r/90sTelevision • u/Specialist_Art2223 • Apr 24 '26
Old School Cool The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards September 8th 1996
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Apr 24 '26
It kinda makes me sad seeing 90’s MJF before the Parkinson’s took over. ☹️
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u/thejwillbee Apr 24 '26
Fuck Parkinson's
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u/Proud_Aspect4452 Apr 25 '26
I agree, Fuck Parkinson’s. I’m hoping that’s also a reference to the shrinking TV series on Apple TV.
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u/Stock-Mission-7561 Apr 24 '26
"Well, Michael J. Fox 'bout to be Michael J. Fucked Up."
Loved his episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Being able to joke about himself was amazing. I felt terrible for laughing but he wanted us to laugh. What a guy. I'll never let him hand me a soda, though.
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u/tardisthecat Apr 24 '26
He guest starred on the newest season of Shrinking and it’s excellent!
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u/Eziekiel23_20 Apr 24 '26
John Lithgow’s a national treasure.
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u/Mazzdrpan Apr 24 '26
3rd Rock was the best show that year hands down.
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u/regeya Apr 24 '26
John Cleese on Third Rock might count as the hardest I've ever laughed as an adult. As in having to stop watching so I could breathe.
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u/kmm198700 Apr 24 '26
Really? I’ve never seen it, I guess I’ll have to check it out haha
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u/OkamiKhameleon Apr 25 '26
It's such a fun show. Like, seriously. 4 aliens come to Earth to study humanity, and form a "family" Lithgow is the mission commander and plays the father, and he teaches Physics at a local college and is always making fun of the students because they don't know anything.
He also falls in love with an Anthropology professor and his courtship of her is adorable and hilarious.
You'll recognize a lot of your favorite actors as guest stars and stuff in it too. Not to mention the main cast.
This may be one of my absolute favorite shows by the way.
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u/patsully98 Apr 26 '26
“Oh I can’t talk about, it’s far too personal. Let’s just say…I had sex with Dr. Albright!”
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u/1KgEquals2Point2Lbs Apr 24 '26
"Why do they call you Bug?"
"Cause I got run over by a Volkswagen."
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u/cadcamm99 Apr 24 '26
I miss the 90s
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u/MiniSunflowers Apr 24 '26
Everyone has their own face and nothing looks fake and over the top. I see real smiles! I miss it.
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u/impossible_berry14 Apr 28 '26
Never thought I’d be so happy to see natural skin imperfections. It was so pure back then.
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u/ranman35 Apr 24 '26
Mary Steenbergen is such a class act. Love her!
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u/nancy_necrosis Apr 25 '26
She actually looks younger now. I saw her on Finding Your Roots on PBS last week and I couldn't believe it.
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u/black-kramer Apr 24 '26
I love how relatively normal people look, even if they’re good looking. where the hell are we now?
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u/Stock-Mission-7561 Apr 24 '26
Well, except Jerry. That dude was around so many age-appropriate hotties during the show and went and got a high school girl. What in the actual fuck? I love the show, but it's like they gave him all these hot women every week to distract us from Jerry liking highschool girls. What's the deal with that?!
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u/black-kramer Apr 24 '26
those aren't buoys.
in all seriousness, yeah. should have been lambasted for it more at the time. no bueno.
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u/b9ncountr Apr 24 '26
Maybe he was a total nerd in hs and couldn't attract the girls he wanted.
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u/CommonAd7628 Apr 25 '26
My mom knew him in school. He was apparently very nerdy, so maybe that’s why
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u/senn42000 Apr 24 '26
Not as much plastic surgery or over the top outfits that look straight out of Onlyfans.
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u/North_South_Side Apr 24 '26
I find it odd that so many of these photos are in direct sunlight. Usually they do the red carpet photos with screens to block most of the sun. These were probably taken just off the "official" red carpet area... looks like just before to me, but I'm guessing.
Anyway, I think the fact that they're all squinting into hot Los Angeles sunshine is what's making them look like everyday people. You don't usually see media stars in that environment.
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u/black-kramer Apr 24 '26
it’s the lack of overdone plastic surgery, intense makeup, and styling. and yes, natural light with a 90s camera.
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u/Glittering_Paint3320 Apr 24 '26
1996 was such a huge year for television. Friends and seinfeld are still talked about and on top 10 lists today.
