Basic Trope: A character gets Put on a Bus and plans to have them return never come to fruition.
- Straight: Alice leaves the show The Tropertons in its third season finale to pursue a new job in the next town over. Although the door is left open for a return, Alice never comes back.
- Exaggerated: Alice leaves the show in the first half of the first season and although The Tropertons runs for a decently long while, Alice is all but completely forgotten about.
- Downplayed:
- Justified:
- The writers just couldn't figure out a way to bring Alice back in a way that felt natural to the story.
- Alice's actress wanted to leave the show to pursue other acting jobs and her schedule just can't work in a reappearance.
- Inverted: Commuting on a Bus
- Subverted: The Bus Came Back
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied:
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted: Alice never never goes on the bus.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: One of the other characters wonders what Alice has been up to and points out that her promise to come and visit sometime never came to be.
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Defied:
- Discussed: "Whatever happened to Alice? I mean, she said she'd be back in a few months!"
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
