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* ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' has this initiate the plot. The twist is that [[ByronicHero the main character]] ended up becoming [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]].

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** Later, Paige had one too, when she met an old acquaintance who was [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp more violent than ever before.]]
* On ''Series/ThePretender'', Jarod sends Sydney, Miss Parker and Broots to a high school reunion. While they're there, they discover that this was where [[spoiler: Mr. Lyle]] went to high school under a different name.

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' - The Season 1 episode "The Big Reunion," where physically, Carl hasn't changed much since high school, except he'd gone bald (which of course is the butt of jokes).
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}''

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' had Liz attend her high school reunion, thinking she had been a lovable nerd picked on by the AlphaBitch and that she would impress everyone with her success. Instead, she discovered that everyone hated her for all her [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarking]], thinking of her as a bully, and that the supposed AlphaBitch had actually tried to be her friend. Liz spends the rest of the episode vainly struggling to prove that she's nice now.

* A memorable two-part episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' had [[JadedWashout Al Bundy]] and his wife Peggy attend one of these. Peg has her sights set on being Reunion Queen, while Al crosses paths with his old rival, who taunted him about never picking up on the fight they were supposed to have after graduation. When Peg tries to campaign for votes, everyone gives her the cold shoulder because of her AlphaBitch status in high school, while Al is called a coward for not taking up his rival's challenge to renew their fight. [[CrowningMommentofAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]] ensue when Peg finally lets Al go ahead with the fight, leading everyone else in the room to follow them outside and leaving Peg alone in the room. With the help of Bud and Kelly, who had snuck into the reunion to get some food, she then rigs the vote to become elected Reunion Queen, and enjoys a dance with Al when he comes back in, having pulverized his rival and proven himself the toughest fighter in their class.

* ''Series/ColdCase'' had "Stand Up and Holler" [[spoiler:The victim's friend traded in her friend's life for 4 years of high school popularity]].

** The school custodian, Ray Buxley, is played by Creator/RobertEnglund who,[[spoiler: at first, appears to tick all off Booth's ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' check boxes but Buxley and Bones had a very good relationship and remember each other fondly]].

* The ''Series/{{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.

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* The premise of the Ben Folds Five song "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces."

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* Cassie in ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis'' went to her class reunion, only to find out she wasn't remembered for much, just a lackluster graduation speech. The storyline begins [[http://timeslikethis.com/?id=115 here.]]

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* Surprising considering its genre, but ''Series/StargateSG1'' had this moment when Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell showed up to his class reunion with Vala Mal Doran, a human-looking alien. The whole town ends up thinking they're sleeping together, particularly since alien Vala misunderstands appropriate human behavior and invents vast sexcapades for the two of them. Then, Mitchell's boring cover is blown when alien assassins try to capture him and Vala during the reunion using clearly non-human tech.

* A fun version of this was done in one episode of ''{{Wonderfalls}}'', where the person throwing their 6½ year reunion was doing it because, as it turned out, she really just needed something to take her mind off her marriage stresses. She ends up having an epiphany relating to this and walking out of the party she herself put together, leaving a bunch of very confused guests in her wake.

* The ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode "Coyote Piper" is about Piper's tenth high school reunion, which she ends up attending while possessed by a demonic spirit.

* In the ''OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' episode "Class of '62", the main cast were all part of a ClassReunion set up in mysterious circumstances. [[spoiler: This turned out to be part of a revenge scheme, although not the usual ReunionRevenge]].

* The first scene of the original Broadway version of ''{{Grease}}'' is a class reunion where they reminisce on stuff that occurred during their time in high school.

* On one episode of ''TheKingOfQueens'', Doug, Spence and Danny go to their high school reunion. Doug meets up with his old prankster 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.

* In ''DumbAndDumber'', Harry and Lloyd once attended a class reunion. While waiting for the others, they had a flashback of an incident that resulted in everyone chasing them. After the flashback, Harry wondered if they still remembered them. Oh, they remembered and were still as angry as at the end of the flashback.

* A fun and slightly subversive version of this was done in one episode of ''{{Wonderfalls}}'', where the person throwing their 6½ year reunion was doing it because, as it turned out, she really just needed something to take her mind off her marriage stresses. She ends up having an epiphany relating to this and walking out of the party she herself put together, leaving a bunch of very confused guests in her wake.

* The whole point of ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion''. Marginally subversive in that the two outsider/slacker heroines themselves have not actually become outstanding successes. Played straight in that they are clearly happier than the AlphaBitch and JerkJock, and that the two nerds they sort of hung out with ''have'' made a lot of money; and it also uses a common trope in the genre when it turns out that one of the nerds, who had a crush on Michele in high school, [[GiveGeeksAChance gets his chance to begin dating her]].

* ''TheSteveHarveyShow'': Steve is eager to attend the high school reunion because it will give him a chance to reunite with his high school sweetheart Kim. Kim also teased Regina mercilessly because of her weight. Regina is also eager to attend, now that she is no longer fat and is successful. Steve is disappointed because now Kim is a nun. Regina tells Kim off but is immediately sorry she had done so once Steve tells her who Kim really is.

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]], [[SheIsAllGrownUp 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.

