TV Characters That Never Show Their Faces On Screen

disembodied millionaires invisible overbearing mothers and unseen psychiatrists who might be cult leaders are just a few of the Unseen characters that populate your favorite TV shows in the legal drama suits corporate attorney Lewis lit has an assistant named Norma who is never seen But frequently referenced one of the shows running gags involves lit's constant disregard for and mistreatment of Norma and to be fair based on descriptions of Norma she's clearly not the best at her job yet despite

any professional shortcomings it's clear that Lit holds an attachment to her a sentiment he might downplay but can't entirely conceal in a sad turn of events during the season 4 finale Norma is revealed to have died while caring for her sister she's gone and it's going to be okay she was a battle axe lit shares that Norma's supposed final wish was to have her ashes plac closer to him as a result an earn containing Norma's ashes is placed behind his desk long before the workplace sitcom Superstor

e embraced the co9 pandemic is part of its storyline Cheyenne had a friend named Corona who was the source of strange anecdotes during the multiple times that Cheyenne Nam drops her friend we learned that she sells her pee on the internet swallowed a tapeworm that ate one of her organs and roped Cheyenne into a pyramid scheme Corona was like you eat it and I was like no girl that is nasty you eat it yet viewers never see or even hear the character by the Time season 6 came along following the he

ight of Co Corona vanished except for one mention in the series finale whether the creators deemed it insensitive or simply grew tired of the gag remains unclear nevertheless viewers have been left to ponder the reasons behind the character her sudden disappearance forever shrouded in mystery the cult classic 9s teen drama series my so-called life has been praised for its authentic depiction of adolescence and its Nuance exploration of social issues faced by teenagers one of the more subtle aspe

cts of the show was the addition of the Unseen character Tino whose in Tangled in the group of friends lives but never actually seen since Tino is only ever mentioned briefly by others there's not much to his character besides the fact that he's closest with Jordan and ranne I'm in his band now Frozen embryos you know with Tino that is until Tino quits the band and causes a rift in episode 14 maybe if the show was picked up for a second season Tino would have eventually made an on-screen appeara

nce as it is he'll always be one of those characters who had a big influence on the main cast but was never actually seen in person the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree and the sitcom Married with Children as evidenced by Peg and her mom while laziness and bingeing seem to run in the family Peg manages to maintain a healthy weight the same can't be said for her mother the show's running joke about Peg's mom is her size nearly every mention of her character involves a jabbit or obesity and th

e series paints a vivid picture of her Larger than Life Persona once we unload your mom it's harder than hell to squeeze her back in she kicks like a mule based on the way she's described we know details like how she travels in a horse trailer occupies three bed simultaneously and once caused Al to experience temporary blindness after an unexpected encounter in the bath despite never making an on-screen appearance Peg's mom becomes a notable presence throughout the series finally acquiring her o

wn voice in season 10 brought to life by actor Kathleen pran Margaret open the door it's your mother and I'm hungry and one weird appearance in a 1993 comic book in most Star Trek series if someone wants food all they have to do is walk up to a food replicator say the name of the food and it appears out of reassembled molecules but in the prequel series Enterprise said a century before the Adventures of Captain Kirk things weren't quite as luxurious for Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew if yo

u wanted a sandwich aboard the Enterprise nxo1 someone had to actually make it and that's someone was chef and we still have no idea who that was all we know is that Archer pulled some strings to get an acclaimed cook assigned to the Enterprise and everyone wanted to keep him happy you eat this well all the time Chef's the best in Starfleet I heard the captain had to call in a lot of favors to get him on board the only time we ever came close to meeting Chef was in the controversial series final

e though it wasn't really Chef the story was told from the point of view of Will rker from The Next Generation who used the hollow deck to simulate the nx0 one's Adventure where he took on the role of Chief for a guy who lived in a time when you could tell machines to magically summon food he sure did like to cook he was never seen But Kramer's good friend Bob sakano nevertheless left an indelible mark on the hit sitcom Seinfeld no matter what the situation Kramer had a relevant and bizarre Bob

zamano story waiting in the season 2 episode the heart attack he tells the story about sacamano entering the hospital for hernia operation routine surgery now he's sitting around in a chair by a window going my name is Bob in spite of this dark fate Bob kept busy IND the fcks up from ceson 3 Sacramento got a job at a condom Factory in the chicken roster from season 8 we were told he had a gig selling fur hats in Battery Park by season 9 the episode Puerto Rican Day had Kramer claiming that Bob c

