Many. Examples include:
- "Magicians perform illusions. A trick is something a whore does for money... or cocaine."
- The censored TV version is "or candy."
- Lucille's ongoing rivalry with Lucille II.
- "I've made a huge mistake."
- "I need a favor."
- "Going to Portugal... down ole' South America way..."
- "Have these people ever even seen a chicken?"
- About Ann:
- "Who?"
- "Her?"
- "She must be funny/Let's hope she's funny."
- "If Tobias is straight, I'm sober..."
- "Where did the lighter fluid come from?"
- "How did I get into the boulder"
- Pete Rose being used as a metaphor in conjunction with the bases in baseball for the stages of lovemaking.
- Never-nudes
- "There are dozens of us. DOZENS!"
- George Michael is Star Wars Kid
- The Board is incompetent.
- "Come on!!"
- STEVE HOLT!
- "Well, this is the last time you'll see these!"
- "Spring Break! Woo!"
- "It's the final countdown..."
- "Marry me!"
- "Look at Banner, Michael!"
- Family love Michael.
- Michael love family.
- Michael love marry.
- Herbert Love rally.
- "You're killing me, Buster."
- "You're ki[dd]ing me, Buster."
- "You can't do that on the balcony, buddy?"
- "There's always money in the banana stand!"
- "NO TOUCHING!"
- And then "More touching!"
- "Hey, brother.." and other variations.
- "Hey, Hermano..."
- All the Bluth men's love of ice cream.
- Dramatic music playing whenever Oscar says something that reveals he might be Buster's father.
- Also, all of the responses to this — Buster usually misinterprets Oscar's meaning, Lucille either ignores him or rolls her eyes (though Buster gets a good eyeroll in during the birthday celebration for George Sr.), and Michael at one point exasperatedly tells Oscar, "Shut up."
- Variations of "Watch out for the hop-ons. You will get some hop-ons."
- "Watch out for live-ins."
- A new one for season 4 is the narrator and a character in the actual scene overlapping each other with the same line.
- This is subverted the one time George Michael overlaps with the narrator, as they're noticeably out of sync. This is due to a subtler running gag in season 4: George Michael claiming to have impeccable timing, but being demonstrably flawed.
- In reference to Netflix's limited budget for season 4, any past video clip shown has a fat "SHOW STEALER PRO TRIAL VERSION" watermark on it. The trial expires during the last episode.
- Tobias and the Blue Man Group.
- Tobias' new license plate for his new start in life; ANUSTART
- Earlier on, his attempt to combine "therapist" with "analyst": "analrapist".
- "Hello, darkness, my old friend..."
- Maritime law.
- Someone (usually Gob) teasing Michael for only having sex with four women in his life, with the implication his sexual inexperience makes him a bad lover and a loser.
- No Bluth understands even the most basic Spanish, even words that are almost exactly equivalent to English. It started with the "Hermano" joke and just snowballed from there.
- In Season 4, not tipping black men. George Sr. draws attention to it in the first episode, but the rest of the family follows the same practice without realizing it.
- Tobias does actually tip them—with quarters (for "decorating his [living] quarters"). They do not approve.
- The Bluths have the worst f*cking attorneys.
- A very minor one in season 4: No matter how hard he tries, George Michael can't get a nickname that isn't associated with a celebrity who was caught in a sex scandal (specifically: George Michael, Boy George, and George Maharis, which was the name of an actor from the 1960s who was arrested for having sex with a hairdresser named Perfecto Telles in a men's room).Michael: How about Boy George?
News Anchor: [in a flashback] Singer Boy George was arrested on charges of sexual assault today.
George Michael: I'll stick with George Michael. [quietly] At least it was consensual. - There are (very subtle) references all over the show to Tobias being a black man with a skin condition making him look white.
- The black silhouette on the cover of "The Man Inside Me".
- Tobias thinks Lindsay's attraction to Ice might have something to with them having the same body-type.
- Lindsay says that the name "Tobias" makes everyone think of a "big black guy", and Tobias answers that he is "not a big guy."
- Lucille is shocked by the appearance of a blue painted Tobias in kitchen, and refers to the event as an assault by a "colored person".
- Lindsay flirts with Herbert Love (Terry Crews) specifically because he reminds her of Tobias back when they first started dating.
- His middle name is Onyango.
- You do occasionally see him wear something that looks like a dashiki.
- Another ongoing running gag involving Tobias is his sexuality and whether he's straight and just a fop. flamingly gay, bi, or metro.
- "Do you know China Garden?"
- Over the course of season 4's last few episodes, Michael repeatedly suffers injuries to his left eye.
- Don't call it "The OC".
- The Charlie Brown walk of sorrow, with original Peanuts music.
- Someone running over Tobias in their car and saying "what the hell was that?"
- A near-constant is the ability for the family members to have conversations where they think they understand the conversation but are in reality are on two entirely separate subjects (or, conversely, having the same conversation but not realizing it).
- During Season 2, Gob's inability to use the office phones.
- MR. F
- For British eyes only!
- In Season Four, several characters make a praying gesture with their hands.
- The doctor at the hospital with his Bait-and-Switch Comments.
- The sinister hook that plays to foreshadow something bad coming up. Used in rapid succession in "The Righteous Brothers" every time someone sits down on the couch in the living room, which is sinking.
- "And THAT'S why you don't (insert misbehavior here)."
- "Light" treason.
- During the first eight episodes of Season 5, an ominous music plays and everybody stares at each other suspiciously any time Lucille Two is mentioned, especially when Michael asks about her.
- "Just the fact that you call it 'pop-pop' tells me you're not ready!"
- Characters getting burned by the Cornballer
that George Bluth created in the mid-1970s. - Annyoung.
- "Well, that was a freebie."
- You can always tell a Milford man.
- In season 4: "In— get this— Beverly Hills."
- Federal agents posing as various permutations of the "Blendin" company providing several fake services when undercover.
