-And finally, one of our writers, Karen,
just turned 24 years old.
To give you an idea of how young that is,
the year I graduated college,
Karen was graduating from milk to solid foods.
And as a result of having someone as young as Karen,
we're finding out 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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[ Cheers and applause ]
-Thanks for being out here, Karen.
-Oh, God, I'm so excited.
-All right, ready? -Yes.
-Karen, I'm gonna show you a photo of something
and you're gonna try to tell us what it is.
And I should add you have not seen any of these, right?
-I have not seen them. -Okay. All right, ready?
Here we go. First one.
-Um, uh, someone who used to be young.
[ Laughter ]
-Now, Karen, that's true of everyone.
-Not me. Okay, um, so he has like a present for a necklace.
Is he a singer? -He is an actor.
-He's an actor. -His name is Joey Lawrence.
-Okay. That, really?
You told me who it was, and it still does not help me.
-Okay, great.
All right, ready? Here's the next one.
-Okay. -What is that?
-Oh, okay. Oh, my God!
Okay. So my parents had this. This is where --
[ Laughter ]
You can partly call someone, but you can also fax them things.
-Yeah. -Yeah, it is a fax machine.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughter ]
Um...
Okay, so they're two friends who just won Grammys.
[ Laughter ] -Okay, well, now Karen --
I don't want just like a general idea of what's going on.
[ Laughter ] -I -- okay.
They are at the Grammy Awards.
I think the show was "Two Thumbs Up."
[ Light laughter ] -This is Milli Vanilli.
Does that mean anything to you? -Truly, no.
-Oh, wow. [ Laughter ]
Well, I'm gonna tell you something.
Wikipedia Milli Vanilli, 'cause it's a pretty rad story.
-Okay. [ Laughter ]
-They won Grammys. -Oh.
-And then they had to give them back,
because it turned out they lip-synced.
-Oh, no! -Yeah.
[ Scattered gasps ] They had different --
-That's so awful. -Other people gasped.
Oh, my God.
[ Laughter and applause ]
And, Karen... -I am trying.
-Karen, you might think I'm lying,
but, girl, you know it's true.
[ Laughter and applause ] -Okay.
That sounds like you made a reference that I don't get.
-I did make a reference you didn't get,
but a lot of people clapped, Karen.
[ Laughter ]
-Seth, you are very funny. -Thank you.
What's that? -Um, a baby who needs a dollar.
[ Laughter ]
-That is correct.
That is what it was. There was a time in the '90s
where babies needed dollars. [ Laughter ]
-Oh, okay. -And it was very cruel,
but people would then throw the money into a pool.
[ Light laughter ]
And they would say, "You want it, baby?!"
-And the baby would have to swim.
-It was a television show, yeah.
It was on a network called Spike TV.
-Is this like the first version of "Shark Tank"?
-Yeah, it was like the first version of --
It was called "Baby, You Want a Dollar?"
[ Laughter ]
-Um, oh, he looks like Bill Nye, but eww.
[ Laughter ]
He is -- Maybe he's teaching me about health?
-Uh, well, you think this was healthy ever?
-No. [ Laughter ]
Like he is telling me this is what you shouldn't eat.
-Oh, I see. This is Orville Redenbacher.
Does that mean anything to you? -Oh, yes,
he is the name on all the popcorn brands!
-Yes. -Yes.
-He is an actual man. -That's crazy.
-Yeah, isn't that crazy? -Yeah, that's nuts.
-All right, does that make popcorn
seem more delicious to you once you see the handsome devil?
-Um, I feel obligated to say yes.
-Okay, great. [ Light laughter ]
All right, now we're gonna see --
-Yes. -We're gonna do this
the other way, because we are from different generations.
-We are. Um, so these are ones that you have not seen before.
-That's correct. -And you are watching them
for the first time. -Okay, do you know what
these little guys are?
-Are they like Pikachus? -No.
[ Laughter ] kind of.
-Okay. Well, they are -- are they like
baby "Lion King" like the Muppet Babies but...
is that like Baby Simba or something?
-So these are actually, honestly very good guesses
in that they are animated.
Okay, so this something called Neopets.
-Neopets? [ Cheers and applause ]
-Does that ring a bell? See? Okay.
-It doesn't. -So Neopets is like a virtual
game online where you can have an account
and then you get to own Neopets and you take care of them.
I'm not going to lie, I mentioned this
in the writer's room, and everybody was like,
"That's not a thing." -Oh, wow.
-And I truly felt like I was being gaslit
on my whole childhood. [ Laughter ]
-"We didn't play with Neopets. We went outside."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, okay.
I've never been outside.
-Threw a ball back and forth, Karen.
[ Laughter ]
-Umm, okay. Do you know who this lady is?
-Is that Meghan Trainor? -Yes!
-Oh, yeah! [ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my God! Yeah! -All about the bass, right?
-Yes, yes, yeah, that's right! -Oh, my God, we are the same.
You and I are the same. We are both young and cool.
[ Laughter ] -We are both 24.
-This has been "What Does Karen Know?"
[ Cheers and applause ]
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Give it up for Karen, everybody.
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