The Bluth clan lives a life of excess funded by the family credit card and paid for by the fortune patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) made in the tract home development business. Oldest son George Oscar Bluth II nicknamed Gob is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues while the youngest son Buster whiles away his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) is a vain socialite who throws parties with her sexually ambiguous husband (David Cross MR. SHOW). The only sane member of the family is Linsay's twin brother Michael (Jason Bateman) a widower who stands to inherit the reins to the family corporation when his father retires. However at the retirement party some unexpected obstacles are thrown into the mix: Michael having informed the family that his first task as head of the company will be to confiscate everyone's credit cards is passed over in favor of his snobby alcoholic mother Lucille (Jessica Walter). Just when Michae...