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Character Analysis

Dermot Mulroney

Dusty

Played by Dermot Mulroney

30 jokes across 6 episodes of Arrested Development

WAR

11.5

Total Jokes

30

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.9

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Dusty delivers 30 scored jokes across 6 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 on impact for a career WAR of 11.5. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Dusty Lines

All Jokes — 30 total

S5E04

Dusty:You know, I smashed my phone a couple years ago, too. With a hammer. Never missed it. Miss the hammer, but I guess that's why. God made rocks.

7.46.8
S5E04

Dusty:Get off my beach, you stupid seagulls.

7.16.5
S5E11

Dusty:I helped her take down all your pictures.

6.97.0
S5E11

Dusty:Those steps are just for the feet of the Bay Boys. Get back in the ball, dude.

6.77.0
S5E11

George Sr. · Dusty:Oh, you served in Vietnam? Surfed. I surfed in Vietnam. Two group tours.

7.77.5
S5E11

Lucille · Dusty:We went for sushi last night, and he never touched his fork. Well, a little bit for the rice. It's the hard part. But not when the guy was looking.

7.37.2
S5E11

Dusty:If you think that I enjoy being put in the position of ridiculing you, intimidating you, emasculating you, you're wrong, little guy. Wrong.

7.07.0
S5E12

Dusty:Dusty: 'Dusty's an expert on Orient... Uh... Asian inscrutability.'

6.56.3
S5E12

Dusty:Dusty: 'You said we'd get ice cream.'

7.27.0
S5E14

Dusty:Well, maybe, like, babies, but that's weird, because who likes babies?

6.86.0
S5E14

Dusty:Right. That's why I chose the word 'weird.'

7.06.5
S5E14

Dusty:I just wasted an hour and a half working on an opening joke, till I realized that it's from Fast and Furious. It doesn't even work unless you're in a Camaro.

7.27.0
S5E14

Dusty:I hate him! I hope he loses! I'm going to my fort!

6.96.7
S5E15

Dusty:What a [BLEEP] day! Sorry. Just... I heard my... my dad's in the hospital.

6.46.3
S5E15

Lottie · Dusty:You cut your hair. Eh. Yeah.

6.46.3
S5E15

Dusty:Uh, I... I didn't know about the videotape. So, I mean, what... You can just see he... he's throwing the body right off the cliff, so everyone's like, 'Uh...' 'I mean, what else could it be?'

6.87.5
S5E15

Dusty:I'm feeling like people are judging me, and it's just not making me feel that great.

6.66.7
S5E15

Dusty:Stepmom.

7.37.0
S5E15

Dusty:Nah. I mean, she's a little old for me, don't you think? She's, like... your age.

7.07.0
S5E15

Dusty:Fifty-six and a half.

7.67.7
S5E15

Dusty:Not gonna let that ruin my recess.

7.27.2
S5E15

Dusty:I mean, was that an option? Because you did almost kill my dad.

7.57.5
S5E16

Dusty:Mistrial! Mistrial! Yes, yes, I missed your trial!

7.37.0
S5E16

Michael · Dusty:No touching! Or touching. Yeah, feel it. It's a rental.

6.97.3
S5E16

Michael · Dusty:She asked you to get rid of family memories? Why? Is that weird? It's just that, typically, the drinking does that.

7.67.3
S5E16

Dusty:Mother, I'm going to open the box! Mom's not here, so it turns out she's not as all-powerful as I think she is.

7.17.0
S5E16

Dusty:These are three-quarter-inch, Michael. This is not a TV station in the '70s.

7.06.3
S5E16

Lottie · Dusty:Objection. Is this going somewhere? Yeah, that's what I wanted to find out.

7.37.0
S5E16

Dusty · Lottie · Judge:Oh, that'll be great timing, because I've been drinking this free court water. Does the prosecution have any objections? I need a break. Oh, let him go. Oh, he worked through recess.

6.86.3
S5E16

Dusty · Michael:Two brothers can't be charged for the same crime. Well, I hate to say it, but you may have been getting better advice from Barry.

7.57.2