Best of 2008

Scene Stealers: The TV Stars We Had to Watch

Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester & Ed Westwick! The Hills' Audrina Patridge! See the small-screen stars who kept us captivated. By Serena Kappes

JEAN SMART ON SAMANTHA WHO?

Playing Christina Applegate's manipulative mother Regina Newly on Samantha Who?, Emmy winner Jean Smart consistently delivered her lines with a razor-sharp edge. A classic moment: telling Samantha and her pal Dena (Melissa McCarthy) that making s'mores when they were growing up wasn't about being maternal. "I only made them so the two of you could have fun together playing with fire while I finished the crossword," she crowed.