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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'':
** The series did this with Chester and AJ (Chester was originally voiced by [[Malcolm in the Middle|Frankie Muniz]]). This became particularly jarring when they once did an episode about a past episode from Chester and AJ's perspective. And, surprisingly, this was NEVER [[Lampshaded]].
** Timmy himself is also subject to this -- hethis—he was voiced by [[Mary Kay Bergman]] in the original shorts, but when Bergman committed suicide in the late 1990s, [[Tara Strong]] took over as his voice in the regular series. She even redubbed his lines in the original shorts when they were shown as episodes of the show. (The original versions can be seen on the DVD releases, though).
** Dr. Bender (the sadistic dentist) was voiced by [[Gilbert Gottfried]] in the earlier episodes. The later episodes have series creator Butch Hartman painfully trying to mimic Gottfried's voice so naive audiences wouldn't know the difference.
** In Brazil, Timmy's voice actor changed, up to Season 2.
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*** ''Cybertron'' Red Alert has a British accent, although he is voiced by the same actor (Brian Dobson) as in ''Armada''.
** Hot Shot and Landmine, voiced by Brent Miller and Ward Perry in the first two installments, were switched to Kirby Morrow and Paul Dobson for ''Cybertron''.
** Paul Dobson where he mentioned that someone else had taken over the role of Overhaul following his upgrade to Leobreaker -- noLeobreaker—no one is exactly aware of how true this is, but the voices are noticeably different.
** Sideways was voiced by Paul Dobson in ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', and Ted Cole in ''Cybertron''.
*** In that case, [[The Nth Doctor|they are different characters]].
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** According to [[Word of God]], ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' are set in the same universe. However, [[Peter Cullen]] as Optimus Prime is the only voice that transferred between the two, with Bumblebee and Soundwave going silent and the other returning characters getting recast.
*** In a convention version of one of the episodes, [[Ernie Hudson]] voiced Knock-Out in [[Daran Norris]]'s place.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' parodied this: on the Season 10 episode, "Homer to the Max" ,<ref> The episode where Homer changes his name to "Max Power" after his name gets used for a bumbling sidekick character on a cop show -- that was originally a dashingly handsome [[The Lancer|lancer]] in the pilot episode</ref>, Homer looks over all the new mid-season replacement shows and points out a new animated series called "The Laughter Family," adding that TV networks love animated shows, "...because they don't have to pay the actors squat!"<ref> This aired around the time that the show was facing a pay dispute from the voice actors and the FOX executives threatened to have all the original voice actors replaced with sound-alikes</ref> [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Ned]] [[Flanderization|Flanders]] then walks by the window and, in a noticeably different voice <ref>(provided by Karl Weidergott for the purpose of that joke; Flanders is regularly voiced by Harry Shearer)</ref> he says "Plus, you can replace the voices and no one can tell the diddly-ifference!"
** The episode ''Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase'' (mentioned earlier) spoofs this concept to hell and back. One of the spin-offs is "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour", and episode host Troy McLure comments that one of the family refused to go along with the idea, but "...thanks to some creative casting, you won't even notice." When the episode starts up, we're greeted by the Simpsons...with a perky blond teenager ("Sophomore prom queen five years running", she calls herself) in place of Lisa.
** Also parodied with Duff Man, who didn't have a name when he was introduced in Season 9's "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," was called Larry in Season 11's "Pygmoelian," and was called Sid in Season 12's "Hungry Hungry Homer." In Season 13's "Jaws Wired Shut," this so-called "continuity goof" was explained when Lenny told Duff Man that he thought he died of liver disease. Duff Man replies, "Duff Man can never die; only the actors who play him!" On Season 17's finale "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play," it was revealed that there are multiple Duff Men who look and sound alike, but it's kept a secret so as not to disillusion children.
