# Not remembering details of past series you watched **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-remembering-details-of-past-series-you-watched/941595 "2021-05-07T14:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-remembering-details-of-past-series-you-watched/941595/21 "2021-05-12T14:46:45Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > played by **Joey Pants**. Stage V: “Whatever happened to Joey Pants?” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-remembering-details-of-past-series-you-watched/941595/22 "2021-05-12T14:51:09Z")
> [@Esprise\_Me](#): > > Interestingly, I often remember the things I saw as a kid better than the things I saw more recently. Interestingly, but not surprisingly. A lot of seniors have excellent long term memory. Remember Grandpa Simpson telling detailed stories of the past? Well, I can do that, too, now… Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-remembering-details-of-past-series-you-watched/941595.md?page=1)