"Professor" John Munch teaches Tobias Fünke a scrapbooking class in a con hoping to get Bluth family secrets out of him. Detective John Munch, portrayed by Richard Belzer, first appeared in television in 1993's Homicide: Life on the Street and was a regular on Law & Order: SVU. The character has appeared in episodes of over ten TV series including The Beat, The Wire, The X-Files, and Law & Order. As Homicide: Life on the Street, The Beat and St. Elsewhere are all connected, Arrested Development takes place in the same universe despite Oz being mentioned as a fictional show in "Visiting Ours" [when it is revealed that George Michael had been scared of prison since he accidentally watched it as a young boy].