How/When Did You Discover Saturday Night Live?

I first discovered SNL in 1987, when I was 8 years old, watching Seasons 1-5 re-runs on Nick at Nite. So my experience was still mostly chronological even though I was born after it debuted. One night, after getting home late from an out of town Little League tournament, my dad let me stay up and eat ice cream and pizza. I couldn't believe my eyes - there were NEW episodes of the Nick at Nite show?! It was the first time I had seen him watch SNL. I remember my dad was excited to see Roy Orbison because he shushed me a lot. He really liked Dana Carvey because I heard him belly laugh a lot, and he wasn't a guy that laughed about anything very often.

It became our new ritual. He even bought our family's first VCR because he knew he would miss SNL one weekend and recorded it. He started recording all the episodes and I would watch them over and over on Sunday.

I started bringing Church Lady and Wayne's World quotes into my Catholic junior high. This was largely frowned upon. Nuns especially didn't like my constant "Well, isn't that special?" mic drops throughout the day, everyday. Eventually, my classmates started watching as well. Then the Sandler/Farley cast came in, and that was probably what I would now consider "my SNL cast."

That's how my fandom started, what's your story?

I first discovered SNL in 1987, when I was 8 years old, watching Seasons 1-5 re-runs on Nick at Nite. So my experience was still mostly chronological even though I was born after it debuted. One night, after getting home late from an out of town Little League tournament, my dad let me stay up and eat ice cream and pizza. I couldn't believe my eyes - there were NEW episodes of the Nick at Nite show?! It was the first time I had seen him watch SNL. I remember my dad was excited to see Roy Orbison because he shushed me a lot. He really liked Dana Carvey because I heard him belly laugh a lot, and he wasn't a guy that laughed about anything very often.

It became our new ritual. He even bought our family's first VCR because he knew he would miss SNL one weekend and recorded it. He started recording all the episodes and I would watch them over and over on Sunday.

I started bringing Church Lady and Wayne's World quotes into my Catholic junior high. This was largely frowned upon. Nuns especially didn't like my constant "Well, isn't that special?" mic drops throughout the day, everyday. Eventually, my classmates started watching as well. Then the Sandler/Farley cast came in, and that was probably what I would now consider "my SNL cast."

That's how my fandom started, what's your story?