Arrested Development

2003 • Netflix

4.7

699 reviews

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Seasons 1-3 episodes (53)

1 Season 1, Episode 1 Pilot

11/1/99

Season-only

Moments after Michael Bluth decides he's leaving the family business because he was passed over for a promotion, his father is arrested for shady bookkeeping.

2 Season 1, Episode 2 Top Banana

11/8/99

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Michael realizes that running the company isn't going to be as easy as he thought, especially since his father seems to be pulling some strings from inside the joint.

3 Season 1, Episode 3 Bringing Up Buster

11/15/99

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Buster moves in with Michael after their mother kicks him out of her penthouse and a distraught George-Michael realizes he has to kiss a boy in the school play.

4 Season 1, Episode 4 Key Decisions

11/22/99

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Jealous when his girlfriend is nominated for a "daytime Desi", Gob decides to stage a publicity stunt for his magic act by breaking out of the same prison where George Sr. is being held.

5 Season 1, Episode 5 Visiting Ours

12/6/99

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Sex is in the air as Gob seduces his father's former secretary, Lindsay and Tobias go see a marriage counselor, and George Sr. and Lucille have a bizarre conjugal visit.

6 Season 1, Episode 6 Charity Drive

11/29/99

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Lucille's scheme to upstage her rival, Lucille Austero, at a bachelorette auction backfires when Gob mistakenly bids $10,000 on the wrong Lucille.

7 Season 1, Episode 7 My Mother, The Car

12/20/99

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If Lindsay is disappointed that none of the inmates yell out obscene catcalls when she visits her father, Lucille is outraged when none of her children show up at her surprise birthday party.

8 Season 1, Episode 8 In God We Trust

12/13/99

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The family attorney announces that if $20,000 in bail money is raised, George Sr. can be released from prison in time for the Christmas "Living Classics Pageant."

9 Season 1, Episode 9 Storming The Castle

1/3/00

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Michael is so smitten with Gob's girlfriend that he decides to let her know that Gob has been cheating on her, and Lucille tries to break up Buster and Lucille Austero.

10 Season 1, Episode 10 Pier Pressure

1/10/00

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When Buster asks George-Michael to score him some marijuana, Michael asks some male "cop" strippers to stage a phony bust to help scare his son straight.

11 Season 1, Episode 11 Public Relations

1/24/00

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Convinced that the family's image is hurting his son's future, Michael hires an attractive publicist who proceeds to write a scathing article after Michael rebuffs her advances.

12 Season 1, Episode 12 Marta Complex

2/7/00

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Despite his crush on Marta, Michael agrees to help Gob figure out if she has a new lover while George-Michael tries to figure out his feelings for his cousin Maeby.

13 Season 1, Episode 13 Beef Consomme

2/14/00

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As Tobias struggles to overcome his nude phobia so he can accept the movie role of "Frightened Inmate #2," Michael, Buster and Gob fight over who gets to go out with Marta.

14 Season 1, Episode 14 Shock And Aww

3/6/00

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Things get awkward after Michael dates George-Michael's ethics teacher then learns his son has a crush on her. George Sr. receives a visit from Cindi, a fan of his "Caged Wisdom" tapes.

15 Season 1, Episode 15 Staff Infection

3/13/00

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After discovering that most of the family picks up weekly paychecks from Bluth Company even though they don't have jobs, Michael tries to put them all to work.

16 Season 1, Episode 16 Missing Kitty

3/27/00

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Michael finally stands up to George Sr. and fires his old secretary, and Gob performs the ultimate magic trick when he makes the family yacht disappear.

17 Season 1, Episode 17 Altar Egos

3/16/00

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While Michael experiences his first one-night stand with a blind woman named Maggie, George Sr. learns that Cindi is actually an undercover agent who has fallen in love with him.

18 Season 1, Episode 18 Justice Is Blind

3/20/00

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Michael attempts to do the right thing and end his relationship with Maggie, the prosecutor on George Sr.'s case, but sex keeps getting in the way.

19 Season 1, Episode 19 Best Man For The Gob

4/3/00

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Gob tries to scare a company accountant who notices a discrepancy in the company's bank account and threatens to reveal the truth if asked to testify in court.

