Arrested Development Time-Line

1900s

Jack Dorso is born. (Narration: “Making a Stand”)

1903

Orange County Prison established. (Plaque: "Top Banana")

1911

Lucille’s mother is born. (Dialogue: “Missing Kitty”)

1941, September 26

The British movie, “A Thoroughly Polite Dustup,” is released. (Flashback: “Notapusy”)

(September 26) George Bluth is born in Cleveland, Ohio. (birth certificate: "Fakin' It")

1942

Lucille is born (birth year: Jessica Walters)

1943 to 1953

Red McGibbon and Jack Dorso star in the radio and film serial, “Red McGibbon and Bullet: Nazi Hunters,” but the series comes to an end when Red McGibbon is jailed for his Communist sympathies. Jack tries to retain success in “Ready, Aim, Marry Me,” but he fails as a romantic lead. He goes on to more success with a string of gymnasiums. (Flashback: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

1945

Barry Zuckerkorn is born to Max Zuckerkorn. (Birth Year: Harry Winkler)

1955 May

The TV series, “Sugarfoot,” goes off the air. It was filmed at the Shady Pines Hospital and a favorite of young Cal Cullen. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

1961 – 30 April 1975

During the Vietnam War, Lucille (19) serves in the USO and dates (future General) Anderson during the Vietnam War. She eventually meets and dates Oscar Bluth, who serves as a “croc-spotter” on a boat, but she leaves Oscar for his more successful twin-brother, George Bluth. (Narration: "Switch Hitter")

1963

George Bluth starts the Bluth Company with money from Jack Dorso, a friend of his father. One of his early jobs is building the new Orange County Prison. (Flashback: “Visiting Ours” / Dialogue: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

George opens the Banana Stand on Balboa Island. (Flashback: "The Pilot/The One Where They Build A House”) Lucille steals the idea is stolen from a Korean businessman. (Narration: "Development Arrested")

1964

Tobias is born in Wisconsin. (Marriage certificate: "Family Ties"/ Birth Year: David Cross)

1966

Lucille (24) is working in a Stuckey’s when she gets pregnant; George is lead to believe she used an IUD. (Dialogue: “Ocean Walker”) George Oscar ("GOB") Bluth is born. (Theoretical)

(February 16) Lindsay is born. (Dialogue: "Development Arrested")

Nell (Bluth) is born (Birth Year: Justine Bateman)

1967, December 14

Michael Bluth is born in Newport Beach, California to George (26) and Lucille Bluth (25). (Birth certificate: "Exit Stragedy")

George and Lucille adopt Lindsay/Nellie to screw over real estate rival Stan Sitwell. (Dialogue: "Development Arrested")

1970s

During this decade, the Banana Stand is a hang-out for losers smoking marijuana. (Flashback: “Pier Pressure”)

George starts the Bluth Company with money borrowed from Jack Dorso (70), a friend of his father. Despite losing his legs in an accident on his TV show, Jack stays friends with the family for years, and George takes the kids to visit him on his birthday. (Dialogue: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me” / “Making a Stand”)

1973

Byron "Buster" Bluth is born after eleven months in the womb. There are claw marks in her uterus. (Dialogue: "Bringing Up Buster")

George completes the First Major Housing Tract at Sudden Acres. (Flashback: "The One Where They Build a House”)

1974

Kathryn “Kitty” Sanchez is born. (Birth year: Judy Greer)

1975

George tries to market the Corn Baller with Richard Simmons. (Flashback: “Bringing Up Buster”)

First “Motherboy,” a mother/son appreciation, is celebrated. (Background: “Motherboy XXX”)

1976

George passes over taking Michael (9) to the cabin. (Flashback: "The Cabin Show")

1977

Lucille Bluth starts her 30-year friendship with Lucille Austero. (Dialogue: “Queen Bee”)

1978

Buster (5) starts attending the Milford Academy where children are heard but not seen. (Flashback: “Public Relations”)

Lindsay (13) feels fat and unattractive, but Michael (11) reminds her how attractive she really is. (Flashback: "Development Arrested")

1979

George passes over taking Michael (12) to the cabin. (Flashback: "The Cabin Show")

George is fooling around behind Lucille’s back, but Lindsay (14) outs his single lifestyle to one of his lovers. George lashes out by poisoning Lindsay’s teacher with fatal muffins. After a few copycats, he’s dubbed the Muffin Man. (Flashback: “S.O.B.s”)

George conducts a Black Friday at the company, loading up the computers into a truck, firing the employees and then rehiring new employees to start again with the old computers. (Flashback: “Family Ties”)

1980

(April) Oscar writes the song, “All You Need Is Smiles,” for David Cassidy to sing on “The Mike Douglas Show,” but he’s too nervous to sing it in front of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Joan Baez calls Oscar, “the shallowest man in the world.” (Narration: “Whistler’s Mother”)

During the summer, Michael (13) starts working for the Banana Stand in Balboa Beach. It is a miserable job, but he later calls it a great experience. (Flashback: "Top Banana")

In a bathing suit and swimming cap, Lindsay (15) looks like a falcon to Michael. (Dialogue: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

1981

George calls J. Walter Weatherman to teach G.O.B. (16), Lindsay, (16), Michael (14) and Buster (8) lessons they’re not learning at home. When there’s no milk at home, he drives to the store with Weatherman posing a pedestrian mangled in an accident. The scenario terrifies the young Bluths. George repeats the stunt again to teach the kids not to yell on the family yacht. (Flashback: Pier Pressure)

George makes the rule of no ice cream in his car after Michael (14) loses his ice cream in it. (Flashback: Charity Drive)

1982

(May) Lucille creates the holiday of Cinco de Quatro in order to deplete Mexican party supplies, but the festival ends up embraced by the local Hispanic locals. (Flashback: “Flight of the Phoenix”)

George and Lucille meet Barry Zuckerkorn the son of their lawyer, who suggests they practice their business under maritime law. George learns to never sign anything. (Flashback: Borderline Personalities / “The B Team”)

(June 2) Lucille pays for Lindsay’s nose job. (Flashback: “Red Herring”)

Buster attends Camp Kissa’me’mommie at home. Lucille helps him with his letter home. (Flashback: “Indian Takers”)

(December) George begins making “Boy Fight” videos with GOB (17) and Michael (15). Lucille makes the Baby Buster shorts. (Flashback: “Making a Stand”)

1983

George passes over taking Michael (16) to the cabin. (Flashback: "The Cabin Show")

Lindsay repeats the Ninth Grade. (Dialogue: Altar Egos)

In the Tenth Grade, Michael appears in a high school play, “The Trial of Captain Hook,” as an English requirement. His mother leaves the play halfway through. (Flashback: Altar Egos)

Michael’s math teacher, Mr. Vandenbosch, mysteriously disappears after suspending him when another student cheats on his test. Michael is dating Tracy, his future wife, at this time. (Flashback: “Whistler’s Mother)

George appears at the opening of the (new?) Orange County Prison. (Flashback: "The One Where They Build a House”)

Buster (10) loses his parakeet after it flies out on the head of Rosa the housekeeper. He trashes the kitchen thinking that’s where she lived. (Flashback: Good Grief)

Michael meets Sally Sitwell, daughter of Stan Sitwell, but George puts so much pressure on him, he’s unable to date her. (Flashback: “Burning Love”)

1984

Tobias attends the University of Pennsylvania and becomes a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. He does his follow-up in psycho-linguistics at MIT. (Plot: “The Pilot”)

Gob (17) fathers a son named Steve Holt with Eve Holt in high school. (Flashback: “Sad Sack” / “Colony Collapse”)

1985

Buster (12) shows up in an article of “Balboa Bay Window” with a picture of him and Lucille in matching outfits on the cover. (Flashback: Switch Hitter)

1986

At nineteen, GOB’s playground motivation to get Buster (16) to go down the slide is by punching him in the stomach. (Flashback: “Sad Sack”)

Michael graduates high school. He is voted “Most Likely to Succeed.” (Flashback: "Top Banana")

Annyong is born. (Tag: Missing Kitty)

1987

Carl Weathers stars in the movie, “Predator,” with Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Historical)

Lindsay graduates high school. She wins best hair with Roger Danish. (Flashback: "Top Banana" / Dialogue: Altar Egos)

Buster (14) stays two more years at the Milford School after when he should have graduated. (Flashback: “Public Relations”)

1989

Michael marries Tracy (maiden name unknown). GOB accidentally sets her hair on fire. (Flashback: “The Ocean Walker”)

George meets a prostitute named Nellie but he mostly just cries in front of her. (Flashback: “Family Ties”)

1990, February 14

Lindsay dates Tobias to annoy her ex-boyfriend. When they get married, the marriage is mostly to annoy her mother. (Dialogue: Marta’s Day)

1990, September 22

Maeby Funke is born to Tobias and Lindsay Funke in Newport Beach, California after several thousand dollars of fertility tests. (marriage certificate: "Family Ties")

1990, November 02

George Michael Bluth is born in Newport Beach, California to Michael and Tracy Bluth. (Marriage certificate: "Family Ties")

1991 May

Buster graduates from high school, the last time anyone calls him "Baby Buster." (Dialogue: “Family Ties”)

1991 November-December

The Cornballer is made illegal in the United States after it was found to cause serious burns. However, George continues to market it in Mexico. (Flashback: "Bringing Up Buster”)

Found stuck with numerous Cornballers, George and Lucille scheme to sell the timing mechanism to mothers with children. Tracy and George Michael (1) film a commercial for the timers with new dialogue edited into it. (Flashback: “The B-Team)

1992

Through a large endowment to his college, Buster starts college, studying Native American Ritual, Cartography and 18th Century Agrarian Business among other classes. (Narration: "The Pilot")

Imagine Entertainment rushes out a “Fantastic Four” movie for Twentieth Century Fox before they lost the rights. DeBrie DeBardeaux plays Sue Storm. (Flashback: “A New Start” / “Smashed”)

1993

Michael starts working for the Bluth Company. (Narration/Dialogue: “The Pilot”)

Lindsay protests in anti-cattle ranching. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

1994

(January) Stan Sitwell tries to test drive a convertible with humiliating results. (Flashback: “Burning Love”)

(May 12) The “Seinfeld” episode involving shrinkage airs. The next day at the company, GOB suggests “shrinkage” for the Bluth Foundation dinner. Unable to decide on a cause, they send out invitations with the disease to be announced, taking in $25,000. (Flashback: “Prison Break-In”)

(November) Lucille goes off her post-partum medicine and congratulates child-murderer Susan Smith long-distance while watching television footage about her. (Background: "S.O.B.'s")

(November) Kitty (20) goes to work for the Bluth Company and eventually becomes George’s mistress. (Theoretical)

1995

Lindsay protests against anti-fish farming. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

(April) George experiments with a hair-growth drug, but fearing a lack of fertility in case he wants another child later on, he stores samples of his semen in a cooler hidden in the Banana Stand. Six weeks later, symptoms of the “monkey drug” affect his central nervous system. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

(May) George and Lucille try another Bluth Foundation Dinner for T.B.A. but they fail to pull it off this time. (Narration: “Prison Break-In”)

1995, November

George begins his long-time affair with Kitty his secretary. (Dialogue: "Visiting Ours" / “Missing Kitty”)

1996

Tobias gets a position as Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, moving Lindsay and Maeby to Boston. (Dialogue: The Pilot)

Tobias and Lindsay are going around with Maeby (6) as a folk band trying to sell Dr. Fünke's 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution. One of their performances is at the Greater Boston Wellness Expo. They’re eventually asks to discontinue by the FDA. (Flashback: "Best Man For The Gob” / “Switch Hitter”)

(April 26) Michael takes George Michael (6) to work for Take-Your-Daughter-To-Work-Day, which backfires when GM continues the joke for years afterward. In the office of his practice, Maeby (6) calls a patient a homo sexual, and Tobias agrees with the diagnosis. (Flashback: “Not Without My Daughter)

1997, December

George Michael (7) watches “Oz” the TV Series, confusing it with “The Wizard Of Oz.” He develops a fear of prisons. (Flashback: “Visiting Ours”)

1998

Lindsay protests for better school lunches. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

Lindsay enters Maeby (8) into an Inner Beauty Pageant. (Flashback: “Notapusy”)

George Bluth meets Saddam Hussein but confuses him with the actor who played the Soup Nazi on “Seinfeld.” The British use the photo of the meeting to blackmail George into building houses in Iraq. (Flashback: “For British Eyes Only”)

2001, December – 2003, October

(2001, November) Tracy Bluth, Michael's wife and George Michael's mother, passes away. (Dialogue: "Key Decisions")

(2001, Christmas) George Michael has braces and a retainer. Michael donates the employee gifts to charity. Tom, one of the employees, makes a double-veiled joke at George’s expense at which GOB laughs. George has Michael fire Tom for the comment. (Flashback: “Afternoon Delight”)

(2001, January) During his braces phase, George Michael starts making crank calls from the model home based on hearing the “Jerky Boys.” (Flashback: Burning Love”)

(2002, April) Ira Gilligan helps George and Michael save money in I.R.As. (Flashback: "Best Man for The Gob”)

(2002, November) Michael and his son now live in the attic of the model home at the Sudden Valley. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

(2002, Christmas) Michael gets trapped in a trunk during GOB’s Christmas magic show and has to be rescued. He gets out swearing he’s done with the family.

(2003, January) Before becoming a magician, GOB works as a stripper in the Hot Cops. He’s shot at through a closed motel door while in uniform. (Flashback: Pier Pressure)

(2003, January) Michael tries to get his father to change the name at Sudden Valley, but George resists in order to keep him trying harder. (Flashback: "Switch Hitter")

(2003, March 7) With the SEC investigating them, Lucille signs up to adopt a Korean child. George later forges her signature.

(2003, March 17) Lindsay starts a pet-dying business which fails shortly after St. Patrick’s Day. (Flashback: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

(2003, March 18) GOB attends Newport Beach Spring Break and announces that in one year he will make the family yacht disappear. (Flashback: “Missing Kitty”)

(2003, March 20) George Michael tapes over George and Lucille’s Fortieth Anniversary with his light saber portrayal. (Flashback: Immaculate Election)

(2003, March 28) During a tryst with Kitty, George confesses he’s been altering the company books. (Flashback: “Missing Kitty”)

(2003, April 4) George is still calling Ira Gilligan by his last name instead of his first name. (Flashback: "Best Man for the Gob”)

(2003, April 5) GOB introduces Franklin Delano Bluth, an ignorant wise-cracking African-American ventriloquist dummy at his parents Anniversary Party. When Franklin tries to kiss Lucille, George starts choking him. (Tag: “Meet the Veals”)

(2003, April 25) Michael takes George Michael to work for Take-Your-Daughter-To-Work-Day, which continues to backfires as GM. George calls him a weird kid. (Flashback: “Not Without My Daughter)

GOB and a number of magicians create the Magician's Alliance to bar any magician in the alliance from sharing their secrets. (flashback: "The Pilot")

Lindsay starts HOOP, an anti-circumcision fund, and comes under attack by the Jewish Defense League. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

(2003, June 22) Buster participates in a university study on medicinal marijuana. He’s attracted to the study for a trip to the carnival after which he vanishes and isn’t found for two days. (Flashback: Pier Pressure)

Maeby (13?) attends Boston Sunshine Academy, a progressive school with its own grading system. Her teacher is Mrs. Rankle. (Background: Pier Pressure)

As an act of rebellion, Maeby asks her mother for permission to join a beauty pageant. (Flashback: “The Pilot”)

Tobias loses his medical license and his position at Massachusetts General. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

George attends a bachelor party with a narcoleptic stripper. (Flashback: "Best Man for the Gob”)

2003, October 2

Tobias, Lindsay and Maeby arrive from Boston and check into a three-stay hotel on the company expense account. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

2003, October 18

Lucille’s mother, affectionately known as Nana, passes away, but Lucille keeps it a secret to keep the inheritance. (Narration: “Missing Kitty”)

2003, November 2, Sunday

George warns Buster he’s tossing him out of the penthouse after his retirement. (Flashback: “Justice Is Blind”)

Michael learns from George Michael that G.O.B. has been taking money and getting free bananas from the Banana Hut. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

George Michael is reunited with his cousin Maeby who wants to use him to get her parent's attention. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

Michael discovers that Lindsay and Tobias are in town and staying in a three-star hotel on the company's expense account. (flashback: "The Pilot")

Tobias borrows clothes from Lindsay's closet to fit in with the alleged pirate theme of George's retirement party. He inadvertently mixes in with a group of homo sexuals protesting the marina's ban. (flashback: "The Pilot")

Michael discovers he is in line to become CEO of the company, but he gets passed over his mother, allegedly to keep him out of jail. The Securities and Exchange Commission invades the yacht even with Lucille trying to get Buster to take it out to sea. The SEC arrests George hiding in G.O.B.'s Aztec Tomb, outing him from the Magician's Alliance. (plot: "The Pilot")

Maeby kisses George Michael trying to get her mother's attention, but the ploy fails. George Michael, however, develops a hesitant infatuation for his cousin. (plot: "The Pilot")

At the police station, the family learns that the FBI has frozen their company assets barring an investigation. Michael is offended by where the family's priorities lie and decides to break ties with them. Tobias arrives with the arrested homo sexuals and announces he's going to become an actor. (plot: "The Pilot")

Gob buys a dove for his magic act and barely out the door of the pet store kills it. (flashback: "Top Banana")

2003, November 3, Monday

Lindsay and Tobias flee the Four Seasons Hotel with Maeby to avoid being charged for it. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

Tobias attends an open audition in Community Theater. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

GOB is banned from the Magician’s Alliance and discovers he's barred from taking any magician's jobs. Rollo replaces him in the alliance. (Flashback: "The Pilot" / “Storming The Castle”)

Michael has a job interview with Sitwell Housing and is offered a position in the company in Phoenix. Buster tries to do Michael's job, but has an anxiety attack from trying to do it. Lucille realizes she needs to get Michael to take his job back and attempt an intervention to convince him. After it fails, he offers his resignation to his father in prison. George claims it was to protect Michael from going to jail with him as a husband and wife cannot be tried together. Michael is pretty sure that’s not true; George realizes he has lousy lawyers. (Flashback: "The Pilot")

While getting ready to move out, George Michael discovers Lindsay trying to loot the model home for valuables to sell for cash. When Michael gets back, he and Lindsay bond over her current marriage and financial woes with the rest of their siblings joining in over a board game without George Sr. or Lucille present. (plot: "The Pilot")

Lindsay and Tobias move into the model home with Maeby moving into a room with George Michael. (dialogue: "The Pilot")

2003, November 5, Wednesday

Maeby jumps on George Michael's bed to wake him. (flashback: "Top Banana")

2003, November 6, Thursday

Crowded into the car, Michael has Maeby sit on George Michael's lap over a bumpy road. (flashback: "Top Banana")

2003, November 7, Friday

After listening to Maeby singing in the shower, George Michael requests more hours at the Banana Stand to avoid her. His father makes him manager. (flashback: "Top Banana")

Michael visits his father in prison to get the company flight records to do an audit, but George doesn't reveal where they are, instead asking Michael to give a job to T-Bone, an arsonist about to be freed from prison. Michael returns to the model home to discover no has left the house. He gets George Michael to hire Maeby at the Banana Stand to teach her the value of a dollar. Her work ethic involves dipping her fingers in the chocolate and taking money from the cash register then tossing bananas away to "balance the register." (Plot: "Top Banana")

Michael visits Lucille trying to find the missing records, but she steers the conversation to Michael giving GOB a job somewhere in the company. (Plot: "Top Banana")

George learns Michael has made George Michael manager of the Banana Stand. (Plot: "Top Banana")

2003, November 8, Saturday

Michael gives GOB a job of delivering a letter at his mother’s insistence, but GOB tosses the latter into the ocean. (plot: "Top Banana")

T-Bone gets out of prison. He gets a job at the Banana Stand through George after torching the storage unit for him. (plot: "Top Banana")

Unable to locate the flight records through his mother, Michael claims the IRS will be investigating her for new purchases. As he predicts, Lucille sends their maid to the storage unit with her furs, but Michael arrives just moments after it has burned down by way of arson. (plot: "Top Banana")

Tobias searches for work as an actor and finds an ad for commercial auditions, but he over-blows the audition. The talent director is Roger Danish, Lindsay’s high school classmate who thinks she’d be perfect for it. (plot: "Top Banana")

Michael and his son burn down the Banana Stand. Gob discovers the letter he was supposed to burn down was the insurance on it. (plot: "Top Banana")

2003, November 9, Sunday

2003, November 10, Monday

Lindsay sleeps through her audition. Tobias misses his call back. (plot: "Top Banana")

When George finds out Michael burned down the Banana Stand out of spite, he reminds him there was cash hidden in it and comes close to choking him. (plot: "Top Banana")

Michael and his son start rebuilding the Banana Stand. Gob comes by but not to help. (plot: "Top Banana")

2003, November 15, Saturday

GOB breaks up with his girlfriend, Mexican actress Marta Estrella, and moves out of her house and into the model home with Michael. (flashback: “Bringing Up Buster”)

2003, November 16, Sunday

Michael uses the Corn Baller to prepare for his Sunday bicycle trip to Balboa Island with George Michael who reveals he is auditioning for a school play, but the audition is just a pretense to kiss Maeby. Michael discovers Lindsay has purchased a red dress. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

GOB arrives at the model home hoping to stay there. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Tobias overhears that Maeby is also auditioning for the school play and thinks it is to spend time with him, but it’s actually her pretense to kiss classmate Steve Holt. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Buster slips out of his studies program now that the family can’t afford it. Lucille gets tired of him and tries to pawn him off on Michael. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Michael tries to see his father in jail, but he’s distracted by a poker game. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

2003, November 17, Monday

Tobias goes to the high school to replace the drama teacher. Maeby is shocked at the intrusion in her life. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Lucille leaves Buster with Michael at the offices, taking him on a meeting and giving him a job of assembling a new bike for George Michael. Gob has stayed the night in the conference room. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Tobias posts the cast list. Maeby is Beatrice, Steve Holt is Benedict and George Michael is understudy to Steve. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Michael visits his father in jail with Buster following along. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Lindsay hides her dress in the attic then tries to get the money to cover it from her mother. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Gob shows up in his mother’s penthouse, but ultimately returns to the model home where Buster heavily slams their mother. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

