Sitcom · 2000s
Arrested Development
Afternoon Delight
The Bluths' office party: roasted staff, an ill-timed sacking and a rogue banana stand.
- American
Content note: Adult innuendo, drug jokes and a certain amount of banana-stand carnage
Fox
2004
First shown 19 Dec 2004
- First shown
- 19 December 2004
- Channel
- Fox
- Runtime
- 22 mins
- Genre
- Sitcom
Where to watch
- Netflix
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It is the Bluth Company Christmas party, which means the family's finances are a mess and so are the family. Gob expects a heartfelt toast from the staff and gets something rather more roasted, so he sacks the lot. Michael has to put the party, and the staff, back together while his son and sister both feel hopelessly left out, and Lucille ends up having a very different evening from the one anyone planned. Somewhere in there are a blue man, a karaoke duet and the famous banana stand. Not one for the grandchildren, but a fine antidote to the saintly Christmas specials.
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