The Disturbing Mystery of Lost Characters: Vol. 1 

I have been trying to trick my friends into believing that Graggle Simpson has been there all around. I’m getting close to them believing it

I could see Graggle Simpson working in a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror special, like maybe the family and town have memories of Graggle coming back to them and it turns out he was taken away by Men in Black who made the town forget about him. Regarding Fedora Kong, considering that Cranky is DK’s granddad, were it not for mandates, it’d have been cool to see a grown up DK Jr. appear in New Donk City in Mario Odyssey.

Such a Graggle stan tbh. Loved that one Graggle episode where at the end he gives a PSA to the audience about the harmfulness of drug usage. That PSA was able to convince my father to stop taking heroine and convinced me that crack was lame. Graggle saved not only mine and my father's lives but our family as well, and I have nothing but gratitude for one of TV's most nuanced and well developed characters.

The best example of a lost character is Cartmans dad in the South Park pilot, alot of Cartmans personality and traits comes from the lack of discipline his mother gives him and she treats him like a best friend and not like a son

I remember in the Amazing World of Gumball, a character named Molly was there in the background and with sone minor roles, but then she disappeared for a long time. But, they had a whole episode of bringing her back from an in universe void where forgotten things go. Something similar in the show happened to Tobias’s sister Rachel. She only had one major role in an episode and then was completely forgotten about and it was like she was scrapped completely. This time however there was never an explanation for her disappearance. I suppose you could theoreze that she’s in the void too but I don’t think they ever really wanted to do anything with her character after her big episode. So much so that they just scrapped her.

Here’s some other interesting lost characters: Bagan from Godzilla, who was planned to appear in at least FOUR separate films but was scrapped from every single one of them. Miranda Piker and Marvin Prune from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Though we know a great deal about Miranda as her chapter can still be read online, information about Marvin is scarce because his chapter was lost. Gorochu, a scrapped Pokémon from the original games meant to evolve from Raichu and thus the final form of Pikachu. It was supposed to have fangs and horns. Sister Sonic. Sometime in the 90’s, Sega was planning to localize some JRPG but reskin it into a Sonic game (a la Super Mario Bros. 2) starring Sonic’s Sister. The game was simply called “Sister Sonic”. But after backlash, Sega scrapped the reskin plans and just localized the game in its original form. Sister Sonic has never appeared in anything since. Bond Man from Mega Man. The original Mega Man only had 6 bosses instead of the usual 8, and Bond Man was supposed to be the seventh until he was scrapped for technical reasons. He and his stage were supposed to be glue-themed. And my personal favorite, Warupeachi who was a character brainstormed for Mario Tennis for the N64 by Camelot as a “Wa” version of Peach in the vain of Wario and Waluigi. Miyamoto shot down that idea because he “didn’t want to know what that would look like.”

The most legendary example of this, one that easily out-Chuck Cunnighams Chuck Cunningham, Has got to be 12-year-old Bobby Martin in the Soap Opera All My Children, who one day in 1970 left the room saying he was going up to the attic to get his skis and was never seen or mentioned by his parents, siblings, or any other characters on the show ever again. No quick dialog patch explaining how he had to be shipped off to a mental hospital or return to his home planet, he just suddenly had never existed to begin with. Decades later, almost certainly long after every other character from Bobby’s era had left the show by more conventional means, the show finally acknowledged the by then legendary lost character when another character was rooting around in the attic of what happened to be that same house, and they had her uncover a skeleton holding a pair of skis. (Although of course she then never mentions it to any other characters or the police but instead just goes on as if it never happened.)

2:38 Cranky Kong is actually DK’s grandpa. He’s been incorrectly described as his dad in a few instances, but he is the ape’s grandpa, not his dad.

Graggle's catchphrase "It's Gragglin' time" was always plopped in at just the right time, honestly.

the only way the simpsons putting gumbly in an episode could be funny is if they just rip off their own roy joke. just have him show up, everyone act like he's always been there and then never acknowledge him again.

I don't think I've heard anyone who's watched Steven Universe say that Mayor Dewey was a highlight for them, but I respect that. I think the Beach City citizens in general were underrated as most fans seemed to only care about the gem stuff.

My favorite Half-Life character is Jackson. His role as Kleiner's wacky assistant brings a nice comic relief into the series and his sacrifice was heartbreaking

You guys remember Larry the Lion From Fnaf 2? He was one of the Broken Animatronics, He was there all along He was always there He was always there He was always there He was always there He was always there

I love how That 70’s Shows does a “Chuck Cunningham” with Donna’s sister. She appears in 1 episode, complaining about Donna throwing a party. And we never see her again. The show even mentions, “What Happened to Donna’s sister?” In a different episode where there was some cliffhanger.