2003, November 18, Tuesday

During the first rehearsal, Maeby is tired of her father’s interference and quits the play. Tobias thinks George Michael is gay and makes him Benedict with Steve as Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing.” (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Tobias finds Lindsay’s dress and gives it to Steve Holt. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Michael and Buster go bicycle riding with Buster smashing his bike up. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Maeby returns to the play after George Michael quits. During a costume rehearsal, he has to watch her kiss Steve Holt, who now smells like his mother. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Lucille heads to the office to get Buster back after hearing about how he verbally berated her. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

Michael and his son re-bond over corn balls. (Plot: “Bringing Up Buster”)

2003, November 23, Sunday

Michael discovers Lindsay still has the rental car. He announces he’s selling the company jet and trying to get construction restarted, which is held up by Johnny Bart living in a tree on the lot. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Lucille arrives at the model home to get tickets to the Desi Awards from GOB. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Michael sells the jet but gets to keep the stair car which he presents to Lindsay. He promises her a better car if she gets Johnny Bart out of a tree on the lot. (Plot: Key Decisions)

GOB attends Marta’s interview, but he uses it to announce his attempt to escape from his father’s prison. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Marta shows up at the model home thinking Michael is taking her to the Desi’s. They take the stair car to the awards. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Lucille attends the gathering with Buster, who without his glasses inadvertently flirts with Lucille 2, his mother’s arrival. Michael bonds with Marta at the Desi Awards as Lindsay bonds with Johnny Bart in the tree back at Sudden Valley. She notices the stair car is missing. (Plot: Key Decisions)

GOB makes his attempt to escape prison, only to realize he is vastly unprepared. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Michael brings the stair car home and discovers Lindsay in the tree. She now announces she’s saving the tree as Maeby vows to destroy it. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Michael meets his mother at the model home and discovers Buster is in love with a mystery woman. (Plot: Key Decisions)

GOB calls Michael to come to the prison thinking he’ll bring the stair car; Michael asks GOB if they should be driving their father’s car, but GOB thinks it would be in bad form despite the fact he has been driving it. Michael arrives at the prison without the stair car, but GOB gets recaptured by the guards. (Dialogue: Charity Drive / Plot: Key Decisions)

2003, November 24, Monday

Johnny Bart wakes Lindsay up her bed as his tree comes down. (Plot: Key Decisions)

G.O.B. gets knifed in prison and rushed to the hospital. (Plot: Key Decisions)

Michael meets Marta to confess his feelings for her, but is interrupted by the call that GOB is in the hospital. She rushes to be by his side when he awakens. (Plot: Key Decisions)

In the hospital, Buster realizes he flirted with Lucille Austero as G.O.B. realizes he has a good thing with Marta. Michael steps away from Marta, but GOB has second thoughts again. His doctor reveals the weapon that pierced his back was stopped by the key in his lower intestine, filling the parameters of his escape in his mind. (Plot: Key Decisions)

2003, November 25, Tuesday

Buster makes his bold move to have a relationship with Lucille 2, but he ends up avoiding her. (Tag: Key Decisions)

2003, November 30, Sunday

Michael visits his father in jail to get him explain his bookkeeping, but George is more interested in baseball. Back at Bluth Company, Kitty isn’t of much more help. Lucille calls Michael to complain she lost dining room privileges at the Balboa Club at wants him to fix things. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

GOB is setting up an office at Bluth Company for the sole purpose of haranguing the Warden for disputing the authentic of his trick. Kitty swoons in his presence, but GOB is repulsed by her. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

Lindsay tries to get Tobias to go to a marriage counselor to save their marriage, hiding the appointment from Maeby and George Michael under the auspices of a trip to get ice cream. Maeby follows them in the stair car. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

GOB seduces Kitty in the copy room to get the information Michael needs from her, but he ends up crying over his relationship with Michael. (Plot: “Visiting Ours” / Flashback: “Missing Kitty”)

Lindsay and Tobias visit marriage counselor Phil Gunty who uses role playing to discover the problem, but Tobias uses the situation as an acting exercise. Maeby eavesdrops.

George’s baseball game turns violent after an inmate is shot attacking the umpire. George Michael wants to visit him, but the visit turns terrifying for him. A convict uses the stair car to escape as Michael learns from George that Lucille has yet to visit him. Michael stops by the penthouse to get his mother to visit George in prison. Lucille blackmails Michael to get her club membership restored. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

Michael returns to the model home, and GOB reveals he seduced Kitty, but he actually repulsed after hearing Michael pimped their mother to their dad. Michael drives Lucille back to the prison for a conjugal visit only to learn he called Kitty. When he learns GOB has arrived to deliver his letter to the Warden, he gets GOB to distract Kitty. Trying to escape, GOB runs into the warden who has found his letter and has him restrained against the trailer where George and Lucille are having sex. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

2003, December 1, Monday

George confesses to Michael that he might have done some light treason. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

During another trip to see their counselor, the Funkes learn that Phil has decided to quit counseling and become an actor himself. (Plot: “Visiting Ours”)

Tobias drives the stair car to the airport and leaves it parked on the tarmac, blocking several flights. (Flashback: “Charity Drive”)

GOB drives his father’s car to see his mother at the penthouse. He scorches the front seat while trying to impress the female guard with magic tricks. Kitty sees him driving it. (Flashback: “Charity Drive”)

2003, December 4, Thursday

Lindsay drives her father’s car to a sudden salon appointment, spilling nail polish all over it. (Flashback: “Charity Drive”)

2003, December 5, Friday

Buster attends an archaeological dig at Fashion Island and digs up a skull. He transports it and the rock it is stuck in within the backseat of his father’s car. (Flashback: “Charity Drive”)

2003, December 6, Saturday

Lucille gives tickets to “The Producers” to Lucille Austero to keep her from attending the Wetlands Charity so she can make money than her. She plans on taking Buster, but he starts avoiding her. Unable to get his attention, she decides to attend the auction. (Flashback: Charity Drive”)

2003, December 7, Sunday

During a record heat wave, Michael learns his father never filed the building permits. Kitty recommends he use his father’s car to get to the prison and learns GOB has been driving it. He confronts him about it at the Banana Stand where he learns he has also been getting a free topping heavy banana for some time. GOB goes to his mother to complain about the situation. George and Lindsay hears about it as well. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

Lupe replaces her sister, Luz the housekeeper, at the penthouse. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

Michael asks Lindsay about the whereabouts of their father’s car and learns there’s a schedule for it he is not a part of. Their conversation turns to who is more charitable between them. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

Michael rides his bike to see his mother as she’s getting ready for the charity bachelorette auction. Lucille criticizes him for not letting GOB have his free bananas from the stand. Michael asks Buster about their father’s car and gets the keys. After viewing the damage to it and Buster’s skull, he heads out to the prison to see his dad who tells him to get GOB to sneak the permits into the permit office. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

GOB chips a tooth biting into a caramel apple near the banana stand. He and Michael bargain bananas and Mr. Banana-Grabber rights over the favor and personal respect. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

Lindsay heads to the wetlands to prove how charitable she is to Michael, joining the activists trying to clean it up. Leaving GOB, Michael tries to rise to the challenge by picking up Helen Delgado, who he thinks is Lupe. The woman sees the damage to the car and thinks he’s a serial killer. Lindsay calls Michael to pick her up and he drives to find her at the wetlands, but she gets another ride. His passenger escapes. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

GOB gets cold feet at the permit office because of his whistling tooth and gets George Michael to break into the permit office. He goes to give the news to his father, but George disapproves. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

At the auction, Michael bids on Lindsay after seeing her sunburn from the wetlands. Buster arrives in a hurry to bid on Lucille, but he actually bids on Lucille 2 who appreciates his gesture and attention. As Michael heads out, he’s arrested after police match his car to Helen’s abduction. In the police car, Michael finds George Michael arrested from a break-in at the permit office. (Plot: “Charity Drive”)

2003, December 8, Monday

Helen Delgado fails to recognize Michael as her abductor and charges on him are dropped. (Tag: “Charity Drive”)

2003, December 13, Saturday

Watching TV in the model home, GOB sees a commercial for the banana stand and recognizes the Banana-Grabber. He regrets giving up the animation rights. (Tag: “Charity Drive”)

Lucille ends up in footage on “World’s Worst Drivers.” (Flashback: “My Mother, the Car”)

2003, December 14, Sunday

A Chinese couple shows up on the Bluth yacht to look it over and discover GOB living on it. (Flashback: “My Mother, the Car”)

Michael confronts his mother over her exorbitant spelling. Lucille wants a huge birthday party on the family yacht to show up Lucille 2 who Buster is still avoiding Lucille 2, the two of them looking for each other in the hall. Michael notices his mother struggling to lift a bag of protein bars and thinks she’s getting weak. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

At the model home, Michael tells GOB he’s selling the yacht and gives him 48 hours to vacate it. Lindsay is planning a birthday party for her mother, but Michael learns his mother actually planned it. When he starts worrying about her condition, GOB confesses he faked her driver’s license so she could keep driving. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Lindsay visits her father in jail for the first time, but she gets upset when no one notices her. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

George Michael and Maeby go to see a movie and see previews of the French movie, “Les Cousins Dangereux” (Dangerous Cousins), about cousins in love with each other. Maeby flees when the usher asks to see her ID. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Michael drives Lucille to her surprise birthday party, but no one shows up for it. She realizes she’s a horrible mother over dinner. When Michael returns to the model home, he asks Lindsay and GOB to show up for a new party. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

2003, December 15, Monday

Buster chooses to pursue a relationship with Lucille 2. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Michael takes Lucille to another surprise party, but again, no one shows up for it. On the ride back, he lets her drive George’s car as they have a frank talk, but seeing who she thinks is GOB in the street, she tries to scare him and wrecks the car. Michael hits his head on Buster’s rock in the back seat. Lucille gets out okay, but she pulls Michael into the driver’s seat. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Lindsay visits her father in jail again in a new outfit. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

2003, December 16, Tuesday

Buster meets Lucille 2 in her apartment to discuss their relationship; he gets so excited he crashes through her balcony door. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Michael wakes up at the penthouse with a head injury treated by Dr. Miller who gets a call from next door after Buster crashes through the glass door on Lucille 2’s balcony. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

George Michael heads to the yacht to see GOB and hears GOB’s date jump over board and swim up around it. He asks GOB for fake ID’s for him and Maeby to go see “Les Cousins Dangereux,” but when GOB hears that Michael is laid up at the penthouse, he plots to sail to South America with the yacht. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Lindsay visits her father in jail again in yet another outfit. George asks her to stop showing up because he’s going broke paying off the inmates not to kill him or harass her. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

Convinced he tried to hurt GOB on his scooter, Michael tells GOB he can keep the yacht, but GOB realizes the truth and heads to the penthouse to rectify the matter after locking their mother out on the balcony. Lindsay reveals the last piece after learning from her father that Lucille had been hiding gold krugerrands in the energy bars to smuggle into George in prison. Lucille bursts in to stop them from talking, confessing she just wanted Michael to like her for a change. (Plot: “My Mother, the Car”)

2003, December 17, Friday

With their fake IDs, George and Maeby with Buster and Lucille 2 in attendance go to see “Les Cousins Dangereux.” (Tag: “My Mother, the Car”)

While leaving the penthouse, Michael actually does hit GOB on his scooter. (Tag: “My Mother, the Car”)

Buster is secretly dating Lucille in her apartment, but she tries to get him to go out on a date. (Flashback: “In God We Trust”)

2003, December 23, Tuesday

Barry Zuckerkorn is sued by his assistant with attorney Wayne Jarvis for referring to him as a homosexual. He loses the case and has to pay $300,000 in damages. He meets the Bluth family at the penthouse to discuss George, but he wastes most of their time on a phone call. He has arranged for George to be released on a $20,000 bond for the Living Classics Pageant on Christmas Eve, but Michael loses faith in Barry and wants to replace him with Wayne Jarvis. Buster announces his reluctance to stay in the pageant; Tobias becomes interested in the role. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

Lucille feels threatened by Michael and Lindsay getting along. When Maeby appears late, upset that her parents forgot her, Lucille uses the circumstances to stir dissension between Lindsay and Michael.

GOB doesn’t show up for the meeting to spend the morning with Marta. When he leaves her house, he passes by Michael studying Spanish in the stair car. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

When Lindsay returns to the model home, she undergoes yoga to get over her anger but falls asleep. Buster shows up as well to get George Michael to replace him in the pageant. GM is interested until he discovers the frontispiece. While packing a suitcase to get her parents attention, Maeby complements the Adam suit on GM. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

Lindsay wakes up and confronts Michael, but they realize their mother is the enemy. Over drinks, she confesses her marriage is in trouble and she’s in debt. Michael promises to help her.

Buster meets with Lucille 2 for a date on Christmas Eve.

2003, December 24, Wednesday

Tobias meets with GM to get the Adam suit, but when GM refuses to give it up to impress Maeby, Tobias misunderstands and thinks GM is a “Never-Nude.” (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

Michael meets with Wayne Jarvis at his office, telling him his mother is reluctant to change lawyers. On arrival, Lucille re-stirs dissension between Michael and Lindsay before meeting Wayne Jarvis.

Returning to the penthouse, Lucille finds GOB hiding from Marta. Lindsay shows up to tell her mother she doesn’t need her help, but Lucille stirs her up again as well. Lindsay confronts Michael at his meeting with Wayne Jarvis only to both discover they’ve been manipulated again. They turn to Wayne for help, but he walks out on them. Lindsay reveals their mother is dating Barry and tries to get their father to catch them together. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

Maeby makes a fake plane ticket for Portugal (thinking it’s in South America), but GOB finds it and thinks it belongs to Michael. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

GM gets self-conscious upon seeing the portrait he’s creating. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

At the pageant, Michael and Lindsay find their mother with Wayne and tell them their father is out of jail. Wayne hides as the pageant opens with GM in cut-offs as Adam. The crowd boos, but Buster thinks it’s about him appearing with Lucille 2. George escapes in the confusion with Michael in pursuit and GOB chasing them. Hearing Lucille is on a date, George rushes back and gets captured by police. The family spends the holiday in jail and stuck with Barry Zuckerkorn who reveals the bond is non-refundable. (Plot: “In God We Trust”)

After his escape attempt, George is put in solitary confinement. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

2003, December 25, Thursday

On his second day in solitary confinement, George embraces Judaism. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 3, Saturday

GOB is at the park with Marta and her kids; his magic act scares them, and Marta argues with him about it. (Flashback: “Storming The Castle”)

Maeby notices that George Michael has really smooth legs. (Flashback: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 4, Sunday

While Michael thinks about borrowing a chair from work, Marta comes by looking for GOB to apologize to him. Michael tells her GOB isn’t around but privately he knows GOB is likely cheating on her. Lindsay tells Michael he’s too good to rat out GOB and go after Marta. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Lindsay decides she’s against slaughtering cows for leather. Maeby decides to prove she’s a hypocrite by buying leather. George Michael joins her with her cause to prove he’s macho. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

GOB performs at the Playtime Pizza Theater. Buster and Lucille 2 are in attendance. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 5, Monday

Michael is bicycling to work when Rollo comes by in a limo with a message about saying good-bye to GOB’s legs. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Lucille wants Michael’s help in breaking up Buster’s relationship with Lucille Austero. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Michael locates GOB and gives him the message from Rollo who wants the girl who plays the Legs in his act. He learns GOB has been cheating on Marta with the top and legs in his act. Gob lifts Michael’s watch. Lindsay reveals that Michael is too good to exploit the situation. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Maeby and George Michael buy leather clothing. Tobias sells his wedding ring to buy his own leather outfit. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 6, Tuesday

Marta meets Michael at his office to thank him for getting her and GOB together. Michael notices his watch missing. He tells Marta she should meet GOB at work. He also leaves work with an office chair. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Michael convinces Rollo to give GOB another chance to get his magician’s license back, but it’s really a scheme to out GOB to Marta. Lindsay tells Michael he won’t be able to pull it off. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Tobias shows up in his own leather outfit. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

When George gets out of solitary confinement, he becomes more spiritual. Lucille visits him about Tobias’s relationship with Lucille 2, but George gives him his blessing. (Plot: “Storming The Castle”)

Michael, Lucille, buster and Lucille 2 show up to support GOB at the Gothic Castle and meets Marta. Tobias accidentally gets directed to a similarly named gay nightclub. GOB gives Michael his watch back after fixing it as thanks for supporting him. GM reminds his father to be who he is. Michael asks GM to replace the legs in GOB’s act. The act is a success. Lucille decides to support Lucille 2 and GOB by inviting her to bridge. Their friendship makes Buster uncomfortable. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 7, Wednesday

GOB meets with the Magician’s Alliance to be re-admitted, but he’s rejected for not using alliance-approved extras. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Michael tries taking a TV home from work, but it doesn’t work as good as the chair. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

Tobias has a gig with the Whips and Snaps, a barbershop quartet. (Plot: “Storming the Castle”)

2004, January 10, Saturday

The Bluth Company has their yearly charity softball game with Sitwell Enterprises. GOB helps win the team for the Bluth Company, but his treatment and exploitation of the female members of their baseball team results in several court cases. (Flashback: Switch Hitter)

2004, January 11, Sunday

Lucille 2’s vertigo worsens and she starts feeling nausea. (Flashback: Pier Pressure)

2004, January 12, Monday

George Michael and Maeby reveal their school grades which Lindsay thinks are irrelevant. She thinks Michael is putting too much pressure on GM to do well. GOB comes by asking for $500 to pay back the Hot Cops. Michael asks for a favor in return. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

The SEC wants proof from Lucille she’s no longer making purchases on the business accounts. When Michael refuses to help, she goes to Lindsay who decides she’s not taking a firm hand with Maeby. She has Maeby work with Lucille as a punishment. Lucille sprinkles their time together with veiled insults. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

Michael starts to suspect he has put too much pressure on GM to study and has him take a break. GM instead encounters Buster asking him for some marijuana for Lucille 2. When Michael comes by and gives him permission to slack off, Buster gives GM more money for the marijuana. GM goes to the docks trying to find GOB for the purchase on the family yacht. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

Finding the note from GM, GOB shows it to Michael who suspects his son is using marijuana. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

2004, January 13, Tuesday

Michael visits his father in prison about contacting J. Walter Weatherman to teach GM a lesson. When he refuses to help, Michael goes to GOB about calling on the Hot Cops to pose as real cops. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

Lindsay is upset that her mother gave Maeby a brooch from her grandmother that she wanted. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

At the penthouse, Buster confronts GM about the marijuana, but GM wants to back out of the deal. When they both head to the yacht to meet GOB, Michael’s plan for a fake bust involving the Hot Cops goes off but they’re visited by what seems to be a real bust and real DEA agents, but it’s all a ruse masterminded by J. Walter Weatherman through George. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

2004, January 14, Wednesday

Michael confronts his father in jail who tells him it was his last lesson. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

Maeby gives her mother the brooch after realizing what her mother grew with having Lucille as a mother. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

Michael talks with GM at the model home and realizes he should have had faith in him. GM confesses he has a crush on Maeby. (Plot: Pier Pressure)

2004, January 17, Saturday

Michael meets Jessie at the gym but doesn’t introduce himself to her. (Flashback: Public Relations)

2004, January 21, Wednesday

Michael flirts Jessie with at the gym. (Flashback: Public Relations)

2004, January 25, Sunday

Unable to get into Rud for dinner, Lucille and Lindsay stop by the local Klimpy’s Restaurant and cause a public spectacle. The incident turns up in the newspaper. (Flashback: Public Relations)

2004, January 26, Monday

Michael meets Jessie, a public relations specialist, at the gym. (Flashback: Public Relations)

Michael has an appointment to get George Michael into the Milford Academy, but the headmaster shows Michael the latest public tirade by his mother in the newspaper. Michael confronts his mother with the newspaper article. He brings up the idea of a public relations person. Lindsay thinks Michael is attracted to her. (Plot: Public Relations)

2004, January 27, Tuesday

Jessie meets with the family and George by way of a telelink at the model home, but they’re largely confused by her purpose and her choice to place Michael front and center. She suggests Lindsay gets a job, GOB to do a charitable show, Buster to stay out of sight and Tobias to get his medical degree back. Tobias instead tries to refocus his efforts to become an actor after he meets actor Carl Weathers and hears about his acting workshop. (Plot: Public Relations)

Tobias does a show at Earl Milford’s Nursing Home, and Lindsay appears at Rud promoting Cloudmir wine. (Plot: Public Relations)

GM struggles to get the TV still set to the prison to work as Michael returns. Michael says he’s not dating Jessie, preferring to keep their relationship professional. She quits just as GOB calls looking for Jessie to announce that Earl Milford vanished from the home during his trick. (Plot: Public Relations)

2004, January 28, Wednesday

Tobias studies acting under Carl Weathers. (Plot: Public Relations)

Hounded by reporters over Milford’s disappearance, GOB discovers him hiding in his magic trunk announcing that the nursing home abuses the people there. (Plot: Public Relations)

Jessie approaches GM at the Banana Stand to convince him he’s in the way of his father’s happiness. (Plot: Public Relations)

Lindsay is mistaken as a hooker at Rud when Tobias shows up with Carl Weathers. Michael shows up to meet with Jessie before Lucille shows up to reveal the slander she released to the newspaper. Lindsay is stopped by Michael from attacking Jessie, but he steps away after hearing what she told GM. George Michael and Michael come clear on what happened. (Plot: Public Relations)

GOB tries to reveal Earl Milford to the press only to discover he passed away in his custody. (Plot: Public Relations)

2004, February 14, Saturday – Valentine’s Day

Michael gets his mother to throw a Valentine’s Day party for Tobias and Lindsay’s Anniversary. Lindsay confides in Michael the marriage has been rough. Tobias is still trying to get acting lessons from Carl after realizing all he’s learning is how to be frugal. Marta arrives with GOB and asks Michael if he’s seeing or interesting in anyone. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Michael looks for a sign on his relationship with Maeby and finds her throwing things at her father’s head. In order to split up Tobias and Lucille 2, Lucille invites Carl Weathers to dinner with them without Tobias. George’s video-taped toast turns out to be one of his religious videotapes. GOB gets everyone chanting “speech” for one that never comes. Michael makes a toast to the family and the couples present, taking a moment to set GM and Maeby apart. Marta realizes she made a big mistake. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

2004, February 15, Sunday

At her home, Marta talks with her mother about her heart belonging to Michael instead of GOB who is eavesdropping. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

At the model home, Lindsay tells Michael she wants a divorce over Tobias’s weird quirks, particularly his “Never Nude” status. Buster calls Michael for advice in his relationship with Lucille 2 as Lucille eavesdrops. GOB shows up as well with suspicions that Marta is cheating on him. Michael tells GOB he will find out on whom Marta is cheating on him. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Lindsay decides GM and Maeby should no longer being sharing the same room in order to kick Tobias out of her bed. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

2004, February 17, Tuesday

Lucille kicks Tobias out of the penthouse. He tries to move in with Lucille 2 while Carl Weathers is visiting her, but she needs time to consider it. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Michael ends up behind the scenes at Marta’s TV series looking for “hermano” and finds her with another actor. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Lucille confides in George by telephone that Buster has moved out, and she’s scared to live alone. Buster turns up at the model home where Tobias announces he has an offer in a movie. Marta arrives looking for Michael, and Tobias finds himself attracted to her. Michael arrives as Marta invites him to dinner. GOB sees the dinner as a way for Michael to see who else’s she’s seeing. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Maeby moves into her mother’s room, and Tobias moves into GM’s room where he reveals Lindsay was originally unable to conceive a child. GM learns Maeby might be adopted. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Tobias learns he has his first movie role. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Lucille spends her first night alone and realizes she likes it. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

Michael and Marta spend their first night together for dinner. She confesses things aren’t working with GOB, but Michael makes her realize she should fix things with GOB. After realizing “hermano” means “brother,” he realizes he’s made a big mistake. (Plot: Marta’s Complex)

2004, February 18, Wednesday

During preparation for George’s arraignment, GOB calls Michael about Marta. He visits her afterward to apologize about the previous night. They realize they admire each other’s principles about family, and they briefly fall into each other’s arms before separating to deal with GOB. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

Maeby discovers her parents fighting and suggests they get a divorce. George Michael starts to investigate to see if Maeby is adopted. GM takes a strand of Maeby’s hair to test her parentage. (Plot: “Marta’s Complex / “Beef Consommé”)

GOB comes around to see Michael. He has been avoiding Marta’s phone calls to keep her from breaking up with him and vows get his hands on the guy dating her. Buster overhears and mentions he’s never been in a fight. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

GM tries to get Tobias to tell him more about Maeby’s birth, but Tobias starts telling him about the facts of life. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

Tobias learns his movie role involves him being naked. (Plot: Marta’s Complex / Beef Consommé)

Buster falls in love with Marta through her soap opera. When GOB decides to break up with her, Buster asks of he can date her. He tells GOB that “hermano” means “brother” and GOB may be dating the actor who plays her brother on her TV show. When Michael realizes GOB has gone to face the guy, he goes to stop him. (Plot: Marta’s Complex / Plot: Beef Consommé)

GM goes to Lucille to try and find out if Maeby is adopted and learns she might have been a test tube baby.