* Surprising considering its genre, but ''Series/StargateSG1'' had this moment when Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell showed up to his class reunion with Vala Mal Doran, an alien. The whole town ends up thinking they're sleeping together, particularly since alien Vala misunderstands appropriate human behavior and invents vast sexcapades for the two of them. Then, Mitchell's boring cover is blown when alien assassins try to capture him and Vala during the reunion using clearly non-human tech.

* "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''"). Said to be inspired by an episode of ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'' (the episode, which aired a year earlier, had that very title), songwriters Don and Harold Reid have said that when they began writing the lyrics, they recalled some of their old classmates and what they knew them to be doing now. Some were real, others were made up … although they have repeatedly said that their departed classmate, Freddie, actually did kill himself. (Although it's unknown whether it was the result of "''Joe took Freddie's wife''.") The refrains summed things up well:

* ''GrossePointeBlank'' has this initiate the plot. The twist is that [[ByronicHero the main character]] ended up becoming [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]].
* The whole point of ''RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion''. Marginally subversive in that the two outsider/slacker heroines themselves have not actually become outstanding successes. Played straight in that they are clearly happier than the AlphaBitch and JerkJock, and that the two nerds they sort of hung out with ''have'' made a lot of money; and it also uses a common trope in the genre when it turns out that one of the nerds, who had a crush on Michele in high school, [[GiveGeeksAChance gets his chance to begin dating her]].

* The point of the ''AmericanPie'' sequel ''American Reunion''.

* "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''"). Said to be inspired by an episode of ''Series/{{Ironside}}'' (the episode, which aired a year earlier, had that very title), songwriters Don and Harold Reid have said that when they began writing the lyrics, they recalled some of their old classmates and what they knew them to be doing now. Some were real, others were made up … although they have repeatedly said that their departed classmate, Freddie, actually did kill himself. (Although it's unknown whether it was the result of "''Joe took Freddie's wife''.") The refrains summed things up well:

* ''Series/{{Ironside}}'': Had two such episodes -- "Class of '40" and "Class of '57," both which involved a classmate murdering another and the title character and his staff trying to catch the killer. The latter such episode, aired in the fall of 1971, inspired a [[TheStatlerBrothers Statler Brothers]] song that became a top 10 country hit a year later.

* Lois had a class reunion on ''LoisAndClark'' in which a classmate who was picked on takes ReunionRevenge.

* One episode of ''HeadOfTheClass'' had Charlie Moore having a vision of the students' future as it'll be if he quits. That vision consisted of the students not using their intelligence to build careers. As a CrowningMomentOfFunny, Charlie said he expected the part about Dennis Blunden becoming a beggar.
* ''{{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. She ends up winning every award of the night, including least AND most distance traveled to attend. Given how often the RuleOfCool was invoked in the series, it's no wonder they bothered to organize a reunion for only one person, but FridgeLogic says there shouldn't have even been that; since the episode in which she's introduced involves ritual death at a specific age, which she is past and was the 1st person to refuse the ritual. If she was past that age all her classmates would have been as well (hence they're all dead already and she shouldn't have been surprised).

* "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''"). Said to be inspired by an episode of ''{{Ironside}}'' (the episode, which aired a year earlier, had that very title), songwriters Don and Harold Reid have said that when they began writing the lyrics, they recalled some of their old classmates and what they knew them to be doing now. Some were real, others were made up … although they have repeatedly said that their departed classmate, Freddie, actually did kill himself. (Although it's unknown whether it was the result of "''Joe took Freddie's wife''.") The refrains summed things up well:

* ''{{Series/Ironside}}'': Had two such episodes -- "Class of '40" and "Class of '57," both which involved a classmate murdering another and the title character and his staff trying to catch the killer. The latter such episode, aired in the fall of 1971, inspired a [[TheStatlerBrothers Statler Brothers]] song that became a top 10 country hit a year later.

* ''TruCalling''
* ''[[Series/TheClass The Class]]''

* On ''Series/{{The Pretender}}'', Jarod sends Sydney, Miss Parker and Broots to a high school reunion. While they're there, they discover that this was where [[spoiler: Mr. Lyle]] went to high school under a different name.

* ''{{Ironside}}'': Had two such episodes -- "Class of '40" and "Class of '57," both which involved a classmate murdering another and the title character and his staff trying to catch the killer. The latter such episode, aired in the fall of 1971, inspired a [[TheStatlerBrothers Statler Brothers]] song that became a top 10 country hit a year later.

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 JerkJock are now handsome super-successful Dot-Com millionaires.

* ''{{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. She ends up winning every award of the night, including least AND most distance traveled to attend. Given how often the RuleOfCool was invoked in the series, it's no wonder they bothered to organize a reunion for only one person, but FridgeLogic says there shouldn't have even been that; since the episode in which she's introduced involves ritual death at a specific age, which she is past and was the 1st person to refuse the ritual. If she was past that age all her classmates would have been as well (hence they're all dead already), therefore there was no reason to hold a reunion.

* ''{{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. She ends up winning every award of the night, including least AND most distance traveled to attend. Given how often the RuleOfCool was invoked in the series, it's no wonder they bothered to organize a reunion for only one person.