Ehh idk about that one they’re both hilarious characters but Tobias actually says stuff he doesn’t mean to or doesn’t realize. Michael knows what he’s saying a good majority of the time he’s just either a dick about or people don’t like it. He just tries to hard but he knows what he’s going for.
@@gavinthomas1745 Michael Scott doesn't know what he's doing when he opens his mouth. Multiple times throughout the show, he acts hurt and shocked whenever someone gets angry at his actions/words. Michael never truely means to hurt anyone, (other than Toby) he's just very socially inept.
@@tomr3422It's the same place, that's why they say "he's creeping up George Michael" (i.e. a street named after him) and the house set looks exactly like the original show house
"I want to say 19...but I like to think of her as 15". OMG, the Arrested Development writers should have gotten awards for this scene alone. Every line's a classic.
To someone whos never seen this show before there would be so much explaining.. The fact that this man is a father who only speaks in unintentional euphamisms, he has a daughter named Maeby whom he neglects, he is a down-on-his-luck actor whos just gotten the opportunity to play the character Thing and so is covered in rocks. He lives in a model home. His license plate is Anustart for "A New Start" but of course everyone reads it as "Anus Tart". And thats literaly just the background to set up for this 3 minute series of jokes. Its crazy how much the writers must have thought ahead.
@@mongoose1618 Let's just say Dr. Tobias Funke is the most loaded character I have seen in any sitcom and David Cross plays him so well. The character has so many details about him and you need to see them, to piece together this strange, strange man.
Three moments that never fail to make me laugh in this sequence: 1) The film crew all hugging each other before they go in for the kill 2) John Beard repeating to himself "who, what, when, where, why" as he prepares for another investigative piece 3) That instead of getting a decoy actor/actress, they have John Beard standing in a broom closet awkwardly imitating a young girl's voice
Hannibal Buress agree, I've, admittedly, watched it 3 times and recently watched it again last week and I'm still only noticing some of the little jokes.
I just want to point out that John Beard was a real life local News host, and it's so damn funny that one of the most professional straight faced news casters at the time was making 4th wall breaking meta jokes, or making a little girl voice, in a closet saying HAVESOMELEMONADE. Like it's such an obscure specific running gag that only a fraction of the audience will get, but they still put it in the show.
The repetition of “who-what-where-when-why-how” to himself is a hilarious touch. As if he’s trying to be sure he remembers the first thing he learned in J-101.
JesusFriedChrist don't you mean feminazi, feminist just means equality between men and women so a feminist ghostbusters should just be an equal amount of men and women
Try watching it again with the reedit if you haven't, they removed the time jumps and made it all flow much more comfortably, like watching the season again for the first time.
@@ccgerrity I believe it's just the default for if you watch the fourth season on Netflix. I'm actually not sure if there even is a way to watch the original cut although I figure there probably is somewhere.
And the way he smiles as he says it...I applaud the writers for that one. It's such a perfectly placed joke that it almost seems they had this scene planned from the start.
@@nameismetatoo4591 This got recommended to me without context, so it was perfect. I experienced it from the film crew's POV, and the comments are filling me in on the real story
Nah, Seinfeld is the king of this type of situational comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm is also right up there with Seinfeld. I liked arrested development, but it was nowhere near Seinfeld and Curb.
@@OrreBorree I think its a further nod that he speaks rather strangely. I believe he's phrased it like he's injured his head, but he actually broke the patio door and thats what he's upset about.
@@OrreBorree It’s a reference to an older episode where Tobias gets hit by a bus in India. When he falls off the hospital bed, he says “I just broke my skull in a third place!l
I think the joke is that you think he means a fourth part of his skull has been broken, but he means that he has broke his skull while being in a fourth location (last time was in a hospital room, this time on the patio)
Hmmm? Maybe.... I suspect that Lindsey named her. I can imagine Tobias showing up at the hospital asking excitedly, “is this my daughter?” Lindsey responds, “maybe”
I think the main thing Season 4 got wrong was the editing. The jokes and writing were phenomenal in season 4, and the story was woven together amazingly despite the timing difficulties with the cast. The only thing missing was the momentum of the first 3 seasons. Given the show was originally broadcast on TV in 20 or so minute episodes, it had to be executed in a specific way. Season 4 draws out scenes that would've otherwise been cut down or changed entirely. Its still amazing, but a tiny bit more awkwardly paced.
