Theory One:
Have you see any horror movies or read any horror stories?
Possibly, Ruth-Ann and Stepen-Floyd have been "taken" for some purpose by some one or someTHING, and all memory of them has been erased. That is not the first time that such a horror movie plot has struck a drama or a sitcom, and it won't be the last.
This is an example of Chuck Chunningham Syndrome.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChuckCunningHamSyndrome#:~:text=Chuck%20Cunningham%20Syndrome.%20This%20is%20sometimes%20caused%20by,scenes%20drive%20the%20decision%20to%20remove%20a%20character.
I note that there is a theory about "the Tommy Westphail Universe" containing hundreds of TV shows connected more or less weakly or strongly to each other and to St. Elsewhere.
So possibly someday a science fiction, fantasy, or horror tv series will have an episode or a major story arc explaining the Chuck Cunningham Syndome, with a character remembering someone they forgot about for years, and investigating their disappearnce and forgetting, and find out that somebody or someTHING is behind it. And if that show is connected to other shows and shares a universe with them, fans of the connected shows will suppose that also explans any example of the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in those connected shows.
As far as I know, the only connections suggested for The Torkelsons is with the revamped version Almost Home. But possibly someday The Torkelsons will share a common universe with a show which does explain the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome with some sort of horror story plot - with a happy ending, I hope.
Theory Two:
Maybe the second season - or the revamped series Almost Home, happens in an alternate universe to The Torkelsons, an alternate universe with only three, not five, Torkelson children. In that universe there is no mention of Ruth-Ann and Stephen-Floyd because they died many years before, or probably were never born.
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