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[[File:bus_hell_4413.jpg|frame| [[Comically Missing the Point|No, not Neasden!]] [[Anything |
[[File:bus_hell_4413.jpg|frame| [[Comically Missing the Point|No, not Neasden!]] [[Anything But That|Anywhere but that!]]] |
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] So an actor's walked out of the show, leaving you and the other writers in a bit of a sticky spot. You don't want to [[McLeaned|kill their character off]], but you're still feeling pretty malicious, and just having them [[Put On a Bus]] isn't nasty enough. The solution is to Put Them On A Bus To Hell - write them out in a way so mean-spirited that it's clear to all and sundry that you're doing it out of spite. |
] So an actor's walked out of the show, leaving you and the other writers in a bit of a sticky spot. You don't want to [[McLeaned|kill their character off]], but you're still feeling pretty malicious, and just having them [[Put On a Bus]] isn't nasty enough. The solution is to Put Them On A Bus To Hell - write them out in a way so mean-spirited that it's clear to all and sundry that you're doing it out of spite. |
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== Webcomics == |
== Webcomics == |
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* Literal, in the case of {{spoiler|Erin Winters}} from ''[[Scary Go Round]]''. Not only is she sucked into hell, her very memory is [[Ret |
* Literal, in the case of {{spoiler|Erin Winters}} from ''[[Scary Go Round]]''. Not only is she sucked into hell, her very memory is [[Ret-Gone]] from everyone who knows her, so ''no rescue attempts'' will be made. Brr. |
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** In ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' [[The Bus Came Back]], but still no one remembers her, and how she returned hasn't been revealed. |
** In ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' [[The Bus Came Back]], but still no one remembers her, and how she returned hasn't been revealed. |
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* [[Penny and Aggie]]: Cyndi {{spoiler|is committed to a psychiatric hospital}} at the end of the "Missing Person" arc; her very last appearance shows {{spoiler|her parents driving into the hospital's front entrance as she asks where they're taking her}}. |
* [[Penny and Aggie]]: Cyndi {{spoiler|is committed to a psychiatric hospital}} at the end of the "Missing Person" arc; her very last appearance shows {{spoiler|her parents driving into the hospital's front entrance as she asks where they're taking her}}. |
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