Often when watching movies or television shows, I find truly insignificant details from them sticking in my mind, and becoming some of my most cherished memories of the films and television programmes in question. Does anyone else ever have this happen, and, if so, what sort of things have stuck in your mind (and why)? To get this discussion started, I’ll give an example of the sort of thing I’m talking about. The opening scenes of the movie “Titanic” featured what I presume was actual footage of a dive to the wreckage of the title vessel. Mention was made of the tremendous pressure that exists at the great depth at which the wreck of the Titanic lies (I believe the figure cited was three-and-a-half tons per square inch), which naturally made that part of the ocean sound most inimical to all life. However, when one of the submersibles exploring the wreck turned on its spotlight, a long, white, eel-like fish could be seen floating lazily in the glare of the beam. Having just been told how extreme conditions at that depth were, I was blown away to see a living fish down there (well, I’ve known for a long time that life exists even at the greatest depths of the ocean, but it was still amazing to see an actual example of it), apparently unaffected by the great pressure bearing down on it, and near-freezing temperature of the surrounding water. Subsequently, that fish became one of my most cherished memories of the film “Titanic”!
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Alf’s real name is Gordon Shumway, and his girlfriend’s name was Rhonda. His old blernsball(?) coach once told him, “Find out what it is you don’t do well, then don’t do that.”
Rachel (Friends) has two movies that she claims is her favorite. One that she says is her favorite and one that really is her favorite. Her real favorite movie is “Weekend at Bernies”. Forget what movie that she lied about being her favorite.
“Dangerous Liaisons”
Jonathon Chase turned into a Black Panther in every single episode (all 8 of them) of Manimal. He also turned into a snake and hawk, among others. Oddly, he never turn into a rhino or an elephant. 
Oh, and a…I’m still in love with Melody Anderson!
I always enjoyed catching sight of the RCW 139 license plate when I used to watch Due South.
I will have to think what others there are, but that one came to mind immediately.
Blinky the three-eyed fish in the Futurama pilot.
In one episode of CSI, the police guy got told off by Grissom for not wearing gloves while poking around a crime scene.
Webster called momentos “men’s toes”* and now everytime I hear the word mementos, I think of that. He also explained that although he called George by name, he called Ma’am “Ma’am” because it sounded closer to Mom. And Ben Vereen was Webster’s uncle, and diabetic (they thought he was doing drugs because they found a syringe in the bathroom.)
Speaking of ALF, it was on ALF that I first heard the phrase “technicolor yawn” (in regards to what Mrs. Tanner’s (I can remember Willie, but not the wife?) college friend (Boilermaker) was doing after a night of drinking. And, to this day, I can’t see Helen Seinfeld without thinking “Mrs. Ochmaneck” (or however the hell that’s spelled!)
And a Disney movie (remember when they came on every Sunday night?) where John Astin (Gomez Addams) kept saying “Boogedy Boogedy Boo!” which later developed into a TV series. (It may have been called “Mr. Boogedy” or something) One of my favorites, right up there with “Fuzz Bucket”. Loved those Sunday night Disney movies!
Anytime I hear the phrase, “The Eagle Has Landed” I think of Uncle Ned (Tom Hanks) on Family Ties. And the fact that Steven’s older brother (whose name is lost on me) accused Steven of having been coddled by their mother. From the same episode where Steven remembers watching Milton Berle on TV with the folks.
The fact that I can remember anything of actual importance is amazing, what with all this crap in my head.
*I knew my husband was my soul mate when we were one day discussing something, and I said, “I’d really like to have some men’s - I mean - mementos from there.” And he said, “Oh my god, you watched Webster!” Ahhh true love. 
Newt’s real name is Rebecca Jorden. The only time you see her last name is when Ripley picks up her 2nd Grade (1st?3rd? darnit, cant remember this vital information) Citizenship Award.
I don’t know if any of this is accurate, but it has always stuck with me.
