Filmowi farhadiego oraz zasadzie życia bohaterów jest bowiem przede dróg how some people thought the show's inability to gain mainstream appeal was caused by its numerous and sometimes obscure jokes about pop-culture and topical references. Mid Battle Teabreak: a 4 episode, and GOB get a fight a padded children's play area after agreeing it is the safest place to fight. Shortly after the fight begins, they crash through the wall of the knife store next door. At this point, they stop the fight enough to return to the play area. One Limit: Averted. Bluth's best friend social rival is Austero, played by Minnelli. When the name confusion is not being Played for Laughs, the show refers to her as Austero, or Two. To a lesser degree, there's a bit of a theme with the names of most of the male Bluths. There's Sr, II and The only one to escape this is Out of the Frying Pan: Near the end of 3, is finally exonerated for his crimes, leaving the Bluth company actually good position for the first time years. However, during the boat party, Annyong shows up to reveal that he had been feeding information and evidence against them to the SEC, and then steals the Queen putting them a worse position than ever. Overly Gag: 4 is especially fond of this, as episodes are longer on than they can be on network TV: Narrator: ...and soon Gob found himself experiencing what, on the street, is referred to as a roofie circle, whereby a roofie is taken the day after a degrading event too late to erase the memory of the degrading event itself but not too late to erase the prior day's attempt to erase the event. Thus, with no memory of taking the roofie but the memory of the event very much alive, the victim of the roofie circle finds himself constantly trying to re-erase the memory but only succeeds erasing the memory of the attempt to erase the memory. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and relationships grow testy. And what begins shame almost always ends a Mexican hospital with stage 4 syphilis. Prison Rape: Referenced and played for humor several times: the same episode, gives a speech to troubled youth about life prison order to scare them straight but ends up describing prison rape to a group of youth who are expecting to be scared straight Needless to say, they are excited by the prospect of sweaty groping the dark by buff men. Standardized Sitcom Housing: One of the most surprising aversions, considering the family business and how self-aware the show is. The couch is off a corner and it's possible to go from the front door to the kitchen without passing through the living room. The model home used the pilot had a grand spiral staircase...leading to unfinished attic. Status Quo Is God: Played fairly straight the original three seasons then defied 4. By the end of the Austero is dead missing, is going to be arrested, and Maeby are registered offenders, and are at odds Sr. is a woman, and has made a complete 180 political stance and has access to a congressman's riches. Wham Episode: Development Arrested, big time Bluth is the one who's been controlling both and the Bluth company the whole time. was adopted by the Bluths at age three and is the illusive GOB's girlfriend turns out to be Ann. Annoyong is a mole for the SEC, and has been gathering evidence against to avenge his grandfather's stolen business. Finally, and leave the family for good. White Sheep: and are generally this relation to the Bluth family. They are by far the most decent and the least manipulative and selfish. Contrasted to the others who are greedy and power-hungry, and generally hold very few morals. also fits into this trope, although slightly less since his ideas of this 't necessarily comply with other people's ideas of this. 4, this trope is deconstructed with all three of them: becomes much more frustrated and selfish, abandons his family and eventually kicks almost all of them out of the movie, is pushed past his limits, and eventually punches