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"Staff Infection"/"Missing Kitty"

“Staff Infection” (season 1, episode 15; original airdate 3/14/04)

Another key piece of the Arrested Development mythology springs to life in “Staff Infection.” I speak of course of GOB’s chicken dance, which emerges slowly but inevitably throughout the episode, starting with GOB clucking a little at Buster and later erupting into full-body mockery as GOB adds a little clap and some shuffling feet. I sometimes wonder which elements in the grand tapestry of Arrested Development were carefully designed and which emerged spontaneously. I have to believe that Mitchell Hurwitz took one look at Will Arnett’s little poultry-inspired boogie and said, “Yeah, we need to see that again.”

Not that the moment was fully improvised, mind you. No, in an episode replete with references to farm animals, there’s no way that GOB calling Buster a chicken in the most demonstrative way possible was spur-of-the-moment. If anything, one of my problems with this episode is that it tries too hard to keep that Old MacDonald motif in play. Early in the episode, we learn that Buster once had a bad experience in a photo booth on Catalina when a sheep nosed its way in, and throughout the rest of “Staff Infection,” sheep imagery recurs: When Buster takes a job in the copy room at The Bluth Company, his co-workers call him “Bob,” which sounds like “baa;” those same co-workers get herded around by anyone in authority, even taking a bus called “The Good Shepherd” to Catalina because they assume it’s there to take them to lunch; and when George-Michael finds a folder of his schoolwork in his dad’s office, he wistfully holds a cutout/cotton-ball sheep he made as a boy. Between the occasional soundtrack bleats and the weirdly twangy soundtrack, “Staff Infection” grinds away to remind the audience of its theme. (And that’s not even counting the way that Buster and GOB’s sibling rivalry culminates in the two of them playing “chicken” with two huge construction vehicles.)

Also, I feel like the emotional core of “Staff Infection”—which has to do with Michael worrying that work is keeping him away from his son, while George-Michael worries that, to quote Annyong, “father no love him”—is a little overcooked by this point in season one.

It doesn't Fall far from the tree: Hope Floats and so does a Life ...

I could list ten million promises that I turn to when things aren't going the way "I" planned...."all things work together for good", "His ways are not our ways"...and so on! Now don't mis-understand me...these are all FABULOUS and TRUE!!! but like I said, they are things that I "turn" to! I want them to be things that I CLING to and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if I was a drowning victim at sea....these promises from God's word would be my life preserver! I NEED life preserving promises right now...every day....all day....and so on, and so on! It's not going to ever go away...the need that we have for something and Someone to put our ultimate trust in! So why don't I just go for it!! When things are thrown at me my immediate thought should be, "Lord...this is ordained by you....You will see me through it"....NOT....running to my bathroom, locking the door and sobbing into my bathmat for crying out loud!!! Well....moving forward...I'm hoping you are atleast concerned as to why I would EVER run to my bathroom, lock the door and cry into my bathmat! ( not that it happens THAT often!!) but...this time it did and it was real and it was scary! Don't know how much you know about my sweet daughter and her wonderful husband and their "adventures" with the Chick Fil A Interim Manager training program! I can honestly say I don't want to know much more and I already know enough to probably train them along with alot of their higher ups! but moving right along...Holly and Brad were abruptly uprooted from what they thought was about to be their home....their first Chick Fil A of their own but God obviously had other plans that I will definitely ask Him about when I arrive in heaven...they were given a month off...they've been living with us....and they were supposed to find out in MID June where they would be going on July 1st! How many of you believe like I do that if a month has 30 days then on day 15...IT IS MID JUNE!!!!! Obviously....Chick Fil A has a different calendar than the rest of the world because they were just told YESTERDAY!!! the 20th!!!!!!!! Does that day seem extra special to anybody else but me? It was Holly and Brad's 2nd Anniversary for crying out loud!!! When Brad announced it to us...and us includes Holly for the first time...I kept telling him not to do it...don't ruin your anniversary dinner...being that they were dressed and leaving mind you!!!! Of course, the moment he began...I held up my hand and said I didn't want to know yet...

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