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Actually, I feel like the bluthe's dominate this category

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Yeah, even Michael is a terrible father. I had a thread once on who was the worst parent in Arrested Development, let me go dig it up.

EDIT: Here it is, but there are SEASON 4 SPOILERS for anyone who hasn't seen it:

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Let's face facts: all the characters in Arrested Development are horrible parents. Really all of them are pretty terrible. It may be relative, but whose the worst. I'll dissect them:

1) Michael- While he likes to pride himself on being a great and considerate parent to George Michael, he really isn't and just likes to pat himself on the back compared to Gob and Lindsay, who almost completely ignore their own children, and his own parents, who were simply cruel. Michael on the other hand is completely overbearing of George Michael and pretty much completely ignores his feelings or sees how screwed up his son is, only waiting til the end of a few episodes to see the era of his ways, and then goes right back to them within the minute. Season 4 in particular shows Michael for being a shite parent, reaching real new lows that any sane parent wouldn't even think of doing. Hopefully he now knows that he's not all he's cracked up to be as a parent.

2) Gob- Just recently found out he was a father, but he is simply cruel and incredibly neglectful to his newfound son, blowing him off or even forgetting him completely forgetting him (and I mean wiping his existence from his memory with a "forget-me-now"), only for Steve Holt to be even sadder by his lack of a loving father figure.

3) Lindsay- Talk about someone not ready to be a mother. Lindsay still lives like she's in her early 20s and ignores Maeby in pretty much every way, only paying any remote attention to her for Lindsay's most selfish reasons, which usually involve Michael calling her out on how terrible of a mother she is. She'll say the most fricked up neglectful things about her daughter (even when she's there), when Lindsay should absolutely know better.

4) Tobias- Just about as neglectful as Lindsay is. He is obsessed with his bullshite and ridiculous pursuit of being an actor and proving to Lindsay that he's not gay that he completely forgets his daughter. Unlike Lindsay though, he does have some genuine moments where he realizes he is not paying attention to Maeby as he should be and tries to hang with her. It's really a wonder why Maeby isn't even more screwed up than she already is.

5) George Sr.- George has been a pretty cruel parent to Gob and Michael in the past, and has often tried to make them play against each other for his own amusement. He plays downright traumatizing pranks that scared his kids for life. I think he was ok to Lindsay, but completely neglectful to Buster, and a big reason why he's still a screwed up man child. However I do think that George has somewhat learned from his mistakes. It's really now more Lucille who plays everyone against each other at this point and will only resort back to his cheap pranks when someone plans on screwing another person over, particularly in the case where Michael wanted to use J. Walter Weatherman against George Michael.

6) Lucille- Well, the big one and pretty much the cause of almost all the conflict in the Bluth family. She outright bullies her children, grandchildren, and everyone else in between. She plays her children against each other and is manipulative as frick. She's basically made sure that Buster can't survive on his own and is just simply a complete, lying bitch that no one in the family can tolerate being around.

So if I had to rank them now:

1) Lucille
2) Gob
3) Lindsay
4) Tobias
5) Michael
6) George Sr.

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