Tobias Funke on To Catch a Predator

[@kohle1917]

"Oh so you're here to see your daughter?" "Yes... Maeby." Gets my every single time.

[@shellybean225]

It genuinely feels like the show is leading up to that magnificent wordplay

[@ananousous]

Yes, no maybe so. What is it Alonzo?!

[@Corymachine]

@@shellybean225 I thought the same thing at the time. Like they wrote the show to culminate in this one scene. So great

[@CesarNostradamus-wj9uq]

Daddy needs to get his rocks off hahahahaha

[@S2C8509]

"Daddy needs to get his rocks off." Joke was so perfect, that I was convinced that they wrote that "Thing" storyline around that joke

[@daviesugo7641]

And the see daddy’s thing😂😂😂. Smartest comedy show ever

[@mattoniy2840]

They will have

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

They probably did.

[@enriceaux]

They named one character maybe for just one joke in the first episode

[@napoleon3026]

Which character?

[@masonkane5884]

Tobias is the only TV character better at saying the exactly wrong thing at the exactly wrong time than Michael Scott.

[@habitual_lover]

Dave Kane big boyle energy

[@hasopum749]

Hahaha i agree

[@orlandocruzlopez3536]

More likeable too lol

[@gavinthomas1745]

Ehh idk about that one they’re both hilarious characters but Tobias actually says stuff he doesn’t mean to or doesn’t realize. Michael knows what he’s saying a good majority of the time he’s just either a dick about or people don’t like it. He just tries to hard but he knows what he’s going for.

[@THEwolfKiana]

@@gavinthomas1745 Michael Scott doesn't know what he's doing when he opens his mouth. Multiple times throughout the show, he acts hurt and shocked whenever someone gets angry at his actions/words. Michael never truely means to hurt anyone, (other than Toby) he's just very socially inept.

[@definitelynotyourmom42]

I wonder if he told them that he's an analrapist.

[@weasel4674]

Karen Burch he should’ve pulled out his business card

[@dreamdancer1619]

They already knew he is an ANALTART...

[@cbrreezzyy69]

Benjamin Pizarro anustart*

[@javidhussainzade4481]

Ser Art Dayne a new start*

[@benjaminlibertarianscorpio]

@@dreamdancer1619 anus tart

[@shyguy9615]

I love how he doesn’t even question that there’s a guy and camera crew in the house. David Cross was so good in this role!

[@heatherperleberg7816]

Everybody was perfectly cast!

[@definitelynotyourmom42]

I'm honestly super impressed that he can get those ridiculous lines out without busting out laughing, I would never be able to do it.

[@ADT2695]

+ShyGuy96. He alludes to it.

[@missbrittikins]

"🤞I wanna say 19,🤞 but I always think of her as 15." 🤣😂🤣😂

[@christiansantamaria7233]

Ok.

[@90sNickfan91]

"Well, you're free to go, she's not here."

[@nameismetatoo4591]

Love how him throwing the phone out the window just seems like he's ditching a burner phone lmao

[@angeleflett4641]

Ah 'burner phone', I didn't catch that

[@tomr3422]

wasnt sudden valley also the name of a Bluthe building site

[@JohnSmith-dh8zx]

@@tomr3422It is the Bluth building site, but now it’s done and every house is empty

[@Lazyguy22]

@@tomr3422It's the same place, that's why they say "he's creeping up George Michael" (i.e. a street named after him) and the house set looks exactly like the original show house

[@reynoldriper9814]

"Daddy needs to get his rocks off"

[@SlXkxmx]

Only if you're an idiot would the rest be, "blah"

[@LilLeanCuisine]

Sl3201 Xkxmx Okay, Chill out,

[@jeffbrehove2614]

I don't get the woldplay on that

[@lissafinn4235]

Jeff Brehove , Because he’s dressed as the Thing from Fantastic Four who is made of rocks.

