History Main / IRememberItLikeItWasYesterday

* Used for irony in ''{{Anastasia}}'': a young woman claiming to be Anastasia uses the stock phrase before rattling off a list of facts about Anastasia's childhood in an effort to prove her identity to Dowager Empress Marie. The viewer of course already knows that she's lying, and furthermore that the real Anastasia doesn't remember anything about her childhood.

* Death of {{Discworld}} has a creepier variation when he tries to [[DrowningMySorrows drink to forget]] in ''Soul Music'':

* Lampooned on ''{{MST3K}}''.

* The ''PhoenixWright'' Musical Project has this in one of Larry's sung testimonies, with an exasperated Phoenix reminding him that the event occurred last Tuesday.

-->'''Strong Bad''': Come on, The Cheat. You KNOW the good times we've had. Remember back when we stapled that grilled cheese to Homestar's chin... this morning?

* A [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0108.html variation]] occurs in ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}''; Karn mentions he has a feeling of deja vu, and Ardam insists it's not deja vu because the event that prompted it has actually happened before.

--->'''Strong Sad:''' That ''was'' yesterday!

--->'''Shiryuu:''' Shun-rei.... I remember our first encounter like it was''[[LiteralMinded six years ago... ]]''

--> '''Blossom:''' ''It happened '''today'''''!

* Done in at least two ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' the first being "The Old Grey Hare" in which an elderly Elmer Fudd shoots an elderly Bugs Bunny with a ray gun and Bugs reminisces about the first time they met as babies, and in "Feather Bluster" in which an elderly Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dog tell their grandsons about what they did to each other when they were young.

* Variant in ''StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'':

* Parodied in the ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]]'' "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail173.html the paper]]".

** Also seen in the ''HomestarRunner'' song "The Cheat Is Not Dead".

* A ''WesternAnimation/CapitolCritter''s episode featured cockroaches with a score to settle with a rat. When one of them claimed to remember it like it was yeaterday, it was pointed out it ''was'' yesterday.

* ''FairlyOddparents'' has an episode with this as a running gag. Both the {{Flashback}} variant and the AnalogyBackfire variant.

* ''ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* Occurs on ''TheSimpsons'' with, "It was ''today''." And Homer gives a completely inaccurate account of it because he's high on morphine.
* ''{{Rugrats}}'':

* ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' features a garbled, ShapedLikeItself variation uttered by Billy's dad as he begins a flashback...

* Done in at least two {{Looney Tunes}} the first being "The Old Grey Hare" in which an elderly Elmer Fudd shoots an elderly Bugs Bunny with a ray gun and Bugs reminisces about the first time they met as babies, and in "Feather Bluster" in which an elderly Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dog tell their grandsons about what they did to each other when they were young.
* Done in ''AngelaAnaconda'' when Angela tries to get Gordie to confirm her story about inventing a swing technique that Nanette had taken credit for.
* Parodied, of course, in ''TinyToonAdventures'', with Bugs Bunny's line "I remember it just as if it was ... a flashback!"
* A CapitolCritters episode featured cockroaches with a score to settle with a rat. When one of them claimed to remember it like it was yeaterday, it was pointed out it ''was'' yesterday.

* In the sadly [[http://joshlesnick.com/wendy/ now deleted]] Wendy comic by Josh Lesnick the following exchange occurs (roughly).
-- Do you remember when you came here with a pick-nick basket gave me a sandwich and we ate them under this very tree?
-- Yes, that was five minutes ago.
-- But I remember it like it was yesterday.

* From ''ArrestedDevelopment:''

* A CapitolCritters episode featured cockroaches with a score to settle with a rat. When one of them claimed to remember it like it was yeaterday, it was pointed out it ''was'' yesterday.

-->--''EarthwormJim''

* Happens in Episode 23 of Naruto: the Abridged Series.

* ''[[BackToTheFuture Back To The Future Part II]]'', when Marty and Doc return to 1955:

* Variant in ''{{ptitler8htzkv0}}'':

* A [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0108.html variation]] occurs in ''{{Adventurers}}''; Karn mentions he has a feeling of deja vu, and Ardam insists it's not deja vu because the event that prompted it has actually happened before.

* Occurs on ''TheSimpsons'' with, "it happened TODAY"

* This is how ConkersBadFurDay starts.
-->Conker: "It all started.... yesterday. What a day that was! It's what I call... a bad fur day."

* This is how Conker'sBadFurDay starts.

->'''Mark''': I remember it as if it were tomorrow...
->'''John''': Are you from the future?
->'''Mark''': Probably...
-->'''An excerpt from StongRadd's webcomic to be'''

* ''SamAndMax Hit the Road'' has a character doing it all alone:
-->It all started the day before today... I remember it like it was yesterday.

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* Happens in Episode 23 of Naruto: the Abridged Series.
-->Asuma: What happened back there?
-->Kakashi: It was horrible. I remember it like it was yesterday...
-->Kurenai: It was seven minutes ago.
-->Kakashi: Yep, Yesterday....

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* ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' features a garbled variation uttered by Billy's only slightly less TooDumbToLive dad: "I remember it like it was something I'll never forget!"

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--->'''Strong Bad:''' The Cheat, man... where did you and me go wrong? It seems like just yesterday we were setting fire to Strong Sad's underwears.