27 TV Storylines That Vanished Into Thin Air For No Reason At All
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1.On Only Murders in the Building, when Oscar and Mabel ended Season 1 as a couple...
...And then he just straight-up wasn't in the next season. And all we got was this brief mention of him.
Like, this happens IRL, but considering it seemed for a moment in the Season 1 finale that Oscar was the one dead, it felt weird not to revisit him.
2.On Teen Wolf, when Kira went away with the Skinwalkers and then...never came back.
Lydia even said she'd be back to graduate, then she just...wasn't.
3.Also on Teen Wolf, when Danny revealed he knew about werewolves, and we assumed that would be a plot point, but....he just didn't come back next season.
Even though the show brought back his ex Ethan in the finale, now dating Jackson, they didn't bring back Danny.
4.On Pretty Little Liars, when Aria kissed Ezra's brother, and then he disappeared, never to be mentioned again:
I feel like this should've come out at some point, considering Aria MARRIES Ezra. Where was Wes at the wedding?
5.Also on PLL, when the whole Ravenswood thing was dropped after the spinoff failed:
Okay, so they did have Caleb sort of deal with his trauma on Pretty Little Liars, but they never really go into exactly what happened, and supernatural stuff just sort of disappears from the show.
6.Also on PLL — the whole NAT club thing:
Am I forgetting some resolution to this? Ian and Garrett and Jason have this creepy club where they film underage girls, and Jason alludes that there was more to it than we realized. But then we just...never hear about it again. I feel like that happened with a lot of plot-lines on this show.
7.On Dawson's Creek, when it was revealed Helen was Eve's birth mother (and that Eve was therefore Jen's half-sister) and nothing ever happened with this info:
Okay, so Jen found out her mom had a daughter she gave up for adoption, but she never found out it was Eve, right? Did Eve ever find out that Jen's mom was her mom? Was any of this ever resolved???
8.On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when a Season 1 episode ended with an invisible girl joining an FBI assassination training...and then it was never mentioned again:
To be fair, this is a brief moment in Season 7 where some of the past season's conflicts come back, and people start turning invisible, but that girl and the whole government program...just completely forgotten.
9.And just the entire existence of Xander's best friend Jesse on Buffy:
Neither Xander or Willow mention Jesse again, nor is it ever mentioned that Xander sort of accidentally killed his best friend. The show acts like it was always just Xander and Willow.
10.Oh, and the existence of almost the entire new cast on Glee, including the whole Jake/Ryder/Marley love triangle:
I honestly kind of liked Marley, so this was sort of sad.
11.Also, the existence of Charlotte's brother on Sex and the City:
He shows up for one episode, then disappears. Was he even at Charlotte's wedding?
12.When Rufus and Lily's son on Gossip Girl was completely erased and never mentioned again:
Likely because his existence made the Dan-Serena relationship feel a little incestuous.
13.And when there was an entire convoluted storyline about Chuck trying to figure out who his mother was that ended with him wondering if his Uncle Jack was his father...then it was never mentioned again:
I still don't know who Chuck's parents really are.
14.On Good Times, when Carl and Florida got engaged and moved away, and then when Florida came back two seasons later...Carl was just gone:
It was like he'd never existed. This was actually because Esther Rolle didn't approve of the relationship for her character, and many viewers likely felt the same, as it came on the heels of the death of Florida's beloved husband James. But still, it made no sense on the actual show.
15.When Blair had a miscarriage on Gossip Girl:
Blair was sad about it for, like, an episode, and then it was never mentioned again, even when Nate found out Tripp caused it — because, you know, TRIPP WAS TRYING TO MURDER HIM. That was glossed over way too fast, as was the fact that Charlie/Ivy submitted the tip and that Gossip Girl posted it. When Serena called Gossip Girl a "love letter" to all of them, she clearly forgot about the fact that Dan was part of the reason Blair lost her baby.
