Room 572: Sorry, We're Full

Twice this week a piece of random trivia dislodged itself from my brain and came out of my mouth (or typing fingertips in one case).  A few days ago, a friend revealed in a Facebook status that she was watching the film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter Is Dead.  And I commented, "I'm right on top of that, Rose!" which is a quote from the movie.  (I believe I also added some remark about hopefully freeing that quotation from my mind forever.)  Now at this point you may be saying to yourself, "I've never heard of that movie" or "Oh yeah, it sounds familiar" or "Why on earth do you know a quote from that film?"  All legitimate thoughts.  Honestly, I have a perfectly sound reason why I remember "I'm right on top of that, Rose!"  A former co-worker wrote it on a post-it and put it in my datebook.  So I saw it almost every day for the better part of a year.  That explains the Christina Applegate circa 1991 groove on my cranium.

But the second bit of random trivia, I have no explanation...


The next obscure trivia incident happened a mere three hours ago.  My brother and I went to see The A-Team movie.  (My one line review: It was dopey and ridiculous and I enjoyed it.)  As we were leaving, we discussed the tv show.  He said he watched the first season and hey, wasn't there a female character on the show?  I responded with, "I don't think I watched many episodes and I think she was a reporter of some kind."  Hold on!  That's not the moment I'm talking about but that comes close, right?  If I didn't watch the show much and I was little at the time, how do I know that the female was a reporter?  (Oh my God.  So today's incident is not just one thing but a series of things.  Like an A-Team dam busted in my head...)  Anway, here's the real crazy thing: I then said to my brother, "Wasn't there a different guy that played Face at first?"  "What?  No!  It was always Dirk Benedict."  "Dude, I think you're wrong.  I don't why but I really think someone else played him in the pilot."  Cut to about a half hour later at my brother's apartment. Internet fired up.  He types in "Face. A-Team. Pilot."  First result is the Wikipedia page for "Templeton 'Faceman' Peck".  (Yes!  This '80s tv character has a Wikipedia page.  Existing for times such as these, I suppose.) Here's a part of the first two sentences of that entry: "...played by Dirk Benedict. Tim Dunigan played this role in the pilot episode..."  WHY DID I KNOW THAT?!?  And more importantly, what didn't make it into my head because space was occupied by that? (And I won't even go into when we looked up Melinda Culea who played the female reporter.  I could describe what episodes of Family Ties she was on. Sigh.)  


So basically what it comes down to is this: if I forget where I live, it's because that information couldn't stick due to space being occupied by knowing the events on Battle of the Network Stars.  


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