#george bluth sr.

[anonymous-tals]

So, you know, back in the 80s, George Sr. would get Gob and Michael to fight each other and record it, plus a Baby Buster short, to get in on the home video market.

Which made me think: if the timeline was shifted and the Bluth siblings were born in the 2000s, George Sr. would’ve run a particularly problematic family Youtube channel.

[discountreactionimagewarehouse]

George Bluth Sr. from Arrested Development. I don't wan these.

[gobautism]

[koko-heads]

bluth family headcanons bcs why not

(these will mainly be like sexuality/gender/prns/nd stuff like that + i cherry pick what i want to be canon bc i know the show better than mitch hurwitz eg michael and lindsay are BIOLOGICAL TWINS)

the man himself,,, michael bluth [bisexual, trans, he/him, nellie is his deadname, audhd bcs i'm audhd and i'm the no.1 michael kin]

lindsay bluth fünke [bisexual male-leaning, trans, she/her, development arrested did u so dirty i'm sorry]

gob bluth [gay, he/him, i will die on the hill of him being gay and not bi]

buster bluth [token straight, he/they, anxiety duh, also audhd bcs i kin him lawl]

george-michael bluth [acespec pansexual, genderfluid, he/she/they, audhd and anxiety bc kin, no one gets her like i do she's literally my daughter i know her better than the show creators genderfluid gm is very gorgeous to me !]

maeby fünke [oh shes SO sapphic, she/her, not rlly much to say i'll be honest! love her tho]

tobias fünke [let's not kid ourselves he's pansexual, he/she, adhd king]

[i feel like george sr and lucille r both straight but george is maybe fluid? ik in either s4 or s5 he begins transitioning but that storyline is dropped so i'm gnna say guyfluid]

[corky-chicken]

I got Arrested Development S5 ending spoiled and i have see the s3 final and I'm already here to say I will take nothing from the s3 ending on as canon. Buster didn't do that. Nope. Gob didn't date or marry Ann (idk yet). Lindsey is for real Michael's twin. Nothing NOTHING will ever happen between George Micheal and Maebe.

I will have bais though. Lucille going to prison is so true and canon all the way and what ever of gonna happen with Tony and Gob.

[mannytoodope]

Michael: I burned it. Right down to the ground.

George Sr.: Are you kidding? There was money in that banana stand.

Michael: Well, it's all gone now, dad. So the next time you want have a little power struggle, just know that you're playing with fire.

George Sr.: There was $250,000 lining the walls of the banana stand.

Michael: What?

George Sr.: Cash, Michael.

Michael: Why didn't you tell me?

George Sr.: How much clearer can I say

George Sr.: There's always money in the banana stand!

Prison guard: No Touching!

George Sr.:No touching!

Prison guard: No touching.

[3y3-see-you]

[island-ofthelost]

Evidence of the Bluths being Jewish (master list)

Reblog with more if you know of any!

-The creator, Mitch Hurwitz (who’s Jewish), specifically created the family to be ambiguously Jewish (essentially, they were created with Judaism in mind). In an interview with the New Yorker, Mitch said the Bluths were partially based on his Wife’s Jewish family, and they got “more Jewish” as the show went on.

-Both Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, who played George Sr. and Lucille (the patriarch and matriarch of the family) are Jewish.

-Bluth is a fairly common Ashkenazic last name, this was also specifically in mind when creating the family. In an interview, Mitch said that he gave them a name that was “Jewish, but not too Jewish” (and essentially making them that by extension), to have wiggle room on jokes/situations.

-When George Sr. “converted” in jail, he already knew Yiddish/Hebrew, what a yarmulke was for, and seemingly everything else about Judaism (his reason for conversion was seeing a reflection of the Star of David on the wall, just fyi).

-In season 1 episode 4, there’s a mezuzah on the doorframe of the Bluth model home, which was five episodes before George Sr’s prison conversion.

-This is a bit of a stretch on my part, but when White Power Bill stabbed Gob, he screamed “White Power!” but Gob’s… White…. Now, this could just be Pokémon speak (re: Annyong), but it was specifically stated that WPB was antisemitic.

-Unfortunately, the whole thing with the “Bluth Nose”.

