Episode Notes
- This episode was intended as the Valentine's Day episode, and several decorations can be seen throughout the episode.
- This episode's title is a reference to the psychological term Martyr complex.
- When Arrested Development was first picked up by FOX, it was for only 13 episodes, so this episode was largely intended only to set up the next episode, "Beef Consommé," which continues the storylines involving Marta, George Michael searching for Maeby's parentage, and Lindsay's marital difficulties with Tobias; it was designed to possibly serve as the series finale.
- When Marta arrives at the house to talk to Michael, she's interrupted by Michael's cell phone ringing in the same manner that he was once interrupted by Marta's house phone when he went to her house to confess his attraction.
- On the next...: "George Michael begins an investigation, Tobias faces his greatest acting challenge, and Buster rebounds from Lucille 2."
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