Talk:Mary Alice Young/@comment-4396445-20111004192311/@comment-392210-20111004201254

She does appear. Voice-only appearances are still counted as appearances. Otherwise, Mary Alice, who's been the narrator, would only have 15 appearances. We also count appearances wherein the body isn't actually seen (like a casket; for example, Victor Lang's casket in 4.10 counts as an appearance, because the body is supposedly there), and the deceased character's ashes also count as appearances (like Ida's ashes, also in 4.10). They don't count as appearances by the actors who portray said characters (so, when we do the total number of episodes an actor's featured in, we only actually count the ones that featured them, of course), but they do count as appearances by the fictitious characters. It might seem a bit confusing, but it's not, you'll get the hang of it. :P