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  Episode Information  
Title: Charity Drive
Also Known As: La Surenchère ( France)
Episode Number: 5
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 5
Production Number: ARR-106
Original Airdate: Sunday November 30th, 2003
10/10 (1 Vote cast)
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Country: Aired On:
France Jan 17, 2005
Episode Crew
Director: Greg Mottola
Writer: Barbie Feldman Adler (1)
  Episode Summary  
Lindsay and Michael try to one-up each other in charitableness. Lindsay participates in a Save The Wetlands charity drive while Michael tries to do a good deed by driving his mother's maid, Lupe, home, but soon realizes he has the wrong woman. Meanwhile, Buster, after his inadvertent flirting, tries his best to avoid Lucille and G.O.B. demands respect from George Michael.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Special Guest Stars
Liza MinnelliplayedLucille AusteroRecurring (second appearance)
Guest Stars
Judy GreerplayedKitty SanchezRecurring (first appearance)
Co-Guest Stars
B. W. Gonzalez (1)playedLupeRecurring (second appearance)
Bruno OliverplayedGuardRecurring (second appearance)
Christopher GehrmanplayedWorker #2 
James HowellplayedCop 
Jerry DouglasplayedM.C. 
Mel GorhamplayedHelen 
Robert Isaac Lee (4)playedWorker #1 
Robert NechesplayedInvestor 
  Main Cast  
Jason BatemanplayedMichael Bluth
Portia de RossiplayedLindsay Bluth Fünke
Will ArnettplayedGeorge "G.O.B." Bluth II
Michael CeraplayedGeorge Michael Bluth
Alia ShawkatplayedMae "Maeby" Fünke
David CrossplayedTobias Fünke
Jessica WalterplayedLucille Bluth
Jeffrey TamborplayedGeorge Bluth Sr. / Oscar Bluth
Ron Howard (1)voicedNarrator
  Episode Notes  
David Cross (Tobias) does not appear in this episode.
 
On The Next Arrested Development Gag: Michael gets a lucky break when Helen makes the same mistake that he did, and G.O.B. kicks himself for a bad business decision.
 
  Episode Quotes  
Michael: Come on, face it. You just do all this charity crap just to stroke your ego. You don't even know what the auction's for tonight.
Lindsay: The wetlands.
Michael: To do what with them?
Lindsay: Dry them.
Michael: Save them.
Lindsay: From drying!
 
George Sr.: I'm under a lot of pressure here. I'm trying to get my newsletter off the ground. I'm trying to decide which gang to align myself with.
Michael: Is it pledge week already?
George Sr.: I've got it down to two. But honestly, I don't even want to choose. I just feel ... I feel like the prettiest girl at the dance.
 
Michael: I mean, I guess it would just be a guy who you know, grabs bananas and runs. Or, um, a banana that grabs things. I don't know why. Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don't want to answer.
 
Lindsay: Look, I screwed up, ok? I'm lost, and I hate them. I hate the Wetlands. They're stupid and wet, and there are bugs everywhere, and I think I maced a crane, Michael.
 
G.O.B.: But I'll tell you what. If you want to use my likeness for a Hamburglar-type character, I'll sign off on that. "Mr. Bananagrabber" or something.
Michael: No, no. No more banana grabbing, no more car grabbing.
 
Lucille: You're the one who charged his own brother for a Bluth frozen banana. I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Michael: You've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you?
 
G.O.B.: Give me a “G.O.B.”
George Michael: G.O.B.!
G.O.B.: No, I didn’t mean for you to yell my name at me. It’s what I call a double-dipped banana with everything on it.
 
George Michael: Here you go, Uncle G.O.B. I had to use two sticks just to support all the extra chocolate and nuts.
Michael: Hey, hey, hey, whoa. Two sticks and extra chocolate? Is it Mardi Gras?
 
Lucille: Supposedly, Luz had to take her daughter to the hospital. That’s Lupe, her sister.
Michael: I hope she’s okay.
Lucille: She’s awful. Can barely wash a dish.
 
  Cultural References  
Lucille: Good grief.

"Good grief" is the signature exclamation of frustration used by Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip.
 
  Episode References  
(referring to the stair car)
G.O.B.: From whence it came, huh?

G.O.B. used this same line in "Top Banana" when he is returning the dove.
 
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