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Character Analysis

Murphybrown

Played by Murphybrown

5 jokes across 5 episodes of Arrested Development

WAR

0.7

Total Jokes

5

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Murphybrown delivers 5 scored jokes across 5 episodes of Arrested Development, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 0.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Murphybrown Lines

All Jokes — 18 total

S5E05

Tobias · Murphybrown · Bluth Family:Tobias reveals Murphybrown as his 'bastard son' — 'They think we're boyfriends, Dad.' / 'Well, thanks for giving away that surprise! I'm his bastard father.'

7.57.3
S5E05

Tobias · Murphybrown:'Oh, before I forget, this is your half-sister, Maeby.' / Murphybrown's reaction beat — 'Close one! I think she's rather very hot.'

7.67.7
S5E05

Murphybrown:'I don't know what's happening.'

7.47.3
S5E05

Murphybrown:Final line: 'I don't know what's happening.' — Murphybrown's coda after the Fanta dismissal

6.96.8
S5E06

Tobias · Murphybrown:Tobias: 'Let's try this in reverse. You're famous. What is the thing you do that makes everyone clap?' / Murphybrown: 'Ooh! Once I got claps for doing a juggling ball thing, 'cause I'd unicycle in Haiti when I was volunteering...' / Tobias: 'Yes! Clowning, yes! Now, you're dreaming.'

7.67.3
S5E06

Tobias · Murphybrown:Tobias and Murphybrown in the desert: 'Is that her? Is that Lindsay?' — pointing at 'a sickly cactus with a plastic bag on it'

7.67.3
S5E06

Tobias · Murphybrown:Tobias: 'I suppose it's true. The desert makes one see what one wants to see.' / Murphybrown: 'Is that two barrel-chested, strapping men on horseback approaching us?'

7.47.0
S5E06

Tobias · Murphybrown:Tobias claims to be George Bluth on the disputed land — 'I'm the last guy you want to kick off of your la... his land... my land.' / Murphybrown: 'Our land.'

8.07.5
S5E06

Tobias · Murphybrown:Tobias (as George Bluth): 'Well, how about I just... use my son Michael as a signing surface? / Get up.' / Murphybrown: 'Okay.'

7.67.5
S5E10

Murphybrown:Murphybrown's response to Tobias: 'Yeah, one got up and walked right into my mouth. What're you gonna do about it?'

7.37.0
S5E10

Murphybrown · Tobias:Someone (perhaps Murphybrown) starts singing '88 days and squatter's rights kick in' to a tune — then Tobias says 'This is going too fast now'

7.47.3
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
S5E15

Murphybrown:Murphybrown: 'Sorry, I keep forgetting that acting is my passion.'

7.36.8
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'

7.57.3
S5E15

Murphybrown · George Michael:Murphybrown describing privacy software: 'It's like a dam, or like a stopper, or a barrier to stop people from...' George Michael: 'Like a block?' Murphybrown: '[stammers] Okay. [Laughs]'

8.28.3
S5E15

Murphybrown · George Michael:On the Next AD: Murphybrown demonstrates real privacy software ('they'll see dummy info instead of your real data') and asks 'So, like, do you want to watch Gone Girl?' Then reveals they can watch it for free because the studios will just see dummy data.

7.47.0
S5E15

Murphybrown · George Michael:Murphybrown: 'Hey, do you want to see Ben Affleck's peen?' George Michael (stammering): 'Yeah. Would love to.' Then both look at the laptop with increasing 'Huh. Yep, yep' reactions.

7.78.0
S5E16

Narrator · Murphybrown:Narrator on Fakeblock's uselessness: 'You wanna see Ben Affleck's peen? Because after installing his homemade software into George Michael's computer... It's gone. Yep, and forever.'

7.78.0