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* but some people are aware

* Seemingly confirmed in season 4, where he clearly falls in love with a woman. [[spoiler: Having the family finally tell him about his AmbiguouslyGay characteristics led to a couple of behavior changes that also halfway cleared up the issue of his sexuality.]]

* Assuming the "documentary" is produced by Ron Howard in-universe (and season 4 offers that as the most likely possibility), it'd seem odd for him to try to make the Bluth's look good. He has a lot of reasons to dislike the Bluths. He might be trying to make them look pitiful, in the literal and bad sense of the word.

The Narrator said that if George Michael and Maeby ever had a kid, it would "be stupid," much like Rita Leeds was, because her parents were cousins.
* Or, they could be BookDumb, because they take after Maeby.
* Maybe Michael was also adopted, and turns out to be from the same family as Lindsay.
* Or Maeby's father Tobias is a Bluth who was given up for adoption before the birth of GOB. He does seem to have George's hair, after all. Note also that Lucille calls Tobias a "Nelly" in reference to his TransparentCloset sexuality after Michael suspects a "Nellie Bluth" exists somewhere; just the sort of Foreshadowing the show liked to do.
* Or GOB is somehow Maeby's father. They both are very similar in both intelligence and personalty. Both lie and manipulate constantly and both feel under appreciated by their parents. Also, both Gob and Maeby believe that Portugal is in South America.

[[WMG: Had the show continued, Michael's child by Maggie Lizer would have been important...]]
...and she would have named him Chareth.
* Unless I missed something, didn't we find out the baby wasn't his? That she was a surrogate for a gay couple, and it was their baby?
** In the "On The Next..." segment at the end of that episode, it's implied that Maggie is pregnant with Michael's child due to their break-up sex. Of course, the canon status of those segments is variable.

[[WMG: Kitty used the 250 cc of George, Sr. to impregnante herself.]]

** We most certainly do see her again after coming out of rehab. We see her again in Season 4 however no mention of a child is ever made. So this is still a {{WMG}}

[[WMG: Sally Sitwell [[spoiler: Murdered Lucille Austero and pinned the murder on Buster]]]]
Evidence:
* [[spoiler: Lucille 2's body vanishes from the stairs. The character most likely to pull off an illusion like that is Tony Wonder (or possibly Gob, but he has no motive to kill Lucille 2. Plus the illusion actually ''works''.) We know Tony is involved with Sally, and that the next day he's taken a Forget-Me-Now -- maybe that wasn't because he was ashamed of what happened with Gob but because Sally drugged him to cover her tracks? ETA: It looks like the time on the video jumps by 5 minutes between shots, meaning there'd be time for the body to be moved. However, the reveal that Tony's taken a Forget-Me-Now is still weirdly placed (if that was only meant to wrap up his storyline with Gob it could have been in the 'next time' segment of episode 11 rather than right at the end of the season)]]
** [[spoiler: Whilst Sally has motivation - she did steal money from Lucille 2 - and it's possible she organized the crime, both Tony and Sally have an alibi. Given that Michael returns to the model home to find GOB after he and Tony have slept together, that means they must have been at the house for some time. GOB leaves Cinco de Cuatro before Lucille 2's murder, and Tony arrives not long after him. Both of them have a pretty solid alibi since the whole thing was taped on the to ''To Catch a Predator'' cameras. As for Sally, [[http://lydiduh.tumblr.com/post/58934313174/food-for-thought-that-i-hadnt-seen-anyone-point she can be seen at Lindsay's speech]]. This gives Sally an alibi as well. Tony taking a Forget-Me-Now is more likely a parallel to GOB's earlier consumption of them whenever he felt shame, which is why its at the end of the season rather than at the end of GOB's episode. Since getting another season and/or a movie is pretty much a done deal, TPTB don't have to wrap everything up and can leave on a cliffhanger; because of this, each character is brought to their lowest point (Michael and George-Michael are against each other, Lindsay has turned into Lucille, etc). GOB's lowest point is finding happiness in someone else and then discovering that he's their shame, even if he was going to do the same thing.]]
* [[spoiler: She also wastes no time painting her name on the Staircar]]

[[WMG: Maeby will hire Bob Loblaw [[spoiler: to get her off the statutory rape charges.]]]]
He succeeds.

[[WMG: Micheal [[spoiler:murdered Lucille 2, but forgot because of GOB's roofies]]]]
* [[spoiler: It was accident Michael shoved her out of anger and frustration, due to here vertigo she fell down the staircar.]]
The evidence?
* [[spoiler:When Michael first enters the model home, he is clearly distressed.]]
* [[spoiler: He's wearing a different shirt, a Banana stand shirt, when he arrives at the model home.]]
* [[spoiler:The narrator says that Michael had done something that he regretted with Lucille. It's initially implied that he slept with her, but we later learned that she turned him down]]
* [[spoiler:He had one of the strongest motives to want her dead.]]
* [[spoiler: The first thing he does is to go and wash his hands.]]

[[WMG: Corollary to the above: Michael [[spoiler:didn't murder Lucille 2]]]]
[[spoiler: At the carnival, Michael runs into Lucille's brother, who's putting on Tobias's Fantastic Four musical. Buster was meant to be playing The Thing, but when we see the play later, whoever's in the costume doesn't seem to have a giant hand. Maybe that was how Michael 'debased himself' to buy more time in paying back the debt?]]
* [[spoiler: If Buster was too preoccupied to take up the role, then who else was in that suit...]]
* However, since Michael [[spoiler: was force-fed a forget-me-now and won't remember the night, he'll spend the next episode/season/movie thinking that he did it.]]

