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Character Analysis

Tony Hale

Byron 'Buster' Bluth

Played by Tony Hale

358 jokes across 69 episodes of Arrested Development

WAR

237.5

Total Jokes

358

Avg Craft

7.4

Avg Impact

7.1

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Buster delivers 358 scored jokes across 69 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.1 on impact for a career WAR of 237.5. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Buster Lines

All Jokes — 358 total

S1E01

Buster:Hasn't everything already sort of been discovered, though... by, like, Magellan and Cortés? Those guys did a pretty good job...

7.36.8
S1E01

Buster:Mom says it's too windy.

7.27.0
S1E01

Buster:Obviously this blue part here is the land.

7.88.2
S1E01

Buster:Eighteenth-century agrarian business. But I guess it's all the same principles.

7.47.2
S1E01

Buster:We need ice. Michael. We need Michael.

7.16.5
S1E03

Michael · Buster:This is not going to be a day at the beach. That's cool. Mom packed me a change of clothes.

7.46.8
S1E03

Buster:Yeah. Mom's awesome.

7.57.2
S1E03

Buster:Maybe we should call her.

7.26.8
S1E03

Buster:Here I go again.

6.96.3
S1E03

Buster:Mom told me to stay away from microwaves.

7.47.0
S1E03

Buster:this is gonna be... the most bitchingly fast bike in all of Orange County.

7.06.7
S1E03

Buster:Yeah. And you might be eating... Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.

7.97.7
S1E03

Buster:I'm Mom, and I wanna shoot down everything you say so I feel good about myself.

7.87.7
S1E03

Buster · Lucille:'Cause I'm an uptight... Buster! You old horny slut!

8.69.3
S1E03

Buster · Michael:I'm flying! Buster?

7.06.8
S1E03

Buster:Michael. I wanna go with Mom.

7.47.3
S1E03

Buster:I was trying to fit in.

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S1E03

Buster:but a little too close to the sun.

7.06.5
S1E03

Buster:Front seat, Mom. I sit in the front seat now. Mmm?

7.67.0
S1E03

Buster · Lucille:Mom! What is it? I can't get down.

7.36.8
S1E04

Buster:¿Cómo estoy?

6.46.0
S1E04

Buster:I know she's a brownish area with points.

8.38.2
S1E04

Buster:You just grab that... that brownish area by its points... and you don't let go, no matter what your mom says.

8.08.0
S1E04

Buster:Has your hair... always been that pointy, Miss Austero?

7.67.3
S1E04

Buster:Let's go for it.

6.66.2
S1E07

Narrator · Buster:Buster had been avoiding Lucille Austero since he accidentally flirted with her while not wearing his glasses

7.77.0
S1E07

Narrator · Buster:And then accidentally entered her apartment, thinking it was his mother's

8.16.8
S1E07

Lucille 2 · Buster:Yes. I'm foolish and I'm funny and I'm needy. - No. Are you sure I'm not needy? 'Cause I feel needy sometimes.

7.56.8
S1E07

Lucille 2 · Buster:You and I. Is it 'I' or is it 'me'? - Buster, it's us. - Yes. It is us. Us.

7.06.0
S1E07

Buster:It was a wild, wild ride.

6.86.0
S1E07

Buster:My God, for the first time in years I felt like I was standing on solid ground.

7.77.3
S1E07

Buster:I just jumped through a plate glass window on a date.

8.07.8
S1E07

Buster:Gob was just teaching me how to hit it with a hammer.

7.36.7
S1E07

Buster:Nothing. Gob was just teaching me how to hit it with a hammer.

7.17.0
S1E08

Narrator · Buster:Buster had been avoiding Lucille Austero since he accidentally flirted with her while not wearing his glasses. And then accidentally bid on her at a charity bachelorette auction. And then accidentally entered her apartment, thinking it was his mother's.

7.56.8
S1E08

Buster · Lucille Austero:Ten thousand dollars! Buster.

7.47.0
S1E08

Buster:I've already got a Lucille in my life.

7.77.5
S1E08

Lucille 2 · Buster:Buster, it's us. Yes. It is us. Us.

7.46.8
S1E08

Buster:It was a wild, wild ride.

7.16.2
S1E08

Buster:I just jumped through a plate glass window on a date.

7.87.7
S1E08

Buster:Gob was just teaching me how to hit it with a hammer.

7.47.3
S1E09

Buster:Sounds a little bit like 'dating Mom.'

7.16.5
S1E09

Buster:You guys are friends again. You can play bridge together.

7.16.3
S1E09

Buster:Could you just... just separate?

6.45.5
S1E10

Buster:I thought he was trying to get us off dairy.

7.97.5
S1E10

Buster:I did refer to it as our nausea.

7.67.2
S1E10

Buster:Well, now it's my nausea.

7.57.0
S1E10

Buster:Our. I mean, our... our nausea.

6.76.3
S1E10

Buster:I could put it on a tea biscuit, tell her it's a marshmallow.

7.37.0
S1E10

Buster:This place is pot central, right?

7.47.2
S1E10

Buster:Here. Take 225 from me.

7.57.3
S1E10

Buster:I am like a caged animal. My old lady's on the floor, man.

7.47.3
S1E10

Buster:Oh. Oh, I was talking about me. But, yeah, she's a mess.

7.67.2
S1E10

Buster · Michael:Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?

