Line #95 Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentOneShotCharacters


1	Tropes pertaining to the various [[OneShotCharacter One-Shot Characters]] of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. [[Characters/ArrestedDevelopment Click here to return to the main index]].
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3	[[Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentTheBluths The Bluths]] \| [[Characters/ArrestedDevelopmentRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] \| '''One-Shot Characters'''
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7	!!Appearing in Season 1
8	[[folder:Johnny Bark]]
9	!!Johnny Bark ("Key Decisions"[[note]]and a cameo in "Colony Collapse"[[/note]])
10	!!!Played by: Creator/ClintHoward
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13	Johnny Bark is a protestor who appears in "Key Decisions", protecting a tree that the Bluth family were to cut down. He is the father of Marky Bark, an important character in Season 4.
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15	* CelebrityParadox: With Clint’s brother Ron Howard appearing in season 4 and 5. Ron does mentions that he and his brother watched the fake moon landing, though possibly because of this trope, he’s never mentioned by name. Clint also is absent from the Howard family barbecue in season 5.
16	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Ambiguous. According to Marky, he died of "natural causes": being attacked by bees and then falling out of a tree. However, we later see him, "very much alive", in "Colony Collapse". Whether this chronologically took place before "Indian Takers", or whether Marky was mistaken or joking is not specified.]]
17	[[/folder]]
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19	[[folder:Jessie Bowers]]
20	!!Jessie Bowers ("Public Relations")
21	!!!Played by: Creator/JillRitchie
22	[[quoteright:271:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1x11_public_relations_28_1960.png]]
23	->''"Race you to the top of the hill!"''
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25	A publicist whom Michael hires to work for the Bluth company, and starts dating at the same time. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]When Michael asks her to take their relationship slowly to protect George Michael, she quits and goes on to [[BitchInSheepsClothing manipulate George Michael]] and criticised Lindsay and Lucille in her newspaper article.[[/labelnote]]
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27	%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: She doesn't take [[spoiler:Michael suggesting taking their relationship slower]] well at all.
28	* BestServedCold: After [[spoiler:Michael inadvertently breaks up with her, she enacts revenge by telling George Michael that he's preventing his father's happiness and portraying Lindsay and Lucille negatively in her article.]]
29	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She tries to get revenge on the Bluth family [[DisproportionateRetribution just because Michael suggested taking things slowly]]. This involved telling George Michael that he was getting in the way of his father's life, and writing Lindsay off as a "combative, entitled princess" in the newspaper.]]
30	* GirlOfTheWeek: She's Michael's crush in "Public Relations", and a relationship that doesn't last longer than that episode. [[spoiler:She ends up revealing herself as a BitchInSheepsClothing and the episode's MonsterOfTheWeek.]]
31	* MonsterOfTheWeek: [[spoiler:Of "Public Relations", after she reveals herself to be a BitchInSheepsClothing.]]
32	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Lindsay and Lucille attempt to do this to her after [[spoiler:reading her article]], but Michael stops them. [[spoiler:That is, until he hears what she did to George Michael, upon which he tells her that [[PapaWolf she's on her own]].]]
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35	[[folder:Earl Milford]]
36	!!Earl Milford ("Public Relations")
37	!!!Played by: Creator/DonPerry
38	->''"Children should be neither seen, nor heard."''
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40	The founder of the prestigious Milford school. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]He appears in person later in "Public Relations", when he goes missing after participating in GOB's Aztec Tomb illusion, which leads to GOB being suspected for his possible kidnapping and/or murder. He later shows up in GOB's trunk, and promises GOB that he will be known as a hero for freeing him from the violent nursing home. However, TheStinger implies that he died before GOB could hold the press conference.[[/labelnote]]
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42	* BigSleep: [[spoiler:According to GOB, "He's resting."]]
43	* ChekhovsGunman: He's mentioned early on in the episode, only to becomes important later on.
44	* ChildHater: A firm believer that children should neither be seen ''nor'' heard.
45	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He used GOB's magic trick as an opportunity to escape the retirement home.]]
46	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:TheStinger implies that he passed away while in GOB's trunk.]]
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49	[[folder:Ira Gilligan]]
50	!!Ira Gilligan ("Best Man for the GOB")
51	!!!Played by: Creator/MichaelHitchcock
52	->''"Let it ring."''
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54	Ira Gilligan is the Bluths' accountant who causes trouble for the business when he refuses to lie about a large sum of money he found was missing were he asked to testify. To stop this from becoming a problem, George plans to use GOB's supposed bachelor party to get him drunk and convince him that he has killed a stripper and force him to flee the country with GOB's honeymoon tickets. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]The plan doesn't work due to Bix (one of the hot cops) making him the designated driver, and Buster drinking the fake blood, and he declares the he will testify against the Bluths. It later turns out that he was signatory to the accounts, making him the one to steal the money in the first place, and he uses it to flee to a tropical island with the stripper.[[/labelnote]]
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56	* AccidentalMisnaming: While he prefers to be called "Ira" over "Gilligan", both GOB and George ignore this fact.
57	-->'''George''': Gilligan has promised me that all this money will be safe in [=IRAs=].\
58	'''Ira Gilligan''': It’s Ira, sir.\
59	'''George''': Oh, I’m sorry, Gilligan. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Will be safe in Iras]].
60	* AffablyEvil: He is generally polite and is only seen as a threat to the business because he refuses to lie about money that went missing, [[spoiler:and yet he has been stealing money from the Bluths for years.]]
61	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:He was behind the missing money from the accounts.]]
62	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He gets away with stealing money from the Bluths for years, and ends up getting a TropicalEpilogue.]]
63	* LastNameBasis: Much to his chagrin, both George and GOB refuse to address him by his first name.
