By the end of the second season Arrested Development was bursting with narrative swagger. It had so much self-esteem that it started to really give the narrator, voiced by Ron Howard, some editorial authority. Some of the funniest moments of “Spring Breakout” come when clips of the Bluth’s portrayal on Scandalmakers are shown, with Tobias depicting George Sr., and the narrator just beaking the hell out of Scandalmakers’ own narrator’s shortcomings. The show compels a big landowner to question his doing business with the Bluths, and Lucille responds by showing up drunk and doing a chicken dance.
Drunk Lucille is definitely the highlight of this episode. Her escapades at the office get her sent to rehab, but when Kitty the secretary demands to meet with her, she leaves for the bar, mops the floor with Kitty in a drinking contest, and announces “I’ve got to get back to rehab.” Then there’s the scenes with Tobias and Lindsay on the boardwalk filming spring breakers and the reveal that the “Girls with Low Self-Esteem” producer played by Zach Braff is ironically one of the dozens of cutoff-wearing never-nudes. Also, Buster drunk on boxed wine. It’s too much.
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Published: May 24, 2013 10:58 am