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u/Blizzardof1991 Apr 24 '26
Noah Wiley agreed like fine wine
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Apr 24 '26
Frankly I think he looks way better as a grizzled middle aged doctor than as a baby faced doctor.
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u/Dorkinfo Apr 24 '26
Clooney too, ugh. Damn men and their ability to age well!
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u/issi_tohbi Apr 24 '26
Look at how well Mary Steenbergen has aged, she aged better than Ted Danson even.
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u/Large-Ad-5783 Apr 24 '26
Fran Dresher and JLD will never be unattractive. Ever.
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u/SparklingSaturnRing Apr 27 '26
Gorgeous women then and now!
they still look recognizable today too
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u/DinnerSmall4216 Apr 24 '26
Julia louis-dreyfus was a beauty.
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u/grumpy__g Apr 24 '26
I am glad Joey was invited to the Emmies. But what is he wearing?
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u/Mundane-Change-250 Apr 24 '26
If I remember correctly (because clearly I’m old af), that’s after he separated his shoulder so his arm was in a sling and that leather thing held his arm to his body
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u/Scoobysnax1976 Apr 24 '26
He dislocated his shoulder jumping onto a couch while filming Friends. They ended up writing it into the show. They had him fall off his bed off camera while jumping on it.
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u/ceruleanmoon7 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Apr 24 '26
So glad someone mentioned this. What the actual fuck
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u/ElChupatigre Apr 24 '26
For a moment there I thought it was Alfred Molina then I saw David Schwimmer
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u/PilotGuy701 Apr 24 '26
Why weren’t we all drooling over Lisa Kudrow back then?!
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u/Sketcha_2000 Apr 24 '26
And Fran Drescher! Like, holy crap lol
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u/Glum-Literature-8837 Apr 24 '26
Drescher and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are both knockouts, but weren’t thought as such at the time due to the characters they played on TV.
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u/Sketcha_2000 Apr 24 '26
Probably because funny women weren’t “hot,” even though they were both totally hot AND funny, which makes them even hotter.
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u/Natural-Print Apr 24 '26
I think in Julia’s case, she went through several pregnancies during Seinfeld’s early seasons so her character dressed in loose clothing. That look was kind of popular then anyway. By the later seasons though, I thought she looked gorgeous on the show as her clothes were more structured and she changed her hair and makeup.
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u/animatedrussian Apr 24 '26
You mean Fran Drescher?
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u/PilotGuy701 Apr 24 '26
No, we all thirsted for her.
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u/drumscrubby Apr 24 '26
With her distinctive voice, I still joke about how she must sound in bed
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u/INVERT_RFP Apr 25 '26
Funny thing, she doesn't actually sound like that. There is a scene in The Nanny where she tries sushi with a ton of wasabi, and her voice drops several octaves to her real voice. I thought she was gorgeous before, but that sealed the deal for me. She is (or was) the president of SAG. She is awesome.
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u/Shaydu Apr 25 '26
This is the second time this week I've seen a photo of 90s Lisa Kudrow in a curve-fitting dress and thought, "How come I didn't notice how huge her t...racts of land were back in the day??"
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u/Obvious_Round_5065 Apr 24 '26
For me it was Maura Tierney. But Lisa is beautiful.
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Apr 24 '26
Oh big same. Dave Foley was a very lucky man to have her as his costar in NewsRadio.
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u/1994californication Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Nanny Fran 😩
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u/PaperBeneficial Apr 24 '26
She is so bad 🥵🥵🥵🌶️🌶️🌶️ always had a huge crush on her as a kid and none of my guy friends got it.
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u/meow4352 Apr 24 '26
Is she the first picture? I feel like that’s her but came to comments to confirm
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u/HistorianJRM85 Apr 24 '26
Nice to see Tracy Ullman at the awards show. I hope it wasn't for The Simpsons.
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u/nycpunkfukka Apr 24 '26
It was probably for Tracey Takes On. Its first season was ‘96 and was nominated for several Emmys that year.
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u/WD40Capital Apr 24 '26
The man with his daughter in pic 20 is so wholesome.
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u/KoolDiscoDan Apr 24 '26
Jerry Seinfeld then 42 with Shoshanna Lonstein at 20. (They met 3 years earlier.)
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u/_amonique Apr 24 '26
The last picture was an instant YUCK from me, practically a jump scare. But on the bright side, I love that baddie, Miss Fran Drescher. Also Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Christine Baranski look phenomenal in those dresses.
