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Quiz about Those of Us Left Behind
Quiz about Those of Us Left Behind

Those of Us Left Behind Trivia Quiz


Here is a quiz about characters loved and hated that were left behind. Facts here are only about character as they existed on their TV series, and does not include any comic book canon. Warning- Spoilers may be found inside.

A multiple-choice quiz by Gamemaster1967. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
373,732
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
431
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 73 (10/10), Guest 174 (9/10), Guest 208 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. She appeared first and last on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but also had a significant role on the spin-off "Angel". Always the resident crazy chick, this vampire saw the future, killed a slayer and became the "mother" of her "grandmother". Who was this villain fans loved to hate and played by Juliet Landau? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What happened to a group of young women when their house mother left school? They all moved in with her over her new store! On "The Facts of Life", Blair, Jo, Natalie and Tootie all moved in with their house mother when she opened her own store. Edna up and left the girls once more, when she married and joined the Peace Corps in one of the later seasons. Who replaced Edna so that the girls wouldn't be totally left behind? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Maybe one of the earliest TV characters to not only get left behind, but to be erased from history was the eldest Cunningham child from "Happy Days". This eldest sibling to Richie and Joanie only appeared in the show's first two seasons. And, once he/she left, was never mentioned again. Who was this first born child of Marion and Howard? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. When you've arrived in Los Angeles hell bent on 'helping the helpless', it's always nice to make friends. When you couple that mission with being a private investigator without a license, it's great to have a cop on your side. On the series "Angel", Angel met a detective in the second episode. And, after gaining her trust, lying to her repeatedly, telling her to get over herself when she couldn't handle the truth, and then finally saving her from a fatal overdose, your fans might expect to know what became of her. But, after having saved her life, and her thanking you for doing so, she was never seen again. Did she leave Los Angeles behind, or did the writers just leave her behind? We never found out. Who was this beautiful blonde police woman played by Elisabeth Rohm? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Though the hit series "Beverly Hills, 90210" managed to hang on for ten whole seasons, it threw in several interesting plot devices to keep fans coming back. One of those occurred in season five. After the exit of Brenda Walsh at the end of season four, the show brought in bad girl Valerie Malone. She aided Dylan Mckay in the search for his own long lost "sister" Erica Steele. Though Erica was found in season five, she may have been long lost to fans forever after, if not for the choice to use her in a season eight plot device. In what career did Brandon and Kelly find Erica working in season eight? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Awaking in a hospital bed to a post-apocalyptic world can be a bit disorienting. This character was the definition of left behind in the series premier of "The Walking Dead". He woke up after being comatose for about a month and the world was not how he left it. Desperate, exhausted, disgusted, and determined, who made his way past the walkers, into his neighborhood, and within a few episodes back to his wife and son? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. On the sitcom "Roseanne", one of the characters kind of vanished without explanation. This person was in the series premier, was said to be Roseanne's best friend from high school, married Dan's father and had two kids with him. So, after over 80 episodes, which of the series regulars made their last appearance in these season eight premier? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Back in the 1980s he was the best friend of Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show". But, after a couple of seasons Walter Bradley just seemed to be left in the dust. Appearing last in the season four episode "Dance Mania", what was the commonly used nickname of Theo's pal Walter? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Sometimes our favorite TV people never get the chance to even hint at a goodbye to fans. TV goodbyes can come in more than traditional ways. Sometimes an on screen death is our goodbye, and sometimes a character makes a video reappearance and we get our goodbye. In earlier days, a letter may come to a current character and we get a goodbye. What fans of the drama "Dallas" never got was any official goodbye from a certain red head married to one of the Ewing men. She was thought to have burned to death in a fiery car crash, but she did live. In the TNT network reboot of the series, it was revealed she'd died many years after that car crash, but fans had no real closure with which Ewing woman? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Every time Mandy Patinkin would join a series, I worried if he would last, or at the very least if his character would last. If I could ever ask him one question it would be "why take those roles just to quit so quickly?" Which of these Mandy Patinkin characters was left behind on "Criminal Minds"? Hint



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1. She appeared first and last on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but also had a significant role on the spin-off "Angel". Always the resident crazy chick, this vampire saw the future, killed a slayer and became the "mother" of her "grandmother". Who was this villain fans loved to hate and played by Juliet Landau?

Answer: Drusilla

While Darla had the distinction of being the very first vampire ever seen on "Buffy", she never returned to Sunnydale after her death in season one. Drusilla arrived to town with Spike in season two, when he sought a cure for her debilitation. She was sired by Angelus in London in 1880. Darla was the one who first drew attention to her. The pair tormented Drusilla, but Angelus was the one who made her insane. She had the gift of sight, and sired herself a pet named Spike. At the end of season two, she killed the slayer named Kendra, and was hurried out of town by Spike. She left him sometime later during their off screen romance, which caused him to return to Sunnydale, where he fell in love with Buffy. During the second season of "Angel", Wolfram and Hart brought Drusilla to Los Angeles to sire a now human Darla, who was dying of syphilis aftermath. She did so, and became the sire to her grandsire. Dru referred to herself a 'mummy' more than once.