[@jeffbrehove2614]

@@lissafinn4235 I get that part. But how is that construed as sexual

[@claytonorchard300]

“So you’re here to see your daughter?” “Ah, Maeby” absolutely brilliant

[@KingKel37]

Hell yeah 😂😂

[@Why_even_try]

"I want to say 19...but I like to think of her as 15". OMG, the Arrested Development writers should have gotten awards for this scene alone. Every line's a classic.

[@daveb5998]

An award or 5-10 years in Supermax. Let the Jury decide?

[@steffnic13]

They are so brilliant.

[@zzzzzzzzzzz6]

It kills me how excited he is about the raccoon... like it just blows his mind.

[@humanoporsiempre]

I would be just as excited lmao

[@chubby_runs9091]

Bullshit!!

[@arjungutta7762]

WHERE IS THAT LITTLE GUY

[@ape6213]

It's not every day you see a coon in such a nice town

[@elizabethdewitt8818]

I just wish they had gotten Chris Hanson to do this, I would have lost my shit

[@av7062]

John Beard is the man though! Didn't you see that face when they suggested the raccoon story? Yes!

[@SilverShade1008]

The decline of John Beard’s career is one of my favourite recurring jokes in season 4.

[@daahsri]

@brian, wow grow up

[@daahsri]

@brian learn to spell

[@roguishpaladin]

Hansen wouldn't have gone for it. The reporting crew literally says the word "entrapment".

[@Gentuasu]

his reaction to there being a raccoon in the backyard>>

[@WafflesSong]

Gentuasu r

[@floydhebert3684]

I want to like but there are 666 likes already

[@jstttr]

BULLSHIT

[@TDIfan10]

Bullshit!

[@violetsmith6579]

To someone whos never seen this show before there would be so much explaining.. The fact that this man is a father who only speaks in unintentional euphamisms, he has a daughter named Maeby whom he neglects, he is a down-on-his-luck actor whos just gotten the opportunity to play the character Thing and so is covered in rocks. He lives in a model home. His license plate is Anustart for "A New Start" but of course everyone reads it as "Anus Tart". And thats literaly just the background to set up for this 3 minute series of jokes. Its crazy how much the writers must have thought ahead.

[@alyssadiaz9386]

as someone who started watching this show SPECIFICALLY because of this very clip: i couldve used this comment

[@mongogoose]

You missed the "never nude" part.

[@Rohml]

@@mongogoose Let's just say Dr. Tobias Funke is the most loaded character I have seen in any sitcom and David Cross plays him so well. The character has so many details about him and you need to see them, to piece together this strange, strange man.

[@sparksk8er]

Dont forget his wonderful job title, Analrapist

[@acex222]

As someone who's never seen this show, it wasn't that funny. And I like David Cross.

[@calbassas87]

Season 4 may not have been up to par with the first 3, but this sequence is right up there with the shows best moments

[@MrModicum]

You need to watch s4 it at least twice to really get everything

[@pdogcentra8648]

I feel like Season 4 gets way to bad of a rep, the George Micheal focused episodes are probably some of my favorite in the entire series

[@emer157]

Hannibal Buress agree, I've, admittedly, watched it 3 times and recently watched it again last week and I'm still only noticing some of the little jokes.

[@PedroOrdep-kv5vw]

Guys watch the new 4 season on Netflix (Remix), it's 10x better.

I agree, the Remix it's better

[@weasel4674]

He should’ve pulled out his business card.

[@sebastiann.8088]

lol

[@withgoddess1119]

😂

[@joshbranson12457]

Nooo. 😂😂😂😂

[@martiananomaly]

Professional analrapist

[@itwontcomeout5678]

LOL

[@phatparth3]

'Bullsh%^, where is that little guy' had me rolling xD

[@thebluefus]

Parth P really. Not even a chuckle from me. How is that funny?

[@skrtreynolds]

Thebluefus humour is subjective

[@fredettaboutit]

@@SlXkxmx calm down it wasn't 'THAT' funny.... Only got a little smirk out of me . It takes alot to even get me to chuckle

[@fredettaboutit]

@Voidaken no...I admitted it was somewhat funny... If it was REALLY funny I would have chuckled / laughed....

