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Arrested Development Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2003 - 2004
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Nov 2, 200321 mins
Michael anticipates becoming the new president of his father's homebuilding company, having put up with his family for years in order to achieve it. Instead, the position is given to his mother, Lucille-just before his father George Sr. is arrested by the SEC. When his family proves unable to run the company, Michael reluctantly returns to help. Meanwhile, Gob's magic career is derailed and George Michael develops a crush on his cousin Maeby.
Episode 2
Top Banana
Sun, Nov 9, 200322 mins
The banana stand has burned down and flashbacks reveal the events that led to its destruction: Michael tries to get George Sr. to let him run the company himself. Maeby joins George Michael working at the banana stand, where she steals money from the till. George Michael sets it on fire, with Michael's permission. They do not realise that it is not insured due to Gob not mailing a letter to the insurance company and Michael is informed by George Sr. that there was $250,000 within the walls of the stand. Michael builds a new stand out of wood. Tobias auditions for a commercial but the role is given to Lindsay instead.
Episode 3
Bringing Up Buster
Sun, Nov 16, 200322 mins
Lucille suggests that Buster be included in the family activities, but Buster is reluctant to leave his mother's apartment in hopes of avoiding Lucille 2. Meanwhile, Tobias takes over the directing duties for the high school play to rather disastrous results.
Episode 4
Key Decisions
Sun, Nov 23, 200322 mins
Gob attempts to break out of prison in a publicity stunt to further his magic career. While Gob is locked up, Michael agrees to accompany Gob's girlfriend Marta to an awards show, where he begins to fall for her. Meanwhile, Lindsay attempts to save an old tree from being demolished by the Bluth Company.
Episode 5
Charity Drive
Sun, Nov 30, 200321 mins
During a heat wave, Michael discovers that his siblings have been hiding his father's Mercedes from him. Lindsay chastises him for not doing anything charitable so he picks up a woman, Helen, whom he thinks is his mother's new housekeeper Lupe. Lindsay, who has conversely been chastised by Michael decides to volunteer to clean up the wetlands. She finds herself horribly out of her comfort zone and calls Michael to pick her up. She finds her cab but forgets to call Michael, who shows up with Helen. Helen flees and Michael goes to the Save the Wetlands Bachelorette Auction to support his mother. He sees that Lindsay, sunburnt and in ill-shape, did try to be charitable and saves her from humiliation by bidding $1,000 on her. When Michael finds that Gob has been hiding the family car and taking free frozen bananas from the Banana Stand he tells him off in front of George Michael. When Kitty tells Michael that George never filed some building permits, George tells Michael to have Gob break into the Permit Office to misfile them. Michael asks his brother, who demands Michael tell George Michael to respect his uncle. He also gives up animation rights for his newly invented Mr. Bananagrabber character. After chipping a tooth on a carmel apple, he whistles when he speaks and blows his cover at the permit office. He delegates the task to George Michael and Maeby. They are caught by security guards but George Michael lets Maeby escape so he can take the heat. Lucille prepares for the Save the Wetlands Bachelorette Auction and instructs Buster to bid $10,000 on her so she can show-up her social rival Lucille Austero. Lucille 2 has been waiting for Buster to make a romantic gesture toward her, but he is terrified of her so he has been hiding. Lucille tries to lure Lucille 2 away from the auction with The Producers tickets but when Buster refuses to call her back she decides to go to the auction. Buster, running late, runs into the auction when he hears the word "Lucille" and bids $10,000 on the wrong Lucille.
Episode 6
Visiting Ours
Sun, Dec 7, 200321 mins
Needing information from George Sr.'s secretary Kitty, Michael attempts to use her crush on Gob to get it. Meanwhile, Tobias and Lindsay attend couples therapy and George Michael attempts to conquer his fear of visiting George Sr. in prison.
Episode 7
In God We Trust
Sun, Dec 21, 200321 mins
It's time for the annual Living Classics Pageant, and Barry makes a deal with Michael to get George Sr. out in time to take part in the pageant's signature exhibit - Michaelangelo's The Creation Of Adam. But there is no god when George Sr. makes plans to escape.
Episode 8
My Mother the Car
Sun, Dec 14, 200321 mins
Michael cannot remember anything about the car accident he and Lucille were in. While he's trying to piece together the accident, Gob thinks Michael is planning to escape to South America with his father. Meanwhile, Lindsay makes repeated visits to the prison in hopes of scoring a date.
Episode 9
Storming the Castle
Sun, Jan 4, 200422 mins
Determined to get back in the Magician's Alliance, Gob puts on one last big show, thanks to his brother Michael. Michael, hoping to steal Marta away from Gob, tries to pull a scam almost as great as Gob's magic act. Meanwhile, Tobias, hoping to impress his daughter, becomes a "leather daddy".
