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* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'': When Mary's friend Rhoda got her own spinoff, she brought along her younger sister Brenda to take on the "less cool friend" role.
* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Rimmer ends up being his own Replacement Flat Character, so to speak: in the TV series, the "original" Rimmer gradually becomes more fleshed out
** Meanwhile in the book (and less strongly in the episode "Me^2", the contrast is made between Rimmer and the copy of him that hasn't been "mellowed out" by Lister and co.
* After the eponymous star of ''[[Chuck]]'' grew into a confident, competent and somewhat superpowered spy, {{spoiler|his even-geekier best friend Morgan (who had been in the show since the beginning) was brought into the spy team, allowing him to be the same fish-out-of-water adventurer that Chuck used to be}}.
* Frasier was introduced in ''[[Cheers]]'' as an uptight, prissy intellectual who was usually the butt of jokes. Over time, he developed and even had his [[Day in The Limelight|days in the limelight]]; for example, the episode "Love Is a Lonely Snipe-Hunter"). Once he was given his own show, ''[[Frasier]]'', and became the central character, he had to become more complex and well-rounded, eschewing one-dimensional prissyness for more of a straight man role. Cue the appearance of his brother Niles, who was everything Frasier used to be and
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