[@fredettaboutit]

@Voidaken 'somewhat funny' isn't the same as your "pretty damn funny"....

[@tubey84]

One of the all-time funniest scenes in comedy history. The setup and execution is absurdly good.

[@alalmalal]

Only good part of new seasons

[@roberttreacy8271]

+Lee K You got that right.

[@Millofandubs]

Nah, GOB's bit were gold on S4.

[@LAVATORR]

I dunno man. GOB's magic show in Colony Collapse was pretty perfect.

[@jackleague3086]

The "Hello Darkness" gag was great

[@shortboypinoy]

"I want to show her daddy's Thing" "Oh, so it's your daughter that you're here to see?" "Yes, Maeby" The poor choice of words is off the charts haha.

[@BNORT]

Makes you think if they planned to name her that specifically for a joke like this

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@BNORT ikr! this show always does that to me, im like OMG how long has this single joke been setup for?

[@kaigibson320]

@@Dell-ol6hb I think it's more supposed to be like George Michael's cousin, mabye

[@f.f5771]

@@BNORT just like Lucille

[@BNORT]

@@f.f5771 loose seal! Loose seal! 🦭

[@loganm4983]

Three moments that never fail to make me laugh in this sequence: 1) The film crew all hugging each other before they go in for the kill 2) John Beard repeating to himself "who, what, when, where, why" as he prepares for another investigative piece 3) That instead of getting a decoy actor/actress, they have John Beard standing in a broom closet awkwardly imitating a young girl's voice

[@TheGregcawthorne]

Someone has a selective memory

[@loganm4983]

@@TheGregcawthorne Oh, you have no idea.

[@harshmudhar96]

Not just why, "why in hell"

[@jameswashere187]

@@loganm4983 I mean how freaky would it be if he DID have an idea

[@dabbopabblo]

number 3 had me the most in stitches

[@Tim85-y2q]

This is one of the few bits in the revival that truly feels like it could fit seamlessly into the original show.

[@Laszlo_Panaflex]

"Hello, Anustart ..." And she hadn't even seen the license plate.

[@markmccallum475]

Laszlo Panaflex that was a brilliant moment.

[@Blazentity]

A very underrated scene in arrested development

[@rennydesprite]

"But this creep won't take no for an answer" LOL

[@onekthmatt]

Still better than the new Fantastic Four

[@TheClevelandSteamer]

Simon Corvax still better than any Fantastic Four

[@JohnSmith-iy7gc]

JesusFriedChrist don't you mean feminazi, feminist just means equality between men and women so a feminist ghostbusters should just be an equal amount of men and women

[@JohnSmith-iy7gc]

JesusFriedChrist and you realise they were talking about fantastic four because he looks like the thinh

[@TigerBears11]

Benjamin Burkhardt - Yeah, it’s called The Incredibles 2.

[@gabrielidusogie9189]

@@TheClevelandSteamer the comics are much better I assure you

[@murrburr3]

ahahah I love how he's singing along with the jazz music "it's just a fallacy!!!"

[@mountainhun]

It's just a phallus-sea!

[@NotDingse]

@@mountainhun phallus, see!

[@hoks9973]

I was going to comment on that.. so random but so funny at the same time hahahahaha it reminded me a random scene where Tobias is on george michael's bed (talking to michael) and he is resting his head on his hand, mirroring george michael's picture right behind him resting his head in the same manner

[@cullermann2]

I dont know why, but the way he gets so excited and yells "Bullshit" is so absolutely funny to me , gets me every time

[@RedHearts178]

the fact that this character has a masters in psycholinguistics makes his way of speaking so much funnier 😂😂

[@marcbelo7301]

"Oh so its your daughter your here to see?" Yes... Maeby

[@nameismetatoo4591]

And the way he smiles as he says it...I applaud the writers for that one. It's such a perfectly placed joke that it almost seems they had this scene planned from the start.

