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Step back in time and relive the magic as some of television’s most beloved casts come together years later. From heartfelt tributes and table reads to surprise performances and emotional reconciliations, these reunions remind us why these shows captured our hearts. Get ready for a nostalgic trip with fan-favorite ensembles including Friends, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Parks and Rec, and more!
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00:00Gentlemen, these suspenders aren't holding up some plastic ring, they're suspending reality.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking back at the TV casts we couldn't get enough of,
00:12and the reunions that let us relive the magic all over again.
00:15Thankful for the women that I know, that I know, can't go 50-50 with no...
00:20Number 10, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, 77th Primetime Emmy Awards.
00:26Just roughly two weeks shy of the day SVU first hit screens in 1999,
00:31the cast reunited at the 2025 Emmys to present Outstanding Drama Series.
00:35We are your Law & Order dream team.
00:38Icons, veterans, survivors of so many rooftop chase scenes.
00:42And we're all here tonight with one clear mission.
00:45But before they could even get to the nominees, it turned into a full-on Mariska Hargitay appreciation party.
00:51Christopher Maloney, Ice-T, Tony Goldwyn, and S. Epatha-Merkerson all lined up to sing her praises.
00:58Hargitay's Olivia Benson debuted almost 30 years ago,
01:01and now holds the record as TV's longest-running primetime drama character.
01:05Of course, she was the one to get everyone back on track.
01:08And don't let the compassion fool you. Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
01:14All right, all right, all right. Everyone settle. That's enough.
01:17I love you all. I seriously do. But this isn't the Mariska Lifetime Achievement Roast.
01:22We also got a Gilmore Girls reunion that night.
01:25Even the Emmys were telling us that fall was on the way.
01:2825 years ago, a show called Gilmore Girls premiered and apparently took the season of fall hostage.
01:35Number 9. Schitt's Creek. Dear Class of 2020.
01:40Once upon a time, Dan Levy wondered what would happen if all those rich reality TV families lost their wealth.
01:46And bam, Schitt's Creek was born.
01:48This one was a slow burn, but by the final season, they'd become must-see TV with quite a following.
01:54Now fast forward to 2020.
01:56The world has come to an abrupt halt,
01:58and that graduation ceremony you dreamed of feels anticlimactic online.
02:02We have been given the essential task of sending our preceptors.
02:07No, our teachers.
02:09That's what I said, thank you.
02:10Sending our scholastic skippers some panegyrical words.
02:14Okay, no one's gonna understand what you're talking about.
02:16Enter the Roses,
02:18joining a star-studded guest list to address graduates and the teachers who'd faced an unprecedented year, too.
02:24After some trademark humor,
02:25the cast unites for an acapella performance of Mariah Carey's hero,
02:29joined by Carey herself.
02:30When a hero comes along
02:33With the strength to carry on
02:37David's reaction alone makes it worth watching.
02:40And David!
02:42Feeling like that?
02:43Yes, Mariah Carey!
02:45You will always be a part of me.
02:48I am part of you indefinitely.
02:51Number 8.
02:52Dawson's Creek
02:52A 20th anniversary reunion.
02:55At the height of the teen drama craze,
02:57Dawson's Creek defined Gen X and older millennials.
02:59My kids are really, really smart and I think Kevin put that into his scripts and I think we got to put that onto the screen and we never talked down to the people that were watching.
03:09Centered on Dawson, Joey, Pacey and Friends, the series tackled love, identity and growing up with an introspection that set it apart.
03:17Its stars quickly became icons.
03:18In 2018, they reunited to reflect on the show's legacy.
03:22The thing that people always come up to me and say is like, that changed my life.
03:26Like, they say, and the best story that I ever heard was somebody came up to me and like, he was like, when I was growing up, I had this like, best friend and everybody always said like, oh, you're like, Dawson and Joey.
03:35And the way that he came out, he was like, actually guys, it's, it's Jack and Jen.
03:38And they were like, oh, okay, we understand what that means.
03:41Like, like, you gave them like a cultural reference.
03:43Dressed in modern neutrals instead of baggy jeans and baby tees, they'd clearly grown up, but the emotional core of their bond was still alive.
03:51I feel like you cried 10 times as many times as I did on that show.
03:55But no one cried quite like...
03:56But somehow, it's not how many times you cried.
03:59It's how you cried.
04:00It wasn't their only reunion, but we certainly enjoyed this heartfelt acknowledgement of what the series meant to them and to us.
04:08In 2025, they reunited again for a pilot table read benefiting F cancer.
04:13Number 7, The Nanny, Pilot Table Read.
04:17For so many of us, 2020 felt like a bad dream from which we couldn't awake.
04:21But one bright spot was the iconic casts reuniting for nostalgic trips down memory lane.
04:26I quit.
04:27Fran storms out, slams the door behind her.
04:29Moments later, she comes back.
04:31No, you fired me.
04:33That way I could go like unemployment.
