
‘Family Ties’
Season 3, Episode 11 - Aired February 10, 2006
Michael searches for a long-lost sister as he tries to get to the bottom of the "N. Bluth" account. Meanwhile, Tobias and Lindsay agree to have marital relations... at some point, while George Michael and Maeby fret about their own marriage.
Quote from Gob
Michael: How do you know her?
Gob: Met up with her after a show.
Michael: And you did things with her?
Narrator: He didn't.
Gob: I did.
Narrator: Well, if you consider crying like a girl doing something.
[flashback:]
Gob: I just want my brother to respect me, you know? I mean, I don't even have a job.
Nellie: Look, I could use a man's voice on the phone. And I like your little puppet show.
Gob: [as Franklin] I ain't so little when I take my pants off, lady. [normal voice] Honestly I'd take some of the cry out of that.
Quote from Michael
Gob: But I am not a pimp, Michael. She needed protection. So I make some threats, wear this hat, and I collect my ten percent.
Michael: Yeah, that's a pimp. And our sister is a prostitute.
Nellie: I'm your sister?
Michael: I think so. I found you in my dad's computer, and I thought that maybe he was embezzling money and taking advantage of you. That's why I hired you to do your work at the office.
Nellie: Oh, my God.
Michael: Wait. What kind of work did you do? No wonder they were so happy.
Quote from Gob
Michael: You know, Gob, this might be that sign from God that you should change your ways.
Gob: No, I think that's going to be something big.
Quote from Tobias
Narrator: Downstairs, mean while, Lindsay arrived at the bar for her date.
Lindsay: Michael. Oh, my God, my husband!
Tobias: Oh, my God, my wife! Are you two here for each other?
Lindsay: Is that what you're doing?
Both: How dare you?!
Tobias: And with another woman!
Lindsay: And with another man!
Girl-Michael: Wait, wait. You didn't plan this together? I just assumed you wanted a Holy Trinity.
Lindsay: Absolutely not! We're a happily married couple.
Tobias: Yes, who happen to be very much in love with each other.
Girl-Michael: Well, you're still going to have to pay Frank.
Quote from George Sr.
Narrator: And Michael confronted his father.
Michael: I know who N. Bluth is. It is Nellie. And I found her.
George Sr.: That's your sissy cousin Larry. Even then we knew. That's why we called him "Nellie." Do you not know that expression, Michael? I thought we were on the same page here.
Michael: That's a nice try, Pop, but in your old computer, I found a Nellie. You're trying to tell me that is not my sister?
George Sr.: Yes. It's perfectly innocent. She's my prostitute. I'm a red-blooded man. I have certain needs that your mom can't satisfy.
Narrator: But sex wasn't one of them.
[flashback:]
George Sr.: [sobs] I just want my brother to envy my money, but he's got that hair. Why can't I have hair and money and him nothing? [sobs]
Quote from Michael
Narrator: And the next day, Michael returned to the office to tell the employees that Black Friday had indeed arrived.
Michael: Hey, Ted, what's going on?
Ted: Nellie got all of us our checks and these great new computers and have you been?
Michael: Excuse me. Nellie, you did this?
Nellie: I took it out of the N. Bluth account. And if you spend it within the company, it gives the prosecutors nothing. Also, it was the only way to get myself the ten grand that you owed me.
Michael: Ten grand? What did you do with these guys, exactly?
Nellie: They mostly just cried. You've got a real morale problem here.
Quote from Michael
Michael: Listen, I thought that you were going to-
Nellie: Steal it?
Michael: Yes!
Nellie: But I might be your sister, remember?
Michael: Well, the fact that you didn't steal it might actually be proof that you're not. Even if we're not related, I think I would like for you to work here. You're very, very good at it. And what you do for a job is not really a great way to make a living, you know?
Nellie: I make 300 grand a year.
Michael: Marry me. It's weird on so many levels.