64	* SophisticatedAsHell: "Well, the hell with you, sir."
65	* TropicalEpilogue: [[spoiler:The last shot of him in the episode is him relaxing in a pool chair at a tropical island after fleeing the country with the stolen money.]]
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68	!!Appearing in Season 2
69	[[folder:Michael Moore]]
70	!!Michael Moore [[spoiler:Lookalike]] ("The One Where Michael Leaves")
71	!!!Played by: [[spoiler:Creator/MikeRandalman]]
72	->''"Oh yeah. Would you enlist your son or daughter in the army?"''
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74	Showing up in the first episode of Season 2, Creator/MichaelMoore sets in motion a major Season 2 storyline when his comment inspires Lucille to enlist Buster for the army. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]In "Out on a Limb", it is revealed that it wasn't even Michael Moore at all, but a lookalike filming a sketch for ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive''[[/labelnote]]
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76	* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:To Michael Moore, as it turns out.]]
77	-->'''Michael''': First of all, [[spoiler:it wasn't Michael Moore, it was a Michael Moore lookalike, and it wasn't in front of the whole country, it was for a bit... on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'']]
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80	[[folder:Doctor Stein]]
81	!!Doctor Frank Stein ("Sword of Destiny")
82	!!!Played by: Creator/DanCastellaneta
83	->'''GOB''': ''My [[spoiler:middle finger and index finger]] are...''\
84	'''Dr. Stein''': Switched! ''For the first time ever!''
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86	An overambitious doctor who is assigned to Michael's case when he lands himself in hospital in "Sword of Destiny". [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]He also operates on GOB's fingers, which he reattaches, but not without switching them around.[[/labelnote]]
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88	* MadDoctor: Seriously, the things he does to Michael and GOB... how was he not fired long ago?
89	* MeaningfulName: One of his trainees calls him Frank in TheStinger, revealing his full name to be [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Stein]].
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92	!!Appearing in Season 3
93	[[folder:Nellie]]
94	!!Nellie ("Family Ties")
95	!!!Played by: Creator/JustineBateman
96	->'''Narrator''': ''It wasn't a great story. Nellie was just a great listener. Most prostitutes are.''
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98	Nellie is a woman Michael believes is his long-lost older sister, Nellie Bluth, whose company account ("N. Bluth") George has been using for stashing away illegal money. She turns out to be a prostitute whom George was involved with back in the day, working for a mysterious pimp named "Frank".
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100	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Subverted near the end of "Family Ties", when George realises that the money from the N. Bluth account, access to which Michael had granted to Nellie, was drained, and the two are convinced that she stole the money and ran.]]
101	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:She ended up using the money in the "N. Bluth" account to pay the Bluth employees their overdue paychecks and get them new computers and equipment.]]
102	* MistakenForProstitute: Inverted: Michael doesn't realise that she's a prostitute for most of the episode.
103	* ReallyGetsAround: As a prostitute, this is her job. In the episode, she sleeps with [[spoiler:GOB, George (in a flashback), and ''all of the Bluth company employees''. In a subversion, however, they are all sequentially revealed to not have had sex with her at all, instead just ending up crying on the floor.]]
104	* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Michael thinks she is his older sister, which would mean she was just a little older than him when they were growing up. However, it turns out she was his father's prostitute, so unless the flashback to George [[RunningGag crying on the floor in front of her]] was much more recent than it is implied, it would seem she is much older than Michael.]]
105	* RedHerring: [[spoiler:She isn't N. Bluth, nor is she related to the Bluths at all.]]
106	* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing that Michael suspects she is [[spoiler:his long lost sister]] spoils the fact that [[spoiler:N. Bluth isn't Michael (or '''N'''ichael as it turns out), but another family member named Nellie]], the main twist of "Fakin' It" (the episode preceding Nellie's first, and only, appearance).
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109	[[folder:Saddam Hussein Lookalikes]]
110	!!The Saddam Hussein Lookalikes ("Exit Strategy")
111	!!!Al No' Mani, David Kavandi, James Evans and Larry Thomas
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113	Several Saddam Hussein lookalikes found by Michael, GOB and Buster in the Iraq model home. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]]It's revealed in TheStinger of "Exit Strategy" that Achmed, the only named lookalike and the one with a distinctive scar, actually is the real Saddam Hussein, while a lookalike was tried for his crimes instead.[[/labelnote]]
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115	* AffablyEvil: Although they're working for Saddam Hussein, they seem like nice guys, [[spoiler:with the exception of Achmed]].
116	* CallBack: In "For British Eyes Only", George claimed that he met Saddam Hussein under false pretences, and that he thought the man in the photo was [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} the Soup Nazi]]. Come "Exit Strategy", and Achmed, one of the Saddam lookalikes, is played by Larry Thomas, the Soup Nazi's actor. [[spoiler:What's more, the ending of the episode implies that he actually is the real Saddam Hussein.]]
117	* DistinguishingMark: Achmed has a distinctive scar across his face, which is seen as a problem if he is to be impersonating Saddam Hussein.
118	-->[[spoiler:'''Saddam Hussein (Lookalike?)''': I'm [=NoScar=]! [[BrickJoke ...dot com!]]]]
119	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Throughout their appearance, there are many hints to [[spoiler:Achmed being the real Saddam Hussein. When seen, Achmed is focussed intently on the trial being played on television, and Achmed also claims that he could do a better impression of Saddam than any of the others.]]
120	* {{Walking Spoiler}}s: Their appearance is quite the shock, and their mere existence spoils [[LateArrivalSpoiler a much earlier twist]]. TheReveal that [[spoiler:Achmed is the real Saddam Hussein]] makes it even worse.
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