8.08.5
S1E11

Narrator · Buster:Buster so excelled at being neither seen nor heard that he remained at the school undetected for a full two semesters after he was supposed to graduate.

7.06.3
S1E12

Buster · Michael:[Chuckling] Don't forget my girlfriend. That's who I meant.

7.67.7
S1E12

Buster:Yeah. I never want to look at Mom again.

7.36.8
S1E12

Buster:Do you know she tried to set up my girlfriend with a man?

7.27.0
S1E12

Buster · Lucille:I'm a man, Mike! I'm a man. Can I throw out this yogurt?

7.57.3
S1E12

Buster:No, Mother! I can blow myself.

8.08.2
S1E12

Buster:I thought you had class. My brother-in-law fires you... And you move in on my girlfriend?

6.96.7
S1E12

Buster:I don't know what that means, but it sounds disgusting.

6.96.7
S1E12

Buster:I've been dating an old lady.

7.47.3
S1E12

Buster · Marta:Yo te quiero mucho. Yo te quiero mucho. Te amo, Marta. Te amo.

6.86.5
S1E13

Buster:Mom always taught us to curl up in a ball and remain motionless when confronted.

7.77.7
S1E13

Buster:Yeah, I know.

7.97.7
S1E13

Buster:Hey, rich kid. Gimme your lunch money.

6.76.5
S1E13

Buster:I want to dance. I want to make love to a woman. I want to get a checking account. I want to know what it feels like to get my face socked in.

7.98.0
S1E13

Buster:I'm not here.

6.96.3
S1E13

Gob · Buster:Hermano means brother? Yeah. Well, sounds like hermano is about to get his ass kicked.

7.78.0
S1E13

Buster:Stop it before someone gets hit in the face!

7.57.0
S1E13

Buster:Hit me in the face! Hit me in the face! Hit me in the face! Please! Hit me in the face!

7.07.0
S1E13

Buster:That's what it feels like to get punched in the face.

8.08.2
S1E14

Michael · Buster · Narrator:Michael was sharing his bed for the first time in years. Unfortunately, it was with his younger brother, Buster.

7.77.2
S1E14

Buster:That's exactly what I'll do.

7.16.5
S1E15

Buster:Bob? Bob? Bob? Bob? Bob?

6.35.7
S1E15

Gob · Buster · Michael:The guy's like the world's biggest chicken. I'm not a chicken. Yeah, he's not a chicken. He just doesn't like confined spaces, that's all. No, it's both.

7.87.7
S1E15

Buster:One of the guys told me to take my head out of my bottom and get back to work. My bottom!

7.36.8
S1E15

Construction Worker · Michael · Buster:Hey, pick up the pace, douche bag! Michael! You too, candy ass! 'Candy ass.'

7.06.5
S1E15

Buster · Construction Worker:You got paid? I thought we were all making sacrifices. Yeah, well, maybe it's time for some of those big shots at the Bluth Company... to start making some sacrifices.

7.57.0
S1E15

Buster · Gob:My whole life you've called me a chicken, but that's over now. I have nothing to prove. That is not how a chicken sounds. Chickens don't clap!

7.98.5
S1E15

Buster:Yeah, I'm definitely gonna need a cushion.

8.17.8
S1E17

Buster:They still look fabulous.

6.76.5
S1E18

Buster:He came back home once with a black statue... with an erect penis. It stayed in our living room until my aunt objected.

7.37.5
S1E19

Buster:Hey, Adopted Brother. Do you think I could have a hit of that juice box?

7.46.5
S1E19

Lucille · Buster:Because Buster's your brother... and I'm not gonna leave him home alone with all this J-U-I-C-E around. I can spell, Mom. You spelled 'juice.' Oh, you're so brilliant. Let's see you find it.

7.16.3
S1E19

Buster:We have unlimited juice? This party is gonna be off the hook.

8.07.5
S1E19

Gob · Michael · Buster:Hey! What the hell happened to the blood? Hey, Brother. Whoa! Somebody put on his lipstick in the car. I love juice!

7.57.5
S1E20

Buster · Michael:You're in love with your own brother? The one in the army? - No. Your sister's husband. - Michael? Michael! - No, that's your sister's brother. - I'm my sister's brother. - You're in love with me. Me! - I'm in love with Tobias.

7.78.2
S1E20

Buster:I can't be expected to live on the $800-a-month army-wife stipend that I'm gonna get. They just don't support the spouses.

7.26.8
S1E20

Buster:Well, I've always wanted to remake Annie Hall. Except I wouldn't want to get in bed with a green producer like a Sofia Coppola though. Oh, but give me an old pro, like a Robert Redford? Oh, I'd jump into bed with him in a second.

7.27.0
S1E20

Buster · Michael:And I wouldn't just lie there, Michael Bluth... if that's what you're thinking. - Actually, that time that was what I was thinking.

7.07.0
S1E21

Buster:NO, HE'S NOT! I CAME OUT OF YOU! HE DIDN'T!

7.57.5
S1E21

Buster:NO, NO, NO. NO, NO, NO. NO! NO! NO! I CAME HERE TO SAY SOMETHING.

6.56.5
S1E21

Buster:NO, SHE'S HAPPY. SHE'S JUST MEAN ALL THE TIME.

