The "Chuck Cunningham" Syndrome

[Skywalker]

Don't you mean a Chuck roast?

Dinner the following week? The POTSIE Roast!


BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm here all week!

Dear God what have I started.

That's what you get for running your Malph.

Eh? Eh?

...I'll just be leaving, then.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Dinner the following week? The POTSIE Roast!


BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm here all week!

Dear God what have I started.

That's what you get for running your Malph.

Eh? Eh?

...I'll just be leaving, then.

Chachi-ng

 

[CaptMurdock]

Don't you mean a Chuck roast?

Dinner the following week? The POTSIE Roast!


BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm here all week!

Dear God what have I started.

But I guess anythings better than the Fonzdue they had and the next dinner party.

All this talk of eating people is going to make me Ralph my dinner.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Buffy's Dad pretty much vanished from the show (no that he was ever a big part of it). Even after Joyce and Buffy both die (only a few months apart) 15 year old Dawn is left to be raised by Buffy's early 20's, lesbian, witch friends.

IIRC, Buffy's dad only appeared a grand total of twice on the show, in "Nightmares" & "When She Was Bad." (And it wasn't even really him in "Nightmares." It was just another hallucination.)

But in his defense, as far as he knew, Dawn was still being raised by now legally adult Buffy. Willow & the rest of the gang were concealing Buffy's death from the rest of the world, human & demon, with the aid of the Buffy robot.

More troubling was the sudden change in his characterization. In the early seasons, he was just the seldom seen non-custodial parent. But in later seasons, he was spoken of as an indifferent asshole who didn't even have the common courtesy to visit Buffy & Dawn after Joyce died.

In retrospect, it's a shame that Buffy's father didn't appear more often on the series. They probably could have gotten a good episode out of the conflict between Buffy's actual father and her surrogate father figure, Giles.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

One of the sons in Step by Step (IIRC, the father's) dissapeared mid-way though the show. Not sure if there was an explaination for it.

The father's younger son, Brendan, disappeared without explanation after the show moved from ABC to CBS. However, unlike the Cunningham family on Happy Days, the Foster-Lambert family would still count him numerically among their children.

 

[Captain Mike]

Chuck didn't just "disappear",...he was sucked into one of those time vortex's and ended up battling with a sword!!!...

 

[Green Shirt]

Also, in another thread, someone mentioned Hawkeye's "sister" in an early episode of M*A*S*H, but later Hawkeye was suddenly an only child.

--Ted

Yeah, that was me.

What about the Brady Bunch's dog? Didn't he/it disappear?

Yeah, Sam the butcher got hold to him.


Eugene Barkley on The Big Valley. He was a real nowhere man character who didn't even get a spot in the opening credits.

Has anyone mentioned Yeoman Rand yet??

 

[Green Shirt]

What about the Brady Bunch's dog? Didn't he/it disappear?

Sorry about the double post, second one in 2 weeks

 

[Marc]

Has anyone mentioned Yeoman Rand yet??

Nope - though according to Shatner's memoirs, Grace Lee Whitney was let go due to a dependancy problem she developed after being sexually assaulted.

 

[TGTheodore]

Also, Little Joe's half-brother, Clay, on Bonanza. It essentially was a guest shot, but they never mentioned him again.

Of course Adam, Little Joe and Hoss WERE half-brothers, but by Ben.

Also, Adam just vanished as well. We found out later in TV-movie sequels that he moved to Australia to make his own fortune. (Since series creator David Dortort produced those TV-movies, I consider that the actual explanation for Adam's departure).

--Ted

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Has anyone mentioned Yeoman Rand yet??

Nope - though according to Shatner's memoirs, Grace Lee Whitney was let go due to a dependancy problem she developed after being sexually assaulted.

Really?! This is the first I've heard of that. I'd heard that she was just let go because she was getting too much money. (IIRC, she had already been kinda famous before Star Trek as a mermaid in some tuna fish commercials. That's why she commanded such a high salary.)

 

[Captain Mike]

Has anyone mentioned Yeoman Rand yet??

Nope - though according to Shatner's memoirs, Grace Lee Whitney was let go due to a dependancy problem she developed after being sexually assaulted.

Really?! This is the first I've heard of that. I'd heard that she was just let go because she was getting too much money. (IIRC, she had already been kinda famous before Star Trek as a mermaid in some tuna fish commercials. That's why she commanded such a high salary.)

I attended a convention and on that day she was the key speaker. She talked about how she was a reformed addict of several dependancies. I grew to respect her as a person after that speech.