9.1/103,139 votesLoading...#1 - Development Arrested
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2006
After returning home from Iraq, George Sr. is finally cleared of all charges, and Michael is relieved to be the head of a successful company for a change. The real brains behind the madness is revealed, and just as the family begins to celebrate their victory, a whole new set of problems emerge.
Director: John Fortenberry
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Richard Day, Chuck Tatham
9.0/103,748 votesLoading...#2 - Pier Pressure
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2004
Buster realizes that medical marijuana will help cure Lucille 2's vertigo, and pays George Michael to get it for him from Gob. Lindsay sends Maeby to spend a day with Lucille to punish her for bad grades. Michael thinks George Michael is on drugs and attempts to teach him a lesson.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
9.0/103,004 votesLoading...#3 - Good Grief
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2004
Lucille hires a bounty hunter, Ice, to find George Sr., who may be closer than everyone thinks. Gob tries to pull off an elaborate illusion, Maeby tries to set Lindsay up with Ice, and Michael tries to mend George Michael's broken relationship.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
9.0/103,093 votesLoading...#4 - Afternoon Delight
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/2004
Gob stages mass firings after being inadvertently roasted at the Bluth Company Christmas party. Michael is forced to rebuild the Banana Stand, and Buster plays hooky from the Army at an arcade game.
Director: Jason Bateman
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Abraham Higginbotham
9.0/102,867 votesLoading...#5 - Meat the Veals
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/3/2005
George Sr. tries to find a way to attend an anniversary dinner for Lucille while Michael deliberately offends Ann's devout Christian parents. Tobias goes overboard performing his "Mrs. Featherbottom" persona.
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Barbara Feldman
8.9/102,516 votesLoading...#6 - The Righteous Brothers
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/2005
Gob hides George Sr. while the model home's plumbing is checked; George Michael helps Ann protest Maeby's new movie; Tobias takes a liking to Kitty after Michael asks him to keep an eye on her.
Director: Chuck Martin
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
8.8/102,833 votesLoading...#7 - Amigos
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2004
Michael is increasingly frustrated over being abandoned by the family, and when the staircar is found in Mexico, Michael vows to find his father and give him a piece of his mind. Also, Buster spends time with Lupe's family and thinks he's in Mexico.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Brad Copeland
8.8/102,388 votesLoading...#8 - Exit Strategy
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/2006
Gob goes to Iraq to perform his Christian magic act on the USO tour and ends up incarcerated. Michael learns George, Sr. sent Gob to Iraq to burn down the model home he built there, so Michael and Buster fly to Iraq to spring their brother from prison.
Director: Lev L. Spiro
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely, Chuck Tatham, Dean Lorey
8.7/102,922 votesLoading...#9 - Justice Is Blind
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/2004
Gob steals a file on the government's case against the Bluth Company that Maggie had given to Michael. Tobias is sent to Maggie's house to get evidence, George Michael tries to prove Maeby's fraud, and Lindsay fights to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse lawn.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Abraham Higginbotham
8.7/102,717 votesLoading...#10 - The One Where Michael Leaves
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2004
Michael and George Michael leave for Phoenix but go back to ensure the family misses them. Lindsay wants to have an open marriage, which causes Tobias to try to join the Blue Man Group under the impression that they are a support group for depressed men. Lucille signs Buster up for the Army after being goaded by a Michael Moore look-alike. Gob becomes president of the Bluth Company.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
8.7/102,500 votesLoading...#11 - Hand to God
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/6/2005
Michael tries to find out who's the father of Maggie's baby, or if it's just another of her lies; Gob tries to find out whether he was responsible for Buster's accident.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
8.7/102,568 votesLoading...#12 - Mr. F
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2005
Michael must deal with a huge mole problem in order to salvage a major real estate deal with Japanese investors. In an effort to help Michael, Gob and Buster team up with George Sr.'s surrogate, Larry, to devise a plan and save the deal, but their plan falls apart in a big way. Meanwhile, Tobias mistakes a CIA agent for a CAA agent and inadvertently betrays the family, and Michael makes Rita a proposal she can't refuse. Frankie Muniz makes a cameo as himself.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely, Richard Day
8.7/102,466 votesLoading...#13 - Making a Stand
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/2005
Michael is tired of his father always having Gob compete with him, so Michael gets Gob his own banana stand franchise, only to find that Gob has set it up 20 feet from the old one. After the two compete, they decide to teach their father an elaborate lesson, and Buster refuses to use his handicap to scare kids. Meanwhile, Maeby uses Lucille's surgery in a horror film.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Chuck Tatham
8.6/102,737 votesLoading...#14 - Let 'Em Eat Cake
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/6/2004
In the first season finale, George Sr. has a heart attack, and Maeby is jealous when George Michael likes another girl. Meanwhile, Lindsay decides to leave Tobias until a book he wrote a long time ago becomes a gay bestseller, and Buster and Annyong compete over women.
