the office. He had a good line, “I dare you to say it, I want to re-do my kitchen.” Classic. He shows up again in this episode as the reason the military no longer can yell and call privates “homos.” He apparently started a lawsuit against the Army and won.
George is still in the attic…and Michael is still the only one aware of this. George is scared that he is losing Lucille to his twin brother, Oscar. He tells Michael that he wants to find out if Lucille still loves him. If he finds out that Lucille loves Oscar, he will leave the family alone. We all know this won’t happen. Even in this episode when Michael tells him that Lucille has moved on, George doesn’t believe him.
A picture of Iraqi landscape that shows his father’s guilt emerges and Michael is tempted to turn him in. This way, Michael would be free of any of the legal problems that have been thrown at him through all of this. He knows he needs to convince his father to stay in the attic just a little longer to work this out, but fears he will leave when realizing Lucille is in love with Oscar.
This is when Michael does what he has learned from the rest of his family – manipulates. He convinces George that Lucille has no feelings for Oscar…and convinces Oscar to leave Lucille. Oscar has been having second-guesses anyway, saying that it’s weird seeing Lucille so loving and affectionate. He claims this is not the woman he fell in love with. I love this. It makes sense though…Lucille is always so conniving and rude that her showing any sort of affection would be out of character for her.
From the attic, George overhears Lucille telling Lindsay how Oscar makes her feel tingly. I like the fact that the character of George is starting to interact with the characters outside of the prison walls. It’s a nice change of pace for him. Anyway, after George hears this he is heartbroken – and Michael notices. Michael, being the nice guy who always saves the day, doesn’t turn his father in.
Luckily for him, the picture of the Iraqi landscape turns out to be irrelevant. This is a smaller part of the episode, but probably what had me rolling the most. Earlier in the episode, Tobias had borrowed Gob’s cell phone and accidentally took a picture of himself in the bathtub while trying to figure out how to use it. This picture of desert landscape? It’s actually a close-up of Tobias’ private area. Pictures of this are all over the news…and Tobias’ greatest fear has come true. He’s terrified of the fact that his big break on television is…well…this…and he goes back to being a never-nude after finding his cutoffs in the attic. I love how Tobias can be in just a few scenes but completely steal the show.
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