We love Easter eggs because they reward dedicated, sharp-eyed viewers with cool stuff like stealthy, series-spanning jokes or a deeper understanding of their favorite movies and TV shows (to say nothing of the money-saving obliteration of their social lives). And these days, if you want to get the most of the show, you have to hunt for that hidden shit. That's where writers are hiding some of the most important stuff. For example ...

6 Arrested Development Hints That Tobias Is a Light-Skinned Black Guy

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At this point, Arrested Development should probably just go ahead and rename itself to "Subtle In-Joke" or "White People: A Loving Parody." After all, the show's main characters are all Caucasian suburbanites, including the whitest white guy in sitcom history, Tobias Funke -- a neurotic, sweater-wearing punchline with a wife way too hot for him. Then again, the "Subtle In-Joke" title might actually be a better fit seeing as there's a buttload of clues scattered throughout Arrested Development suggesting that David Cross's character was secretly African-American. This isn't some random fan theory: One of the members of the cast confirmed it -- the writers just never got the chance to do the whole storyline (in which it would be revealed Tobias just has a skin disorder that makes him lighter than you'd expect).

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You hear that Tumblr? That means his dashiki is not "cultural appropriation."

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Knowing that, you can find plenty of little allusions to the fact here and there: The first clue is Tobias' middle name, "Onyango," which is Kenyan, and which was also the name of Barack Obama's grandfather. Then there's Tobias' book The Man Inside Me. Other than being another joke at the expense of Tobias' ambiguous sexuality, the cover of the book happens to depict him as being two people: white on the outside, and dark on the inside, like a reverse Oreo.

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Or a Sno Ball. Shit, somebody is probably already using that as a racial slur.

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Then there's the time Tobias' mother-in-law referred to him as "a colored man" (after he painted himself blue in order to join the Blue Man Group). Another time, after his wife commented that the name "Tobias" normally conjures up images of a "big black guy," her husband responded: "Well, obviously I'm not a big guy." On one hand, you'd assume they just never got around to dealing with that storyline due to the show getting canceled so quickly, but it's more likely they just thought it'd be funnier to just never explain it.