- homosexual
- Tobias thinks the British are saying he’s a tourist when they call him a “poofter,” which, in reality, is slang for a homosexual. CONTEXT
- horny
- Rita tells Michael, “Rita corny,” a play George, Sr.’s “Daddy horny” from Visiting Ours. CONTEXT
- Mr. Roboto
- Buster dancing to Styx’s Mr. Roboto (“Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”) is a reference to Tony Hale’s early work in a commercial for the 1999 Volkswagen Golf where he’s seen dancing and singing to the same song. CONTEXT
- on the next Arrested Development
- “Michael relives a wedding nightmare.”
- the mere fact... means that you’re not ready
- Trevor telling Rita that the fact she calls it “pop-pop” means she’s not ready directly parallels Michael and George Michael in Good Grief. CONTEXT
- Michael also says that the mere fact that Rita calls it “sexual relations” means she is ready. CONTEXT
- miscellany
- banner, Bumpaddle, club sauce, Her?, Legoland, Real Cricket Magazine, sexual relations, The Ocean Walker, thing of candy beans, wink, “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
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- Broadcast 306
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- December 5, 2005
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After Michael announces he’s marrying Rita, George, Sr. worries that she’s after their family’s money. But when Rita’s Uncle Trevor tries to stop the wedding by revealing some surprising information about Rita, Michael must decide if he wants to walk down the aisle.
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George Michael: I’m sorry. We really should get another tape.
Michael: Mm.
George Michael: I mean, they’re not expensive.
| CONTEXT |
George Michael: Well, I’ve been thinking. You know, I mean, every society has their own rules about this stuff. For instance, in some states, it’s legal to marry your own cousin. California’s blocked it twice, but that’s only because they tacked it onto an estate law thing that wasn’t gonna pass. We had the signatures...
Michael: You’re 16, and you know all that. She’s 30 and a half. She probably can’t list the seven Houses of Parliament.
George Michael: There’s three.
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« Older posts#312 Pastor Veal wrote on January 30, 2006:
Amazing Grant wrote:Pastor Veal wrote:Um... this is kinda strange, but can someone explain the "tiny Teddy" joke? Rita says she wants to bring her tiny teddy, and Michael can’t wait to get it... what does that mean? I’m guessing there’s a joke there, but I don’t know what it is...
A teddy is a piece of slinky women’s lingerie, which is what Michael thought she meant. But she meant her tiny teddy bear. Guffaws for all.
Ah... that makes more sense.
#313 Zero wrote on April 14, 2006:
Is it just me, or was it NOT funny the way everyone reacted to Rita’a ideas when they found out her mental conidtion.
#314 neognosis wrote on August 23, 2006:
Read through this entire thread and haven’t seen an explanation for Rita’s line:
I know what it is, Trevor, I’ve seen your secret magazine. I want to have grown-up fun. Spoon and figgy pudding. Rabbitown dum druggary’s hollow. And I want to have pop-pop.
I don’t get the middle part. Translation, anyone?
#315 ACR wrote on August 23, 2006:
http://the-op.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2961[url]
Hey, check that out cos someone else was trying to get a translation from some of our British chums
#316 neognosis wrote on August 23, 2006:
Thanks. Figured they were just euphemisms. They sound even dirtier though. Maybe it’s just me.
#317 Beatrice wrote on September 13, 2006:
I still don’t know why Michael didn’t marry Rita. sure, she was [spoiler]retarded[/spoiler], but they loved each other. she just left for no reason. we were never really told why she had to go back to Big Britain.
#318 Mr. M wrote on September 13, 2006:
Beatrice wrote:I still don’t know why Michael didn’t marry Rita. sure, she was [spoiler]retarded[/spoiler], but they loved each other. she just left for no reason. we were never really told why she had to go back to Big Britain.
She had to go back to Britain because Michael called the bobbies on her at the end of "Mr. F."
#319 Beatrice wrote on September 14, 2006:
ok. i guess i have to watch Mr. F again...
thanx for the info.
#320 Beatriceblake wrote on December 09, 2006:
She had to go back to Britain because Michael called the bobbies on her at the end of "Mr. F."
She could have stayed in Orange County if she had married Michael because she would have gotten a green card.
I thought Michael didn’t marry Rita because as Trevor said, she was incapable of making such a commitment as she had the mental age of a small child.
More prosaically they didn’t get married because they probably couldn’t afford Charlize Theron for thirteen episodes and because main characters don’t get to be happy and settled until the very end of the show and only then if they are lucky.
#321 Beatrice wrote on December 20, 2006:
i’m still amazed that fox didn’t promote the show with charlize theron. shes’ not even on the dvd box! i dont’ get it!
but i gotcha. thanks for the rita info.
