Previously, On Arrested Development

NPR's guide to the running gags from the show.

Buster

... curses (abbreviated)

Buster shortens inappropriate words to their first letter.

  • Occurrence of a joke
  • Joke in the background
  • Foreshadowing
  • Combined joke

4 episodes feature this joke:

Season 1

Season 2

Season 4

  • 10: Queen B.

    The Real Asian Prison Housewives of the Orange County White Collar Prison System say that one of their members is a real "b-word."

Sources: Joke data compiled by Adam Cole / NPR. Episode metadata from The TVDB via a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States (CC BY 3.0 US) license.