G.O.B.
Full name	George Oscar Bluth, Jr.
Portrayed by	Will Arnett
Age	43-44
Profession	Magician, briefly president of the Bluth Company
Location	Yacht (Season One)
Involvement	Member of the Bluth Family
Appearances "Pilot" ··· "Development Arrested"
Pictures of G.O.B.

George Oscar Bluth Jr., better known as G.O.B., is the son and oldest child of Lucille and George Bluth Sr.. He is the older brother to Michael, Buster, and Lindsay.

BiographyEdit

Pronounced "Jobe," his name is often mispronounced as "gawb". He works as a magician, and was founder of The Alliance of Magicians, although he was kicked out after a news reporter, Trisha Thoon, revealed the secret of the Aztec Tomb on television. He also served as president of the Bluth Company so Michael wouldn't go to jail, though he gave up the job in order to work for Stan Sitwell. He was fired by Sitwell after failing to come up with different ideas for housing projects. He was for a short while a male stripper. That career quickly ended when he was almost shot in the head through a door.

George Sr. paid little attention to G.O.B. as a child and has no respect for him as an adult. G.O.B.'s mother openly loathes him. On several occasions, G.O.B. and Michael realized that their rivalry has been nurtured by their father and mother's manipulations. G.O.B. is known to be the womanizer of the Bluth family. Eventually, G.O.B. discovers that he is the father of the teenage jock Steve Holt . Toward the end of Season One G.O.B. marries a dealer of trained seals, (played by Will Arnett's real-life wife Amy Poehler), in a series of escalating dares. She later becomes infatuated with Tobias Fünke, G.O.B.'s brother-in-law, and joins the army in the hopes of avoiding her attraction.

When his confidence is shattered or challenged, he will burst into tears and cry with self-loathing or take extreme measures to cease the disgust he feels in himself. Examples of this include the time when he attempted to hang himself with his belt after being questioned about topics he was ignorant in, or when he ingested a 'forget-me-now' pill in order to forget that he has a son. When upset or excited, G.O.B. often drops words like "the" or "at" from his sentences, saying things like "Look at Banner!" and "Still mad me, Michael?"

Despite G.O.B.'s "womanizing" abilities, he has no real friends; his closest friends are the Hot Cops, a group of male strippers with whom G.O.B. once worked before almost getting his head blown off while on the job. He uses the Hot Cops in many situations, including a fake drug bust and for fake friends at a bachelor party. His best friend is Michael, though he denies it.

He is also the original creator and inspiration for the Mr. Bananagrabber character. Although he retains most of the rights to the character, he gave away the animation rights to Michael. It was later made into an animated television series that became an infrequent background joke. He also briefly had a ventriloquist act with a stereotyped African-American doll named Franklin Delano Bluth. G.O.B. and Franklin produce an album together named Franklin Comes Alive. He is frequently seen throughout the series getting around on a Segway, which has a pouch that says "G.O.B." on it. G.O.B.'s oft repeated lines are "Come on!" and, "I've made a huge mistake" which are also used in various forms by himself and other characters.

GalleryEdit

External linksEdit

• http://inconvenientbluth.blogspot.com/2009/03/george-oscar-gob-bluth-jr.html The Inconvenient Bluth Profile

Main Arrested Development Characters
Buster • G.O.B. • George Michael • George, Sr. • Linsday • Lucille Bluth • Maeby • Michael • Tobias
Ann • Annyong • Barry Zuckerkorn • Bob Loblaw • Ice • Kitty • Larry Middleman • Lucille 2 • Lupe • Maggie Lizer • Marta • Mort Meyers • Oscar • Rita • Stan Sitwell • Steve Holt • Tony Wonder • Uncle Trevor • Wife of G.O.B.
All characters