I don't know why people hate Sam so much. I don't remember him as being that bad.

Everyone who watched the show as a kid was glad when Sam got kidnapped by the man with the beard in the “serious” episode of the show. That would have been the perfect way to write him out of the show. Unfortunately, Sam was found and the bearded man went to prison.

OK, so here goes:
The Drummonds move to L.A., the year is 1991; Sam's bigger now, and hangs out with a delinquent kid who robs ATM's with an Atari pocket computer.
They head over to the Sherman Oaks Galleria; a cop is looking for Sam's friend, John; Nikki Cox from Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas tells him she saw Sam and his friend head over to the Galleria.
Sam and his friend go to the video arcade, but the cop shows up; Sam tries to tell the cop his friend John is not around, but the cop knows better; the cop spots John, and his arm turns into a sword and stabs Sam, killing him, then goes after John.

Arnold and Willis take him to Harlem, they come back without him.
No one ever speaks of him again.
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Philip and Maggie divorce. Best scenario ever

Drop him out the window and make it look like an accident

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good 1.

child please

Change his name to Samantha, throw a dress on "her", and send him to Eastland.
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Have the last three seasons be just a dream.

Dude, you have a great imagination, but please dont invite me to your next house party! lol

Just off the top of my head: Force him to drink bleach. Push him down the stairs. Push him off the balcony. Stab him in his bed and let him bleed out. Take him to the Bronx and sell him to a gang. Drop a brick from the top of the living room stairs landing on his head as he walked by. Tie him to the spiral staircase in the kitchen wrapped in bacon and let a pack of dogs go at him. Toaster in the bathtub. Overdose with Kimberly.

Easy. He could have went to live with his natural father.

Every kid hoped that Sam would have remained with the kidnapper and effectively been written off the show. That would have been a great serious episode which exposed the horrors of little kids trusting strangers.
Another good way to write Sam off the show would have been if he had been horsing around on the balcony and accidentally fallen off. There was also an episode where Sam kept peeing his bed - they could have har him dying from being electrocuted by an electric blanket. Or perhaps the family went to the zoo and just left him there because they were sick of him being so annoying?

yeah, get rid of Maggie 1st, then take care of SAm. I found both Maggies annoying

child please

Yes and I was hoping they would get Maggie too, they were both annoying.

Was anybody else secretly (and quite sinisterly) glad when that family kidnapped Sam (and wished that they
kept
him) in hopes of "replacing" their dead son?

He couldn't because Sam was Maggie's son and Maggie was married to Drummond.
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