Social media has become a major way fans learned TV updates in real time, and yes, occasionally actors have discovered their own cancellations from Twitter before anyone contacted them professionally.

Sticking the landing is one of television’s toughest challenges. When finales work, they become legendary. When they don’t, they spark outrage, think pieces, and endless rewatches fueled by disbelief. These are the TV finales that made bold, baffling, or polarizing decisions—and ensured they’d never stop being debated.

Whether it’s a beloved sitcom cast, an iconic drama crew, or a long-awaited revival episode, television reunions offer some of the best nostalgia, closure, and emotional payoff on TV. These moments bring characters back together on screen, often years after viewers last saw them, reminding us why those relationships mattered so much in the first place. Here are 20 of the most legendary TV reunions ever aired.

The 1980s were a golden age of TV experimentation—bold concepts, wild premises, and shows that vanished almost as quickly as they appeared. Some were cult hits, some were forgotten gems, and some were just delightfully strange. If you remember even half, your nostalgia powers are elite.

Live-action movies have budgets, stars, and gravity-defying CGI—but stop-motion films have something harder to fake: soul. Every blink, stumble, and eyebrow raise exists because someone physically moved it into place, frame by frame, often over the course of years. That obsessive care gives these films a texture and personality that live action rarely matches.

Nobody stammered their way to greatness quite like Bob Newhart. His hesitation felt accidental but was perfectly calculated. The pauses mattered as much as the words. These lines capture decades of saying less to mean more.