That's exactly it. Even this scene, which is one of the funniest S4 scenes, could've been significantly punched up with tighter editing. Like, did we need to watch the tv crew for like 30 seconds before Ron Howard explains "but there was a tv crew there"? No!
I absolutely loved the original season 4. The way they tied everything together was incredible...the best joke of it all was George Michael's fakeblock reveal
"Let's entrap a local..." is sheer brilliance. The men you saw on 'to catch a predator' usually avoided jail. They were legally entrapped, and could not be prosecuted.
>They were legally entrapped False. To be entrapped you must be doing something you wouldn't have already done. It's like how if your hooker ends up being a cop it isn't entrapment because you were already going to buy a hooker. Now if they cop came up to you and CONVINCED YOU to pay her/him for sex, that would be entrapment.
@@sld1776 that’s bull. The only ones who walked were the ones involved in the Katy. Texas case where a DA they caught committed suicide when they went to confront him. The Katy DA dropped all the other cases. The majority of people caught on the show did some jail time and are now registered sex offenders.
@@sld1776 There's a difference between most people walking and most people were legally entrapped. There is no evidence most people on that show successfully argued entrapment. It doesn't exist.
@@sld1776a lot of them walked because they (while dumb) were at least not so dumb as to just talk to police and give them all the facts, a lot of them got lawyers and did the correct strategy of avoiding consequences, by admitting to nothing or little to nothing. You act like all those people got off because they got in front of a judge and their lawyer argued it was entrapment successfully.
I have watched this series so many times, but somehow only found the BULLSHIT funny this rewatch, but found it so so so funny and had to keep rewinding!
I don't know why the joke skipped over my head all these years but him saying, "I just broke my skull in the 4th place..... the patio" had me rolling just now. Where were the other 3 places it happened? Hahahh
Something that always makes me laugh no matter what was season 1 when gob buys the bird then opens the door and kills it. Idk why but it always cracks me up
"Oh so you're here to see your daughter?" "Yes... Maeby."
Gets my every single time.
It genuinely feels like the show is leading up to that magnificent wordplay
Yes, no maybe so. What is it Alonzo?!
@@shellybean225 I thought the same thing at the time. Like they wrote the show to culminate in this one scene. So great
"Daddy needs to get his rocks off."
Joke was so perfect, that I was convinced that they wrote that "Thing" storyline around that joke
And the see daddy’s thing😂😂😂. Smartest comedy show ever
They will have
They probably did.
They named one character maybe for just one joke in the first episode
Which character?
"Hey! There's a raccoon out on the patio!"
"BULLSHIT!!!" - lmfao his enthusiasm here is underrated
My favorite line 😂
Yea that was the best part xD BULLSHIT
I'm exactly like this whenever i see an extremely aggressive dog or any wild animal that can't rip me to shreds🤣
There’s something about that line and delivery that makes me lose my shit 😂
aside from the rocks off line, david cross's line readings were the funniest parts
"🤞I wanna say 19,🤞 but I always think of her as 15." 🤣😂🤣😂
Ok.
"Well, you're free to go, she's not here."
I wonder if he told them that he's an analrapist.
Karen Burch he should’ve pulled out his business card
They already knew he is an ANALTART...
Benjamin Pizarro anustart*
Ser Art Dayne a new start*
@@dreamdancer1619 anus tart
Tobias is the only TV character better at saying the exactly wrong thing at the exactly wrong time than Michael Scott.
Dave Kane big boyle energy
Hahaha i agree
More likeable too lol
Ehh idk about that one they’re both hilarious characters but Tobias actually says stuff he doesn’t mean to or doesn’t realize. Michael knows what he’s saying a good majority of the time he’s just either a dick about or people don’t like it. He just tries to hard but he knows what he’s going for.
