# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 463
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9241 "2025-09-11T18:01:57Z")
**Characters who were “put on a bus”** 1. Mark Brendanawicz - Parks and Recreation 2. Sharona Fleming - Monk 3. Karen Filipelli - The Office 4. Sara Stanley - The Road to Avonlea 5. Chuck Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Dr. Beverly Crusher - Star Trek: The Next Generation 7. Roseanne Conner - Roseanne Following 10 seasons, the show was picked up for an 11th season before Roseanne Barr was “put on the bus” by ABC for posting derogatory and racist remarks. ABC renamed the show _The Conners_ and brought back the entire cast, except Barr. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9242 "2025-09-11T18:16:42Z")
**Characters who were “put on a bus”** 1. Mark Brendanawicz - Parks and Recreation 2. Sharona Fleming - Monk 3. Karen Filipelli - The Office 4. Sara Stanley - The Road to Avonlea 5. Chuck Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Dr. Beverly Crusher - Star Trek: The Next Generation 7. Roseanne Conner - Roseanne 8. Pierce Hawthorne - Community Creative differences with Chevy Chase. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9243 "2025-09-11T19:11:00Z")
**Characters who were “put on a bus”** 1. Mark Brendanawicz - Parks and Recreation 2. Sharona Fleming - Monk 3. Karen Filipelli - The Office 4. Sara Stanley - The Road to Avonlea 5. Chuck Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Dr. Beverly Crusher - Star Trek: The Next Generation 7. Roseanne Conner - Roseanne 8. Pierce Hawthorne - Community 9. Mandy Hampton - The West Wing Wing Nuts call her destination “Mandyville”. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9244 "2025-09-11T20:06:53Z")
**Characters who were “put on a bus”** 1. Mark Brendanawicz - Parks and Recreation 2. Sharona Fleming - Monk 3. Karen Filipelli - The Office 4. Sara Stanley - The Road to Avonlea 5. Chuck Cunningham - Happy Days 6. Dr. Beverly Crusher - Star Trek: The Next Generation 7. Roseanne Conner - Roseanne 8. Pierce Hawthorne - Community 9. Mandy Hampton - The West Wing 10. Seven Wanker - Married… with Children Little Seven was put on a milk carton. pass ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9245 "2025-09-11T20:08:44Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ Arrogant, curt and rude just about all the time. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9246 "2025-09-11T20:38:38Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ The show would have been a lot better if the pilot episode had been a going-away party for him as he prepares to leave to manage a Cinnabon in Omaha. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9247 "2025-09-11T20:46:28Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ I hate Jennifer Coolidge with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9248 "2025-09-11T22:56:49Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9249 "2025-09-11T23:04:42Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ Brought on after Vinnie Barbarino departed in the fourth season, in an effort to appeal to southern viewers (who found New Yorkers “unrelatable”) but had no chemistry with the cast. The show was canceled next season. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9250 "2025-09-11T23:10:57Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ 6. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, _The Big Bang Theory_ On a show full of characters with negative personality traits, she was the worst: nasty, mean-spirited, bullying, short-tempered, and ruthless. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9251 "2025-09-12T13:35:59Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ 6. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, _The Big Bang Theory_ 7. Piper Chapan, _Orange is the New Black_ The show is set up to be about her but she is the least interesting person in the prison. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9252 "2025-09-13T05:04:10Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ 6. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, _The Big Bang Theory_ 7. Piper Chapan, _Orange is the New Black_ 8. Dawn Summers, _Buffy the Vampire slayer_ Pointless and annoying. She should have done her duty as the key at the end of season 5, and then been erased from history. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9253 "2025-09-14T02:58:43Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ 6. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, _The Big Bang Theory_ 7. Piper Chapan, _Orange is the New Black_ 8. Dawn Summers, _Buffy the Vampire slayer_ 9. Scrappy Doo, _Scooby Doo_ Franchise Meant to appeal to children, but I’m not sure he appealed to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9254 "2025-09-15T12:20:49Z")
**Characters who _should_ have been “put on a bus”** 1. Toby Ziegler, _The West Wing_ 2. Ross Geller, _Friends_ 3. Tanya McQuoid, _The White Lotus_ 4. Cousin Oliver, _The Brady Bunch_ 5. Beau De LaBarre, _Welcome Back Kotter_ 6. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, _The Big Bang Theory_ 7. Piper Chapan, _Orange is the New Black_ 8. Dawn Summers, _Buffy the Vampire slayer_ 9. Scrappy Doo, _Scooby Doo_ Franchise 10. Seven, _Married With Children_ On the season 7 premiere, they followed the Cousin Oliver trope by adding a new kid to the cast named Seven. He was quickly written out of the show, and disappeared by Season 8. pass ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9255 "2025-09-15T15:27:59Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9256 "2025-09-15T15:45:43Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens 2. Gladys Kravitz ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9257 "2025-09-15T15:52:09Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens 2. Gladys Kravitz 3. Dr. Bombay ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9258 "2025-09-15T16:48:56Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens 2. Gladys Kravitz 3. Dr. Bombay 4. Endora ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9259 "2025-09-15T16:55:25Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens 2. Gladys Kravitz 3. Dr. Bombay 4. Endora 5. Larry Tate ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/9260 "2025-09-15T17:44:52Z")
**Characters from _Bewitched_** 1. Samantha Stephens 2. Gladys Kravitz 3. Dr. Bombay 4. Endora 5. Larry Tate 6. Uncle Arthur Funniest character on the show (by a country mile) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=462) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=464)