or Gary Cherone (David Lee come home!)

Margaret Lyons

BEST IPOD

Replaced the Walkman

I mean, duh.

Like I said, duh.

Kathie Lee Gifford, Kelly Ripa | Kathie Lee Gifford : 12 years (1988-2000) Kelly Ripa : 10 years…and counting (2001-present) After 12 years of small talk with Reeeeeg, Gifford (who’d been

Ripa: Disney/ABC; Gifford: Everett Collection

Either way, Deeley actually listens, banters spontaneously, and permits very sweaty contestants to hug her.''

Kirstie Alley’s Rebecca initially seemed cold and aloof, but she was also hopelessly insecure and corruptible.

Before long, she was one of the gang, to her character’s detriment and our weekly delight.

Replaced the Walkman I mean, duh. A plastic box the size of a paperback that plays 25 songs at a clip vs. a sleek metal

Plus, you know, caustic and irreverently funny.

Lange contributes more to the show while asleep on the air than Martling and his tired, dirty jokes.

Marc Vera

BEST JIMMY SMITS

Replaced David Caruso onNYPD Blue

Caruso left Det.

Ringo Starr | Replaced Pete Best in the Beatles John, Paul, George, and…Pete. That was the Beatles lineup until he was replaced — for reasons that still remain

Starr: Keystone/ Hulton Archive/ Getty Images ; Best: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images

John Kelly behind four episodes into 1994’s season 2 to become a movie star.

(Snickering isn’t nice.)

and be replaced by Michelle Williams (and Farrah Franklin, who was also eventually booted).

Cat Deeley, Lauren Sanchez, … | Replaced Lauren Sanchez on So You Think You Can Dance The Brit (who took over in 2006) is so good that she inspired EW critic

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The new, three-piece Destiny’s Child went on to record the No.

In came Robert Patrick, and out went all the show’s delicious sexual tension.

1 soft drink by a huge margin, why make a run at fix what ain’t broke?

Cheers, Kirstie Alley, … | Shelley Long : 5 seasons (1982-87) Kirstie Alley : 6 seasons (1987-93) Long was the first member of the heralded cast to win an Emmy,

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Besides: Jerry Orbach WASLaw & Order.

Who’ll remind us to spay and neuter our pets?

A far from super ending to a promising trilogy.

Rosie O’Donnell, Meredith Vieira, … | Replaced Meredith Vieira on The View Meredith Vieira was key to the View ’s initial success, but when O’Donnell came aboard in 2006, her out-spoken

O’Donnell: Steve Finn; Vieira: Everett Collection

She was snooty, but fun.

Allison was just snooty.

She was replaced the following year.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Craig Kilborn, … | Craig Kilborn : 2 1/2 years (1996-98) Jon Stewart : 12 years…and counting (1999-present) During Kilborn’s fun and respectable hosting tenure, the show found smarmy

(We’re supposed to believe Piper, Prue, and Phoebe never noticed their mom was pregnant?)

Will eventually won us over, but we never stopped missing the Josh/Sam relationship.

Or the Toby/Sam relationship.

Star Jones, Sherri Shepherd, … | Replaced Star Jones on The View In fairness, people will always prefer an Everywoman to a lawyer. But Shepherd makes awkward moments bearable, which is

Shepherd: Steve Fenn; Jones: ABC/ Retna

Or the CJ/Sam relationship.

Or…yeah, we missed Sam for the rest of the run.

At least Hagar fronted some hits.)

Artie Lange, Jackie Martling | Replaced Jackie Martling on the Howard Stern Show Martling may have been Stern’s head writer for 15 years (he left in 2001), but he could

Lange: Fernando Leon/ Retna; Martling: John Spellman/ Retna

NYPD Blue, David Caruso, … | David Caruso : 1 season (1993-94) Jimmy Smits : 4 seasons (1994-98) Caruso left after multiple contract disputes, so his cop John Kelly was transferred.

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LeToya Luckett, Destiny’s Child, … | Replaced LeToya Luckett and Latavia Roberson in Destiny’s Child Just as the Beyoncé-led Destiny’s Child was skyrocketing to fame, internal strife led LeToya Luckett and

Williams: Sam Mircovich/Reuters/Landov; Luckett & Robertson: Jim Smeal/Wireimage.com

ER, Goran Visnjic, … | Replaced George Clooney on ER No one could ever replace Doug Ross — or George Clooney — in our hearts. But when Clooney left ER

Visnjic: Everett Collection; Clooney: Christ Haston/ NBC

The X-Files, David Duchovny, … | David Duchovny : 7 seasons as series regular (1993-2000); 2 seasons recurring (2000-01) Robert Patrick : 2 seasons (2000-02) When it went off the air

Patrick: Merrick Morton/Fox; Duchovny: Fox

Replaced Coke This 1985 reformulation was idiotic from the beginning — when you’re the No. 1 soft drink by a huge margin, why try to

Jerry Orbach, Dennis Farina, … | Replaced Jerry Orbach on Law & Order Farina came on L&O in 2004 armed with all Orbach’s crustiness but none of the gravitas. Besides: Jerry

Farina: Will Hart/ NBC; Orbach: Paul Drinkwater/ NBC

Colin Quinn, Norm Macdonald, … | Replaced Norm Macdonald as SNL ’s Weekend Update anchor Mealy-mouthed Quinn was cold comfort for Macdonald fans when he suddenly took over Weekend Update duties

Quinn: Everett Collection; MacDonald: Everett Collection

Twiggy, Janice Dickinson, … | Replaced Janice Dickinson on America’s Next Top Model When former model Twiggy replaced firecracker judge Janice Dickinson, who quit after cycle 4 of ANTM ,

Twiggy: Michael Yarish/ The CW ; Dickinson: Monty Brinton/The CW

Bob Barker, Drew Carey, … | Replaced Bob Barker on The Price Is Right No one puts Bob Barker in the corner! Who’ll remind us to spay and neuter our pets?

Carey: Monty Brinton/ CBS; Barker: Cliff Lipson/CBS

Cheryl Ladd, Farrah Fawcett, … | Replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie’s Angels You can’t take away our bubbly blondes and expect us not to notice, TV producers. Even if you tell

Ladd: Everett Collection; Fawcett: Everett Collection

Brett Ratner, Bryan Singer, … | Replaced Bryan Singer as X-Men director With Bryan Singer helming Superman Returns for Warner Bros, Fox needed a director for the third film in the

Ratner: Kerry Hayes

Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, … | Replaced Roger Moore as James Bond What seemed like a good idea — Moore had been getting a wee bit long in the tooth for

Dalton: Everett Collection; Moore: Everett Collection

Delta Burke, Julia Duffy, … | Replaced Delta Burke on Designing Women As Suzanne Sugarbaker, Burke was a tour-de-force with a tongue so sharp it poked you through the screen. She

Duffy: Everett Collection; Burke: Everett Collection

Charmed, Rose McGowan, … | Shannen Doherty : 3 seasons (1998-2001) Rose McGowan : 5 seasons (2001-06) How could the Power of Three soldier on without Doherty’s Prue, killed by

McGowan: James White/WB; Doherty: Everett Collection

Rob Lowe, Joshua Malina, … | Replaced Sam Seaborn on The West Wing First there was Rob Lowe’s Sam, a staggeringly beautiful boy genius whose way with words is second only

Malina: NBC/ Photofest; Lowe: Everett Collection

Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, … | Replaced Sammy Hagar in Van Halen Anyone even remember when the singer from Extreme took over as Van Halen’s new frontman in 1996 for their

Cherone: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images; Hagar: Neal Preston/ Corbis