ame up with the idea of adding rubber bands to toy paddles according to Kramer's tale sacamano was a good guy who had just caught his share of bad luck he contracted rabies he was subjected to electroshock therapy unsuccessfully because the synapses are too large and perhaps most dramatically he lived with Kramer for a year and a half a character who is seldom seen but never unheard Donny's presence in the series trailer park boys is marked by his screaming responses to the Absurd events that un

fold around him in Sunnyvale Trailer Park voiced by The Talented Mike Smith who also portrays bubbles Donnie is defined by his constant anger and profanity which he channels into Unforgettable rage an idiot whether it's due to a satellite TV interruption or gunshots ringing out Donnie's reactions are a symphony of Screams that punctuate the daily Madness fans finally catch a glimpse of him in season 11 with Dino Nino standing in his the body however to keep up the running gag Donnie's face is bl

urred out leaving viewers with more questions and answers although his face May remain unseen his voice became an integral part of the sunny Veil experience the fact that the creators decided to show him on screen after so much time as a disembodied voice split fans calm down youing calm down who's running this fing trailer par one of the longest running gags in Netflix's hit animated show Bojack Horsemen revolved around a character who was always just off screen Mr peanut Butter's friend Erica

Erica always appeared randomly causing Mr Peanut Butter to notice and leave the scene to talk to her Mr Peanut Butter's exclamations made it clear that she'd had some legal trouble Erica you can't be here this place is filled with children it was also suggested that Erica had suffered a number of physical disfigurements that got worse as the show went on long story short Erica did have to lose the foot but she gained a friend other comments throughout the series referred to Erica spending time i

n a burn Ward having the wrong number of ears and undergoing a split brain procedure maybe it's for the best that she remained unseen Howard's mom known to viewers simply as Mrs wowit never needed to show her face in The Big Bang Theory because her voice alone was a larger than life presence Howard I made cookies for you and your little friends they're not my little friends we don't want cookies thanks to the booming performance of Carol and Susie Mrs walowitz became a fan favorite character who

was only glimpsed twice when suie died in 2014 the whole cast and crew Shak everyone was on set when they got the news and according to showrunner Steve malaro it became an impromptu Memorial where people started to share their wonderful memories of carolan viewers said goodbye to Mrs walowitz alongside Howard and season 8's the comic book regeneration in the episode Mrs walowitz visits her sister in Florida during her visit Howard receives a phone call from his aunts breaking the news that his

mother died in her sleep the losses fell deeply as Howard and his friends mourn the death of their shared mother figure Mrs walowitz was not replaced in order to let the character exit the series with the dignity she deserved when Parks and Recreation normally sickeningly positive Chris Trager surprised Everyone by feeling too much negativity he started seeing therapist Dr Richard niggard if I keep my body moving and my mind occupied at all times I will avoid falling into a bottomless pit of de

spair he came to depend so fully on the therapist that in the season 5 episode Halloween surprise he said niggard held his life in his hands like a fragile little bird in that same episode Chris revealed that he'd been seeing the therapist five times a week and four episodes later and Ron and Diane the frequency increased I have my therapist Dr Richard niggard who I see 15 times a week Dr nygard's impact on Chris's life was so intense fans theorized that niggard was secretly a cult leader since

his patients referred to themselves as Guardians and most of the patients never seemed to actually get better alternately it was guessed that niggard was actually Trager himself just hyping himself up either way the Unseen Dr niggard cultivated a heavy sense of dependence from Chris can I tell you about my wife for three decades the late Peter faul made an art out of figting simple-minded this as Lieutenant Frank Columbo in the TV series Columbo and numerous TV movies one of Columbo's tactics wa

s telling stories about his wife who we never saw or met for the duration of the show in fact the absence of Columbo's wife led to the popular theory that she didn't actually exist in a 2002 interview with the archive of American television Columbo co-creator William link said that he liked the idea without saying whether or not he felt it was true link went on to explain that he and co-creator Richard levenson wanted Columbo to be even more of a mystery than the crimes he solved recalling we wa

nted to keep him almost mythological he comes from nowhere and goes back into nowhere however fans know that a short-lived Columbo spinoff titled Mrs Columbo actually starred Columbo's wife though the series was not endorsed by the creators of the original or Peter Faulk she was finally given a first name Kate and was portrayed by Kate Mulgrew for two seasons viewers finally got to see her face even though a lot of details didn't add up making her an unlikely version of the character which was c