@@gavinthomas1745 Michael Scott doesn't know what he's doing when he opens his mouth. Multiple times throughout the show, he acts hurt and shocked whenever someone gets angry at his actions/words. Michael never truely means to hurt anyone, (other than Toby) he's just very socially inept.
I love how he doesn’t even question that there’s a guy and camera crew in the house.
David Cross was so good in this role!
Everybody was perfectly cast!
I'm honestly super impressed that he can get those ridiculous lines out without busting out laughing, I would never be able to do it.
+ShyGuy96. He alludes to it.
"Daddy needs to get his rocks off"
Only if you're an idiot would the rest be, "blah"
Sl3201 Xkxmx Okay, Chill out,
I don't get the woldplay on that
Jeff Brehove , Because he’s dressed as the Thing from Fantastic Four who is made of rocks.
@@lissafinn4235 I get that part. But how is that construed as sexual
Love how him throwing the phone out the window just seems like he's ditching a burner phone lmao
Ah 'burner phone', I didn't catch that
wasnt sudden valley also the name of a Bluthe building site
@@tomr3422It is the Bluth building site, but now it’s done and every house is empty
@@tomr3422It's the same place, that's why they say "he's creeping up George Michael" (i.e. a street named after him) and the house set looks exactly like the original show house
I just wish they had gotten Chris Hanson to do this, I would have lost my shit
John Beard is the man though! Didn't you see that face when they suggested the raccoon story? Yes!
The decline of John Beard’s career is one of my favourite recurring jokes in season 4.
@brian, wow grow up
@brian learn to spell
Hansen wouldn't have gone for it. The reporting crew literally says the word "entrapment".
It kills me how excited he is about the raccoon... like it just blows his mind.
I would be just as excited lmao
Bullshit!!
WHERE IS THAT LITTLE GUY
It's not every day you see a coon in such a nice town
One of the all-time funniest scenes in comedy history. The setup and execution is absurdly good.
Only good part of new seasons
+Lee K You got that right.
Nah, GOB's bit were gold on S4.
I dunno man. GOB's magic show in Colony Collapse was pretty perfect.
The "Hello Darkness" gag was great
“So you’re here to see your daughter?” “Ah, Maeby” absolutely brilliant
Hell yeah 😂😂
"I want to say 19...but I like to think of her as 15". OMG, the Arrested Development writers should have gotten awards for this scene alone. Every line's a classic.
An award or 5-10 years in Supermax. Let the Jury decide?
They are so brilliant.
To someone whos never seen this show before there would be so much explaining.. The fact that this man is a father who only speaks in unintentional euphamisms, he has a daughter named Maeby whom he neglects, he is a down-on-his-luck actor whos just gotten the opportunity to play the character Thing and so is covered in rocks. He lives in a model home. His license plate is Anustart for "A New Start" but of course everyone reads it as "Anus Tart". And thats literaly just the background to set up for this 3 minute series of jokes. Its crazy how much the writers must have thought ahead.
as someone who started watching this show SPECIFICALLY because of this very clip: i couldve used this comment
You missed the "never nude" part.
@@mongoose1618 Let's just say Dr. Tobias Funke is the most loaded character I have seen in any sitcom and David Cross plays him so well. The character has so many details about him and you need to see them, to piece together this strange, strange man.
Dont forget his wonderful job title, Analrapist
As someone who's never seen this show, it wasn't that funny. And I like David Cross.
Three moments that never fail to make me laugh in this sequence:
1) The film crew all hugging each other before they go in for the kill
2) John Beard repeating to himself "who, what, when, where, why" as he prepares for another investigative piece
3) That instead of getting a decoy actor/actress, they have John Beard standing in a broom closet awkwardly imitating a young girl's voice
Someone has a selective memory
@@TheGregcawthorne Oh, you have no idea.
Not just why, "why in hell"
@@loganm4983 I mean how freaky would it be if he DID have an idea
number 3 had me the most in stitches
his reaction to there being a raccoon in the backyard>>
Gentuasu r
I want to like but there are 666 likes already
BULLSHIT
'Bullsh%^, where is that little guy' had me rolling xD
Parth P really. Not even a chuckle from me. How is that funny?
