Arrested Development: Shock and Aww

Air Date

Sunday March 7, 2004

Production Code

1AJD13

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  9.2 Superb

  Michael sleeps with his son's crush and Gob sleeps with anyone his brother is polite to hide show

  Heather Graham is a very hot guest star in this episode and has the hilarious role of George Michael’s ethics teacher/crush/father’s girlfriend/Saddam lover.
  
  This episode is one of the best ones yet, especially Gob sleeping with all the women he thought Michael liked for getting back at Michael almost sleeping with the girl he was cheating on. Gob has some priceless moments in this episode such as “George Michael, what are you doing at a high school dance” and sleeping with the civics teacher instead of the ethics teacher.
  
  Overall, the episode is very well plotted, especially the George Michael-Ms Baerly-Michael triangle and the scene between George Michael and Lindsay is possibly the funniest scene with Lindsay misunderstanding his intentions.

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  jimbo_001 Added May 28, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Season 1's Shock and Awww..episode is one of the first season's many great episodes. It provides a great storyline for Michael in which he actually gets some action from the beautiful Heather Graham. She is a great guest star with her obsession with Sadda hide show

  Another really good episode in the series is Season 1's Shock and Aww..I love the story line with Nazhgalia, and Michael just being curtious but G.O.B mistaking it for an attraction. The exchange between Michael and G.O.B when Michael comes down stairs after sleeping with George Michael's ethics teacher is priceless, Nazh apologizes to Michael as if he would be crushed she slept with G.O.B. Easily one of the best of many great exchanges between Michael and G.O.B. Michael finally gets someone to sleep in his bed though his first bed mate is Buster, who if you listen Michael tells his mother when she says we have to do something about my son. He says "I totally agree mom Buster goes home with you..we flip the matteress this never happened." So clearly Buster wet the bed. Great stuff this is also the first episode that introduces us to Annyong, who plays a big part later. The only thing that made me not put this episode on my top ten list was the fact that Tobias was subsequently absent from this episode.

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  justjustinjay Added Feb 24, 2006 All my reviews

• Guest Cast

  • Maliabeth Johnson Shanon
  • Matthew Richards Jeremy
  • Matt Price Agent Freeling
  • Heather Graham Beth Baerly
  • Jane Lynch Cindi Lightballoon
  • Michael Blieden Agent Cummings
  • Iqbal Theba Nazhgalia

• Stars

  • 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
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• The slogan for the Low Carb Bluth Banana Jail Bars that George Sr. sells is "Once you've had one, you're in for life". [edit]
• The surveillance team's van is labeled "Blendin Mobile Dog Grooming". [edit]
• The background prom music is the Arrested Development theme music. [edit]

• Rating: 5.0/7 [edit]
• Guest stars Jane Lynch and Matthew Price worked together on the short-lived ABC drama MDs. [edit]
• Originally scheduled to air February 22nd, but pre-empted for an episode of The Bernie Mac Show. [edit]

• Buster: Whoa, whoa, whoa! We are not allowed to have candles in here. Mom would freak.
  Lucille: Oh, no, it’s fine. This is America, baby. You pray how you want. [edit]
• Shannon: You’re the pig. Two strikes, you are out.
  Gob: Oh, listen, Shannon, please, it was a one-time thing. I’m not going to even hear from her again. (Phone rings) Oh! Who is Edna W.? [edit]
• George Michael: Uncle Gob?
  Gob: George Michael? What are you doing at a high school dance? [edit]

• The ads in Klimpy's Express are "Stacked!" for a hoagie and "Some Like It Hot, Some Like it Cold" for coffee. The latter is an allusion to the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot!.
  
  The sign is seen when Michael meets Nazhgalia, a woman being portrayed by a male actor, which is another reference to that film. [edit]
• Ms. Baerly: Where did you get the picture of Saddam in a Speedo?
  Speedo is an Australian swimsuit manufacturer, currently the world's largest selling swimwear brand. The men's Speedo swimsuit is tight fitting and very revealing, similar to a bikini bottom on a woman. Slang terms for it include "budgie smugglers" and "banana hammocks". [edit]
• n/a: Shock and Aww
  This episode may have gotten its title because that was the name given to describe the beginning of the Iraq War. Saddam is referenced quite a few times in this episode. [edit]