History Main / ClassReunion

* On one episode of ''TheKingOfQueens'', Doug, Spence and Danny go to their high school reunion. Doug meets up with his old prankrster friend (played by Creator/AdamSandler), who seems to be a completely different person, since he is now assistant principal at the school. Doug tries to convince him to be his old self, and he goes overboard, vandalizes the principal's car, and breaks into a convenience store. Meanwhile, Danny and Spence try to pick up women. Spence ends up picking up a lesbian and Danny picks up the former star quarterback, who is now gay.

* ''Series/{{Taxi}}'': Louie sends Bobby (an actor) to pose as him.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Dead of Class", Dave attends his class reunion nad has all of the typical run-ins with his former classmates. Then the festivities are disrupted when the former prom queen is murdered.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter lied to his former classmates in a failed attempt to impress them.

* Dinosaurs has an episode where Ethyl attends a class reunion, only to find out that everyone she went to school with has died. She ends up winning every award of the night, including least AND most distance traveled to attend.

* ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' had one episode where Ethyl, with help from Earl, attended one of those. Much to her disappointment, she was the only one attending because she was the only one of her class who was still alive. Given how often the RuleOfCool was invoked in the series, it's no wonder they bothered to organize a reunion for only one person.

* "Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us)" by Lonestar sets the scene for a high school class reunion where everyone now looks and acts far different than the narrator remembered.

* The premise of TV Land's reality show "High School Reunion". It was sort of depressing watching a bunch of middle aged people try to rekindle old high school flames, dig up long forgotten grudges, and exploit the one transgendered person for all of their commercials. No wonder their only positive reviews they used for their ads were anonymous facebook updates about the show.

* The ''{{Dexter}}'' episode, "Those Kinds of Things", Dexter goes to his 20-year high school reunion with the primary goal of determining whether his high school crush was murdered by her husband (and if so, to kill him.) He also learns that he was a lot more popular and likeable that he had imagined and many of his classmates are very happy to see him. However, all the attention he got was mostly because people knew about his wife's horrible murder which put him into the spotlight, and his good looks and cool job helped the rest.

* A ''{{Taxi}}'' episode has Bobby playing Louie at the latter man's high school reunion, Bobby seeing it as an intriguing acting challenge.

A common trope used to give a character or characters a chance to interact with old classmates and/or as a flash-back to the days when they were in school. Sometimes used to portray how much a character [[OlderAndWiser has changed]], [[ShesAllGrownUp grown-up]], or [[TookALevelInBadass become "cool"]] (or alternatively, how the character hasn't changed a bit), or just as an excuse to put the character in a funny looking wig, glasses or braces.

* On ''StillStanding'', the AlphaBitch married TheJock and became successful, while her husband became an internationally-known architect. She is also gracious and kind, and actually apologizes to the sitcom's wife for her high school behavior. And she's played by Beth Littleford.

* On ''StillStanding'', the AlphaBitch married TheJock and became successful, while her husband became an internationally-known architect. She is also gracious and kind, and actually apologizes to the sitcom's wife for her high school behavior. And she's played by [[HotShounenMom Beth Littleford]].

* "The Class of '57" by TheStatlerBrothers serves as a musical version of a reunion, catching up with who became a teacher, who became a car salesman, who became extremely rich (John, the CattleBaron, Charlotte marrying a multi-millionaire) and who fared not so well (Randy wound up institutionalized, Freddie committed suicide), and who completely fell off the radar ("''Where Mavis finally wound up is anybody's bet''").

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' - Notable in that physically, the character hadn't changed much since high school, except he'd gone bald.

* "The Class of '57" by TheStatlerBrothers serves as a musical version of a reunion, catching up with who became a teacher, who became a car salesman, who committed suicide, and who completely fell off the radar.

* In ''MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl'', J goes to her boyfriend White Jay's college reunion, where she feels awkward because White Jay is the only one she knows there, and nobody there seems to like her. She also experiences some discrimination because they are in an [[BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama interracial relationship]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': Instead of the invitation Ballo was expecting, he was informed he wasn't invited because he didn't graduate. He then decided to graduate on time to attend the reunion.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', Adrian Monk attends a college reunion. His invitation revealed he was nicknamed "Captain Cool" implying to the audience that he was a popular guy back in college. But soon we discover that he was exactly the same as he his now; he earned his name because he often stood in front of a dorm freezer trying to thaw it out with a hair dryer. (And yes, the reunion became the backbone of the mystery.)

Often, the roles the characters held when they were at school have been completely reversed to ironic effect; the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse who once ruled the school with velvet fists are now frumpy, frustrated housewifes, the JerkJock who was king of the sports team is now an overweight loser (usually ''married'' to the ex-Alpha Bitch, much to their mutual regret), the mousey shy girl in glasses who was picked on mercilessly by the Alpha Bitch [[SheIsAllGrownUp now possesses the looks of a gorgeous supermodel]] and the {{Nerd}}s and {{Geek}}s tormented by the Jerk Jock are now handsome super-successful Dot-Com millionaires.

* NewTricks:Sandra is very reluctant to meet her classmates - under constant encouragement she finally admits that ''she'' was the one bullying and mistreating everyone else, and she's afraid of the atmosphere towards her now. Ultimately she barely manages two steps through the door before fleeing in horror.

* ''UltramanMebius'', itself already a ReunionShow, had an episode where the class from ''UltramanEighty'' reunited when they found out their old school was about to be torn down. Ultraman 80 himself (who was their teacher) just happened to be in the area at the time.

Subtropes include ReunionRevenge; SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow may also occur.
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* Also the point of the movie "10 Years".

* In ''FromEroicaWithLove'' NATO's most feared agent, Iron Klaus, is forced to go to a school reunion, where we learn that he's actually MELLOWED since those days.

Subtropes include:
* SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow
* ReunionRevenge