Best Arrested Development Episodes

Buster figures medical marijuana cures Lucille 2's vertigo. Buster pays George Michael to get it from Gob. Lindsay sends Maeby to spend a day with Lucille to punish her for poor grades. Michael sees George Michael using drugs and tries to teach him a lesson.

Michael puts George Michael in charge of the Bluth Bannana Stand. His son burns down the stand. Tobias auditions for a commercial, and Lindsay accidentally gets the part.

Gob fires people after getting roasted at the Bluth Company Christmas party. Michael must rebuild the Banana Stand. Buster skips Army for an arcade game.

Lucille hires bounty hunter Ice to find George Sr., who might be closer than people think. Gob tries a fake trick. Maeby tries to set Lindsay up with Ice. Michael tries to fix George Michael's broken relationship.

George Sr. seeks an anniversary dinner for Lucille. Michael deliberately upsets Ann's Christian parents. Tobias overdoes his "Mrs. Featherbottom" act.

Michael feels abandoned by the family. Michael vows to find his father and speak to him after finding the staircar in Mexico. Buster spends time with Lupe's family and thinks he is in Mexico.

The Bluths appear. Michael takes a job in Arizona after George Sr. rejects him for head of the Bluth Company. George Sr. goes to jail, and the family sees they need Michael.

Michael spends time with Buster. George Michael auditions for a school play to get closer to Maeby. Gob breaks up with his girlfriend and has nowhere to go.

Lucille abducts George Michael for a mother-son dance. Buster adapts to having a hook for a hand. Gob reunites with his wife. Tobias stars as George Sr. in a biopic about the Bluth family, which draws Lindsay to him.

George Sr. has a heart attack in the first season finale. Maeby resents George Michael liking another girl. Lindsay decides to leave Tobias after a book he wrote becomes a gay bestseller. Buster and Annyong compete over women.

Michael loses his short-term memory; Lucille uses this. Gob tries to use the family yacht before Michael sells it. George Michael and Maeby try to watch an R-rated movie about cousins having an affair. Buster and Lucille 2 take "the next step".

George Sr. clears all charges after returning from Iraq. Michael feels relief being the head of a successful company. The real cause of the chaos shows. As the family celebrates their win, new problems appear.

Gob hides George Sr. while the model home's plumbing gets checked. George Michael helps Ann protest Maeby's new movie. Tobias likes Kitty after Michael asks him to watch her.

George Michael runs for student body president, and Gob ruins the effort. Buster has an affair with Lupe. Lindsay seeks Lupe, and Tobias tries to leave the model home, then changes his act after deciding to stay.

Gob drives Michael crazy by impressing the board as the new company figurehead because of Michael's legal problems. George Sr. gets arrested in Mexico for a crime Oscar committed. Buster sees something that shocks him.

Gob and Buster perform magic tricks using Buster's fake hand. Tony Wonder, a rival magician, starts teaching them, and someone gets hurt. Michael must hand off work while hospitalized. Lindsay teaches George Michael to drive using the staircar.

Michael takes Maeby to work for Take Your Daughter to Work Day. After Michael slighted her, Tobias, George-Michael, and Gob go to the mall to show they are manly. Oscar takes Lucille and Buster to Annyong's soccer game.

Michael wanted his father to stop having Gob compete with him. So, Michael gave Gob his own banana stand franchise. Gob set up his stand twenty feet from the old one. After they competed, they taught their father a lesson. Buster refused to use his handicap to scare kids. Maeby used Lucille's surgery in a horror film.

Michael must handle a big mole problem to save a real estate deal with Japanese investors. Gob and Buster team up with George Sr.'s surrogate, Larry, to plan and save the deal, but their plan fails badly. Tobias mistakes a CIA agent for a CAA agent and accidentally betrays the family. Michael proposes to Rita, who cannot refuse. Frankie Muniz appears as himself.

The Bluths rival development company hires Gob. Gob finds the company president a father figure before the Bluth-Sitwell softball game. Lindsay hallucinates from taking anti-depressants.

Gob confronts the editor of the videos showing his magic mistakes. Michael tricks Lucille into rehab, then tries to get her out after George Sr. is kidnapped.

Michael finds out his family receives paychecks without working. He forces everyone to get jobs in the company. Lindsay questions his management skills. Tobias checks into George Sr.'s prison to research a film role.

Gob steals a file on the government's case against the Bluth Company that Maggie gave Michael. Tobias goes to Maggie's house for evidence. George Michael tries to prove Maeby's fraud. Lindsay fights to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse lawn.

Michael tries to fire the family's bad, yet likable, lawyer. George Michael impresses Maeby with a muscle suit for a "Living Classics" pageant. Tobias suffers a mental issue where he cannot remove his clothes.

