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Character Analysis

Maria Bamford

Debrie

Played by Maria Bamford

16 jokes across 4 episodes of Arrested Development

WAR

3.8

Total Jokes

16

Avg Craft

7.3

Avg Impact

7.1

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

DeBrie delivers 16 scored jokes across 4 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 on impact for a career WAR of 3.8. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest DeBrie Lines

All Jokes — 50 total

S4E03

DeBrie · Tobias:DeBrie eats all the butter at the table — Tobias tries to improvise a scene with her. 'Oh, I'm out. She's too good. I don't know who my guy is. I don't have a guy.'

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S4E05

DeBrie:And I made it in that movie, the Fantastic Four, but it wasn't fantastic for me. / I got carried away. / And I'm like, 'This is up, and I've got to get my together or I'm gonna be too.'

8.07.8
S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:Okay, notes. First of all, it seemed you were slurring a bit there, and I just think you'd have so much more fun punching those words. / 'This is up, sir.' / I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with the piece, so...

8.07.8
S4E05

DeBrie:I almost never get recognized as the Invisible Girl. / I can't believe you saw me.

8.48.3
S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie · Bystander:Hey, maybe she came into this Light Bulbs Unlimited. / She was here a minute ago. / This is the gayest Starbucks ever! / Did his fishing line break, too?

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S4E05

DeBrie:Carl Weathers used to give us grape juice. But then he'd add $5 to our credit card.

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S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:Well, here is to our acting addiction. Yep. May we never be cured.

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S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:DeBrie, are you crying? Oh, I'm crying. Oh, it's a nosebleed.

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S4E05

DeBrie:Marky Bark, sometimes he doesn't know when I'm in the same room. / And sometimes it feels like it's not the face blindness, you know?

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S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:You're a doctor, and you're out of work. / Well... / You can write scripts? / Well, I like to think so. / You should never give up a dream if you can write scripts.

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S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:Well, I like to think so. You should never give up a dream if you can write scripts. You seem like you'd be a good doctor-actor.

7.87.7
S4E05

DeBrie · Narrator:You remind me of Billy Crystal... / It would have broken Tobias' heart if he'd known she was about to say 'Billy Crystal Meth,' a funny drug dealer.

8.58.7
S4E05

DeBrie · Narrator:You remind me of Billy Crystal... / Once again, she was going to say, 'Billy Crystal Meth.'

8.38.5
S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:Did you see my license plate, 'A-N-U-S-T-A-R-T'? / Did you see my StraightBait movie of the same name?

8.89.0
S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:Can I just improv my way out of a marriage? / Yes, and let's do this. / Blackout.

8.78.7
S4E05

Narrator · DeBrie · Tobias:If you're wondering what 'too' referred to, it was this... / Let's do this. / Blackout. / And scene, as they say. / Her heart stopped! She's dying!

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S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie · Doctor:You didn't tell me you had a drug problem. / We met at a methadone clinic. / Are you high? We met at an acting class. / The Method One... / There it is. I'm gonna let you guys hash this out.

8.08.0
S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:When I first saw StraightBait, there were two men making love, but I couldn't take my eyes off of you. / You watched StraightBait? / Oh, just two, four and nine.

8.68.8
S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:You watched StraightBait? Oh, just two, four and nine.

8.69.0
S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:I do have a law degree. / I know, I know, and I'm a doctor. But no, let's not settle.

8.07.8
S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:Can they really make us leave Hollywood Boulevard? / Well, apparently in this instance, paper beats rock. / You have a rock? / No, I am your rock now.

8.07.8
S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:We're broke. / But you can't sell your Fantastic Four costume. I mean, that would be like a fisherman selling his fishing costume.

8.17.8
S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:No, I was gonna have sex with him. / For money. / What? No. Put that back on.

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S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:Hey, I'm not a thing. / Hey, I am a thing.

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S4E05

DeBrie · Tobias:You turned it down? Mmm-hmm. / I almost a guy for a hamburger, and you turned down $120,000 a year?

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S4E05

Tobias · DeBrie:After all, a doctor in India told me that I have the gift to make people laugh. / Why are you crying? / You're worse than Marky. He couldn't see me, but you can't hear me.

8.38.5
S4E05

DeBrie:You're worse than Marky. He couldn't see me, but you can't hear me.

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S4E09

DeBrie · Argyle · Tobias:DeBrie: 'I was in The Fantasticks.' / Argyle: 'Well...' / Tobias: 'Look at that. My sister and I played the young lovers.'

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S4E09

Tobias · DeBrie:DeBrie vomits on stage / loses a tooth — Tobias: 'Well, that's a good luck sign on Broadway. On the East Coast it's break a leg, on the West Coast it's lose a tooth.'

