Queen for a Day (Arrested Development episode)
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| Arrested Development episode | |
| "Queen for a Day" | |
| Episode No | 2AJD08 |
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| Airdate | January 23, 2005 |
| Writer(s) | Brad Copeland |
| Director | Andrew Fleming |
| On the next: | "Lucille 2 reclaims some space. The Queen Mary changes hands once again. And G.O.B. gets needy". |
| Guest star(s) | Mae Whitman as Ann Veal Jeff Garlin as Mort Meyers Ed Begley Jr. as Stan Sitwell Mo Collins as Starla Henry Winkler as Barry Zuckerkorn |
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"Queen for a Day" was the 30th episode aired of TV comedy series Arrested Development.
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[edit] Synopsis
As George Michael is getting ready for school he comes across a box of love letters he'd written but never sent to Maeby. Michael comes in to offer George Michael a ride to school, causing George Michael to lay over the spread out love letters to hide them. George Michael tells Michael he's getting a ride in with the Veals and goes to hide the love letters in the attic.
Maeby meanwhile is at the studio when Mort Meyers asks he if she'd read the pile of scripts he'd sent her and that he's expecting her notes on them. Maeby uses her "Marry me" deflection to get out of this.
Back at the house Buster comes in because he's on furlough and everyone is out dancing with their girl and he's at home sitting around with Lucille. Michael mentions that Buster should go out and meet women who haven't given birth to him. Buster asks Michael to go out with him but he says he schedule is too busy, Tobias offers to be Busters wingman even if it means him having to take a chubby. G.O.B. come home because he was fired from Sitwell Enterprises because he kept pushing his Single City idea which became Swing City which became F**k City. G.O.B. wants his old job back at the Bluth company but says that he wants a company car since he had one at Sitwell. G.O.B. also mentions that George Sr. gave him a company car, Michael goes upstairs to the attic to confront his father about this. While upstairs George Sr. tells Michael how bored he is in the attic and asks for some reading material.
At the office G.O.B. tries to convince Michael to give him his old job back and says he will prove to Michael that he deserves it... and then promptly leaves. Barry is waiting for Michael in his office and tells Michael that the company stock is unfrozen. Michael asks if he could sell enough to buy a car, Barry says as long as everyone doesn't sell it would be fine because they could lose control of the company.
Back at the house in the attic Maeby is reading her scripts and gets a paper cut from one of them and calls it quits. George Sr. is only too happy to have something to read and he begins to make notes on them.
Michael goes to the car salesman to buy a modest economical car and ends up buying an expensive sports car.
Tobias brings Buster to the Queen Mary where he meets Lucille 2, she just got back from a month long stay at the Plumb Clinc, a clinic specializing in the treatment of vertigo.
Michael is called to Lucille's apartment where he learns that Buster is back with Lucille 2. Thinking that something urgent had come up Michael had asked Starla to bring some documents over to the apartment. Michael introduces Starla and Buster who have the same interests as each other (they both love their mothers). Michael discovers that Lucille has had some work done in the bathroom, a larger tub has been installed. Lucille was supposed to let some workers into Lucille 2's apartment but instead had them do work on her bathroom and had them move the wall a couple inches into Lucille 2's apartment, she paid for it with her portion of the unfrozen stock.
Michael returns home to make sure the others have no spent their unfrozen stock. He learns that G.O.B. is going to get a yacht, Lindsey promised her share to the country club and that Tobias bought the Queen Mary.
Michael is in the office asking Barry about the company stocks, he learns that they're 2000 shares short of being the majority stock holders the current majority stock holder is a company called Standpoor, which Michael assumes is Sitwell since it's the opposite. Lucille calls wondering if the Bluths had really lost contol of the company, Michael mentions Standpoor and Lucille tells him that it's Lucille 2, Standpoor because she can't stand up without falling down. Lucille says that Lucille 2 is trying to get back at her for the wall moving. Michael and Lucille decide to give Lucille 2 Buster, taking him away from Starla.
Meanwhile Tobias is in front of his newly purchased club, The Queen Mary, discussing a mistake the sign maker made, writing "Tobias is Queen Mary" instead of "Tobias's Queen Mary" when he is confronted by a group of roughnecks, really the Hot Cops hired by Lindsey to scare Tobias into selling the club. Tobias ends up recruiting the gang as dancers.
At the office Buster breaks up with Starla, once Michael learns of this and the fact that Buster didn't sell his stock as to not hurt the family Michael tells Buster to stick with Starla and says he'll take care of Lucille 2. Michael brings Lucille 2 for a ride in his new car, which retriggers her vertigo.
That night Tobias takes his gang on the street where they meet a real gang which they try to turn to good. They are subsequently beaten and one of the Hot Cops is shot.
Back at the Tobias is Queen Mary Michael apologizes to Lucille 2 and confesses that the only reason Buster had asker her out that night was because they wanted to get control of the company again. Lucille 2 mentions that she loves the Bluths and that she's had an order to buy all outstanding Bluth Company stock. Lucille 2 agrees to give Michael the stocks necessary for him to regain control of the company.
The next day G.O.B. comes into Michaels office and says that he's fixed all the company's problems. We find out that G.O.B. [bleep]'ed Lucille 2 and that she's going to make him president of the company again. As president G.O.B. mentions that he's going to need the company car.