20 Season 1, Episode 20 Whistler's Mother

4/10/00

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When the family begins fighting over company funds that have recently become available, Michael decides it would be best to invest the money in land their Uncle Oscar is selling.

21 Season 1, Episode 21 Not Without My Daughter

4/24/00

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While Michael is questioned by the police about Kitty's disappearance, Gob takes George-Michael shoplifting at the department store where Lindsey just got a job.

22 Season 1, Episode 22 Let Them Eat Cake

6/5/00

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After learning that his father is in prison for doing business with the old Iraqi government, Michael decides to wash his hands of the whole family and leave town for good.

23 Season 2, Episode 1 The One Where Michael Leaves

11/6/00

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After learning that his father had dealings with Saddam Hussein, Michael quits the company and heads for Phoenix even as his father breaks out of prison and heads for Mexico.

24 Season 2, Episode 2 The One Where They Build A House

11/13/00

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As Lucille begins an affair with George Sr.'s twin brother, Oscar, the Mexican police arrest George Sr. after they mistake him for Oscar, who's wanted on marijuana charges.

25 Season 2, Episode 3 ¡Amigos!

11/20/00

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When George Sr.'s car is found in Mexico, Michael decides to go search for his father, and Buster hides in the car trunk so he can escape the country and the Army.

26 Season 2, Episode 4 Good Grief

12/4/00

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After hearing that his grandfather has died in Mexico, a distraught George-Michael goes off to be alone, only to discover his grandfather hiding out in a hole at the model home construction site.

27 Season 2, Episode 5 Sad Sack

12/11/00

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While the government wants to cut a deal with Michael over the whereabouts of his father, George Sr. wants Michael to find out if Lucille is really in love with Oscar.

28 Season 2, Episode 6 Afternoon Delight

12/18/00

Season-only

At the Bluth Company Christmas party, Gob gets upset and fires all the employees, forcing Michael to invite them all to a second party at the banana stand so he can rehire them.

29 Season 2, Episode 7 Switch Hitter

1/15/01

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Michael is convinced the company team will win an upcoming softball game against a business rival, even though the rival company just hired the Bluth Company's best player - Gob.

30 Season 2, Episode 8 Queen For A Day

1/22/01

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When the company's stock is unfrozen, the family's desire to buy themselves expensive gifts ends with them losing majority control of the company to Lucille 2.

31 Season 2, Episode 9 Burning Love

1/29/01

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As George Sr. continues to hide out in the upstairs attic, the family prepares for an upcoming charity auction, and George-Michael gets ready to go to a Christian music bonfire.

32 Season 2, Episode 10 Ready, Aim, Marry Me!

2/12/01

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A free romantic getaway turns to disaster when Michael sets Lindsay up on the date, unaware that Tobias, Lucille 2 and Stan Sitwell will also be at the same hotel at the same time.

33 Season 2, Episode 11 Out On A Limb

3/5/01

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Michael is determined to find out if he is the father of Maggie's baby after he learns that she is 8½ months pregnant and that's exactly how long it's been since they last saw each other.

34 Season 2, Episode 12 Hand To God

3/5/01

Season-only

As Maeby passes herself off as a studio executive overseeing production on The Old Man and the Sea, Buster ends up with a hook after a seal wearing a bow tie bites off his left hand.

35 Season 2, Episode 13 Motherboy XXX

3/12/01

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Michael tries to track down the seal that bit off Buster's hand, and also tries to save his son after his mother takes George-Michael to the Motherboy dinner dance.

36 Season 2, Episode 14 Immaculate Election

3/19/01

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While George Sr. decides to become a Christian, Michael tries to help George-Michael with his campaign for student body president by having Gob produce his campaign video.

37 Season 2, Episode 15 Sword Of Destiny

3/26/01

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George Sr.'s plan to reestablish contact with his employees at the company backfires when an angry employee turns the tape over to the FBI, who in turn believes the tape was made in Iraq.

38 Season 2, Episode 16 Meat The Veals

4/2/01

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Michael decides that the best way to stop George-Michael from getting pre-engaged to his girlfriend is to have the girlfriend's parents meet the Bluth family.

39 Season 2, Episode 17 Spring Breakout

4/9/01

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While Michael schemes to get his mother into an alcohol rehab center, Kitty schemes to get a Bluth son of her own by kidnapping George Sr. and demanding some of his sperm.

