Amigos
- Episode aired Nov 21, 2004
- TV-PG
- 30m
Michael gets a lead that his father has fled to Mexico and takes along a group to retrieve him. In the meantime, he tries to connect with George-Michael's girlfriend, Ann, and Buster tries t... Read allMichael gets a lead that his father has fled to Mexico and takes along a group to retrieve him. In the meantime, he tries to connect with George-Michael's girlfriend, Ann, and Buster tries to escape going off to the army by stowing away.Michael gets a lead that his father has fled to Mexico and takes along a group to retrieve him. In the meantime, he tries to connect with George-Michael's girlfriend, Ann, and Buster tries to escape going off to the army by stowing away.
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- TriviaBuster (Tony Hale) comments that he used to have a shirt just like the one the child is wearing, and the narrator (Ron Howard) said that it was Buster's. In fact, Buster wore that shirt in episode 1.15, Staff Infection (2004).
- GoofsAs the family leaves the Mexican border town, a visually-reversed shot is used for the departing Mercedes and motorcycle. This is evidenced by the license plate of the Mercedes, which is backwards.
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Michael: You know, this open marriage is ridiculous. Somebody's gonna get hurt.
Mae "Maeby" Fünke: The important thing is that you guys don't lose focus on yourself.
[Maeby walks away]
Tobias Fünke: You know, first of all, we are doing this for her, because neither one of us wants to get divorced. And second-of-ly, I know you're the big marriage expert - oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, your wife is dead!
[Michael and Lindsay stare in silence]
Tobias Fünke: I'm sorry, that was 100% inappropriate and I do apologize profusely. I do apologize profusely, I'm - oh...
[Tobias walks away in embarrassment]
Hurwitz has this gift of making all the characters out to be idiots. There's absolutely no ounce of them that makes them able to work together at all. There are so many conversations where the characters are just speaking over their own heads and having two different conversations at the same time, and the fact that it's funny every single time is a great testament to Hurwitz abilities as a writer. Writing comedy is not easy, but he makes it seem so effortless because he has such a grip on these characters and their ambitions and their ego-centric personality disorders.
The storylines in this are all hilarious. First of all, the entire bounty hunter/P. I. part of the episode carried so much of the humor. The fact that everyone were excited every time Gene came in with his weird disguises was hilarious, and even after the fifth or sixth time, they still manage to make it funny. The character of Ice also carries a lot of laughs with him, especially because of the subplot with Lindsay, proving once again that she is a horrible and very self-centered human who doesn't even care if someone beats up her husband if it's not about her.
At the same time, there's a real realization here with the character of Gob. I've been thinking about the fact for a few episodes now that he really doesn't have a lot of friends. Most of the people he hang out with are women he has sex with. I think the episode, underneath all the jokes they made on his behalf, actually touched on a very core element of Gob's character, which is his loneliness. They've done this in previous episodes and his relationship to Michael, but it was touched upon in fine fashion and jokes in this.
And that also jumps into the performance aspects with Will Arnett truly killing it in this episode. He's depression arc is so funny and only gets funnier with his instant shift in tone when he thinks that Michael is bailing on him to go to Mexico. There's a lot of different dimensions to this character and I think Arnett nails every single one of them. The same with Jessica Walter, who continues to excel as the horrible Lucille Bluth. Never has negligence or indecency been as funny as it is with her, and Walter completely disappears into this horrible woman.
"Amigos" is one of the funnier episodes of the season so far, mostly because it doesn't focus much on character development, but on pure fun. There is some development and it's very good, but the ridiculous ideas explored in the episode with the whole Mexico trip is what brings the magic out in this one.
- lassegalsgaard
- Jul 14, 2022