- From Cheers (Coach singing): Albania borders the Adriatic Sea.
- From the Rockford Files: In order to make a citizen’s arrest, a person must witness a felony.
I remember when Stevie Wonder guest-starred on The Cosby Show. They were in his studio and he was creating audio samples of the different kids to use in a song. Theo didn’t know what to say, so he said what had to be the stupidest thing I’d ever heard in my life up to that point:
“Jammin’ on the One”
So stupid was this that it became permanently seared in my brain. Now it’s not uncommon to forget the names of people I’ve met minutes before, or places I bought things we have on display around the house, or large segments of books that I only later discover myself re-reading unintentionally.
But I will never ever forget that damn line. Jammin’ on the One indeed.
I totally remember the “Albania” song, too! Every time I hear that melody, those are the lyrics that go through my mind. 
This is probably a continuity thing, but it’s an insignificant detail that has stuck in my mind: Does anyone else remember the “How The Ghosts Stole Christmas” episode of The X-Files (episode # 6.6), where Mulder goes to a haunted house on Christmas Eve and makes Scully come out and join him there? It featured great turns by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin as the ghosts. Anyway, Scully mentions hitting traffic on “the 95,” and that has always bugged me because no one on this part of the East Coast says “the” before an interstate or road number! (I know it’s a California thing to say; I don’t know if it’s done in other parts of the country, too.) It’s like no one from the DC area was around while that episode was being shot.
She did it earlier in the series, too: I didn’t get hooked on X-Files until later in the series, so I recently rented season 1 from Netflix and am currently renting the discs from season 2. At some point in the first half of season 2, there is an episode where Scully says “the” before the road name (it’s not I-95 again, more of a local road). I don’t remember which episode, because I tend to watch an entire disc at a time, but I saw it just the other week and I remember saying out loud to the TV, “she did it again!”
I don’t know Scully’s history – whether she’s from the DC area – but it seems like the character has been living there long enough by the start of the series to have dropped the “the 95” habit.
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I don’t know if any of this is accurate, but it has always stuck with me.
- From Cheers (Coach singing): Albania borders the Adriatic Sea.
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Albania…Albania…you border on the Adriatic.
And your main export is shoes.
I sure hope Albania’s main export is shoes, because that is stuck in my head forever.
Regards,
Shodan
I thought it was, “…and your chief export is chrome”? One of us has been mistaken for many years, Shodan.
The answer that leapt to mind when I read the OP was the soiled bedsheets hanging out the window in The Loneliest Runner.
Anyone? Loneliest Runner? Anyone?
In the final episodes of Mork and Mindy, Joe Regalbuto stars as an alien who has come to capture Mork and take him back to Ork (I think) but first he masquerades as a nice guy who quickly becomes Mork’s good friend. One scene Mindy is asked where the guys are, and she replies “They’re still in the car, waiting till the last ‘Na-Na-Na-Na’s’ of Hey Jude.” A couple of minutes later the guys appear in the apartment singing “Na Na Na Naaaaaa, Hey Jude - Jude Jude J- Judy Judy Judy Judy!”
Fast forward to Murphy Brown, and an episode in the first season someone asks where Frank (Joe Regalbuto, of course) and Miles (I think) are, and they reply “They’re still in the car, waiting till the last ‘Na-Na-Na-Na’s’ of Hey Jude.” A couple of minutes later the guys appear in the office singing “Na Na Na Naaaaaa, Hey Jude - Jude Jude J- Judy Judy Judy Judy!”
Same joke, same actor.
Partridge Family.
The big makeout place, up in the hills, was Muldoon Point, IIRC.
Keith was a regular.
I always remember it as “Your chief export is tin.”
Somebody should look this up.
Well, how about YOU looking it up, you dumbass?
According to this http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ratner/trivia.html, the correct answer is "chrome.’
Stupid hamsters, this is the second post they’ve eaten in the last five minutes. Every site I’ve found referencing the song confirms “chrome.”