So in yesterday’s blog (which like only two of you readers have access to because you know my super secret password LOLOLOLOL), I mentioned that one of my biggest pet peeves is when people misquote TV shows, movies, songs, etc.

I wanted to elaborate on that.

I think this is such a pet peeve of mine because for whatever reason, my one skill in life is being able to remember dialogue for movies/TV shows (and lyrics from songs) as if the movie/TV show/song was just being replayed in my head. I’ve mentioned this in a past blog, but when I was a kid, I frequently had trouble hearing/understanding what characters were saying but could remember the cadence, inflection, and rhythm of their speech. As I grew older, I think my ability to remember these features combined with an improved ability to understand the words themselves and just made it so that all those components fused the words right into my brain.

Like…when I say I can recite some movies word for word from beginning to end, I mean it. I could recite a number of Brian Regan’s routines word for word, too (just ask my mom, hahaha), along with accurate cadence, tone, inflection, etc.

So I think this is such a pet peeve because I have trouble understanding how others could not have this level of recall. If you get a word wrong, the whole cadence is off, and can’t you notice that???

It’s not anything I’d confront anyone over, of course – this is SUPER trivial and SUPER dumb – but it’s just something that rubs me the wrong way. Most of the time I don’t say anything, either, because it’s just not worth the confrontational effort.

Anyway.

(I also like to use this as an excuse as to why I have no sense of direction. The part of my brain that’s responsible for keeping track of where I am in space is occupied instead by the scripts to Mystery Men, Apollo 13, and a whole bunch of other movies/TV shows/songs.)