Wednesday, July 16, 2008

“Arrested Development” – Summer DVD Review – “Visiting Ours”

Arrested Development
“Visiting Ours”

Season 1 DVD

Alicia - TwoCents Reviewer
Alicia@thetwocentscorp.com

Sometimes I believe that prison is better than my life. George Sr. plays the softball game of his life, as Michael anxiously tries to coax out of his father information that would help get him out of jail. But, to no luck, George is having too much fun playing! Michael returns to the office and is greeted by Kitty (played by the amazing Judy Greer), his neurotic secretary. We learn she was first George’s secretary who was fiercely loyal to him in everyway.

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  1. Arrested Development
    “Visiting Ours”

    Season 1 DVD

    Alicia - TwoCents Reviewer
    Alicia@thetwocentscorp.com

    Sometimes I believe that prison is better than my life. George Sr. plays the softball game of his life, as Michael anxiously tries to coax out of his father information that would help get him out of jail. But, to no luck, George is having too much fun playing! Michael returns to the office and is greeted by Kitty (played by the amazing Judy Greer), his neurotic secretary. We learn she was first George’s secretary who was fiercely loyal to him in everyway.

    Michael finds Gob trying to set up an office down the hall in order to write a strongly worded letter to the Warden, of the Prison he recently tried to escape from. In the newspapers, the Warden denied Gob ever really escaped. Gob is also greeted by Kitty who according to the dumb look on her face has an obvious crush on him. Michael sees this and uses it to his advantage. He asks Gob to talk to Kitty to see what she knows (about George’s missing paperwork) and in exchange Michael will set him up with the office of his dreams.

    Back at the model home, Lindsay and Tobias fight about their poor excuse of a marriage. They decide to go see a marriage counselor. They tell their daughter Maeby they’re going to get ice cream. She doesn’t believe them and because she’s Maeby decides that its her and George-Michael’s job to follow them. They jump into the stair-car. FLASHBACK! The stair-car was apart of the airplane George Sr. owned while still in command. When he was taken into custody, the family only retained the right to the stair-car. FLASHIN! To impress Maeby, G-M tells her he’s visited their grandfather in prison lots of times. Maeby likes this notion. So in order to make this a real thing, G-M asks his father if he can really go and see George Sr. The very place Michael was setting out to avoid.

    At the Bluth office, Gob was trying to make process with Kitty. He fake acts like he likes her as she tries to make-out with him the storage room. But the only way he can go through with it is if she takes off her glasses and lets down her hair. But, when she does, she ends up looking like a cross-eyed mug shot of Gary Busey!

    At the marriage counselor, Lindsay and Tobias are having a hard time. The marriage counselor suggests the two role-play as each other. Tobias jumps up and down like a little girl!

    George is starting to see that prison might not be as great as he once thought it was when an inmate beats a guard with a bat from the softball game. Inside, he sits nervous in the waiting room as Michael and G-M enter. Acting like a mental patient George loses it with his grandson. In a hilarious sequence, George asks for G-M’s hair, thinking it as a possible wig for his escape.

    Michael places his son back in the stair-car and tells him to watch the rest of the softball game. But, as G-M looks on, he sees a car labeled “Coroner” place a body bag inside. Moments later he hears shots being fired and inmates using the stair-car to jump to freedom. Inside, George breaks down and tells his son what he really needs is a little action inside the joint. This disturbs Michael, but when Jeffery Tambor uses the words, “Daddy horny Michael,” I die from laughter from the brilliance that was this show.

    At Lucille’s apartment, Michael asks his mother with trepidation to visit her husband an in “intimate way.” She agrees to go if Michael will update her country club membership. Ahh, true love.

    At the marriage counselor’s, Tobias role-plays Lindsay. He tells them he has “women’s needs and urges.” Man, I love David Cross. Lindsay is slightly put-off by this because Tobias seems a little too good in this role. She stops to sit down when the therapist takes her place and he and Tobias begin to act like the married couple. This is a fantastic scene that only David Cross and his comedic TV partner of forever Bob Odenkirk could do.

    Michael arrives home to the model home to find Gob having a drink or two. Gob tells Michael bluntly that he has sex with Kitty, even though this is NOT what Michael had asked. Gob didn’t realize this.

    Maeby and G-M pretend to be strong to one another about their recent horrors of prison and the horrors of losing your parents to divorce. Maeby gives her cousin a hug, which turns into a long one when G-M doesn’t want to let go. Up until what we learn in the series finale, this is a storyline I always found funny, but odd.

    Michael drives his mother to the prison where she is to sleep with George. Michael greets his father to tell him Lucile is waiting for him in the conjugal trailer, but when he opens the trailer to find his wife, it’s clear she wasn’t the one he wanted. It seems that he and Kitty were slightly more connected than Michael realized. They had been carrying on an affair for years. George is in a dilemma, as he doesn’t know whom to “see” first. So he asks Michael to keep Kitty in the trailer for the time being, which causes him to call Gob for another mission. Michael calls Gob who is already at the prison ready to deliver his strongly worded letter to the Warden. Gob enters Kitty’s trailer to distract her, but loses his nerve and exits out the window to find the Warden waiting. The Warden is not so happy by the letter and forces Gob against the trailer his parents are getting “intimate in.”

    I think this is the first and last time I’ll ever say this, but, poor Gob, he’s the real victim in this episode.

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