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 spirit was in short supply.

Written and performed by Oteri and Ferrell (with writer Paula Pell joining later), the nearly 20 sketches ran through 1999, giving Us timeless chants like “Who’s that Spartan

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