Long Bus Trip: Difference between revisions

A [['''Long Bus Trip]]''' is when a character is [[Put on a Bus]] in such a way that arranging a return would be simple, but then the character never actually comes back. This is most striking when the audience only learns of it retroactively, especially when the character was intended or hinted to be returning. It may also occur as the result of a series being [[Left Hanging]].

* On the series ''Becker,'' the character "Reggie" (Terry Farrell) was put on a [[Long Bus Trip]] when Farrell was booted from the series under suspicious circumstances (she has told interviewers that it came as a complete shock to her and that she is unsure of exactly why it happened, although she reportedly led a strike among the show's cast). Farrell was even fired before the episode was filmed, and thus never even ''appeared'' on the episode where she was placed on the long bus trip, but was dismissed in a rather unflattering way where Farrell herself herself vanished but Reggie's continued presence was inferred (i.e. it was simply ''related'' that she slept with Becker, and it made her realize that she needed a change ''immediately''). This was all done in a ''very'' implausibly slipshod way, obviously trumped up at the last minute: i.e. it was inferred that Reggie was popping in and out without Farrel ever being on-camera during the entire epsisode, and finally Reggie said good-bye to the cast in a phone-call that was ''dictated'' to them all by a complete stranger (don't ask-- Iask—I ''said'' it was implausibly slipshod).

*** Per [[Word of God]], they tried to get Steve Cardenas to come back for "[[Milestone Celebration|Forever RED (film)]]", but he didn't respond in time -- andtime—and even if he had, Rocky would have just been Tommy's butler, rather than being given the unused-in-America ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' costume as fans believed.

** Also Connor, who was either killed by Paul Robinson's [[Evil Twin|crazy son]] or went on a [[Long Bus Trip]] overseas.