Previously, On Arrested Development

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

Oscar

late hit cop

When a convict, usually Oscar, is caught, one cop hits him when he's down. Yeah!

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

6 episodes feature this joke:

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

  • 15: Blockheads

    The late hit cop actually decides against late-hitting Buster, for some reason.

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.