Saturday Night Live always looks at least a little different from year to year.

And when the NBC staple returns for its 51st season Oct. 4, there will be an empty seat at the table where Lisa from Temecula used to raise hell, among other fan-favorite-shaped holes in the door of Studio 8H.

Because when executive producer Lorne Michaels giveth, he also taketh away, and in order for SNL to make way for new cast members, some familiar faces had to go.

"The show has always brought people in from different ages and different generations, and it's how it revives itself," Lorne told Entertainment Tonight on the Emmys red carpet last month. "It's always hard when people leave, but there's a time for that."

Though that might depend on who you're asking, and whether they thought it

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