Talk:Arthur's Faraway Friend/@comment-24669562-20150105223412

This is a sad episode to me. Buster, my most favorite character, gone out of Elwood City. This must have left a void in Arthur's life. He still had all his other friends but Buster was gone from all his friends and his mother. But he was with his father, only one person he knew.

At least he didn't completely leave the show and made a few appearances, or cameos between this episode and Buster's Back. Sometimes I think of this episode as Buster making a departure from the show, though that's not true, otherwise he wouldn't even make cameos in the episodes following this one, and probably not until the episode he returns to Elwood City, which is once again, "Buster's Back."

I know of a few other shows where characters leave for a long time and come back much later, or many episodes later. It happened on Full House (Steve) and the Cosby Show (Denise) to name a couple.