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Altar Egos (1)

Episode Number: 16    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday March 17, 2004    Prod Code: 1AJD16
Michael attempts to have a one-night stand with an attorney whom he doesn't know is not only blind, but the prosecutor who is trying to put his father in jail. Also, Gob gets married on a dare, Maeby pretends to be a girl with a made up disease, and George Sr.'s admirer turns out to be an undercover SEC agent who has truly fallen for him.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Barbie Feldman Adler
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Star: Jeffrey Tambor (George Bluth Sr. / Oscar Bluth),  Portia de Rossi (Lindsay Bluth Fünke),  David Cross (Tobias Fünke),  Ron Howard (Narrator),  Jason Bateman (Michael Bluth),  Jessica Walter (Lucille Bluth),  Will Arnett (George "Gob" Bluth II),  Michael Cera (George Michael Bluth),  Alia Shawkat (Mae "Maeby" Fünke),  Tony Hale (Byron "Buster" Bluth)
Recurring Role: Amy Poehler (Gob's Wife),  Michael Bartel (Young Michael),  Henry Winkler (Barry Zuckerkorn),  Michael Paul Chan (Judge Lionel Ping)
Guest Star: Verda Bridges (Woman),  Tim Starks (Bailiff),  Frank Whiteman (Judge),  Angela Russo (Teacher),  Jane Lynch (Cindi Lightballoon),  James Lipton (Warden Stefan Gentles),  Steve Witting (Principal Conrad)

Notes

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Maggie Lizer as a recurring role. Coincidentally, the creator of her CBS series The New Adventures of Old Christine is named Kari Lizer. (edit)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler have worked on Saturday Night Live. Julia in the early 1980s, and Amy in the early 2000s. (edit)
Cindi Lightballoon rides the "Blendin Mobile Pet Grooming" van to the prison. (edit)
The courtroom office is decorated with portraits of Republican presidents. (edit)
Cindi Lightballoon was wearing a "Caged Wisdom" T-Shirt. (edit)

Quotes

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Gob: Sorry, did you say seals?
Gob's Wife: Yes! I trade trained seals for a living! Do you ever listen?
Gob: Do you ever stop talking? (edit)
Lindsay: We would like you to tutor our daughter.
Tobias: Now, of course, we are having a bit of a cash flow problem. But I assure you; if you bring our little girl's grades up, I will pack your sweet pink mouth with so much ice cream, you'll be the envy of every Jerry and Jane on the block!
George Michael: But we're the only house on the block.
(Camera shows a shot of the Bluth house in the middle of nowhere)
Tobias: Perhaps we should get somebody else. (edit)
Maeby: Enjoy the $200.
George Michael: This is six $20s.
Maeby: That's right. (edit)
George Sr.: Hi ... This is not what it looks like ...
Lucille: It looks like you're tweaking her nipples through a chain-link fence.
George Sr.: Yep ... Yeah, that's it. (edit)
Barry: Do you want to read it?
Michael: No, it is thick. Why don't we just take it?
Barry: I could kiss you on the nuts.
Michael: Yeah, well ... What? (edit)

Trivia

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Lucille proclaims she could not breastfeed any of her children because of George Sr.'s tweaking, but in "Spring Breakout (ep. 39)" the narrator states "it was Buster's first taste of alcohol since he was nursing." One of these statements must be untrue. (edit)

Allusions

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In the mens' room scene, Henry Winkler goes to comb his hair but instead leans back a little and spreads his hands out just as he did in Happy Days as The Fonz. (edit)
Maggie's guide dog is called "Justice" - an ironic reference to the phrase "Justice is Blind", which is also the title of the following episode. (edit)
This is the first appearance of Amy Poehler as The Wife of Gob. Despite numerous appearances in the series, she is never actually given any name but the Wife of Gob. This is the same as the biblical Wife of Job who is never actually given a name either and is only referred to as the Wife of Job or Job's Wife. (edit)
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