8.07.8
S1E21

Kid · Buster:IF YOU CAN KICK, FATTY. I'M A MAN.

7.37.3
S1E21

Annyong · Buster:WHERE IS EVERYBODY? HEADS UP, FATTY!

7.06.7
S2E01

Buster:Yeah, like anyone would want to 'R' her.

6.97.0
S2E01

Buster:I'll kill her first.

7.97.8
S2E02

Buster · Lucille:Mother? Mother! - I heard zoo noises. - It's nothing. Go back to bed.

7.57.2
S2E02

Buster:My- Reproductive organ... is shaped like- a lobster tail... but without its shell, hmm?

7.87.8
S2E02

George Michael · Buster:I wanna buy Ann some diamond dust. I'm just hoping to get mildly injured, so I can get out of the army.

7.77.5
S2E02

Buster:I don't agree with your dirty doings here... but I will defend with my life your right to do it.

8.07.8
S2E03

Buster:I ought to point to Uncle Oscar's Charlie Browns... next time you're on top of him, Mother.

7.37.0
S2E03

Buster:Mother, when you see this videotape, you'll know that I left. Not out of cowardice, but out of- Oh, man. It's tiring in here.

7.67.0
S2E03

Buster · Narrator:Mexico. In fact, he was in Santa Ana... a town six minutes inland from his own.

7.77.5
S2E03

Buster:Oh, this shall keep me safe from the hot Mexican sun.

6.86.3
S2E03

Buster:I never thought I'd miss a hand so much. You people are just like me.

7.77.3
S2E03

Buster:Oh, no. I'm going with you. I am one of you now. Ssí?

6.56.3
S2E03

Buster:This is great. We're like slave buddies.

6.36.0
S2E03

Buster · Narrator:Buster's accidental return home - newspaper delivery reveal

7.27.8
S2E03

Buster:Make love in your own hand, Mother!

6.86.7
S2E04

Buster:Because you're twins. [Chuckles]

7.06.3
S2E04

Gob · Buster:Black humor. Say, 'Hey, Dad, look at you. You're... a year older... and a year closer to death.' Oh, yeah, I guess that's kinda funny.

7.27.0
S2E04

Gob · Buster:Oh, yeah. I used to be a stripper. Strippers don't wear clothes. Not at the end of the show. You can wear stripper clothes when you're not stripping? You tell me.

7.97.8
S2E04

Buster:'Someone wanted to send you a birthday greeting. See you soon!' Oh! That is wicked.

7.57.2
S2E04

Buster:To get the top right, the pants had to be a little snug.

7.16.8
S2E04

Buster:Dead father? Is he de- Dad's dead? Oh, my God! The card! The card!

7.87.8
S2E04

Buster:[Preview: Buster finds out about Captain Kangaroo's death]

7.36.8
S2E05

Buster:Aren't you supposed to yell at me and call me 'homo' and motivate me over this wall?

7.36.8
S2E05

Buster · Narrator:Those bastards. I did not say that.

7.36.8
S2E06

Buster:That could be good for Army.

7.67.0
S2E06

Lucille · Buster:There's no shame in being a coward. / A coward? I'm not a coward.

7.36.7
S2E06

Buster:The seal is for marksmanship, and the gorilla is for sand racing.

8.58.5
S2E06

Buster:Now if you'll excuse me, they're putting me in something called Hero Squad.

7.77.5
S2E07

Buster · General Anderson:I just wanted to thank you for my new job. [Giggles] What's wrong? I'm shipping out tomorrow.

7.67.0
S2E08

Buster:I think the age difference is really starting to catch up to us.

7.57.0
S2E08

Buster:I love my mother. She's one of the two most important people in my life. You know, she and Quincy.

8.07.7
S2E08

Lucille 2 · Buster:Lucille 2! - Buster! - So you're back. - Oh, I'm back, Buster!

7.26.8
S2E08

Buster:Well, I would hardly call my mother a girl.

7.46.8
S2E08

Buster:Oh. Well, she mostly likes talk radio.

7.87.7
S2E08

Buster:That was half my fault. I thought I saw a graham cracker out there.

8.38.2
S2E08

Starla · Michael · Buster:By the way, I love your mother. - Oh, yeah, I do too. - Oh.

6.96.7
S2E08

Michael · Buster:You didn't sell your stock? What? No. Your letter said not to... and I would never want to hurt the family.

7.77.8
S2E09

Lucille · Buster · Lucille 2:When Buster inadvertently bid on Lucille 2. - $10,000! - Buster.

7.16.8
S2E10

Buster:But sometimes love should be terrifying.

7.97.8
S2E10

Buster:I'll be right in, and then maybe we can talk about— Makin' that love.

7.47.7
S2E10

Buster:She's kind, and she's caring... and she's certainly less experienced than that whore that I'm dating now.

7.98.2
S2E10

Buster · Gob:These kind of skills? Not really.

6.86.8
S2E11

Lucille · Buster:Whatever happened to 'Keepin' It Fresh'? - I was 30 years old then, Mother. I'm 32 now!

8.07.7
S2E11

Buster · George Sr.:You're a good uncle. I'm not your uncle. I'm your father. - What? - Shh. Shh. Quiet courage. Quiet courage. Hide.

7.88.0
S2E11

Buster · Narrator:Loose seal! Watch out for loose seal! I don't care about Lucille! She lies! [Narrator] And then a seal bites off his hand.