04:35This 90s classic joined in with a virtual read-through of their pilot episode.
04:39Maggie doesn't date.
04:42Never?
04:43The boys haven't noticed me yet.
04:46Oh, they've noticed, Maggie, and that's why you don't date.
04:51What is wrong with you, Brighton?
04:55Middle child syndrome.
04:57Thank you, Sybil.
04:58The cast threw themselves into it so perfectly, props and all.
05:02You could almost see them back in the Sheffield mansion.
05:05We even got a cameo from the original theme song composer Anne Hampton Calloway, performing that catchy tune live.
05:11Decades may have passed since they were last together, but their rhythm was still on point.
05:26Every punchline landed as if we were watching the episode for the very first time.
05:30It's fine.
05:30The children are not invited to the party.
05:34They're not?
05:36Oh, is my face red?
05:39Well, now it matches the rest of you.
05:44There's that rapier wit we've come to count on.
05:47Number 6.
05:48Parks and Recreation.
05:50A Parks and Recreation special.
05:52While offices went remote, shows like Parks and Rec and 30 Rock proved that even sitcoms could work from home.
05:5830 Rock basically doubled as an NBC commercial.
06:01But Parks and Rec saw the gang snap back into sync, with Leslie naturally as the glue.
06:05This is the system.
06:06You got a better system?
06:07Yes, we talk far less than that.
06:09Of course, the real series finale featured a flash forward with some interesting predictions, but this certainly wasn't among them.
06:16Still, it was a joy to see that even a pandemic couldn't really dampen their spirits.
06:22Improvising with socially distanced setups, they were just as hilarious as ever.
06:26Actually, Andy, as I've explained to you several times, Anne has gone back to work as a nurse.
06:31So out of an abundance of caution, she is isolating in the southeast part of the house where kids and I are in the northwest.
06:38It reminded us why the show is a comfort watch for many.
06:43Plus, they raised over $3 million for Feeding America in the process.
06:57Number 5. Girlfriends.
06:59A 20th anniversary reunion.
07:02Before group chats and sharing memes, Girlfriends was the blueprint for modern friendship on TV.
07:06Funny, vulnerable, and way ahead of its time.
07:10I'm so glad that our show is finally getting the shine.
07:14Yeah.
07:14And that we are getting to feel all these 20 years later.
07:18Yes.
07:19We're getting to feel what we made and the impact that it had.
07:24Now, 20 years after it premiered, the Core 4 reunited.
07:28This isn't the only time the crew has come together, but today we're celebrating Girlfriends.
07:32Straight away, we got a peek at what life was probably like on set when the cameras weren't rolling.
07:37I have three lights around me.
07:39Like, I'm in the...
07:40Oh, yeah!
07:45The cast shared stories we never got to see or hear before, reminding us why we loved the show so much.
07:52After all, this series was pretty groundbreaking for its time, hitting some pretty hard notes, but always making us laugh.
07:58Honestly, this reunion was no different.
08:00We need this right now.
08:02Let's be very clear about it.
08:03We need this as black women right now.
08:05We need it.
08:07But for women as well, but also too for the culture, man.
08:11Like, I didn't know that it was going to do what it did.
08:17And I'm just so grateful.
08:19Number four, community.
08:21Table read and Q&A.
08:23When the term bottle episode was first coined, it almost felt like a prediction that one day we'd all be living our days like we were in one.
08:30Troy and Abed are in mourning.
08:33Seriously, will you guys stop?
08:34Please stop doing that.
08:35I couldn't believe you saying it in your eulogy.
08:37So uncomfortable.
08:39Yeah.
08:39I don't think the audience got that we were singing mourning with a U.
08:42Yeah, I'm pretty sure that wasn't...
08:44You were singing it with a U?
08:47Yeah.
08:47Turns out it also made perfect material for a remote table read.
08:51If cooperative polygraphy was one of your favorites, you were in for a treat.
08:55The whole gang returned.
08:56Minus Pierce, because, well, yeah.
08:58Guys, these questions are obviously designed to turn us against each other.
09:02We can beat Pierce at his game if we just own up to our mistakes and forgive each other.
09:07Mr. Winger, is it true you keep trophies of your sexual conquests?
09:11In a church, Britta?
09:13For shame.
09:14It's where Jesus gets his mail.
09:16We also love how this basically made Pedro Pascal a community star.
09:20Abed Nadir, did you know that you are insane and that nothing you said made any sense to me?
09:25Yes.
09:27Here is your...
09:27After the table read, the cast did a Q&A, and it was absolutely everything we could have hoped for.
09:34At the time, it felt like the closest we'd get to Abed's six seasons and a movie prophecy.
09:38But watch this space.
09:40Six seasons and a movie!
09:41Number three, Lizzie McGuire.
09:43A virtual between a rock and a bra place table read.
09:46Remember when a Lizzie McGuire reboot seemed like it might actually happen?