** In the episode "Homer's Odyssey" ,<ref>The one where Homer loses his job at the plant for the first time, is [[Driven to Suicide]] after failing to find a new job, and becomes a safety advocate after saving his family from getting hit by a truck on a street that had no traffic signs or lights on it</ref>, Burns is voiced by comedian Christopher Collins ,<ref>"Christopher Collins," in this case, being the real name of Chris "Starscream/Cobra Commander" Latta</ref>, but was replaced by [[Saturday Night Live|Harry Shearer]] before broadcast. The same thing happened when Collins voiced Moe Szyslak on "Some Enchanted Evening" ,<ref> the original first episode that had a ton of animation problems and nearly drove Matt Groening to cancelling the show altogether if he couldn't fix the episode</ref>, only Moe's new voice actor would be [[Hank Azaria]].
** Lunchlady Doris was retired as a character after Doris Grau died (she did appear in some episodes between the time her character was retired and the time [[Tress MacNeille]] replaced her, but Doris was often seen in crowd scenes). Starting in Season 18, she returned a decade later with [[Tress MacNeille]] as her new voice actress.
* Mary Kay Bergman, who did most of the female voices on ''[[South Park]],'' died during production of the show's third season, not long after recording her dialogue and the ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' movie had been completed. Eliza Schneider was hired to replace her, and she herself was later replaced by [[April Stewart]] (with [[Mona Marshall]] handling some of the other roles) when she had troubles with her union/salary.
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** [[Kevin Michael Richardson]] replaced Mathew St. Patrick as the voice of Skulker after his third appearance.
* Several voices in ''[[Doug]]'' switched when it went from [[Nickelodeon]] to [[Disney]], including the title character's. [[Billy West]] played Doug in the Nickelodeon version. The Disney version has Thomas McHugh as the new voice of Doug. Roger the bully went from [[Talking to Himself|also being voiced by Billy West]] to being voiced by Chris Phillips. Billy West apparently left the show when Disney refused to match Nickelodeon's salary (he has since criticized McHugh's performance). As the first episode of Disney's version was about Doug's aversion to change, Skeeter's eventual lampshading was inevitable.
* In ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', [[John Kricfalusi]] was the original voice of Ren. After Kricfalusi was fired over censorship issues and turning in late work, [[Billy West]] took over the role of Ren [[Talking to Himself|in addition to his role as Stimpy]] .<ref> It's interesting to note here that Billy West has stated that he had originally recorded both voices for a demo pitch to Nickelodeon, but when the show started being made, John K. ended up taking the part of Ren for himself. After John was fired, Billy took the parts of both characters as originally pitched</ref>.
*** In the short-lived Adult Party Cartoon spinoff, Stimpy was voiced by Eric Bauza instead of [[Billy West]] (while John K. returned to voicing Ren). West has hated John K. ever since the two worked together on the original ''Ren and Stimpy'' -- and—and the hatred worsened when West saw plans for the revival series and expressed how disgusted he was of it.
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Tombstone was originally voiced by Keith David in his first appearance, but due to him being involved in other projects [[Kevin Michael Richardson]] took over the role, doing an extremely convincing imitation.
* Many characters from [[Disney Animated Canon|classic Disney movies]] have new voices for their latest appearances such as the show ''[[House of Mouse]]'' and the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' video games (for obvious reasons, since most of the original actors are either retired or have been dead for years).
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** Kristen Wiig (also from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') as Lola Bunny (she was originally voiced by [[Kath Soucie]] in ''[[Space Jam]]'').
* The voices for ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' have gone through a large roundabout over the years.
** Daphne was the first Scooby-Doo character to be recast. Her original voice actress, Stefanianna Christopherson, left the show before the end of the first season of the original series (17 episodes) to move to New York to get married, and opted not to reprise her role for the second season. The role was recast with Heather North (the then roommate of Nicole Jaffe, the voice of Velma). North continued to voice Daphne in all media until 1998 (with the exception of [[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]] from 1988-911988–91, where she was voiced by Kellie Martin) when the character was recast again, this time with Mary Kay Bergman. Bergman suddenly passed away in 1999, after voicing Daphne for 3 direct-to-video movies. Since then, Grey DeLisle has voiced Daphne in all media (except for two DTV movies in 2002-2003 in which Heather North briefly returned).