Director: Paul Feig
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
8.6/102,516 votesLoading...#15 - Motherboy XXX
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/2005
Lucille abducts George Michael for a mother-son dance, Buster adjusts to having a hook for a hand and Gob reunites with his estranged wife. Also, Tobias stars as George Sr. in a biopic about the Bluth family, which causes Lindsay to become more attracted to him.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
8.6/102,477 votesLoading...#16 - Sword of Destiny
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/27/2005
Gob and Buster team up for some magic tricks with the help of Buster's fake hand, but when Tony Wonder, a rival magician, starts to mentor them, somebody gets the finger. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to delegate some work when he's hospitalized and Lindsay teaches George Michael how to drive using the staircar.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Brad Copeland
8.6/102,524 votesLoading...#17 - S.O.B.s
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/2006
George Sr. suggests a last-ditch effort to save the family by holding a fund raiser to raise money to pay their legal expenses. Michael suggests to Lindsay that she take over the house work, and he sends George-Michael to an expensive boarding school. Meanwhile, Maeby has trouble with a snowboarding film and Tobias tries to be a "discipline daddy".
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely, Richard Day
8.6/102,335 votesLoading...#18 - Family Ties
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2006
In an effort to get to the bottom of things, Michael tracks Nellie down and hires her as a consultant for the Bluth Co. Unfortunately, Michael discovers Nellie's hands-on approach is more than he bargained for.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Ron Weiner
8.5/102,937 votesLoading...#19 - Shock and Aww
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/7/2004
Michael falls for his George Michael's ethics teacher, whom his son also has a crush on. Meanwhile, Lucille adopts a 14-year old Korean boy, and George Sr.'s "Caged Wisdom" tapes have given him a new admirer.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely
8.5/102,778 votesLoading...#20 - Altar Egos
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2004
Michael attempts to have a one-night stand with an attorney whom he doesn't know is not only blind, but the prosecutor who is trying to put his father in jail. Also, Gob gets married on a dare, Maeby pretends to be a girl with a made up disease, and George Sr.'s admirer turns out to be an undercover SEC agent who has truly fallen for him.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
8.5/102,669 votesLoading...#21 - Not Without My Daughter
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/25/2004
Michael takes Maeby to work with him on Take Your Daughter to Work Day. After being slighted by Michael, Tobias, George-Michael and Gob all go to the mall to prove that they are just manly. Oscar takes Lucille and Buster to Annyong's soccer game.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
8.5/102,643 votesLoading...#22 - The One Where They Build a House
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2004
Michael is driven crazy by Gob when he impresses the board as the new company figurehead due to Michael's legal troubles. Meanwhile, George Sr. is arrested in Mexico for a crime Oscar committed, and Buster witnesses something that utterly shocks him.
Director: Patty Jenkins
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
8.5/102,516 votesLoading...#23 - Sad Sack
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2004
George Sr. fears he's losing Lucille to Oscar. Gob motivates Buster for the Army while Lindsay spends more time with Maeby to get closer to Steve Holt and Tobias starts working out.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Barbara Feldman
8.5/102,430 votesLoading...#24 - The Immaculate Election
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/20/2005
George Michael runs for student body president, which Gob manages to ruin. Buster has an affair with Lupe, who is being sought after by Lindsay and Tobias attempts to move out of the model home, then develops a new persona when he regrets his decision.
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Abraham Higginbotham, Barbara Adler
8.5/102,361 votesLoading...#25 - Spring Breakout
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/10/2005
Gob confronts the editor of the videos that showcased his magic mistakes. Michael tricks Lucille in to rehab, and then attempts to get her out after George Sr. is kidnapped.
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz, Barbara Feldman, Abraham Higginbotham
The Best Episodes of Arrested Development
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The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Genre:Comedy
Best Episodes Summary
"Development Arrested" is the best rated episode of "Arrested Development". It scored 9.1/10 based on 3139 votes. Directed by John Fortenberry and written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Richard Day, Chuck Tatham, it aired on 2/10/2006. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pier Pressure".