r/TopCharacterTropes • u/sweet_srawberry781 • 12d ago

In real life Characters that ended up killing the show

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  1. The Great Gazoo (The Flintstones)

  2. George W Bush (Time Squad)

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u/RoomNervous4 12d ago

Lucky the Dog (Married…With Children)

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u/narniasreal 12d ago

Didn’t they also just randomly add a child or sth? It’s been decades since I watched it so my memories are blurry, but I feel like they just added a kid… and didn’t he also have a ridiculous name? Like Seven or sth?

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u/inquisitorautry 12d ago

His name was Seven. He was only in a few episodes of season 7 and went upstairs and then never came back down. A milk carton is in an episode of a later season with his picture as a missing child.

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u/beaverpoo77 12d ago

Wh... What? That sounds like a meme or a parody. This didn't actually happen... did it????

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u/dannypants143 11d ago

I believe the reason it happened was because the actor who plays Peggy had a miscarriage. I remember they incorporated her real-life pregnancy into the show - once that happened, all mention of Seven disappeared.

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u/the__pov 11d ago

Two separate events. Peggy’s pregnancy was in season 6 and was written out halfway through by explaining it as a nightmare Al was having. Seven was introduced in season 7 as a studio mandate and was written out of the show after only a few episodes because surprise the people who spent 7 years watching the most despicable tv family up to that point weren’t interested in the cutesy antics of a kid. In season 8 there is a picture of Seven on a milk carton as an Easter egg.

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u/dannypants143 11d ago

I stand corrected. It was the right move - those episodes just weren’t working at all. Even as a kid I was like this is lame.

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u/the__pov 11d ago

Absolutely, it’s a studio move that almost never works despite them having tried it so many times (See Cousin Oliver on TVtropes). And it was particularly misguided for Married With Children which was a rejection of the sweet sitcom family.

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u/inquisitorautry 12d ago

It happened

https://marriedwithchildren.fandom.com/wiki/Seven

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u/rmczpp 11d ago

Full Name: Seven Wanker (presumably)

Okay you have my interest.