"Charity Drive" is the sixth episode[a] of the first season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development.
The series, narrated by Ron Howard, follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family, who made their money from property development.
After losing the family stair car because Tobias (David Cross) left it at an airport, Michael (Jason Bateman) begins to go to work on his bike.
After Kitty tells Michael that George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) never filed several building permits, he sends Gob (Will Arnett) off to misfile them.
Lucille (Jessica Walter) prepares for the Save the Wetlands Bachelorette Auction and instructs Buster to bid $10,000 on her.
Club writer Noel Murray praised the episode's writing, stating that "As with “Visiting Ours,” the various plotlines in “Charity Drive” are fairly scattered, though they do come together more definitively by the end.