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Chain Migration

‘Chain Migration’

Season 5, Episode 11 -  Aired March 15, 2019

Oscar and Buster, still chained together and on the lam, hit the mall. Tobias and his family decamp to an outdoors store. Meanwhile, Michael waits for proof of George Sr. and Lucille's scheme to build a border wall.

Quote from Buster

Oscar: Look, I'm not I'm not in a hurry to, you know, go it alone. I mean, if you want to hang out, I mean...
Buster: You mean it?
Oscar: Sure.
Buster: Where would we go?
Oscar: Oh, I mean, we like the same things. We could go anywhere we want. I mean, the most important thing is that we're...
Buster: Inside.
Oscar: Outside.
Buster: Outside.
Oscar: Inside.
Buster: Hmm.

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Quote from Michael

Narrator: Meanwhile, another father-son team had had just about enough of their time together... [printer chimes]
Michael: Please be done.
George Michael: I think it's good.
Narrator: ...when the printing process finally concluded.
Michael: Well, it is a wall.
George Michael: Oh, shoot, know what? We didn't uncheck "Make Background Tongue."
Michael: I mean, why do they even call it Two Hour Teeth?

Quote from George Sr.

Lucille: Well, the Chinese want dinner with us.
George Sr.: They're in town?
Lucille: They want to go over plans for the wall.
George Sr.: [stammers] Wait. Did you tell them we don't have Lindsay? We lost the election. [Lucille shakes her head] We can't catch a break on this. I mean, it makes you not even want to do business with a hostile nation.

Quote from Tobias

Narrator: But before Oscar could even not share the news with Buster that they weren't on the run, Tobias would not solve a mystery he wasn't trying to solve himself.
Tobias: Oh, sorry, wrong tent. I- What am I doing, apologizing to a mannequin that looks like... Buster?
Oscar: Oh, guys, keep it down. I can hear you all the way in cano- What are you doing here?
Buster: Tobias?
Tobias: I live here.
Buster: So do we.
Tobias: Oh, not for long. Rumor has it they're gonna knock down these tents and put in a Santa Ski Village.
Buster: [sighs] Wow. Seems like we were just celebrating the second of July. We're already talking about December 19.

Quote from Tobias

Buster: Too bad we can't go back to Maeby's. She had quite a sweet setup over at the Spotted Palm.
Tobias: My daughter has a place at the Spotted Palm?
Oscar: Yeah.
Tobias: Perhaps she should get better acquainted with her sibling and mother impersonator.
Buster: No, you have to be 55 and older.
Tobias: Well, that sounds like a challenge to any family that wasn't a ragtag troupe of folks whom I wish to become actors. [chuckles]

Quote from Maeby

Narrator: As it turned out, Tobias's daughter, Maeby, had been playing a part herself, although she was eager to recast the love interest.
Maeby: Hey, how we feeling? Any better?
Stan Sitwell: I don't know. The doctor said the headache should be gone at this point. But I'm having trouble tracking time. But I guess it's only been a day since the accident, right?
Maeby: Oh, my God. I can't believe you're asking me this again.
Stan Sitwell: Have I asked before?
Narrator: He hadn't.
Maeby: Every month.
Stan Sitwell: Oh, no. That can't be...
Maeby: ...right.
Stan Sitwell: Right.
Maeby: See? You always say "right." [chuckles] I'm sorry, it's just, Stan, we've gone over this so many times.
Narrator: No, they hadn't.

Quote from George Sr.

Narrator: Back at the cottage, George Sr. kept up the illusion that he had no idea where Buster was.
[Incidental music from The Golden Girls plays]
George Sr.: I don't know about you, but I'm I'm so worried that I can't keep looking anymore.
Lucille: Me, too. We have to take care of ourselves.
George Sr.: Why don't we just order some dinner in? What do you think of that?
Lucille: George, it's two o'clock. Go home.
George Sr.: I was thinking, it could be a, um, dry run for tomorrow night's dinner with the Chinese. They're gonna be looking at us, Lucille, very closely, and we have to be a real team. You know, in the Chinese culture, a good marriage portends a good business relationship.
Lucille: I think I can eat a piece of fish without giving away how I loathe you.

Quote from Michael

Michael: You both wanted me to go look at the books, but I guess you didn't think that I was smart enough to find this. This was a file on a computer drive called "Gated Community."
George Sr.: What is that?
Michael: Don't play dumb.
Lucille: [stammers] What's playing dumb?
Michael: Stop it. You know exactly what this is. This is a border wall between Mexico and America.
George Sr.: That doesn't look like a mouth to you?
Michael: Well, you gotta get rid of the tongue setting, and anyway, but on a regular printer, I have more than enough proof that you guys are building a wall.

Quote from George Sr.

Michael: The wall, okay? Between America and Mexico. A wall, by the way, that you once claimed to be on the other side of.
George Sr.: No. The property is on the other side of the wall. Th- That's all over now because the Mexican Romney said no refundo. I mean, we can't even pay back the investors.
Lucille: [whispers] They're Chinese.
Michael: There's Chinese Romneys?
George Sr.: No, the only Romneys are the Mexican Romneys.
Lucille: Well, and the regular Romneys.
George Sr.: Well, I mean, yes. Obviously the the regular Romneys, but...

Quote from George Sr.

Michael: You better figure it out, 'cause I'm not gonna let you ruin the family again.
Lucille: [scoffs] This generation. They go to one therapy session, and all of a sudden their parents are "terrible people," because they once sold tract homes to... God, who even remembers now?
Michael: Saddam Hussein.
George Sr.: Yeah. Sa- I mean, something like that.

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