Arrested Development quotes

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GOB: Are those police boats? [house band does a rimshot, as if GOB was joking] No, seriously, I think those are police boats.
George Sr.: That's the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Buster: They have boats?

Gob: Hey, can you do me a favor? A young neighborhood tough by the name of Steve Holt will be dropping by, and...
Michael: Your son?
Gob: According to him.
Michael: And a DNA test.
Gob: I heard the jury's still out on science.

Gob: Hey, maybe that's it. Maybe we should do to the Japanese what they do in their movies. Build a miniature city, put it outside the window, tell them it's far away. It'll look real if you squint. God knows they're squinters. [looks at Larry the surrogate] What do you think, Dad? A whole, tiny town.
George Sr./Larry: Another brilliant idea, Einstein.
Gob: Really? You'd like to build it with me?
George Sr./Larry: Larry really never knows how to sell the sarcasm. It's a stupid idea.

Gob: I [bleep]ed Kitty!
Michael: Gob! I just wanted you to get the information.
Gob: I got the information.
Michael: You did, huh? About the international accounts?
Gob: Oh, I see what you're getting at. No, I didn't get any information.

Gob: I did the right thing, Michael. If I don't fire them, how do I teach a lesson to the others?
Michael: There are no others. You fired everyone.

Gob: I just had a major night. With a major blonde. Who just majored in Marine Biology, if you know what I mean.
Michael: I don't know what you mean. I can't imagine what that means.

Gob: I should be in charge. I'm the older brother.
Michael: Do you even want to be in charge?
Gob: No... but I'd like to be asked!

Gob: I'm the pathetic one, Buster, not you. I totally freaked out in front of that prosecutor today. Like a little girl. In a little dress. Little saddle shoes. Little pigtails.
Buster: Wow, that does sound like a little girl.

Gob: I've got the marriage and none of the good parts. It's like so far it's been all chain and no ball.

Gob: I've got this Christian girlfriend now and she's trying to get me to be a better man and reconnect with my son and I'm trying to get her to renounce God and [bleep] me and I just want to prove to her that I'm worth it.

GOB: Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. [GOB notices children in earshot] ...Or candy!

Gob: Let me ask you something. Is this a business decision, or is it personal? 'Cause if it's business I'll go away happily. But if it's personal, I'll go away... but I won't be happy.
Michael: It's personal.

Gob: Michael, I've been looking for you.
Michael: Looks like you're looking for dragons... In the future.

Gob: Oh, I see. She wants to talk to you. For some reason women feel safe around you. Maybe it's because you've only had sex four times.
Michael: Not four times, four women! And they talk to me because I talk to them!

Gob: Pardon me if I don't burst into tears, Michael. At least he promised to take you. [bursts into tears] He just let me blindly enjoy my childhood! [sobbing] I didn't even know there was a cabin... he wasn't taking me to!