Editing Arrested Development (section)

=== Season 3 (2005–06) ===
{{Main|Arrested Development season 3}}

Michael again searches for his runaway father, George Sr. Gob receives an invitation to a father/son reunion outing, and believes it to be George Sr. trying to contact him. In reality, the invitation was meant to reunite Gob with Steve Holt, son of Eve Holt, a girl Gob slept with in high school. Meanwhile, George Michael and Maeby deal with their previous kiss by avoiding each other.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Cabin Show |season=3 |number=1 |airdate=September 19, 2005 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref>

In an attempt to remain in disguise, George Sr. joins the [[Blue Man Group]]. Michael discovers this and arranges to have his father placed under [[house arrest]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=For British Eyes Only |season=3 |number=2 |airdate=September 26, 2005 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref> George Sr. claims that he was set up by an underground British group. Michael goes to Wee Britain, a fictional British-themed city district, to investigate, and in the process meets a new love interest, [[List of recurring Arrested Development characters#Rita Leeds|Rita Leeds]] ([[Charlize Theron]]). Michael and the audience are led to believe that Rita is a mole for the underground British group, working for a man named "Mr. F".<ref>{{cite episode |title=Mr. F |season=3 |number=5 |airdate=November 7, 2005 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref> However, love-struck Michael proposes to her, and the couple run off to wed. Finally, it is revealed that Rita is actually an "MRF", or "mentally retarded female". Despite Rita's "condition", the family pushes him to go forward with the marriage because Rita is wealthy and they want her money. Michael is not persuaded and gently ends the relationship just as he and Rita are about to walk down the aisle.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Ocean Walker |season=3 |number=6 |airdate=December 5, 2005 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref> Meanwhile, Tobias and Lindsay seek legal help from [[Bob Loblaw]] ([[Scott Baio]]) concerning their troubled marriage.

With the family's retainer used up because of Lindsay's and Tobias's advances, Bob Loblaw chooses to no longer represent the Bluth family. Attorney Jan Eagleman offers to represent the family, on the condition that they participate in a mock trial in a new reality courtroom show called "Mock Trial with [[Judge Reinhold|J. Reinhold]]". Musical accompaniment for the show's theme song and perceived jokes from testifying witnesses is provided by "[[William Hung]] And His Hung Jury". Michael uses an illegal threat from prosecutor [[List of Arrested Development characters#Wayne Jarvis|Wayne Jarvis]] to have the mock case "dismissed". Gob and Franklin briefly appear in another courtroom show presided over by [[Bud Cort]]. Meanwhile, Maeby and George Michael perform a mock wedding for Alzheimer's patients that is accidentally conducted by a real priest; the two become legally married.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Fakin' It |season=3 |number=10 |airdate=February 10, 2006 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref>

The family members are afraid to testify at the mock trial and at the real deposition; Buster fakes a coma, Lindsay and Lucille fake entering rehab, and Gob flees the country to perform in a [[United Service Organizations|USO Tour]] in Iraq. The deceptions are all uncovered by the prosecution, and in Iraq Gob is arrested for inadvertently inciting an anti-US riot. Buster and Michael travel to Iraq to rescue Gob, and while there, uncover evidence that the mini-palaces George Sr. built in Iraq were actually ordered and paid for by the CIA for wiretapping purposes. After this discovery, the US government drops all of the charges against George Sr. In the general confusion, everyone except George Michael forgets Maeby's sixteenth birthday.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Exit Strategy |season=3 |number=12 |series=Arrested Development |airdate=February 10, 2006 |network=Fox}}</ref>

To celebrate their victory in Iraq, the Bluths throw a shareholders' party on the {{RMS|Queen Mary}}. During preparation for the party, it is revealed that Lindsay was adopted, meaning that George Michael and Maeby are not blood relatives. At the party, the Bluth's other adopted child, Annyong, reappears. He reveals that he is there to avenge the Bluth family's theft of his grandfather's frozen banana idea and the cause of his subsequent deportation, an event orchestrated many years earlier by Lucille Bluth. Annyong has turned over evidence implicating Lucille in the Bluth Company's accounting scandals. Before the police arrive, Michael and George Michael flee on Gob's yacht, ''The C-Word'', and depart to Cabo with half a million dollars in cashier's checks, finally leaving the family to fend for themselves. However, it is revealed in the epilogue that George Sr. is also on the yacht, having lured his brother Oscar into taking his place once again. Also in the epilogue, Maeby tries to sell the television rights to the story of the Bluth family to Ron Howard, who tells her that he sees it as a movie rather than a series.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Development Arrested |season=3 |number=13 |airdate=February 10, 2006 |series=Arrested Development |network=Fox}}</ref>