Gob (Will Arnett) tries to introduce his new business idea of selling the Bluth Company blueprints to Columbians, but is shot down by Michael (Jason Bateman).
Lucille (Jessica Walter) has enlisted painters to give the apartment a new paint job while she recuperates from her upcoming cosmetic surgery in the model home.
Buster brings a post-operation Lucille, who is covered in bandages and unable to speak properly, to the model home, and tells Michael that he saw J. Walter Weatherman (Steve Ryan).
Michael finds out that George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) was behind the banana stand idea as a way of laundering money for the Colombian deal, and formulates a plan for the two brothers to get their own back on their father.
Once George Sr. is released from the trunk inside the fake hut, he is greeted by Gob, Michael and the painters, disguised in balaclavas, who then attempt to threaten and frighten him.
The policemen shoot when Buster does not drop the weapon as ordered and his hand flies off, spurting blood, causing Gob, Michael and George Sr. to panic.
"Making a Stand" was directed by Peter Lauer, and written by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and co-executive producer Chuck Tatham.
Murray then stated that "The whole lesson-teaching enterprise culminates in one of Arrested Development’s best farcical set-pieces," and that it is "one of the best at showing GOB in all of his arrogance, ignorance and insecurity".