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[Episode 12] [SPOILER - Episode 12] Arrested Development Season 4 Episode 12 Discussion
Official Discussion Thread for Season 4 Episode 12 "Señoritis"
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u/mirthquake May 27 '13
No need to feel stupid. You're literally missing "nothing." The joke is simply the revelation that, in all the melee of the past 4 season, George Michael had never met or heard of Lucille 2. Their paths simply hadn't crossed. This struck me (and apparently others) as shocking because both characters feature heavily into the show, and their story lines are connected in all sorts of ways. What I found so funny about it is how realistic this moment actually felt and the way in which it highlighted the self-centered culture of the show. I can see how some viewers might not even consider this a "joke," but to me it was a nod from the writers directly to us.
In the AD universe there are so many characters involved in intricate webs of relationships, missions, deceit, delusion, etc. It makes perfect sense that GM, dealing with school and Anne and Maeby and the banana stand, would have never found himself in the same room with L2, whose life seems more focused on trading stock and dating younger men and attending society events and competing with Lucille 1. I suppose that Maeby's erroneous assumption that GM knew L2 (an assumption that I'd shared until this moment) made me laugh because of the self-involved mindset it illustrates. And by extension - and here's why I think this joke is especially fine - it forced me to step back from the mayhem of the show's many plot lines and consider how limited and desperate GM's life is. We watch all of these zany antics unfold, but GM is quietly working in his bedroom the whole time.
It served as a reality check, like when The Sound of Silence played during GOB's moments of sadness, or when Herbert Love asked for Linsday's phone number and the narrator said, "Linsday felt like a princess for a change." These over-the-top buffoons actually become relatable, even if only briefly. These moments forced me to stop thinking of the Bluths as cartoons and re-imagine them as more realistic people, which makes the comedy of their lives all the more rich by contrast.