With the newly announced return of The X-Files for a short run on Fox, and the recent and still nebulous Twin Peaks 2016, television reboots are all the rage lately. Who’s next? There are so many incredible ‘90s shows that died in their prime, or very shortly after it. Why can’t they come back? Why can’t some comedies come back, too? I am your armchair network executive today, and I am going to tell you all the awesome ‘90s shows that should come back (SPOILER ALERT: Friends isn’t on this list. Awww!). Is it likely that they will? ‘course not. Do we want them to? Yes sir!
5. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Could we ever see a Buffy reboot? Yes, we could, and I’m sorry to say that we’re actually going to, as a movie, with no involvement from Joss Whedon—but plenty from the people who made the terrible ‘90s movie. Not what we want. Can’t we just get a straight up new season? Yea, whatever, it ended on a good note. But SMG isn’t all that busy, and have we gotten so old that we can’t wish for a Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot even if it’s a silly idea?
4. Seinfeld
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Obviously the most iconic comedy of the ‘90s (tied with Friends, which I’m excluding because I never watched it then… or now) is on this list. I’ve had a longstanding Seinfeld theory: A quarter to half of episodes would never, ever happen if the characters had cell phones. Any episode involving them seeing a movie together, for instance. Just sayin’. Anyway, we got a sort of reboot already, but it’s not the same. Let’s see one for real. When they are, like, 50. Come on, Jerry. What else are you going to do with the 4 million dollars you have just lying around?
3. Murder She Wrote
Oh man, have you seen Murder She Wrote? It’s on Netflix—a World Wide Web site on the Internet—and it’s about an old lady solving murders. Well, that lady is very old now—almost 90—but even if they got another old lady (no shortage of those), a reboot of Murder She Wrote could definitely maintain the show’s prime feature… being wildly, incredibly, unbelievably boring. It’s the best show ever. It only had twelve seasons, 264 episodes, plus four movies. Why can’t it get more? Man, I love the ‘90s.
2. Frasier
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Old man Frasier Crane with a bum leg from some reason or other. A super fancy chair and fancy suits—all in the Williamsburg loft apartment of his millennial son Frederick. His brother Niles, host of a successful podcast about psychiatry, drops by regularly to make sure his brother is happy and drinking enough Sherry, and even old Martin comes by to keep Frasier from getting too high and mighty from his fancy chair. Frasier inverted—that’s what I want from Frasier 2016, the remake or reboot that I dream of every day of the week. Please, television lords, let it happen.
1. The Simpsons
The Simpsons is one of the saddest cancellation stories of the ‘90s. After running for a few golden, glorious seasons, making a good chunk of money in merchandise, and setting up tropes and jokes that have endured for two decades, the show was cancelled when Matt Groening decided his integrity was worth more than continuing the show just for a paycheck. But we’re always left wondering what could have been if The Simpsons hadn’t been cancelled in 1997. But hey, eight years is a great run. It ended on a high note. Maybe it could return on one.
With The X-Files and Twin Peaks 2016 on their way, any of these shows could come back. Which one do you most want to see? Is it Friends? It’s Friends, isn’t it? Argh.
