10 TV Plotlines You Forgot Were Completely Abandoned

10. Abed's Girlfriends (Community)

Community isn't as obsessed with romance as some other sitcoms, but it still allows its characters to date when appropriate. Usually these relationships have clear beginnings and endings, yet any time a love interest for Abed is introduced, it's instantly dropped from the show.

The first instance of that was in Season 2 when Abed sparks a romance with Secret Service Agent Vohlers. It's tremendously cute and everyone thinks so, yet Vohlers is never mentioned again after this episode. The same thing happens in Season 4 when Abed meets a girl named Rachel (Brie Larson) at a school dance. They're insanely perfect together, but that's the only time she appears that year.

This is rectified in Season 5 when Rachel actually becomes a recurring character, and she and Abed date throughout the season. That's a major plot point in some episodes, so it seems she's now pretty important to the series, right? Then, in Season 6, Rachel completely disappears. It's not like she and Abed even broke up; her storyline is just abandoned.

Of course, Community lampoons this in a typical Community way by having Abed ask the question the audience is asking: "What happened to that girl I was dating?" Still, referencing it doesn't make it any less annoying that the show has just wrapped up its final season, and Rachel was apparently just banished into the Phantom Zone.