Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Oddities of Television Recall

Virtually every day, my significant other and I discuss what's for dinner.

Virtually every time my significant other and I discuss what's for dinner, I mentally flash back to a short bit from an old sitcom.

I finally went looking for that old bit, and it's old indeed -- it originally aired on January 6th, 1980 (and that's when I would have seen it -- I watched The Jeffersons on first airing, with my parents, and don't ever recall seeing it in rerun/syndication). It starts at about 5:33 into this video:



How did that bit ever get stuck in my head, such that it would repeatedly pop back up more than 30 years later? Helifino. But I'm glad I wasn't just imagining it, either.

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