George Sr. uses Gob's bachelor party to put his accountant in a compromising spot for blackmail. Michael tries to act fun, and the Funkes reunite their family folk-music band.

Michael cannot complete his plan to split Gob and Marta. A thug magician wants Gob's legs. Maeby wears all leather to get revenge on her mother. Lucille decides to face Buster's relationship with Lucille 2.

Michael arranges an "intimate conjugal visit" for his parents. George Sr. had an affair with Kitty, his secretary who recently slept with Gob. Tobias and Lindsay see a marriage counselor.

The family's new lawyer, Bob Loblaw, puts George Sr. under house arrest; it is not easy. Michael sets up his first date with Rita, but Rita meets the family earlier.

Michael and George Michael leave for Phoenix but return to make sure the family misses them. Lindsay wants an open marriage, making Tobias try to join the Blue Man Group, thinking they are for depressed men. Lucille signs Buster up for the Army after a Michael Moore look-alike pressures her. Gob becomes president of the Bluth Company.

Michael falls for his George Michael's ethics teacher, whom his son also likes. Lucille adopts a 14-year-old Korean boy. George Sr.'s "Caged Wisdom" tapes bring him a new admirer.

Gob locks himself in his father's prison for 24 hours to rejoin the alliance and spend time with his father. Michael takes Gob's girlfriend to an awards show; Buster flirts with his mother's rival.

The company faces severe money problems, and the Bluths are no longer main shareholders. Michael must ask old family friend "Uncle" Jack Dorso for money. Uncle Jack demands something in return.

Michael sells part of his Bluth company stock to buy a car. Lucille 2 returns, finding Buster dates the company secretary Starla.

George Sr. worries he will lose Lucille to Oscar. Gob pushes Buster for the Army while Lindsay spends more time with Maeby to connect with Steve Holt, and Tobias starts working out.

Lucille throws an anniversary party for Tobias and Lindsay on Valentine's Day. Michael gives a speech about love, making Marta realize she likes him and Lindsay see she wants a divorce. Buster decides to move out of the penthouse, and Lucille enjoys living alone for the first time.

The family plans its annual fundraiser; they actually have a cause this time. Tobias suffers from his transplanted hair plugs, which seem to reject him. Lindsay uses this illness to return to high society. Michael learns the prison warden's true plans from his mother after reading the warden's screenplay.

To prove he is a man to Rita, Michael and his nephew Steve Holt compete in the Church And State Fair's annual triathlon. George Sr. tries to scare some at-risk youth. Tobias tries to help George-Michael's girlfriend Ann compete in the fair's "inner beauty" pageant.

Season 1 Episode 22: Michael learns his father is in prison for dealing with the old Iraqi government. Michael decides to cut ties with the entire family and leaves town permanently.

Season 3 Episode 9: Everyone pitches in to raise money to hire a new family lawyer for the company fundraiser, called "Save Our Bluths."

Michael discovers George Sr.'s twin brother Oscar is in prison, not George. After a tip from Barry, Michael goes to Reno to find George, costing him a camping trip he promised his son.

Gob tries to make the family yacht vanish as promised. Lindsay and Maeby try to find Lindsay's grandmother. Tobias seeks George Sr.'s respect. Michael tries to fire Kitty, who claims she has company-damaging information.

Michael investigates his father's claim that a British group set him up. Michael goes to "Wee Britain" and falls for a beautiful woman named Rita. Lindsay tries to seduce the new family attorney. Gob goes to extremes to avoid his new son.

After Michael announces his marriage to Rita, George Sr. fears she wants the family money. Rita's Uncle Trevor tries to stop the wedding by revealing surprising facts about Rita. Michael must decide if he wants to walk down the aisle.

Season 3 Episode 10: George Sr. finally gets a new lawyer. Michael worries after hearing about a surprise witness, so Buster pretends to be in a coma to avoid testifying.

Michael and Lindsay try to show their charitable sides to each other. Gob demands George Michael's respect. Buster keeps avoiding Lucille 2.

Season 4 Episode 12: Maeby moves out and reconnects with her cousin George-Michael.

Season 1 Episode 20: As the family fights over newly available company funds, Michael decides to invest the money in land Uncle Oscar is selling.

As Michael's relationship with Sally grows, Maggie Lizer returns nine months pregnant. Michael immediately assumes he is the father. George Michael tries to break up with Ann. Buster learns he is being deployed to Iraq.

Michael seeks answers. He tracks Nellie down. Michael hires her as a consultant for the Bluth Co. Michael finds Nellie's hands-on approach exceeds his expectations.

Season 2 Episode 14 shows George Sr. deciding to become Christian. Michael helps George-Michael with the student body president campaign by having Gob produce the video.