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Tony Hale Ranks Buster Bluth’s Hands from ‘Arrested Development’

Ever the good sport, Tony Hale was happy to play along when I recently asked him to rank all of Buster Bluth’s prosthetic hands from Arrested Development. The only problem? “It’s hard to rank them all because I genuinely don’t know the backstory on a couple of them, and some I don’t even remember wearing,” he told me.

Same, actually. That said, after a bit of research, I determined that Buster technically had nine different prosthetics throughout the show’s run. Now armed with this knowledge (sorry), Hale gladly took a hands-on (sorry again) approach in arranging them from worst to best for me…

‘Mecca Lecca Hi, Mecca Hiney Ho!’: 15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’

Famously launching stars like Phil Hartman, Laurence Fishburne and Natasha Lyonne, Pee-wee’s Playhouse still holds a place in the hearts of kids and adults who tuned in to watch Paul Reubens’ madcap imagination land featuring genies, puppets and talking furniture. Reubens’ Pee-wee Herman character managed to be maniacal and enduring, scoring big with Tim Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which led to the show’s creation. The comedian once explained, “I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was six years old, watching reruns of I Love Lucy on TV and thinking about making people laugh.”

More Trivia:

• 101 Trivia Tidbits About Norman Lear

• 15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘I Love Lucy’

• 15 Rivers of Trivia That Flooded Our Banks This Week

• 13 Bizarro Headlines That Prove Once And For All That Truth Is Dumber Than Fiction

• 13 Proprietary Bits Of Trivia We Smuggled Out Of Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory And Fully Intend To Hand Off To Creepy Old Arthur Slugworth

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