Arrested Development

Arrested Development Season 1 Quotes (Page 6)

Season 1 Episode 15: "Staff Infection"

White Power Bill: Who is this little (bleep)?
Tobias: Well, it's been quite a while since anybody's called me a tyke, but no, I am Dr. Tobias Fnke, or with your help, Frightened Inmate #2. And who is this shiny building of a man?
George Sr.: Oh, I'm very scared right now.
 • Rating: Unrated

George Michael: You know, Dad, you don't have to drive so slow. I can ride my bike by myself.
Michael: This actually doesn't go any faster.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lucille: They've got a bus, and they want to use parking lot to this building as a meeting place. I mean, for God's sake, it's not a hardware store. We can't have them hanging around like a bunch of freeloaders looking for an easy buck.
 • Rating: Unrated

Michael: You get a paycheck from the Bluth Company?
Lucille: Well, it's important to the company that I keep up the image of my lifestyle.
Michael: Illusion, Mom.
 • Rating: Unrated

Michael: Lindsay, how can you just come in here and ask me for a paycheck?
Lindsay: Well, I usually ask Kitty, but she's not around, and you're the only one here that I've ever seen before.
 • Rating: Unrated

Michael: Well, you have a job now, and since Kitty's gone, you can earn your check by answering the phone.
Lindsay: Michael, it's Friday. Everybody coasts on Friday.
Michael: It's actually Saturday.
Lindsay: Finally. I'm out of here. I'll see you Tuesday.
 • Rating: Unrated

Buster: I need a different job. I'm having real trouble in a confined, indoor space.
Michael: How do you feel about working outdoors?
Buster: Uh ... What else do you have?
 • Rating: Unrated

Maeby: I thought your dad worked last weekend.
George Michael: No, last week he had to finish planning the new subdivision.
Maeby: Oh. So, did he finish it?
George Michael: No. Hey, are you trying to make me feel bad?
Maeby: Yeah, I guess. Sorry, I'm just bored.
George Michael: That's ok.
Maeby: I guess he just likes work more than he likes you.
 • Rating: Unrated

Warden Gentiles: Let's see, now. 187 won't be free till Tuesday ... at midnight. And I can't put you into 212 because there's already another actor researching a role in there. Steve Buscemi.
 • Rating: Unrated

Ted: We, uh, finished the proposal and, uh, we're gonna order some pizza. Um, we were wondering if we could have two toppings, on account of it's Saturday.
Lindsay: Well, he's not here, and since I'm in charge, I'm taking you all out to lunch.
 • Rating: Unrated

Michael: Where are these people going?
Lindsay: I'm taking them out to lunch.
Michael: Did you reserve a restaurant? Are they taking their own cars?
Lindsay: Oh, they'll figure something out.
Michael: No, they won't. You don't have a plan? I told you these people are sheep, and they'll wander off and you'll lose the sheep. You've lost the sheep.
 • Rating: Unrated

White Power Bill: No more teaching from you.
George Sr.: No teaching, no teaching.
Narrator: It was at that moment that George Sr. reunited with his son-in-law.
George Sr.: Tobias, what the hell are you doing here?
Tobias: I'm here to study with you. To learn from you. Teach me.
George Sr.: There's no teaching. There's no teaching.
 • Rating: Unrated

Maeby: You don't have to worry so much. I mean, obviously your dad doesn't want to spend time with you, but, you know, go to the beach or whatever.
George Michael: He's just not around, ok?
Annyong: He no have father? Old lady adopt him, too?
Maeby: No, he have father. Father no love him.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lucille: Well, now, who the hell is going to unload the car? (Into phone) Hola? Is Rosa still alive? No? Oh. Ok. This is not my day.
 • Rating: Unrated

Buster: Come on, you douche bags, we're all on the same team!
Gob: Don't listen to him. He'll never stand up to the Man. He's a chicken. A chicken. Coka, coka, coka, coh!
Buster: My whole life you've called me a chicken. But that's over now. I have nothing to prove.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Foreman: This is not how we settle things on a site. We got our own way of finding out who's a chicken. By a little game we like to call ... "Chicken."
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Gob: I hope you're up to this, Buster! This is a game of courage! A game for men!
Buster: Yeah, well, it's a game I'm ready for! Uh-oh. My seat doesn't have a cushion.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lindsay: Okay, so you guys don't want to work? Fine. I've got a stair car full of Mexican laborers that would love a day's work.
Lupe's Uncle: Laborers? I'm a professor of American studies at the University of Mexico City.
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 14: "Shock and Aww"

Michael: I don't think us sleeping together is working out. You're a grown man. You should be living with your mother.
Buster: Yeah. I miss mom.
Michael: I can tell.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lucille: I don't have the milk of mother's kindness in me anymore.
Michael: Yeah. That udder's been dry for a while though, hasn't it?
 • Rating: Unrated

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