25 '90s Stars Hoping for a TV Comeback

What You'll Remember Her From: Most picture O'Hara shouting "KEVIN!" in a plane headed for France in Home Alone.

Where You'll See Her: On Fox's To My Future Assistant, where she'll torment the crap out of a bunch of eager youngsters in a New York law firm.

What to Expect: Tears and laughter. Laughter and tears.

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What You'll Remember Her From: She told the dirty joke that stole Matt Damon's heart in Good Will Hunting.

Where You'll See Her: In Jason Katims' (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) small-screen adaptation of About a Boy. She will play the eccentric mother to said boy.

What to Expect: Wads of used up tissues.

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What You'll Remember Him From: Full House, where he played well-coiffed hunka, hunka burning love Jesse Katsopolis.

Where You'll See Him: On NBC's I Am Victor, playing a manipulative divorce attorney.

What To Expect: Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo is behind the series, so plenty of inner demons. And Lofotfisket?

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What You'll Remember Him From: Getting his effeminate man on in In Living Color's borderline offensive "Men on…" skit series.

Where You'll See Him: Offending children as the principal in CBS' Bad Teacher adaptation.

What To Expect: If you watched John Michael Higgins in the role in the film, you already know.

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What You'll Remember Her From: She played skeptic FBI agent Dana Scully on The X-Files.

Where You'll See Her: In Rand Ravich’s upcoming untitled drama thriller pilot on NBC. She will play Meg Fitch, a CEO who is terrified when she learns about the abduction of her daughter and her daughter’s friends.

What to Expect: Anderson’s investigation skills put to the test. Again.

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What You'll Remember Him From: His endless job searches, lack-luster performing art skills, and friendship with Karen on Will & Grace.

Where You'll See Him: In NBC’s untitled Victor Fresco multi-cam comedy pilot. Hayes will play the father of a teen girl. He will also navigate a bipolar-esque boss.

What To Expect: A possible reincarnation of McFarland’s Jazz Hands.

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What You'll Remember Her From: Alley’s Cheers entrance marks one of the most successful mid-series additions in TV history.

Where You'll See Her: As the star of Giant Baby, playing a past-her-prime stage actress who reconnects with the son she put up for adoption long ago.

What To Expect: The show sounds odd, but Alley’s reunion with Cheers costar Rhea Perlman is promising.

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What You'll Remember Him From:Everything — from the oafish broadcaster on NewsRadio to the iconic mumbler in Office Space. The character actor has woven his way into just about every hit comedy since the early ‘90s.

Where You'll See Him: Alongside Brittany Snow in the Fox comedy To My Future Assistant.

What To Expect: Gold. Root always delivers the comedy.

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What You'll Remember Her From: Just about every awesome thing in the '90s. Mostly The Addams Family and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Where You'll See Her: As the vegetable-tacular title character of Girlfriend in a Coma an NBC-com where she wakes up to find she has a 17 year-old daughter.

What to Expect: Either genius or one of those Cop Rock train wrecks.

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What You'll Remember Her From: The scene in Flashdance where she gets doused with water. Also, 2000 Malibu Road with Drew Barrymore. It's our job to never forget.

Where You'll See Her: As the matriarch of one of two rival families in Venice, the one in CA, not the one with the merchant.

What to Expect: Is it too much to ask that this be 2013 Malibu Road?

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What You'll Remember Him From: He was the oversensitive teen who's the reason we know and love the Crying Dawson meme. (So, Dawson's Creek.)

Where You'll See Him: As a playboy on Friends with Better Lives on CBS. Think his Don't Trust the B character, with better luck.

What To Expect: Probably the same old schtick, but hopefully he'll liven it up with a little dancing.

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What You'll Remember Her From: She taught us compassion in the face of racism in the Wild West as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. She also taught us that guys with long hair and moccasins are hot.

Where You'll See Her: As a dysfunctional matriarch of a family of addicts and thieves on ABC's Keep Calm and Karey On.

What to Expect: Something like Shameless with a network spin.

