Good Grief (Arrested Development)
episode of Arrested Development (S2 E4)
"Good Grief" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development. Written by consulting producer John Levenstein and directed by Jeff Melman, it first aired on Fox on December 5, 2004.
The series, narrated by Ron Howard, follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family, who made their money from property development. The Bluth family consists of Michael, his twin sister Lindsay, his older brother Gob, his younger brother Buster, their mother Lucille and father George Sr., as well as Michael's son George Michael, and Lindsay and her husband Tobias' daughter Maeby. In the episode, after Ice reveals that George Sr. has been executed in Mexico, the family holds a wake. Gob attempts an illusion in which he is buried in place of his father's body, which upsets Buster, who was told that it was a birthday party. George Michael discovers George Sr. alive in an underground bunker and hides him in the attic.
At the time of, and since, airing, the episode received critical acclaim, with it often being labeled as the greatest episode of Arrested Development and one of the greatest television episodes of all time.
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