mini-moan: somebody get the plunger, there's a blockage.

Yesterday I was watching the first episode of Alphas and I thought to myself "I've seen that guy in something" but I had absolutely no idea why I recognised him. Then it started to bug me, I couldn't enjoy the show because instead I was just trying to remember how I recognised him. I started recalling all the television shows he might have been in at some point and kept drawing a blank. It was driving me mental until I relented and looked on Wikipedia and "Of course, he was in that".

But even worse than trying to remember where you recognise somebody from is when you are trying to remember their name. You are pretty sure it starts with a "C" so you start going through every possible name in your head "Chris", "Craig", "Charlie" "Cameron", after many hours of this you resort to Wikipedia and it turns out it's actually "Peter", so not only have you wasted many hours trying to guess somebody's name for no real purpose, you never even had a chance of being victorious in that pointless pursuit.

And no, I'm not going to tell you who it was because I know not knowing is bugging the hell out of you.