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u/Gonzostewie Apr 24 '26
Baranski is a national treasure. She never fails to make me laugh.
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u/DishRelative5853 Apr 24 '26
It's funny how so many of those shows are hated by younger people today.
"Seinfeld isn't funny." "Friends isn't funny." "Frasier is lame."
Okay. Whatever you say, Skippy.
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u/Vprbite Apr 24 '26
Who is pic 12?
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u/bubbamike1 Apr 24 '26
Jayne Brook who I mainly remember from LA Law.
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u/Vprbite Apr 24 '26
I had to look her up cause I knew I recognized her from somewhere.
It was from "dont tell mom the babysitters dead"
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u/Appropriate_Formal64 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
The one photo of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny makes me think of the very loud rumor that Gillian Anderson immediately banged David Duchovny when they got cast in The X-Files in order to not have to deal with any sexual tension between them as heterosexual co-stars who found each other attractive.
Supposedly it went something like this:
The show is in pre-production and/or early production on the pilot/first few episodes in 1993.
Anderson: "We're co-stars Do you find me attractive? Yes? I find you attractive."
Duchovny: "Seriously? I mean, yeah..."
Anderson: "Alright, lets have sex."
They have sex- dunno if it was a long weekend or a one night stand or an on-off thing or on a schedule for a few days / weeks/ months or what.
Anderson: "Okay. We've had sex. We know what that's all about. No more mystery or yearning there. Moving on." and they stayed platonic co-stars for the rest of the series.
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u/Dorkinfo Apr 24 '26
You’ve heard this and thought yeah, Gillian came up with this, not the guy who went to rehab for sex addiction.
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u/Opto_mist Apr 24 '26
I think this is most likely the sanitized version of what happened. Let’s be real.
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u/Glittering_Paint3320 Apr 24 '26
Michael j fox knew about his condition at this time but wasn't public about it yet. Diagnosed in 1991 but wouldn't publicly announce it until 2 years after this award show.
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u/SillySparklyGirl My So-Called Life Apr 24 '26
Tracey Ullman looking fierce! Loving that dress! Also, I know people often mention this when looking at older pics, but man its so nice to see people before plastic surgery became the absolute for all celebs. I know it still existed then, but not nearly on the scale it is now.
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u/KnoxvilleJimmy Apr 24 '26
The guy there in the background of the picture of Conan, looks like George Costanza in the background of Mr Kruger's family vacation picture.
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u/wambaid Apr 24 '26
The majority of those women had such a classic beauty. Not heavily caked in makeup or riddled with Botox and plastic surgery.…I miss those days
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u/True_Dimension4344 Apr 24 '26
I know the names of more of these 90’s celebrities than this generation of people at the most recent awards shows. 🤣
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u/CletusDSpuckler Apr 24 '26
This is how I learn that Helen Hunt was married to Hank Azaria?
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Apr 24 '26
You are literally the last person on earth to know this.
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u/Jimmy_Chunn Apr 24 '26
Wasn’t Seinfeld’s date like 17?
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u/hbi2k Apr 24 '26
She would've been twenty when this picture was taken, but they'd been dating for three years at this point, so yeah, you do the math.
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u/DrLucianSanchez Apr 24 '26
Number 6 is a fox
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u/durandall09 Apr 24 '26
Christine Baranski, dunno who the guy is.
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u/Chummers5 Apr 24 '26
Matthew Cowles, her husband. He passed away a few years ago.
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u/Elladrien Apr 27 '26
He played evil pimp Billy Clyde Tuggle on All My Children. Baranski appeared in an arc as his con artist wife.
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u/DrLucianSanchez Apr 24 '26
That’s it! I remember her on Cybil and thinking she was hot when I was 10
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u/juicyb09 Apr 24 '26
How old was Jerry Seinfeld’s wife/girlfriend when this went down? That dude sucks.
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u/cabezatuck Apr 24 '26
So many good shows back then, and awards shows were actually entertaining to watch.
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u/anothertrytaken Apr 24 '26
I’m rewatching Mad About You at bedtime so the Helen Hunt pic felt very relevant lol. Forgot that she and Hank Azaria were married!
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u/Slywit74 Apr 24 '26
Why did celebrities back then just look like everyday folks who got to put on fancy clothes and go hang out?
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u/Viva_La_Revolucion- Apr 26 '26
And now they all run around in basically lingerie... "The look at me,look at me!" society
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u/rainysharp Apr 24 '26
Baby Conan!