8.79.0
S2E12

Buster:Actually, I'm relieved. I don't have to go to army because the seal with the bow tie attacked me. I feel like I've lost three pounds.

8.18.0
S2E12

Michael · Buster:My hat is off to you. - And my hand is off to you.

8.38.2
S2E12

Buster · Michael:I mean, a seal didn't bite your Linus off, did it? - No, a seal didn't bite my Linus off.

7.36.7
S2E12

Buster · Michael:Then go to her. Ask for her hand. - Yeah. And, uh, maybe... I'll get one for my brother while I'm at it.

8.18.0
S2E12

Buster:Get him out of here! - Hmm? - Get him out of here! Get the- [Bleeps] Out of my room!

7.07.0
S2E12

Buster:And while you're at it, let's all give me a big hand!

7.87.3
S2E12

Buster:Guess this means you don't wanna play 'got your nose' with me.

7.97.7
S2E12

Lucille · Gob · Buster:How the hell would a seal know how to tie a bow tie anyway? - I can barely tie the yellow one that I wear in my act. - This one had a yellow bow tie!

8.18.0
S2E12

Buster:Oh! No, stop it, stop it, stop it! Oh, you caught my tendon in your claw! - My claw? Aw, God! [Hysterical Whimpering] I'm a monster!

7.88.0
S2E12

Buster:Oh! No, stop it, stop it, stop it! Oh, you caught my tendon in your claw! My claw? Aw, God! I'm a monster!

7.77.8
S2E13

Buster:If you were hot, Mother, we would win.

7.26.7
S2E13

George Michael · Buster:Let's rock-paper-scissors for it. - No! You would've-You would've won that, so-

7.06.5
S2E13

Lucille · George Michael · Buster:Can I open a can of soup for you? - Can it open a can? - Can what open a can? Oh, God!

7.06.2
S2E13

Michael · Buster · Gob:Monster! - Hey, Brothers. - Bonster!

7.06.5
S2E13

Buster:He couldn't wait to swoop in and throw on that sailor suit, because he's not damaged goods.

7.16.5
S2E13

Barry · Buster:Left flipper. - So, the seal lost his hand too. Yeah, poor guy's probably out there without a flipper... swimming around in a circle, freaking out his whole family.

7.87.3
S2E13

Buster:And yet, anything goes at bath time. [Chuckles]

7.37.3
S2E13

Buster:Either I zip down or he zips up! And that is a mighty long zipper on Mother's Cher jumpsuit. You have to get on your knees to start it.

7.57.2
S2E13

Buster · Michael · Narrator:Maybe 'Operation Hot Mother.' - No, let's try to top that. - [Narrator] They never did.

8.07.7
S2E13

Buster:George Michael still has a chance. Take him!

6.86.5
S2E13

Michael · Buster:And I saw some of those people. That was a very competitive category. - Oh, don't I know it.

7.56.8
S2E13

Maeby · Buster:The only thing more terrifying... than the escaped lunatic's hook was his twisted call! - Hey, campers. - [Kids Screaming]

8.38.5
S2E13

Buster · Narrator:I'm a monster! This may have been a step backwards.

7.47.2
S2E14

Narrator · Buster:Buster had once videotaped himself recreating moments from his then favorite film, Chicago.

7.98.0
S2E14

Buster:Oh, God! Oh, God!

7.16.7
S2E14

Buster · Lucille:You can't fire me. I'm your son. I'm firing you! I was firing Lupe.

7.06.7
S2E14

Buster:What do you expect, Mother? I'm half machine! I'm a monster!

7.67.8
S2E15

Buster:In this magic trick, I'm going to put a sword... through my assistant's tummy.

6.96.8
S2E15

Buster:It's a real sword, master.

7.47.2
S2E15

Buster · Audience:It's a real sword, master. Oh-ho!

7.36.8
S2E15

Buster:Oh, it still needs three stamps.

7.56.8
S2E15

Buster · Gob:Handle first. Handle first. [Screams] Oh, my fingers!

7.38.0
S2E16

Buster:Well, he didn't return when I lost my hand. But you- you not only embrace it... but I saw you kissing it while you thought I was sleeping.

7.37.8
S2E16

Police · Buster · Franklin:Drug dog's got something. Get him, Bennett! I don't want no part of your tight-ass country club... you freak bitch!

6.96.8
S2E17

Buster:I'm sorry I'm an inconvenience to you, Mother.

6.86.5
S2E17

Buster:What do you expect, Mother? I'm half machine! I'm a monster!

7.67.8
S2E18

Oscar · Buster:Buster! The Cornballer! [Both Screaming] [Sizzling]

7.27.7
S2E18

Buster:Pop secret? Pop se- Is Oscar my real father?

8.18.3
S2E18

Buster:My father is my uncle!

7.07.0
S3E01

Buster:I decided to sleep in the car so my snoring wouldn't bother you, and I left that recording of my snoring so you wouldn't know I'm gone.

7.77.3
S3E01

Buster:This is just like when we used to live up in the attic.

7.87.3
S3E02

Buster:As soon as Father came back, I've been like the Invisible Man. 'Hello! Can anyone see me?'

7.46.7
S3E02

Buster · Michael:I've always loved those leathery little snappy faces. You certainly have a type.

8.27.8
S3E03

Buster:It wasn't really the pronunciation that bothered me.