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What You'll Remember Her From: She stole our hearts and changed our vocabularies forever as Cher, the virgin who can't drive, in Clueless.

Where You'll See Her: In Lifetime's drama HR, as an uptight HR exec who suffers a head injury then adopts a positive outlook on life.

What to Expect: Laura Dern's acclaimed Enlightened with added brain damage and melodrama.

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What You'll Remember Her From: She invented the Post-It in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.

Where You'll See Her: In Jim Gaffigan's CBS comedy, she'll play a wife and mother of five. Thing is, they share a crowded two-bedroom NYC apartment.

What to Expect: Lots of NYC misrepresentation criticism, a la 2 Broke Girls.

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What You'll Remember Him From: Cameron Crowe fans will remember his breakout role: the eager reporter from Almost Famous.

Where You'll See Him: On "Reckless," where he'll take on the US government as he attempts to rescue his wife, who was imprisoned during a political uprising. Like music journalism in Almost Famous, with higher stakes.

What to Expect: Tripled heart rate.

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What You'll Remember Him From: Stern was everywhere in the 90s, especially if you were under the age of 12.Home Alone, City Slickers, Rookie of the Year, Bushwhacked — he dominated. Being the voice of Wonder Years makes him a Hollywood royal.

Where You'll See Him: On Girlfriend in a Coma he'll be Ricci's dad.

What to Expect: Funny confusion.

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What You'll Remember Her From: Ten years ago, Snow was doing the twist on American Dreams as a ‘60s Philly high-schooler who scored a gig as a dancer on American Bandstand

Where You'll See Her: Being tormented by nasty bosses at a swanky law firm on Fox’s To My Future Assistant.

What to Expect: This legal comedy will raise the bar (pun intended) on awkward workplace humor.

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What You'll Remember Him From: Campbell soared as the gee-whiz aviator hero in The Rocketeer.

Where You'll See Him: If a hero lives long enough he might end up the villain. Campbell’s going to the dark side as the villain of Fox’s dystopian future thriller, Delirium.

What to Expect:By default, Delirium has gotta be better thanThe Killing.

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What You'll Remember Her From: First bursting onto the scene as Princess Irulan in David Lynch’s Dune, Madsen is one of Hollywood’s finest character actresses.

Where You'll See Her: Giving Westerns a modern-day twist with NBC’s contemporary take on Hatfields & McCoys.

What to Expect: Twangy accents, wide-brimmed hats, and deadly stares.

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What You'll Remember Him From: A vet TV thesp for decades, Morales is known for his long stints on NYPD Blue, Jericho, and the tragically underseen Caprica.

Where You'll See Him: The legal drama The Advocates as a powerful attorney.

What to Expect: It’s a CBS procedural, guaranteed to get more viewers than Caprica.

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What You'll Remember Him From: He helped E.T. phone home, but he also starred in 1994's Legends of the Fall.

Where You'll See Him: Thomas is playing the possibly brain-damaged black sheep of a powerful family on ABC’s new sudser Deception.

What to Expect: His character’s disability may not make him as unthreatening as he first may seem.

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What You'll Remember Him From: Your New Kids on the Block Trapper Keeper/shoe laces/marbles/jean jacket/ lunch box/dreams.

Where You'll See Him: On the wicked Bah-stin comedy The McCarthys on CBS.

What to Expect: He hopes you'll always stay the same.

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What You'll Remember Him From: As DJ Chris Stevens/Kit on Northern Exposure. Also, as the reason every 8-year-old boy in America is named Aidan, thanks to his role on Sex and the City. Oh, and his Applebee's commercials.

Where You'll See Him: As an analyst in the latest NCIS spin-off: NCIS: Red.

What to Expect: An extended crush on John Corbett

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What You'll Remember Him From: Easy. He took Neve Campbell's virginity then tried to kill her as Ghostface in the genre-changing Scream.

Where You'll See Him: As the lead in CBS' latest crime drama, Anatomy of Violence, which comes from the Homeland team. He'll play an FBI psychiatrist.

What to Expect: It's CBS! A case a week, of course.

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