ompletely ignored by the time Columbo returned to the screen again in 1989 done Linda's Friend ginger has been mentioned on multiple occasions in Bob's Burgers and she's even made two onscreen appearances but we still haven't seen her face despite the fact that viewers don't really know what she looks like ginger is a fully fleshed out character Ginger's cat died but in a really funny way after much anticipation Ginger made her first appearance during a flashback about how Bob and Linda first me

t in the season 6 Premier sliding Bobs Ginger made another from behind appearance in the season 12 episode Clear and Present ginger in which she drives 82 miles just to visit Linda you must be Ginger hi hun I'm God from navigating the landscape of New York City to the drag of having to work a deadend job to survive Broad City captures what it's like trying to make it as an adult in the big city a running joke about aby's elusive roommate Melody is that we only ever see her boyfriend it's somethi

ng that many who have experienced the Oddity of rooming with someone they rarely cross paths with can relate to I'm not talking to you I'm talking to my roommate you're not my roommate you're my roommate's boyfriend the closest we ever get to seeing Melody is from behind a bathroom door or in photos where her face is conveniently obscured over time it becomes easier to forget who aby's roommate really is Show creator and star Abby Jacobson explained to deadline at the end it was just hilarious t

hat Abby kind of forgot about Melody did she ever Liv there what's going on so we decided that it was better without ever revealing her there's no getting around the fact that the success of the original Charlie's Angels was linked to certain wardrobe choices rather than any deep plot but there were some story elements that kept viewers tuned in at the heart of the series lies the mystifying figure of Charlie Townsen the head of the Charles Townsen agency and the Angel's unseen Mentor why can't

we ever see Charlie believe that was very clearly spelled out when you were hired nobody sees Charlie except me operating behind the scenes Charlie relays instructions to the angels who are essentially private investigators via a speaker phone he's an omnipotent presence that guides their every move good morning Angels morning Charlie although he was only ever heard the actor who portrayed Charlie John foresight was one of the only main cast members to remained on the show for the full Five Seas

ons the other two were jacqulyn Smith is Carrie Garrett and David Doyle is John Bosley the only towns and agency employee who actually knows Charlie personally foresight even reprised his role in 2000's Charlie's Angels and 2003's Charlie's Angels SP throttle good morning Angels good morning Charlie a running gag in the teen drama de Grassi the Next Generation Heather Sinclair is the definition of an unseen character who everybody hates she has it all Beauty intelligence and popularity but she a

lso has a reput reputation for being an unabashed mean girl no wonder no one likes Heather Sinclair what a she's first mentioned in season one's Parents Day viewers find out about her through the reactions of others and The Echoes of her insults throughout the series we know she's conventionally attractive with chunky highlights and an obvious nose job and it's a grassy mini called be aware of Heather Sinclair the clever camera angles used as Heather's point of view keep the Enigma intact as she

navigates a school corridors we catch only fleeting glimpses of the Havoc she causes the audience is left to piece together the puzzle of her character through the lens of those who bear witness to her Antics I'm going to meet you to move your Value Village butt away from my locker for eight years Tom celix starred as the lead in Magnum PI and while Thomas Magnum might technically have been part of the same profession as other famous fictional Private Eyes he enjoyed a lot more luxury than most

hard-boiled investigators struggling to make ends meat Magna made his home in the expansive Robins Nest beach front estate in aahu Hawaii a guest of the celebrated author Robin Masters Masters wanted Magnum on his property to ensure the Estate Security it's tough to say for sure because we never actually saw Masters for the entire run of the show we only ever heard Master's Voice a few times courtesy of Orson Wells perhaps as a tribute to wells's unseen Voice work and the third man The Only Exc

eption was the season 6 premiere which aired a few weeks before wells's 1985 passing and featured red crle as the voice toward the end of the series Magnum began to suspect that Higgins the caretaker of Robin's Nest was the real Robin Masters Higgins confirmed this in the series finale until he didn't if we ever want to learn the truth it seems like we might have to hire a pi of our own everyone could benefit from having a neighbor as friendly and wise as Wilson from Home Improvement in the 8 se

ason sitcom he's often crucial when it comes to solving each episode's conflict or just offering words of wisdom snakes are clean low-maintenance pets plus they have a very firm nutty tasting flesh even more impressively he does it all without ever showing his face except in one accidental reveal usually the most viewers ever see of Wilson is the top of his head and his trademark hat as he Peaks over the fence for some neighborly chitchat with Tim Taylor though there are many show moments that o