09:50While we're still a little salty about how that ended, we did get a win.
09:54The cast reunited for a virtual table read of one of the show's most iconic episodes.
09:59We're going to the mall for school supplies.
10:02Repeat after me.
10:03School supplies.
10:06School supplies.
10:07Like other reunions on this list, it aimed to bring some joy during a chaotic time and raise money for good causes.
10:13Watching the now-grown cast deliver lines they first read as teens is both hilarious and surprisingly sweet.
10:19But there's all these letters and numbers?
10:2232, 34, 36, A's, B's, C's?
10:26I didn't think there'd be math involved.
10:29And it was a fitting choice given how, even back then, Disney felt this episode's content was pushing the envelope.
10:35And it's not like Lizzie whispers bra just the one time.
10:38A bra!
10:39Okay?
10:40I want a bra!
10:42Number two, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
10:44The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion.
10:4730 years after it first aired, the Fresh Prince cast came together for a reunion special that gave fans all the feels.
10:53How crazy is it walking in here?
10:55The good old days.
10:56The good old days.
10:58Good old days.
10:59Look at this.
11:00We're missing our TV.
11:02That was with the Hillary, will you marry me?
11:05Will Smith gathered the Banks family on the original set, looking back at how much the show meant and how it shaped them.
11:11The big moment everyone talked about was Smith finally reuniting with the original Aunt Viv.
11:16Janet Hubert.
11:17After years of very public tension, watching them make peace was powerful.
11:21I could not do a 30-year celebration of this show and not celebrate you.
11:34The cast also took time to honor James Avery, our beloved Uncle Phil, with a moving tribute that showed how much love was behind the laughs.
11:42It was about so much more than nostalgia.
11:44It was grown up, real, and long overdue.
11:47A lot of good time spent in this house.
11:50A lifetime's worth.
11:52I'm not gonna miss the house, though.
11:55I'm gonna miss all the people that lived in the house.
11:56Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
12:01New Girl.
12:01Voter Registration PSA.
12:03Approved by Fawn Moscato and us, of course.
12:06Early.
12:06Could be in person.
12:07Or by mail.
12:08Many Americans will be filling out their ballots from home.
12:11This.
12:11This is how you do it.
12:13You're black or blue.
12:14That's red and you're embarrassing me.
12:16Sign your name as it appears on other government-issued documents.
12:20As long as it matches.
12:21Oh, it does.
12:21Happy Days.
12:22Happy Days 30th Anniversary Reunion.
12:25A reunion worthy of a Fonzie two thumbs up.
12:28There was something so magical about Henry and his character.
12:31It just became the Evel Knievel of his time.
12:35I mean, there's something...
12:36People wanted heroes and he was...
12:37Glee.
12:38Weakest Link.
12:39The fact that this isn't a Glee episode is like an ice-cold slushie to the face.
12:43On Glee, life was easy.
12:45We sang, we danced.
12:46Some of us used this show as a springboard to stardom.
12:49And the rest of you...
12:51Are here tonight.
12:53Desperate Housewives.
12:54Hashtag stars in the house number 54.
12:57Desperate Housewives.
12:58What happens on Wisteria Lane doesn't stay on Wisteria Lane.
13:02The scene where Eva and I were talking about how beautiful we both were.
13:06What a burden it was.
13:07And don't we understand what a pain it is to be beautiful.
13:11But we both understand each other.
13:13It was hilarious.
13:14Smash.
13:15Bombshell in concert.
13:16And what a smash it was.
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13:46Number one.
13:47Friends.
13:48Friends, the reunion.
13:50Ah, the one we'd all been waiting for.
13:53Could this reunion be any better?
13:54The categories are fears and pet peeves, ancient history, literature, and it's all relative.
14:04Now, the coin toss to see who goes first.
14:07Okay.
14:10Okay, somebody call it this time.
14:11It wasn't a new episode, but honestly, it didn't need to be.
14:15Just seeing the original six older, emotional, and still so bonded, walking through the old
14:21set was enough to send fans into a full throwback frenzy.
14:24Oh, Monica looks at Chandler.
14:26That's right, I stepped up.
14:30She's my friend, and she needed help.
14:33If I had to, I'd pee on any one of you.
14:34They packed in guest stars, shared behind-the-scenes stories, kind of recreated that classic trivia
14:39quiz, and even did a table read.
14:42Chandler and Monica!
14:43Chandler and Monica!
14:45Rachel sees what Phoebe is seeing.
14:46Oh my god, oh my god!
14:48Chandler and Monica!
14:49Oh my god, oh my god!
14:50Oh, my eyes!
14:52Every moment reminded us of the show's enduring impact, like it was Friends, The Greatest Hits.
14:57Could he be wearing any more clothes?
15:05Arguably, that actually worked better than trying to recapture the past with a reboot.
15:10It celebrated everything we loved about the series, and it really was perfection.
15:14What cast would you love to see reunite?
15:24Let us know in the comments.
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