** Velma was originally Nicole Jaffe up until the 1976 series, "The Scooby-Doo Show" in which she declined to reprise her role, and the character went to Pat Stevens, who voiced Velma throughout the entire run of that show, as well as in the "Scooby Goes Hollywood" movie, her appearances in "[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]", and the first 11 episodes of "The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show". Velma then had a ''bizarre'' recasting with Marla Frumkin, who gained a very notorious reception among fans because of her very awkward line delivery. Frumkin played Velma in the last four episodes of that series and two cameos throughout the 80s. From 1988 to 1991, Velma was voiced on ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]'' by Christina Lange. When Velma appeared in her normal form again in 1997, BJ Ward took over the role, and voiced Velma in all media until 2002 when Nicole Jaffe assumed the role again for two DTV movies, and since 2002, Mindy Cohn has voiced Velma in pretty much all other media (doing a Nicole Jaffe impression). Cohn was nominated for an Emmy for her voicework as Velma in 2005.
** Shaggy was Casey Kasem for years until he quit the role in 1998 after refusing to voice the character in a Burger King commercial (Kasem is an avid vegetarian). Billy West briefly voiced Shaggy for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island before the role was recast again in 1999 with Scott Innes. Kasem returned to voice Shaggy in 2002, and continued to voice him until his retirement in 2009 (though Scott Menville briefly played the character in "Shaggy in Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" when Kasem played Shaggy's uncle). Since then, Matthew Lillard (who played Shaggy in the two live-action theatrical ''Scooby Doo'' movies) has been the voice of Shaggy.
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*** Almost. Carl Stevens played a 10-year-old Fred in [[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]].
*** Not even Scrappy has been safe from this! His original voice actor, Lennie Weinrib, left the franchise shortly after the original "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show", and was replaced with Don Messick in pretty much all media until the character was written off the franchise. When Scrappy re-appeared in later media such as commercials, and his role as a villain in the live action movie, Scrappy has been voiced by Scott Innes.
* In a cross of this with [[Poor Man's Substitute]], many of the direct-to-video sequels and [[Animated Series]] derived from the Disney feature films have the famous actors being replaced (such as [[Dan Castellaneta]] for [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''); the one that escaped the most was ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'', which saw all of the original cast but Danny DeVito and Rip Torn returning for the [[Recycled: the Series|spinoff series]].
** A brief in-series example: At one point, Mozenrath's voice actor Jonathan Brandis was unavailable, so he ended up being voiced by Jeff Bennett for one episode. Brandis returned as Mozenrath's voice in subsequent episodes.
* Played straight, parodied and [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Re Boot]]''. When Bob returns from being lost in the net in Season 3, he has a new look and a new voice actor. In Season 4, a second Bob, supposedly the User's backup, with the original look and voice shows up, and Dot notes he sounds more like the "real" Bob. She nearly marries this Bob, but {{spoiler|of course he was [[The Dragon|Megabyte]] in disguise using his new [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Trojan]] [[Shape Shifter|Horse]] [[Master of Disguise|capabilities]].}}
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had a couple of cases with this when the cast was re-evaluated after the two original "What a Cartoon!" shorts. This explains why Bubbles, The Mayor, The Narrator, and Ms. Keane changed voice actors after the 2 original cartoon shorts. Most of the other cast members got to keep their roles.
** After the actual series began, Arturo was recast with Tom Kenney after Carlos Alasraqui voiced him in his first appearance.
* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', the characters of Janine, Peter and Winston all switched to new voice-actors at some point in the show. Janine's was the most interesting case, in that her original rather abrasive look/voice were drastically toned down when the switch happened, and this fact was then belatedly used as the plot in an episode, "Janine, You've Changed." It was [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned that Janine had made a [[Deal with the Devil|deal with an evil spirit]] to cause the change, only nobody noticed until a character accidentally came across "before and after" photographs.
** Funnily enough, by the time of the ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', she had reverted back to her old abrasive style, though it was yet ''another'' actress in the role (Pat Musick).
* Shortly after ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' came back from a long 3-year hiatus, Christine Cavanaugh left the series due to a custody battle over her children after she divorced her husband, and quit acting altogether. [[Candi Milo]], who was hired to replace her as the voice of Dexter, sounded absolutely nothing like the original (Milo also voiced Dexter on the series finale of ''[[Time Squad]]'' in which Larry and Tuddrussell try to find a replacement orphan for Otto after losing him on a trip to 2001 to stop [[George W. Bush]] from making the world's biggest ball of twine).
