Season 4 had the balls to take a character as seemingly harmless and inarguably beloved as Tobias and dump his ass into the middle of the bleakest situations imaginable.
Here's this delusional guy we've had so much fun with over the years, belly-laughing at his antics and cheering him on during his desperate forays into chasing his dreams. Throughout Seasons 1-3 his actions had no repercussions other than causing general slapstick mayhem and giving his family members headaches.
In Season 4 Tobias is still as delusional as ever, but he's seriously ****ing up someone's life, big time.
A fragile, barely recovering drug addict latches onto this goofball of a man for support and all he can do is obliviously drag her through his failures before driving her back into her own. Suddenly Tobias playing pretend isn't so harmless anymore. He's forcing his dreams onto this poor woman in some sort of emotional rape.
She's degraded in costume on a street for the world to see, she's degraded on a couch fully prepared to sell her body for food, she's degraded in a hospital bed, she's degraded in rehab (with Lucille present to add to her misery, no less) and ultimately she ends up collapsed in a pile of drugs and trash with everyone passing by and ignoring her before one final degradation on a float.
And Tobias simply doesn't notice or care. Not because he's heartless, but because now more than ever before we see that he's disgustingly self-centered. Something we kinda knew before about all the Bluths, but is being shoved down our throats this season.
All of this is made even more bitterly hilarious when we see him proudly stand before a sign that reads, "HOORAY FOR TOBIAS!"
Hooray for Tobias, indeed. Hooray for the ****ing writers. What other character could we still be rooting for, laughing with and loving even after his inadvertent obliteration of a very sick woman who was only seeking help? He gets his comeuppance at the beginning and end of the episode in one of the most hilarious scenes I've ever seen. He breaks a woman in so many places, and he fractures his skull in 4 places (including the patio).
