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Arrested Development Season 3 Episode Guide

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    9.6 Superb 455 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 2/10/2006

    Development Arrested

    Lucille throws a yacht party to celebrate the family's recent success, but the Bluths learn the sailing is still far from smooth.

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    9.4 Superb 267 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 2/10/2006

    Exit Strategy

    Gob goes to Iraq to perform his Christian magic act on the USO tour and ends up incarcerated. Michael learns George, Sr. sent Gob to Iraq to burn down the model home he built there, so Michael and Buster fly to Iraq to spring their brother from prison.

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    9.4 Superb 259 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 2/10/2006

    Family Ties

    In an effort to get to the bottom of things, Michael tracks Nellie down and hires her as a consultant for the Bluth Co. Unfortunately, Michael discovers Nellie’s hands-on approach is more than he bargained for. Meanwhile, George Micheal and Maebey find out that their fake marriage was real.

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    9.4 Superb 264 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 2/10/2006

    Fakin' It

    George, Sr. hires a new attorney who asks the Bluths to participate in a mock trial to help prepare them for the real thing. The attorney gets actor Judge Reinhold to preside over the mock case. Meanwhile, Buster fakes a coma to get out of testifying, and George Michael and Maeby participate in a mock wedding to entertain hospital patients. Back at the office, Michael discovers that he may have a long-lost sister named Nellie Bluth.

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    9.5 Superb 341 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 1/2/2006

    S.O.B.s

    George Sr. and Lucille decide to host a fundraiser at the apartment in an attempt to pay for a new lawyer; Lindsay becomes a mother figure in the Bluth household, with mixed results; Maeby helps Tobias land an acting gig; Gob accidentally finds a job; Andy Richter's brother helps George Michael to learn how to speak up.

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    9.4 Superb 275 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 12/19/2005

    Making a Stand

    George, Sr. continues to pit Michael and Gob against each other at the Bluth company. Michael tries to combat this by having Gob open up a banana stand -- only problem is that Gob opens his banana stand across from the original one. Michael and Gob decide to teach George, Sr. a lesson in the same way George, Sr. used to teach them a lesson. Lindsay and Tobias proceed with their divorce. Bob Loblaw tells Lindsay he can't represent her and date her since it's a conflict of interest. Bob gets her a new lawyer and then represents Tobias in the divorce. George, Sr. and Lucille's apartment is being painted. Lucille recooperates from her semi-annual face lift at the model home, giving Maeby an idea to save her $80 million dollar horror film.

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    9.2 Superb 288 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 12/12/2005

    Prison Break-In

    Michael is worried when he learns that Lucille is dating the warden behind his father's back; Buster's new turtle gets into "Uncle-Father" Oscar's stash; the family plans a benefit for Tobias' life-endangering hair transplant.

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    9.4 Superb 302 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 12/5/2005

    The Ocean Walker

    After Michael announces he's marrying Rita, George Sr. worries that she's after the family's money. But when Rita's Uncle Trevor tries to stop the wedding by revealing some surprising information about Rita, Michael must decide if he wants to walk down the aisle.

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    9.3 Superb 329 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 11/7/2005

    Mr. F

    Michael must deal with a huge mole problem in order to salvage a major real estate deal with Japanese investors. In an effort to help Michael, Gob and Buster (Tony Hale) team up with George Sr.'s surrogate, Larry (guest star Bob Einstein), to devise a plan and save the deal, but their plan falls apart in a big way. Meanwhile, Tobias (David Cross) mistakes a CIA agent for a CAA agent and inadvertently betrays the family, and Michael makes Rita a proposal she can't refuse. Frankie Muniz makes a cameo as himself.

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    9.2 Superb 304 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 11/7/2005

    Notapusy

    In the "Notapusy" episode, Rita (guest star Charlize Theron) calls Michael (Jason Bateman) a word that he thinks means "weak or cowardly" when – in the British sense – it actually means "sweet or gentle." In an effort to prove to Rita he's not one of these, Michael tries to convince George-Michael (Michael Cera) to join him in some manly activities, but George-Michael is too busy prepping girlfriend Ann (Mae Whitman) for an "Inner-beauty Pageant" at the Church and State Fair. So Michael and his recently-discovered nephew Steve Holt (Justin Grant Wade) enter a triathlon, only to discover Gob (Will Arnett) is the one who stumbles at the finish line. Meanwhile, George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) tries to get some good P.R. by volunteering to speak at a "Scared Straight" meeting, but ends up giving advice about his prison days to the wrong group. Scott Baio returns as Bluth family attorney Bob Loblaw and Dave Thomas as Trevor.

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    9.2 Superb 343 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/3/2005

    Forget Me Now

    Michael tries to hide Rita from his family with disastrous results; Lindsay waits hand and foot on the Bluths' new lawyer; George attempts escaping via balloons; Tobias tries to help Buster gain some self-confidence; George Michael confronts Steve Holt about Maeby.

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    8.9 Great 379 Votes
    Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/26/2005

    For British Eyes Only

    Investigating his father's claim that a British group set him up, Michael goes to "Wee Britain" and is smitten with a beautiful woman named Rita. Lindsay attempts to seduce the new family attorney, and Gob goes to extremes to avoid his newly discovered son.

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    9.3 Superb 379 Votes
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    Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/19/2005

    The Cabin Show

    This episode centers around the family cabin outside of Reno NV (The biggest little mistake you can forget about) that George Bluth Sr yearly promised to bring Michael to, but in the end always blew him off to take a woman there. The family is selling the land that the cabin is on and having the cabin trucked to the house. Michael is excited that the company stock rating has gone from triple sell to don't buy. He decides to go to the prison to gloat and realizes that it is Uncle Oscar not his father in jail.

    Maeby and George Michael are dealing with the aftermath of the kiss, and avoiding one another.

    Lucille has stopped taking her post partum medication. That she has been taking for over 30 years since Buster's birth. She is concerned that she will have the same destructive impulses she had the last time she went of the medication and empathized with a woman who drowned her kids in a car.

    Gob receives a letter inviting him to a father and sons reuniting outing and thinks that it is his dad looking to find him, but as it turns out he actually has a son by a high school girlfriend.

    Tobias is working in a restaurant called Swallows because he lost his job as a blue man to who turned out to be George Sr. George Sr discovered that being a blue man is the perfect cover and he is now hooking up with Kitty, the blue man makeup artist. Tobias confides in Michael that he wants to get back together with Lindsay and he wants to call her and plead with her to reunite. Michael convinces Tobias that the only way to get back together is to play hard to get...

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