TV Doctors: Dr. Tobias Fünke

David Cross as Tobias 

Today I am doing something new.  Lately I've been thinking about TV doctors.  Yesterday, I rewatched the first episode of Arrested Development which features the hilarious David Cross as Dr. Tobias Fünke, one of the funniest TV doctors (although his licence has been taken from him and he doesn't really practice during the show's run).


Tobias' record is impressive and perhaps that's the humor in it.  He was a chief psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital (one of the most prestigious hospitals in the nation).  Tobias was additionally trained in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy making him an "analrapist".  Tobias lost his licence when he gave CPR to a man that was not really having a heart attack.  I am not sure if a doctor can lose his licence over something like this but then again, most doctors are well trained enough to tell the difference if someone is having a heart attack or not.  Given Tobias' oblivious nature, I can probably safely assume there is more to his loss of licence (like his oblivious nature).