Ms. Pac-Man is another example of this. Namco lost the rights to her and now they have to pretend that she never existed. Opting to replace her with Pac-Mom in every subsequent rerelease of each game that she stared in since the lawsuits/buyout.

It's terrifying to think, but uhh... Chuck could have been a case of the Korean war or Vietnam war taking a life, and the family trying to put it behind them. See, happy days takes place in the 50s, and there was only a 2 year period, from late 53 to early 55 that peace was active in the US, and we were not involved in a major war. Chuck could have been shipped off to 'Nam or possibly love to Korean if he was drafted. An in-universe reason that is... waaaaay too unsettling to think about.

Another infamous example of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome happened on the show Family Matters. In that show, the youngest daughter, Judy, was completely written out in the fourth season despite being a pretty prominent character in the first few ones because the actress, and her family wanted a better salary, and the rest of the cast acts like she never existed. The parents even say they only ever had two children just like what happened on Happy Days.

Sparky was the scariest FNaF character for me, especially with his howling in FNaF 4, and the cameo he got in FNaF 6.

I can't believe people thought Graggle wasn't real. He's basically the backbone of the show AND has all the best moments from it.

Chuck Cunningham really reminds me of Lyman from Garfield. while he's not really a "lost character" per say, he certainly had a similar situation where he used to appear in comics regularly as Jon's roommate, but then slowly stopped appearing until he was reduced to a cameo appearance every now and then, and then poof, he was gone, and has never reappeared in the strip since. and yeah he did have that one appearance in The Garfield Show, but that's _clearly_ not Lyman, the eye shape and hair is completely different, he's an impostor!

you shouldve talked about incidental 70, one of the generic fishes from spongebob who only appeared in season 1 and 2 (until a cameo in the patrick show)

Scripulous Fingore is the haunting ghost of Graggle Simpson, meaning that it's a dead person. It's always pointing at Mario because he's stuck in his world and wants to know how to get out. Miyamoto was mad about being asked regarding Fingore's existance because his game was haunted for a while.

my memories are kinda blurry on it, but didn't they do something somewhat similar to the last example with the younger sister in Boy Meets World, where she just disappeared from the show for a while and when she reappeared with a new actress portraying her she claimed the reason she was missing was that her parents grounded her for saying a bleeped out word. if they didn't recast her the character might have just disappeared from the show alltogether.

Never much cared for Graggle, was glad he was put on the back burner in later seasons. Him felt very similar to Mr. Poopybutthole (or perhaps Mr. P feels similar to Graggle?) either way, what made Mr. Poopybutthole work was that he wasn't a main character & had sparce appearances. Honestly if they had just made him a secondary character I would prolly like him more. Just hope he's doing alright in his trip around the word to break the world record for most pictures taken of yourself in every state/country/continent w/ only 10 rolls of camera film to beat the precious record which is 11.

I wanna know what happened to Tobias’s sister from Gumball.

Great video reminds me of my favourite lost character my father

I like the idea of scripulous fingore REALLY wanting to be in a Mario game but never making the cut and miyamoto just being super annoyed with fingores bullshit. Not even wanting to give him the attention by complaining about him in an interview

The Byers' dog in Stranger Things is a lost character too, the dog was there for a few episodes in the first season, completely not acknowledged or present in the second season, and I think there was a grave for the dog in the third? But they hardly addressed it.

Minor thing- Cranky Kong isn't Donkey Kong's father, he's his grandfather so fedora Kong being DK Jr. and DK's dad could work

My personal favorite lost character is Rachel from The Amazing World of Gumball She was pretty similar to Chuck actually; she made minor appearances in the first season, and only ever speaking in one episode if I’m correct. After Season 2 or 3, she would entirely stop making appearances in the background like most other minor characters. She would rarely ever be mentioned again. They did wrap up some explanation on the shorts involving Darwin after the show ended, stating Rachel went off to college… interesting why a girl about to go off to college kissed Darwin, a 10 y/o on the cheek, but nevertheless

Another lost character is Eddy from Kickin it. He just disappeared, and the characters never acknowledged it. There was no farewell episode or background mention of his character.

I really dig Scripulous Fingore, I should keep him in track for a future game. Graggle Simpson/Weird Matt/Gumbly looks really neat too, I like him. Though his origin sounds like a bit of an obsession, which seemed relatively harmless.

Mock Turtle is in McGee's Alice games too, in the first he's crying over the dutchess stealing his shell and in Madness Returns he just takes a ship underwater to avoid skeleton sharks, only to cry again when the ship crashes into the sea floor. doesn't do much in those games apart from cry, apparently the internet also loves Bowsette so much she feels like a lost character by now. if she's never going to be in smash I see some very extreme reactions from fans

The Graggle one for me is completely ridiculous that anyone could genuinely believe it is true. It is hilarious. You got this down to earth setting with a man and his family and then you have this horrific naked mutant pet thing just randomly sitting there. It just feels so out of character for Matt to come up with something this asinine 😆😭

fun fact in the TOH segment Time and Punishment in one of the alternate timelines that Homer visited Roy was meant to reappear as the eldest Simpsons son from an alternative universe.

