Lucille Bluth
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| Lucille Bluth | |
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 Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth |
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| Cause/reason | End of the series |
| Portrayed by | Jessica Walter |
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| Nickname(s) | Gangee (by Michael and Maeby) |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | GOB Bluth (son) Michael Bluth (son) Lindsay Bluth Funke (adoptive daughter) Buster Bluth (son) Hel-loh "Annyong" Bluth (adoptive son) |
| Spouse(s) | George Bluth Sr. |
| Relatives | George Michael Bluth (grandson) Maeby Funke (adoptive granddaughter) Tobias Funke (son-in-law) Oscar Bluth (brother-in-law) |
Lucille Bluth is a fictional character on the American television series Arrested Development. She is the mother of G.O.B., Michael, Lindsay, Buster, and the adopted Hel-loh "Annyong" Bluth, as well as wife to George Sr. Her grandchildren George Michael Bluth and Maeby call her "Gangy" (pronounced "gang-ghee"). She carried on an affair with George Sr.'s twin brother Oscar. Lucille is portrayed by Jessica Walter.
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Bedecked in Donna Karan and laced in fur, her opulent and decadent lifestyle—including a penthouse view, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse—is funded with misbegotten Bluth Company money. She rationalizes her repeated spa treatments and face lifts by saying that she has an image to maintain. Her driving is remarkably poor. Lucille's inability to come within an order of magnitude estimate of the price of bananas underscores her patrician lifestyle. She mistreats her stream of Mexican-American housekeepers, famously saying "They didn't sneak into this country to become our friends."
Never short on criticism of her children, Lucille saves her sharpest barbs for adopted daughter Lindsay, in particular her weight. She also admits that she never cared for G.O.B. She furtively wrests control of the Bluth Company board from Michael, whom she describes as her third-least-favorite child. Her youngest child, Buster, first imbibed alcohol while breastfeeding.
Lucille's on-again-off-again affair with George Sr.'s twin brother Oscar leaves the audience guessing about Buster's biological father, although it is heavily implied that he is indeed Oscar's son. She seduces a former fiance to relieve her youngest son of his military obligations, which Lucille signed him up for in the first place. She also has affairs with the prison warden (to get George Sr. out of jail) and lawyer Wayne Jarvis.
Lucille is occasionally affectionate, and her protective impulse is swift. She attacked the publicist Jessie for an unflattering article, and she forced Oscar to return money that he had swindled from Michael. When Michael was in high school, Lucille made his teacher "disappear" after giving a failing grade to her son. She also does her best to ensure the family's continued livelihood, although she is driven almost exclusively by personal gain.
Lucille has a penchant for quoting the musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable and singing "Rose's Turn" from the show. Gypsy is the story of a domineering stage mother who is only interested in herself and not the good of her children.
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