Arrested Development obscure jokes:
- In the episode Public Relations, George Michael is excited that he gave a ‘bum’ a balloon and later in the episode on a newspaper in small print to the side it says “bum gets balloon”. [garnetsguardian]
- Gob’s inability to ever work the office phone [summer51]
- Buster gets his hand eaten by a “loose seal”, which sounds similar to “Lucille.” [brynworld]
- “I never thought I’d miss a hand so much.”[get-organezized]
- Barry jumping the shark. [itfeelsfeynman]
- When Rita is sitting on the park bench that says “Wee Britain” she conveniently covers up the “Rit” Which makes the sign read “Wee Brain.” [singleactionserendipity, alexjames-cheesosexual]
- Dog above a red house (just like Snoopy) when George Michael is doing his Charlie Brown walk. [carlosadama]
- The show first introduces J Walter Weatherman after George Sr. takes all the kids out to pick up some milk because no one left a note. Later, on the fridge, there’s a note from George Michael about finishing the milk. [sixgummybearsandsomescotch]
- The hand chair Buster sits on at Lupe’s house.[geniusandthethieves]
- Rita’s backpack has a seal with a yellow bow tie. [psyourtoastisburning]
- When Michael tells Gob to “Get rid of the seaward” and Lucille misunderstands it as “Get rid of the C-word” and she says “I’ll leave when I’m good and ready.”[woodyallenistoocalm]
- Barry gets replaced by Bob Loblaw, which is Scott Baio replacing Henry Winkler (Chachi replacing Fonzie) and Bob Loblaw aying it wasn’t the first time he had come in to replace Barry Zuckercorn[ astronaut-mikedexter]
- Right before Buster gets his hand bitten off he’s sitting on the bench and it says “Arm Off”. [doctorkongx]
- In the episode where Tobias is trying to be stealth in Maggie Lizer’s house there is a cornballer on the counter in the kitchen. Also in the episode where Uncle Oscar is in his trailer at the soccer game the commercial for Mr Banana Grabber playing on the tv. [untilwelearntofly]
- In “Shock and Awe”, Michael is looking at a board showing pictures of Saddam’s palaces and notices that one of them looks identical to the model home. [ jamesbenson]
- Michael has a flashback to times when he introduced previous girlfriends to his family. The girls’ names were Barbara, Dee, and Marta. In a later episode, Gob and Steve Holt open a competing banana stand and hire two exotic dancers named Barbara and Dee. [ nevergaveup ]
- in the first christmas episode, maeby complains that lindsey and tobias left her at home. then they say “great, now my daughter thinks I’m selfish.” tobias responds, “I can fix this… i need to see if I can get that part.” and then lindsey says “and ihave to get money from mom.” …. the joke being that both parents completely neglected their daughter. twice.[ 21yrs ]
- In season three, there is an episode where George Sr. climbs in between the walls. Ron Howard narrates that he “just slipped past the sensors.” And Buster sees that the fridge has been moved, saying, “mother will blow a cow,” a phrase they had trouble slipping past the FOX censor. [itsmegabriel]
- In Shock and Aww - Miss Baerly says she’s filling in for Mr. Daniels who just had a stroke. Later in the episode, Maeby [on the topic of whom to take to the Diversity Dance] says “You know, I actually called Mr. Daniels and asked him, but he got all out of breath and dropped the phone. I never heard back.” [imatumblr-bornunderpunches]
- When Heather Graham is on the show as the teacher, in her classroom you can see a posterboard project with the phrase (whatever they called Saddam’s palace that the Bluth company built overseas to commit treason) on the top of the board on the title of the project. [burningbuilding]
If you have an obscure joke, please feel free to submit it and I’ll add it to the list.
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