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Character Analysis

Dr. Norman

Played by Dr. Norman

10 jokes across 2 episodes of Arrested Development

WAR

2.7

Total Jokes

10

Avg Craft

7.5

Avg Impact

7.2

Comedy Style

Absurdist

Dr. Norman delivers 10 scored jokes across 2 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.2 on impact for a career WAR of 2.7. Their comedy leans toward absurdist. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Dr. Norman Lines

All Jokes — 16 total

S4E02

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman: 'The bigger crime would've been the patient didn't wake up and testify against me. But nobody cares about the part of the oath he kept.'

8.48.5
S4E02

Dr. Norman · Prison pen pal:Norman's prison pen pal letters from a woman who supports him — her letter defending him in broken English: 'If he as bad as the state of California say he is, then why did I fall in love with him, huh? Yo, [bleep] the state of California!'

7.27.2
S4E02

George Sr. · Dr. Norman:'Oh, God... sorry, Norman. / Huh? / Uh, nothing.'

6.96.5
S4E06

George Sr. · Dr. Norman:George Sr. in doctor's office: 'I've made love with treason charges over me before. But no, it's something else.'

8.07.8
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman's alternative medicine checklist: 'Any earthquakes in a Chinese restaurant while you were trying to prove something to your mother?' / 'Any wishes you may have phrased badly, or while a child was blowing out a candle?'

7.77.3
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman: 'Sorry, had the old thinking cap on.' — puts on an actual thinking cap (presumably a comical hat)

7.16.5
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman's checklist continues: 'Have you come across any ancient games, let's say, glowing games, uh, either board based or carnival based, that you may have played against the wishes of your best friend?'

7.87.3
S4E06

Dr. Norman:'Have you come across any ancient games, let's say, glowing games, uh, either board based or carnival based, that you may have played against the wishes of your best friend?'

7.97.8
S4E06

George Sr. · Dr. Norman:George Sr.: 'Wait. The strong will become the weak. The weak will become the strong. I did hallucinate one ancient foreboding warrior harbinger while I chewed maca root about a year ago. Could that be something?'

7.57.0
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman: 'No, it's not the maca. Your body wants the maca. It's not the maca.' — after George Sr. mentions the maca hallucination

7.46.8
S4E06

Dr. Norman · George Sr.:Dr. Norman recommends George Sr. get in an MRI machine 'and try to ride it to climax' — 'Do I get magazines?' / 'Yeah, I'll write you a script for that. They got a place right around the corner that plays ball.'

7.77.8
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman's testosterone results: 'Your testosterone numbers are off the charts. Below the charts, under the charts. I don't know how to say that. You have almost no testosterone at all. I don't know the exact numbers, but it's somewhere in the baby range.'

7.87.7
S4E06

Dr. Norman:Dr. Norman: 'On the plus side, your estrogen levels are that of a very healthy woman in the throes of her menses.'

7.97.8
S4E06

Dr. Norman · George Sr.:Dr. Norman: 'May I see my results?' / George Sr.: 'Ah, I wish you'd asked me about five minutes ago. I think I dumped it with a pot pipe and a bottle of cheetah sedative.'

8.07.8
S4E06

Dr. Norman · George Sr.:Dr. Norman: 'Also, the people at Orange County Imaging said that you were masturbating in an MRI tube?' / George Sr.: 'Oh, no.' / Dr. Norman: 'But, Doctor, you, you told me to.' / 'I did no such thing.' / 'That sounds like something I would say when I had my thinking cap on.'

8.18.3
S4E06

Dr. Norman · George Sr.:Dr. Norman: 'You, sir, are a very funny lady.' George Sr.: 'That's what they always say to the unattractive one.'

7.77.5