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* Most of ''[[The Disney Afternoon]]'' shows had a pretty stable cast, but ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' did have a few replacements during its six-season run: Originally [[The Stoic|Gruffi]], [[Butt Monkey|Toadwart]] and [[The Lancer|Sir Tuxford]] were all voiced by ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' co-creator Bill Scott. He died after the first season, so [[Corey Burton]] took over for him for both Gruffi and Toadwart (and doing a flawless imitation) while Roger C. Carmel was Tuxford. When Carmel died at the end of the second season, Brian Cummings was given the role.
** Likewise, [[Paul Winchell]] voiced Zummi for the first four seasons; after he suffered a non-fatal stroke in 1987, Jim Cummings took over for him for the final two. Likewise, Cummings replaced Winchell as Tigger in the ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' films and shows. While they interchanged between the two actors for a short time, the role was finally handed permanently to Cummings after ''The Tigger Movie'', for which Winchell was intended to record lines until his voice was considered too aged to properly voice the character anymore.
*** Another ''[[Disney Afternoon]]'' example: In ''[[Tale Spin]]'', Kit Cloudkicker was voiced by two actors -- firstactors—first Alan Roberts, then R.J. Williams. The two-part episode "A Bad Reflection on You" uses both Roberts and Williams; it's difficult to tell them apart, but you can do it if you're familiar with the subtle differences in their voices and you listen carefully.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' went through many cast changes due to using real child actors, who have an annoying tendency to go through puberty.
** Arnold was voiced by five different actors: J.D. Daniels (the pilot episode), Toran Caudell (Season 1), Phillip Van Dyke (seasons 2 and 3), Spencer Klein (seasons 4 and 5 up to [[The Movie]]), and Alex Linz (the post-movie episodes).
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* In ''[[Bobby's World]]'', Bobby's older brother, Derek, was voiced by Kevin Smets in the first five seasons; for the remainder of the series, he was voiced by Pamela Adlon because Smets had gone through puberty.
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (animation)|Fantastic Four]]'', Brian Austin Green—yes, ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210|that]]'' Brian Austin Green—as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch was replaced by [[Quinton Flynn]] in the second season.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' had two abrupt voice-actor switches early in the series. Jodi Forrest replaced Christine Flowers as Sissi after only four or five episodes, while Matt Gézcy replaced Odd's voice actor after only two or three. One of the more unusual things about this switch is that it is made obvious that the episodes were dubbed out of order -- Forrestorder—Forrest and Gézcy's voices are present in the fourth episode, but are back to the old actors in the fifth.
* In ''[[Stripperella]]'', for his first appearance the villain Cheapo was voiced by Jon Lovitz; for the remainder of his appearances he was voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]].
* ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]'' has an unusual example. Robot was "voiced" by a [[Apple Macintosh|MacinTalk Junior]], then for a reason never explained the prodiucers replaced it with a real voice actor for the remainder of the show, even going back and dubbing his voice over the show's old episodes.
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* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Man Ray's first appearance in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" was voiced by Guy Siner and John Rhys-Davies. Man Ray's subsequent appearances have been voiced by Bob Joles.
* Every voice actor in ''What's With Andy?'' was replaced after Season 1, except [[Ian James Corlett]] (the voice of the title character).
* Donald Duck's nephews were voiced by Russi Taylor in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', and she would go on to voice them in later movies and video games. However, in the ''[[Mickey Mouse Works]]'' shorts and ''[[House of Mouse]]'', the nephews are instead voiced by Tony Anselmo, who also voices Donald himself (this is probably to match how Clarence Nash voiced the nephews in the original shorts).
** On ''Mickey Mouse Works'', Daisy Duck had two voice actresses: [[Patty Maloney]] and [[Tress MacNeille]].
* Charles Napier was the voice of the Sherrif in the first nine episodes of ''[[Squidbillies]]'', being replaced by Bobby Ellerbee.
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