In the "On the next..." we see Tobias selling the Queen Mary to Barry.
[edit] Episode Notes
[edit] References
- Soapdish - The night that the prison George Sr. stayed at had both a movie night and a knife fight was when the movie shown was Soapdish.
- John Grisham - George Sr. asks "Pop-Pop gets a Grisham?" When he's telling Michael how bored he is in the attic.
- Quincy Jones - Starla says that her mother and Quincy Jones are the two most important people to her.
- Los Angeles Kings - Barry mentions that his lawsuit against the LA Kings is moving forward, mentioning "Maybe I stood above the plexiglass and a puck hit me, it could happen".
- Theme from New York, New York - Tobias sings this song in the Queen Mary
- Frank Sinatra - When Tobias sings New York, New York, Lucille 2 says "Everyone thinks they're Frank Sinatra."
- Chevrolet Corvette - Michael buys a Corvette as the company car in this episode.
- Ask Jeeves - Barry gets his knowledge about private stocks and their acquisition from Ask Jeeves.
- Blue Cross - When Oscar mentions that they're going to need a new floating thermometer he also asks for Lucille's Blue Cross number implying he's done something with it that now requires medical attention.
- Rent - The Hot Cops mention wanting to do Rent when Tobias recruits them.
- Queen - Poster outside the Queen Mary.
[edit] Callbacks/Running Jokes
- Incest - When George Michael is getting ready for school him comes across a box of love letters he'd written but never sent to Maeby.
- Marry me
- Maeby uses this deflection when Mort Meyers asks Maeby if she'd gotten the scripts he'd sent her because he needs her notes on them.
- Tobias is gay
- When Buster comes to the house because he's on furlough and everyone is out dancing with their girl, Tobias mentions "My schedule is as open as my relationship with my wife. So why don't we pair up?".
- In the same scene Tobias mentions that he could be Buster's wingman and continues to say "Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up".
- Tobias brings Buster to a drag bar saying "This place is exactly what I'd hoped for."
- Tobias was dancing with "what turned out to be" the Queen Mary's owner at the club. In his defense he says "Oh, he really, really did look like a woman."
- The sign on the Queen Mary is changed to "Tobias is Queen Mary" after Tobias assumes ownership. This is a mistake as it should read "Tobias' Queen Mary", although instead of seeing this as the error, he mentions that it's not too bad, and he could just paint over "Mary". The sign would then read "Tobias is Queen"
- Bleeps
- When G.O.B. keeps pushing his single population housing development the name evolves from Single City to Swing City to [Bleep] City.
- When G.O.B. tries to convince Michael to hire him back he says "I'm an ideas man, I think I proved that with [bleep] Mountain.
- When Maeby is reading scripts in the attic she gets a paper cut from one of them and says "Ow, back to film school [bleep]."
- While describing how G.O.B. tried to fix the company's stock problem the narrator says "So G.O.B. [bleep] Lucille 2."
- Hop-ons
- When Michael confronts his father about him giving everyone a company car but him, he says that he driving a staircase and that it smells like gas and he gets hop-ons. George Sr. says "Well of course you're going to get hop-ons."
- When Michael is at the car lot the salesman said that Michael took down their banner with the stair car he replies "Yeah. Sorry. I got a hop-on. I got distracted".
- Her? - When Michael tells his father that George Michael doesn't like to be seen in the stair-car. His father replies "But he likes being seen with that girl." Michael says "It makes no sense. I know."
- Banner
- George Michael is embarssed to be seen in the staircar since it took down the homecomming banner
- Michael took down the car sales lots banner with the staircar.
- Come on - When Michael asks G.O.B. if he had sold his stock, G.O.B. replies "What? No. I'm trying to get a job from you. Mikey. Come on."
- Wink
- When Barry explains why he's wearing an eye patch he says "You can't see it. I just winked." and Michael winks back.
- When Maeby goes to thank George Michael for annotating the scripts, she thanks George Michael for his "notes" and tells him not to tell anyone, afterward she gives him a wink.
- Sitwell's Hair
- G.O.B. steals Sitwell's dress eyebrows when he gets fired.
- In the office G.O.B. is wearing Sitwell's eyebrows saying that "They make me feel dressier".
- Blue dot - The blue dot makes an appearance when George Sr. gets up from a bean bag chair wearing a bathrobe.
- Hot Cops - The hot cops are hired by Lindsey to scare Tobias into getting rid of The Queen Mary, Tobias recruits them as his personal gang of dancers.
- Vertigo - Lucille 2's vertigo is cured and subsequently retriggered in this episode.
[edit] Hidden/Background Jokes
- Freedom - The "Freedom" sign carrying guy is in the Queen Mary when Tobias and Buster go visit.
- When Tobias sings New York, New York, Lucille 2, played by Liza Minnelli, says everyone thinks they're Frank Sinatra. Liza Minnelli originally performed the song in the movie with same name, two years later however the song was performed by Frank Sinatra and it became associated with him.
- A sign outside the Queen Mary shows pictures of Queen.
[edit] Character Cameos
- Ed Begley Jr. appears as Stan Sitwell
- Jeff Garlin appears as Mort Meyers
- Mo Collins appears as Starla
- Henry Winkler appears as Barry Zuckerkorn