Drusilla was last seen in Sunnydale, in the season five episode "Crush", where she'd come to coax Spike back into her life. What she really wanted was his help trying get her precious Angelus back. He declined. Juliet Landau was seen again, in flashbacks and as The First, but Drusilla was never heard of again on either series. She has probably popped up in the extended comic books that cover what has happened to the characters since their series ended.
2. What happened to a group of young women when their house mother left school? They all moved in with her over her new store! On "The Facts of Life", Blair, Jo, Natalie and Tootie all moved in with their house mother when she opened her own store. Edna up and left the girls once more, when she married and joined the Peace Corps in one of the later seasons. Who replaced Edna so that the girls wouldn't be totally left behind?

Answer: Edna's sister, Beverly Ann

The four troublemakers of Eastland came to live with Edna Garrett when she opened her own business, Edna's Edibles. They worked for her as well as attended school. The store burned down and was re-purposed as a gift shop. Eventually the actress wanted to leave the show, so they had Edna marry a doctor and join the Peace Corps.

Her sister Beverly Ann came in to be guardian. This show and "Roseanne" were both early acting jobs for future movie star George Clooney.
3. Maybe one of the earliest TV characters to not only get left behind, but to be erased from history was the eldest Cunningham child from "Happy Days". This eldest sibling to Richie and Joanie only appeared in the show's first two seasons. And, once he/she left, was never mentioned again. Who was this first born child of Marion and Howard?

Answer: Chuck

Chuck was played by two different actors over the course of the first two seasons. After only 11 episodes, Chuck vanished forever, without explanation, and was never mentioned again. I believe he went up to his room and was never heard from or mentioned again. This became known in the industry as Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. It also happened, in a different way, to Judy Winslow on "Family Matters".

"Happy Days" lasted for 11 seasons, from 1974-1984. It also spawned another TV phenomenon called Jumping the Shark.
4. When you've arrived in Los Angeles hell bent on 'helping the helpless', it's always nice to make friends. When you couple that mission with being a private investigator without a license, it's great to have a cop on your side. On the series "Angel", Angel met a detective in the second episode. And, after gaining her trust, lying to her repeatedly, telling her to get over herself when she couldn't handle the truth, and then finally saving her from a fatal overdose, your fans might expect to know what became of her. But, after having saved her life, and her thanking you for doing so, she was never seen again. Did she leave Los Angeles behind, or did the writers just leave her behind? We never found out. Who was this beautiful blonde police woman played by Elisabeth Rohm?

Answer: Detective Kate Lockley

Kate wanted to believe in Angel, and it seemed for a short time even wanted more than friendship. After her father was murdered by vampires, she found out that Angel was a vampire as well. He'd been less than upfront about the dangers in the city, and she was too grief stricken to hear reason.

Her obsession with all things monstrous led to her career suicide, and then a real attempt at suicide when she was fired. Angel had been mired down in his own demons to be much use to any of his friends in season two, but had come to his senses literally in the nick of time to save Kate.

She came to him at the end of that episode, "Epiphany", and thanked him. She said she'd been cut a real break, because he got inside her apartment to save her and she'd never once invited him in. What likely happened was that, like most supernatural technicalities, her heart stopped beating just long enough for her to be dead.

This allowed him to enter without an invitation. Kate was never seen, heard of, or mentioned again on the rest of the series. I do know she reappeared in the canon comic continuation, but I've not personally read those.
5. Though the hit series "Beverly Hills, 90210" managed to hang on for ten whole seasons, it threw in several interesting plot devices to keep fans coming back. One of those occurred in season five. After the exit of Brenda Walsh at the end of season four, the show brought in bad girl Valerie Malone. She aided Dylan Mckay in the search for his own long lost "sister" Erica Steele. Though Erica was found in season five, she may have been long lost to fans forever after, if not for the choice to use her in a season eight plot device. In what career did Brandon and Kelly find Erica working in season eight?

Answer: Prostitution

If anyone had bothered to ask Erica, she may have preferred to remain a character in limbo. After so many years of the show, it was definitely becoming quite stale. Luke Perry had actually left the series by season eight. And, to the best of the fans' knowledge, Erica was off living a happy life with Dylan's mom Iris in Hawaii. What better place to fade away than Hawaii? Nope, bored and boring writers decided that Erica had returned to Los Angeles and become a prostitute to survive. Once saved by the caped crusader Brandon Walsh, she was returned to the custody of Dylan.

