If you know what tv show intro this couple is from, you might be a Xennial.

I love how everyone will chime in and say it’s SNL but nobody can be bothered to tell us who these pixelated people are or why it’s so instantly recognizable.

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Smoky1279@reddit (OP)

I've wondered who they were since the 90s and Google reverse image search didn't help.

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mrnoonan81@reddit

Isn't it "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"?

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Pardo was the announcer - the cast yells “live from New York, it’s Saturday night!” at the end of the first sketch, then the music starts and the announcer says “It’s Saturday Night Live, with …” etc.

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Bulky_Goat_9624@reddit

You nailed it! Season 16, 90-91. I just watched that season.

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jackfaire@reddit

Oh... yeah I thought SNL was boring when I was that age.

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

Instantly knew what this was from.

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maggie320@reddit

Along with the screeching sax of Lenny Pickett.

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Smoky1279@reddit (OP)

Exactly.

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LineImpossible3958@reddit

Is this right before Kevin Nealon looks at a bass guitar?

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Jupitersd2017@reddit

I have no idea haha

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Morriganx3@reddit

Me neither. I’m pop-culture challenged

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Jupitersd2017@reddit

I think 90-91 SNL we were past that age of watching, that was middle school, we had more important things to do 😂, but also that’s the year I moved out to the middle of nowhere and we couldn’t get any channels - and I mean even nbc lol. They tried to sell my dad one of those Huge sat dishes but he had read about the small direct tv dishes coming out so we waited for 2-3 years with no tv haha

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burjja@reddit

I think middle school is actually the time those of us who did watch, started watching. You're old enough to be up at 11:30pm on a Saturday night but not old enough to be anywhere other than home or a friend's house. And at a time in life you desperately want to be older and cooler, at least back then, I think watching SNL did that for people.

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Morriganx3@reddit

I knew people who watched SNL through highschool and in to adulthood, but I just never got all that in to TV. Partly because we had no channels til around 1990, and partly because I have always liked books better.

When we played TV tag in elementary school, I had trouble because I didn’t know very many TV shows. (In case this was not a common thing, TV tag was tag where you could freeze in place and yell out the name of a TV show right before you got tagged, and you’d be immune to getting tagged until you started moving again.)

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Jupitersd2017@reddit

lol I read a lot too, I’ve never heard of tv tag but I would have really sucked at playing that, all I can remember really watching was twin peaks and the xfiles so I wouldn’t have had anything to yell 😂

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KevinStoley@reddit

Insomniac with Dave Attell?

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bfume@reddit

I thought so too but it’s SNL

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Starship1617@reddit

Is that Little Richard or Johnny B. Badd? 😆

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Smoky1279@reddit (OP)

He does look a lot like 90s Mark Mero there.

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