7.58.0
S3E03

Buster:No, he was just analraping me.

7.37.0
S3E03

Lucille · Buster:Buster, you should have finished the job. Job? What job? Did I say job? I meant Gob.

7.47.3
S3E03

Buster:It has caused me nothing but pride and self-respect!

7.87.8
S3E04

Lucille · Buster:Where's your hand? Oh, it got stuck in the prize hole again. I told you not to play that stupid game anymore. Ah! There goes number three.

7.77.8
S3E04

Buster:'At Risk Male Youth.' That spells 'Army.'

7.77.3
S3E05

Buster:If mother sees this, she will blow a cow.

6.86.3
S3E05

Buster:Goody! Yeah. I do want to. Yea. I do want to. Goody.

6.76.5
S3E05

Buster:No, I'm not, Mother. I mean lover. - I like making love to Mother. - I mean lover!

7.47.8
S3E06

George Sr. · Lucille · Buster:This is funny! / He's gay! / Where's your hand? / Oh. I'm having my high school ring put on it, and my hook is stuck in the staircar.

7.16.5
S3E06

Buster:Domo arigoto, Mister Roboto...

6.45.5
S3E07

Buster · Michael:And how about that little piece of tail on her? / I've opened a door here that I regret.

7.67.8
S3E07

Buster:She has a name, Mother. And it's 'Mother.'

8.27.8
S3E07

Buster · Narrator:Stay in this box that Uncle/Father Oscar left behind. In fact, it was a box of Oscar's legally obtained medical marijuana.

6.96.3
S3E07

Lucille · Buster:Oh, good, you've already got grass. / Primo bud. Real sticky weed.

7.37.0
S3E07

Buster:Uncle/Father Oscar? What are you doing here?

7.36.8
S3E07

Buster:Oh, yeah. My turtle was living in it before he ate all the grass and died.

7.37.0
S3E07

Buster · Oscar:At least you can stay and help me bury my poor turtle. / Or we could cremate it.

8.48.0
S3E07

Buster · Oscar:Oh, it's on 'standby'! / Got another one in you?

6.76.5
S3E07

Buster · Michael:Oh, then why do we care? / What is wrong with everyone?

7.16.8
S3E07

Buster · Oscar:Wait a minute. You're not really smiling. / I'm Oscar.

7.37.0
S3E08

Buster:They only wanted me because I had one hand. And I won't do it! That's not the way Mother is raising me.

6.86.3
S3E08

Buster:Of course, I left my hand there, also.

7.97.8
S3E08

Buster:You better not lock it! I'll kick it in!

7.07.0
S3E08

Buster:I was like, 'Make it two weeks! See if I care!'

7.27.3
S3E08

Buster · Michael:Even if it means me never taking a job again. A pulse makes him worth it.

7.37.2
S3E08

Buster · Michael:'The only scary thing about a one-arm man trying to scare someone is the fact...' '...that he feels that his one arm is good for nothing but trying to scare somebody.' It's upside down.

7.17.2
S3E09

George Sr. · Buster:You can say what you want about the Milford Academy-- the kids that came out of there, prepared for life. Does anyone know how to eat one of these? It doesn't do anything.

7.47.0
S3E09

Buster:I walked. I tried hitchhiking, but it's hard to do without a thumb.

7.67.3
S3E09

Buster · Lindsay:It's so watery. And yet there's a smack of ham to it. It's hot ham water.

7.37.2
S3E09

Buster · Lucille · Gob:She glued my thumb back on. Sister's my new mother, Mother. And is it just me, or is she looking hotter, too? Well, why don't you marry her? Maybe I will!

7.78.2
S3E09

Gob · Narrator · Buster:Wait, no, no! Where's everyone going? No one's leaving until I get my money! I'll follow you to your cars! Oh, and then that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. My thumb!

7.67.8
S3E10

Buster:Not cool, Mom.

7.06.7
S3E10

Lindsay · Buster:Well, just fake it! / Coma.

8.08.0
S3E12

Medical instructor · Buster:That's okay. Try again... No, that's a tendon. He'd be screaming right now. It's okay. try again.

7.27.0
S3E12

Buster:I'm not faking it, Michael. I really am this expressionless.

7.57.0
S3E12

Buster:No, I was just clearing my throat, but I think it actually does mean 'laundry' but like, a child's laundry. We don't really have a word for it.

7.97.5
S3E12

Buster:Buster claims he speaks Arabic but just clears his throat: 'La-ach-ha-tem'

7.37.0
S3E12

Adelaide · Buster:Oh, Buster, you're such a ( bleep ). That means she likes you. Oh. It's more than like.

6.75.8
S3E12

Buster:When I miss your lips, I'll put a fig in my mouth and think of you.

7.56.8
S3E12

Buster:So you ready for Operation Hot Brother?

6.96.0
S3E12

Buster:My God, it makes me want to have an ice-cream cone. Doesn't this make you want to have an ice-cream cone?

7.87.3
S3E12

Buster:'Cause Gangee once said to me, your mom might not have ever even been pregnant with you.

7.37.3
S3E12

Buster:I think he means to shoot you in the head.

7.37.0
S3E12

Michael · Buster:Buster: 'Looks like you are a hero, Buster.' 'We both are.' 'Well...'

