tbody.tr remove and empty leaves skeletal remains

tbody.tr remove and empty leaves skeletal remains

I have a structure like

table
  thead
    tr
      td td td
   tbody
     tr
        td td td 

I would be managing the trs in tbody dynamically. when i say tbody.tr remove or empty i still see the rows but only their values blanked out. 

How do you totally remove those rows so that tbody children can return 0?