Dr. Tobias Fünke is a fictional character on the television series Arrested Development. A former psychiatrist and struggling actor, he is married to Lindsay Bluth and has a daughter, Maeby Fünke. Tobias is portrayed by David Cross.
After completing his fellowship in psycholinguistics at MIT, Tobias became Chief Resident of Psychiatry in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital. Two years thereafter, he lost his license for giving CPR to a Rhode ...
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Dr. Tobias Fünke is a fictional character on the television series Arrested Development. A former psychiatrist and struggling actor, he is married to Lindsay Bluth and has a daughter, Maeby Fünke. Tobias is portrayed by David Cross.
After completing his fellowship in psycholinguistics at MIT, Tobias became Chief Resident of Psychiatry in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital. Two years thereafter, he lost his license for giving CPR to a Rhode Island man who wasn't actually having a heart attack. At the beginning of the series, Tobias decides that his destiny is to become an actor, after boarding a boat which he believes to be a pirate-themed cruise, but which turns out to be populated by gay protesters, most of whom are actors. He pursues this career throughout the series with a notable lack of success.
In the mid 1990s, Tobias and his family performed as the folk group "Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution". Each song performed by the band was an advertising...
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