Behold, these awesome pictures of Tina Fey and her friend Cady Garey as "pinheads" in a production of The Elephant Man at the University of Virginia in 1991.
We were the pinheads—circus freaks who appeared in a dream sequence. The costumes were loose-fitting burlap with heavy padding underneath. If that wasn't humiliating enough, the director of the show could never, never remember our actual names.
Years later, Fey named the Mean Girls character Cady Heron after her college friend and roommate.
Fey's 1992 yearbook picture:
READ MORE: Tina Fey talks about her college years during a recent return visit to the University of Virginia:
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When one student asked her what was one thing that she wished she had done sooner in her career, she replied, "I wish I had started waxing my eyebrows earlier."