GOB appears at Marta’s TV studio to confront TIO. He takes a strike at him, but since Tio knows boxing, he takes GOB out instead. Michael arrives too late to stop the fight, but he confesses to GOB to be the other man. GOB gives his blessing for him to date Marta, and Michael goes to see her as Buster watches with balloons and a band from across the street. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

Tobias tells Lindsay he can’t do the movie because of the nude scene. Lindsay tries to coax him into it. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

Maeby confesses that with all the problems in her life, she’s glad to have a family. GM resists from revealing what he has learned about her. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

2004, February 19, Thursday

Barry Zuckerkorn has his own court date. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

George shows up for his arraignment to notice only Lucille and GOB showed up. Buster shows up with a mariachi gang. When GOB tells Buster that Marta is only interested in Michael, Buster reveals that he saw Michael and her together. After Judge Ping appears to start court, Michael shows up late. GOB attacks him in the court room with their fight ending up out on the courthouse steps and Buster trying to get into their fight. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

After hearing the long list of charges, both Barry and George run off. George runs right into the arms of the police. Lucille leaves the scene. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

At the model home, Tobias and Lindsay finally get intimate for the first time in ten years. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

Marta discovers the fighting and realizes she wants neither of them. She has no idea who Buster is. Michael and GOB stop fighting than let a woman come between them. Buster asks to be punched in the face but he falls into the fetal position instead. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

2004, February 20, Friday

Tobias overcompensates by showing up for breakfast naked. (Plot: Beef Consommé)

2004, March 1, Monday

Michael’s secretary, Kitty Sanchez, takes a two-week-long sick leave. It’s really a cover for her to go into the hospital for breast augmentation paid for by George. (Flashback: “Missing Kitty”)

2004, March 5, Friday

George Michael gets a new ethics teacher after the previous teacher, Mr. Daniels, has a stroke. He develops a strong crush on the new teacher, Beth Baerly, and notices she doesn’t have a wedding ring. Mr. Daniels’ stroke might be due to Maeby asking him to the Diversity Dance. (Flashback/Dialogue: Shock and Aww)

2004, March 6, Saturday

Michael realizes he can’t share his room with Buster. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

2004, March 7, Sunday

Michael finds George Michael working on his ethics homework. He tries to offer him some insight, but GM considers it cheating. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

Lucille appears at the model home to show Michael she has been approved to adopt and asks Michael to get her out of it. He asks her to take Buster back in return. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

GOB calls to make peace with Michael by fixing up on a double date. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

Lindsay watches GM do his homework and hears about his crush on his teacher. When she thinks he wants her as a date for his dad so she can be his mother, she tries to be maternal by offering to fill the role, but GM just thinks she’s coming on to him. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

GOB introduces Michael to his date Shannon and her homely friend, Nazhgalla, as revenge for Marta. When Michael tries to be courteous, GOB confuses it for attraction to Nahgalla and goes after her for himself. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

In prison, George meets Cindy Lightballoon, a fan of his religious tapes and his low-carb bars. She wants to learn at his feet. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

Free from the double date Michael meets Lindsay at parent-teacher night at Balboa High School. In Miss Baerly’s ethics class, Michael notices similarities to one of Saddam Hussein’s homes to his model home in Sudden Valley. Lindsay tries to fix her up with Miss Baerly, an idea Michael starts to take a shine to after meeting her. After flirting with her, he offers to take her for a drink. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

2004, March 8, Monday

Annyong shows up at Lucille’s penthouse, and she calls Michael on his way to his second date with Beth. Michael reveals the adoption agency may take Annyong back if the living arrangement isn’t suitable. Buster returns to move back in, and Lucille decides to keep Annyong to spite Buster for leaving her. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

2004, March 9, Tuesday

Michael has sneaked Beth into the model home. By morning, he learns GOB has seduced Nazhgalla. He also learns that his son has a crush on his teacher just as Beth appears downstairs. Michael covers his tracks by telling GM that GOB has just seduced his teacher. After learning that GM made a Saddam Hussein collage for Mrs. Baerly, Michael starts seeing more similarities between one of Saddam Hussein’s homes to his model home in Sudden Valley. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

George prepares to meet Cindy Lightballoon again, but she turns out to be a FBI informant trying to implicate him. After George tries to cop a feel, the FBI thinks he’s found their hidden camera on Cindy and aborts the mission. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

GM asks Maeby for help to get revenge on GOB as Buster gets Annyong enrolled in school. Maeby invites Annyong to the dance and Michael realizes he’s competing with another uncle.

Michael arrives at the school to meet Beth and give her the collage. He breaks up with her because of GM, telling her that GM thinks she was seduced by GOB, a fact she considers unethical.

Lupe overhears Buster secretly threatening Annyong and refrains from stealing from Lucille. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

Maeby and Annyong attend the Spring Diversity Dance, but Steve Holt stops her at the door. GOB shows up looking for Shannon, a schoolmate of Maeby. Michael tries to fix things with Beth as GM confronts GOB, but Michael finally comes clear. Thinking Michael is covering him, GOB confesses to having seduced the mannish civics teacher Mrs. Whitehead who he thought was the ethics teacher. Grossed out, Shannon walks off. After Beth overhears Michael say she would be a great mother, she breaks up with him than get interested in a serious relationship. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

Buster nearly burns down the penthouse trying to compete with Annyong. (Plot: Shock and Aww)

2004, March 12, Friday

Tobias is rehearsing for his prison movie and gets the idea to prepare himself by going to prison for a few days. (Plot: Staff Infection)

2004, March 13, Saturday

Michael starts working weekends which interferes with his Saturday morning bicycling with George Michael. GM tries bicycling next to his father to work, but Michael gets side-tracked by a call to see his mother. (Plot: Staff Infection)

Lindsay wakes to an empty house. (Plot: Staff Infection)

Lucille is preening Annyong to work at the banana stand when Michael arrives at the penthouse. Lucille reveals that she hasn’t received her paycheck from the company. He soon discovers Buster and Lindsay have been getting checks and tries giving them jobs. Realizing he’s been paying Lupe, he gives her the day off. He makes Lindsay a secretary and gives Buster a job on the construction site.

Tobias turns up at the prison where Warden Gentiles allows him to bunk with George. (Plot: Staff Infection)

GOB finds Michael at the construction site to get his check. Michael puts him to work as well. When he returns to work, he notices Lindsay has changed the lighting and sent the employs to lunch. After they board Lupe’s bus for Catalina, the offices are empty for the CIA to sneak in and try to leave listening devices. (Plot: Staff Infection)

George is threatened in prison for trying to teach religion to the other inmates when Tobias appears. (Plot: Staff Infection)

With the banana stand crowded with employees, Maeby convinces GM to take the day off which he uses to visit Michael at work. (Plot: Staff Infection)

Lucille visits Quantity Plus and returns to the penthouse looking for someone to unload the car. (Plot: Staff Infection)

GOB causes a shut-down at the construction site. After Buster starts a fight with him, the other workmen get them into a bulldozer battle. Stressed from the stoppage, Lindsay finds Lupe’s family and gets hires them as migrant workers. She leaves GM in charge at the office and he finds his father’s collection of his childhood drawings which the CIA seizes as evidence. (Plot: Staff Infection)

Michael shows up at the construction site to stop work and let them know of changes to the site. Lucille shows up with her car full of party supplies which Michael shares with the workers.

In prison, George sells Tobias to White Dollar Bill for a carton of cigarettes. (Plot: Staff Infection)

2004, March 14, Sunday

2004, March 15, Monday

Spring break starts and George Michael and Maeby are out of school for two weeks. GOB is testing his tricks for a new show. Lindsay realizes her hasn’t sent Nana’s birthday money. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

Tobias tries to get out of prison, but Warden Gentles convinces him to stay longer. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

Kitty returns to work after two weeks with her new plastic surgery and asking for vacation time, but Michael fires her for not taking her job serious. She claims Michael doesn’t have the authority to fire her. The news gets back to George who talks to Michael at the prison, telling him that Kitty knows all the secrets about the company. Michael learns his father paid for Kitty’s implants. George tells Michael to hire her back to keep her quiet. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

Lindsay confronts Lucille trying to find out what happened to Nana. Lucille hides the remaining inheritance in an account under Annyong’s name. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

Michael finds GM hanging out with his mother during Spring Break while looking for Kitty. He gives GM a job at the office before finding Kitty at Senior Tadpole’s. He tries to peacefully hire her back, but she makes the scene a spectacle and walks out of the restaurant. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

In prison, Tobias psychoanalyzes White Power Bill, who ends up taking his own life. All the inmates suddenly have new respect for Tobias. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

GM is working as a replacement for Kitty at the office. George calls for Michael, but his son doesn’t accept it. He then calls GOB to get rid of a cooler marked “Maddas” in the yacht just before Little Justice appears for George to see another inmate named Dorothy. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

Lindsay and Maeby turn up at the office to inform Michael about Nana’s disappearance. Maeby asks GM about how GOB will make the yacht vanish and how he should be on the yacht to see how he does it. Remembering how Michael told him to stay away from GM, GOB tells GM to go away. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

George discovers Tobias is Dorothy, and he has bought George to confront him over the animosity between them. (Plot: “Missing Kitty”)

GOB makes the yacht vanish by blowing it up, later signing a release to Philip Litt to use his act in a video. Lucille uses it as an excuse to “kill off” Nana before Lindsay confronts her with the truth. Maeby confesses GM was on it, but GM shows up alive at the office. Michael is so relieved that he fires him to free him. No one is aware Kitty was on the yacht, who survives by hanging on to the “Maddas” cooler. (Plot: “Missing Kitty” / “Spring Breakout”)

2004, March 16, Tuesday

Lupe discovers Annyong is 18. (Tag: “Missing Kitty”)

The police interview Michael on Kitty’s whereabouts. (Tag: “Missing Kitty”)

2004, March 20, Saturday

Barry drives around looking for a hooker. When the hooker he meets claims she’s not a man, he drives away from her. (Flashback: Altar Egos)

Buster tapes himself doing his favorite scene from “Chicago” and adding in a light saber battle. (Flashback: “Immaculate Election”)

2004, March 21, Sunday

Tobias gets out of prison and learns he lost the role in his prison movie for which he had a vanity plate made. (Flashback: “Motherboy XXX”)

2004, March 22, Monday

George meets Cindy Lightballoon again who confesses she was an FBI mole investigating him, but she has since fallen in love with him. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Lindsay gets a letter about Maeby failing the Ninth Grade. She and Tobias get George Michael to tutor her. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Barry Zuckerkorn talks with the family about getting prepared for George’s trial. He mentions a plea available which he hasn’t read yet. Michael says he can read it as his father arrives eager to beat the charges to be with Cindy. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Reading the plea in a lawyer’s bar, Michael meets lawyer Maggie Lizer but doesn’t notice she’s blind. He claims to be a lawyer named “Chareth Cutestory.” He stays the night with her. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Michael tries to tutor Maeby, but she just passes her work on him, giving him six twenties she thinks is $200. (Plot: Altar Egos)

GOB meets “Amy,” a blonde marine biologist, who dares him to marry her. She rushes off to work before they can consummate the marriage. (Plot: Altar Egos)

2004, March 23, Tuesday

Michael figures out that Maggie is blind. (Plot: Altar Egos)

George meets Cindy again at the prison, and Lucille catches them together. (Plot: Altar Egos)

When Michael gets back to the model home, he finds GOB who mentions dating and marrying “Amy,” who he’s convinced he will never see again. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Michael meets Maggie at the park and she tries to hear about his case. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Warden Gentles talks to George on a road job about his appreciation of his Caged Wisdom tapes. Cindy shows up to apologize to him, but George tries to find out what evidence the FBI has on him. She thinks faith is a fact because she doesn’t understand a blooper reel. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Maeby reveals to GM she got an “A” on a math test before running off to a fund-raiser. (Plot: Altar Egos)

2004, March 24, Wednesday

GOB gets Barry to handle his divorce. Lucille also asks for a divorce because she suspects George of cheating, but he claims he was only trying to get information from Cindy. George decides to pursue the plea. Judge Lionel Ping is ruling over the case, and Michael recognizes Maggie as the prosecuting attorney. She secretly recognizes him. GOB and Barry try to encourage Michael to use their relationship to find out what the state’s evidence is. (Plot: Altar Egos /“Justice Is Blind”)

GM discovers Maeby pretending to be Surely Funke, her own twin sister in order to extort money for a non-existent disease. He tries to talk sense into her but she’s unresponsive. (Plot: Altar Egos / “Justice Is Blind”)

Michael meets Maggie again at her house and tries to confess to her. She gives him the summary of her evidence against his father to review for her. (Plot: Altar Egos)

Maeby tries to submit a giant check at the bank. (Tag: Altar Egos)

GOB meets with “Amy” again talking about problems in her job and her parents getting a divorce. After she accuses him of not listening to her, she says she wants a divorce, but GOB talks her out of it. (Tag: Altar Egos / “Justice Is Blind”)

Lindsay hits her foot on the Ten Commandments in front of the Orange County Courthouse. She joins the protest trying to get them removed. GOB secretly replaces Maggie’s file. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

GM comes home from school with a sprained elbow after trying to help “Surely.”

Michael decides to meet Maggie and confesses to her. She confesses she realized he was Michael Bluth and had tried testing him. They decide to go their separate ways after a drink. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Barry gets arrested by an undercover officer. (Dialogue: “Justice Is Blind”)

2004, March 25, 2009, Thursday

GOB reveals the state’s evidence to his father, mother and Barry at the prison. George recruits GOB to break into Maggie’s house to destroy the state’s evidence. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Michael and Maggie wake up in bed with each other again. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Annyong reminds Buster that he’s out of the penthouse when George gets out of jail. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Buster finds Tobias and has him to break into Maggie’s house. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Maggie’s ride comes to take her to court and she is told of an informant to her case. Buster tries giving her information to keep George in jail, also mentioning the address with all the evidence. Realizing it is her address, Maggie returns home and finds Tobias prowling her house. Meanwhile, Michael tests Justice, her seeing-eye dog who turns out isn’t blind. He realizes Maggie isn’t blind. Back at her house, Maggie attacks Tobias with a baseball bat, but he sprays her perfume in her face blinding her. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

George Michael shows up with “Surely” at the courthouse and hides from his father behind the Ten Commandments; Michael hides from Maggie behind the same monolith as Lindsay’s protest gets it removed, revealing GM and Michael to each other. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Michael rushes into his father’s courtroom to expose Maggie, who has since been blinded for real. He hurls a Bible at her which hits her in the head. They apologize afterward, ending up having sex in the courtroom. She gets removed from the case. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

Barry finds the Ten Commandments monolith was dropped on his car and starts to repent just before finding his parking ticket. (Plot: “Justice Is Blind”)

2004, March 27, Saturday

Lucille tapes over a “NOVA” special with a girl that Buster liked. (Dialogue: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, March 29, Monday

George Michael and Maeby return to school. (Dialogue: “Missing Kitty”)

2004, April 3, Saturday

After finding their mother serious inebriated, Michael, GOB, Lindsay, Tobias and Buster try to have an intervention for Lucille, but their combined drinking turns into “one of the best Bluth parties ever.” (Flashback: “Spring Breakout”)

2004, April 4, Sunday

Michael meets with Ira Gilligan, the company accountant, who is reporting money missing from the company. Now married two weeks, GOB stops by, and Michael promises him a bachelor party, but GOB wants help breaking up his marriage. Tobias comes by asking Michael to help save his marriage as a way to get Lindsay to rejoin the Natural Good-Time Family-Band. He adds that Lindsay doesn’t take him serious. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

Michael meets with his father in prison to locate the missing money. George suggests Ira stole it. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

The family gathers to meet “Amy” at the penthouse. Buster and Annyong’s rivalry heats up. Michael tries talking Lindsay into rejoining Natural Good-Time Family-Band, but she’s not interested. Maeby is interested if it will get her parents to spend time with her. “Amy” recognizes Tobias from the band. Michael tries to get “Amy” to realize how unreliable GOB is, but she thinks he’s hitting on her. GOB appears late and tells Michael that their father wants him to stay married. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

2004, April 5, Monday

GOB visits George in jail and learns he wants to use the bachelor party to frame Ira with a fake murder using the narcoleptic stripper and red corn syrup. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

Tobias is rehearsing his family again, but George Michael tries to join in, but Lindsay wants out. Michael offers to take GM on a fishing trip. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

GOB balks at taking Buster to his bachelor party. Lucille attends Annyong’s soccer practice. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

Michael’s fishing trip and GOB’s bachelor party take place at the same hotel. Tobias’s Natural Good-Time Family-Band is at a Wellness Convention in the same hotel, but Lindsay leaves him and Maeby won’t participate as well. He drafts “Amy” to fill in for Lindsay, and GM replace Maeby, briefly. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

The Hot Cops attend GOB’s bachelor party but discover Buster has drunk all the juice and is on a sugar rush. Ira and Michael show up and Michael discovers the prostitute. GOB rushes through with the frame-up, but Ira realizes what is going on and walks out of the party. Michael gets GOB to stand up to their father. “Amy” shows up and announces she wants out of the marriage; she’s in love with GOB’s brother. GOB punches out Michael, but she adds too late she means Tobias. (Plot: “Best Man for the GOB”)

Buster wakes up and gets the idea he killed Michael. (Tag: “Best Man for the GOB”)

Ira vanishes with the stripper to an island. (Tag: “Best Man for the GOB”)

2004, April 6, Tuesday

Michael checks the books and notices that Ira was signatory on all the money, confirming that he stole the missing money. (Tag: “Best Man for the GOB”)

“Amy” confesses to GOB she’s in love with Tobias before leaving him. (Tag: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 11, Sunday

Tobias fails to notice Lindsay trying to be intimate. (Flashback: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 12, Monday

After some company funds are unfrozen, Michael plans to meet the company board on how to use them. Lindsay wants the money to fund her affair, but Michael encourages her to pursue her charity work. Her mind is still on an affair. Lucille wants money to fix Buster’s jaw from clicking. Michael tries to get her to cut the apron string. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

George Michael thinks he sees his “Pop-Pop” with hair near the banana stand and recalls how he wanted his hair during his visit to jail. He tells Maeby about it back at the model home, but she doesn’t believe him. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 13, Tuesday

George calls Michael and tells him his twin-brother, Oscar, is in town. He wants Michael to buy him off, but he won’t do it since Jordan on the board is watching him closely and trying to get Michael to buy him out of the company. Tobias shows up wanting some of the company money ahead of GOB, who reveals “Amy” left him to join the Army. Michael suggests the two find a way to make money.

