Arrested Development

Michael is meeting with company accountant Ira Gilligan. He informs him then the company's books show that no money is where it should be. Ira says he will go as far as testifying in George Sr's court case if he's asked to and will not lie.

Gob drops by Michael's office. Michael is pleasingly surprised that his marriage has stayed together after two weeks and is rewarding him with a bachelor party. Lucille is also delighted to finally have a blond daughter. However, George Sr. tells Gob to get rid of her and asks Michael to help. He tries by telling some "lies" about how he's sneaky and irresponsible.

Tobias comes in with a problem. He and Lindsay have hit a bit of a snag. He wants Michael to ask Lindsay to reunite the Funke's family band. See, in the mid-'90s, Tobias, Lindsay, and Maeby formed Dr. Funke's 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution. He wants them to reunite for a wellness convention thats come to town.

First, Michael goes to prison to ask his father about the missing money. George guesses that he stole it himself. He suggests to take Ira for some guy fun so isn't so willing to testify. Michael is a little skeptical about doing so and George Sr. declares him as being no fun, promising to get Gob to take care of it.

Gob's wife is officially welcomed at Lucille's at a gathering that night. Buster and Annyong still aren't getting along, as Annyong is allowed to have Buster's juice boxes. Michael tries to convince Lindsay to start the band up again. Lindsay wants no part, but this excites Maeby. Actually, Maeby just wants to keep her folks happy because they leave her alone more when they're together. Gob's wife is even more excited, because she happens to be a big fan. She caught a performance in Boston years ago and loved it. Michael is surprised when Gob told his wife Michael was the unreliable one and thinks Michael is hitting on her.

Gob walks in and announces he'll stay in the marriage. He names his father as his best man and declares Michael can still help solve his problems for him. George has a plan though. He is going to make Ira think he killed a stripper at the bachelor party, leave town and then they could blame him for the missing money. All they need is a narcoleptic stripper, a dark space, some corn syrup and red dye and they're set, if Gob can convince him he did the deed. Ira will use Gob's honeymoon tickets to leave the country.

The band reunion isn't going so well. George Michael tries to join in by playing wood block, but this ends up breaking up the rehearsal. Michael arrives home, determined to prove he's a fun guy. He books a fishing trip for himself and his son. Meanwhile, Lucille forces Gob to take Buster to his bachelor party. She is going to be busy at Annyong's soccer awards dinner and doesn't want to leave Buster alone in a house full of juice.

The Bluth Boys checked into the hotel the same time the Gob and Buster arrived. They try to gloat about the party, but Michael is determined to have his fun instead. At the wellness convention in the very same hotel, things aren't going well, as Maeby and Lindsay have left. Tobias is left on his own.

George Michael and Michael plan to get to bed extremely early so they can wake up early tomorrow. Concerned he won't be able to sleep, George Michael heads to the concert, while Michael drops by the party. Gob has set up the party, under the guidance of his father's closed-circuit TV gaze. Problem is, Gob's Hot Cop friends came dressed as cops and Buster drank two buckets of fake blood thinking it was juice.

Tobias struggles to keep people interested by himself, until Gob's wife shows up playing Lindsay's instrument and singing along while George Michael shows up on the woodblock. He is kicked out after the show.

At the party, Ira arrives and the con is in full swing. However Ira refuses to drink and Buster, looking for a new sugar fix, finds the giant cake where the narcoleptic stripper is hiding. Buster looks for a piece of cake and accidentally finds the stripper, who punches out Buster, and unintentionally fulfilling his dream. Michael sees an unconscious stripper next to the unconscious Buster and decides to call the cops.

Gob desperately tries to convince Ira that he was drunk and killed the girl, however, one of the Hot Cops had made Ira designated driver. Just then, the girl woke up and sees Buster and thinks she killed him for groping her. When Ira sees her run out, he realizes the set-up and vows to testify against the Bluths.

Gob and Michael share a tender, brotherly moment. It's interrupted when the wife comes in and says she wants out and is in love with Gob's brother. Thinking he did it to him again, Gob knocks out Michael with a punch in the face. Turns out she was in love with Tobias, and should've added in-law to the end of her thought.

On the next Arrested Development...

Buster makes a startling revelation, Michael solves the mystery of the missing money, and Gilligan fulfills his destiny.