Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards

It was their last Rose Parade broadcast for KTLA, after so many years.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Review: Eubanks and Edwards, a Rose Parade tradition we hate to see go":

A half-hour into the 127th Rose Parade, KTLA co-host and New Year's Day icon Bob Eubanks was waxing rhapsodic about the American saddle horse.

Used to draw a Yellowstone tour bus that Scripps Miramar Ranch had sent to the parade to honor the first national park, these horses are, apparently, born with three gaits and taught two more, which Eubanks was just about to explain when longtime co-host Stephanie Edwards broke in.

“Are the three gaits anything like the three types of glue used to put petals on the floats?” she asked, inserting her own famously favorite bit of parade trivia into the commentary.

“OMG,” Eubanks sighed, with his equally signature disdain for the glue.

Edwards then went on to point out some of “our helpful Honda” friends in the crowd, causing Eubanks to gripe: “You interrupted me! I was talking about these horses, they were so beautiful.”

“I’m so sorry,” she said brightly, “you go right on.”

“Aw, they’re gone,” he sighed.

The exchange lasted just a few seconds and as the camera panned from the parade to the commentator’s booth, the two nudged each other and laughed.

“We’ve been fighting for years folks,” Eubanks said, “and it, well, it won’t stop.”

Except, alas, it will.

Jan. 1 marked the last Eubanks and Edwards Rose Parade. The two are retiring after more than 30 years of describing the magic of celery seeds and white coconut sparkles, of exclaiming over the glory of the floats and the hazards of the route, of identifying the various veterans, celebrities and notables waving to the crowds and explaining to national audiences the charms of “really neat” towns like Sierra Madre and Glendale.

We have a year to prepare ourselves, but it probably isn’t enough...

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And see, "Rose Parade hosts Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards prepare to banter one last time."

They're both married, but their broadcast relationship is like a second marriage. I would always turn to Channel 5 KTLA to watch the parade, especially because they'd rebroadcast it all day long, and you wouldn't have to wake up at 8:00am to tune in, heh.

They're irreplaceable, but then, all things come to an end at some point, and change is good.