#Buster Bluth

[ddesole]

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) dir. Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton

Project A Part II (1987) dir. Jackie Chan

Arrested Development 2.02 "The One Where They Build A House" (2005)

Psych 4.03 "High Noon-ish" (2009)

#steamboat bill jr #project a part ii #arrested development #psych #filmgifs #tvgifs #filmedit #tvedit #arresteddevelopmentedit #psychedit #buster keaton #jackie chan #buster bluth #burton guster #shawn spencer #*

[quinnmorgendorffer]

peak sibling behavior

#gob bluth #buster bluth #arrested development #ad watching #ad #i will never in my life be over this scene it is SUCH sibling behavior

[strawbyarts]

on the next arrested development… gob tries the grimace shake

#yeah idk what this is #arrested development #michael bluth #gob bluth #tobias funke #lindsay bluth #maeby funke #lucille bluth #buster bluth #george michael bluth #sitcom #shitpost #fanart #digital art #strawbs art #arrested development fanart

[picspammer]

Is there a carbon monoxide leak in this house?

#God I love that quote #this is so random but I'm obsessed with AD. i watched the first 3 seasons and it's the funniest thing on the planet #had to get my head out of the bear #arrested development #george bluth #michael bluth #lucille bluth #buster bluth #also this edit is like... trying to make it look more serious. like if it were a suspense film or something. not sure i had to clarify that #but whatever #jeffrey tambor #jason bateman #jessica walter #tony hale #favourite edits #this one ... i really appreciate the reactions it got ❤

[anonymous-tals]

So, you know, back in the 80s, George Sr. would get Gob and Michael to fight each other and record it, plus a Baby Buster short, to get in on the home video market.

Which made me think: if the timeline was shifted and the Bluth siblings were born in the 2000s, George Sr. would’ve run a particularly problematic family Youtube channel.

#the secondhand embarrassment I felt from these thumbnails… #how did this take me over 50 hours #oy gevalt #this was originally just gonna be #like #four thumbnails #one of each kid #but then it just…kept going from there #i’m really bad at doing simple things #that’s also a part of why I did a lineless artstyle for this #it was originally gonna be simple and blocky but then it turned out to be a lot more detailed sooo yeah #also credit to theflannelwizard for the first thumbnail concept #gob bluth #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #buster bluth #george bluth sr. #lucille bluth #arrested development #arrested development fanart #also why did the jonas brothers dress like that i love it

[gracies-dzienny]

Arrested Development (2003-2019): Season 1, Episode 1 Moments - Part 1

#* #arrested development #arresteddevelopmentedit #tvedit #netflixedit #sitcomedit #lucille bluth #michael bluth #gob bluth #george michael bluth #maeby funke #tobias funke #lindsay funke #buster bluth #portia de rossi #will arnett #jason bateman #michael cera #alia shawkat

[callme-batlesbian]

i love shows about disfunctional families like arrested development and succession and i’m really concerned because i think i feel like them

#arrested development #succession #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #gob bluth #buster bluth #kendall roy #shiv roy #roman roy #the sopranos #la casa de las flores

[sherolck]

michael bluth icons

#michael bluth #michael bluth icons #arrested development #arrested #development #arrested development icons #jason bateman icons #jason bateman #ozark #bluth company #george bluth #gob bluth #bluth family #lindsay bluth #lucille bluth #buster bluth

[swiftlark]

#arrested development #i am a mixture of gob and lindsay #bluth family #sitcom #sitcoms #2000s tv #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #gob bluth #buster bluth #michael cera #jason bateman

[captaincanonly]

the silly family guys from the silly family show

#arrested development #canon’s art #buster bluth #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #gob bluth #fanart #art #still on s1 #i love them though #all of them.

[andithil]

Arrested Development "Pilot", November 2, 2003 -> Happy 20th Anniversary!

#arrested development #gob bluth #lucille bluth #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #buster bluth #happy anniversary #to the number one pilot in television history TO ME lmao #andithil edits

[thegreatbombini]

#arrested development #barbie movie #lucille bluth #gob bluth #tobias funke #buster bluth #george michael bluth

[the-old-man-has-the-phonebox]

Human!Kinger gives me big Buster Bluth vibes

#he got that autistic rizz #(/pos) #Kinger #kinger tadc #tadc kinger #the amazing digital circus #tadc #; tadc #arrested development #buster bluth #(…Buster Bluth may or may not be one of the most relatable characters I’ve ever encountered.)

