Tobias is depressed after learning that the Bluths all think he's gay. Finding his wife's copy of Eat, Pray, Love, Tobias is also inspired to go to India, and ends up booking a trip to the same city Lindsay did. Despite traveling on the same flight and other close encounters, neither Tobias or Lindsay are aware of each other being there. Hospitalized due to a bus accident, a comment from an Indian doctor that he should be in comedies motivates Tobias to try again to become an actor and he returns to California. At his method acting class, actually a methadone clinic, he befriends a patient named DeBrie who he thinks is an actress. After a double-date with Lindsay and Marky Bark, DeBrie learns that Tobias is a doctor and can write drug prescriptions ("scrips" for short). After a kiss, the two run off together and pathetically attempt to make it as Fantastic Four-themed street performers. After Tobias saves Lucille 2 from an ostrich attack, she offers him a job at her rehab clinic, which has a starting salary of $120,000 a year, but Tobias turns it out to try to keep his and DeBrie's "dream" alive. DeBrie is upset by this and leaves Tobias. Depressed once more, Tobias tries to meet Maeby while still in his Thing costume. Walking into the model home making inadvertent innuendos, he is accidentally a participant on a local show called "To Entrap a Local Predator" and is arrested as a sex offender.
Tropes:
- Ashcan Copy: In-Universe. In the 90s, Imagine Entertainment quickly cobbled together an extremely cheap and sloppy made Fantastic Four film, after Ron Howard was told at a company Christmas party by a drunk lawyer that Imagine would lose the license if they didn't do something with it within six days. The bartender team of the Christmas party was then hired to play the lead roles, and they were hired to tend bar again at the film's wrap party six days later.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Tobias at the funeral of his new agent.Tobias: Well, then I shall redouble my efforts so that he died in vain.(people looking at him in disbelieve)Tobias: Meaning he will have led a pointless life.
- Everybody Knew Already: Lindsay reveals this to Tobias, but he is still in denial about his sexual alignment.
- "I Know What We Can Do" Cut: Lampshaded by Tobias."I think I may have just "the thing". ... Cut to..."
- How We Got Here: The episode opens with the reality show setup but then goes back to show how Tobias ended up there in his costume.
- Overly Stereotypical Disguise: Not a disguise, but we see Tobias and other Western people on the plane wearing overly stereotypical costumes of their destination countries.
- Phrase Catcher: Tobias is commonly called an "anus tart" because of his new license plate.
- The Problem with Pen Island: Once again, Tobias falls victim to this when he decides to show off his determination for a new start in life with a(nother) Vanity License Plate: A NU START, with no spaces.
