Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of the Bluth Company ix
INTRODUCTION 1 Kristopher Phillips
PART ONE FAMILY FIRST
1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7 Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman
2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor 23 Deborah R. Barnbaum
3 Freudian Arrested Development 33 Tim Jung
4 Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46 Daniel P. Malloy
PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL
5 Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution 61 Jeff Ewing
6 Family First: How Not to Run a Business 73 Brett Gaul
7 Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class Status 85 Rachel McKinney
PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES
8 What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in Arrested Development 99 J. Jeremy Wisnewski
9 "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in Arrested Development 111 M. E. Verrochi
10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested Development 123 Darci Doll
11 I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in Arrested Development 136 Kristopher Phillips
PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY
12 You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft 151 Michael Cholbi
13 Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge? 162 Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips
14 Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development, Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation 172 Michael Da Silva
PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED
15 No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason 185 Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco
16 "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development 197 Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew Holmes
17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210 Erin Fay and Willie Young
PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . .
18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning 227 Tyler Shores
CONTRIBUTORS: Banana Stand Employee Roster 241
INDEX: Banana Stand Inventory 247