6/25/2006



The last (and only previous) time I saw Enterprise was maybe six months ago. It's on today, and it's the same episode I saw - the one with the green alien hooker slave babes.

This happens to a lot of people I know. I believe it's a phenomenon that should be studied scientifically. I wonder what causes this tendency to see the same episodes of certain shows over and over? It's not all shows - shows that I watch frequently do not have this problem. It only seems to happen with shows that I catch once in a long while - but again, all shows that fit this category do not exhibit the same freaky broken-record replay syndrome.

Can you tell I've had a lot of time to think today?

1 Comments:

Blogger Justin said...

This has happened to me quite a few times as well. Off the top of my head, Dexter's Laboratory with the "Omelette du fromage" episode and the Johnny Bravo where he stops time.

I think perhaps it has to do with the fact that, maybe, when someone sees a show for the first time, they usually watch through all of it to see how the whole thing plays out. If they don't like it, they won't watch entire episodes anymore. Then, whilst flipping through channels all the time, they may stop on the show for a few minutes, realize they didn't like the show before, and continue on flipping. When the only episode they saw is on and they flip to it, they stop for a moment, realize it's the only episode they seen entirely (it sticks out in memory) and deem it a freak coincidence.

I'll call that one the "Hover Theory," as in hovering on a show to realize that you've seen only that episode in the series before.

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