Arrested Development: Staff Infection

Air Date

Sunday March 14, 2004

Production Code

1AJD14

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  9.4 Superb

  The Bluths start working hide show

  The whole family start working at the Bluth Company after Michael finds out they’ve been getting pay checks from the company and not working at all.
  
  Lindsay as receptionist was hilarious sending the office out to lunch, the employees ending up in Catalina, and making George Michael temp receptionist when Gob and Buster cause construction to cease work and Michael builds a sandcastle.
  
  The feds taking the file of all the things George Michael made for his father, thinking they were information about George Sr was a hilarious ending to the pretty good episode, all plots getting many laughs, especially from Lindsay and Tobias.

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• Guest Cast

  • James Lipton Warden Stefan Gentles
  • Bradley Stryker Man #3
  • Michael Blieden Agent Cummings
  • Alden Villaverde Little Justice
  • Matt Price Agent Freeling

• 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
  • Alia Shawkat Mae "Maeby" Fünke
  • Tony Hale Byron "Buster" Bluth
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• The new prison warden's screenplay is titled New Warden. [edit]
• The folder on Michael's desk is labeled "Permit Office". However, in "Charity Drive", The Bluth Company was said to have some trouble filing its permits. [edit]
• The surveillance team's van is labeled "Blendin Electric Company". [edit]

• Michael Blieden ("Agent Cummings") wrote the screenplay and appeared in the Bob Odenkirk directed indie film Melvin Goes to Dinner, which starred Blieden and Matt Price, who also appears in the episode. Odenkirk, of course, was a previous guest star on the show and David Cross has a cameo in the film. Blieden also wrote for Mitchell Hurwitz-Created, Jeffrey Tambor-starring ABC comedy Everything's Relative." [edit]
• Rating: 4.9/7 [edit]

• Lindsay: Okay, so you guys don’t want to work? Fine. I’ve got a stair car full of Mexican laborers that would love a day’s work.
  Lupe's Uncle: Laborers? I’m a professor of American studies at the University of Mexico City. [edit]
• Gob: I hope you’re up to this, Buster! This is a game of courage! A game for men!
  Buster: Yeah, well, it’s a game I’m ready for! Uh-oh. My seat doesn’t have a cushion. [edit]
• Foreman: This is not how we settle things on a site. We got our own way of finding out who’s a chicken. By a little game we like to call ... “Chicken.” [edit]

• The "creative" new warden and what he says when Tobias meet him, is a joke on the fact that he's played by James Lipton, known for his job as the host of Inside the Actor's Studio. Each episode of the show features Lipton interviewing an actor (occasionally several). [edit]
• The game of bulldozer chicken is a send-up of the 1984 movie Footloose, which Lindsay referenced earlier in the episode. [edit]