Chuck Cunningham’s character is like an episode of black mirror.

Awesome vid man! 😊💜

The mock turtle was also in American McGee's Alice. That game was one of the defining games of my childhood. Ah, memories

In the same vein as the last character in this video, in the TV show "Nurse Jackie," there is a character in the first season that is Jackie's gay best friend, or so we're told. Because after the first season, he is never seen or mentioned by anyone ever again.

Cranky is the original DK. The DK we know, is his grandson, and is DK jr’s son

I see a fandom starting.

I despise Graggle Simpson. He awakens something deep and violent inside of me.

Longer videos on this topic would be awesome it's so interesting. Shoutouts to Tobias's sister from Gumball lol (I think her name is Rachel)? She disappeared after season 1 but unlike Molly and Rob she never came back and wasn't even mentioned until Darwin's Yearbook (a crappy clipshow series that came after the last episode) where it was thrown in that she went to college. Apparently the real reason of her removal is just simply that the writers hated her. I've always found cut character from video games to be super fascinating too especially if playable. Miho from yugioh "season 0" could also arguably count.

Wow! Really good video. Honestly that whole Chuck Cunningham thing is really weird and usually when characters in shows leave there is some in-universe reason as to why but i find it weird how they never explained it. Makes you wonder how people at the time felt about that.

Graggle is my favorite of the main simpsons. He has always been real, he has always been real, he has always been real, he has always been re

Literally simple google search told me that Cranky is DK’s grandfather

I can't believe that Jackson, Dr Kleiner's goofy assistant from Half Life wasn't here.

while i find gumbly and graggle to be interesting names, i really think that weird matt/yellow matt is the best as it makes sense in the context of the character. he’s supposed to be caricature of matt groening.

When I was a kid, I tried to convince my friend that there was a "lost" smurf that he forgot about. This smurf was a bit of a weirdo, and his eyes were always covered by his cap. My friend didn't buy it, and I felt silly for trying to BS him like that.

Craky is Donkey Kong grandfather, his dad is DK Jr

Remember When Roy lived with the Simpsons and then left to live with Two Sexy Ladies? Edit: The Chuck Cunningham situation reminds me that in the early episodes of "Boy Meets World" Topanga had a sister but then she was an only child, same with Donna from "That 70s Show" who had 2 sisters but then she also became an only child

good video, I would love to hear this topic discussed more

Omg that’s my Gumbly art at 3:50 didn’t realize I’d get this far.

First people try to convince me that there's a dog named "Brian" in family guy and now people try to convince me that "Graggle" exists

i'm liking and subscribing cuz i want more but i genuinely like your humor :)) keep it up

Nice video! i love this so much! sad to see it not going viral and graggle is really believable

Concrete is a weird-ass mineral to make a character out of. Like, what are they gonna make next? Cement? Bricks? Granite? Pumice? Limestone? What the actual hell?

My head-canon is that Fedora Kong is Donkey Kong's dad and Donkey Kong Jr, who is Cranky's son (as seen in the arcade). Cranky Kong is actually DK's grandad idk where you got dad from

This was a very fun watch, I'd love to see more

Weirdest thing is Concrete couldn't even be a real character. Gems are... well, gems. Not mixtures.

There is a cut clone trooper who was originally going to appear in clone wars but he was cut the clone troopers name is ham

2:41 cranky Kong is DK’s grandfather. People think fedora Kong is grown up DK junior.

I really liked that fancam you used in the video. It really adds something odd and unsettling I can’t explain to this meme.

The youngest daughter from Family Matters was super weird to me. She just disappeared after season 4 and is never mentioned again.

do you guys remember the "archfiend" boss in the original doom? i think it was like the secret final boss, in each episode's secret level you would collect a "hell key" stored in the level, usually behind a tough puzzle and not just a push wall or a hidden door if you collected all of these hell keys and beat the spider mastermind, the arena's floor would lower and bring you into this big chamber where you would fight this secret boss this was around 1993 so there might be some inconsistencies, all i remember is the boss made horrible noises and had a very unique way of beating it, also its phase 2 was really fucking hard the boss was invincible, not like the icon of sin where you would pump rockets into its brain, it was more like el oscuro where he was invincible in the first phase but you could kill him in the second he could summon every monster in the game except for cyberdemons and masterminds, which would spawn near these switches you had to press in order to raise some tesla coils after raising the tesla coils they would zap him, making him vulnerable to gunfire, however i can't really remember a whole ton past that point except that it was fucking ball-breaking and i died numerous times i hope they add him back or something similar in some doom eternal dlc, he was one of the hardest bosses for the time, even after rise of the triad came out with the nme edit: fixed some grammar stuff

I thought Chuck Cunningham “went off to college.”

