10 TV Characters Who Disappeared Without A Trace

6. Grace Miller - Scrubs

Oftentimes, when a television show develops an unexpected breakout star from one of their secondary characters, a knee-jerk reaction is to try and replicate their success by creating a similar character of the opposite gender.

Sometimes audiences are on board, like the time when Sheldon Cooper became the star of The Big Bang Theory, and they created his mirror image in Amy Farrah-Fowler. But then there's the significantly less successful attempts, like when Scrubs tried to create a female version of Dr. Cox. The result was Dr. Grace Miller, and it didn't take anyone a very long time to realize that they hadn't thought the idea through.

First and foremost, Dr. Cox is a fantastic character, but he's dangerously close to being Too Much. Put two Dr. Coxes on the show, and there's a huge potential for the audience to find the whole situation incredibly grating. Which is what happened with poor Dr. Miller. There was a massive promotional build-up before she was on the show, and then there was very little payoff.

Bottom line: the audience did not embrace the character the way they had been hoping for, and she only lasted six episodes before being unceremoniously removed from the show.