Maeby thinks she sees “Pop-Pop” near the Banana Stand. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

Lindsay discovers her stylist is leaving to join the Army. After hearing there’s a war going on, she decides to protest it. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

GOB and Tobias begin plans for their Gobias Company in a coffee shop. Michael tells them he’ll back them and runs into his Uncle Oscar who has several acres of land near Camp Pendleton. Michael buys the property off him. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 14, Wednesday

Michael visits his father in prison. George reveals that Oscar’s land is worthless because of a military easement on it. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

Lindsay begins protesting the war. Maeby tells GM that she saw “Pop-Pop.” They plan to visit him in prison to see if he’s there and overhear Michael looking for Oscar. GOB and Tobias go to Michael for the money he promised, but when he tells them the money was lost on worthless land, they blame the purchase on George. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 15, Thursday

Lindsay’s protest group head out to their “Free Speech” zone where they’re hosed by locals. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

GM and Maeby head to the prison and discover “Pop-Pop” still there. They accidentally reveal Michael purchased Uncle Oscar’s land as Michael tries to spin the mistake to the company board. Jordan threatens to report that George is still controlling the company from prison unless he’s bought out of it. George calls from prison. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

Michael ends up at the penthouse uncertain why he went there. He confesses he purchased Oscar’s worthless land and passed the mistake on to his father. Lucille hugs him and promises to fix things. She goes to meet Oscar at his trailer, passing Lindsay in the cage along the way. Oscar gives her the money back for the land, and she uses it to buy out Jordan and replace him on the board. (Plot: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 16, Friday

Lucille sits in on her first board meeting. (Tag: Whistler’s Mother)

Lindsay decides she wants to be a cage dancer. (Tag: Whistler’s Mother)

Back at the penthouse, Lucille discovers Oscar trying to woo her. (Tag: Whistler’s Mother)

2004, April 17, Saturday

Wearing a dark wig, Lindsay goes into a fashion store and asks for a job application. (Flashback: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Michael works in “Amy’s” seals into his magic act for a birthday party, but it doesn’t work out well and he releases them into the sea. (Flashback/Dialogue: “Out on a Limb”)

2004, April 25, Sunday

2004, April 26, Monday – Take-Your-Daughter-To-Work-Day

Michael tries to head to work without George Michael repeating his yearly Daughter Day jokes. Maeby stays home from school to spend it hanging around with her father in the living room of the mobile home. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

GOB gets his VHS tape of “Girls of Low Self-Esteem: Newport Beach” with his magic act on it, but he’s dismayed when he discovers Philip Litt only used his seven bloopers. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter” / “Spring Breakout”)

Michael notices Lindsay showing up with a new outfit purchased with her first paycheck, but she claims to have stolen it to hide the stigma of getting caught with a job. GOB is impressed by her “trick,” but Michael tries to get her to return it. He takes Maeby instead of GM with him to work to give her a better role model. Maeby decides to go to spite her parents, but she jumps out of the stair car twice en route.

Lucille calls looking for someone to pose as her escort to Annyong’s soccer game. When Michael refuses, she calls Oscar to do it. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

GOB, Tobias and GM head to the mall. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Michael offers Maeby $50 if she can go a day without lying. Officers Taylor and Officer Carter arrive with their daughters looking for info on what happened to Kitty. Promising to help in the investigation, Michael hears the office watching “Girls of Low Self-Esteem: Newport Beach,” and Maeby notices Kitty in the video boarding the yacht before it exploded. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Tobias tries to get a job as a security guard at the mall. Michael claims to the police he has no idea where Kitty is. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Buster visits George at work who reminds him he was not an athletic kid, but George gets upset when he hears Oscar is hanging around Lucille. He tells Buster to deal with the situation. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Barry shows up to meet Michael and Maeby at the police station. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

GOB buys mice from the pet store to use as a diversion at Lindsay’s store. When she says the word, “shoplifting,” Tobias tackles her while GOB is stuffing clothes into GM. They’re busted by the guard’s daughter. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Oscar makes the moves on Lucille at the soccer field. Buster confronts him in his trailer to stay away from her. When he gets provoked by the kids, he runs roughshod through them. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Lindsay gets ousted at the mall after GOB and George Michael are caught shop-lifting. Maeby wanders the police station and discovers Kitty is alive; the police using her testimony to get Michael to try and turn state’s evidence on George. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

2004, April 27, Tuesday

Tobias loses his security job after he uses a gun to try and kill the mice GOB left in the store; Lindsay uses the distraction to grab as many clothes as she can. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

Annyong pummels Buster in the penthouse. (Plot: “Not Without My Daughter”)

2004, June 15, Tuesday

Michael sees Maggie Lizer for the last time. (Dialogue: “Hand to God”)

2004 November

Heiress Rita Leeds has plastic surgery to improve her appearance. (Flashback: “The Ocean Walker”)

2004, October 22, Friday

The Atkins Diet is at its zenith, and the effects of it are affecting local businesses like the Banana Stand. George Michael is interviewed for the local news, and Michael hopes to watch it with him. Meanwhile, the shoddy construction of the mobile home is starting to show as parts begin falling off in the living room. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Lindsay announces she has a beads business and needs start up money. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

GOB thinks he has to take a polygraph test, but he mistakes Lindsay’s “beads” business for a bee business and decides to start one of his own. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

As Michael starts to head to the prison to meet Barry and his parents, Kitty calls with a list of demands. George tells Michael to just give her what she wants. GOB gets tackled by the guards for having a jar of bees. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

At the Banana Stand, George Michael meets Ann Veal for the first time, and he tells her about his TV appearance. She invites him to her house to watch it. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Michael meets Kitty to find out she wants the company which George promises her. She reveals that George built houses overseas without paying the taxes, but Michael figures he would just pay the taxes on them. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Michael returns to the model home as GM is heading to meet Ann. Tobias reveals he has back royalties on a book he wrote which has since become a gay icon among home sexuals, and that he and Lindsay might be buying a house in Sudden Valley. Lindsay blows off her beads idea. George Michael’s interview is replaced by a story on houses in Iraq which Michael realizes are similar to the model home. He realizes the extent of his father’s crimes. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Kitty meets with GOB to help her get control of the Bluth Company. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

2004, October 23, Saturday

Michael meets with his mother to confirm his suspicions about Iraq. Lucille doesn’t confirm it but perpetuates the story. GOB shows up to confront Michael in a power-play over the company, but Michael isn’t intimidated. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Tobias has his first book-reading, and Lindsay realizes he is far more oblivious than she thought. She realizes their relationship is over. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Michael confronts his father about the houses in Iraq unaware that Kitty is meeting with Buster. He turns down the polygraph test, but George accepts it as part of an escape attempt, faking a heart attack to get into the hospital and departing via the stair car. Tobias shows up to support Lindsay at the hospital. GOB decides to stand for the company but backs out. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Michael picks up GM at the model home ready to leave the family, but they eventually get the message that George is in the hospital and go to check on him. (Plot: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

Jealous of GM spending time with Ann, Maeby tries to use Annyong to make him jealous, but he doesn’t notice. As the family waits on news on George, Dr. Fishman reveals he lost him, but he actually means that George has escaped the hospital. Michael renews his plan to leave the family. (Tag: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

The family meets at the penthouse to go off the Atkins Diet. Annyong thinks Maeby should try kissing him again. (Tag: “Let Them Eat Cake”)

2004, October 24, Sunday

Michael and George Michael leave for Phoenix, but upon realizing no one has noticed he has left, he goes back to tell them. Lucille isn’t taking him seriously, and Annyong offers to play Uncle Sam for GM at a “Get Out the Vote” assembly in school. After telling the family off, Michael leaves again. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

Lindsay and Tobias realize they can’t share a bed and decide to keep an open marriage. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

2004, October 25, Monday

Michael gets stopped by the police outside of town, but they report to him that they have captured his father, but it’s actually Oscar in custody. Oscar is released to Lucille and Buster who offers him to stay at the penthouse. When Michael returns to confront his father, he meets Barry, but when Michael tells him he’s leaving for phoenix, Barry tells him the police will now be coming for him. Michael realizes he needs the company credit card. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

GOB sends a realtor named Dave Carr to look at the model home where he meets Lindsay and thinks she’s a buyer. She flirts with him for a date, but he sends her to look at another house. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

2004, October 26, Tuesday

Michael returns to the model home looking for the company credit card. Lindsay tells him GOB has it. He goes to the office where GOB has moved in a pool table. He claims Lucille has the check book.

Tobias finds a flyer for the Blue Man Group and confuses it for a support group for depressed men. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

Michael heads to the penthouse looking for the check book and learns that Uncle Oscar has moved in. Lucille tells him she’s not worried about the Iraq charges. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

GOB finds a briefcase in the walls of the office about George’s business in Iraq. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

Tobias attends a Blue Man Show. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”) Tobias attends a Blue Man group audition. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Lindsay goes to meet Dave for what she thinks is a date, but she gets surprised in the shower by a family checking out the house. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

John Beard announces on TV ties between houses in Iraq to the Bluth Company and a seal attack near Newport. Lucille goes to talk about the news to GOB at the office and runs into a Michael Moore-impersonator asking about the houses in Iraq. He further asks if she would let Buster join the Army and she says, “Yes.” (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves” / Dialogue: “Out on a Limb”)

Michael returns to the model home and looks for things his father might have sealed in the walls. He instead discovers Tobias in blue body make-up after becoming an understudy to the Blue Man Group. Tobias rushes to the theater, but Barry drives over him with his car. Everyone joins Tobias at the hospital and confess to Michael how much trouble they’re in. GOB has the papers he found, but George slips in disguised as Oscar and steals them. Dr. Fishman announces Tobias is dead, but only means he looks dead. When Oscar actually shows up, everyone realizes George has escaped once more. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

Lindsay is admitted into the hospital with a fever of 104. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

2004, October 27, Wednesday

Michael finally gets the company checkbook but finds it empty. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

Barry lands in jail with Tobias pressing charges for the accident. (Plot: “The One Where Michael Leaves”)

2004, October 30, Saturday

Lindsay propositions a guy in a bar but backs out at the last second. Tobias follows her in his Blue Man make-up. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, October 31, Sunday

Ann shows up at the model home for the first time to meet George Michael. (Plot: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Michael starts getting money to build one house to promote the company, but Lindsay is more excited about diamond cream and her open marriage. She wonders who to take to Michael’s ribbon-cutting ceremony as Michael invites George Michael. GM asks to bring Ann who Michael has already forgot about. (Plot: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 1, Monday

GOB meets Starla, a spokes model, as he heads to buys a new yacht. (Plot: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Michael shows up at work to reveals his plans for a second model home. Lucille shows up to get Michael to take Oscar in at the model home. She also reveals that Buster is going into the Army as he’s taking his physical and trying to fail it. (Plot: “The One Where They Build a House”)

In Mexico, George is getting tired of living with Kitty and realizes he’s made a huge mistake. He calls Michael at the office to keep the company going, but learns too late that he’s been actually talking to GOB, who hides the hurtful truth from Michael. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

George is arrested in Mexico when the police mistake him for Oscar who has a warrant for selling marijuana there. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Lindsay tries to meet someone again at the bar, but she strikes out. She meets actor Thomas Jane posing as a homeless man on the street. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Buster reveals he’s been accepted by the Army. (Plot: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 2, Tuesday

Michael announces his plans for the second model home to be unveiled in two months, but GOB decides to make it available in two weeks. Michael asks to see his business model, but GOB produces Starla instead. Michael is worried about the reminders to Iraq hurting the company, but GOB insists all they have to do is build a fake house to impress the investors. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Lucille tries to break things off with Oscar, but the news captures a photo of them kissing and spins it as her giving CPR to a homeless man. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 3, Wednesday

Maeby tells Michael and Lindsay about Lucille in the newspaper. Lindsay is inspired by her mother’s “charity” to get Tom a job in Michael’s construction crew. Lucille calls Michael to give the house he’s building to Oscar. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

Halfway to Panama, George sees the article with Lucille and Oscar and heads back, but he is caught by the Mexican police as a vagrant. (Flashback: “Good Grief”)

When the Mexican Police realize they really have George Bluth, they detain him anyway because of scars from using the Cornballer. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 4, Wednesday – November 18, Thursday

For two weeks, Michael, Buster, Oscar and Tom build the fake house. Buster tries injuring himself to stay out of the Army. GOB visits the house the day before the unveiling. Michael decides to date Starla to spite GOB but discovers GOB has already been with her. After GOB looks for compassion from Michael, he finally gets to cut the ribbon at the unveiling. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 19, Friday

At the unveiling, the fake house falls apart at the seams when GOB cuts the ribbon. Buster discovers Lucille with Oscar in the house’s interior. GOB blames Michael for the spectacle, battling each other with a giant scissors and rock which gets reported in the news. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 20, Saturday

Michael and GOB read about their ugly incident in the newspaper and apologize. George calls from Mexican Prison, but they don’t take his call. That night, Lindsay realizes who Thomas Jane really is, and gets turned down by her. As she sits alone on the curb, Tobias appears in George Michael’s diamond cream to console her and ask for a ride to the hospital. (Flashback: “The One Where They Build a House”)

2004, November 21, Sunday

After another night in prison, George reveals he has money and buys his way out of prison. (Flashback: “Good Grief”)

2004, November 22, Monday

Michael prepares GOB’s shareholder statement, but he also gets a sense of Starla’s inept efficiency at her job. With Michael trying to get alone time with George Michael, Gob claims he’ll spend time with friends before Michael reminds him he doesn’t have any. Lucille comes by with news from private eye Gene Parmesan who has been looking for George. Gene reports he found the stair car abandoned in Encanta, Mexico before his cigar sets off the fire detector. Michael realizes bringing his father back can keep him out of jail. GOB starts to think Michael is escaping to jail to stick him with the business and hires a bounty hunter named Ice to keep an eye on him. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Returning to the model home, Michael offers George Michael to ride along to Mexico to look for George, but he wants to be with Ann. Michael invites her along on the trip as well as Tobias to bring back his car with the stair car. Tobias, however, has to remain on call for the Blue Man Group. Lindsay tells him to take GOB, but Michael refuses because of GOB’s embarrassing chicken dance. He tells Lindsay she can bring Maeby. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

2004, November 22, Tuesday

The Mexican police stage George’s funeral under the cover he was shot by a guard. His boby is faked by a human-sized piñata filled with candy, and Kitty attends the funeral. (Flashback: “Good Grief”)

Lucille has a going away party for Buster joining the Army, but Buster asks for help to help him get out of it. Lindsay meets Ice and is attracted by him. After Lucille has Michael give Lupe a ride home, Buster stows away way in the car and gets out in Lupe’s Santa Ana neighborhood thinking he’s in Mexico. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Annyong reveals Buster snuck off to Mexico, and Lucille decides to let Oscar stay with her. GOB comes by looking for Buster, but Lucille doesn’t let him in the door. Thinking he’s up to something, she hires Gene to keep an eye on him. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Buster notices his old possessions in Lupe’s house. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Michael looks for his father in Mexico during Kitty’s wake for George. Before he can enter the church, he’s tackled to the ground by Ice thinking he’s trying to get asylum. He gets Ice to continue the search for his father. Lindsay and George Michael take the car back as Michael and Maeby take the stair car back, leaving Ann behind in Mexico. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

George follows Lupe’s brother to work in the kitchens at Balboa Towers. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

GM notices Michael returned without Ann and they return to get her. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

GOB tries to get Tobias and Lindsay to spend time with him, but they have other plans. Lindsay is watching Ice, who tackles Tobias thinking he’s George. Ice starts to think Michael set him up and goes looking for him. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Michael is tackled by GOB in Mexico, and they both run into Gene. GOB confesses he has no friends. He pays Gene and Ice to spend time with GOB and returns to Newport with Michael and Ann. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

Buster walks in on his mother and Oscar getting intimate in the kitchen. (Plot: “!Amigos!”)

2004, November 23, Wednesday

Michael confesses to GOB he doesn’t like Ann. (Tag: “!Amigos!”)

Buster brings his old hand chair home from Lupe but Lucille and Oscar get intimate in it. (Tag: “!Amigos!”)

In the hospital, Lindsay and Maeby learn from Gene that Tobias has internal injuries from getting pummeled by Ice. (Tag: “!Amigos!”)

2004, December 6, Monday

GOB gets the new issue of “POOF” magazine and begins his remote rivalry with Tony Wonder. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Ice tracks down the facts on George’s “funeral” and makes arrangements to detail his investigation with the Bluth family. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

George Michael is now seeing Ann regularly, but she’s getting frustrated with Michael always interrupting their relationship and breaks up with him. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Ice caters his meeting with the family at the penthouse. Maeby asks Barry Zuckerkorn on how to emancipate herself from her parents. After Michael arrives, Ice arrives and reveals that after George fled to Mexico he was arrested and then killed by a guard. Ice produces dental records and a death certificate. Lucille checks Oscar’s hair. Maeby sees a chance to fix up her mother, and GOB sees the funeral as a way to upstage Tony Wonder. Buster arrives back without hearing the news. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Michael tells GM the sad news about George and consoles him over Egg/Ann. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Buster helps GOB with his trick unaware it’s for their father’s funeral. Buster reveals he’s not in the Army yet and asks for a uniform. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

George Michael wanders the lots at Sudden Acres and discovers “Pop-Pop” hiding in an underground shelter since faking his death. He moves him to the attic of the model home. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

2004, December 7, Tuesday

Michael notices GM sneaking food to the model home of the attic and thinks he’s hiding Ann up there. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Michael and Lindsay discuss their feelings about their father. Tobias notices his hard-boiled eggs missing. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

GOB reuses George’s hole for the trick during his father’s wake. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Maeby uses her mother’s grief to get her to pursue Ice. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

George watches his wake from the attic, and GM notices Ann is attending. Buster attends wearing what he thinks is a uniform to the birthday/wake. GM gives a speech. George is more interested in the food being served. Even after GM confesses to hiding George in the attic, Michael thinks he’s still referring to Ann. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

Buster ruins GOB’s act, but in the ruins, Michael realizes the truth. He finds George in the attic and fakes his escape. He makes the announcement just as Maeby is fixing up Lindsay with Ice who now runs off to pursue George. GM reveals he and Ann are back together. (Plot: “Good Grief”)

2004, December 8, Wednesday

Buster trashes the penthouse after learning about the death of Captain Kangaroo. (Tag: “Good Grief”)

Buster finally leaves for Boot Camp for training. (Background: “Sad Sack”)

2004, December 12, Sunday

GOB gets an advance issue of “POOF” magazine showcasing another of his failures. (Tag: “Good Grief”)

2004, December 13, Monday

While Michael prepares breakfast for his father, Oscar confesses he’s no longer interested in Lucille and reveals Buster’s problems in basic training. Hidden in the attic, George overhears Lucille being with Oscar. Michael worries about George Michael’s vision as far his appreciation for Ann and makes an eye exam for him to get glasses. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Wayne Jarvis meets with GOB over George’s possible treason. After giving him minutes to think about the situation, they find him coming close to hanging himself from the repairs in the office. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Tobias gets a new phone. Lindsay loses her voice after spending every night in single’s clubs. She meets Steve Holt who Maeby has had delivering things to get to the model home. Steve thinks Lindsay is Maeby’s sister. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Michael finds George wearing Tracy’s old maternity clothes. He’s depressed that Lucille is with Oscar. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

GM has his eye exam and is prescribed glasses. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Michael learns Wayne Jarvis is the new prosecutor. He tries to trade George’s whereabouts for immunity to charges. In private, Michael confides in Barry that George returned over Lucille’s interest in Oscar. Barry tells him to stall until learning the terms of the plea. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

On leave, Buster goes to Tobias at the model home for help to get over the wall. Tobias tells him to find a person to motivate him, and after GOB shows up to avoid the office, Buster asks for his help. Tobias borrows GOB’s expensive cell phone. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Michael checks on Lucille and Oscar at the penthouse. Oscar realizes he wants out, and Michael tries convincing him to leave to spare his father. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

As Tobias struggles to understand GOB’s phone, Lindsay meets Maeby and Steve at high school to be flirted at again. Getting jealous, Maeby convinces Steve that Lindsay is her transvestite father. On the playground, Buster tries to get GOB to motivate him, but GOB is too crushed after his encounter with Wayne Jarvis. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Michael tells George about Wayne Jarvis’s deal and that Oscar is leaving Lucille. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Lindsay sees Steve again on his break at work who is amazed that she/he looks so womanly. They make a lunch date. (Flashback: “Sad Sack”)

2004, December 14, Tuesday

Meeting with Wayne Jarvis again, Michael learns he has what appears to be satellite images of Iraq lifted from the Bluth Company server under the patriot act. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Lucille stops by the model home and tells Lindsay she’s having a “tingly” time with Oscar. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

After Lucille departs, Michael returns to the model home to confront his father over the satellite photos, but he runs into Lindsay instead. When she reveals that their mother stopped by talking about Oscar, Michael enters the attic and discovers their father missing. He calls his mother looking for him while George impersonates Oscar to be with Lucille, but learning the truth, he walks out on her. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Wayne goes public with the satellite photos, and Buster’s unit is sent out to investigate. To go with them, Buster is pushed by GOB to do the obstacle course and gets punched in the stomach. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Maeby and GM get a half day in school. Lindsay overhears her daughter likes Steve and decides to step back from him. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

George returns to the attic deflated and finds Michael waiting for him. He gives Michael permission to turn him in to save himself and the company. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

On Michael’s second meeting with Wayne Jarvis that day, Barry reveals the photos are “balls” were unknowingly captured by Tobias with GOB’s phone. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Michael realizes GM doesn’t need glasses. He also lets his father know he didn’t turn him in. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

2004, December 15, Wednesday

Oscar returns to Lucille who responds coldly to him thinking he rejected her. He’s attracted to her again. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

Maeby gives Lindsay a “Shemale” t-shirt to perpetuate her “tranny” lifestyle, but Lindsay decides to re-bond with her. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

After the media exposure, Tobias relapses after recognizing himself on the TV at the gym and returns to his “Never Nude” phobia, retrieving his cut-offs which George over-looked in the attic. (Plot: “Sad Sack”)

2004, December 19, Sunday

Annyong and students from the Milford Academy push the banana stand off the dock. (Background: “Afternoon Delight”)

2004, December 20, Monday

Michael has the company crane to have the Banana Stand rescued out of the bay where it was dumped by vandals. He returns to the model home where he finds GOB wearing one of his father’s old suits. Michael lets him know he’s been alienating the employees, but GOB doesn’t believe him. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Maeby decides not to attend the company Christmas party. Lindsay supports the decision in order to attract dates. Tobias is on call for the Blue Man Group. Michael plans to enjoy himself, but George Michael is going to be with Ann’s family. Michael confesses to his father that he’s jealous of GM’s time with Yam/Egg. Lucille calls about a break-in. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

GOB shows up at the offices for his sexual harassment speech; he particularly threatens violence at anyone trying to hit on Lindsay. He leaves briefly to tale all the liquor from the penthouse. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

At the penthouse, Michael busts his mother’s phony break-in and looks for Oscar who has left on his annual walkabout attempt to Berkley. He thinks she’s acting out of loneliness since Buster left for basic training and Annyong was admitted to the Milford Academy. On his way, Buster gets distracted by claw games near the bus stop. He passes off his stuffed animals as “rewards” from the Army to his mother at the penthouse. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay gets Maeby out of school early in order to not miss the company Christmas Party. Maeby ends up at the Banana Stand where she meets Michael and accompanies him to the party where GOB tries to force everyone to party. Lucille shows up to report the stolen liquor. Michael calls Tobias to check on Lucille later at the penthouse, but he thinks it’s the Blue man Group calling for him and starts applying his make-up. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay shows up for the party, but she dismayed when no one hits on her. She notices the employees sticking stuff on GOB’s suit. Michael arrives late from the Veal Party. Michael sings karokee with Maeby, but he notices the song a bit too late is inappropriate. GOB stands to accept his toast, but he learns he doesn’t have anyone’s respect and fires everyone. In the ashes, GOB realizes he wants his freedom again. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Back at the penthouse, Lucille attacks Tobias in his blue make-up in her kitchen. (Flashback: “Afternoon Delight”)

2004, December 21, Tuesday

Michael and Maeby set up the Banana Stand for a new office party and re-hire everyone. Lucille shows up to report the break-in by Tobias and asks to move in to the model home. Michael and Maeby go in search of Oscar to get him back. They find him while fueling for gas. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay discovers Tobias’s injuries and resulting deafness after Lucille. Even though Tobias tells them he can’t fall asleep, Lindsay learns from GM that Maeby is now spending time with Michael. Lindsay invites GM to the party.