When he returned to Beverly Hills later, he said she was living a much better off screen life than she had been. To add one more tidbit of my own opinion, nothing was worse story telling than the character of Noah Hunter, played by someone who really couldn't act his way out of a can.
6. Awaking in a hospital bed to a post-apocalyptic world can be a bit disorienting. This character was the definition of left behind in the series premier of "The Walking Dead". He woke up after being comatose for about a month and the world was not how he left it. Desperate, exhausted, disgusted, and determined, who made his way past the walkers, into his neighborhood, and within a few episodes back to his wife and son?

Answer: Rick Grimes

Sheriff Rick Grimes (actor Andrew Lincoln) awoke shortly after the world as we knew it ended. I am not sure the time line was ever exact, but it seemed he stayed comatose about a week after everything changed. There was time for his saline bag to finish dripping into his arm, his potted plant to die, and chaos to own the hospital. Though he did find his way back to Lori and Carl within a few episodes, we didn't learn until later why Shane had left him. The world went crazy, Rick was comatose, and Shane had no choice but to leave him. Shane did block his room door to keep the walkers away from him. That was probably what saved Rick. Shane told Lori that Rick had died, and then he took Lori and Carl for his own family. Through the start of five seasons, a lot of trauma, heartbreak and death, Rick survived. Shane, however, wore out his welcome by the end of season two.

Aidan Waite is from "Being Human", Ryan Hardy is from "The Following" and John Locke is from "Lost".
7. On the sitcom "Roseanne", one of the characters kind of vanished without explanation. This person was in the series premier, was said to be Roseanne's best friend from high school, married Dan's father and had two kids with him. So, after over 80 episodes, which of the series regulars made their last appearance in these season eight premier?

Answer: Crystal

Actress Natalie West last appeared in the season eight premier. As important of a person Crystal was to Roseanne and Jackie, fans probably expected her to appear in the ninth season, known as the fantasy season, where the Conners won the lottery. And if not a part of all that crazy fun, at least in the series finale be there as the voice over explained that the show had all been Roseanne's imagination.

There was no explanation of what became of Crystal, or if she'd ever even been real at all.
8. Back in the 1980s he was the best friend of Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show". But, after a couple of seasons Walter Bradley just seemed to be left in the dust. Appearing last in the season four episode "Dance Mania", what was the commonly used nickname of Theo's pal Walter?

Answer: Cockroach

Cockroach, played by Carl Anthony Payne, came across as more humorous and adventurous, but as less intelligent than Theo. He provided an outlet for Theo to express his less uptight side. Dr. Huxtable called him by his given name of Walter, but pretty much everyone else called him Cockroach.

It was said that a disagreement in Carl's personal appearance caused Cosby to fire him from the show. He went on to star on the shows "Martin", "Rock Me, Baby", and "One Love".
9. Sometimes our favorite TV people never get the chance to even hint at a goodbye to fans. TV goodbyes can come in more than traditional ways. Sometimes an on screen death is our goodbye, and sometimes a character makes a video reappearance and we get our goodbye. In earlier days, a letter may come to a current character and we get a goodbye. What fans of the drama "Dallas" never got was any official goodbye from a certain red head married to one of the Ewing men. She was thought to have burned to death in a fiery car crash, but she did live. In the TNT network reboot of the series, it was revealed she'd died many years after that car crash, but fans had no real closure with which Ewing woman?

Answer: Pam

Victoria Principal was in the first episode of "Dallas" and last appeared in season 10 of the series. She played Pam in 250 episodes. In the TNT reboot, Christopher wanted to declare his mother dead, so he went in search of the proof needed. He stood to inherit her shares of Barnes Global.

It was finally revealed that she'd died of pancreatic cancer. The incorrect choices are red heads from other TV series- Sansa from "Game of Thrones", Joan from "Mad Men", and Lydia from "Teen Wolf".
10. Every time Mandy Patinkin would join a series, I worried if he would last, or at the very least if his character would last. If I could ever ask him one question it would be "why take those roles just to quit so quickly?" Which of these Mandy Patinkin characters was left behind on "Criminal Minds"?

Answer: Jason Gideon

Jason Gideon quit working for the BAU division of the FBI in the second episode of "Criminal Minds" season three. Mandy went on to explain that the series was too violent for him and that he hadn't been aware that it would be a weekly dose of the rape and torture of women.

He spent two full seasons as reaper Rube Sofer on "Dead Like Me" before departing. The show went on for a third season, but I suspect losing Mandy also equated to its downfall. It was canceled after its third season. He lasted six seasons on "Chicago Hope" and as of 2015 was in his fourth season of "Homeland". I love Mandy, and have enjoyed all of his characters. Jason Gideon was often referenced over the eight seasons that followed Mandy's departure.

The character was finally killed off, via serial killer, in the season ten episode "Nelson's Sparrow".
Source: Author Gamemaster1967

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