The Bus Came Back: Difference between revisions

** The Pokemon are even more prone to show up again. Since Ash drops off most of his roster at Professor Oak's lab these days, he has access to them at any time. In theory anyway - in practice they are mostly just seen when Ash returns home. Squirtle and Charizard also come back from time to time, there was an episode in Johto where Ash met up with Lapras again and, most recently, {{spoiler|Ash's Gliscor came back just in time for Ash's Sinnoh League battle against Paul.}}

* In the ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Oh My Goddess!]]'' manga, a lot of characters from Nekomi Tech, such as Megumi, Sora, Tamiya, Otaki, and Aoshima, were [[Put on a Bus]], and have so far appeared only once since Volume 20, which is around the time Keiichi and Belldandy graduated. It may have been unintentional, due to the fact that the series itself [[Ending Fatigue|slowed down considerably after Volume 16 or so]]. Also, Sayoko, the series' first [[Harmless Villain]] (there are two others, who appeared in subsequent chapters) [[Put on a Bus|has not reappeared since Volume 15]].

** Shanks {{spoiler|comes in some of the first episodes, saves Luffy's life, leaves, leaving a [[Chekhov's Gun]] in the process}}. 400 odd chapters later, {{spoiler|he ends the Whitebeard War, before leaving again.}}

** "From the Decks of the World" shows what every character who has been major at some point in the series has been up to since Monkey D. Luffy and his crew encountered them. If a major character ''doesn't'' appear in this sub-series and is not a villain, then odds are either they have already returned, or they're on a higher-class bus and will return to the main story later.

* Janice on ''[[Head of the Class]]'' came back for graduation (the final episode), despite having gone on to college.

* Sharona returns for an episode of ''[[Monk]]'' in season 8.

* On ''[[Smallville]]'':

** Pete Ross returns for an episode... With powers! ... and for [[Product Placement]].

* Basically everyone who'd been [[Put on a Bus]] to Mandyville came back for Leo's funeral in one of the last episodes of ''[[The West Wing]]''. Ironically, one of the few departed cast members not to put in an appearance was Sam Seaborn, who would return an episode or so later, and appear in several more remaining episodes.

* ''[[ER]]'' had Carter return for four episodes in season 12. Susan Lewis, absent from seasons 3-7, returned as a regular in seasons 8-12 before leaving again. In the show's 15th and final season, ''all'' of the departed regulars from the original cast, including the deceased Mark Greene, came back for guest appearances.

* When René and Edith of ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]'' accidentally travel to London, they meet Hans, who had been stolen away by the Communist Resistance to England a few seasons previously. He now works for the British government and speaks English.

* In ''[[Bones]]'', Zack only really comes back once after being [[Put on a Bus]] {{spoiler|to a mental institution}}, in "The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond". (He appears in two other episodes, but one is a hallucination and the other is a [[Whole-Episode Flashback]].)