Oscar returns to Lucille and gets her stoned from brownies made with marijuana. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

GOB shows up for the party in the banana suit hoping to get laughs, but he takes it apart as it gets hotter. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay and GM sing karaoke without noticing the song is inappropriate. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Craving a banana in her stoned state, Lucille drives through the Christmas party, over Tobias and trapping GOB in the Banana Stand. Buster uses the crane to “rescue” GOB, dropping him from thirty feet off the ground. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Michael and GM start rebuilding the Banana Stand. (Plot: “Afternoon Delight”)

Convalescing from his injuries at the model home, Tobias never hears the Blue Man Group’s call. (Tag: “Afternoon Delight”)

2004, December 25, Saturday

2004, December 27, Monday

Lucille Austero enters the Plumb Clinic to get treated for her vertigo. Before departing, she gives her apartment keys to Lucille Bluth to let workmen in to do a job. (Flashback: “Queen for a Day)

2005, January 17, Monday

Michael schedules an appointment at home to talk with Stan Sitwell, but GOB thinks it’s a ploy to learn about the company baseball team. George Michael is out with Ann and not helping Maeby with her homework. Michael says he’ll help, but Maeby clearly wants him to do it for her. Neither Tobias nor Lindsay responds to this fact. Meanwhile, the refrigerator is collapsing into the garage. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Tobias learns he has a role in an up-coming movie and drags Maeby along to help. Lindsay takes Teamocil to repress her sex drive. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Lucille and Oscar arrive with Buster’s letter from the Army about his unit being shipped out to Iraq. Lucille wants to stop it. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Michael and Stan bond as they plan a co-venture to get together and finish Sudden Valley. While Michael secretly runs the idea by his father in the attic, Stan hires GOB to work at his company. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Tobias and Maeby arrive at Tandamount Studios and get on the lot. As Tobias annoys everyone he meets, Maeby sneaks into an office to use the phone and gets mistaken as the Funke Tobias has everyone talking about. She hires a reader to do her homework for her. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

At the office, GM meets his father and talks about the company football team. GM tries to get Ann on the team, but Michael already has Lindsay on the team and makes Ann back-up. GOB shows up trying to get back in to the Bluth Company to exploit the position. Michael offers to help GOB at Sitwell to keep his own job. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Lucille tries to get Oscar back in the Army to get Buster back, but he recommends her old paramour Bill Anderson. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

2005, January 18, Tuesday

GOB blows through the ideas Michael gave him to keep his job at Sitwell Enterprises, but he becomes confused when Sitwell becomes the father figure he never had. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Michael tells his father that Stan Sitwell liked the ideas he gave GOB to give to Sitwell, but George is more concerned about losing his best company softball player. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

The other side effects of Teamocil affect Lindsay and Michael replaces her on the softball team with Ann. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Lucille visits General Bill Anderson to keep Buster from getting sent overseas. Buster gets transferred to the USO. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Michael visits GOB at Sitwell Enterprises to get him to throw the softball team. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

Tobias fails his audition for Mort Meyers, who heads out and runs into Maeby, turning her homework assignment of “The Old Man in the Sea” into a screenplay and making her movie executive. She also gets a job for her dad. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

2005, January 19, Wednesday

GOB throws the company softball game up until Stan gives him support and then he starts playing harder, knocking himself out trying to run through Ann. Masquerading as the umpire, George calls him out; both Michael and GOB recognize him. GOB’s tooth is whistling again. Lindsay thinks seeing her father is a hallucination of Teamocil. (Plot: “Switch Hitter”)

GOB’s ideas for Stan Sitwell in the company all starting turning into variations of one idea. (Flashback: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 21, Friday

Michael takes out a school banner after picking up George Michael in the stair car. (Flashback: “Queen for a Day”)

Tobias replaces the Tandamount Studio guard that got his job. (Tag: “Switch Hitter”)

Buster meets General Anderson who appreciates his neck rub so much he decides to take him to Iraq with him. (Tag: “Switch Hitter”)

2005, January 22, Saturday

Lucille 2 gets out of the hospital. She discovers her kitchen is inexplicably smaller. (Narration: “Queen for a Day”)

Barry gets hit with a puck at a Los Angeles Kings game. (Background: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 23, Sunday

(Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 24, Monday

George Michael finds his old love letters to Maeby while getting ready for school. When Michael goes to get him for school, GM confesses he’s embarrassed of the stair car and writing with the Veals. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Maeby starts skipping school for her job as a studio executive.

Out on furlough, Buster shows up at the model home looking for someone to spend time with. Tobias volunteers, but his homo sexual response has Michael recommending he tape and listen back to his strange way of talking. GOB shows up to reveal he was fired from Sitwell Enterprises. GOB wants back in the Bluth Company, but Michael resists. However, he’s perturbed when he learns everyone in the family got free cars but him during their father’s control of the company. Michael tries confronting George with this fact, but George just complains about being bored. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

GOB reunites with Starla at the office trying to get his job back. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Barry reveals the company stock is unfrozen, and Michael has him send out a letter warning the family from selling. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Maeby retreats to the attic of the model home to read several scripts, but doesn’t finish them. George reads them in her absence. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Michael sells a few stocks to get himself a car, but hubris takes over and he gets a Corvette. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Tobias unknowingly takes Buster to the Queen Mary, a tranny bar to meet women, and they discover Lucille 2 is out of the hospital. She tries to find out if Buster has anyone in her life. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 25, Tuesday

Lucille locks Buster out on the balcony to hear he’s with Lucille Austero again. When Starla comes by with papers, Michael puts her and Buster together. He also discovers his mother extended her bathroom into Lucille 2’s apartment. He discovers she paid for the work by selling Bluth Company stocks. Lindsay, GOB and Tobias also sells their stock which reduces their controlling stock in the company. When Michael tries to chide them for being selfish, George Michael comes in after seeing his father’s corvette. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

At the office, Barry Zuckerkorn informs Michael and Gob they lost controlling interest to Lucille 2. They fear they lost the company to Stan Sitwell, but Lucille reveals it’s actually Lucille Austero’s Standpoor Company. Hoping to appeal to her, Michael looks for Buster, who reveals he’s seeing Starla. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Maeby finds her edited scripts and thinks GM did them, but he thinks she’s taking about his old love letters to her. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Barry goes to court against the Los Angeles Kings after his injury. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Tobias is displeased at the sign installed on the Queen Mary which he now owns. He runs into the Hot Cops in their civilian clothes and hires them as entertainers. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Buster breaks up with Starla to help Michael, but since he’s the only one to not sell his stocks, he decides to confront Lucille himself at her penthouse. She doesn’t care for riding in his Corvette, but she confides in him that she loves the Bluths and has always supported them. She promises to sell him stocks back. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

Buster gets the Hot Cops shot at by a street gang. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

After Lucille Austero gets home, GOB blabs to her about his mother stealing her space. She decides to renege on her promise to Michael and makes GOB president again. (Plot: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 26, Wednesday

Lucille 2 has her kitchen space restored. (Tag: “Queen for a Day”)

A heavily-injured Tobias sells the Queen Mary bar to Barry using his King’s settlement. (Tag: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, January 27 – February 10

Tobias recovers from his injuries. (Background: “Queen for a Day”)

2005, February 10, Thursday

Lindsay stops by an Anti-Gun Rally to check it out and gets smitten by actor Moses Taylor from the TV-series, “Wrench.” (Flashback: “Burning Love”)

GOB hurts his ankle doing his chicken dance to Buster at the penthouse. (Flashback: “Burning Love”)

2005, February 11, Friday

GOB is spending time with Lucille 2. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael works from home as George Michael looks for records to burn for Ann’s Christian bonfire. When Maeby refuses to cover the Banana Stand so GM can spend time with Ann, Michael offers to cover it which GM and Maeby realize will help them get an air conditioner in the stand. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Lucille shows up at the model home to get Michael to bid on her at the Annual Balboa Club Charity Auction. Lindsay finds her and asks for a fur for her date with Moses Taylor. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Tobias is fired by the Blue Man Group after trying to bill himself for private parties as a Blue Man. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael checks on his father who wants to make sure Oscar doesn’t bid on her. He realizes the wolf howls in the area are coming from George, who asks Michael for a hot tub and packets of soup. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

At the Banana Stand, Michael orders an air conditioner. He’s reunited with Sally Sitwell, his longtime crush. GOB stops by as well and mocks Michael for being too scared to pursue Sally. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael visits his mother for her club membership to date Sally, but doing so involves promising to bid on her at the auction. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Tobias finds an ad at the pier offering a reward for the capture of a local wolf. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael heads to the club looking for Sally but runs into her and her father. They decide to have lunch together and run into GOB with Lucille 2 who joins them. Stan and Lucille 2 hit it off with each other, but Michael is embarrassed when his father uses overcharges on his credit card. He returns to the model home to find his father overheated next to a hot tub and surrounded by scattered soup packets. When Michael realizes he doesn’t have his father’s approval to date Sally, he decides to pursue her. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Tobias returns after trying to hunt the wolf and accidentally shooting Lindsay in her fur coat at the park with tranquilizers. Moses leaves her on a bench. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

GOB offers to help Michael get Sally by making him look like a hero after siphoning her gas tank and leaving her stranded. GOB, however, siphons Stan Sitwell’s car and Sally finds Michael next to it.

Lucille 2 breaks up with GOB. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael tries to make amends with Sally, but the smoke from the fire impedes his process. His withdraws his help from his mother to bid on Sally at the auction, and Lucille calls on a dejected GOB to bid on her. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Michael and Ann’s record burning party at the model home turns into a CD burning party with Maeby and Steve Holt in attendance. Michael introduces Ann to the Jerky Boys. She kisses him for the first time. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

Lindsay shows up at the Charity Auction under the effects of the tranquilizers. Tobias bids on her with Michael’s money from Lucille. Stan loans Michael the money to bid on Sally in return for his car, but she decides to not date him after her father’s interference. GOB bids on Lucille 2 with his mother’s money. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

George shows up late to bid on Lucille, but he’s followed by a wolf attracted by the scent of chicken teriyaki on him. (Plot: “Burning Love”)

2005, February 12, Saturday

Tobias goes through the Valentine’s Day package he received for Lindsay but wastes the entire package on himself on the pretense of “checking it out.” (Flashback: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Michael gets his weekend Valentine’s Day package for Sally Sitwell, but thinks she’s blowing him off after mistaking her father in a blonde wig at Sitwell Enterprises for her. (Flashback: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Buster slips out of Starla’s apartment through her bathroom window. (Flashback: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

2005, February 13, Sunday

GOB picks up Lucille 2’s phone and notices its Stan Sitwell calling her.

Lucille shows up at the model home upset that Lucille 2 is trying to take over the company through GOB, unaware that Lucille 2 is tiring of GOB. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Michael gives his Valentine’s Day package to Tobias to share with Lindsay, but after hearing his veiled gay entendres about it, he suggests Tobias tape his comments for a day to examine later.

After Michael gives Lindsay his Valentine’s Day package to share with Tobias, she balks at the idea of it then teases Michael for not being able to ask Sally out on it. GOB briefly chimes in on the teasing before mentioning his paranoia with Lucille controlling the company. Michael sends Lindsay to check out Sitwell Industries to see if he’s planning anything with Lucille 2. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Michael returns to the model home and finds his father with his arm stuck under the furnace. After discussing Lucille owning the majority shares, George mentions borrowing money from Jack Dorso. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Lindsay neglects to follow-through at Sitwell Enterprises. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

The family gathers at the penthouse to meet Jack Dorso, who becomes fond of Buster for being a soldier, but he also becomes attracted to Lindsay after realizing Lucille didn’t age as well as he thought. Lindsay is instead attracted to Dragon, Jack’s deaf personal assistant. She wants Dragon to replace Tobias on their Valentine’s Day package. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

On the balcony, Michael finally asks Jack for the money to buy back controlling interest in Bluth Company, but he will only do it after a date with Lindsay. Michael gets her to go on the date, but only after telling her it’s with Dragon. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Buster goes to visit Lucille 2, but GOB answers the door in his robe. GOB claims he’s only dating her to see if she plans to sell their company to Stan Sitwell, and Buster offers to help keep an eye on her. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

2005, February 14, Monday - Valentine’s Day

Michael tells his father how he had to “pimp” out Lindsay to get the money from Jack Dorso and hears from Maeby that Tobias has headed to the Four Seas Hotel to be with Lindsay. He unwittingly has to share the package with Tobias to keep him from learning Lindsay is there with Dragon with Jack in attendance who thinks he’s dating Lindsay. Stan Sitwell is also in attendance with Lucille Austero with Buster and GOB following them. The two accidentally crash Michael and Tobias, but when Tobias learns Lindsay is there with someone, he crashes in on Stan and Lucille 2. Buster and GOB start fighting over Lucille 2. When Tobias finds Lindsay with Dragon and Jack, Jack has Dragon toss him at Tobias. Embarrassed, Lucille 2 threatens to seel the company and runs off with Stan offering to buy it. Jack promises to save the company, but he wants Lindsay president. (Plot: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

Tobias reads his recording, but he just comes off believing he’s a blowhard. (Tag: “Ready, Aim, Marry Me”)

2005, March 5, Saturday

After eight dates, Michael spends the night with Sally Sitwell and has three love-making sessions with her in one night. (Narration: “Out on a Limb”)

George sneaks out of the attic to visit the local Ford dealership. (Dialogue: “Out on a Limb”)

2005, March 6, Sunday

Michael takes Sally Sitwell out for brunch at the Skip’s Church Bistro at the same time as George Michael and Maeby. Michael asks GM if he is okay with him dating Sally, and GM asks about double-dating with Ann, who Michael doesn’t recall. Ann shows up and catches GM not working. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Michael lets Lindsay know how his relationship with Sally is going and confesses he’s not sure how GM feels about the relationship, but Lindsay says he’s just looking for a reason to stop the relationship. GOB reveals that “Amy” has contacted him to get a divorce, but he can’t remember her name. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Lucille eavesdrops at Michael, Lindsay and GOB and tries to find out from them why he wants to meet her at the beach. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

2005, March 7, Monday

On the way to school, George Michael sees Maeby driving her car from Tandamount Studio and George with the car from the Ford Dealership. (Flashback: Sword of Destiny)

Barry Zuckerkorn defends the Skip’s Church Bistro against a waitress suing them over their food making her fat. (Dialogue: “Out on a Limb”)

Buster meets with Lucille at the beach for new photos before he ships out with the Army to Iraq, but Lucille thinks he’s just trying to abandon her. At the penthouse, Oscar tries to convince Lucille that Buster is going off to war. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Michael and GOB meet with Barry at the courthouse to finalize GOB’s divorce. Michael learns that the defense in Barry’s case is his old flame Maggie Lizer, who turns out to be pregnant. Michael meets with her and starts speculating her child might be his even though she says he isn’t. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

On a date with Sally, Michael tells her about his possible child with Maggie Lizer, but she thinks he’s just not looking for an excuse to break up with her. At the model home, Lindsay also agrees with Sally, but GOB encourages him to get her urine checked. Lindsay and Tobias volunteer to get the specimen. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Lucille shows up to complain about Buster going to Iraq to get away from her. Tobias tries to analyze her denial, but he does into denial after she insults his analysis. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Maeby convinces GM to take Ann to meet their grandmother in order to break them up amicably. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

George asks Michael to get Buster out of the Army. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

2005, March 8, Tuesday

Michael visits Maggie at her house and discovers her living with her client, Loretta, and waiting for a pizza. Maggie once again denies her child isn’t Michael’s, going with him to get drinks. Meanwhile, Tobias and Lindsay sneak in to the house to get a urine sample from Maggie but they instead get one from Loretta. Lindsay discovers Maggie purchased a fake pregnant belly. She finally claims the baby is Michael’s. (Plot: “Out on a Limb” / “Hand to God”)

George sneaks into the penthouse disguised as Oscar letting him know it is okay to hide and tells him that he’s his father, but Tobias comes to the conclusion that Oscar is his father. He confronts Lucille with the revelation, and she snaps out of her denial. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

GM and Maeby take Ann to meet Lucille who is distraught over losing Buster. Ann shows Lucille the power of prayer. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

Michael takes Maggie home to the model home to meet GM, but when he checks his messages, he hears about the fake belly and turns on her who flashes her huge belly at him before departing. Lindsay and Tobias then enter with the results on the urine confirming it’s positive. (Plot: “Out on a Limb”)

2005, March 9, Wednesday

Barry visits Michael still working in the store room at the Bluth company. He reveals the fat suit was for Maggie’s client then adds he’s Maggie’s lawyer in a paternity suit against him. (Tag: “Out on a Limb”)

Lucille prays to God to take anything he wants to keep Buster from going off to war. Waiting at the bus stop, Buster gets the idea to go in the ocean even as a life guard warns him about a loose seal. The seal attacks Buster and bites off his hand. (Tag: “Out on a Limb”)

Ann’s church group tries to get the TV series “Nip/Tuck” off the air. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

2005, March 10, Thursday

Michael meets with George Michael to let him know he was dating Maggie Lizer once more but has broken things off with her. He plans to do something with GM just as Lucille calls to report Buster lost his hand and in the hospital. She swerves to miss George test-driving the Ford Escape. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

The family meets in the hospital to hear about Buster. Dr. Fishman returns to report Buster is “all right” after losing his left hand. Buster seems positive and enrages Michael to pursue Maggie until the shock hits him. Lucille blames herself for praying to God to take his hand. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Michael goes to confront Maggie and apologize to her. She claims again the baby isn’t Michael’s, but he still wants to be with her. Officer Taylor and Officer Carter approach her after checking out her house. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Buster returns home in good spirits, but when GOB hears the seal that bit him had a yellow bow tie, he realizes it was the one he dumped into the ocean. GOB vows to hunt down the seal. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Lindsay commends Michael for wanting to help her raise her child, but she gets frustrated as he starts wondering if Maggie is still lying. He asks Lindsay and Tobias if they know where Maeby is, thinking she’s on a school field trip when she’s actually making on a boat with a film crew making “The Old Man and the Sea.” (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Michael asks Lindsay and Tobias to break into Maggie’s house again looking for the identity of her baby’s father, but they won’t do it. He instead gets George Michael to do it, but he instead takes the note left on the door for her. Officer Taylor shows up to reveal his partner, Officer Carter, is watching the inside of the house. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

GOB goes out to sea with a bunch of cats trying to re-catch “Amy’s” lost seal, but he gets noticed by Maeby on her studio boat. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Michael has Gene Parmesan trace the phone number on the note from Maggie’s door to the home of Officer Taylor and Officer Carter. They reveal it is their baby that Maggie is carrying. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

In court, Barry tries to prove Loretta isn’t fat, but it turns out she’s pregnant. When she goes into labor, Maggie fakes her water breaking to get out of the trial. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

At the pier, Maeby convinces GOB to tell the truth to Buster. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Lucille begs God to take GOB and restore Buster’s hand just before he near-fatally stabs Oscar with his claw. GOB shows up to apologize and Buster attacks him. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Officer Taylor, Officer Carter, Michael and GM head to the hospital to meet Maggie’s child who reveals she outsourced their specimen to Loretta. Maggie confesses she never thought Michael would stay around to actually raise her baby. GM watches Loretta’s baby being born before getting lost in the morgue. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Michael and Maggie have one last fling before finally breaking up entirely. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Buster gets rolled into the hospital with his hook stuck in GOB’s posterior. Dr. Fishman manages to free Buster first. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

2005, March 11, Friday

Maggie discovers she may actually be pregnant. (Plot: “Hand to God”)

Tobias gets a call from Carl Weathers about a part in an episode of “Scandalmakers.” (Dialogue: “Motherboy XXX”)

Ann invites George Michael on a Christian outing called Promised Land. (Background: “Motherboy XXX”)

2005, March 12, Saturday

Buster gets depressed over the loss of his hand. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Lucille shows up early at the model home and runs into Michael, trying to get him to attend Motherboy with her. He turns it down and criticizes Lucille for not being there for him. Lindsay learns there was a Motherboy version for fathers and daughters, but her father just never took her to it. She also opines over Tobias becoming even more clueless. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

