After Ice reveals that George Sr. has been executed in Mexico, the family holds a wake. Gob attempts an illusion in which he is buried in place of his father's body. This upsets Buster, who was told that it was a birthday party. George Michael discovers George Sr. alive in an underground bunker and hides him in the attic.
The Arrested Development episode "Good Grief" provides examples of:
- Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe. Gob, unaware that Bluth Company employee Gary is gay, makes a number of comments that could be interpreted as come-ons. Given that it's Gob, this is mostly to showcase how oblivious he is. The magicians' magazine Poof is also a source of this. Later, George Michael says, "I have Pop-Pop in the attic". Michael thinks this is an Unusual Euphemism for sex, but George Michael is referring to his grandfather.
- All Part of the Show: Everybody believes GOB dropping into the ditch was part of the show and so they clap.
- Batman in My Basement: George Michael and his father hide George Sr. in the attic of their model house.
- Call-Back: Michael hides George Sr. in the Aztec Tomb and makes the rest of his family think he's escaped so as not to implicate them.
- Dramatic Irony: The family members have a wake for George Sr. while he is hiding in the attic, hearing every word. The only one of them who knows he is actually there is George Michael. This is even lampshaded when Gob says "Boy, I'm glad Dad wasn't around to see that".
- Hourglass Plot: At first, George Michael is the only one to know George Sr. is alive and hiding in the attic, which he badly hides from Michael. Come the end of the episode, everybody, including George Michael, thinks George Sr. has escaped, and it is now Michael who is one only one to know George Sr. is still hiding in the attic and has to hide it from his son.
- Hypocritical Humour:Tobias: Here he comes. Here comes John Wayne. "I'm not gonna cry about my pa! I'm gonna build me an airport, put my name on it!" Why, Michael? So you can fly away from your feelings? You can keep them bottled up, Michael, but they will come out. Sometimes in the most unexpected... (opens refrigerator and looks inside) Hey, where THE *beep* ARE MY HARD-BOILED EGGS!?! (walks away dejectedly)
- Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Ann tells George Michael how his father is always interrupting them. Cue Michael coming along on his bike, interrupting the two once again.
- Literary Allusion Title: To Peanuts.
- Ransacked Room: In the epilogue, Lucille comes home to find her apartment turned over by Buster.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Ice, the Scary Black Man bounty hunter hired by GOB, sidelines as a caterer, which is the field he's actually most interested in.
- Shout-Out:
- In addition to the title, there are a number of other ones to Peanuts and its spinoffs. "The frozen banana maker is out" sign is modelled after Lucy's "The doctor is out" sign on her psychiatric help stand. Several characters walk the way Charlie Brown does in the animated specials, with their head and shoulders slumped over, and the song "Christmastime Is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas plays. One of these shots has a beagle sleeping on top of a red cartoonish dog house in the background, the way Snoopy does in the comic strips.
- Tobias compares Michael to John Wayne; see Hypocritical Humour above.
- Skewed Priorities: Gob seems more concerned with making sure his illusion has the maximum impact (it predictably fails embarrassingly) than with the wake.