Episode 10
Pier Pressure
Sun, Jan 11, 200422 mins
When Michael suspects that George Michael has been smoking marijuana, he enlists the help of a one-armed man his father used to scare them as children. Gob and Buster participate in the bust, which also enlists the help of a local stripper agency.
Episode 11
Public Relations
Sun, Jan 25, 200422 mins
The family's new public relations director gives them each a task while Michael tries to get his son in the prestigious Milford Academy. Buster, a graduate, is to be neither seen nor heard. Tobias heads to Boston to get his medical license back, only to meet Carl Weathers on the way there, and Gob makes the academy's founder disappear.
Episode 12
Marta Complex
Sun, Feb 8, 200422 mins
It's Valentine's Day and everyone but Michael has a reason to celebrate. Buster, tired of dealing with his mother, goes to live with the rest of the family in the model home. But soon Marta realizes that Michael is the one she has feelings for, not Gob.
Episode 13
Beef Consomme
Sun, Feb 15, 200422 mins
After Tobias moves into his room, George Michael gets a rather curious tip about his cousin's origins, so he decides to investigate. Gob, worried about his girlfriend Marta, heads down to the TV studio to visit the set of her show, to confront a man named "Hermano".
Episode 14
Shock and Aww
Sun, Mar 7, 200422 mins
George Bluth Sr. gets a visit from a rabid female fan who may be in love with him. George Michael is interested in his teacher, and so is his father. Gob tries to get revenge on Michael for trying to steal his girlfriend. Michael dates his son's ethic teacher, then learns he has a crush on her.
Episode 15
Staff Infection
Sun, Mar 14, 200422 mins
Michael learns that most of his family is on the company payroll despite not working there. Michael forces the family to work after learning they're on the payroll. Gob and Buster are sent to work at the construction site, while Lindsay answers phone calls for the company.
Episode 16
Altar Egos
Wed, Mar 17, 200422 mins
Michael has a one-night stand with a woman named Maggie Lizer. He has a guilt-trip after learning she is blind, but not so much after he discovers that she's the prosecuting attorney against his family. Meanwhile, Gob gets married to a woman after a series of escalating dares, and tries to get a subsequent divorce.
Episode 17
Justice Is Blind
Sun, Mar 21, 200422 mins
Michael gets an evidence file about his family after sleeping with the Maggie Lizer, the prosecuting attorney. But he suspects that she's not exactly telling the truth, so he sends Tobias to her house to investigate, who finds out that she's not blind. Meanwhile, Gob's divorce does not go as smoothly as planned.
Episode 18
Missing Kitty
Sun, Mar 28, 200422 mins
Spring Break hits Orange County, and Gob plans to take his magic act to the popular video series "Girls With Low Self Esteem" by making the family yacht disappear. Michael becomes concerned that George-Michael is spending too much time with Gob, so he puts George Michael to work at the Bluth Company. Kitty threatens to go to court with evidence against the company. Meanwhile, Lindsay and Maeby investigate the whereabouts of their grandmother, and Lucille's newly adopted Korean son Annyong annoys the family.
Episode 19
Best Man for the Gob
Sun, Apr 4, 200422 mins
The family accountant, Ira Gilligan, is planning to snitch, and George Sr. will do everything possible to stop him. He enlists Gob to throw a party, where he will try to make Ira flee the country to avoid testifying. Michael and his son plan a fishing trip, while Tobias wants to reunite a folk band he formed with Lindsay and Maeby to promote pharmaceuticals.
Episode 20
Whistler's Mother
Sun, Apr 11, 200422 mins
Some company funds have been unfrozen, and everyone in the family wants a cut of it. Michael makes a bad investment on his uncle Oscar's land, and takes the blame for it. Meanwhile George Michael spots a mysterious man who looks a lot like his grandfather, and the Bluth Company institutes a new whistle-blowing policy.
Episode 21
Not Without My Daughter
Sun, Apr 25, 200422 mins
Michael decides that it's time to retire a long-running joke involving George-Michael and "Take Your Daughter To Work Day", so he brings Maeby along for the ride instead. The police get involved in the disappearance of Kitty Sanchez, the company's former secretary, and Michael discovers shocking video evidence of Kitty's last known whereabouts.
Episode 22
Let 'Em Eat Cake
Sun, Jun 6, 200422 mins
Michael learns the real secret behind the Bluth Company's international accounts - his dad may have been illegally building houses similar to the one he lives in in Iraq. George Sr. agrees to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence, but the family gets word that he has had a heart attack while in prison. The family goes to the hospital to visit, but learns that George Sr. has made an elaborate escape. Michael decides that he's had enough, and he and George-Michael decide to pack up and head to Phoenix.
