Award-Winning TV Shows With Unexplained Plot Points

Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn) is one of the most loved characters onBoy Meets WorldSeason 5 ends with Mr. Turner in critical condition after a motorcycle accident. He does not return to the show, but the absence lacks explanation. Mr. Turner mentors Shawn (Rider Strong) and forms bonds with his other students; he remains a fixture. Program producers seemed unconcerned.

Mr. Turner survives. Viewers learn this in 2015.he appearson the spinoffGirl Meets Worldthat is too little too late.

Leonard (Johnny Galecki) dates Dr. Stephanie Barnett (Sara Rue) for a few episodes in the second season ofThe Big Bang Theory.The two live together briefly, but Stephanie disappears. In "The Vartabedian Conundrum," Leonard tries to get Stephanie to move out, but she distracts him with sex several times. She seems to secure her spot at the episode's end. Stephanie never shows up on the program again. Did the couple finally split?

Very fewpeople werehappy with the twist at the end ofHow I Met Your MotherBy killing off the mother, the show's main subject, producers never explain the titular character's identity. The series builds toward Ted (Josh Radnor) meeting his future children's mother, suggesting she is the one.

Radnor's character ends up with Robin (Cobie Smulders). Is she the one? Viewers will never know for sure.

Chuck Cunningham (Gavan O'Herlihy) is the eldest of the three Cunningham children in Season 1 ofHappy Days. But later in the series, dad Howard (Tom Bosley)explicitly refersto histwochildren: Richie (Ron Howard) and Joanie (Erin Moran).

Chuck never returns after the first season. Did he die? Perhaps there were some unhappy days too.

Walt Lloyd (Malcolm David Kelley) is a superhero, a wizard, or a tiny god inLost,but viewers will never know for sure. The show leaves more than one question open, butfans especially wantto know about Walt. He can teleport and see the future, making him more mysterious than Hurley (Jorge Garcia), the ghost whisperer. Walt's sudden disappearance will always confuse some viewers.

Anna Paquin played the main character, Sookie, on HBO's vampire dramaTrue Blood. She evenwona Golden Globe in 2009 for her performance. Her character unceremoniously marries a random guy. Viewers do not know who he is or where he comes from. All Bon Temps residents live happily ever after, but Sookie is paired with a stranger.

The series finale ofHouseis full of twists. House (Hugh Laurie) miraculously survives the fire, for example. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) does not beat cancer, andviewers wonderabout House's fate.

The title character fakes his death to avoid prison so he can stop practicing medicine—not without a fake identity. Will House will become a vagrant or change his life. Telling is hard.

In the '70s era.All My ChildrenEpisodes show widower Dr. Joe Martin (Ray MacDonnell) caring for three children after his wife dies. His job gets easier when son Bobby (Mike Bersell) goes to the attic and never comes back.

The program alludes to Bobby several times. A skeleton with a "Bobby" nametag is found in the same attic, and Joe's other son calls a Halloween skeleton prop his brother. Soap opera producers never explain the boy's disappearance.

Geoff Pierson plays President John Keeler during the third and fourth seasons of24. Air Force One gets attacked mid-fourth season, wounding Keeler. His VP, Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin), takes over as president, but Keeler vanishes without a trace.Howard Gordon stated clearly.Keeler lived but was too hurt to serve the public; writerManny Coto said"Personally, I think he's no longer with us."

If writers and producers cannot agree on Keeler's fate, how can fans know what happened to him?

The Good WifeProducers fail to explain why Will (Josh Charles) calls Alicia (Julianna Margulies) right before he dies; they do this on purpose. Co-creatorRobert King noted"We kind of wanted it to be never answered because it's really what Alicia decides for herself... [whatever] makes her feel good."

King also claimed actors knew the reason for the call. He shared, "We needed to [tell them], and we needed to help Josh come to a place. Maybe Josh will tell someone someday." All the secrecy seems needless.

Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) have a romantic past inSeinfeld; some romance exists between them during the series. Season 2 episode "The Deal" shows them rekindling their physical relationship. However, the couple becomes platonic by the third season. There are no explanations or flashbacks. What happened?

InThe Office'sThe first episode, Michael (Steve Carell) jokes about filing a memo in the trash like his brother does with taxes. That is the first and last time Michael's brother is mentioned on the show. There is no sign Michael has a brother during the rest of the series. Does he have a sibling, or not?