THE ONE WHERE THEY BUILD A HOUSE - Arrested Development S2 EP2
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THE ONE WHERE THEY BUILD A HOUSE - Arrested Development Season 2 Episode 2
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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
Michael's new business model backfires when GOB suggests that they build a fake house in two weeks. Meanwhile, George Sr. turns up in Mexico, only to be captured by prison guards who have been injured by a shoddy device he tried to market in Mexico years earlier.
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Just by looking at the title of this episode and the previous episode, it appears that “Arrested Development” is going along with the same trend that another hit television show, “Friends”, did. The titles of the first and second episodes of this season have both started with “The One Where…” Every episode except the pilot of ‘Friends’ did this as well. But “Arrested Development” stops after these two…so I’m not sure if these two titles are supposed to be some sort of commentary on the way ‘Friends’ named its titles or if it’s just coincidence.
Lindsay does end up attracting one man… a homeless man…who asks her if she wants to buy him a drink. She is disgusted at first but then her activist side kicks in. She wants to prove she is a good person so she gets the homeless man a construction job for the company…only he’s not homeless. Unbeknownst to Lindsay, he’s actually an actor researching a film role.
This man is played by Thomas Jane, who can be seen in HBO’s new show “Hung” or in films like “The Mist” or “Deep Blue Sea.” During his first scene, I kept thinking, “Holy cow, I think that’s Thomas Jane.” I love the twist at the end when the “homeless man” is Thomas Jane…played by Thomas Jane…researching a role.
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Meanwhile, George has fled the country to Mexico with his always-loyal but yet annoying assistant Kitty. He finds himself arrested…but not because of a crime he committed…but of a crime his twin brother Oscar committed. He gets tackled by the Mexican police in the same exact manner Oscar has gotten tackled in the past when the American police mistake him for George. Talk about karma. Once again, I love the last cop beating him with a club.
The most important…not exactly entertaining…but most important part to this episode shows Michael trying to find a way to save the company’s reputation. He comes up with a plan to build a second model home within the next two months…but Gob, who is now the president of the company (only by name, not by what he does) disagrees and says it can be done in two weeks.
Much to Michael’s surprise, they do manage to build a model home within two weeks…with absolutely no help from Gob. When Gob wants to cut the ribbon at the big ceremony, Michael is appalled. Michael says no because he did all the work and is tired of Gob taking credit for it. But as we all know, Gob has always wanted nothing more than to make his father proud. Gob goes into detail to Michael about how this is a way he could finally make his father believe he’s successful. Michael, being the nice guy that he is, allows Gob to cut the ribbon. Michael wants to have a good relationship with his brother and doesn’t want their father getting in the middle of that. It’s not very often we see two Bluth family members sharing a real moment together…so take it in while it lasts.
Everything goes wrong at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. It turns out a model home can’t be built in two weeks, because it begins to collapse. As the house falls apart, Buster tries to jump in harms way to hurt himself so he doesn’t have to join the Army, but fails. When the final wall collapses, Oscar and Lucille are revealed inside kissing on one of the blue tarps. We realize Tobias has an all-too close of a view of this as he has been using the blue tarp to blend in to spy on Lindsay.
The ending of this episode is absolutely epic. I love how this show usually has each storyline combine into one gigantic finish…and this episode does just that. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, not only does the new model home take a tumble, but so does the Bluth family’s reputation (or at least what was left of it).
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