[[WMG: Gob [[spoiler: has always been gay but was too stupid/stubborn to realize it]]]]
SEASON 4 SPOILERS
[[spoiler: Gob slept with/fell in love with Tony Wonder but it's not as if him being suddenly into men is a new thing. Hell, Michael had actually exclaimed that he had always known about Gob. While not as overt as Tobias' several upon several Freudian slips, Gob has had his fair share of them. In episode 5, he actually has an exchange with Tobias who says that Gob looks like how he feels and Gob says in a rather weary voice "Gay?" which was originally construed as just yet another gag about how everybody thinks Tobias is gay, but in retrospect could've been Gob acknowledging that he was at least at that moment. Even during the original run, there were some hints. Like how he pointed to Poof magazine which had Tony Wonder on the cover and said "I should be in this Poof" (poof being slang for a gay man), his hitting on Gary about his mouth and ass and then testing his new chair with Gary on his lap, lying about sleeping with women, crying after sleeping with women, his lack of standards when it came to women he did sleep with, the list goes on]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Ann's child]] really is GOB's child.]]
In Season 4, [[spoiler: in the scene after the one where Ann sleeps with GOB, he's eating scrambled eggs that Ann prepared for him, which the camera blatantly lingers on before moving to the next scene. A joke regarding one of her nicknames, yes...but later in that episode, GOB tells Michael that after they slept together once, she "let herself go," and "her stomach is out to here." Again, Steve Holt in the same episode assumes that Job has another son. And her child ''was'' born in the right timeframe, even if she insists the father is Tony Wonder.]] It struck me as such blatant foreshadowing when I first watched it, I was stunned that there was no reveal.
* I thought it was obvious the child is GOB's.
* Technically, the timeframe's not right for [[spoiler: the kid to be GOB's. He says he's only slept with Ann one time, the night of the Queen Mary party. That's in November (since the family meeting is three months later, and seven weeks since Christmas). After that meeting, Lindsay and Tobias buy a house, which they abandon the same week as GOB's wedding. Since they spent at least one Thanksgiving in that house, there's over a year between the boat party and the wedding and the baby should have been born already. However, that's far from the only inconsistency in the s4 timeline so... yeah, the intention is probably that it's GOB's kid. Or that like Maggie Lizer's cops, GOB and Tony will end up raising the kid together without knowing for sure which one of them is the father.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:GOB's night with Tony Wonder is going to become major evidence in the investigation of Lucille 2's murder.]]]]
We're told multiple times that it's being captured on camera. [[spoiler:Tony either doesn't want to remember it or has been made to forget it.]] It would be [[spoiler:a huge scandal for GOB and the company]] if it came to light, but the timestamp would provide them both with [[spoiler:an alibi.]] Keeping with [[spoiler:GOB's]] arc of not running away from his feelings/problems, it just makes narrative sense.

[[WMG:Tobias and Barry Zuckerkorn become gay lovers AfterTheEnd.]]

* [[spoiler: At Cinco Lucille finds out that Lucille 2 had been sleeping with Oscar, whom Lucille 1 had also been sleeping with. Lucille is the one who calls GOB about Lucille 2's disappearance, and she doesn't exactly sound distressed. The company stuff and the fact that Lucille 2 is the reason Lucille 1 went to prison in the first place, she is almost tied with Michael as far as motive goes.]]

* [[spoiler: We never see her body, and there's a jump in the time stamp on the tape. Sally Sitwell believes she's been taken care of, but there's a misunderstanding and she's actually fine, but had to leave Cinco early for unknown reasons. Michael's being a mess and changing his clothes is related to a flashback the audience simply hasn't seen yet. The red of the stairs is not her blood, but something related to her fake disappearance.]]

* Buster will consult with [[Series/{{NUMB3RS}} an FBI consultant named Charlie Eppes]];
* George Sr. will [[Film/{{MuppetsFromSpace}} become the put-upon head of an alien-monitoring agency]], while Oscar [[Film/{{Hellboy}} will become the put-upon head of a paranormal investigation team]]. Or maybe I got those the wrong way round.
* Only George Michael, being too young, will be left alone and placed in a witness protection programme - though [[Film/{{ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld}} he won't be exactly immune from the strange and paranormal either]].

* ThisTroper seconds, I thought it was obvious the child is GOB's.

* Or, much more likely...

[[WMG: [[spoiler:GOB's night with Tony Wonder is going to become major evidence in [[spoiler:the investigation of Lucille 2's murder.]]]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:GOB's night with Tony Wonder]] is going to become major evidence in [[spoiler:the investigation of Lucille 2's murder.]]]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:GOB's night with Tony Wonder]] is going to become major evidence in [[spoiler:the investigation of Lucille 2's murder.]]

In Season 4, [[spoiler: in the scene after the one where Ann sleeps with GOB, he's eating scrambled eggs that Ann prepared for him, which the camera blatantly lingers on before moving to the next scene. A joke regarding one of her nicknames, yes...but later in that episode, GOB tells Michael that after they slept together once, she "let herself go," and "her stomach is out to here," and her child ''was'' born in the right timeframe, even if she insists the father is Tony Wonder.]]

** In the "On The Next..." segment at the end of that episode, it's implied that Maggie is pregnany with Michael's child due to their break-up sex. Of course, the canon status of those segments is rather changeable.