Previously, On Arrested Development

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

Tobias

... misses an important phone call

Tobias misses out on career opportunities when he fails to answer the phone.

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3 episodes feature this joke:

Season 1

Season 2

Season 4

  • 12: Senoritis

    The pile of messages left on the Funke's home answering machine includes a note from the Carr Realty Group that Tobias had gotten a call back for a "big deal."

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.