7.06.0
S3E13

Buster:Oh, come on!

7.77.8
S4E05

Buster:Oh, Tobias got a new girlfriend.

7.77.8
S4E06

Buster:Daddy, my tummy's turning. I got to get out, I got to get out.

7.06.5
S4E08

Lindsay · Buster · Gob:Gentlemen, start your engines. No, Gob. Oh!

7.07.0
S4E09

Tobias · Buster:You're a monster, you don't have to be good. What? It wasn't a great choice of words.

7.06.8
S4E09

Unknown performer · Buster:Nice ad-lib. Not an ad-lib... I can't swim.

7.87.5
S4E10

Buster:She stole the 'Queen Mary' to get away from the SEC. Oh, and she winked.

7.47.3
S4E10

Buster:Maybe you could hook me up with a little stimmy. Lil' stimmy.

7.47.2
S4E10

Buster:And I want stimmy to get a hook that'll do that

7.16.8
S4E10

Buster:Homosexuals kidnapped the boat and took it on a joy ride. Mother didn't want to trample their rights, so she let them.

7.06.8
S4E10

Lucille · Buster:Make it an eel. It's gonna be an eel! Better.

7.37.0
S4E10

Lucille · Buster:It sure would be a shame if something happened to your pretty little key witness. Star witness. And are you threatening yourself?

8.28.2
S4E14

Buster:In case you wanted to make confetti out of something other than the pictures that they sell of the chubby Linda Ronstadt

7.06.3
S4E14

Buster:Wait! She doesn't have her makeup! I have her lipstick! Mother!

7.16.8
S4E14

Buster:Mother is going to come waltzing through that door any day now, and she is going to be screaming, 'Make sure you frisk that girl before...'

7.06.3
S4E14

Buster · Lupe:That's my perfume. Mm, good. Okay, good. She wouldn't wear that

6.55.8
S4E14

Buster:♪ The vodka goes in, you pour it in the other ♪ ♪ The olive on top and then you call your... ♪ ♪ Mother. ♪

7.36.7
S4E14

Buster:Except for the hair. You have reduced. Well, you're not that skinny. Welcome home, chubs. Oh, you will kill me for that. And I don't want that blood on my hands

7.17.0
S4E14

Buster:This pasta's way overcooked, Buster! Well, you didn't leave me the simplest recipe, Mother

7.16.8
S4E14

Buster:Chinchilla! The one you got after Dad had the affair with the chubby intern from Riverside

7.57.0
S4E14

Lucille · Buster:Half your testicle was hanging out of that thing. Good! I'm glad they saw it

7.47.5
S4E14

Lucille · Buster:You're a hot mess! You're a hot mess!

6.46.2
S4E14

Buster:I was making two ban... Late last night, it was drizzling rain! I'm a key witness

6.86.3
S4E14

Buster:The fish is frozen here! It's frozen! Do you really want to spend $30 on frozen fish?

7.36.8
S4E14

Buster:Like the saltless pie?

7.97.5
S4E14

Buster:Is that baby toe of yours still crawling over the others like a weird weed?

7.57.3
S4E14

Buster:Oh, it's one of my night terrors

7.67.7
S4E14

Buster · Narrator:Alex Trebek? She then rephrased it in the form of a question. Who is Alex Trebek?

7.67.0
S4E14

Lucille 2 · Buster:Buster, that was innuendo. Oh. My Lord, it's like we're speaking different languages here

6.97.0
S4E14

Army officers · Buster:Are you gay? No. You can tell me. I'm not. It's okay. Drew, tell him. I'm gay. Oh. Peter's gay. Oh... Sergeant Melnick's gay. Oh. Bi. Oh, sorry, he's bi

7.57.5
S4E14

Buster:This is so much more fun than 'Guess the Fur'

7.77.3
S4E14

Buster:Take that, Taliban wedding!

7.57.2
S4E14

Buster · Army officer:Oh, you can go to Spain in this thing? Maybe you should take a break

7.57.0
S4E14

Buster:Innocent people?! You mean I've been hurting guilty people?!

8.68.7
S4E14

Buster · Therapist:Too hard. Uh, I think that was too hard. Okay. Yeah.

6.76.0
S4E14

Buster:See, light drizzle will just annoy you but, you see, thunder... will 'F' you up!

7.87.7
S4E14

Herbert · Buster:If you want me to pay for her diaphragm, I get to put my hand in her... Shoe! Nice stop, Blind Side Monster

7.67.2
S4E14

Buster:I've worn a captain's hat with someone who had hair like that

7.56.7
S4E14

Lucille · Buster:Hamster or turtle? No, Mother. Hamsters are gross. It's a female. Human. Female human. Whole thing

7.98.0
S4E14

Buster:I'm not a mother boy anymore. I'm a mother man

7.46.7
S4E14

Buster:I'm not a mother boy anymore. I'm a mother man.

8.78.8
S4E14

Buster:After I've zipped down, you can't expect me to zip up!

7.77.5
S4E14

Buster:And he's gotten himself in some pretty hot ham water this time

7.47.2
S4E14

Buster:Oh, this is just like Mother's Day Eve!

7.56.8
S4E14

Buster:Oh, no. I'm in the movie. Oh, no

7.57.0
S4E15

Police · Buster:That left hand might be difficult to cuff. Trouble cuffing him. I'm not a monster!

