-So, one of our writers, Karen, just turned 24 years old.
To give you an idea of how young that is,
when Karen was still wearing diapers to daycare,
I was wearing them on "Weekend Update."
As a result, she has a much different
frame of reference than a lot of us here.
So we thought we'd find out exactly
what Karen knows about the past in a segment called
"What Does Karen Know?"
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-Hey. -Hi.
-Hi, Karen. Welcome back.
-Thank you so much for having me.
-All right, so, here's how this is going to work.
I'm going to show you a photo of something,
and you're going to tell us what it is or what you think it is.
And I should add, you've not seen these, right?
-Yeah, I've not seen them. -Okay, all right.
Here we go. Ready for the first one?
-Yeah! -All right. There we go.
Karen, what is that? -Oh, my God. An ancient iPad?
Is it, like, an O.G. Game Boy? -No.
-A pager but with a screen.
-This is called a PalmPilot. Does that mean anything to you?
-Wait. Actually, yes, it does. -Oh, great!
-I just had no visual reference for it.
-Gotcha. -Yeah.
-So you'd you only heard people speak about it,
but you never cared to look at what it would look like.
-Yeah. I sort of just, like, closed my eyes.
I was bored by it.
-What do you think that little guy is right there?
-I bet that's a stylus.
-Yeah, that is a stylus. -Yeah!
-Good job.
All right. [ Cheers and applause ]
Karen, who's this? -Two twins.
An all-male reboot of "The Parent Trap."
-No. They are brothers, but they're not twins.
Do you really have no idea who these are?
-No. -Okay.
I'm going to tell you their first names,
and you tell me if that helps at all.
-Okay. -Liam and Noel.
-Oh! Yes! Liam and Noel Gallagher.
-Yeah. -Oasis.
-And they're in a band. Oasis! Well done.
Do you know -- Do you know any Oasis songs?
-Okay, I'm 90% sure they sang "Wonderwall"?
-Yeah! -Okay.
-That's great. And now a bonus question.
Based on this photo,
do you think they like each other or don't?
-No? -Yeah, that's good.
-Okay.
All my white friends love "Wonderwall."
-Your white friends love "Wonderwall"?
-Yeah. -Oh, wow.
-Yeah. I guess -- Sorry. Yeah. Yeah.
-I just -- You know, it hurts my feelings,
because I believe that I'm one of your white friends,
and I like "Wonderwall."
-Yeah. But isn't that nice? I was thinking about you.
-It is nice that you were thinking -- Okay.
-Yeah. -Who or what is this?
-Just, I mean, a Teddy bear?
-Yeah, but this was, like, a real
state-of-the-art Teddy bear.
-Oh, is it, like, an off-brand Teddy bear?
-No. It's very on-brand.
-Oh, is it -- Does its eyes blink or something?
-No. His name was Teddy Ruxpin, and he talked.
-Oh, God. That's horrifying. -Yeah.
But you have to understand, like,
while you were growing up with things like iPads, like,
this was a huge deal for us.
-Oh.
-Like, to have a talking bear, that was just like hours.
It does now retroactively seem terrifying.
-Yeah. -All right.
We're going to stay with siblings and hit you up again.
Who are these two gentlemen? -Um...
Oh, God. I actually -- I don't know.
They're being served in court? -Yeah.
They are being served in court
because they were an Oasis cover band.
-Oh.
-And they did not -- -They didn't have the rights.
-They did not have the legal rights to the songs, yeah.
-That makes sense, yeah. Okay.
-They wrote parody songs. -Oh! Dang.
-I thought it was easier than telling her.
Karen's very young, and it would be very jarring
if she knew the truth.
-Dippin' Dots! -Yeah!
Oh. No hesitat-- Have you eaten Dippin' Dots?
-Yes! -Okay, great.
-Oh, my God. They're the best. -Oh, that's great.
-That means -- That's nice that they've endured.
All right. Who's that?
-Just a cute dog? -Yeah.
I'm gonna draw you to a detail.
What would you say that is there?
-A beer? -Yeah.
-Okay.
-Does that mean anything -- help at all?
-I mean, I've had beer before.
-Karen, the question wasn't, "Do you know --"
If we wanted -- Do you really think if we wanted to
show a card of beer, we would have had it this small
and had this much?
This was like, "Get a picture of a Budweiser,"
and they were like, "This is the only one we could find."
So, this is a dog named Spuds MacKenzie.
-Oh.
-And he was the original party animal.
And it was at a time where we all thought it was okay
to have things children like sell us beer.
-Dang.
-Yeah, and so a lot of kids that were well below the drinking age
would wear Spuds MacKenzie, like, T-shirts and stuff.
-Oh. -Yeah, we wised up.
-You Budweis'ed up. -We Budweis'ed up.
That's the sort of -- You know, that sort of
pun ability you have would make you a big fan of
the Menendez brothers, who wrote the parody songs for Oasis.
-Okay. I believe you.
-All right. You have some for me?
-Yes, I have things for you.
And you've not seen these before.
-I have not seen these before. -Great.
Okay, so, here's the first one. -Okay.
That is -- Well, those are animated dinosaurs?
Dragons. -Right. Yes, they are dragons.
-They're dragons and from a popular show called...
-Called? -..."Dragon Time."
-Oh, my God! You're so close! It's "Dragon Tales."
-Oh, wow. All right. -Yeah!
-Is that, like -- Was this, like,
a Saturday-morning cartoon or an afternoon one?
-No, it was Monday through Fridays, 4:30 on PBS.
-On PBS? -Yeah.
-Oh, so it was, like, a bad cartoon.
-No. Seth!
-I mean, not bad, but, you know, you'd, like, learn stuff.
Do you know any of their names if I asked you?
-Okay, so, that's Ord. He's scared of a lot of things.
This is Quetzal. He's the teacher.
This is Cassie. She's really nice and cool.
That's Zak and Wheezie.
There are also two kids, but they're not here.
But one of them is named Emmy,
and she says "definitely!" a lot.
-Okay. Well, it's a shame she didn't make the photo.
-I know.
Okay.
-Well, that's just some sort of skateboard.
-Yeah. -Uh-huh.
-So, specifically, it's called the Ripstik.
-Uh-huh.
-It's also known as a wave board.
-Okay.
-And, basically, it's like a skateboard
but much harder because you have to, like,
move your hips, and then both of these
go in different directions and you go forward.
-Uh-huh.
-You look not cool, but I felt very cool.
-You had one? -Yeah.
-And were you good at it? -I was really good at it.
-Gotcha. So, you'd, like, basically come home,
you'd knock out an episode of "Dragon Tales,"
and then jump on this bad boy
and just go rockin' down the road.
-Uh-huh. -Okay, great.
-It was really cool.
-I was drinking beers with a dog.
-Okay.
-What?
Well, this looks like some sort of ancient text.
-This is a -- Oh, my God.
Does anyone here know what this is?
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Well, this looks like...
well, like a Harry Potter --
-Yes!
-A Harry Potter -- like, one of their school --
a map of one of the schools?
-Yes! -Really?
-Yes! -Wow!
-Oh, my gosh. It's called the Marauder's Map.
-It's called the Marauder's Map? -Yeah.
And, basically, it was made by Harry's dad
and his three friends.
-Uh-huh. Okay, that's great. Thanks, Karen.
This has been "What Does Karen Know?"
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-Thank you.
-Give it up for Karen, everybody.