Arrested Development

The Cabin Show

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired 9/19/05

Episode Summary

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...''moreless

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Jeffrey Tambor

George Bluth Sr. / Oscar Bluth
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Lindsay Bluth Fünke
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The beginning of the end.

8.9

"Great"

By montaigne61, Dec 08, 2010 Report Abuse

It was nice, getting that final season of Arrested Development. Most networks would have given up after the disappointing ratings of the second season, but Fox, to their credit, gave it another try. The only ones to blame are the show for not being appealing enough and audiences for not being appealed to. It was kind of a death walk, this last season. It should have made me appreciate every moment a little more, but instead I found myself judging so much more critically, as if I expected each and every bit to be the best comedy ever produced. Naturally, even Arrested Development couldn't meet such high standards and I found myself dissapointed.

But now as I revisit it on DVD, I feel that I can judge it with a fairer eye, and I find that this third season is cut from the same cloth as its predecessors. Here we have Gob's stab at fatherhood, the intensification of George-Michael and Maebe's relationship, and a rather dark turn in the saga of Buster and Lucille. My goodness but they don't hold back their repressed feelings in the Bluth family. And Barry - whatever will become of your sorry little law practice, which seems to have jumped the legal shark? Will you admit your love for your office boy? Or will you turn tricks on the streets of Reno?moreless

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Steve Holt is related to the Bluths!

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By jimbo_001, Jun 01, 2006 Report Abuse

The continuous cabin changing plans were very entertaining in this episode, Lucille, Gob, Michael, George Michael and Buster all going to the cabin at some stage during the episode, Michael and son being the ones that get there eventually, at this point George Michael not wanting to go As his chance for one last cousin kiss were left behind.

Gob's cabin logic was great ("I'm either gonna take him to the cabin in the woods. Or I'm gonna promise to take him and then not take him, but the one thing that I will never do is not tell him that I'm taking him to a cabin in the woods, and then not take him") as was the revelation that Steve Holt, a recurring character, who at one stage was humiliated by Gob in a school election is the son of Gob.

With great revelations and plot twists this is the best season three opener that could have been hoped for.moreless

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the episode that got me hooked

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By BTVSForever, Dec 28, 2005 Report Abuse

the episode that got me hooked i casually watched before this one but now i started wathcing every monday this one is hillarious i wish i taped it so i could watch it over and over i hope it is played again and again and hopefully again befor AD is gone.

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Good beginning to the season...

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By RoxieVelma, Nov 06, 2005 Report Abuse

Well, this was a good beginning to the season. I absolutely loved it when Gob got all excited about finally getting to go to the cabin . However, when he got left home and he was just sitting there with his sleeping bag I felt so sorry for him and yet still cracked up at the same time. The whole cast was great as usual. Tambor was as magnificent as ever. I wish the series would get some better ratings, but I don't think it's going to happen which is entirely a shame.
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Here we go again. This season is going to be great. As soon as I saw a shot with Steve Holt I knew it was gunna be awesome.

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By retroboy7777, Sep 26, 2005 Report Abuse

Oh boy. This is going ot be great. This show is just off the hook, the directions it goes, wow.

Anyways back to the episode. This episode was classic. The same winning combination of a new running joke, of the disappointed son. And a few of the smaller but stil classic jokes, like the kid who found the severed arm and Kitty with a blue hand print on the back of her head. Whoa I almost died laughing while watching it.

Oh and I am soooo happy that Steve's back adn I just pray that he is permanant. I wouldn't mind seeing him on the intro. I also love all of the morally wrong kisses on the end of the episode.moreless

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Trivia
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- George Michael says that the stair car's mirrors will make the sunset look closer. Actually, side mirrors read that "objects in mirror are closer than they appear." So, the sunset would actually be closer but appear more distant. Edit
- Entry #42 of Oscar's blog (as seen in the scene where Michael visits him at the prison) ends in mid-sentence. The title is "I'm Not George Bluth Sr." It reads as follows:
  Today, the prison psychologist gave me a poetry assignment, she thinks I need to get my emotions out on paper and maybe. Edit
- In the scene where George Michael and Michael are driving to Reno and we get a second glimpse of Oscar's blog which explains why he couldn't stay in prison one more day, it reads: Entry #43: It's been a week since my last entry. I can explain. Last Thursday, I was counting ants in the prison yard and it was a scorcher but I remember I started killing the ants with my feet, yelling "Die you little black bastards, die!" I got stabbed - a whole lot. Edit
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- A quick glimpse at Gob's yearbook reveals that the name of Steve's mother is Eve Holt. Edit
- CNBC's Jim Cramer upgrades the Bluth company stock from "Sell" to "Don't Buy". Edit
- This appears to be the first appearance of the Bluth family flatbed truck that George Sr. uses to haul the cabin away. Edit
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- Gob: (embracing Michael) Taste the happy, Michael. Taste it. Michael: It tastes kind of like sad. Edit
- Gob: Taste the tears, Michael. Edit
- Michael: This here is way more important than me trying to find my father. Although, I was very close. I almost had Pop-pop in Reno. George Michael: Me, too. Edit
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- Mission Accomplished: The sign in the Bluth office is a reference to President Bush's famous gaffe in May 2003 when he stood in front of a "Mission Accomplished" sign and announced that it was time to end to major combat operations in Iraq. Edit
- Oscar Bluth's prisoner number (as seen in his blog: http://imoscar.com) is 24601. This is the number of the prisoner and protagonist Jean ValJean in Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables" Edit
- The news story from 1994 is referencing Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons by leaving them in her car while she purposely let it drive into a lake. Edit