bscure his face in other ways the story behind Wilson's hidden face was actually inspired by Creator and star Tim Allen's childhood neighbor who can not see over his family home's tall fence during a visit to Mark Marin's WTF podcast Allan revealed the idea of keeping Wilson's face obscured was part of the initial pitch for the show Niles's notorious wife Maris isn't the only unseen character on Frasier an Italian soccer team was at the next table Maris announced she was in the mood for a goose

and perhaps inevitably tragedy ensued Gil Chesterton the flamboyant host of restaurant beat on kacl talk radio first graced The Frasier Universe in the season 1 episode Fraser Crane's day off where Gil exudes sophistication and a penchant for the dramatic his mannerisms lead his co-workers to speculate about his sexuality you're married to a woman Gil insists that his wife is a woman named Deb we thought Deb was your cat she is not a cat before long Deb becomes a topic of both intrigue in specul

ation the sitcom cleverly navigates this ambiguity of whether or not she's real by never actually showing her on screen leaving viewers to ponder the nature of Gil's marital status is Gill's marriage a genuine commitment or an elaborate lie we'll never know for sure but know this Gil isn't about to stop loving the ladies throughout all 11 seasons of the sitcom cheers Vier Peterson managed to serve as a steady recurring joke even while almost never showing up existing chiefly via quips from Georg

e W's Norm who was famously always dodging her so he could sit on his favorite bar stool the Spectre of Vera and her phone calls to the bar became a Dependable punchline could this be ver that was a lot of expensive surgery maybe the gag eventually became a game with the audience the show's creators acknowledged their desire to Finly see the character so the cast bernardet Burkett George W's actual wife in the role we still only kind of saw Vera once in the much discussed season 5 episode Thanks

giving orphans Diane ended a messy food fight by hurling a pie which hit Vera right in the face in The Golden Girls Dorothy has an unseen brother named Phil who ultimately influences the series by adding depth to the Petrillo family Dynamics his role of Sophia's crossdressing son introduces a progressive subplot and the occasional references to Phil throughout the series illuminate a complex mother son relationship marked by distance and occasional disapproval tragically Phil's story reaches an

end in the season 6 episode eti's Revenge when Phil dies of a heart attack while trying on women's clothes in a dressing room in the aftermath of Phil's passing his widow spends a week with the girls unearthing the buried emotion Sophia harbers and forcing her to confront the shame she's felt toward Phil drawing upon her grief counseling skills Rose imp Parts wisdom emphasizing all the positives to remember about Phil thank you I've never been psychoanalyzed by a dipstick before the Trope of TV

characters you never see goes as far back as the black and white comedy classic The Andy Griffith Show while you may not think of Don KN as a ladies man at least one waitress working at Mayberry's Bluebird Diner would disagree throughout the series sheriff's deputy Barney 5 regularly made romantic phone calls to onean Beasley which often ended in embarrassment in the season 1 episode andy4 closes Barney is caught singing to Wanita over the phone a couple of Seasons later Barney recites a poem to

his girlfriend lovely dear Wan from your from your head down to your feet there is nothing H so sweet Barney almost always responds by yelling and hanging up the phone oneita must have really been smitten with Barney to keep going out with him even after getting hung up on so many times the Cartoon Network series Ed Ed and Eddie follows the Misadventures of three friends known as the Eds in the fictional town of Peach Creek the series grew in popularity due to its unique style of animation and

humor that can only be described as chaotic and bizarre capturing what it means to be a kid in an effort to drive home this distinct feeling of unsupervised adolescence the creators of the show deliberately chose to keep adult characters off screen while the voices May occasionally be heard and fleeting glimpses of their arms or legs can be caught their faces remain unseen we only ever get to know bits and pieces about the adults like Kevin's dad working at the jawbreaker Factory for example but

when you watch Ed Ed and Eddie you're unmistakably viewing the world through the lens of the kids in Peach Creek the masterminds behind Frasier a sitcom celebrated for introducing some of the most unforgettable unseen characters in television history initially experimented with this Trope in their earlier series Wings the prototype for the Unseen character was Edna the on again off again girlfriend of Antonio and she's best known for having an abnormally large face Edna is first officially ment

ioned in season 7 episode 5 Hook Line in Sinker I went out with Edna last night the big faed girl in this episode Edna and Antonio's relationship ends in a bad breakup to help Antonio get over his heartbreak his friend set him up with a woman who turns out to be a sex worker from then on Edna has mentioned on multiple occasions and even briefly dates rival Roy Biggins to make Antonio jealous viewers never see or hear Edna but they can easily imagine what she's like based on the vivid description

s like when Antonio says making love to her is like making love to a jackal Lanter [Music]