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Staff Infection

Episode Number: 15    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday March 14, 2004    Prod Code: 1AJD14
When Michael discovers his family has been receiving paychecks without working, he forces them all to get jobs within the company. Lindsay questions his management skills, and Tobias checks himself in at George Sr.'s prison to research a film role.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Brad Copeland
Director: John Fortenberry
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: BW Gonzalez (Lupe),  Justin Lee (Annyong Bluth),  Charlie Hartsock (Ted)
Guest Star: James Lipton (Warden Stefan Gentles),  Bradley Stryker (Man #3),  Michael Blieden (Agent Cummings),  Alden Villaverde (Little Justice),  Matt Price (Agent Freeling)

Notes

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Some of the menu items at the Bluth Banana Stand are the Original Frozen Banana, On the Go-Go Banana, Double-Dipped Frozen, Giddy-Girly Banana, George Daddy and the Simple Simon. (edit)
The creative new prison warden's screenplay is titled New Warden. (edit)
On the "morning bike ride," Michael is eating a cornball, the other part of the Saturday tradition. (edit)
The folder on Michael's desk is labeled "Permit Office." The Bluth Company was said to have some trouble filing its permits in "Charity Drive." (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)

Quotes

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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)
Buster: Come on, you douche bags, we’re all on the same team!
Gob: Don’t listen to him. He’ll never stand up to the Man. He’s a chicken. A chicken. Coka, coka, coka, coh!
Buster: My whole life you’ve called me a chicken. But that’s over now. I have nothing to prove. (edit)
Lucille: Well, now, who the hell is going to unload the car? (Into phone) Hola? Is Rosa still alive? No? Oh. Ok. This is not my day. (edit)

Trivia

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The "creative" new warden is played by James Lipton, known for his job as the host of Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio." Each episode of the show features Lipton interviewing an actor (occasionally several). (edit)

Allusions

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George Sr.: No teaching, no teaching.
That's probably an analogy to the "no touching" rule they have in the prison. (edit)
The new warden mentions to Tobias that another actor is already at the prison researching a role--Steve Buscemi.

Steve Buscemi has been in numerous movies (Monsters,inc., Armageddon, Reservoir Dogs, etc). (edit)
Lindsay: Is this the tiny town from Footloose?

Footloose is a 1984 Kevin Bacon movie about a town that outlaws dancing. (edit)
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