6.97.0
S5E01

Buster · Michael:Am I that much of a monster, Michael? Even to you? No, not at all, I just wasn't expecting, uh, you know, a man to be sitting in a Scuba Jr., leaping out at me up in the attic, that's all.

7.47.2
S5E01

Buster:No, I just took the skin off. It's in the dryer.

7.87.8
S5E01

Buster:We used to want to play dress-up. Her as Jackie O., me as John-John... But we... No, I guess we did get to do that a couple of times. ♪ Motherboy... ♪

7.57.3
S5E01

Buster:Pick a lane, Michael! You can't say I can't be here and say you're not looking after me. Pick a lane, Michael!

7.16.8
S5E01

Buster · Michael:Pick a lane, Michael. Pick a lane, Buster. No, you pick a lane! Come on. Ow, ow, ow. I picked a lane!

7.27.0
S5E02

Buster:Winner of 1982's Least Seen on Campus.

7.97.3
S5E02

Buster:I wish I could've seen their faces at the ceremony.

7.87.5
S5E02

Buster:This is one of only two things the Army warns us about when they issue these. Boy, Kitty does not know what she's sitting on.

6.96.3
S5E02

Michael · Buster:Maybe that's a role I can play in your life. Don't say... Mom. Mmm.

7.06.8
S5E02

Buster:I ain't got no truck with no blue.

7.37.3
S5E02

Buster:Well, I lived with Mother. Did you think we were dating?

7.47.2
S5E02

Buster:No! No! A thousand times, no! Is that what they'll ask? 'Cause it's not like I'm gonna remember details about where I saw her and what we fought about.

7.36.8
S5E02

Buster:You kept me from Mother? You sent her to prison? Should I not say that?

6.86.3
S5E02

Buster:Should I not say that?

6.35.8
S5E02

Buster:Oh, those things are so easy to beat.

7.06.7
S5E02

Buster:APB. 'Aw, poor Buster.'

8.07.7
S5E02

Buster:You always come back to save the family. We joke about that all the time.

7.26.7
S5E02

Buster:'Hi, I'm Michael,' and I save everyone so I feel special, even though you don't deserve it.

8.18.0
S5E02

Buster:I saw Lucille 2's lifeless body sprawled across the stair car?

7.68.0
S5E02

Buster:This is literally one of only two things the Army warns about when they issue these.

6.15.8
S5E03

Buster:I mean, that guy obviously has a giant rubber hand, and I have a giant melted hand that smells like Bounce.

7.57.3
S5E03

Buster:Why hasn't Michael come back? What happened to 'Michael always comes back'?

7.37.0
S5E04

Buster:Does this mean we can start leaving towels on the floor?

7.57.3
S5E04

Buster · Michael:I'm making this into a trophy for Dad. / I can't wait to see the one you got yourself.

7.67.0
S5E05

George Sr. · Buster:Yes. And we found you in the break room with the Chanel man. He should never have lost his job for that.

7.66.8
S5E05

Buster · Michael:He was just giving me a Fanta! I know I should've spoken up for him, but I was only a boy. Barely out of my teens. I didn't... Currently.

7.67.0
S5E05

Buster:I said 'dead.' Maybe they said 'dead,' and I said, 'I wish.' Why'd you do that? I thought it was funny.

7.47.3
S5E06

George Sr. · Buster:This is where I ate a battery during my first week at recess. No, no, 'yard.' Don't call it recess.

7.57.0
S5E06

Buster:A skinhead. I'm gonna kill you, you bleeping skinhead! Oh, hey! Skinhead! See what I did to skinhead?

8.18.8
S5E07

Michael · Buster · Barry:She said that I could make up whatever reason I want. You tell me what is easiest on you. Hmm, no, it's too mean. I think you're entitled, Buster. She hates you, Michael. We'll use that one.

7.47.0
S5E07

Buster:In my case, twice. Well, two times, allegedly.

6.86.3
S5E07

Buster:Like when she used to lock me in the bathroom for grown-up selfish needs night. Oh, did we have a good time. What? No, it ended in tears.

7.47.2
S5E07

Michael · Buster:Lucille 2's head in a box? Spooky.

7.07.0
S5E07

Michael · Buster:Okay, now inside the stair car are two heads. One bald, one spiky. Spooky.

6.66.3
S5E08

Lucille · Buster:Well, I'm not going to be the one who apologizes, if that's what you're waiting for. - Well, I'm sorry, but... - Apology accepted.

7.77.5
S5E08

Buster:Did I exaggerate about her? She really is just like the mother in Two and a Half Men.

6.96.3
S5E08

Buster:There's no scary half-man that I couldn't handle.

7.16.3
S5E08

Buster:I touched a mouse. I read an illustrated Qur'an for kids, and at recess once, I sat in 'Blacks only.' Yard. Oh, I keep doing that.

7.46.7
S5E08

Buster:You'll need the warden's permission, and then you'll have to sponsor me for my furlough, and they probably won't let me on the float again, but that's just... Oh, God, it's still the parade, isn't it?

7.67.5
S5E08

Buster:Well, it's either that, or I'm gonna start spewing it.

6.96.5
S5E08

Buster · Lucille:Half-man? Jon Cryer. Oh.

7.16.7
S5E08

Buster · Guard:Is this because I accidentally choked Ron Howard? Because they already made me pay for that. They chopped your hand off? No, they just downgraded me to a manual.

