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Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, David Cross, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, and Jessica Walter in Arrested Development (2003)

Tony Hale: Buster Bluth • British Soldier

Arrested Development

Tony Hale credited as playing...

Buster Bluth • British Soldier

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Quotes33

  • Buster: [Confronting Lucille about his birth father] You lied to me... you said my FATHER was my father, but my UNCLE is my father. MY FATHER IS MY UNCLE.
  • [repeated line after Buster gets a prosthetic hook]
  • Buster: I'm a monster.
  • Tobias Fünke: No, no, it's pronounced a-nal-ra-pist.
  • Buster: It wasn't really the pronunciation that bothered me.
  • [Lucille replaces Lupe with a robot vacuum cleaner, then catches Buster in bed with it]
  • Buster: Well, what do you expect, mother?
  • [holds up his hook]
  • Buster: I'm half machine. I'm a monster.
  • Narrator: For the first time, Lucille prays...
  • Lucille: [Praying] Take something else from us. Do whatever you have to to keep my boy from going to war.
  • Narrator: And Buster is on his way when he decides to pursue a long-delayed rite of passage...
  • [Buster swims in the ocean]
  • Person: Loose seal. Watch out for loose seal.
  • Buster: [Thinking he means Lucille] I don't care about Lucille. She lies.
  • Narrator: ...and then a seal bites off his hand.
  • Lucille: Amen.
  • Buster: We're excavating a pterodactyl.
  • [plainly shows a human skull; Buster accidentally hits and breaks it with a hammer]
  • Buster: That was 90% gravity.
  • Michael: There's more to life than strippers and booze and buckets of blood. Why do you guys have buckets of blood?
  • Gob: It's not real blood. It's corn syrup and red dye... juice.
  • Buster: There's unlimited juice? This party is gonna be off the hook.
  • Michael: You know, I'm in pretty good shape, Buster. You could be eating my dust all day.
  • Narrator: Buster was starting to give as good as he received.
  • Buster: Yeah, and you could be eating
  • [bleep]
  • Buster: that's gonna
  • [bleep]
  • Buster: .
  • Michael: Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
  • Buster: Mom is becoming a little controlling.
  • Michael: What tipped you off? When she locked you out on the balcony again?
  • Buster: That was half my fault. I thought I saw a Graham Cracker out there.
  • Michael: You baited the balcony?
  • Lucille Bluth: Prove it.
  • Buster: Why should I have to sit and cheer Annyong? Annyong never cheers me.
  • Annyong: Go Fatty.
  • [Buster lunges at him and they fight]
  • Lucille: Stop it. He's your little brother.
  • Buster: No he isn't. I came out of you, he didn't.
  • Buster: My Army training tells me... that this is going to be a hot mission.
  • Michael: What? A hot mission?
  • Buster: Yes. I create a diversion, and you grab George Michael and go. We need a name. Maybe "Operation Hot Mother".
  • Michael: No, le-let's try to top that.
  • Narrator: They never did, and later, "Operation Hot Mother" was underway.
  • Buster: No mother, I can blow myself. You've interfered for the last time.
  • Buster: Oh, my God, she's after our money.
  • Michael: No, we don't have any money.
  • Buster: Oh, my God, she's already taken our money.
  • George Sr.: Listen... Let him go. Let your son go.
  • Michael: I can't do that, Dad. He needs me.
  • George Sr.: Michael, you don't want to make the same mistake your mom made with Buster.
  • Michael: Yeah, boy. What happened there?
  • George Sr.: I really don't know. Maybe it was the eleven months he spent in the womb. The doctor said there were claw marks on the walls of her uterus. But he was her "miracle baby." And I-I was just too burnt out on raising you guys to care. So... he turned out a little soft, you know, a little doughy.
  • [Buster yawns next to him]
  • George Sr.: I don't know, maybe it was my fault. Maybe, uh, maybe I just ignored the guy.
  • [Buster finishes yawning although George Sr is ignoring him]
  • Buster: Wow. We're just blowing through nap time, aren't we?
  • Michael: Yeah, I got to let my son go.
  • Buster: [to Michael] Mom signed me up for the army, just because the fat man dared her to.
  • [giving a toast]
  • Michael: To Buster and Lucille...
  • Buster: Don't forget my girlfriend.
  • Michael: That's who I meant.
  • Buster: Hey, brother-in-law.
  • Buster: Oh my god... Oh my god... I killed Michael...
  • Gob: But on the plus side, you got punched in the face.
  • Buster: Hey, brother.
  • Buster: Hey, hermano.

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