Charity Drive 

Michael trades in his bicycle for his father's car and ends up giving a ride to a complete stranger who mistakes Michael for a killer.

Director:

Greg Mottola

Writers:

Mitchell Hurwitz (created by), Barbie Adler (as Barbie Feldman Adler)

Stars:

Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Bateman	...	Michael Bluth
Portia de Rossi	...	Lindsay Bluth Fünke
Will Arnett	...	Gob Bluth
Michael Cera	...	George-Michael Bluth
Alia Shawkat	...	Maeby Fünke
Tony Hale	...	Buster Bluth
David Cross	...	Tobias Fünke
Jeffrey Tambor	...	George Bluth Sr.
Jessica Walter	...	Lucille Bluth
Liza Minnelli	...	Lucille Austero
Judy Greer	...	Kitty Sanchez
Mel Gorham	...	Helen Maria Delgado
B.W. Gonzalez	...	Lupe
James Howell	...	Cop #1
Bruno Oliver	...	Guard

Storyline

During a heat wave, Michael discovers that his siblings have been hiding his father's Mercedes from him. Lindsay chastises him for not doing anything charitable so he picks up a woman, Helen, whom he thinks is his mother's new housekeeper Lupe. Lindsay, who has conversely been chastised by Michael decides to volunteer to clean up the wetlands. She finds herself horribly out of her comfort zone and calls Michael to pick her up. She finds her cab but forgets to call Michael, who shows up with Helen. Helen flees and Michael goes to the Save the Wetlands Bachelorette Auction to support his mother. He sees that Lindsay, sunburnt and in ill-shape, did try to be charitable and saves her from humiliation by bidding $1,000 on her. When Michael finds that Gob has been hiding the family car and taking free frozen bananas from the Banana Stand he tells him off in front of George Michael. When Kitty tells Michael that George never filed some building permits, George tells Michael to have Gob break...

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Plot Keywords:

candy apple | chipped tooth | charity | car | police officer | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

On the side of the activists' bus are posters that say "Save The Marsh Toad". There's actually a species called "Marsh Frog", so this can all be related to the one Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) killed.

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Goofs

The prop used for Buster's archaeological dig is a porcelain copy of a Homo erectus skull which Buster breaks with a distinct porcelain sound. A real fossil would not likely be hollow. More importantly Homo erectus lived approximately between 1.4 million to 300,000 years ago throughout Africa, Asia, Parts of Europe and some Pacific islands. There has never been evidence of Homo erectus in The Americas and any such discovery would be a major scientific find. According to current scientific knowledge, Homo sapiens is the first and only homonid species to inhabit the Americas and arrived between 15,000-12,000 years ago.

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Quotes

Gob: Give me a Gob!
George-Michael Bluth: Gob!
Gob: No, I didn't mean for you to yell my name at me. It's what I call a double-dipped banana with everything on it.

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Connections

Featured in The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards 2004 (2004)

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Soundtracks

Going Up the Country
(uncredited)
Written by Alan Wilson
Performed by Canned Heat

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 November 2003 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 5, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Imagine Television, The Hurwitz Company, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

21 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1