George is getting increasing lonely for company, but when George Michael and Maeby come up to the attic looking for camping supplies, he hides. Michael comes up to send them back down, and George tries to get Michael to not have GM on a Promised Land outing with Ann. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

When Michael tries to dissuade GM from attending Promise Land, Maeby learns she can get out of school for it and asks how to get “one of those T-necklaces.” (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

At the office, Michael runs into GOB looking for Barry Zuckerkorn. GOB reveals that “Amy’s” lawyers are also suing for the price of the seal he released. Michael tries to let GOB know that if the marriage was never consummated that he can have it annulled, but GOB is more into feeling superior over Michael. Barry shows up and reveals the loose seal was detected near Dana Point. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Tobias meets Carl at “Burger King,” but he learns Carl only wants the rights to the family for an episode of Scandalmakers. When he hears George’s role is the only one not filled, Tobias asks for the role. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

GM spends the day with Buster to cheer him up, but Lucille gets the idea to take GM to Motherboy, dressing him in a sailor suit as her companion. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Buster joins Michael and GOB at Dana Point to search for the seal, but they’re too traumatized by J. Walter Weatherman. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Tobias searches the attic of the model home to prepare for his role of George Bluth with one of his Jewish Religion tapes and runs into George for real. Tobias tells him about the part and gets George’s help to learn to play him. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Michael learns from Buster that Lucille took GM to Motherboy. After realizing they’ve only found a shark that bit off part of the seal, they go to rescue GM. After accidentally rescuing a young boy, Buster realizes that Lucille would have changed costumes. He goes to the roof to zip-line into Lucille’s room, but he falls and crashes into the room of the earlier boy. Discovering Buster’s hook landing without him, Lucille changes rooms and costumes. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Barry pushes GOB to settle his divorce since he’s unprepared. When he’s reunited with “Amy,” she gets him to consummate their marriage. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Dave Attell playing Tobias in “ScandalMakers” is unconvinced Tobias isn’t gay, especially after Tobias tries to explain his NeverNude quirk. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Michael and Buster track down Lucille and GM dressed as gypsies, but he gets his hook stuck on a sandbag and gets dragged into the show. After Michael escapes with GM, Buster replaces him in Motherboy to save him. Lucille passes Buster off as Captain Hook. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

Lucille confuses Dave Attell as Tobias, and he mistakes her as a hooker. (Plot: “Motherboy XXX”)

“Amy” tries to prove that she and GOB had sex before meeting him, but Judge Ping is about to toss out her evidence for not being to identify GOB, who suddenly confirms its him in the photo. (Tag: “Motherboy XXX”)

Maeby terrifies the youths at Promised Land with her Hook story just as Michael and Buster wander upon the site. (Tag: “Motherboy XXX”)

2005, March 13, Sunday - March 16, Wednesday

Michael has Lindsay arrange for the model home to be tented and fumigated, remembering in the nick of time his father living in the attic. (Flashback: “Immaculate Election”)

2005, March 18, Friday

Lindsay throws Tobias out of the house after he fails to get intimate with her. In his job as a guard at Tandamount Studios, Tobias starts living on the set of “Wrench.” (Flashback: “Immaculate Election”)

2005, March 21, Monday

A week after the house was fumigated, the house is still a mess even after Lindsay had promised to clean it up for Michael. She blames her listlessness on Tobias’s absence. Michael learns she never told Maeby about tossing Tobias out of the house. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

GOB shows up looking for the family video camera to tape himself doing magic at the office which gets them reflecting on George Michael’s “Star Wars” video. Michael decides he has to work on George Michael’s self-esteem and finds him in his bedroom with Ann planning to run for student body president. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Lupe starts feeling sorry for Buster. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Lindsay “cleans” the house by putting several random objects in a bag she dumps in the attic. She finds Polly, one of her old dolls to sell on EBay, unaware its one of her father’s “friends.” As he peruses the bag, George becomes a Christian reading from one of Ann’s Christian brochures. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

At the office, GOB disrupts a meeting with his magic tricks. Michael fires him, but GOB fires him instead, still thinking he’s president of the company. When GOB calls security to throw Michael out, he’s the one who gets dragged out of the office. Michael runs into Maeby and accidentally reveals that Tobias has moved out of the model home. When he asks as to why she’s not in school, she momentarily uses her “Marry Me” distraction on him before claiming to be running off fliers for GM’s election. Michael learns GM is running up against Steve Holt. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Lucille fires Lupe after finding her in bed with Buster. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Tobias gets trapped in the “Wrench” set bathroom during the filming of an episode. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

GOB turns up at the penthouse to announce he’s been fired by Michael. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Lucille stars pulling away intimately from Oscar. (Flashback: “Meet the Veals”)

2005, March 22, Tuesday

Using the studio costume department, Tobias passes himself off as a housekeeper named Mrs. Featherbottom for the model home to prove to he can make it as an actor, but she and Michael just let him work as a housekeeper. Michael worries that GM will be crushed in the election so he goes to his father for help and finds him now a Christian. He turns to GOB to help GM’s election. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Lucille catches her robot housecleaner in bed with Buster. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Ann walks off GM’s support after hearing about GOB’s less than ethical support ideas. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

Maeby meets Mrs. Featherbottom, knowing full well she’s her father, but Tobias is stunned by her disappointment in him. (Plot: “Immaculate Election”)

2005, March 25, Friday

Michael attends GM’s student body election and learns Ann has been supporting Steve Holt. GOB’s video for George Michael is actually an assassination of Steve and embarrassing for GM’s reputation. Ann gets back with him after seeing his “Star Wars” moves. Steve drops out of the election to find out who his father is. (Tag: “Immaculate Election”)

Lucille hires Mrs. Featherbottom/Tobias as her new housekeeper. (Tag: “Immaculate Election”)

2005, March 26, Saturday

George has Tobias try to get a job at the office to be his mole. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

Michael discovers a company contract has been cut back, but Lindsay cuts the call short to get him to hire Tobias as his assistant in order to get rid of Mrs. Featherbottom. Showing up for the job, Tobias turns in a resume. Starla fears for her job. Ted tries to suggest moving to a new floor to save on rent, but Tobias strong-arms him out of the office. He accuses Michael of trying to control everything. Michael stars having abdomen pains. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

GOB visits “Ancient Chinese Secret” for a Chinese Viagra and instead buys a Chinese sword for his act. Still banned from performing, he tries to get Michael to help him in his act, but Michael turns him down. Michael goes to teach George Michael to drive, but he also discovers his father making a video to keep his presence known at the office. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

Michael instructs GM how to handle the stair car, but with his pains getting worse, he has GM drive him to the hospital. His pains turn out to be appendicitis requiring surgery. Tobias promises to keep the office going, and Lindsay promises to teach GM to drive. Dr. Fishman is Michael’s doctor, but he passes the surgery on to Dr. Stein. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

GOB drafts Buster to be the starring performer in his act. They meet Tony Wonder at the Gothic Castle who lets them know he’s the main act. During the show, GOB accidentally chops off Buster’s hand and everyone thinks is the main act. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

George gives Tobias his recording for the company, but he has no idea what he’s doing. Lindsay teaches GM to drive. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

2005, March 27, Sunday

Michael wakes up from his surgery and discovers that Lindsay and Tobias have defied his requests. The doctor wants to keep him longer for an infection which complicates things when Starla turns in George’s video to the news. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

GOB and Buster meet with Tony to get a part of his up-coming video but when all he wants is Buster, GOB reveals his identity and announces he’ll be doing the real trick. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

Michael wakes from his second surgery and hears he may have to stay longer after Dr. Stein reveals he might have left snippers inside him. Lucille and GM show up to reveal the FBI is investigating the video. Michael leaves to make sure the company is okay ahead of Tobias bringing the FBI trying to talk to Michael only to discover his empty bed. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

Michael finds the offices abandoned only to realize Ted went ahead with moving the company a floor down for cheaper rent. GM accidentally hits Michael with the car. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

Buster cuts off GOB’s fingers during the act. GOB ends up in the hospital with Michael. (Plot: “Sword of Destiny”)

2005, March 28, Monday

Dr. Stein changes the positions of GOB’s fingers when he reattaches them. (Tag: “Sword of Destiny”)

The FBI finds GM’s “Star Wars” sequence and confuses it as a training film. (Tag: “Sword of Destiny”)

2005, April 4, Monday

Maeby tries to get a reader named Jeff at Tandamount studio to do her history homework. (Flashback: “Meet the Veals”)

2005, April 5, Tuesday

George Michael asks Lindsay about his mother’s engagement ring that he might give it to Ann. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

Tobias serves breakfast as Mrs. Featherbottom then meets Michael coming home without his Mrs. Featherbottom disguise trying to perpetuate the idea they’re separate people. He is unaware everyone knows the truth in order to have him keep doing the housework, particularly Maeby who gets him to iron her blouse. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

Lucille reveals to Michael that Oscar wants to throw her an Anniversary Party. Buster thinks it’s a ploy to increase her importance to him. GOB is interested in the party until Lucille nixes his plans to bring back Franklin. Lindsay reveals GM’s intention to give Ann a ring. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

GOB pulls his ventriloquist dummy, Franklin, out of storage in the attic and finds out that it’s where his father has been hiding. George procures his help to get a limo and take Lucille to a church to repeat their vows. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

Michael drives GM to see Ann and meet their parents. He tries to get their help to curtail GM getting serious with Ann, but they like the idea of the two getting together. Michael then plans to have the Veals meet their family to disapprove of them. He invites GOB to the Anniversary Party and has him bring Franklin. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

Tobias hurts his ankle trying to imitate Mary Poppins. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

GOB drives his father in a limo to the party. When George says hello to Tobias, Tobias realizes his disguise fools no one. George has GOB dose Lucille and kidnap her for the church. When GM learns the party is to break up him and Ann, he notices Mrs. Veal kissing Michael and runs off to find Ann. Michael then rushes to find them after exposing Tobias disguise as Mrs. Featherbottom. At the church, Oscar fights George for Lucille’s wife as Pastor Veal attacks Michael for kissing his wife. GM decides for himself he’s not ready to be in a committed relationship with Ann. The police arrest Franklin as an accessory as George flees in the confusion. (Plot: “Meet the Veals”)

2005, April 6, Wednesday

After his claw is confiscated, Buster starts covering his missing hand with Franklin. (Tag: “Meet the Veals”)

2005, April 10, Sunday

“ScandalMakers” airs on TV about George Bluth’s treason and escape from the law. The program is inaccurate in many of its facts. Playing George, Tobias mentions moving into an attic. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

2005, April 11, Monday

On the way to a board meeting, Lucille wrecks her car on a support column before finally calling for a driver. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

At Tandamount Studios, Maeby is sent by Mort Meyers to learn how real teenagers talk during Spring Break to adjust their movie. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Michael has a meeting with land-owner Cal Cullen, but he is wary of the Bluth Family because of the “ScandalMakers” episode, a fact made even more awkward by Lucille showing up late for the board meeting. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Michael tries talking GOB and Lindsay into having another intervention for Lucille, but they change their minds after their failed attempt a year earlier. GOB is upset he is not getting magician jobs since Philllip Litt embarrassed him while Tobias is grousing about criticism over his acting and praise for Dave Attell’s erroneous portrayal of him in “ScandalMakers.” Lindsay decides to lash out at Phillip Litt for exploiting young girls. She hits GOB several times for accusing her for not being shapely. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

GOB makes a DVD for Michael starring Franklin. (Flashback: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 12, Tuesday

Michael fakes a spa getaway to get Lucille into rehab at Shady Pines although Buster is concerned about living alone. In arrival, Lucille tries escaping. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Through “ScandalMakers,” Kitty tracks down George and kidnaps him using the evidence she saved as blackmail. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

At the Banana Stand, Maeby is researching teenager-speak. Lindsay confronts Phillip Litt unsuccessfully as Kitty escapes with George to her hotel. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Buster enjoys being alone for the first time and confuses Lucille carton of wine for a giant juice box. He gets drunk for the first time. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

2005, April 13, Wednesday

Michael makes a new appointment to meet Cal Cullen when Kitty shows up to flash her chest again and blackmail him with her demands. Realizing his father is missing, he also learns that Buster has been found drunk and contacts him about rescuing George which requires freeing Lucille to meet Kitty. Michael gets GOB to help after Lindsay’s bickering with GOB convinces her to exploit Phillip Litt right back. Heading to Shady Pines, Michael talks with his mother who offers to help for a real spa weekend with him. GOB distracts the front desk with Oscar to slip Lucille out of the place. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Lucille meets Kitty at Senior Tadpole’s Tavern. She challenges Kitty to a drinking contest, but Lucille’s tolerance to alcohol proves greater. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Maeby is frustrated by the immature teenagers laughing at “bananas and nuts.” (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Phillip Litt confronts Lindsay for turning the tables on him, but she outs him as a “Never Nude.” Tobias bonds with him after showing he’s a “Never Nude.” (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

GOB uses the cooler with his father’s sample (still intact in the Banana Stand?) to replace the evidence Kitty has. They rescue George who reveals the evidence would clear him as a patsy, but GOB loses the evidence in a swimming pool. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

George Michael saves Maeby’s self-esteem which gives her the dialogue for her script, but GM falls for her again and breaks up with Ann. (Plot: “Spring Breakout”)

Lucille attacks Michael for losing his father’s specimen to Kitty, who has since staggered back to her hotel room and found it. (Tag: “Spring Breakout”)

2005, April 15, Friday

Maeby and Mort screen their American remake of “Dangerous Cousins” and decide to shorten it back from 71 minutes.

2005, April 16, Saturday

Working at home, Michael notices his living room sinking and calls in a contractor to look at it. He discovers that with a sewer hook-up, that the water is washing away the foundation. When he tells George in the attic, they realize he has to find a place to hide him before the inspectors show up to inspect the house. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Oscar burns his fingerprints off from a corn-baller at the penthouse. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Maeby invites George Michael to a screening of “Dangerous Cousins” and suggests he bring Ann along. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 17, Sunday

Tobias attends a depression group as a Blue Man. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 18, Monday

At the office, Tobias quits as Michael’s assistant although Michael has no memory of him working for him. With the Blue Man Group having dropped their restraining order, Tobias is invited by them to work with them in Las Vegas. GOB shows up upset that he didn’t hear from Michael about the DVD he made for him. He heads to the model home to knock-out his father with Franklin soaked in ether. Tobias tells Lindsay about his plan for moving to Las Vegas, but she decides they should break up again. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

While driving to the police station to turn in George, GOB discovers Michael never opened the CD to him and holds it up, getting photographed by a traffic camera with Michael’s face over his own. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Michael meets with Kitty who has met a sponsor and cleaned up her life. However, she still flashes her chest as Tobias returns to get his job back. Michael fixes Tobias up with Kitty. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Michael meets with Wayne Jarvis to sign an agreement that he has no idea where his father is, but Wayne uses the traffic camera picture as grounds to have Michael arrested. After hiding his father under the model home, GOB shows up at the station upset over the CD. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Michael meets with Ann to break up with her. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Tobias starts to believe Oscar is his real father. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Michael calls his mother to have her tell George Michael he’s away from a trip, but when he reveals Tobias is seeing Kitty, Lindsay hears about it and gets upset. Michael also reveals he’s going to turn in GOB, but when he finally hears the CD, he decides to take the blame for hiding his father. Hearing the CD again himself, GOB decides to follow through and turn in their father. He discovers washing Franklin with ether washes all the color out of him. At the penthouse, Lucille breaks up with Oscar for telling Buster the truth. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

At the theater, Maeby finds GM protesting “Dangerous Cousins” with Ann. GM returns to the model home and learns from Buster his father is in jail. Lindsay arrives upset with Tobias and tells GM to pursue love. Maeby arrives to reveal the press has proved positive for the movie. She kisses GM, but as the living room sinks lower, they share a bigger kiss. GOB shows up looking for George who he had hidden under the house. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 19, Tuesday

On his way out of town, Oscar runs into George in the stair car asking him to turn him in and use the reward to help the family. At the courthouse, he knocks Oscar out, shaves his head and dresses him up in his clothes in the men’s room. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

Barry Zuckerkorn takes Michael to his arraignment, but GOB shows up to reveal their father escaped again. The confrontation turns to a fight with Lindsay coming to face Kitty, who takes her down with one punch. George shows up to stop the fighting and says he’s turning himself in to save the family. With Lindsay on the ground, Tobias tells her he’s going to Las Vegas with Kitty. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

GOB tells Michael he lost Franklin. (Plot: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 20, Wednesday

Oscar wakes up in jail without his fingerprints. (Tag: “Righteous Brothers”)

Tobias ends up in Las Vegas with Kitty to join the Blue Man Group, only to discover someone else has got the job. They are unaware it’s George. (Tag: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, May 2, Tuesday

Oscar fails to understand why his hair isn’t growing back. (Tag: “Righteous Brothers”)

2005, April 20 – 2005, June 20

Michael goes two months without seeing his father in prison. George Michael and Maeby avoid each other. (Background: “The Cabin Show”)

Michael dates a Hispanic girl named Marta. When he introduces her to his mother, Lucille hands her a rag and cleaning supplies. (Flashback: "Forget-Me-Now")

2005, June 20, Monday

Michael sells the family cabin in Reno, Nevada to keep the company going. (Background: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 22, Wednesday

Lucile tapes Buster snoring. (Dialogue: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 23, Thursday

In Reno, Kitty breaks up with Tobias to return to George. (Flashback: “The Cabin Show”)

In prison, Oscar tries killing ants under his feet, but a bad choice of words leads to him getting stabbed several times by the inmates. (Background: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 24, Friday

Tom Cruise appears on “The Today Show” turning down psychiatric drugs. Lucille thinks he’s some kind of scientist, and goes off her post-partum medication. (Dialogue: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 25, Saturday

Lucille stops by the model home and finds Michael watching “Mad Money” where the company is raised to a “Don’t Buy.” He plans to visit his father in jail. Lucille tries to get Michael to let Tobias move in to get rid of him since he started snoring. He suggests his mother go to the cabin to get away from Buster. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

GOB shows up and grieves over never getting invited to the cabin. Michael offers to take him up there while they have a chance. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Michael finds George Michael sleeping in the stair car to avoid Maeby, but he thinks he was just trying to spend time with him. He invites him up to the cabin then turns around and lets GOB down, who now realizes getting non-invited is worse than not get invited. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Michael goes to visit his father in jail and discovers it’s really his uncle in jail. He heads to the office where the employees are partying about the new rating. Lindsay is there looking for a car, and Michael reveals to her and GOB that it’s Oscar in jail. When he asks if they’ve heard anything from their father, GOB recalls a letter from the “Sons And Dads Reunion Project” and thinks it’s from George trying to contact him. Michael learns from Barry’s assistant that Barry has been visiting his father in Reno and goes there to find him. At the model home, he cancels his camping trip with GM but encourages him to try camping with Maeby. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

GOB meets Steve Holt at the Sons And Dads Reunion Center, unaware he’s his son. He invites him to go camping at the cabin. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 26, Sunday

Michael finds Tobias working as a waiter in the Swallows Restaurant/Strip Joint in Reno. Tobias confesses he wrecked his life leaving Lindsay for a role he didn’t get and that Kitty left him two days prior. Michael tells Tobias that Lindsay might want him back, but he also realizes his father might be in Reno as well. He calls Lindsay to tell her he found Tobias and gets her to want him back by implying he doesn’t want to come back. She drives the stair car with Michael and Maeby to get him back. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Tobias calls Lindsay against Michael’s advice to tell her he misses her, but she turns back to Newport until he starts using Kitty to make her jealous and then she starts driving to Reno again ever faster.

