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So, you're shooting a weekly TV series, but one of your actors can't make it that week because of [[Real Life Writes the Plot|illness/rehab/a lengthy film shoot]] and the scripts are already written with a big role for their character? What do you do? Call in a '''Temporary Substitute''', of course!
Similar, but not identical, to a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]], this is where a script has clearly been hastily rewritten to give one character the plot that would have been given to the character who can't make it that
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** An interesting case, this one. Since everyone had lots and lots of prior notice about AJ Cook's leave (her pregnancy storyline started the season before), Todd's role is not just a re-writing of scripts written for JJ: she has her own character, arc, and thematics, all of which are very different from JJ's. At the same time, she fills the same role in the team bureaucracy that JJ does.
* One episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' involved a debate over whether it was justifiable to infect the Cylons with a deadly disease. The script called for someone to [[Idiot of the Week|push very strongly in favor of it]]. Normally this would be established Cylon-hater Colonel Tigh, but due to another storyline Tigh was currently [[Achilles in His Tent]]. So the writers pressed Lee Adama into service to clumsily understudy for him.
* At the end of the fifth season of ''[[Step by Step]]'', the actor who played Cody was unavailable to shoot the two-part Disney World
** In fact, he returned in "We're in the money" the last but one episode of the show. And his absence was explained during the season six episode "Bonjour Jean-Luc".
** Also, Jason Marsden's character Rich Halke who was a supporting role during the fifth season was promoted to a series regular beginning with season six and replaced Cody as the "Dumb character".
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