The Immaculate Election
14th episode of the 2nd season of Arrested Development
"The Immaculate Election" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development. It is the 36th overall episode of the series, and was written by supervising producer Barbie Adler and executive story editor Abraham Higginbotham, and directed by Anthony Russo. It originally aired on Fox on March 20, 2005.
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, George Michael runs a doomed campaign for class president against Steve Holt. Lindsay kicks Tobias out, but he returns as their singing British housekeeper, Mrs. Featherbottom.
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Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) has kicked Tobias (David Cross) out of the house, and with nowhere to go, he takes up residence in the apartment of Detective Frank Wrench on the set of Wrench. Ann (Mae Whitman) suggests that George Michael (Michael Cera) run for student body president, offering to run his campaign and create a campaign video.
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