One of our writers, Karen, is 24 years old.
To give you an idea of how young that is,
the same year I joined the cast of "SNL,"
Karen joined a taekwondo class for first graders.
As a result, she has a much different
frame of reference than a lot of us.
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. -Welcome back, Karen.
-Hi. Yeah. -I always enjoy this so much.
I'm going to show you a photo,
and you're going to try to tell us what or who it is.
-Okay. -Are you ready?
-I'm ready. -Okay.
-[ Gasps ] Oh. Um... Okay.
It's a person who dressed up to look like the thing he won.
A costume for Halloween?
-You think -- No, it was not -- This is -- This is --
I'll give you the first two initials.
-Okay. -M.C.
-Hammer. -Yeah!
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He -- He designed his own line of pants.
Those are called Hammer pants. -Okay.
-And he was a forerunner of the #MeToo movement because he was
very insistent that you should not touch this.
-I see what you did. And I like it.
-You like it. -Yeah, that was cool.
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Oh, my God. Okay.
It's clearly called My Buddy. -Okay.
-And it couldn't -- -Good job, guys.
-Oh, is it actually called My Buddy?
-Yeah.
-Is it a haunted doll? -No.
This is actually supposed to be
a friendly toy that you would play with.
-Oh. -And, yeah, it had a song.
It was on -- There were commercials all the time.
♪ My buddy, my buddy ♪
♪ Wherever he goes, I'm gonna go ♪
Or something like that. I don't know.
But, yeah, but then they had to --
They recalled it because it kept murdering people.
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-Did you have one? -I didn't have a My Buddy.
-Okay. -Yeah. Um...
-That's too bad. -Yeah. I mean, I asked.
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What's that?
-Oh. Well, it's not what I initially thought it was.
-Well, instead -- "Karen After Dark," we're gonna --
-Okay. It's something to make your inner thighs stronger?
-Yes! Now, what would you call a product
that makes your inner thighs stronger?
-Stronger Thighs!
Thigh Man.
-Thigh Man is very close. -Oh.
-Thigh -- First two letters of that are right.
Thigh M-A...
-Thigh Madam?
-Thigh. Thigh... -Thigh mas...
-Master?
-Yeah! -Wow.
-Very good. -I got it.
-And the key to the Thigh Master was you had to use it
in an all-white room with a white chair.
-Very cool, very cool. -Very cool, very cool.
Who dat?
-Um, uh, somebody who did a bad thing.
But also depending on how this photo was taken,
maybe he was married?
-Married?
-In case it was like a flip -- It's his wedding ring?
Never mind. Forget I said it. -All right.
So, you know how this is --
So this doesn't mean anything to you?
-Um, I mean, no. -Okay.
-In the '90s, this person was known by 75% of all Americans.
Isn't that crazy?
-George W. Bush.
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Sorry. '90s. George H.W. Bush.
-Yeah. -Yes. Thank you.
-Right. No, yeah. That's right.
So you know how sometimes you have a house guest
and they're really irritating? -Yes.
-Well, sometimes you're the house guest and the people
you're staying with are the problem.
-Did he murder somebody?
-No, he's -- His name was Kato Kaelin.
And he -- he was a house guest for a football player.
-Oh.
-And that's all you need to know because, uh...
I feel like there are certain things
your generation doesn't need to hear about.
-Okay. -All right. Is it my turn?
-Yes, it's your turn. -Okay.
-I'm going to show you stuff that you haven't seen.
-There you go. Or maybe I have. I'm cool and young.
-Um, okay.
I just forgot. You sign my paychecks.
You're so cool, so young.
Okay. Do you know what this is?
-Well, those are sneakers. -Yes.
-Oh, but they have that roller thing.
So they're, like, skate shoes?
-Yeah! Do you know what they're called?
-Um, Thigh Masters. -Yes!
They're called Heelys. -Heelys.
-Yeah. -Oh, that's really cool. Yeah.
-They're really awesome. -Were you good?
Did you have a pair of Heelys? -I did have a pair of Heelys.
I really wanted them in first grade.
And my parents made me wait until I was in second grade,
because I was very small for my size.
-But it seems to me Heelys would be better if you were small,
'cause then if you fell down, you'd be closer to the ground.
-Oh. That's actually a really good point.
-I'd be a better parent than your parents.
-Yeah, that's fair. Okay, the next one is --
Do you know who that is?
-Um -- -Wow. They know.
-People know.
I mean, I -- You know, I --
I mean, I don't know the context of this.
I'm going to assume it's a penguin.
I mean, I know that much. -Yes, absolutely.
-I don't know why -- Yeah. -Why he's there.
-Why you would need to have this.
-Okay. First off, because it's awesome.
-Okay. Is it a toy?
-I actually don't think they ever made merch for it.
But basically it's part of this website called Club Penguin.
-Okay. -And you can go on and hang out.
And you can have your own penguin
and then play a lot of games and then chat with strangers.
-Wow. -Yeah.
-So it seems like a gateway to abduction?
-Yeah! That's pretty much it.
-And what's his name? What's this penguin's name?
-Well, you get to name your own penguin.
-Gotcha. Did you do this? -I did, yeah.
-What was your penguin's name? -Mine was supposed to be Margot.
But I forgot the "R", so it was just Magot.
And I couldn't change it.
-And what grade were you in when you were rocking Magot?
-Well, I was too old. I was in, like, eighth grade.
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-So you were on wheelies, being a cool-ass dude
when you were in second grade. -Yes.
-And then you just plummeted. -I truly -- Yeah, I peaked.
I also skateboarded in fourth grade.
-Oh, my gosh. So you were like,
active, active, virtual penguins.
-Yeah. -Thank you so much.
That's Karen, everybody.
This has been "What Does Karen Know?"