# I Can't Believe You Like That Replacement Character Better **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190 "2009-01-14T02:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/81 "2009-01-16T07:40:04Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Taylor was a _much_ better match for Ryan than Marissa was. I had to think about what this was from, & I watched the last season of _The OC._ Hmm… OK, fair cop, I loved final-season Taylor, & I like Kaitlin enough that–if we say they both replaced Marissa, I can excuse Marissa dying. I think you have a point. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/82 "2009-01-16T08:12:35Z")
> [@greatshakes](#): > > I can’t believe you like the replacement characters better! > Seriously, BJ was a tepid, self righteous, preachy little wank. Col Potter was a stuffy, self righteous turd. And ponderous to a fault; always some tiring anecdote to back up his tirades. And always, always “They may be madcap troublemakers (or somesuch) but they’re damn fine surgeons!” This is an earwig that attacks at anytime and raises my blood pressure. Don’t even let me get started on Winchester. I liked him, but HE…WAS…NO…FRANK…BURNS! I absolutely agree, except that Winchester was not even ok. Frank Burns was funny. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/83 "2009-01-16T16:17:03Z")
What? No love for Sarah Chalke’s time on Rosanne? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/84 "2009-01-16T16:18:20Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > What? No love for Sarah Chalke’s time on Rosanne? Well she was cuter and a better actress, but the show had already jumped the shark by then. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/85 "2009-01-16T16:33:08Z")
I liked Will Bailey better than Sam Seaborn. And I liked Emma Peel a **lot** more than Catherine Gale. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/86 "2009-01-16T16:47:08Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Landesberg did appear once in a pre-Dietrich episode as a different character. He was locked in the holding cell for a while. He was dressed as a priest and arrested for some kind of swindle (selling fake Bibles, maybe?). There was a bomb threat and everybody was leaving the building when his inebriated cell-mate asked for absolution. He made a vague cross with his hand, said, “You got it!” and hustled out the door. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190/87 "2009-01-16T16:50:51Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Lord, I’ve forgotten most of them, and some of them are so subtle as to easily be coincidental; I just don’t much believe in coincidence where Chris Carter is concerned. (Oy, say that five times fast.) The most glaring example I can think of is of him ridiculing Scully at some point by saying something about the impossibility of a man made of metal. I may be totally fabricating this out of a false memory, but wasn’t there one X-files episode where he also waggled his finger in that “Tsk. Naughty.” way he did in T2 when Linda Hamilton tried to blow his head off? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-you-like-that-replacement-character-better/481190.md?page=4)