History Main / IRememberItLikeItWasYesterday

* In ''Blunted Lance'' by Max Hennessy, at the end of the First World War retired Field Marshal Goff reflects on how he's become old and decrepit "but it seemed like yesterday that he'd been thundering down the North Valley at Balaclava after that ass, Cardigan." That scene is depicted at the start of the first novel in the trilogy (which follows the Goff family from the Charge of the Light Brigade to the end of [=WW2=]). Shortly after thinking this, the Field Marshal gets a telegram that his son had died of injuries received in the final attack of the war and dies of a heart attack.

* Occurs on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' with "It was ''today''." And Homer gives a completely inaccurate account of it because he's high on morphine.

--> '''Marty:''' ''It's like I was just here yesterday!''\\
'''Doc:''' ''You were, Marty, you were! Amazing, isn't it?''

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', when Marty and Doc return to 1955, Doc misremembers when Marty was last at that wall:[[note]]It was about a week earlier in Marty's time.[[/note]]

->'''Professor Monkey-For-A-Head:''' I remember it as if it were [[FlashbackBackBack yesterday... yesterday... yesterday...]]

* Happens in ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles''

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* 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.

* Nana plays it straight in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-05-20 thinking back to Lilith]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Wendy}}'' by Josh Lesnick, the following exchange occurs between Wendy and Yumi:

* In the [[http://joshlesnick.com/wendy/ recently reinstated]] ''Webcomic/{{Wendy}}'' comic by Josh Lesnick the following exchange occurs between Wendy and Yumi:
--> '''Wendy:''' Do you remember that time when you said "let's have lunch! I made chicken salad sandwiches" and I said "cool let's eat!" Do you remember that?
--> '''Yumi:''' Uh huh, that was thirty minutes ago...\\

* Lampooned on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
--> ''"It was ten or fifteen seconds ago... I remember it like it happened yesterday."''
* ''Series/FatherTed'' has done this with the "It WAS yesterday" reply.
** It was then followed by Dougal saying that that was the reason why he said the line.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Shawn uses the phrases when talking about the case that just happened to Jules.
* ''Series/KenanAndKel'', after foiling a robbery at Rigby's, Kenan, Kel, and Chris are asked by a police officer for their stories of how they brought the notorious robber to justice:
-->'''Chris:''' I remember it like it was yesterday.
-->'''Kel:''' ''(butts in)'' It just happened today.
-->'''Chris:''' Who's telling the story?!
-->'''Kel:''' ''(annoyed)'' You are.
* Frequently mocked on ''Late Night with David Letterman''. “I remember it like it was something we taped earlier today...”
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney says "Hey, remember that time Lily kicked Korean Elvis in the nards?" ''immediately after'' it happens.

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMax Hit the Road'' has a character doing it all alone:

** This gag was reprised in ''The Devil's Playhouse''

* ''Series/FatherTed'' has done this with the, "it WAS yesterday" reply.

* Frequently mocked on ''LateNightWithDavidLetterman''. “I remember it like it was something we taped earlier today...”

* {{Inverted| trope}} in ''Series/{{Dharma and Greg}}'':

'''[[{{stoner}} Larry]]:''' [[{{the ditz}} Hey, no fair!]]

* ''SamAndMax Hit the Road'' has a character doing it all alone:

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

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

* Parodied, of course, in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's line "I remember it just as if it was ... a flashback!"

-->--''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim''

* Parodied in the ''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]]'' "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail173.html the paper]]".
--> '''Strong Bad:''' ''Why, I remember the day you were born like it was about to happen in a wavy flashback.''
** Also seen in the song "The Cheat Is Not Dead".
'''Strong Bad:''' The Cheat, man... where did we go wrong? It seems like just yesterday we were setting fire to Strong Sad's underwears.\\
--->'''Strong Sad:''' That ''was'' yesterday!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

-->'''Dru''': That ''was'' only yesterday, Chazz. Remember [[NoodleIncident the bachelor party]]?

* Parodied in "SaintSeiyaAbridged":

* In the [[http://joshlesnick.com/wendy/ recently reinstated]] ''{{Wendy}}'' comic by Josh Lesnick the following exchange occurs between Wendy and Yumi:

--> '''Yumi:''' Uh huh, that was thirty minutes ago...
--> '''Wendy:''' But it seems like only yesterday!

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

-->Caboose: It's growing up so fast. Seems like just yesterday he was born.
-->Church: Well actually, that's because he was born today. Like, an hour ago.

* One ''{{Garfield}}'' cartoon has Jon reminiscing about the time that Garfield got stuck in the curtain, and Jon and Odie got stuck in the curtain as well trying to get him out as if it was yesterday. Not only had it ''been'' yesterday, they were still stuck in the curtain (This was the central point of a multi-week comic arc which this was the first Sunday strip of).

* In ''Blunted Lance'' by Max Hennessy, at the end of the First World War retired Field Marshal Goff reflects on how he's become old and decrepit "but it seemed like yesterday that he'd been thundering down the North Valley at Balaclava after that ass, Cardigan." That scene is depicted at the start of the first novel in the trilogy (which follows the Goff family from the Charge of the Light Brigade to the end of WW2). Shortly after thinking this, the Field Marshal gets a telegram that his son had died of injuries received in the final attack of the war and dies of a heart attack.

** In the games themselves, actor Will Powers says this in reference to the murder of his co-star, then immediately corrects himself.