I remember they were going to do one about Tobias actually being a rare black person, where he would have this rare disease and was actually black. Arrested Development star Alia Shawkiat spilled the beans in an interview, saying: “ gone on little tangents where you think they’re going to start a storyline and they’ll pull it back. One such plot development that the writers started to foreshadow but never followed through on was about Tobias being revealed to be a black man with a rare skin condition. 1. Tobias is an albino black man. The Arrested Development writers were known for using a lot of foreshadowing (think of all the references to Buster losing his arm to a seal, none of which will be included here because they’re well-documented elsewhere).