Thebluefus humour is subjective
@@SlXkxmx calm down it wasn't 'THAT' funny.... Only got a little smirk out of me . It takes alot to even get me to chuckle
@Voidaken no...I admitted it was somewhat funny... If it was REALLY funny I would have chuckled / laughed....
@Voidaken 'somewhat funny' isn't the same as your "pretty damn funny"....
Season 4 may not have been up to par with the first 3, but this sequence is right up there with the shows best moments
You need to watch s4 it at least twice to really get everything
I feel like Season 4 gets way to bad of a rep, the George Micheal focused episodes are probably some of my favorite in the entire series
Hannibal Buress agree, I've, admittedly, watched it 3 times and recently watched it again last week and I'm still only noticing some of the little jokes.
Guys watch the new 4 season on Netflix (Remix), it's 10x better.
I agree, the Remix it's better
He should’ve pulled out his business card.
lol
😂
Nooo. 😂😂😂😂
Professional analrapist
"But this creep won't take no for an answer" LOL
I just want to point out that John Beard was a real life local News host, and it's so damn funny that one of the most professional straight faced news casters at the time was making 4th wall breaking meta jokes, or making a little girl voice, in a closet saying HAVESOMELEMONADE. Like it's such an obscure specific running gag that only a fraction of the audience will get, but they still put it in the show.
He also played himself in the 90s spiderman tv show.
The repetition of “who-what-where-when-why-how” to himself is a hilarious touch. As if he’s trying to be sure he remembers the first thing he learned in J-101.
Still better than the new Fantastic Four
Simon Corvax still better than any Fantastic Four
JesusFriedChrist don't you mean feminazi, feminist just means equality between men and women so a feminist ghostbusters should just be an equal amount of men and women
JesusFriedChrist and you realise they were talking about fantastic four because he looks like the thinh
Benjamin Burkhardt - Yeah, it’s called The Incredibles 2.
@@TheClevelandSteamer the comics are much better I assure you
"I want to show her daddy's Thing"
"Oh, so it's your daughter that you're here to see?"
"Yes, Maeby"
The poor choice of words is off the charts haha.
Makes you think if they planned to name her that specifically for a joke like this
@@BNORT ikr! this show always does that to me, im like OMG how long has this single joke been setup for?
@@Dell-ol6hb I think it's more supposed to be like
George Michael's cousin, mabye
@@BNORT just like Lucille
@@f.f5771 loose seal! Loose seal! 🦭
This is one of the few bits in the revival that truly feels like it could fit seamlessly into the original show.
"Hello, Anustart ..."
And she hadn't even seen the license plate.
Laszlo Panaflex that was a brilliant moment.
A very underrated scene in arrested development
ahahah I love how he's singing along with the jazz music "it's just a fallacy!!!"
It's just a phallus-sea!
@@mountainhun phallus, see!
I don't really like season 4 but this scene was fucking hilarious.
Nolan Rux season 5 is brilliant
Season 4 is hilarious too
Try watching it again with the reedit if you haven't, they removed the time jumps and made it all flow much more comfortably, like watching the season again for the first time.
@@biggusdickus1689 how? Is it on Hulu or Netflix like that?
@@ccgerrity I believe it's just the default for if you watch the fourth season on Netflix. I'm actually not sure if there even is a way to watch the original cut although I figure there probably is somewhere.
"Looks like we got ourselfs an anustart!"
Best line ever! Love this show
Kristian_N The best gag of the season
I dont know why, but the way he gets so excited and yells "Bullshit" is so absolutely funny to me , gets me every time
the fact that this character has a masters in psycholinguistics makes his way of speaking so much funnier 😂😂
"He's creeping up George Michael."
Oh, this show : )
Chuck Bertal don't leave your uncle T-bag hanging.
"Oh so its your daughter your here to see?"
Yes...
Maeby
And the way he smiles as he says it...I applaud the writers for that one. It's such a perfectly placed joke that it almost seems they had this scene planned from the start.
