Kyle Mooney’s thoughts on Y2K can be summed up with three words: That was weird.
The writer-director-comedian was a young teen when 1999 gave way to the new millennium, and hysteria surrounding the Millennium Bug — a potential computer issue that could have brought on the end of the world — was at an all-time high. Mooney remembers his mother stocking up on water and granola bars, and though he didn’t give much credence to the phenomenon and its capacity for destruction, he still found himself a bit disappointed in the fact that nothing actually happened.
