The Best Episodes Written By Richard Day

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   8.7/10(25 votes)

   #1 - Development Arrested

   S3:E132/10/2006

   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.

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   8.4/10(23 votes)

   #2 - Mr. F

   S3:E511/7/2005

   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.

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   8.3/10(23 votes)

   #3 - S.O.B.s

   S3:E91/2/2006

   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".

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   8.1/10(24 votes)

   #4 - For British Eyes Only

   S3:E29/26/2005

   Investigating his father's claim that a British group set him up, Michael goes to "Wee Britain" and is smitten with a beautiful woman named Rita. Lindsay attempts to seduce the new family attorney, and Gob goes to extremes to avoid his newly discovered son.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - The Thanksgiving Show

   S4:E911/23/1999

   A newly rich Paul thinks Caitlin is hitting on him. The mayor wants a senator's endorsement and invites him, along with his staff, to Gracie Mansion for Thanksgiving. The senator thinks that Mike and Caitlin are a couple so they must share a room. Stuart and Deidre are back together.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - The Grant

   S5:E29/24/1996

   Jamie tries to stay awake, avoid coffee and continue to manage Brockwell's campaign. Meanwhile, while Paul is trying to figure out how to use a sizeable grant that has come his way, his Uncle Phil asks Paul and Ira to visit him in Brooklyn.

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   #7 - Outbreak

   S5:E711/19/1996

   The Buchmans decide the time and place of their grand announcement, but the leaks start early during Thanksgiving week.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Penis

   S5:E142/11/1997

   The Buchmans promise to name their baby, if it's a boy, after Paul's ailing Uncle Phil, then find out his real name. Meanwhile, Paul is suddenly sure of the baby's sex.

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   7.3/10(10 votes)

   #9 - Chain Migration

   S5:E113/15/2019

   As George Sr. attempts to win back Lucille, Michael assembles a mold of their scheme. Meanwhile, Buster gets caught up in Tobias and Gob's business.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Career Opportunities

    S2:E811/6/1991

    Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."

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    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #11 - Self-Deportation

    S5:E25/29/2018

    For varying reasons, most of the Bluths (even Steve Holt) feel compelled to run off to Mexico. Michael tries to convince Buster to go to the police.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Therapy

    S5:E310/15/1996

    Months after setting it up, Paul and Jamie decide to keep their appointment with the therapist Fran referred them to, but doing so delays Paul's shoot of his parents' reminiscences, with some interesting consequences.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Gym

    S5:E912/17/1996

    Paul so likes playing the mystery man at a local gym that he talks Jamie out of working there, whereupon she hands over her free pass to a homeless acquaintance from the neighborhood.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Handyman

    S5:E121/21/1997

    The perils of engaging Paul and Jamie's handyman are visited upon Lisa, whose fiance is more than willing to finance Paul's over-budget documentary project.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - On the Road

    S5:E173/18/1997

    To escape Jamie's baby shower, Paul hits the road with Ira and Marvin in the latter's van, but his urge to tell insensitive jokes quickly leads to trouble.

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    #16 - The Cockatoo

    S5:E184/1/1997

    Paul talks an unwilling Jamie into quitting her job at the mayoral campaign, but he is less successful in dealing with an exotic bird that flies into their lives.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Feud

    S5:E225/13/1997

    Theresa and Sylvia vie for the new crib honors, with predictable consequences. On another front, Paul wins big at poker but is paid off by Marvin in the form of specially-priced household chores.

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    #18 - The Touching Game

    S5:E194/15/1997

    A very pregnant Jamie insists on helping out at David (Paul's cousin) and Jared's new coffee shop, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Ira and Paul help a pregnant woman on a bus.

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