User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-198.45.201.206-20140422192730/@comment-30133540-20140425210622

I just want them promoted back to main character status. I never saw why, storywise, they were thrown to the side. With Donut there's the practical reason, that Dan just was too busy. But there's never really an explanation within the story that explains why they're never around.

The closest thing we got was "Well I can't get Donut" from Sarge.

Lopez, in my opinion, get's thrown out the most out of the trio. He was a main character in Season 7, then was thrown back to cameos and mentions afterward. He returned as a recurring character in Season 11, only to be shot down again.

It's annoying because, like said before, they're all decent characters.