-Perhaps unfortunately, they do fall into a lot of media stereotypes. Most glaringly, the Overbearing Jewish Mother (Lucille), as well the Jewish American Princess (Lindsay) and the Nice Jewish Boy (almost every male character save for George Sr. and Gob). If the Bluths were canonically Jewish these would be blatant stereotypes and I don’t know how I feel about that…

And if any of you were wondering, yes I am Jewish.

[raylangivins]

HEARTBREAKING: your favourite trashy show about teens looking for treasure keeps foreshadowing the most painfully heterosexual ship on earth and it’s only the first episode of the season

Outer banks time my KIDSSSSSSSSSS

[barely-medi0cre]

George Michael Bluth

A Quick Look at one of my favorite characters

Arrested development is basically like a series of unfortunate events if it were made into an adult comedy.

So the sadder parts are all left as jokes or punchlines.

When really, if it were a drama, the characters would appear completely different.

George Michael is a key example of this, he’s held to almost perfection standards by his dad, who he also would spend all his time with until he gets a girlfriend. Like his dad makes him go on atkins for literally no reason and he clearly hates it but is too scared to say anything.

Or when he gets an A- on a test (still an A though) and when he comes home and shows his dad and says “I got an A!” And his dad keeps cutting him off and saying “minus” before telling him to get back to his room and study. Later his dad walks in on him studying and literally beating himself up over not getting a problem, calling himself stupid over and over again.

Of course, this is the episode where Michael (his dad) and Lindsey (Michael’s twin) are arguing over parenting. She says he’s too strict and is going to give George Michael a nervous breakdown. Naturally, after walking in on George Michael beating himself up, he tells him to stop and go do something fun. George Michael is very reluctant because he never really does that. He ends up going right to work, because he doesn’t have anything else to do.

Naturally, during this short period of parental freedom, George Michaels uncle Buster (the one who still lives with his mother and is basically a toddler) comes to see him at work to ask him for drugs. Michael has always taught George Michael that “family first” is the most important rule, so of course he keeps it a secret at busters request and tries to get drugs for him. This leads to him going to his uncle Gob, leaving a note asking for drugs, leading to a whole mix up where Michael thinks that he gave George Michael too much freedom and has now caused his son to develop a drug habit.

Rising action, rising action, climax where everything comes to a head with fake cops and real cops and fake drugs and real drugs and weird misunderstandings until everything is laid out, all is forgiven, and things go back to normal

However, since this show is a comedy show, we don’t focus on the fact that George Michael never actually was able to utilize the freedom his dad had given him, instead opting to use his newly free time to take on a really big favor from his family member instead of doing something for himself

His gimmick is that he’s awkward, and comparatively uptight to Maeby’s street smarts and irresponsibility. It creates a fun dynamic for comedy stories, but when you watch it as many times as I have you start to see some of the more serious character traits that are glossed over

This back and forth can only continue if there is no real character development in each of the ensemble members, hence the end of an episode essentially hitting reset on shenanigans for everyone. George Michael is a great character for that because even during the one chance he had to be free or do something for himself, he yet again took on a task that someone in his family asked him to do and assumed he could do it. So when those opportunities of development present themselves, realistically he wouldn’t take them. And if he did, his character development would have to be so minute that it’s barely noticeable.

If this show were a drama, I think there would be considerable emphasis placed on the parallels of George Sr’s relationship with Michael and Michael’s relationship with George Michael. Animosity about the relationship between Michael and George Michael is only brought to Michael’s attention in season four when he is told that is the father-son relationship Ron Howard wanted to make a movie about.

[anonymous-tals]

Do you: hate George Senior? Have a hyperfixation on Arrested Development? Have gay Arrested Development headcanons? Have neurodivergent Arrested Development headcanons? Then George Sr Haters is the place for you 👍

[westcovinas]

I think one of the most appealing character building aspects of arrested development is how fully fleshed out the women are. It came out in 2003 and it does better than shows coming out now, 20 years later. All of the women are equally if not more so scheming, conniving, and manipulative as their male counterparts. Lindsay is portrayed at being good at manipulating men’s emotions and sexualities despite marrying a gay man, which makes sense when the show establishes her better relationship with her father. Her mother gave her an eating disorder, so her father got to teach his little girl how to get people to give you what you want. She’s also (inadvertently) adept at running a business, which was no doubt the influence of both parents and her “twin” brother.

