Memory Eternal!!
Somers demanded a substantial increase in salary, from $30,000 to $150,000 per episode (equivalent to $107,000–$533,000 in 2022), plus 10% of the show’s profits. Executives believed that a complete loss of Somers could damage the program’s popularity, so a compromise was reached. Somers, who was still under contract, continued to appear in the series, but only in the one-minute closing tag scene of a handful of episodes.
Somers’s scenes were taped on separate days from the show’s regular taping; she did not appear on set with any of the show’s other cast members......she was only seen when she telephoned her former roommates, and they recounted that week’s adventures to her. This arrangement continued for one season. Somers’s contract was not renewed.