Missing limbs
Appearances: "Pilot", "Pier Pressure", "Marta Complex", "Altar Egos", "Out on a Limb", "Hand to God", "Motherboy XXX", "The Immaculate Election", "Sword of Destiny", "The Cabin Show", "Notapusy", "Making a Stand"

Several characters in Arrested Development have missing limbs.

Characters missing limbs

Maeby cuts a leg off Lucille's fox skin. (Pilot)

J. Walter Weatherman lost his arm in a Bluth Company construction accident. George Bluth paid him to teach his children lessons. (Pier Pressure)

Carl Weathers loses his arm in Predator (Marta Complex)

Michael acted in The Trial of Captain Hook as a child, featuring Captain Hook (Altar Egos)

Buster has his hand bitten off by a loose seal. (Out on a Limb) (Hand to God)

The seal that attacked Buster had its flipper bitten off by a shark. (Motherboy XXX)

G.O.B. cuts off Buster's fake hand during his The Sword of Destiny illusion, wowing the audience (Sword of Destiny)

The audience is wowed again when Buster cuts off G.O.B.'s fingertips. (Sword of Destiny)

Buster gets a job at FAO al-Jibaaly Muhammed a-Abat simply for not having a hand. (Making a Stand)

J. Walter Weatherman returns to teach Michael and G.O.B. a lesson about teaching lessons. (Making a Stand)

Buster pretends to lose his other hand to teach his family a lesson about using one-armed people to teach lessons. (Making a Stand)

Hints about Buster's lost hand

• A FOX 6 news report about a seal attacking a swimmer. (The One Where Michael Leaves)

• When he finds his red hand chair at Lupe's house he says "I never thought I'd miss a hand so much." (¡Amigos!)

• Buster sits on an "Army Officers" bus stop bench that, when obstructed, reads "Arm Off". (Out on a Limb)

• When G.O.B. releases the seal to the ocean, he says "You’re back in the real world. You’re not going to be hand-fed anymore!" (Hand to God)

• When driving to the hospital, Lucille breaks off a human-shaped sign's hand. (Hand to God)

• While worrying about his hand loss, Buster reads "alarm off" on his alarm clock as "arm off". (Motherboy XXX)

• George Michael reenacts the scene where Luke loses his hand in Star Wars. Buster later cut's a mannequin's head off with a broom/lightsaber. (The Immaculate Election)

• A statue of a boy holding a hand appears at S.A.D.. (The Cabin Show)

(Notapusy)