SNL's Spartan Cheerleaders: Revisit the Iconic Sketch With New BTS Details

Thirty years after they first chanted their way into pop culture history, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri’s Spartan Cheerleaders remain one of Saturday Night Live’s most iconic – and delightfully unhinged — sketches. Ferrell, 58, and Oteri, 63, were five weeks into their SNL careers when they burst onto a November 11, 1995, episode dressed as the relentlessly upbeat Spartans. As outsiders who didn’t make the official high school squad, Craig (Ferrell) and Arianna (Oteri) still wore the uniform as they cheered proudly at chess matches, bake sales, even at a theater showing Titanic — wherever spiri