[@wanderingwonder111]

@@nameismetatoo4591 This got recommended to me without context, so it was perfect. I experienced it from the film crew's POV, and the comments are filling me in on the real story

[@MarinersFan1987]

"He's creeping up George Michael." Oh, this show : )

[@coyoterx417]

Chuck Bertal don't leave your uncle T-bag hanging.

[@zorgo12]

"Looks like we got ourselfs an anustart!" Best line ever! Love this show

[@naughtiusmaximus789]

Kristian_N The best gag of the season

[@sethleoric2598]

I love how he seems pleasantly surprised John Beard is in his house

[@TwistedNerve1]

Yes....... Maybe.

[@prepschoolpolitico]

TwistedNerve Her name is Maeby which is pronounced "maybe"

[@TwistedNerve1]

prepschoolpolitico Hmm...... Maybe

[@marlonrando9272]

This part killed me 😂😂

[@bubbariots9854]

His daughter's name is Maeby lmao

[@nolanrux7866]

I don't really like season 4 but this scene was fucking hilarious.

[@marlonrando9272]

Nolan Rux season 5 is brilliant

[@MrRae7231]

Season 4 is hilarious too

[@biggusdickus1689]

Try watching it again with the reedit if you haven't, they removed the time jumps and made it all flow much more comfortably, like watching the season again for the first time.

[@ccgerrity]

@@biggusdickus1689 how? Is it on Hulu or Netflix like that?

[@biggusdickus1689]

@@ccgerrity I believe it's just the default for if you watch the fourth season on Netflix. I'm actually not sure if there even is a way to watch the original cut although I figure there probably is somewhere.

[@williamhealy6381]

I love the humour in this show, every joke is just one big coincidence. One horrible, consequential coincidence

[@alexandre3989]

You should watch Curb Your Enthusiasm then.

[@DAREALFARMZ]

00:18 "I'm a man, don't make it look like makeup." A gem

[@nickger4936]

The "Rocks off" joke and him saying "BULLSHIT!" to the raccoon being in the backyard makes me laugh every time. Lmao

[@Profile__1]

I love the excuse of the homes being built by the Bluths because it gives them an excuse to reuse the exact same set but for completely different reasons.

[@jondeere2312]

by far the one of wittiest and most well written sitcoms ever. 4 seasons of arrested dev hold up against any ten seasons of any show

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Nah, Seinfeld is the king of this type of situational comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm is also right up there with Seinfeld. I liked arrested development, but it was nowhere near Seinfeld and Curb.

[@alexramos7708]

Better than Curb? Scruvs? Nah.

[@ancient-lemon]

Counter point: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

[@perc3136]

@@aravinthsrisivasritharan4098 the actors on its always sunny always say the show is not a sitcom and get mad when people call it that lol

[@aravinthsrisivasritharan4098]

@@perc3136 O soz

[@majesticmo]

The only time I ever genuinely felt bad for Tobias.

[@michaelbalfour3170]

Same, he finally was going to do good as a father and spend some time with his daughter and then gets all hyped about the raccoon.

[@LIMBERG921]

I love how they used every Chris Hansen iconic phrase

[@memowilliam9889]

To entrap a local predator. LOL

[@brockobama257]

“I broke my skull in a fourth place” “The patio!”

[@OrreBorree]

I don't actually get this joke, care to explain?

[@blablablacksheep4]

@@OrreBorree I think its a further nod that he speaks rather strangely. I believe he's phrased it like he's injured his head, but he actually broke the patio door and thats what he's upset about.

[@whexplain4119]

@@OrreBorree It’s a reference to an older episode where Tobias gets hit by a bus in India. When he falls off the hospital bed, he says “I just broke my skull in a third place!l

[@idk-yu9zp]

I think the joke is that you think he means a fourth part of his skull has been broken, but he means that he has broke his skull while being in a fourth location (last time was in a hospital room, this time on the patio)

[@mesousagaby740]

"Oh, so it's your daughter you're here to see!" "Yes. MAEBY." I died. XD

[@phishbrain3448]

"daddy need get his rocks off." haha

[@sarahc357]

How the actors managed to get one clean take of saying anustart is beyond me.

