A thirtysomething widower with a likable 13-year-old son named
George Michael. The level-headed Michael was disdained as the
"white sheep" of his highly dysfunctional family because he refused
to luxuriate in the wealth accumulated by his business entrepreneur
father, George Bluth Sr. Instead, Michael, broke from
tradition by actually going to work for a living, and by not giving
in to the ostentatious self-indulgence practiced by the rest of the
Bluth clan. But when George Sr. was thrown in jail on a charge of
fraud, Michael was forced to return to Orange County, CA, to take
charge of the family and the family business, both of which were
bankrupt because all of his father's assets had been frozen. Now it
was Michael's unenviable task to instil financial responsibility --
not to mention responsibility, period -- in the rest of the Bluth
family.