Arrested Development

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When the going gets tough, the Bluths have always retreated to Mexico.

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Other season-four plotlines are simply vanishing into the background.

before conceding that having Mexico pay for it was admittedly a clever twist.

(Hey, shouldnt that be Senor Efe?)

(That is, if she can figure out what Goop is: Maybe its go-op?

she asks George Michael, who responds, To me, that makes less sense.

Maybe thats what go-op is, not everything always making sense.

(Ron Howard: It isnt.)

In trueArrested Developmentfashion, some of the writers own anxieties about joke quality have ended up on the screen.

As Buster tells Michael, You always come back to save the family, Michael.

We joke about that all the time.

Then its oh, look whos back, I thought we were supposed to go fuck ourselves.

Even as most of season fours plotlines are put to the sword, theres still more to this story.

Im Dave, from mapping!

Thats Lisa, from traditional search!

And Im Jeff, from Earth!

When are we going to get the Lucille equivalent toSterlings Gold?

Buster telling Michael that psych panels are so easy to beat sure does explain a lot, doesnt it?