[@KingOfMadCows]

Aw, they didn't have a cop running up and hitting him with a baton after he's been tackled.

[@90sNickfan91]

Analrapist and Anustart

[@rhyliespeaks]

Now, this is the cleanest best pleasure!

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

haha nice

[@thedarktimewatcher1658]

What know way

[@michaelbalfour3170]

A woman of culture, I see,

[@dimlightbulb10]

I didn't much care for season 4, but I'd still rank this as one of the best moments in Arrested Development.

[@CharlieBrown20XD6]

Lol I love that not knowing his own daughters age would be suspicious if it wasn't Tobias

[@rbrown4378]

Tobias is so open to John Beard filming a random documentary in his house rotfl

[@calebstevens7487]

Greatest writing in a comedy series. This whole show was a huge inside joke

[@NishantGogna]

damn this show is so good

[@SkyReviewsNet]

Narco Psycho wewlad

[@narcopsycho9447]

JM SEX 4 SEX?

[@RolandmaddogDeschain]

From an ANALRAPIST to an ANUSTART. What a character arc!

[@robj144]

"This creep makes himself right at home." It is his home.

[@kylebutler3018]

oh........you're putting me on the spot there lolololo

[@Eric-jb1ym]

he just picks up a random glass of whatever and starts drinking it haha

[@Skullsinthecrowd]

"Is there alcohol in this?" 😄

[@kristopherryanwatson]

whoever came up with incorporating this into season 4 is a genius. Only something like this could happen to Tobias.

[@ozharms]

This had me hooting with laughter the first time I saw it.

[@salvagemonster3612]

Tobias was always the best character on this show. This was one of the funniest of his ever

[@Stevo935]

"I wanted to see my little girl, I wanted to show her daddy's Thing!" Man that's almost worse than the rocks off line, lol

[@90sNickfan91]

Who is that a gal I see? No it's just a fallacy.

[@xeroxs7313]

NO!

[@JaceDanielFilms]

God no show sets up jokes so intricately and executed so perfectly

[@Sanmir1234]

Season 4 was not good, but I think this is one of the best written jokes of the whole series. Cried laughing the first time I saw this

[@louker007]

who what when where why and how, who what when where why and how....

[@boythee4193]

lol he never made it through journalism 101

[@emilinebelle7811]

Everybody! (Who what when where why and how?) Solve. Ah. Mystery!

[@NitinSingh-xr7ft]

1:48 cracks me everytime

[@treycas33]

“Daddy needs to get his rocks off!!”😂😂😂

[@killergoose7643]

Best part of season 4.

[@claytonorchard300]

Years later Tobias found fame managing 3 singing chipmunks but as they were infant chipmunks Tobias had to manage them from at least 100 ft away

[@LockeDemosthenes2]

This was one of the only parts of the Netflix seasons of Arrested Development that was genuinely funny.

[@andinda7915]

There are so many jokes packed in just a few lines it is crazy. "I wanted to show her daddy's thing"

[@cakeash]

I think the main thing Season 4 got wrong was the editing. The jokes and writing were phenomenal in season 4, and the story was woven together amazingly despite the timing difficulties with the cast. The only thing missing was the momentum of the first 3 seasons. Given the show was originally broadcast on TV in 20 or so minute episodes, it had to be executed in a specific way. Season 4 draws out scenes that would've otherwise been cut down or changed entirely. Its still amazing, but a tiny bit more awkwardly paced.

[@SteveBluescemi]

That's exactly it. Even this scene, which is one of the funniest S4 scenes, could've been significantly punched up with tighter editing. Like, did we need to watch the tv crew for like 30 seconds before Ron Howard explains "but there was a tv crew there"? No!

[@VJ4rawr2]

Lol. This wouldn't be filmed today. I hate that.

