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The narrator said "It was weird" to describe George Sr. and Gob's kiss, just like he did with Lindsay and Tobias' kiss in "My Hand to God".
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The Ten Commandments have returned to the courthouse, even though we saw them being torn down.
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When Michael is on the phone with his mother, a sign can be read saying "Attention: Do Not Ask The Guards For Change".
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The Friday night movie is 'Soapdish', which George Sr. had said in "Queen for a Day" led to a knife fight.
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George Michael first made the comment, "I like the way they think," about the French in "My Mother The Car" as he remembered the kissing cousins in Les cousins dangereux.
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George Michael reprises the sad 'Christmas Time Is Here' song and walk from "Good Grief".
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The song Gob sings, "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," was Bryan Adams' biggest hit.
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Quotes
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Michael: We're brothers. We shouldn't be fighting. We cannot afford to lose each other. Gob: I can't. I already lost a brother today. Michael: Franklin? Gob: Well, I didn't lose him. But he's all puckered and white. Michael: On the plus side, you can take him to lunch at the club now. Gob: That's the kind of joke he would have loved!
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Gob: Oh, no. Gob: (as Franklin with English accent) You've ruined the act, Gob.
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Gob: Great news! Dad wasn't crushed to death! Michael: Was there a risk of that?
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Michael: Go ahead and tell Gob that I'll be telling the cops that it was him in the truck so he'll be joining me here. I've got a nice hard cot with his name on it. Lucille: You'd do that to your own brother? Michael: I said "cot".
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Buster: (to Lucille) You lied to me! You said my father was my father, but my uncle is my father. My father is my uncle!
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Gob: And guess what else ... Dad kissed me! Michael: How? He looked pretty unconscious in that picture. Gob: I didn't say he was totally into it!
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Gob: Dad's gonna be crushed! George Michael: You don't have to tell him!
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Oscar: (about his hair) Why won't it grow back!?
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(Singing) Gob: It ain't easy being white. Franklin: It ain't easy being brown. Gob: All this pressure to be bright. Franklin: I got children all over town! Gob: Sometime ... (spoken) hey, where'd the guy go?
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Marc Cherry: It's a satire!
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Notes
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John Michael Higgins receives the "With" credit.
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Judy Greer receives the "And" credit.
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For this entire season, the show won the 2005 TCA (Television Critics Association) Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Comedy", and, it was nominated for the: -2005 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Comedy Series" and "Oustanding Casting for a Comedy Series". -2005 Teen Choice Award for "Choice V-Cast". -2005 TCA (Television Critics Association) Award for "Program of the Year". Plus, Jason Bateman ("Michael") won the 2005 Satellite Award for "Outstanding Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical", and was nominated for the 2005 TCA (Television Critics Association) Award for "Individual Achievement in Comedy".
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This episode won the 2005 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series". Also, Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series" (also for "Burning Love").
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Chuck Martin is the first member of the writing staff to direct an episode.
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This episode had a parental advisory before it began, which simply read "Viewer discretion is advised."
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Originally scheduled to air April 24, but moved to April 17 when it was announced that the show's episode order would be cut to 18 episodes.
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The cutting down time of the movie is another reference of the series' season being cut short.
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Marc Cherry created the ABC series, Desperate Housewives, and worked together with Mitch Hurwitz, Rich Rosenstock and John Levenstein as a writer on The Golden Girls.
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Rating: 4.3/6
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Allusions
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Michael says he thought Gob wanted $5,000 for a Franklin mutual fund and not Franklin, which is referring to the fourth-largest U.S. mutual fund company, Franklin Resources.
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Gob's CD with Franklin is titled "Franklin Comes Alive" which is an allusion to the album of Peter Frampton, "Frampton Comes Alive".
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