@@nameismetatoo4591 This got recommended to me without context, so it was perfect. I experienced it from the film crew's POV, and the comments are filling me in on the real story
Yes....... Maybe.
TwistedNerve Her name is Maeby which is pronounced "maybe"
prepschoolpolitico
Hmm...... Maybe
This part killed me 😂😂
His daughter's name is Maeby lmao
I love how he seems pleasantly surprised John Beard is in his house
I love the humour in this show, every joke is just one big coincidence. One horrible, consequential coincidence
You should watch Curb Your Enthusiasm then.
by far the one of wittiest and most well written sitcoms ever. 4 seasons of arrested dev hold up against any ten seasons of any show
Nah, Seinfeld is the king of this type of situational comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm is also right up there with Seinfeld. I liked arrested development, but it was nowhere near Seinfeld and Curb.
Better than Curb? Scruvs? Nah.
Counter point: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
@@aravinthsrisivasritharan4098 the actors on its always sunny always say the show is not a sitcom and get mad when people call it that lol
@@perc3136 O soz
That group hug before Tobias shows up always gets me.
The only time I ever genuinely felt bad for Tobias.
Same, he finally was going to do good as a father and spend some time with his daughter and then gets all hyped about the raccoon.
damn this show is so good
Narco Psycho wewlad
JM SEX 4 SEX?
00:18
"I'm a man, don't make it look like makeup."
A gem
The "Rocks off" joke and him saying "BULLSHIT!" to the raccoon being in the backyard makes me laugh every time. Lmao
Now, this is the cleanest best pleasure!
haha nice
What know way
A woman of culture, I see,
I love how they used every Chris Hansen iconic phrase
To entrap a local predator.
LOL
That little group hug with the cops and the news crew...
"daddy need get his rocks off." haha
Analrapist and Anustart
“I broke my skull in a fourth place”
“The patio!”
I don't actually get this joke, care to explain?
@@OrreBorree I think its a further nod that he speaks rather strangely. I believe he's phrased it like he's injured his head, but he actually broke the patio door and thats what he's upset about.
@@OrreBorree
It’s a reference to an older episode where Tobias gets hit by a bus in India. When he falls off the hospital bed, he says “I just broke my skull in a third place!l
I think the joke is that you think he means a fourth part of his skull has been broken, but he means that he has broke his skull while being in a fourth location (last time was in a hospital room, this time on the patio)
Aw, they didn't have a cop running up and hitting him with a baton after he's been tackled.
That “Bullshit!” is so underrated and unexpected
Greatest writing in a comedy series. This whole show was a huge inside joke
I didn't much care for season 4, but I'd still rank this as one of the best moments in Arrested Development.
oh........you're putting me on the spot there
lolololo
who what when where why and how, who what when where why and how....
lol he never made it through journalism 101
Everybody! (Who what when where why and how?)
Solve. Ah. Mystery!
Tobias is so open to John Beard filming a random documentary in his house rotfl
Best part of season 4.
How the actors managed to get one clean take of saying anustart is beyond me.
Lol I love that not knowing his own daughters age would be suspicious if it wasn't Tobias
Who is that a gal I see? No it's just a fallacy.
NO!
I like to think that they named his daughter Maybe for this very joke
Hmmm? Maybe....
I suspect that Lindsey named her.
I can imagine Tobias showing up at the hospital asking excitedly, “is this my daughter?”
Lindsey responds, “maybe”
It's her nickname, her name is Mae.
Tobias was always the best character on this show. This was one of the funniest of his ever
Season 4 was not good, but I think this is one of the best written jokes of the whole series. Cried laughing the first time I saw this
"This creep makes himself right at home."
It is his home.
I think the main thing Season 4 got wrong was the editing. The jokes and writing were phenomenal in season 4, and the story was woven together amazingly despite the timing difficulties with the cast. The only thing missing was the momentum of the first 3 seasons. Given the show was originally broadcast on TV in 20 or so minute episodes, it had to be executed in a specific way. Season 4 draws out scenes that would've otherwise been cut down or changed entirely. Its still amazing, but a tiny bit more awkwardly paced.