16.When Haddie came out on Parenthood:
I know this is partly because Haddie wasn't on the show much after this, but still. It felt like kind of a major thing for her to have a girlfriend, and then it was just never mentioned again.
17.When it was revealed that Libby had been in the psych ward with Hurley on Lost:
I'm still mad about this one. I know the actor left the show and the character died and all, but why introduce this giant cliffhanger, then?? What did it all mean?? Why was Libby in the psych ward with Hurley?? Did she remember him?? Was their relationship part of some larger plan??? I need answers.
18.Adrianna's relationship with Gia and her sexuality on 90210:
They break up, and Gia is never mentioned again, nor is the fact that Ade was actively trying to figure out her sexuality and reading about compulsory heterosexuality. Really tired of the "just a phase" WLW relationships teen dramas often feature.
19.Also, when Annie killed a guy on 90210:
Okay, to be fair, Annie did bring this up to that lady who wanted to buy her eggs. But other than that...her confession was so built up, and then she had a summer of community service, and it was rarely mentioned again. She literally killed someone while drunk-driving, then dated his nephew!!!! A mess.
20.Just the fact that Jess had a sister on New Girl:
She was never mentioned before and was never mentioned again. She did not show up at any holiday episodes or Jess's wedding. I s2g this girl did not exist except for those two episodes.
21.When Alex went to therapy in Modern Family:
I actually thought this was such a great episode. Modern Family claimed to be all about the "modern family," yet, it fell into so many tired tropes. This could've been a great opportunity to show more about mental health and its role in family, and it was reduced to a story of the week.
22.Just the existence of Lindsay on The O.C.:
It was like she'd never even existed. She literally didn't show up for her father's funeral.
23.When Bennett left Daya and their baby, and never came back on Orange Is the New Black:
To my memory, Bennett drove off and was basically never mentioned again. I know this kind of stuff happens in real life, but still, I feel like the show could've given us a little more closure here. Where did he go?? Did he ever reconsider or want to go back and meet his child?? It seemed so out of character and abrupt.
24.When Peyton dated Pete Wentz on One Tree Hill:
I still can't believe this. Let's be real. NO ONE in Peyton's life would've ever let her forget that after it happened. Also, except for the trip to see Jake directly after that, the show entirely forgot about Jake and his baby. :(
25.When Midge was murdered during a school play BY BETTY'S FATHER in Riverdale and it wasn't brought up again:
How did that school even continue to operate and CONTINUE TO PUT ON SCHOOL PLAYS, especially Heathers, which is literally about murder. And then a bunch of people got killed on prom night, too. ... This school should've been shut down.
26.When Angel had a whole storyline about how Cordelia was the only one who could beat Jasmine, then they put her in a coma and never talked about it again:
So they put Cordy in a coma and reveal everything in her life has been premeditated to bring Jasmine into the world AND that everything in Season 4 was actually not Cordy but the demon inside her AND that the real Cordy is the only one who can beat Jasmine...and then they just drop all of that, and Connor kills Jasmine, and Cordy is rarely mentioned again except for one episode in which Jasmine is barely mentioned.
27.And finally, just the whole episode of Angel becoming human on Angel:
Don't get me wrong, I love this episode. But A) it makes it seem like it's this wild thing for Angel to be in the sun, when literally a few episodes ago, he had a ring that allowed him to do just that; B) Angel's whole thing about not being able to protect the world as a human makes sense — so why is he into the whole Shanshu prophecy, where he can become human, a few episodes later? That whole plot-line/desire that drives Angel for all five seasons completely ignores the fact that he WAS human for an episode and gave it up. And C) Angel makes mention of more dark soldiers coming that'll kill Buffy and cause the end of days. We never find out exactly what he's referring to (maybe Season 7 of Buffy, which was pretty darn far away and probably not planned at that point), and he doesn't follow up with Buffy to help or protect her at any point after this, with the exception of the Buffy series finale. If he gave up being human to protect her...why doesn't he actually go protect her?