Her daughter, Maeby, took her mother’s skill for lying and her father’s aptitude at earnest acting. She’s just as manipulative as the women before her, if not more. By pure lies alone, she gets multiple jobs, free housing, and cheats the school system. Instead of using roofies to sexually assault Steve Holt, she uses them specifically to avoid sex. Maeby constantly defies expectation, subverts standards, and makes her own path as the daughter with two negligent, well meaning parents.

Which brings us to Lucille. Lucille and her husband set the standard for all of their children and grandkids. Although we can assume there was a long line of weirdly fucked up Bluths and Jenkins (Lucille’s maiden name) before them, they are the epitome of the Bluth name: selfish boomers/silent gens that will stop at nothing to get their way. Lucille is a queen at mind games and casually cruel offhand remarks. She is revealed to be in charge, in a spin that surprises few watchers. Everyone know’s Lucille pulls the strings, even if George sr is equally exploitive.

Even the minor ladies in ad pass the bechdel test with flying colors. Maggie is, quite frankly, kind of a bitch - she doesn’t care who she’s screwing over, as long as she looks good (par course for the Bluth family). Kitty is a true home wrecker: she knows her partner’s wife and she knows that she “hates” the cheating. We don’t know how much it actually bothers Lucille, but Kitty doesn’t care. All of Michael’s love interests leave him, and he’s the main character. His son, George Michael, doesn’t fare much better romantically either, except with Ann, who also eventually rejects him. Even Ann, the devout evangelical Christian, is still given notable characteristics and personality traits: faithful, passionate, stubborn. From Lupe to Lucille II, the women are allowed to be just as full as the men, which is refreshing, especially from 20 years ago.

[koko-heads]

bluth headcanons incoming

[theflannelwizard]

Oops, I lied about sending all my questions in one, I thought of an actually specific question and not just a super general one five seconds after sending the ask:

Do you have any neurodivergent hcs for Buster and Gob(or other characters if you hc anyone else as neurodivergent)?

This is such a good question!! Okay!! It got long so I'm putting it under the cut, but TLDR: undiagnosed comorbid autistm and ADHD for both of them plus ADHD Tony Wonder :) I forced myself not to get into it with the rest of the Bluths cause this post would be a mile long but i did put cursory thoughts about them in the tags. All of this is spitballing and I'm definitely open to hearing other opinions!

Whatever is going on with Buster’s brain is the same thing that’s going on with my brain, so most likely ADHD and/or autism but DEFINITELY undiagnosed. None of the Bluths have the diagnoses they need and if someone (Tobias) tries to so much as allude to them being neurodivergent in front of George Sr. and/or Lucille it gets shut down immediately.

Anyway Buster reads more autistic than ADHD to me but it could be either or both. He has trouble reading other people’s emotions and regulating his own, he’s “strange” and “childish” in ways that are direct responses to how he was raised but also just read as neurodivergent, he’s got safe foods and takes things literally and has no clue how to read social cues and stims and gestures vaguely at all of him is just so very ND. Also the thing with ADHD-havers being randomly struck with bouts of guilt or self loathing? I think that’s him. ADHD was recently reclassified as an anxiety disorder, too, which we know full well is Buster, and it would not surprise me if his panic and anxiety attacks were brought on by sensory overload and RSD and other ADHD things at least some of the time.

As for GOB, I think he’s got the same deal but he reads more ADHD than autistic. I think they both have both but it presents differently in each of them. I’m fully on board with both magic and bees being special interests for that man, and he also just moves and talks and interacts with people in a very neurodivergent way. The stuttering when he’s overwhelmed is, to me, adjacent to (if not straight up being) him going nonverbal. He definitely has RSD too, look at how devastated he is when anyone rejects him ever. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bipolar, getting manic when he’s really into a project and then falling into depression for weeks or months at a time.

And, just as a bonus, I think Tony Wonder has ADHD. He recognizes it in GOB and helps him with learn to function in a healthier happier way and his siblings are so confused cause GOB just magically started getting more normal?? Except it’s not magic (and it’s not an illusion lmao) it’s just coping mechanisms. Tony’s been collecting them from various therapists for like 30 years. He has no clue how anyone in this family thinks they’re neurotypical.

[emptyjunior]

rip George Bluth sr. you would have loved pitching the boy fights series to some fringe streaming service as a nostalgia collection accompanied with a new and profoundly unethical reality competition