Arrested Development/Prison Break-In

Prison Break-In
Season 3, Episode 7
Airdate	December 12, 2005
Production Number	#3AJD08
Written by	Karey Dornetto
Directed by	Bob Berlinger
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Arrested Development — Season Three

Prison Break-In is the seventh episode of the third season of Arrested Development, and the forty-seventh episode overall.

Guest Stars: Rosemary Garris (Charity Guest), Toby Holguin (Prisoner), Kenneth Kimmins (Doctor Carr), James Lipton (Warden Gentiles)

Plot Overview

The Bluth Foundation hosts its annual benefit, this time at the prison where George Sr. (and Oscar) used to be held.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Tobias: Tobias's hairplugs have instilled in him a condition known as "graft versus host," in which the hair graft is rejecting his body rather than his body rejecting the graft.

Referbacks

• The Immaculate Election: George Michael's Star Wars tape is shown once again during the second annual Bluth charity fundraiser to fight "TBA."

• Pier Pressure: The song "Big Yellow Joint" is heard constantly in the background of this episode.

• Visiting Ours: The stair-car was previously used as a prison escape method in the first season. The prison has since apparently instituted a rule agianst stair-cars near the walls. This episode was also referenced in a flashback to GOB seeing through the window of George Sr. and Lucille having sex in the conjugal trailer.

Prison Guard: Hey, you can't park there! No stair-car parking!

• Staff Infection: The Warden's script, New Warden, was introduced earlier when he gave the script to Tobias to give to Carl Weathers.

Warden: It'll help me better understand George Bluth, the main character of the latest and, I pray, final draft of my screenplay, "New Warden."

• Good Grief!: The code that unlocks George Sr.'s ankle monitor is the same number that was see on a wall in Mexico when Michael attempted to bring his father back home.

Lucille: P2252.

• Let 'Em Eat Cake: Tobias' book, The Man Inside Me, was first introduced with an Amazon.com listing. But, because they didn't sell, the Bluth home was full of them. On the book, the sticker reads "Free with the Purchase of any other book (or magazine)."

• Mr. F: The jetpack GOB uses to break into prison is the same jetpack that George Michael built and fought Tobias the mole in.

GOB: It's a jetpack, Michael. What could possibly go wrong?

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Prison Break: GOB draws a map of the prison on his stomach, parodying the FOX drama, Prison Break, in which the main character hides detailed blueprints and escape plans in his many tattoos. The episode's title is also an obvious reference to the series which may take over Arrested Development's timeslot should it be cancelled.

• Shrinkage: GOB suggests "shrinkage" as the condition to fight in an earlier Bluth Foundation benefit. In an episode of Seinfeld called The Hamptons, the characters use the term shrinkage to define the affect of swimming in cold water on the male genitalia.

George Sr.: Shrinkage? Someone saw Seinfeld last night.

• Uncle T-Bag: Tobias refers to himself as Uncle T-Bag, in an effort to sound hip, but in doing so uses a slang term for a sex act.

Tobias: Oh, come on. Don't leave your uncle T-Bag hanging.

• A Powerful Lid: The Narrator says "this was not the first time that Oscar was knocked out by a powerful lid." Lid is a term for a large bag of marijuana.

Narrator: ...Although, it wasn’t the first time he'd been knocked out by a powerful lid.

• Graft vs. Host: GOB suggests that Graft vs. Host sounds like a tennis match between Steffi Graf (one of the great tennis players of all-time) and Happy Days star Donny Host (by which he meant Donny Most, who played Ralph Malph). The narrator, voiced by Ron Howard, corrects him as he was also a former star of the series.