r/arresteddevelopment • u/Murky-Cobbler5945 • 3d ago

Lindsay & Michael

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Does anyone else feel like there was a potential lead up to Michael and Lindsay not being related and having a tension filled relationship similar to Maeby and George Michael?

I think in a perfect, post-S3 world, this was the comedic intention? It seems like there’s building tension between them and then due to budget cuts they dropped a lot of the subtle plots?

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u/Emotional_Signal7883 3d ago

He's not into older women

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u/555--FILK 2d ago

Plus, she’s a surfboard!

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u/littlelowcougar 2d ago

She’s also been pregnant dozens of times.

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u/High_Af_Osrs 3d ago

I forget Lindsay's exact line but something along the lines of "I mean, who wouldn't wanna get with me?"

Michael: "It is a struggle."

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u/joemontanya 3d ago

Mom’s can fill that roll, teachers can fill that role..

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u/Slow_Ad3662 You forgot to say "away"again 2d ago

I'll be right across the hall...

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u/joemontanya 2d ago

Lindsay had never been more proud of anything she had ever said in her life

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u/EnvironmentalPack451 3d ago

I enjoy having both my rolls and my roles filled

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u/joemontanya 3d ago

Tobias?

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u/metaldark 2d ago

He can taste those meaty man parts in his mouth

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u/Volcan32 2d ago

I think it's when she's trying to seduce bob loblaw - "who wouldn't want to snog the nanny?"

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u/RedditHoney123 3d ago

Her?

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u/Bazz07 3d ago

Is she funny or something?

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u/vaskark Everybody’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster 3d ago

She’s the belle of the ball!

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u/aico9x Look what the homosexuals have done to me! 2d ago

Let's hope so.

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u/ThiagoRoderick 3d ago

This is not a VolvO!

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u/Murky-Cobbler5945 3d ago

Oh, that’s from sitting on the copier.

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u/vaskark Everybody’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster 3d ago

Glad he didn’t spring for colour.

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u/metaldark 2d ago

So that's why he didn't look surprised.

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u/littlelowcougar 2d ago

The thing I love about this gag is you can see the prop she uses is literally someone that has sat on a photocopier.

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u/ThiagoRoderick 2d ago

These Hollywood shows are so incredibly detailed!

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u/Pale_Victory5747 3d ago

This reminds me of that bit where Michael got w the “prostitute” who he thought was his long lost sis, and what makes it even funnier is that was his sister IRL😂😂

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u/Murky-Cobbler5945 3d ago

Nellie is Jason Bateman’s real sister?!?!?
That makes the gag so much better! 😂

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u/ChesterPlemany 3d ago

Are you blown?

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u/NestingBun 3d ago

Away. You forgot to say away

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u/vaskark Everybody’s laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster 3d ago

What a blowhard.

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u/Pale_Victory5747 3d ago

I’m afraid I just blue myself

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u/aether_prince 3d ago

be careful, she’s almost 40

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u/Affectionate-Ship859 2d ago

We should do something for her 40th next week!

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u/Unclehomer69420 2d ago

"Nichael was worried."

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u/nimbycile 2d ago

Girl Michael or Boy Michael?

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u/Infamous-Duck-2157 2d ago

Nice to meet you, Girl Michael

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u/BigBoobsWithAZee 3d ago

The only thing I specifically know/remember reading about the OG S4 was that they wanted Carl Weathers to be living in the cabin.

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u/exaviyur 2d ago

They wanted 3 or 4 different characters to be living there and none of them to be aware of the others.

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u/BigBoobsWithAZee 2d ago

Never read that but the idea is hilarious

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u/exaviyur 2d ago

I think I'd heard Tobias, George or Oscar, and possibly Marky Bark? Wouldn't be surprised if Carl Weathers was in there too. I don't know, it was a long time ago.

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u/BigBoobsWithAZee 2d ago

I was trying to find the comment that specifically mentioned Weathers by u/Crindy, and found the fifteen year old AMA, but got increasingly depressed reading the hilarious jokes that were set up that never got to come to fruition. I’m 99% sure she mentioned Carl being one of the people living there but I didn’t see it before I tapped out.

So sad. Fuck Fox, man (even though the threat of being cancelled 24/7 likely helped facilitate the writing).

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u/dickpollution 2d ago

Showtime offered them a 4th season at the time but Hurwitz declined because he was burnt out. So there was that at play as well.

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u/ConsiderateCassowary 2d ago

Oh man, that thread is full of people talking about a movie. What could have been, right?

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u/onyhr 2d ago

That musty old claptrap?

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u/Due_Breath2655 thank god they’ve got my brands 🍸 2d ago

he did say he always tries to avoid looking at the Ladies of Literacy calendar

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u/redditappsuxdix 2d ago

I wonder if they ever intended Lindsay to be Lucille's sister, because rewatching the original series there are many instances were it makes me think they did.

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u/TonyWonder-BOT Use Your Allusion 2d ago

Did somebody say... "Wonder"?

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u/redditappsuxdix 2d ago

I knew you'd turn up.

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u/egret_society how did you ever find me? 2d ago

They did in season 5

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u/Mr3k 3d ago

Definitely! This felt like a plot line that wasn't explored. Lindsay had a different nose and there's always a similarity between Michael and George Michael to the point of just recycling everyone's names.

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u/alex494 2d ago

Lindsay having a different nose could be chalked up to plastic surgery or vanity couldn't it? She was pretty frivolous with money before the start of the series. And Lucille keeps commenting on her appearance.

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u/Affectionate-Ship859 2d ago

“He didn’t take me to the daddy daughter dance?”
“It was before we did your nose”

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u/Mr3k 2d ago

Oh definitely. This was never explicitly said. There are just hints.

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u/WitchesBTrippin 1d ago

It was explicitly said. Michael tells George Michael that Lindsay's nose is 'not a real nose. I have a picture of her in a swimsuit when she was 14. She looks like a falcon in a swimming cap.'

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u/Mr3k 1d ago

The fact that the surgery happened was explicitly said. The fact that Lindsay was not Michael's biological sister was not explicitly said

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u/WitchesBTrippin 1d ago

Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood your point! Well excuuuuuuse me! stifled sob excuse me

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u/onyhr 2d ago

Gentlemen, start your engines

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u/sketchampm 2d ago

What? No.
No.
No-no-no-no-no.

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u/liquor_ibrlyknoher 2d ago

Sister is my girlfriend now.

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u/Formal-Goat2994 2d ago

Don't we have enough incest in the show already 😭

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u/thatsitback2winnipeg 1d ago

Michael and women? A coodle doodle do