40 Season 2, Episode 18 The Righteous Brothers

4/16/01

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A mix-up leads to Michael's arrest while a trick George Sr. plays on Oscar ends up with George Sr. once again free - and Oscar mistakenly taken into custody.

41 Season 3, Episode 1 The Cabin Show

9/18/01

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When Michael realizes that Oscar, not George Sr., is serving time in prison, he sets off to find his father while also trying to find time to reconnect with George-Michael.

42 Season 3, Episode 2 For British Eyes Only

9/25/01

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Michael falls for a British woman while investigating an outrageous claim by George, Sr. in which he says a British construction firm tricked him into doing business with the Iraqis.

43 Season 3, Episode 3 Forget-Me-Now

10/2/01

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The family's new attorney works on George Sr.'s defense even as George Sr. plans his escape and Michael tries to destroy all evidence that his family exists.

44 Season 3, Episode 4 Notapusy

11/6/01

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Michael volunteers to participate in the father-son triathlon with Gob's son, while George Sr. mistakenly delivers a "Scared Straight" lecture to a gathering of gay men.

45 Season 3, Episode 5 Mr. F

11/6/01

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Gob tries to trick the company's Japanese investors when they come to visit, but Tobias ruins everything after he mistakes a CIA agent for a talent agent from CAA.

46 Season 3, Episode 6 The Ocean Walker

12/4/01

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When Michael decides to marry his new British girlfriend, Rita, his family scoffs at the idea - until they find out she's worth millions of dollars.

47 Season 3, Episode 7 Prison Break-In

12/11/01

Season-only

Michael is worried when he finds out that the prison warden is dating his mother and that the Bluth Foundation dinner is being held in the prison's new wing.

48 Season 3, Episode 8 Making A Stand

12/18/01

Season-only

Tired that his father has once again found a way to pit Gob and him against each other, Michael decides to teach his father a lesson.

49 Season 3, Episode 9 S.O.B.s

1/1/02

Season-only

In order to get enough money to hire a new family lawyer, everyone has to pitch in and prepare for the upcoming company fundraiser, aptly named "Save Our Bluths."

50 Season 3, Episode 10 Fakin' It!

2/9/02

Season-only

Although George Sr. finally gets a new lawyer, Michael worries when he hears news of a surprise witness and Buster pretends he's in a coma so he doesn't have to testify.

51 Season 3, Episode 11 Family Ties

2/9/02

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Michael hires a woman who turns out to be his long-lost sister, Nellie, and who may be just what the company needs.

52 Season 3, Episode 12 Exit Strategy

2/9/02

Season-only

George-Michael's surprise birthday party for Maeby gets her in big trouble, and Michael and Buster make a startling discovery when they go to Iraq to rescue Gob.

53 Season 3, Episode 13 Development Arrested

2/9/02

Season-only

Michael is relieved to have all the charges against his father dropped and is also shocked to learn who holds the real power in his dysfunctional family.

About this show

In this critically acclaimed series, Michael Bluth is forced to help his wildly eccentric family pick up the pieces after its wealthy patriarch is arrested and its assets frozen.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

699 reviews

A Google user

September 5, 2016

Better than Seinfeld, Friends, Modern Family & The Office combined. I wish all who love this show now had actually watched it when it initially aired on Fox: maybe we'd have more than four seasons. The fourth season would most certainly have been better. I'm still quite grateful that #4 was finally produced, I just can't help but wonder how amazing it could have been had the cast & crew been able to nurture and maintain their connections instead of having to go their own ways for a few. Ça va.

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robert

August 30, 2015

Arrested Development is my favorite show. Ever. After watching it over 6 times I can confidently say that this is the best TV comedy ever. You may disagree with me, but comedy fans will LOVE this show. It is truly amazing. The Netflix Season 4 was not as good as the first 3 seasons. Seasons 1 and 2 are where the show is really at its highest point.

GGmoney

June 7, 2019

"There is ALWAYS money in the banana stand..." This show is pure joy and really makes you laugh out loud! The jokes are so quotable and is great if your a fan of Parks and Rec and/or The Office, both of which I love as much as this.

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