I hear there was a character in Happy Days who got the same treatment. He was a relative of a regular (I don't know the details) and at one time they just stopped mentioning him without any explanations.
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I hear there was a character in Happy Days who got the same treatment. He was a relative of a regular (I don't know the details) and at one time they just stopped mentioning him without any explanations.
Not to mention that it was *yet another* baby or child character. Between that, and the is-it-or-isn't-it-Chak's-baby arc, and the drama with Janeway's boyfriend back home, and Fairhaven, and Janeway acting like the ship's room mom part of the time, it all rather insultingly seemed like TPTB thought that a series with a female captain = soap opera rather than space opera.
Speaking of Naomi: Scarlett Pomers was on a show "Reba", one day she ceased to appear on the show without explanations, and two and half seasons later she just walked back in.
Sometimes it did have that feel and episodes like Fair haven or spirit folks didn't help matters.
In Pomers' case, she was being treated...for an eating disorder if I remember correctly.
I did not know that but then I only watched that show intermittingly. I liked Pomer's character.
Yes, she's a good actress.
She was anorexic, I think. She must have been too weak to appear on stage.
She has publicly spoken about this. She was in treatment for anorexia.
Yeah. He knows.
Eating disorders don't work like that.
Imdb says that she was in 104 episodes of Reba out of 124.
Eating disorders don't work like that.
Imdb says that she was in 104 episodes of Reba out of 124.
I guess it just seemed longer.
I don't know if they did this with Reba but often shows will take a hiatus, sometimes lasting for several weeks. I know that happens to a lot of shows around Christmas. Six weeks of nothing so if they did that with Reba then it would seem longer.
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When Happy Days first started, Richie and Joanie had an older brother named Chuck. He stopped appearing after the first season I believe and was never mentioned again. This particular TV trope is actually called The Chuck Cunningham Syndrome.
Another instance where it happened was in the ABC soap All My Children. When the show first started in 1970 Dr. Joe Martin had 3 children with his first wife, Jeff, Tara and Bobby. It is sort of an inside joke that Bobby went upstairs to the attic to wax his ski and was never seen again.* The show ret-conned everything to where Dr. Martin only had 2 children (Jeff and Tara) with his first wife and 2 with his second wife.
*During one of the anniversary specials, as a joke, they showed a skeleton in the attic wearing a jersey that said Bobby on it. Or maybe it was a nightmare someone had. I didn't watch that, but I think it is mentioned on the TV trope page.
Seven of Five said the following...
There already was. Nothing about babies being born... It's possible for there to be a baby in an episode without the said baby being born, you know
Guy, out of all posters here, explained it better by saying there was a producer change and there was no desire to take on a new baby as part of a recurring character. Probably why the Borg baby few years down the road disappeared without trace.
Oh I'm sorry I meant Jeri Taylor didn't want another baby on the ship. Sorry for the confusion.
And of course the Borg baby, whose fate is never mentioned . She is not seen or mentioned when Mezoti goes with Azan and Rebi on their homeworld, her own people aren't found, nor does anyone aboard Voyager adopt her, nor does she die.
It would have only taken a few seconds of dialogue to explain something about the Borg baby. There is a good fanfic called Fostering about Equinox engineer Marla Gilmore adopting the baby.
You could be right.
Thanks, I heard the first story quite some time ago and didn't remember the details.
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