Looking for his father at the theater, Michael runs into Barry Zuckerkorn and fires him as the family lawyer for lying to him. Eavesdropping nearby in Blue Man make-up, George hears that Michael is going to get Oscar out of jail. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Lindsay arrives in the stair car with Maeby and George Michael, who avoids Maeby by sleeping in the stair car. GOB also arrives with Steve. When Michael finds GOB, he explains the letter to him; Steve Holt is his son. GOB runs off, and Michael notices GM in the stair car, thinking he has comes to find him. Michael takes him to what’s left of the cabin. As they pull out, George gets in the back of the stair car. (Plot: “The Cabin Show” / “For British Eyes Only”)

Oscar blogs about having to get out of prison since his incident with the ants. (Background: “The Cabin Show”)

That night, Lucille attacks Buster in bed with a camera tripod over his snoring only to realize he’s not in his bed. She decides to drive to the cabin to get some sleep only to discover he’s been sleeping in the car and the snoring was to keep her from feeling lonely. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Tobias looks for a way to make Lindsay jealous on her arrival. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 27, Monday

Michael wakes in the morning to find the cabin on a truck driven by George back to Newport. George asks Michael not to let Oscar out of jail. (Plot: “The Cabin Show” / “For British Eyes Only”)

Lucille arrives at the lake to find the cabin missing. Buster rolls into the lake. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Steve and Maeby are reunited and stood up by their parents. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

Lindsay confronts Tobias kissing Kitty only to realize she’s been deceived by Barry. She asks for a divorce. (Plot: “The Cabin Show”)

2005, June 27 - September 26

Michael gets Oscar out of prison and finagles his father house arrest in the penthouse. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

Tobias and Lindsay get back together. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

GOB spends his time avoiding Steve Holt. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

Lindsay changes her mind on the divorce. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

Lucille re-hires Lupe to clean the penthouse. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

George’s trial is re-set. (Behind the Scenes: “For British Eyes Only”)

(September 19) Reverend Robert Patterson offers to fund the State Fair with a Christian theme after the county can’t find the funds to cover it. (Background: “Notapusy”)

2005, September 26, Sunday

Michael visits the penthouse and learns the Buster is feeling neglected since George came home. Michael suggests he get a pet. He learns his mother’s sex life has escalated. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

GOB plans a Free Bird escape for his father’s date. Tobias prepares to be GOB’s lookalike in the trick by drawing hair in his bald spot with a permanent marker. George suggests to Michael to hire Andy Griffith from “Matlock” to intimidate the prosecution. He further insists he was framed by a British company to build the houses in Iraq. Michael promises his father to research the possibility. He gives the truck with the cabin on it to Lindsay to drive. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Distraught from getting tosses out, GOB meets a call girl named Nellie, who hires him to pose as her pimp. (Flashback: “Family Ties”)

2005, September 27, Monday

Michael heads to Wee Britain, a British section of Newport with English residents, to search through the records there, but his lack of familiarity with the terminology there hinders his research. He meets heiress Rita Leeds and falls for her while asking her to help him get permission to see the local British files. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Tobias heads to a costume shop to look for a wig he can wear in GOB’s act. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Buster buys a pet turtle he calls “Mother.” (Dialogue: “Prison Break-In”)

Leaving Wee Britain, Michael is nearly run off the road by Rita’s uncle, Trevor, trying to keep him from dating Rita. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Michael heads to the office and discovers GOB hiding in his office from Steve Holt. GOB confesses he’s unsure about his feelings for Steve, and while scolding him for trying to deceive Steve, Michael realizes his own father must be deceiving him by hiring Trevor to scare him. Michael gives up his time with George Michael to go confront his father. Tobias shows up in a ladies wig trying to get GOB to hire him for his act. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Michael confronts his father about the threats, but George knows nothing about them. Fearing retaliation, he decides to plead guilty in court. After Michael leaves, George conspires with GOB to help him escape during his Free Bird trick before the hearing. Tobias shows up with badly installed hair plugs bleeding from his scalp. George announces Tobias is now playing him and has to shave his head. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Tobias tries to shave his head for GOB’s trick, but his head is so sensitive, he instead uses a bald cap. (Flashback: “For British Eyes Only”)

2005, September 28, Tuesday

Arriving for court, Lindsay asks Michael if he lost the courage to ask Rita after getting hit by a Mary Poppins doll, footage of which was televised on the news. George reveals Andy Griffith backed out of appearing with them after thinking the cabin on the truck was meant for him. GOB does his trick, but does it himself at the last minute to impress Steve Holt who enjoys magic. As GOB escapes, George is tasered trying to escape. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

Michael decides to have his father plead Not Guilty. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

After the hearing, Michael runs into Rita. Lindsay meets her and realized she is way out of his league. (Plot: “For British Eyes Only”)

2005, October 3, Sunday

Michael calls Rita to make his first date with her. (Dialogue: “Forget Me Now”)

2005, October 4, Monday

Michael and the family meet with Bob Loblaw, their new family lawyer. George attends by way of Larry Middleman, a video surrogate. Lindsay flirts with Bob to cover her divorce, but he’s interested in the job not the relationship. Michael reveals he has a lunch date with Rita, who GOB is convinced is unattractive. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Buster gets a medal from the Army on the condition that he re-enlists. (Flashback: “Forget Me Now”)

Trevor drops Rita off at Fat Ammy’s, an American-themed British Restaurant, for her date with Michael. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Maeby makes a date with Steve Holt to avoid things getting serious with George Michael, who learns from GOB that Steve Holt is his cousin. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Bob has to remind George several times that it is a felony offense to shred the company records before the prosecution can see them. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Michael arrives late for his date with Rita and overlooks her personality quirks because of her British accent. When she asks about his family, he lies about having a family. After walking off, Rita meets up with Trevor asking if she has received an invitation to see Michael’s house. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Michael arrives at work and finds GOB using a shredder to destroy the company files to which he puts a halt. He hears about Buster award and how the family is going to celebrate it. George decides to use the incident to use balloons to escape. With the model home empty, Michael realizes he can invite Rita over for dinner. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

At the model home, Lindsay is flirting with Bob Loblaw over the phone which he is transcribing for her divorce. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

2005, October 5, Tuesday

Michael gets the house ready for his date with Rita. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

With the model home about to be empty, Maeby makes her date with Steve Holt who George Michael informs is their cousin. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

At the penthouse, Tobias and GOB reveal that Michael kicked them out of the model home, and George and Lindsay believe he did it to shred the evidence secretly. They change Buster’s party to one that appreciates Michael. They decide to invite Rita to the party. George prepares his escape. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Lindsay picks up Rita with the truck, but she gets scared and tries to escape. Buster sees the seal on her backpack and accidentally hits her. After she passes out, GOB gives her a roofie to make her forget the attack. They leave her on a park bench. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Michael leaves the model home to get Rita. Maeby shows up to see it set up as Steve arrives. Before Steve can call off the date, Maeby finds herself trapped in the situation. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Missing Rita, Michael calls to meet the family at the penthouse as they remove all references to Rita. Michael finds Rita confused on the park bench and renews his date with her. Planning on blowing off the party for Buster, Michael gets trapped into staying as Rita comes up to the penthouse looking for him. Buster rushes in with his letter informing him that the conditions of his medal have him re-enlisting. Michael confesses he lied to Rita about his family because he was embarrassed of them, but he also hears in passing about them trying to abduct and then successfully drugging her. Buster tosses his medal out, puncturing his father’s balloons during an escape and sending him crashing to the ground. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

GM returns to the model home where Steve Holt is passed out in his bed. Maeby slipped him a roofie to keep from having sex with him. She discovers Steve is her cousin. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

Michael tries to save the scorched records from the car fire started by his father’s escape. He learns Lindsay’s dirty talk with Bob Loblaw used up their retainer which he expects her to pay back. GOB convinces Michael to ask Rita out again. He pulls out Franklin partially restored. (Plot: “Forget Me Now”)

2005, October 6, Wednesday

Michael meets Rita at Fat Ammie’s to be brutally honest about his family. (Tag: “Forget Me Now”)

Lindsay gets a job as a maid for Bob Loblaw. (Tag: “Forget Me Now”)

GOB fully apologizes to Steve Holt and promises to be a father to him, but he takes a roofie right after to forget it. (Tag: “Forget Me Now”)

2005, October 9, Saturday

Michael rises to head to work and runs into Lindsay on her way to work with Bob Loblaw. She grouses that Bob is more interested in his daughter, Hope, but Michael suggests she find a way to bond with the girl. Michael gets a message that Rita is leaving by train and rushes to meet her, but he gets the impression that she’s put off by his lack of stamina. He returns to the model home to take George Michael to play ball. GM announces he’s taking Ann out to buy fabric for a gown in the Church and State Beauty Pageant. Lindsay hears about the pageant and decides to enter Hope in it to get Bob’s attention. Tobias decides to chaperone Ann in the pageant. GOB reveals he’s been a judge in the pageant for years to date the Third Place winners. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

GOB shows up asking Michael to help him hide from Steve. Michael asks Steve to be his partner in the Father-Son Triathlon at the fair. GOB gets jealous over how fast they bond. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Maeby resurrects her Shirley Funke identity to enter the beauty pageant and reveal how hypocritical it is. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Michael and Steve start training for the triathlon. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Bob Loblaw meets with the family to discuss George’s case. Buster asks Bob’s advice on how to get out of the Army, and he learns he can get out if someone replaces him. However, because of the bad press around his escape attempts, George is advised by Bob to volunteer for a “Startled Straight” program. He tries to discourage Michael from doing the triathlon. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Tobias meets with Ann to plan her act for the pageant. Left out, GM tries to get back together with Michael, who is now going with Steve. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

2005, October 10, Sunday

Michael awakes sore from his training and finds the handlebars of his bike in his bed. He attends the Church and State Beauty Pageant sore from training but eager to impress Rita. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Ann Veal follows Hope Loblaw’s singing act in the pageant held back by an unresponsive camel. Maeby appears as Shirley, and is completely unrecognized by GOB or Lindsay. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

George attends the wrong “Startled Straight” program trying to keep young men from going to prison, instead entering one trying to guide gay young men from a homo sexual lifestyle, instead exciting them more for it. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Maeby makes the bottom three girls of the pageant and stuns the crowd by standing from her wheelchair, thinking she was moved by prayer. Lindsay and Tobias recognize her. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Michael realizes the triathlon is little more than a series of toys acting as obstacles, but he still decides to go through it with Steve. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Ann comes in third in the pageant and breaks up with GM to date GOB. Dejected, George Michael wanders into the Army Recruitment tent. (Plot: “Notapusy” / “Development Arrested”)

Michael and Steve win the triathlon, but when he hears GM is joining the Army, he rushes to stop him, briefly running into Rita en route. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Terrified of returning to prison, George tries to escape in a fake pope-mobile. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Michael stops GM from joining the Army. Rita gives him a kiss, but Michael still doesn’t understand her British slang. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

Buster gets Steve to replace him in the Army. He doesn’t have to go for two years. (Plot: “Notapusy”)

2005, November 2, Tuesday – George Michael’s birthday

Michael gets George Michael a George Welch suit for his birthday. (Flashback: “Mr. F”)

2005, November 3, Wednesday

Tobias meets Frank, a CIA Agent at the gym and becomes friends with him. He thinks Frank is a talent scout. (Flashback: “Mr. F”)

2005, November 6, Saturday

Maeby’s movie, “Love Indubitably,” fails at the box office. She and Mort decide to recoup their loss by using the movie to refranchise Hell Tunnel on the lot. (Flashback: “Mr. F”)

Buster notices his turtle moving a bit slower. (Dialogue: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 8, Monday

Michael takes a day off to be with Rita. She finds a toy train in a store they think they should get for GM. At the Sudden Valley property, Michael reveals the damage by moles to the property. Returning to Wee Britain, Rita is told by Trevor she needs to stop seeing Michael, but she refuses. (Flashback: “Mr. F”)

At the model home, Michael learns Tobias is losing control of his legs, a symptom of his shoddily implanted hair plugs. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

Lindsay accuses Michael of neglecting the family since he met Rita. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

Michael meets Lucille, GOB, Buster and his father’s surrogate at the office for a meeting with Bob Loblaw, who reveals a mole in the company has tipped their Japanese investors that their property isn’t ready to start building. Michael wants to be honest with them, but GOB wants to deceive them with fake miniature houses. Bob warns them not to deceive them, but George gets an idea to use a jet pack to escape. Lucille postulates the theory that Rita is the spy. Bob reveals the CIA informant is identified as “Mr. F.” (Plot: “Mr. F”)

2005, November 9, Tuesday

Michael heads out to take Rita out for another date, letting GM know he should be expecting another birthday present. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

Buster gets his hook stuck in the stair car after Michael drops him off at the penthouse. (Flashback: “Ocean Walker”)

George sends his surrogate out to pick up the jet pack delivered to the model home for GOB, but he picks up the train set. GOB meets up with the surrogate and thinks his father wants to go through with his miniature house set. At the penthouse, George gets lost in the access tunnels of the penthouse while Buster takes over the surrogate to build the houses with GOB. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

At the gym, Frank asks Tobias to be a mole as Michael meets the Japanese investors, but he takes the suggestion way too literal. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

Michael takes Rita for a tour at Paramount Studios by way of the Tantamount Studios Tour Train. He gets a call from GM confused about the jet pack which he found delivered to the model home, but Michael tells him to have fun with it. Michael notices her “Mr. F’ bracelet before the Love Indubitably Tunnel where Trevor tries to jump on the train. Michael breaks up with Rita. The spectacle is reported to Maeby who runs into Michael, who is so upset he doesn’t realize she’s not in school. He tells Bob Loblaw who warns him the family is going through with the miniature house hoax. Michael arrives just in time to realize they haven’t noticed the hoax, but Tobias wrecks the town in his mole costume as GM appears to stop him. Insulted, the Japanese investors depart, but then the CIA wire is detected by the surrogate’s microphone. Their cover blown, the CIA leave the area. Michael realizes that Tobias was Mr. F, and GOB realizes Buster has been behind the surrogate. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

Michael goes to apologize to Rita, who is upset because Bob Loblaw had the police investigate her. Michael proposes to Rita who runs off with him. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

George comes close to discovering Annyong hiding in the walls of the penthouse with recording equipment. (Plot: “Mr. F”)

At the office, Rita tells Michael her idea for building houses on the ocean, but because she says it with a British accent, he thinks it’s brilliant. (Flashback: “Ocean Walker”)

Rita stays the night at the model home with Michael. She helps Maeby with her movie script. (Flashback: “Ocean Walker”)

2005, November 10, Wednesday

Michael announces to his parents he’s getting married to Rita in a month. George and Lucille think she’s trying to get their money. Lucille further asks Michael if she’s really in love with him. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Returning to the model home, Michael discovers Tobias has completely lost his legs and is in a wheelchair. He tries convincing him to see a doctor. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Michael asks GOB to be a witness at his wedding instead of a best man to avoid a bachelor party, but GOB schemes to stick in a magic trick. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Lindsay returns from taking Rita shopping; the two of them wearing their jackets inside-out to exploit the labels. Michael asks his sister for advice about his relationship with Rita, and she advises him to take her to a hotel. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Rita meets GOB and reveals she loves magic. He plans to put her in a magic trick as Michael comes to remind him he doesn’t want any tricks at the wedding. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

George Michael drives Rita to Wee Britain to pack a bag. Unaffected by the charm of her accent, he begins to notice something off about her. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Rita tells Trevor she’s going to have “sexual relations” with Michael, but he forbids it since she’s not ready for it yet. He puts the “invisible locks” on in the apartment. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Michael waits for Rita at the hotel. He calls to brag to his father, but George calls his bluff. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

2005, November 11, Thursday

Michael looks for Rita in Wee Britain. When she says she’s locked in, he believes her, and he uses Buster’s hook to rescue her. Desperate to marry her, he moves the wedding to the next day. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Trevor shows up at the penthouse looking for Rita; he lets it slip to George and Lucille that Rita is a mentally-challenged heiress and owns all of Wee Britain. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Michael returns to the hotel with Rita. That night, GM shows up with video evidence that Rita is mentally-challenged. It takes him a few minutes to realize it. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

2005, November 12, Friday

Michael meets the family at the hotel now supporting his marriage to Rita, but the surrogate repeats George’s slip that they know she’s challenged. Michael figures it out on his own that she must have money. George fires his surrogate. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

Both Lindsay and Maeby are put off by learning Rita’s condition. Michael lets Rita down softly before she returns to England with Trevor. She walks across GOB’s swimming pool illusion before GOB accidentally sets Tobias’s hair on fire. (Plot: “Ocean Walker”)

2005, November 13, Monday

Tobias sees a doctor about his condition and learns his hair implants are causing vast deterioration to his body and have to be removed. (Flashback: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael grieves over losing Rita. He turns up at the penthouse to talk to his mother to talk about the Bluth Foundation Dinner a week away for which he is co-chair. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Because of George’s frequent escape attempts, Warden Gentles appears at the penthouse to install security cameras. On arrival, Gentles describes his screenplay, “The New Warden,” about his encounter with George. Lucille reveals he’s letting the foundation dinner at the prison. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 14, Tuesday

At the model home, Michael reveals the dinner will be at the prison which annoys Maeby who has been avoiding him. Lindsay reveals they will be raising funds for Graft Versus Host for Tobias to keep his hair. Lindsay looks forward to exploiting Tobias for the prestige. GOB plans to film his deterioration for the dinner. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Lindsay speculates that Warden Gentles is interested in Lucille. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

George Michael is upset by the appearance of Tobias deteriorating away. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 15, Wednesday

Warden Gentles attends his grandson putting on his screenplay in elementary school. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 16, Thursday

Maeby attends a meeting with Warden Gentles at the prison about his screen play. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 18, Saturday

Buster discovers his turtle has died just as Oscar arrives looking for his marijuana stash which the turtle had eaten. Oscar tries to sneak back out before George finds him. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Maeby has GM read Warden Gentiles screenplay. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael goes to the prison to tell his mother of the warden’s intentions. Lucille tells him she’s trying to seduce him. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael tells GOB and Lindsay that their mother is trying to seduce Warden Gentiles. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael starts reading subtext in Warden Gentles screen play that has him thinking Maeby wants to get together with him. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 19, Sunday

Buster hides Oscar in GOB’s trick when Michael comes by to tell him that Lucille has a thing with Warden Gentles, but he realizes it’s all part of a huge escape attempt. Lucille gives George the code to his ankle bracelet for him to escape. Lucille decides to start seeing Gentles after George is gone. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

George finds Oscar in GOB’s trick and disguises him in his own clothes after shaving his head. He calls GOB to come get his magic tricks out of Buster’s room, hiding out in one of them to escape the penthouse. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael stays home from the Bluth Foundation Dinner and ends up reading Maeby’s screen play from Warden Gentles. After reading what seems to be Gentles’ motivations to get revenge on his mother, Michael meets GOB entering the model home with his tricks and gets his help to break into the prison to save Lucille. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Buster finds Oscar disguised as George and sets him free. Oscar gets arrested by the police. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael and GOB try using GM’s jet pack to get into the prison, but it flies off without them. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

GM and Maeby plan to meet up in a cell for the night. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Oscar ends back up in prison and is met by Warden Gentles. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

GOB’s poorly produced video offends the guests at the dinner who start a riot. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

Michael finds his mother in one of the conjugal trailers waiting for Warden Gentles, but she reveals she helped Gentles write the screenplay. George shows up to get her back, and when Gentles arrives and realizes he captured Oscar again, a deal is made for the use of the trailer. (Plot: “Prison Break-In”)

GM gets trapped in a cell with his uncle. (Tag: “Prison Break-In”)

GOB gets pinned against the window of the conjugal trailer where his parents are having relations. (Tag: “Prison Break-In”)

2005, November 21, Tuesday

Lindsay confronts Bob Loblaw about her attraction to him, and he confesses he can’t date her as his client, so he decides to replace himself as her lawyer so they can see each other. (Flashback: “Making a Stand”)

2005, November 23, Wednesday

George gets Buster a job in an Iraqi store, but the owner only wants to use him to scare little kids from shoplifting. Buster walks off the job but leaves his hand behind. (Flashback: “Making a Stand”)

George asks Michael to include Gob in the company, but GOB’s only idea is to enter into an illegal deal with the Colombians. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Michael finds Lindsay in his office, and she confesses to her that Bob Loblaw is slowly conceding to her advances. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Michael discovers Lucille is remodeling the penthouse while George is under house arrest. While the work is being done, she goes into the hospital for a facelift, telling Michael she will have to stay at the model home for a few days afterward. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Michael tells his father that GOB has to stop working in the company, but he learns that George was the one who told GOB to make the deal with the Colombians. When the “Boyfights” videos are mentioned, the Hispanic workmen recognize Michael and Buster from the videos which were popular in Mexico. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Maeby and Mort Meyers attend a screening of the horror movie, “Gangie,” but the monster isn’t taken seriously and she’s ordered to fix it. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Michael confronts GOB at the model home to apologize and become friends with him again. GOB confesses he’s dating a Christian girl (Ann) he hasn’t had sex with yet. Michael promises GOB his own Banana Stand where he can be in charge. (Plot: “Making a Stand” / “Development Arrested”)

2005, November 24, Friday

Tobias hires the suddenly available Bob Loblaw to start divorce proceedings against Lindsay. (Flashback: “Making a Stand”)

2005, November 25, Saturday

Based on guidance from his father, GOB opens his own Banana Stand twenty feet from the original Banana Stand to compete with it. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Lindsay meets with her new divorce lawyer and discovers Bob is now defending Tobias. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

While getting a new hand, Buster reconnects with J. Walter Weatherman, the man who terrorized him as a kid. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Lucille and Buster arrive at the model home for the night. Lucille gets Michael’s room, and Buster bunks with GM while Maeby shares a room with her mother. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

George calls Michael to turn up the competition between him and GOB. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Maeby wakes up the middle of the night and runs into Lucille; terrified of the effects of her face-lift, she takes a photo of it. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

2005, November 26, Sunday

Michael and GOB start competing with each others for customers with things escalating into a fist fight. Michael learns GOB’s stand is just a front for George’s Colombian deal, and he plots revenge using J. Walter Weatherman. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Michael and GOB try to get Buster to bring Weatherman into the revenge on their father, but Buster refuses to help. Michael turns to the Mexicans working on the penthouse, but GOB spills the beans of the plan to George who plans his own revenge. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Bob Loblaw attends Lindsay and Tobias’s divorce proceedings as both the opposing counsel and Lindsay’s potential boyfriend. Tobias tries to make a friend out of Bob. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

Maeby reveals her new “monster” to Mort for the “Gangie” movie. The photo scares even him. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

George, GOB and the Mexican workers pose as Colombians to pretend to abduct George, who goes through with it until he turns the tables on them with Weatherman’s help. Thinking GOB ratted him out, Michael fights with GOB and gets tossed from the balcony with actually terrifies George until Michael reveals that was the real prank. Buster pranks all of them with fake police investigating the phony gun shots to teach them about using handicapped people to scare people. (Plot: “Making a Stand”)

2005, December 1, Friday

Maeby and Mort re-screen a new “Gangie” with Lucille’s face to a new audience to get it ready for a Christmas release. It looks to be a hit so they start production on the sequel. (Tag: “Making a Stand”)

2005, December 23, Friday – 25, Sunday, Christmas weekend

The “Gangie” movie is released. (Tag: “Making a Stand”)

2005, December 26, Monday

Lindsay enrolls Maeby at Openings, thinking it’s a boarding school. Maeby takes off for Lake Tahoe to film “Snow Boarding School 2” with Mort Meyers. (Background: “S.O.B.s”)

2006, January 2, Sunday

The family meets at the office to go over losing Bob Loblaw as their attorney, who reveals they have no chances of beating the charges against them, although it might be his dealings with Tobias and Lindsay that turns him off from the family. Michael reveals they have to raise another retainer for another lawyer and that means some of the family getting jobs, but no one takes him seriously. Lindsay reveals she has enrolled Maeby at Openings. To cover the enrollment fee, Michael has Lindsay start covering the household duties at the model home. George suggests they have a dinner to raise funds for their defense. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

2006, January 3, Monday

Lindsay takes over the cooking duties at the model home, but she’s not very good at it. George Michael goes behind her cleaning up after her and turning off the stove. Tobias confides in Michael that he thinks GM is developing O.C.D. based on this activity. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Lindsay shows Michael an expulsion letter from Openings revealing Maeby has never attended class there. Rather than let the tuition go to waste, Michael decides to enroll GM there. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Lucille tries soliciting funds at the Balboa Club as GOB arrives. He tries to amuse her by pretending to be a waiter, but he gets stuck doing it even after she leaves. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Michael meets his father at the penthouse to discuss the fund-raiser after they fail to get home from the Home Builder’s Organization (HBO). George asks Michael to do a speech on him, but Michael thinks he can get Andy Richter to perform through Donnie Richter, GM’s teacher at Openings. George warns Michael about Openings after what he went through with Lindsay. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

At Openings, GM has a hard time expressing himself. He learns that Donnie and Andy are two of quintuplets. Donnie asks GM to write a paper on his father. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Tobias confronts Maeby about her long absence from school, “scolding” her by making her put together “goody bags” more designed to annoy casting agents. Maeby asks one of her contacts to give him an acting job. GM asks her to write a paper on her dad for him to turn in at Openings. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

GOB accidentally works a day as a waiter. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Buster shows up at the model home hungry. Lindsay feeds him hot “ham water.” Buster gives her his “never-let-me-die” speech. (Plot: “S.O.B.s” / Flashback: “Fakin’ It”)

2006, January 4, Tuesday

Michael heads to Openings to get Donnie to ask his brother Andy to appear at the fund raiser; he overhears GM’s report by Maeby talking about Tobias and thinks it’s about him. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

2006, January 7, Friday

GOB is several days into his waiter job, making tips by charming the female customers. He runs into his mother; the two of them are dually shocked by running into each other. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Michael runs into Andy Richter at Openings and invites him to the family fund raiser. He also finds Donnie Richter and comes off in a threatening manner to him. Michael makes the decision to pull GM out of Openings. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

While Michael is at the penthouse, Lucille returns embarrassed to have run into GOB working as a waiter. Michael is proud of him, but Lucille decides to bar Gob and Lindsay the homemaker from the dinner. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Tobias gets his job as “Torture Victim #4” through Maeby. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Michael tells GM he’s pulling him out of Openings and learns he was actually reading Maeby’s description on Tobias. When he decides Openings could still be good for GM, Rocky Richter shows up to defend his brother’s honor after receiving a basket of poison muffins. Michael confesses he had nothing to do with sending any muffins and Rocky departs suspicious. Hearing his father threatened his teacher, GM decides his father doesn’t respect him and walks out on him. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

Because of her bill at the Balboa Club, Lucille is unable to get the club to cater the dinner that night and drafts Lindsay and GOB to cook and serve the food which is completely inedible. Andy Richter shows up, but he passes himself off as his brother Emmett to get out of it. When George threatens Andy with poison muffins, Michael overhears him and realizes he was the Muffin Man, although George only takes credit for the first one. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

George Michael apologizes to Michael who is inspired to be brutally honest about the family and sends them off with Tobias’s “goodie bags.”

