In what is quite possibly the most fitting thing ever, my favorite recurring character just happens to be Liza Minnelli’s Lucille Austero (aka Lucille 2). First of all, can I just say how absolutely lovely Liza looks right here? That color is just divine on her.

Anyway, I loved the character of Lucille 2 from the second she walked on the screen, blissfully behaving as if Lucille Bluth wasn’t being rude to her (“at least [my husband’s] in prison, not in an urn”) and then becoming smitten with Buster. Even her vertigo is charming. The woman is literally just looking for love and happens to be surrounded by terrible people, which … I guess is kind of her fault? She really needed better friends that weren’t solely talking to her because of her money.

Now later seasons would portray her a little less kindly – like when she becomes an owner of the now-named Austero Bluth Company – but she is still leaps and bounds a better person than anyone in that family could ever hope to be.

Runner-Up: Julia Louise-Dreyfus’ Maggie Lizer – if for no other reason than her chemistry with Jason Bateman’s Michael Bluth, Maggie Lizer was a great addition to the show, and I wish they’d used her more.

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