Minnesota Viking fans and Brett Favre fantasy footaball owners rejoiced on Wednesday (October 6) when the NFL squad traded for wide receiver Randy Moss. The move brings the future Hall of Famer back to his original team, after years spent with the Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots.
It'll be quite a homecoming for Moss, though he's never played alongside Favre before (in 2004, Moss' last season with the Vikings, Daunte Culpepper was under center for the team and Favre was throwing TDs for the Green Bay Packers).
Nonetheless, a merry homecoming it shall be. And being the pop culture wackos that we are here at MTV News, we immediately thought of other memorable homecomings. From top bands to hit shows, here are some of our favorite second acts.
Jay Leno & "The Tonight Show"
Who would have imagined that when Leno left the most iconic post in late-night TV, he'd be gone for less than a year? After his primetime show flopped and Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" struggled in the ratings, Leno executed something of a bloodless coup. NBC execs gave O'Brien a seriously golden parachute and now Jay can be seen back where he always wanted to be: on TV at 11:35 p.m.
David Lee Roth & Van Halen
Drama! It would take almost as many words as are housed in the Oxford English Dictionary to fully tell the tale of Van Halen's intra-band dysfunction. So let's just discuss lead singer David Lee Roth. Following a string of hits like "Jump," he and Eddie Van Halen were at each other's throats. Eddie kicked him out of the band and hired Sammy Hagar in 1985. Over a decade later, Roth rejoined the group for a studio session for their band's greatest hits record. The band then appeared together at the '96 MTV Video Music Awards. If Van Halen fans got their hopes up, though, they were sorely disappointed. Weeks later, Roth was once again outta the band. Draaaaama!
A new "Beverly Hills, 90210"? Well, that seems a stretch for what I saw last night. Yes, seeing that famous Beverly Hills High sign was comforting and watching a 6,256-year-old Nat make coffee at the Peach Pit felt familiar, but one of the first scenes is Ethan (who surfs but is not nearly as hot as Dylan McKay) receiving oral sex outside of school. Dylan would never do that! What's incredible to me is that even though the old series would never insinuate such activities, it still seemed more exciting, daring and juicy than the new "90210." With the exception of "Gossip Girl" and "The Hills," it seems that shows about young adults that try desperately to keep up with the times generally fall short.