7.87.8
S5E08

Buster:Are there dressing rooms for the talent?

7.37.0
S5E08

Gob · Buster:It's gonna involve you being put into a small, confined space, and you come out gay. If that's a swipe about me being in prison, I understand it.

7.26.8
S5E08

Gob · Buster:It's gonna involve you being put into a small, confined space, and you come out gay. If that's a swipe about me being in prison, I understand it.

7.57.3
S5E09

Oscar · Buster:Wait a minute. It's a fake hand. How can it hurt? No, it's a rental from prison, and Mother said my next hand... is gonna be out of my own pocket

7.06.5
S5E09

Oscar · Buster:Outside, inside, outside, inside... Now, we cannot draw attention to ourselves. - I'm just a guy fixing a broken hand. - Right. And I'm... I'm just a guy who's wearing a blue hat. Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see.

6.46.2
S5E09

Buster · Oscar:Oh, I'm like a kid in a candy shop. - No way. - I think I saw William Shatner wearing this while riding a bicycle once.

6.76.0
S5E09

Buster · Oscar:Oh, I'm like a kid in a candy shop. No way. I think I saw William Shatner wearing this while riding a bicycle once.

6.26.3
S5E09

Buster:It sort of reminds me of Mother's hand, except it's less veiny, and warmer.

7.26.8
S5E09

Stan Sitwell · Oscar · Buster:You're taking me as a hostage in case the cops see us? Hey, guy, I wouldn't know about that. - We can pretend we're cousins. - Cousins?

6.86.3
S5E10

Oscar · Buster:Inside, outside, inside, outside... - Who is this guy? - I don't know... inside... but I don't like the looks of him... outside...

6.76.5
S5E10

Oscar · Buster:Tell him to off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to F off, twinkle toes. Tell him to F off.

6.76.0
S5E10

Oscar · Buster:Inside, outside. Inside, outside. Inside, outside. Outside. Inside, outside. - You blow our cover, and she's a goner. - Inside, outside.

6.76.3
S5E10

Oscar · Buster:Wet side, dry side, wet side, dry side, wet side, dry side...

6.76.0
S5E11

Buster:I could sniff out Mother somehow, but she wouldn't want me. Maybe I'm better in prison. I'm no good on my own.

7.26.8
S5E11

Buster · Oscar:Inside. Outside. Inside.

7.06.5
S5E11

Oscar · Buster:Feels like we're outside. It feels like we're inside.

7.97.5
S5E11

Buster:You're looking at a boy who faked a coma for two weeks to get out of a spelling bee.

8.18.3
S5E11

Buster · Oscar:That was to get out of testifying. No, that was a three-month coma.

8.69.0
S5E11

Buster · Tobias:No, you have to be 55 and older. Well, that sounds like a challenge to any family that wasn't a ragtag troupe of folks whom I wish to become actors.

6.96.3
S5E11

Buster:It said, 'Welcome Home From Prison Again, Buster.' I mean, it's like, did they expect me to come home from prison?

6.96.5
S5E11

Oscar · Buster:A guy could have a mighty nice life up here. Do you... You want us to die here together?

7.87.5
S5E11

Gob · Buster:If... you help me get rid of this big, dead-body-shaped thing. What is it? I just told you, it's...

6.87.0
S5E13

Buster:Yeah, I barely know it's... Well, he's grown a little.

7.26.7
S5E13

Buster:So I named it after her: Lucille Ball.

7.47.0
S5E13

Buster:Take that back! You take that back! We're normal! We're normal!

7.37.2
S5E13

Buster:I've never even got my suit wet from the outside.

7.97.7
S5E13

Buster:Poker face.

7.37.3
S5E14

Buster:I'm growing dreads, Mother. Dreads right out of my head.

7.06.3
S5E15

Buster:Burn. It's just that my mother's name is Lucille as well, so the... the burn was on her.

7.57.3
S5E15

Buster:I've got a show to do in ten minutes, and I haven't got a Thing to wear... this Thing suit.

7.06.5
S5E16

Buster:Well, had I known that she was talking about Lindsay, I would have been, like, 'Goodbye, Felicia.'

6.56.5
S5E16

Buster:I did, but nothing's gonna happen to me 'cause I'm just a boy.

7.37.2
S5E16

Buster · Michael:Lottie. She's so mean. I wish I could shove her down the st... Hey! Shh!

7.77.7
S5E16

Gob · Buster:body-shaped thing... It's from a magician.

6.96.5
S5E16

Buster:Mm-hmm. Yeah, I saw A Few Good Men, too. But Dusty's the real deal. Sorry, Michael. Game recognizes game.

7.06.7
S5E16

Reporter · Buster:How does it feel to be accused of murder? It was a lot of work, but I didn't do it! They found me not guilty. Well, it was a mistrial, so they found you not not guilty.

6.96.5
S5E16

Maeby · Lindsay · Buster:Oh, my God. Lucille 2 is your mother? Mimi. Not Lucille 2. Oh, right. That is who I pushed down the stairs.

7.67.7
S5E16

Buster:Okay, I did it. So... But doesn't she remind you of Mom?

8.48.7
S5E16

Buster:Okay, I did it. So...

8.18.8
S5E16

Buster:But doesn't she remind you of Mom?

7.87.8