Watch The Tonight Show's spot-on TGIF-style opening credits

Jimmy Fallon.
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The opening credits for every show that aired during TGIF always followed the same exact formula: The stars doing something normal like opening a door or eating a cookie, and then breaking into huge grins as they stare into the camera, like they were just caught doing something truly amazing.

The Tonight Show accurately recreated this '90s phenomenon Thursday night, with Jimmy Fallon receiving top billing as the patriarch and James Poyser of the Roots getting the honor of portraying the set of twins ubiquitous to every show. For extra authenticity, Jesse Frederick, the man behind the Family Matters, Full House, and Step by Step themes, performed a very special song he wrote to go along with it. The only thing missing is a cameo appearance by Urkel, but we can't have everything. Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.