At the model home, Michael apologizes to GM and promises to pull him out of Openings. GM confesses about cleaning up after his Aunt Lindsay. Michael promises to listen more to him, but when GM announces he is in love with Maeby, Michael still only gets part of the message. (Plot: “S.O.B.s”)

2006, January 8, Saturday

At the penthouse, Lucille reveals she’s been getting donations. She attributes it to Michael’s speech not sounding desperate. (Tag: “S.O.B.s”)

During her evening drinks, Lucille sits on Buster’s bed while he’s sleeping and talks to him about the events going on in the family dealings. (Flashback: “Fakin’ It”)

2006, January 29, Saturday

Michael gets the advance list of the state’s witnesses against his father and discovers Franklin, GOB’s ventriloquist dummy, is on the list as well a mysterious N. Bluth. George dismisses the figure, but Michael suspects it’s an account to hide money. George reveals that Jan Eagleman of “Justice TV” is willing to do a mock trial for the family. Michael feels confident he can represent the family. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Michael meets with Jan Eagleman and actor Judge Reinhold over the mock trial. Jan offers him the role of the defense lawyer. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Buster allegedly goes into a coma after getting into GOB’s roofies, but Michael suspects it’s a ploy to keep him from testifying. Lindsay falls for Brian, whose mother has been in a coma for two years. Michael reveals he’ll be the defense lawyer for his father on “Justice TV” which impresses no one except GOB who is intrigued by the TV show’s talking advertisement for his act. Meanwhile, Dr. Farmer decides to play out Buster’s coma to see how it goes, but along the way, he tries to encourage George Michael to entertain the Alzheimer’s patients with small plays. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Michael prepares for the mock trial as Lindsay shops for her date with Brian. GOB shows up using the magazine technology in Franklin. Michael reveals the similar house blueprints to the house in Iraq and notices a secret room in them. When he checks the model home, he finds that his father has been using their secret room to store the family mementos, but when he comes across the typo identifying him as “Nichael Bluth,” he suspects his father is setting him up as a patsy. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

George Michael tries convincing Maeby to stage a wedding, and she agrees to do it. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Michael confronts his father about the typo on his birth certificate, but George tries to dismiss it, later becoming defensive and accusing Michael of not being loyal to the family. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

2006, January 20, Sunday

Lindsay starts a protest at the hospital to support Brian’s choice to let his mother off life support. Tobias introduces her to Father Ben, a friend from the gym with his own protest. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

George Michael and Maeby stage a fake wedding, but she starts to feel foolish and runs out on it. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

GOB runs to the hospital and steals Dr. Farmer’s recorder for his act. He turns up at the office and uses Michael’s flipped up office to rehearse his act. Michael returns to the hospital to return the recorder and runs into Wayne Jarvis, the real prosecutor against his father, who reveals that under the Patriot Act, anything revealed in the mock trial will be admissible in court. He also encourages Michael to put George on the stand or else the prosecution will go after “N. Bluth,” who they believe is actually Michael. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Maeby escapes to the model home and hides in the hidden room where GM finds her and tries encouraging her to do it to make the patients happy, but she decides to do it for the reason of freaking out her parents. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Buster stays in his coma after his nurse, Adelaide, starts coming on to him. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Tobias and Lindsay check on Buster at the hospital, but when their bickering starts annoying him, he comes out of his coma to yell at them then drop back into it. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Lucille returns to end Buster’s fake coma but gets surprised by Adelaide. (Flashback: “Family Ties”)

2006, January 21, Monday

Judge Reinhold shows up to film his show, now called “Mock Trial with Judge Reinhold.” Jan tries interrogating both Lucille and Tobias, who both ramble on unrelated subjects. GOB is more content during interrogation to play with a magazine. Michael’s refusal to ask questions annoys George, but when Michael goes to his surprise witness, Franklin Delano Bluth, GOB takes the stand happily content. Jan objects, but Judge Reinfold allows it out of amused curiosity. When GOB plays Michael’s recording inside Franklin with Wayne Jarvis threatening Michael, the case ends in a mistrial. Watching the show, Jarvis is stunned by the results, but Jan congratulates Michael and reveals he has promise as a lawyer. (Plot: “Fakin’ It”)

Michael and Maeby stage their fake wedding for the Alzheimer’s patients, but Father Ben fills in and marries the kids for real. (Tag: “Fakin’ It”)

2006, January 22, Tuesday

Actor Bud Cort tapes a pilot for the “Bud Court” with GOB as the bailiff to imitate “Mock Trial with Judge Reinhold,” but Bud prefers GOB lose the puppet. (Tag: “Fakin’ It”)

Reflecting nostalgically through the family photos, Michael finds a baby picture of himself with a two-year-old girl and wonders if he has a long-lost older sister. (Tag: “Fakin’ It”)

Lindsay and Tobias struggle to get intimate and decide to put off trying again for a while. (Flashback: “Family Ties”)

That night, Buster anonymously calls the radio station and reports that someone is trying to kill him, reminding them he was Baby Buster from the “Boy Fights’ videos. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

2006, January 23, Wednesday

George Michael gets the mail and receives his marriage license for him and Maeby. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Michael shows Nellie’s photo to Lindsay to figure out who she is, but she tells him to just confront their parents about it. Michael doesn’t believe he can get the truth that way. Tobias heads off to the gym but hesitates to exchange a list of his sexual preferences with Lindsay. When Michael makes a comment about them, George Michael nervously responds. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

GOB comes in to announce his religious girlfriend (Ann) has broken up with him after he offends her by confusing the Holy Trinity with a “three-way.” Michael asks him if he recalls having a sister other than Lindsay, but he has no memory of one. (Plot: “Family Ties” / “Development Arrested”)

GM shows the marriage license to Maeby to reveal their wedding was legal, and she freaks out about it. She tells him to rip it up, but he instead optimistically saves it.

Michael confronts his parents over Nellie, but they think he’s talking about Tobias. He catches George planning to erase the company computers with a giant magnet and warns him against pulling another mass Black Friday firing of the employees. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

At the hospital, Buster starts to realize his nurse is a bit of a tease. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Michael heads to the company to discover the prosecution has already taken the computers, leaving them with the out-of-date older models. The employees wonder if it’s another Black Friday because they haven’t been paid yet, but he assures them that no one is getting fired. As Michael is struggling with the antiquated equipment, he finds a reference to Nellie. Confused over his feelings for Lindsay and a person he met at the gym, Tobias shows up sweaty from the gym and affects the machine. Michael prints the screen and gets the information from it. Tobias describes his new attraction as a girl named Michael for an awkward situation with “boy-Michael.” (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Lucille returns to the hospital and finds state Representative John Van Heusen petitioning to keep Buster alive after a call from an anonymous source. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Michael tracks down Nellie at a bar through Frank (GOB) and talks her up thinking she’s her sister, not knowing she’s a prostitute. She tries to get him up to her room, but he actually wants her to work for the Bluth Company. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

2006, January 24, Thursday

Michael hires Nellie as a consultant, but she thinks she’s been hired as a prostitute. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

GM tries to spend time with Maeby, but she starts thinking he’s taking their sudden marriage too seriously. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

At the office, Michael gets a threatening letter from Frank (GOB), Nellie’s boss. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Returning to the model home, Michael reveals Nellie is working out great in the company, but Lindsay is uncomfortable with the situation. Michael confesses he’s putting off telling Nellie that she’s his long-lost sister. Lindsay confesses she’s dating a new man. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Michael goes to meet Nellie again but runs into Tobias again and discovers “girl-Michael” is a transvestite that Tobias thinks is a woman. He meets up with Nellie in her hotel room and she comes on to him. When she goes to change clothes, he meets Frank in the room and discovers its GOB with Franklin who confesses that Nellie is a prostitute. When Michael tells him that Nellie might be their long-lost sister, she reacts with shock. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Lindsay shows up for her date with “Girl-Michael” and discovers he’s also dating Tobias. He suggests a “Holy Trinity,” but they refuse although they will both have to deal with Frank. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Michael confronts his parents with his childhood photo, and George claims the girl in the photo is his sissy cousin Larry. George reveals that Nellie is his prostitute but he reacts with alarm when he hears Michael gave her access to the company accounts. Realizing they’re wiped out, he reveals they can track Nellie through Frank, who Michael reveals is really GOB. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

2006, January 25, Friday

Michael returns to the company and learns Nellie used the money to pay herself, the employees and buy new computers. He tries to hire her permanently as a morale booster, but she reveals she makes far more money as a prostitute. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

GOB has a religious awakening and tries again to have a “Holy Trinity” with again failed results. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

Buster’s coma is put to the test under Representative John Van Heusen. (Plot: “Family Ties”)

2006, January 26, Saturday – February 2, Friday

Buster struggles to stay in his coma for Adelaide as his mother lets medical students, dental trainees and beautician students use him in their studies. (Flashback: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 2, Friday

George sends GOB to Iraq on a USO tour and asks him to burn down a few houses over there for him. (Dialogue: “Exit Strategy”)

Lindsay and Tobias once again try to be intimate, but it turns out to be a failure due to Tobias’s low tolerance for alcohol. Lindsay finishes off the bottle. (Flashback: “Exit Strategy”)

Maeby helps her mother to bed and reveals her birthday is in a week. (Flashback: “Exit Strategy”) She’s probably lying for attention; her marriage certificate says her birthday was on September 22. (Background: “Family Ties”)

2006, February 3, Saturday

Michael talks to Lindsay about her deposition and adds that their mother doesn’t want her doing it. Tobias shows up in one of Maeby’s outfits ready for the deposition which he thinks is an audition for a movie called “The Prosecution.” George Michael lets everyone know Maeby’s birthday is coming up and he wants to surprise her with a party. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

GOB shows up to reveal he’s going on a USO Act in Iraq with a new Christian act by his girlfriend (Ann). He’s drained all the wine bottles and filled them with water for his Jesus act, a fact that annoys Lindsay who has to get drunk for her relationship with Tobias to work. Michael learns GOB’s trip was an idea of his father’s (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 4, Monday

Tobias meets with the prosecution for his audition, but they just want him to give them evidence to put George Bluth in prison. Tobias refuses to turn against the family especially after they refuse to see his talent, but he gets distracted by a scrapbooking class on the way out unaware the prosecution is behind it. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

GOB arrives in Iraq, but he is arrested in Baghdad after his magic trick turns into an Anti-American demonstration. The American troops leave his door open for him to escape and lead the CIA to anything that incriminates George, but he locks himself up. (Flashback: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael confronts his father about GOB’s trip, but he still insists he’s a patsy. While George tries to come up with a plan to avoid his deposition, Lucille and Lindsay reveal they’re going to be in rehab while it’s occurring. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Buster comes out of his coma for Adelaide, but she slaps his face after learning he was faking his coma. He begins calling the radio stations requesting break-up songs. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 5, Tuesday

American troops lose their keys near GOB for him to escape, but he doesn’t take the opportunity. (Flashback: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael meets for his deposition with Wayne Jarvis who reveals how the family is avoiding meeting with him. They run the news showing GOB arrested in Iraq for Anti-American protest. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael gets Buster to go with him to Iraq to bail out GOB. Buster sees it as his way to impress Adelaide. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 6, Wednesday

GOB sent on an Honor Marathon, but he won’t leave the prison.

Tobias attends the scrapbooking class which gives him access to his family’s storage bin in Recita. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Lucille and Lindsay discover that rehab isn’t stocked with alcohol. Lucille reveals the Lindsay is forty-years-old, but she says she’s thirty-five. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael checks Buster out of the hospital to head to Iraq, which impresses Adelaide only as long as he actually goes. George is found in a coma on arrival.

GM calls everyone in Maeby’s address book for her 16^th birthday. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 7, Thursday

Michael and Buster reach Iraq after an 18-hour plane ride. GOB is glad to see them, and Michael says he will try to get him out, but he also warns him he could be in prison for a while. After his release is expedited, Michael gets suspicious, and when GOB mentions the houses their father wanted them to burn down, he goes to investigate them only to find they’re replicas of the model home and one of them used as housing for Saddam Hussein lookalikes, one of them with a scar is intensely watching the trial progress. Michael checks the air conditioning for them, but he also stumbles upon a nuclear warhead in their secret room. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Maeby arrives at the model home and discovers GM preparing her birthday party. She reveals how his invitations outed her and cost her job at the movie studio. She decides to get drunk on GOB’s fake wine not knowing it’s fake. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

The CIA follows Michael, GOB and Tobias to the house to arrest them, but on closer examination, the warhead turns out to be a fake with CIA recording equipment inside it. When the agent calls it in, it’s revealed that was part of a CIA sting using George through a British company. The revelation plus Tobias’s photos on the incident exonerates the treason charges on George. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Thinking she’s drunk, Maeby confesses she wishes she wasn’t a Bluth, and when he reveals his suspicion that she was adopted, she gives up her inhibitions and kisses him. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael, GOB and Buster return home from Iraq. (Plot: “Exit Strategy”)

2006, February 8, Friday

Tobias shows his scrapbook about Maeby’s birth, showing Lindsay’s pregnancy and the birth. (Tag: “Exit Strategy”)

Michael and GOB watch the Saddam trial on TV at the office. According to the translator, they’ve got the wrong Saddam, the real one has a scar. (Tag: “Exit Strategy”)

Maeby tosses George Michael out of their bedroom. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

2006, February 9, Saturday

Michael wakes to George Michael wanting to talk to him about Maeby, but Michael is distracted by good news for the Bluth Company after “Mad Money” raises the company to “Risky Business.” (Plot: "Development Arrested")

During a family brunch, Lucille announces she has rented a boat to announce in a party that Michael finally be named CEO of the company. GOB doesn’t attend as everyone wonders where he’s been living. Michael accidentally reveals that the family could sell the rest of their shares in the company, a fact that everyone is interested in, particularly Lindsay, who fears hitting forty. George mentions going to Cabo to retire, adding that Lucille was responsible for many of the dirty deals in the company, including stealing the Banana Stand as an idea from a Korean man. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Michael discovers GOB living on a yacht he purchased by altering his stipend checks. GOB mentions paying off the yacht by selling his shares to Stan Sitwell, but Michael warns him not to do it. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Michael heads to the office where the employees are celebrating the company’s good fortune. Lucille tells Michael to buy the yacht for GOB through the company to keep him from selling his shares.

GM shows up to talk to Michael about Maeby. He reveals he’s not attending the party because he made out with Maeby. Michael tries to get him interested in Ann again. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Lindsay meets with Stan Sitwell about selling her five percent of the company, but he casually mentions that she got less that Lucille’s real children and that she was adopted. The fact is a huge comfort to Lindsay when he reveals he almost adopted her, but when she realizes she’s actually three years older than she thought, she attacks him. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Maeby returns to Tantamount studios to get her job back, but Mort reveals the story on her is too good to let go, and they want to do a TV series on her if she can get the rights to her family. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Lucille reveals to Lindsay that she’s adopted. (Dialogue: "Development Arrested")

Michael wakes up in the middle of the night with Lindsay in his bed. Mounting him on it, she remembers his praise to her over the years and announces to him that if she doesn’t get divorced and remarried in another month that she’s going to sell her shares. She asks Michael if he’s interested, but when he responds he’s not interested in older women, she beats him up. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

2006, February 10, Sunday

Michael wakes up to Tobias in his bed. He wants to sell his shares, but Michael convinces him to take a job with the company as an events coordinator rather than sell. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

George Michael goes looking for Ann at her family’s house, but her uncle reveals she’s been living with her boyfriend. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Michael heads to his mother to confirm Lindsay was adopted, and Lucille confesses that Lindsay (formerly Nellie) was the girl in his baby photo adopted just to cheat Sitwell. Michael reveals that the family is falling apart with everyone trying to sell off their shares, but Lucille decides to have everyone sign a waiver keeping everyone from selling for ten years. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Tobias reveals he’s planned the party at the Queen Mary bar, unaware the location he has chosen to actually the ship welded to the dock in Long Beach. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

GM goes looking for GOB at the yacht and discovers Ann has been living with him the whole time. Upset at him taking Ann, George Michael punches GOB and knocks him out. Later on, Ann thinks they should make things right with George Michael. GOB plans on performing a big illusion on the Queen Mary. (Plot: "Development Arrested" / Flashback: "Colony Collapse”)

Buster is terrified by the ship, and Maeby tries getting signatures for her TV series while Lucille tries getting signatures from the family to keep them from selling their shares. When GOB hears how Lindsay plans to marry Michael, he tries to get even with Michael for sending GM to the yacht and flirts with Lindsay himself. She beats him up too. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

Lucille has Maeby gets the signature she needs, but she actually has them sign her own release forms. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

In his speech, Michael praises his family for staying together and facing their fears, but he starts breaking down after realizing he’ll be forever saddled with them. When he looks for George Michael, GOB mentions how he hit him for taking Ann, and Michael goes to look for him. Lucille tries to stop him unsuccessfully. Stan Sitwell in attendance comments on the spectacle, and Lucille sells the company to him. Sitwell eventually sells his shares to Lucille 2. (Plot: "Development Arrested" / Plot: "Flight of the Phoenix")

Michael catches up with George Michael with the yacht. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

GOB notices the SEC advancing on the Queen Mary in boats, but when Lucille faces George for selling her out, she discovers it’s really Oscar in attendance. When she wonders who turned her in, Annyong appears and reveals he did it to avenge his grandfather from whom Lucille stole the Frozen Banana franchise. Lucille tries to escape by high-jacking the Queen Mary and heading out to sea to escape the SEC, Buster falling overboard and getting reunited with “Amy’s” seal, but Lucille turns the ship around in order to have the last word with Lucille 2 watching the spectacle from her apartment. As a result, the Queen Mary capsizes. (Plot: "Development Arrested" / Flashback: "Queen B.")

Michael catches up with GM on the yacht heading out and tells him he’s not really related to Maeby because of Lindsay’s adoption, but that their relationship would never have worked anyway. They’re caught in the backwash of the Queen Mary, but when George Michael considers going back, Michael remembers the cashier’s checks he was going to give out to keep everyone from selling their shares and they keep going out, spending the night in Cabo with George. (Plot: "Development Arrested")

2006, February 11, Monday

Michael and George Michael reach the harbormaster's lodge in the aftermath of the Queen Mary. G.O.B. asks George Michael for his approval to be with Ann. He doesn’t get it but thinks he has. George Michael meanwhile talks with Maeby trying to get her parents’ attention and decides they shouldn't be a couple. Maeby decides to fail out of high school to get her parents' attention. Tobias learns everyone thinks he’s gay, but he still dismisses the fact he talks funny. (Flashback: "Colony Collapse" / "Señoritis")

Lindsay realizes her relationship with Tobias is over and walks away from it. (Plot: "Indian Takers" / "A New Start")

John Beard mentions the "opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics" (Background: "Indian Takers")

Barry reveals the charges to Lucille, who after hearing that Buster fell overboard comes up with the excuse she was trying to rescue him. When Buster instead confesses she stole the boat to escape the SEC, Lucille is taken to jail. (Plot: "Queen B.")

After the Queen Mary incident, Oscar begins his association with several characters and starts his own colony out in the desert near the Mexican border using a map drawn by Buster. They burn the signs thinking the border is further south. (Flashback: "Double Crossers")

G.O.B. sneaks into Ann's house to break up with her. They have sex, and she accepts his marriage proposal, but GOB immediately realized he has made a big mistake. (Plot: "Colony Collapse")