That's exactly it. Even this scene, which is one of the funniest S4 scenes, could've been significantly punched up with tighter editing. Like, did we need to watch the tv crew for like 30 seconds before Ron Howard explains "but there was a tv crew there"? No!
he is easily the most funny character on the show
I absolutely loved the original season 4. The way they tied everything together was incredible...the best joke of it all was George Michael's fakeblock reveal
"Let's entrap a local..." is sheer brilliance. The men you saw on 'to catch a predator' usually avoided jail. They were legally entrapped, and could not be prosecuted.
>They were legally entrapped
False. To be entrapped you must be doing something you wouldn't have already done. It's like how if your hooker ends up being a cop it isn't entrapment because you were already going to buy a hooker.
Now if they cop came up to you and CONVINCED YOU to pay her/him for sex, that would be entrapment.
@@Helladamnleet My dude. A lot of those men walked. You can look it up with a simple Google search.
@@sld1776 that’s bull. The only ones who walked were the ones involved in the Katy. Texas case where a DA they caught committed suicide when they went to confront him. The Katy DA dropped all the other cases.
The majority of people caught on the show did some jail time and are now registered sex offenders.
@@sld1776 There's a difference between most people walking and most people were legally entrapped. There is no evidence most people on that show successfully argued entrapment. It doesn't exist.
@@sld1776a lot of them walked because they (while dumb) were at least not so dumb as to just talk to police and give them all the facts, a lot of them got lawyers and did the correct strategy of avoiding consequences, by admitting to nothing or little to nothing. You act like all those people got off because they got in front of a judge and their lawyer argued it was entrapment successfully.
There are so many jokes packed in just a few lines it is crazy. "I wanted to show her daddy's thing"
he just picks up a random glass of whatever and starts drinking it haha
"Is there alcohol in this?" 😄
Years later Tobias found fame managing 3 singing chipmunks but as they were infant chipmunks Tobias had to manage them from at least 100 ft away
"Yes... Maeby :)"
"I wanted to see my little girl, I wanted to show her daddy's Thing!" Man that's almost worse than the rocks off line, lol
whoever came up with incorporating this into season 4 is a genius.
Only something like this could happen to Tobias.
1:48 cracks me everytime
God no show sets up jokes so intricately and executed so perfectly
"Oh, so it's your daughter you're here to see!"
"Yes. MAEBY."
I died. XD
One of the funniest comedy scenes ever
"There's a raccoon out on the patio!"
""BULLSHIT!"
Lol, this man had me rolling the whole series
"She's 19, but I like to think of her as 15."
From an ANALRAPIST to an ANUSTART. What a character arc!
arrested development is one of the best shows ever created
Lol. This wouldn't be filmed today.
I hate that.
God the group hug killed me like they're so amped up about it
Underrated detail he is wearing the never nude shorts
The 4th season wasn't great overall, but this scene alone is definitely a series highlight.
I have watched this series so many times, but somehow only found the BULLSHIT funny this rewatch, but found it so so so funny and had to keep rewinding!
“Daddy needs to get his rocks off!!”😂😂😂
This episode was the real highlight of season 4.
This is as perfect as comedy gets
Pretty good lemonade, huh?
It is! Is there alcohol in he- John Beard!
This is so over the top it hilarious.
I love it. I just ...love it.
"I just broke my skull in the forth place, the patio"
I don't know why the joke skipped over my head all these years but him saying, "I just broke my skull in the 4th place..... the patio" had me rolling just now. Where were the other 3 places it happened? Hahahh
2 of my favorite shows ever combined :)
Did you notice the turkey on the table just randomly showed up? 😂
Allison Linner has a SHARP EYE 👁️
good lemonade
'is there alcohol in here?'
lolol i love this show so much
Best scene in all of season 4
Something that always makes me laugh no matter what was season 1 when gob buys the bird then opens the door and kills it. Idk why but it always cracks me up
What makes this even better is John Beard is an actual news anchor who just does arrested development on the side