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Recap / Arrested Development S4E12 "Señoritis"

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Maeby, having repeated her high school senior year for the past five years, tries to find an undercover cop at her school, only to discover that the cop is Lucille 2's Hispanic foster child and Maeby's boyfriend, Perfecto Telles.


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  • Attack Backfire: Maeby plans to gather incriminating evidence on the undercover cop (whom she believes to be Perfecto) so that he won't be able to get her kicked out of her fifth year of high school. To do so, she sleeps with Perfecto, only to learn that he isn't the undercover cop, and isn't even of legal age. This gets her thrown in jail by the real cop, Rocky Richter.
  • Double-Meaning Title: On "senioritis" (as Maeby has repeated her senior year five times) and "Seńor" (as Maeby has a Mexican boyfriend).
  • Foreshadowing: There are hints to the fact that Fakeblock isn't real, including: George Michael's constant nervousness about the company expanding (which should be a good thing), Jim Cramer saying "I never do this, hell, it's not even a stock yet. For all I know, it's not even real!" when he gives Fakeblock his first ever "Hypothetical Buy", and most notably, George Michael going to say "my software isn't even real" and changing it at the last minute to "isn't even ready".
  • Generation Xerox: Much like her father, Maeby finds herself arrested for being a sex offender. Unlike Tobias, though, she actually committed the crime she was charged with.
  • Last-Second Word Swap:
    • George Ma-haris - see Sue Donym below.
    • Spoilers for future episodes - George Michael almost reveals to Maeby that his software "isn't real", but changes it at the last second to "isn't ready".
  • Sue Donym: The alias George Maharis is the start of George Michael's real name followed by Maeby's mispronunciation of the word "heiress".
  • Wacky Startup Workplace: Spoofed when Michael is introduced to his (made-up) startup "Fakeblock" office, which is an empty hangar with employees riding around in golf carts and on bicycles.

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