Visiting Ours

Michael (Jason Bateman) fails to get information about some international accounts from his father, so he goes to George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor)'s assistant Kitty (Judy Greer) for the information. Lucille (Jessica Walter) calls Michael saying their club membership has been downgraded and orders him to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, Gob (Will Arnett) moves into the Bluth Company office, where he plans to write a letter to the prison warden, who has denied the legitimacy of Gob's "escape" from prison. Michael decides to manipulate Kitty's attraction to Gob to get the information he wants.

Meanwhile, Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) and Tobias (David Cross) prepare for their first marriage therapy session, and Maeby (Alia Shawkat) and George Michael (Michael Cera) decide to follow them, though George Michael is reluctant and instead suggests visiting George Sr. George Michael tells Michael he wants to visit George Sr., and Gob tussles with Kitty while Lindsay and Tobias visit a couples therapist (Bob Odenkirk). Michael heads back to the prison with George Michael, but George Sr. is convinced that he is going to die in the prison after a softball game becomes violent and becomes unstable in front of George Michael. Once George Sr. calms down, he tells Michael that he wants Lucille to make a conjugal visit. Lindsay and Tobias play a role-reversal game in therapy with the therapist.

Michael arrives home to find that Gob is repulsed by the idea of his parents sharing a conjugal trailer; Gob tells him that he has had sex with Kitty but didn't get the information. Michael drops by the prison again, this time with his mother, and puts her into one of the conjugal trailers. George Sr. is shocked to see that Kitty is waiting for him in the other trailer, as they have had an affair for years. George Sr. asks for help to keep the affair hidden from Lucille, and Michael calls Gob, who is already at the prison delivering his letter to the warden, to try to stall Kitty. Gob, disgusted at the thought of having sex with her again, opts to sneak out of the trailer. He immediately runs into the warden, who has just read his letter, and is detained and forced against the window of the trailer in which his parents are being intimate.

Tobias and Lindsay have another session of therapy, and George Sr. admits to Michael that he "may have committed some light treason."

"Visiting Ours" was directed by Greg Mottola and written by co-executive producer John Levenstein and consulting producer Richard Rosenstock.{{Cite web |last=Manager |first=Mr |date=2019-02-16 |title=Season 1, Episode 5: Visiting Ours |url=https://deconstructingad.com/2019/02/16/season-1-episode-5-visiting-ours/ |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=Deconstructing Arrested Development |language=en}} It was Mottola's first directing credit, and Levenstein and Rosenstock's second writing credits.{{Cite web |title=Arrested Development |url=https://directories.wga.org/project/192692/arrested-development/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=directories.wga.org |archive-date=2024-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711130404/https://directories.wga.org/project/192692/arrested-development/ |url-status=live }} It was the third episode of the ordered season to be filmed after the pilot.{{Cite web |date=2011-10-30 |title=20th Century Fox - Fox In Flight |url=http://www.foxinflight.com/tv/8/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030035137/http://www.foxinflight.com/tv/8/ |archive-date=2011-10-30 }}

In the United States, the episode was watched by 6.31 million viewers on its original broadcast.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-24 |title=Nielsen report.(week of December 1-7, 2003)(Illustration) - Daily Variety {{!}} HighBeam Research |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-111980051.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924052857/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-111980051.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}

The A.V. Club writer Noel Murray praised the episode, but stated that it starts to "show some seams", though notes that it "is relative to the show’s peaks."{{Cite web |date=2011-06-15 |title=Arrested Development: "Visiting Ours"/"Charity Drive" |url=https://www.avclub.com/arrested-development-visiting-ours-charity-drive-1798168592 |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en |archive-date=2024-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707011930/https://www.avclub.com/arrested-development-visiting-ours-charity-drive-1798168592 |url-status=live }} In 2015, Megan Walsh from Screen Rant ranked the episode as one of the top ten best of the series.{{cite web |author=Megan Walsh |date=November 12, 2015 |title=10 Best Episodes of Arrested Development |url=https://screenrant.com/best-arrested-development-episodes/ |accessdate=July 24, 2020 |publisher=Screen Rant}} In 2019, Brian Tallerico from Vulture ranked the episode as the 18th best of the whole series.{{Cite web |last=Tallerico |first=Brian |date=2019-03-18 |title=Every Episode of Arrested Development, Ranked |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/arrested-development-every-episode-ranked-worst-to-best.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Vulture |language=en |archive-date=2020-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708110816/https://www.vulture.com/article/arrested-development-every-episode-ranked-worst-to-best.html |url-status=live }}

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