[@sld1776]

"Let's entrap a local..." is sheer brilliance. The men you saw on 'to catch a predator' usually avoided jail. They were legally entrapped, and could not be prosecuted.

[@Helladamnleet]

>They were legally entrapped False. To be entrapped you must be doing something you wouldn't have already done. It's like how if your hooker ends up being a cop it isn't entrapment because you were already going to buy a hooker. Now if they cop came up to you and CONVINCED YOU to pay her/him for sex, that would be entrapment.

[@sld1776]

@@Helladamnleet My dude. A lot of those men walked. You can look it up with a simple Google search.

[@RMTStudios]

@@sld1776 that’s bull. The only ones who walked were the ones involved in the Katy. Texas case where a DA they caught committed suicide when they went to confront him. The Katy DA dropped all the other cases. The majority of people caught on the show did some jail time and are now registered sex offenders.

[@Kipah]

@@sld1776 There's a difference between most people walking and most people were legally entrapped. There is no evidence most people on that show successfully argued entrapment. It doesn't exist.

[@riffdex]

@@sld1776a lot of them walked because they (while dumb) were at least not so dumb as to just talk to police and give them all the facts, a lot of them got lawyers and did the correct strategy of avoiding consequences, by admitting to nothing or little to nothing. You act like all those people got off because they got in front of a judge and their lawyer argued it was entrapment successfully.

[@kianyt5804]

"There's a raccoon out on the patio!" ""BULLSHIT!"

[@kitgusto2390]

"Yes... Maeby :)"

[@joecook5689]

"She's 19, but I like to think of her as 15."

[@Marshallgill]

"Catch"? No, no, no. The best line in this clip is "Ok, guys, let's go entrap a local predator"

[@zawrator4457]

Best part is that it's just plain wrong.

[@vivekvenkatsubramaniam437]

I absolutely loved the original season 4. The way they tied everything together was incredible...the best joke of it all was George Michael's fakeblock reveal

[@jointhefist1016]

he is easily the most funny character on the show

[@fredrickdenning7328]

Not a fan of the two netflix seasons, but this scene is literal perfection.

[@Mikelord28]

Lol, this man had me rolling the whole series

[@TheBoomhahaha]

"Let's entrap a local predator" is the best line because that's exactly what To Catch A Predator was

[@radix4400]

I don't even understand how they got Tobias convicted of anything. They had nothing on him there given that they were renting the home from Maeby herself.

[@MorticiaObscurum]

God the group hug killed me like they're so amped up about it

[@SuperSuperdude88]

arrested development is one of the best shows ever created

[@waynem7186]

One of the funniest comedy scenes ever

[@college54114]

That “Bullshit!” is so underrated and unexpected

[@Lootamejo]

John beard: this creep won’t take “Go” for an answer..😂😂😂😂

[@danrodrigues3531]

'Daddy needs to get his rocks off...' I needed that laugh

[@MikhailCazi]

You can just tell this is season 4/5 because of how different it feels

[@FreedomDaveX]

This episode was the real highlight of season 4.

[@ic1815]

Pretty good lemonade, huh? It is! Is there alcohol in he- John Beard!

[@jamesmiller7911]

"I just broke my skull in the forth place, the patio"

[@trashpandatee]

good lemonade 'is there alcohol in here?' lolol i love this show so much

[@AllisonLinner]

Did you notice the turkey on the table just randomly showed up? 😂

[@lockandloadlikehell]

Allison Linner has a SHARP EYE 👁️

[@ModeratelyAmused]

The best part is that none of his comments were a stretch for a failing actor in costume visiting his young adult daughter.

[@edge9751]

This is as perfect as comedy gets

[@shortboypinoy]

I don't know why the joke skipped over my head all these years but him saying, "I just broke my skull in the 4th place..... the patio" had me rolling just now. Where were the other 3 places it happened? Hahahh

[@virg0_lem0nade]

huge missed opportunity to not have it be the real Chris Hansen

[@jipsels]

I forgot how good this show was.

[@kewltony]

Underrated detail he is wearing the never nude shorts