I was at line for alpharads cup pong and heard you mention your channel didnt know i watched the video good video man

Found your channel from a twitter meme, great video!

One that I always remembered was Donna's sister from That 70s show. She just randomly appears in an episode and then was never seen or mentioned again. They were having a party or something.

yall remember avocado princess from adventure time? i laughed my eyes out when she nearly killed larry with that giant sandwhich she was making for jake

another famous Chuck Cunningham Syndrome character is Donna’s little sister in That 70s Show. she had a full appearance and namedrop in one of the earlier episodes, and was shown to have a crush on Fez. Donna even had an older sister too who wasn’t living at home, but both characters were dropped altogether. Donna worked better as an only child, but it’s still interesting to see introduced characters fall off the face of the earth after only one or a few episodes

Great video dude.

In Boy Meets World's pilot, there's a third boy sitting with Cory and Shawn at the lunch table that is never seen again and ever since learning about it, I've always wondered what happened to him.

I get irrationally angry whenever someone refers to Gumbly as Graggle

Reminds a lot of that Disney Fish Hooks cartoon. There was one episode where one of the protagonists didn't want to repeat the school year, else everybody would forget about him. Then, they introduce a new character who repeated a school year, yet nobody remembers him, and they show clips from prior episodes with him added in. Seems like they were onto something, huh.

To other quick examples of what happened with happy days. On full House there was another daughter in the household who just disappeared after the first season I believe. Also boy meets World got rid of the younger sister for at least a few years I think, then she randomly came back and they made a joke about it

It’s so weird that people really “remember things wrong” like I’m sure everyone would remember the naked Simpsons character that didn’t match the rest of the characters in the show

Amazing!!

Ngl I can't wait for a lost character horror arg series to come out of this

I cant believe Matt Groening and Disney are George Lucasing the Simpsons, Graggle Simpson is part of the Simpson family!

9:28 imagine being disowned as they're child, then to only be replaced by a different version of you

There could be an episode about lost South Park characters! Such like Pip, Estella, Pocket, Gary, Mark and Rebecca, Thomas and Gregory & Christophe from the 1999 south park movie.

I can’t forget graggles iconic catchphrase “Well ain’t that 5$ burger” So inspirational 😢

Bruh how could you not like Graggle Simpson? I’ll always remember that one graggle episode where he convinced everyone on the show to actually be nice to each other, that was the inspiration to get me to actually be nice. so in conclusion, Graggle Simpson is the best character ever in cartoon history.

Can we have a treehouse of horror where Graggle Simpson torments the family.

One lost character that might be worth covering would be Calvin's uncle from the 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip in the 80s/90s. He showed up for a series of strips and then Waterson, the author, later admitted to disappearing him from existence.

The best part about the fingore is the thought of Shigeru Miyamoto saying something like this : “SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! THERE IS NO SCRUPULOUS FINGORE. THIS INTERVIEW IS *OVER*!”

Kekcroc is sorta a prototype to characters like fingore and Graggle

Imagine if you actually made one of your friends go insane, trying to convince them Graggle/Gumbly Simpson was always there

I love where this going I definitely understand these characters that lost. For me would mean both scraped unused deleted and forgotten disappeared

Man, my parents introduced me to "Happy Days" and it always bothered us how Chuck Cunningham basically disappeared from reality. I never knew they coined a term based on him to describe similar situations in media; I guess HD is not a stranger to such things with other phrases sparked from the show like "jumping the shark". I guess the "war victim" theory is the most logical conclusion in-universe. That said, I wouldn't mind a Graggle segment for the Treehouse of Horrors and a Scrupolose Fingore canonical appearance.

I never believed the fact that graggle Simpson always existed. Yeah I know that graggle was never real people need to WAKE UP

Graggle is unironically the funniest thing to happen to the Simpson's in the last 20 years

This is interesting. . . . I need to know of more missing characters. Also I think the internet collectively working together to make fake characters seem as though they're real missing characters is a lot of fun, gaslight gaslight gaslight

The Ikana Canyon music made the Chuck Cunningham thing sound way creepier than it was, but I am for it.

Honestly, at this point, if Graggle was actually always in the Simpsons then I wouldn’t bat an eye.

would love another one of these

There’s a character from little big planet called mr yellow head who was part of the demo. When the full game released me yellow head was replaced by sack boy. And has not made an appearance ever since.

You know, A year and a half ago, I remember searching up “Self Insert characters” and Graggle Simpson was in the top results of images, so when this meme spreads I swear to myself that he looks familiar.

My favorite part was when graggle simpson walked in and said “it’s graggling tim”