[knightsickness]

gob and lindsay have the mental illness that comes with being popular in high school and michael and buster have the mental illness that comes with being unpopular in high school. hope that helps

#arrested development #michael bluth #gob bluth #george oscar bluth #lindsay bluth #buster bluth

[tootiredforaname]

Sometimes a family is an embezzler who built houses for Saddam Hussein, an alcoholic who can't read medicine labels, a former golden child who never gets around to leaving the family, a phony activist who is actually four years older than everyone thinks and also her own aunt, a worm man with chronic anxiety and an oedipous complex, a gay magician who's straight but gay but no he isn't yes he is, a boy who's main personality trait is being horny for his cousin, a fifteen year old Hollywood producer, a failed lemon salesman, the gay magician's bastard exterminator son, a woman no one ever bothers to recognise, a boy adopted from Korea who swore revenge for how badly he was treated, another gay magician, a congresswoman who has hid her alopecia her entire life and will well into the next, and the other gay magician's bastard son

And also tobias is there sometimes

#george bluth sr #lucille bluth #michael bluth #lindsay bluth #buster bluth #gob bluth #george michael bluth #maeby bluth funke #maeby funke #steve holt #ann veal #annyong bluth #tony wonder #sally sitwell #tobias funke #arrested development #hel-loh bluth

[anonymous-tals]

An interesting thing I noticed is that Gob and Buster both have unintentionally boundary crossing gestures; Gob’s hugs(as well as other things but I’m not going to list every single thing separately) and Buster’s back massages. Their actions are intended to be nice, comforting, relaxing but, to others, it comes off as over the top or weird or off putting.

I don’t really have much more to say on the subject but I just found it notable. Finding similarities between Buster and any of the siblings is always notable because of how Buster tends to be separate from the rest of the crowd. I’ll be thinking about the characters and I’ll be like, “Oh, this applies to all the siblings…Except Buster.” It’s especially notable with Gob because of how, on a surface level viewing, different Gob and Buster are. They were both on the opposite sides of the spectrum when it came to getting love from their parents. Gob got none and Buster got, like, so much(or, “so much” since it wasn’t really love; or, at least, it wasn’t healthy love). Gob was neglected while Buster was overprotected.

Lindsay and Michael try to separate themselves front the family. They want to think they’re better than it; Michael taking care of everything and putting family first and Lindsay hosting charity events. Gob and Buster want to be in the family, though. They want to be protected by their parents, loved by their parents. Gob, in as much denial as he is in, is definitely more aware of how bad their parents are than Buster is but they both go along with (or try to go along with in Gob’s case) what will get them love from their respective parent-they-want-the-approval-/-love-of. And we see that, when the attention is shifted from Buster to Annyong, Buster gets mad and upset and fights for attention and has petty rivalries just as Gob does with Michael.

I think one of the reasons Buster stays with Lucille and on her side, other than believing it’s the only way he’ll be safe from the “dangers of the world” is that it’s the only way he’ll be safe from the dangers of his parents. He is shown to recognize that his siblings don’t like their mom and he just sort of respectfully is like, “I get it but I like mom so I’m going to stay with her.” So, it’s not like he doesn’t know that his mom does bad things. I think that he sees that, for whatever reason, he got special treatment. He was treated differently. He was treated better. And, even if in some ways he may find himself dissatisfied or held back, this is the only life he knows(which is the case for all of the siblings, just in different ways) and he doesn’t want to risk losing what good things he does have. And, as I said, with Annyong, he sees him as a threat to his happiness, to his safety, and he fights against him to keep it.

And, as I said, it’s a similar thing with Gob. He was neglected his entire life and had to fight for attention in an ever-losing battle. And, if he did get attention, it wasn’t good attention. For him, though, he sees what his siblings have. His main rival is Michael, of course, but, there’s also what I feel is a bitterness he has towards Buster, which is why he is shown teasing him a lot(other than, ya know, that being typical oldest sibling stuff). It’s not shown too much, as Buster isn’t a threat to him but it is something that probably affects him. Buster is just as incompetent as he is and yet he is loved. He is cared for. Gob wants to be to their dad what Buster is to their mom. Of course, he’s going for the positions, roles and status that Michael has but Michael doesn’t necessarily like his dad. He cares for his dad but he has qualms. Gob is trying to play into things that will get his dad’s approval. He is following whatever his dad tells him to do. He wants the “love” that Buster gets. He’s willing to compromise his own happiness and wellbeing for his dad and, anything he does or feels that goes against what his dad would approve of, he pushes down and hides. Buster would rather stay with their mom than find his own independence. Gob would rather stay with their dad than find his own independence.

Their main differences come from the fact that Buster was given that love and Gob wasn’t. There’s also what was expected of them. Gob was expected to be a functional person and a business man who marries a women/sleeps with a lot of women and Buster was expected to be a well behaved little boy all his life who did whatever his mom said. For Buster, that didn’t really take him out of his comfort zone so, while it probably isn’t very fulfilling, it was at least safe. He was stuck within a warm room on a boat while Gob was drowning in the waves. Desperately trying to get his dad’s attention so he’ll let him onto his boat, he does more and more things, all of which just exhaust him and lead him closer and closer to succumbing to the rough seas. Neither situation is good. Buster was hidden away, never exposed to the elements and Gob was always exposed to them, struggling to survive. This just leaves them both unable to handle the waves, becoming overwhelmed and ceasing functionality at even just the slightest ripple in the water.

#gob bluth #buster bluth #arrested development #another day another arrested development essay written #their parents really messed them up #get all the siblings therapy #please #i love water and boat metaphors