8.38.3
S4E09

Tobias · DeBrie:DeBrie does one arm wave. Tobias: 'One move. Let's work with that. Let's use that. Or no move. Good. The power. And she's disappearing as we dance.'

8.18.0
S4E09

Lucille · DeBrie:♪ 'I don't want to be invisible...' ♪ — DeBrie singing while Lucille critique-watches: 'Is anyone going to tell her she needs to lose weight? Because I'm not buying invisible, and you don't want to be out there on a raft that's listing.'

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S4E09

DeBrie · Lucille · Narrator:DeBrie falls — 'Oh, DeBrie.' / 'Or ankle or knee.' — Narrator: 'And so DeBrie, who had been in the safe harbor of a drug-free zone, found herself in the free drug zone of an unsafe harbor.'

8.88.7
S4E09

DeBrie · Tobias:DeBrie: 'I think I need some drugs.' Tobias: 'No, it's okay, that's okay, no drugs are necessary. We all want drugs, but that's a no-no, yes?'

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S4E09

Tobias · DeBrie:Tobias to DeBrie (finding her high on the ground): 'How could you do this to me? Or did I do this to you?' / DeBrie: 'You to me.' / Tobias: 'I should have left you happy and healthy and sober in that rehab...'

8.28.0
S4E09

Tobias · DeBrie:Tobias: 'Before I go any further with this, there's no way a hot cup of coffee and a glass of the show must go on spirit will encourage you in any way, will it?' / DeBrie: 'Let me die.'

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S4E10

Lucille Bluth · Tobias Fünke · DeBrie:She missed a step. Tell her she missed a step. / She can't do it like that. / ... on people's feelings. / Oh, uh, DeBrie, you might have missed a step, so...

7.47.0
S5E08

Ma Bark · Tobias · DeBrie:I guess you earned your shower. / Ugh. This thing does not breathe. / I'll tell you who doesn't bitch like that, your son. / I'll give you 500 bucks cash for this youngin' right now.

7.17.0
S5E08

Tobias · DeBrie:You're missing some back teeth, there. / Yeah. Just like that.

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S5E08

Lucille · DeBrie:Maybe if you turn away from the bleachers and cover your face with your hand... / I'm sure that's not the first time you've been told that. / Oh, God, no.

7.67.3
S5E08

Tobias · DeBrie:DeBrie's internal struggle — not too shy, not shy. No... happy, good. Good, happy, not sad. Shy. Sad, shy. Sad...

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S5E08

Tobias · DeBrie:Help! Please! We need a doctor! It's an emergency. Hi. It's us again. Help! / Did you redo the floors here? / Help, we need a doctor. Oh! / It's okay. She's usually on pain pills.

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S5E08

DeBrie · Tobias · Doctor:DeBrie: I'm under the impression that if you're carried in they put you immediately on the morphine drip? / That's what we've been told before. / We prioritize according to need. / Of course.

7.87.5
S5E08

DeBrie · Tobias:Oh, bullshit you didn't redo these floors. They look amazing. / Help! / I got to stop coming out this way.

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S5E10

Tobias · Murphybrown · DeBrie:On the next Arrested Development: Tobias's 'tent city' is a mall food court. 'We need to keep a low profile.' / 'We could always go to the food court.' / 'Maybe we can ask them to turn down the birds.'

8.07.8
S5E12

DeBrie · Mark Cherry:'I just wanted to get out of doing things like Straightbait. I just couldn't do another group scene, but I love staying at Tent City.'

7.06.5
S5E12

DeBrie · Mark Cherry:'Yes, but that turned out to be a travel and adventure store. And we were squatting right in the middle of their summer two-for-one.'

7.27.0
S5E12

DeBrie · Maeby:DeBrie forces a group hug: 'Hug. Hug. Hug, DeBrie. Group hug.'

5.75.0
S5E15

Tobias · DeBrie:Tobias explains that DeBrie blew their cover at the Spotted Palm 'by looking at her cellular telephone without holding it at arm's length and putting on her readers first.'

7.26.8
S5E15

Tobias · DeBrie · Murphybrown:The troupe improvises an explanation for 'Annette's death' — she was 'gored' in the running of the bulls in a place where 'an animal took off with the body so fast you couldn't get it back'

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S5E15

DeBrie · George Michael:DeBrie: 'And I knew him. Did I tell you that story when Mr. Weinstein killed my ficus in the '80s? When he came over to audition me for...' George Michael: 'Yes. We all know DeBrie Bardeaux snagged a private audition with Harvey Weinstein.' DeBrie: 'Yeah, but I came on too strong, so I didn't get the part.'

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