Characters from Arrested Development

This is a list of the main and recurring fictional characters from the Fox television comedy series, Arrested Development.

Byron "Buster" Bluth

Byron "Buster" Bluth is the youngest of the biologically born Bluth children, known mostly as "Buster", occasionally as "Busty". It has been hinted that Buster's father might be Oscar, George Bluth Sr.'s twin brother. He is portrayed by Tony Hale.

Related Topics:
Oscar - George Bluth Sr. - Tony Hale

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Buster is a career student but cannot return to school because the money is no longer available to him. Thus far, he has taken $80,000 worth of lessons from the Stanford Institute of Cartography, but in the pilot episode mistakes the blue part of the map for land. He has studied Native American Tribal ceremonies, participated in a sleep deprivation study, worked on an archaeological dig as part of a Smithsonian fellowship, and endured a study that investigated the relationship between medical marijuana and nausea because it took place at a carnival. He is a graduate of Milford Academy.

Related Topics:
Stanford - Cartography - Native American - Sleep deprivation - Smithsonian - Medical marijuana - Nausea - Carnival - Milford Academy

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Buster is very much a man-boy, similar to Pee-wee Herman. He has an unusually-shaped penis (once described to a US Army doctor as a "lobster tail but without its shell"). He is very attached to his mother Lucille, has frequent panic attacks, hates both closed and open spaces, is terrified of sheep, and is very wrathful towards his Korean-born adopted brother, Annyong. He has been romantically linked on-and-off to his mother's best friend, also named Lucille (played by Liza Minelli). She changed his diapers when Buster was an infant and therefore is familiar with his odd-looking genitals.

Related Topics:
Pee-wee Herman - Penis - US Army - Lobster - Lucille - Sheep - Korea - Annyong - Liza Minelli

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In the second season premiere, Lucille signs Buster up for the Army, although his training is less than successful. In the episode Out on a Limb, Buster's left hand was bitten off by a loose seal. In the same episode, it was revealed that his real father is George Sr.'s brother, Oscar.

Related Topics:
Lucille - Army

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;External links

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• Profile of Buster at the O.P.