Bringing Up Buster
"Bringing Up Buster" | |||
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Arrested Development episode | |||
Episode no. |
Season 1 Episode 3 | ||
Directed by | Joe Russo | ||
Written by |
Mitchell Hurwitz Richard Rosenstock | ||
Production code | 1AJD02 | ||
Original air date | November 16, 2003 | ||
Guest actors | |||
Leonor Varela as Marta Estrella | |||
Episode chronology | |||
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List of Arrested Development episodes |
"Bringing Up Buster" is the third episode of the American television series Arrested Development.
Plot
Michael is making cornballs for breakfast (a Bluth family tradition) in preparation for another tradition: the Sunday bike ride. However, George Michael is ambivalent about the plan. Gob comes in and announces he's had another fight with his girlfriend Marta; he asks if he can stay with Michael, but Michael declines.
When Tobias finds out that his daughter Maeby is auditioning for the school play, he assumes it is to get closer to him. In fact, Maeby hopes to be cast as the romantic lead alongside a boy named Steve Holt. George Michael is also auditioning for the play in the hopes of starring alongside his cousin Maeby. Maeby and Steve Holt get the lead roles, and George Michael, cast as the stand-in, is ready to quit, until he learns that on the days Steve Holt has football practice, George Michael as stand-in will be kissing Maeby during rehearsals.
Since Buster's post-graduate studies are on permanent hiatus due to reduced family funds, Lucille begins to resent her son's constant presence. She chides Michael for not spending more time with Buster, and drops Buster off to spend the rest of the day with him. Michael tries to adjust to less time with George Michael by spending more time with Buster, who begins to join in the family's venting about their mother. Maeby is startled when Tobias arrives at school: he is the play's new director. Tobias immediately criticizes the apparent lack of chemistry between George Michael (standing in for the play's lead, Steve Holt) and Maeby, but he won't let the scene continue long enough for them to kiss. Frustrated by her father's interference, Maeby quits. Tobias sees George Michael talking to Steve Holt, and concludes that George Michael is gay. Tobias gives George Michael Steve's role, and casts Steve in Maeby's former role. Frustrated by Tobias's direction and worried by the thought of kissing Steve Holt, George Michael quits the play; Tobias then casts Maeby as the lead male opposite Steve Holt as the lead female.
Over at Bluth Co., Lucille hears from Lindsay that Buster has been talking disparagingly about his mother. Lucille barges into the office to take Buster back home. She then advises Michael to hold tight to his son like she does with Buster; when Michael returns home, he finds a contrite George Michael ready to make cornballs with his father.
References
External links
- "Bringing Up Buster" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Bringing Up Buster" at TV.com
- "Bringing Up Buster" at The-OP.com