2x13 Motherboy XXX - Arrested Development Episode Guide

Arrested Development

- Episode 02x13

Episode: 02x13
Title: Motherboy XXX
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: ARR-213
First Aired: Mar. 13, 2005

Season 2 » Episode #13 - Motherboy XXX

Arrested Development - 02x13 Motherboy XXX

Summary: Lucille takes George Michael to the mother-son dance instead of Buster, her typical date. Seeing this, Buster and Michael team up to save George Michael from Lucille, but things don't go as planned. Meanwhile, Tobias lands a role similar in nature to George, Sr., which turns Lindsay on.

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Operation Hot Mother (02:30)

Tobias' Research (00:50)

Daring Atempt (01:34)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

George 'Gob' Bluth II	played by Will Arnett
Byron 'Buster' Bluth	played by Tony Hale
Barry Zuckerkorn	played by Henry Winkler
Dave Attell	played by Dave Attell
Bride of Gob	played by Amy Poehler
Judge Lionel Ping	played by Michael Paul Chan
Carl Weathers	played by Carl Weathers
Announcer at Dance	played by Timothy Brennen
Sailor Boy	played by Sammy Fine

	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Motherboy XXX Buster: [holding up a trophy] And I finally feel good about myself. "Saddest". Michael: And I saw those people, that was a very competitive category.
	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Motherboy XXX Narrator: [about the Motherboy dance] Motherboy was also the name of a heavy metal band that used to rock pretty hard during the '70s. We are legally obligated to make this distinction.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CREW: At 4:11 into this episode, a crew member is visible on the left side of the frame. He is holding a camera and filming perpendicularly to the angle at which we are viewing.
FACT: When Buster is zip lining across the hotel, the end of the zip line can be seen at the bottom of the balcony, much lower than the window. After the hook is let go by Buster, it crashes through the middle of the window, even though the end of the line would be much too low to crash through the middle of the window.

TRIVIA

In this episode there are frequent references to Burger King, including Carl Weathers saying he can get promotional consideration if he sets a scene at the restaurant. This was soon after an episode of "The Apprentice" featured the teams competing to market a new burger for Burger King, which some critics panned as essentially an hour long commercial for the restaurant. The original title of this episode was "The Tendercrisp Chicken Comedy Half-Hour", in reference to a Burger King menu item. The producers of Arrested Development really did receive product placement money for the Burger King mentions in this episode, though in true irreverent Arrested Development fashion, they undermined the advertising potential of the unsubtle mentions with some rather more subtle digs at the chain and the whole idea of product placement. Two examples of this undermining are: 1) when Barry "jumps the shark," it is simultaneous to his mention of Burger King - not a flattering juxtaposition, since "jumping the shark" stands for the moment when a TV show reaches its creative nadir; and 2) whenever a poster advertising the "Angus Burger" sandwich is visible in any scene, the letter "g" in the word "Angus" is partially or completely obscured, leaving a decidedly less appetizing name for the sandwich.
At some point Tobias is seen being depressed over TV/film roles he auditioned for but didn't get. He already made vanity license plates for these roles, one of them is for Dr. House (House M.D.) where the actor David Cross in real life auditioned for.
Barry Zuckerkorn (played by Henry Winkler) says, "I missed breakfast, so I'm on my way to Burger King" and then jumps over the dead shark on the pier. This is, of course, a reference to Henry Winkler's character in "Happy Days" (1974) jumping over a shark while on water-skis, signaling the moment when that show lost its relevance. The phrase "Jumping The Shark" was made popular in the 1990's as a metaphor for when a television show reaches its creative nadir.