# Character you'd most like to catch up with

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 14, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289 "2011-02-14T07:37:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/1 "2011-02-14T07:37:07Z")

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Has there been a TV/movie/book character you’d love to find out what happens to them in the future? I’ve been watching All In The Family a lot lately, and it strikes me how Mike Stivic, although 180 degrees opposed to Archie Bunker’s viewpoints, was very similar to Archie in his stubborness and bossiness. I wonder what Mike would have been like as a middle aged man. Would age have mellowed him? Or, as I suspect (and much like one of my relatives) become a arch conservative who denied he ever was a hippie type? Would his relationship with Gloria been like Archie and Edith’s marriage?

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/2 "2011-02-14T08:15:11Z")

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I often wonder what happened to the characters from Freaks and Geeks.

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**Author:** ![Blisters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Blisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blisters)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/3 "2011-02-14T08:18:54Z")

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at the risk of sounding like a (slightly intoxicated) stay at home mom:

I’d love a catch up with The Lorax…can he and his friends come back?

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**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/4 "2011-02-14T11:43:51Z")

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FBI agent Dale Cooper (and the rest of the population of Twin Peaks).

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**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/5 "2011-02-14T11:50:09Z")

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I want to know what the Seinfeld characters did after they got out of jail.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/6 "2011-02-14T12:16:55Z")

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Didn’t Mike Stivic divorce Gloria twice? I figure he’s a lefty Poli Sci professor getting his freak on with perky young co-eds.

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**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/7 "2011-02-14T14:10:30Z")

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Buffy  
Lois and Clark

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**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/8 "2011-02-14T14:18:48Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> Didn’t Mike Stivic divorce Gloria twice? I figure he’s a lefty Poli Sci professor getting his freak on with perky young co-eds.

Didn’t he become a film documentary maker? (and heavy metal fan)

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/9 "2011-02-14T14:21:15Z")

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Okay, I realize this is going to make me look like a huge sap (who reads too many young adult books besides) but I want to know what happened to the girls in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Did Bee get her shit together and do anything with her soccer? Did Tibby make movies for a living or did she end up working at a call center? Did Lena and whatshisface ever work out and could she ever see him again without beating the shit out of him? Why on earth does the author keep writing other mediocre books when she could write some more of those?

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**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/10 "2011-02-14T14:24:30Z")

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Holden and Phoebe Caulfield.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/11 "2011-02-14T14:28:27Z")

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Angela from **My So-Called Life**.

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/12 "2011-02-14T15:07:43Z")

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I want information on The Further Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (with the Hong Kong Cavaliers, of course.)

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/13 "2011-02-14T15:14:47Z")

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> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#):
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> Buffy

Well, the Buffy “Season 8” comic book strip series just wrapped up with issue No. 40. While there were some very good mini-arcs and stories (ie Harmony Kendall on “The Colbert Report” was a hoot) I can’t recommend it as a whole.

I’d like to know what’s been going on in Cicely, Alaska. (_Northern Exposure_)

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**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/14 "2011-02-14T15:48:52Z")

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> [@multimediac17](#):
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> I want to know what the Seinfeld characters did after they got out of jail.

Elaine had Jerry’s kid, George made millions from an iPhone app and then lost them in his divorce and the Madoff Ponzi sceme. Kramer is still Kramer.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/15 "2011-02-14T17:07:40Z")

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Dr. Emmitt Brown

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/16 "2011-02-14T17:14:06Z")

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Joel from Northern Exposure - yes, I’m sure he’s a wealthy famous plastic surgeon of the rich and famous, on Park Avenue, but is he happy? How many marriages has he had now? Does he ever think back to his time in Cicily, AK, good or bad memories?..Did Ed ever make a movie, and move to L.A.? What became of him in that cesspool?..Holling and Shelley still together? Did Maurice ever develop the Riviera of the North?..And Maggie? I would think she would become a rabid environmentalist by now, raging against the effects of the global warming she sees from her little plane.

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**Author:** ![Gil-Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/17 "2011-02-15T00:47:41Z")

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> [@faithfool](#):
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> Angela from **My So-Called Life**.

\*My So-Called Life \*was the first television show that came to my mind, as well.

In literature, I guess I’ll go with my two favorite kids, Alex and Holden, from _A Clockwork Orange_ and _Catcher in the Rye_, respectively. It might be interesting to see what kind of adults they became (although I’m kind of glad these books were not written).

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/18 "2011-02-15T03:34:45Z")

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Ever since I finished reading _The Help_, I’ve wanted to know what happened next in the lives of Minnie and Aibileen.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/19 "2011-02-15T03:52:38Z")

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John Crichton, Aeryn Sun and D’Argo Sun-Crichton.

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**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-youd-most-like-to-catch-up-with/571289/20 "2011-02-15T03:58:12Z")

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I want to know what The Dude has been up to.

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