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*** In "[[Recap/CSINYS02E05 Dancing with the Fishes]]," Stella finds a written-out dance routine in a victim's pocket and tells Flack and Mac that she had taken lessons...and proceeds to demonstrate a few steps.
*** In the cases of the deaths of a [[Recap/CSINYS06E15 Formula One driver]] and a [[Recap/CSINYS06E20 former heavy-weight boxer]], Mac is revealed to have been a big fan of both men... and to still watch races when he has the time.
*** A chalk-drawn chart made of squares on the sidewalk provides a clue in "[[Recap/CSINYS04E04 Time's Up]]." While examining it, Lindsay tells Mac she was the hopscotch champion in her hometown back in Montana.
*** In "[[Recap/CSINYS07E17 Do or Die]]," Jo reveals to the team that she was head cheerleader at her high school. When they all react with variations of "You were a cheerleader?!", she looks at Lindsay and says, "Don't act like you weren't."

*** "Grand Master" deals with the death of a turntablist and Aiden asks Mac if he likes Rap music. This guy, who plays bass guitar in a jazz club on Wed nights for a couple of seasons, tells her he prefers Crunk. It's never mentioned again.
*** While still a coroner and having to chisel a bullet out of a section of tree-trunk, Sheldon tells Mac he had once wanted to be a sculptor. In another case with a victim who's been beaten to a pulp, he tells Stella he's a boxing fan. That's never mentioned again either.
*** In "Dancing with the Fishes," Stella finds a written-out dance routine in a victim's pocket and tells Flack and Mac that she had taken lessons...and proceeds to demonstrate a few steps.
*** In the cases of the deaths of a formula one driver and a former heavy-weight boxer, Mac is revealed to have been a big fan of both...and to still watch races when he has the time.
*** A chalk-drawn chart made of squares on the sidewalk provides a clue in "Time's Up." While examining it, Lindsay tells Mac she was the hopscotch champion in her hometown back in Montana.

** Also comes up whenever Bender is exposed to magnets. (They screw up his inhibition circuits and he bursts into song.)
** And yet he wore a magnetic tie to impress the Countess in the Titanic episode, and didn't sing once, making it a SeriesContinuityError.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' often does this. A good example would be the episode where Peter reveals he has been a lifelong fan of the band KISS, so that Peter and Lois can go to KISS Stock.

** Another episode gave Captain Hero a retarded son, who was the result of a relationship he had [[BrotherSisterIncest with his sister]]. The proof was the vestigial, underdeveloped arms hanging off their chests. He tried to teach his (now fully-grown) son how to be an Air Conditioner Repair Man. The plot elements from these episodes, including Captain Hero's extra arms, were never seen or mentioned again.

** In "The Wand" he finds a plastic wand in Gumball's cereal, and thus reminisces how his mother traumatized him by telling him that magic was fake, causing him to give out a BigNo One that supposedly lasted ''day and night for decades''.

* Invoked on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', where Picard suddenly remembers he has always had an unbridled passion for horse-riding, and on hearing the planet of the week has riding trails, decides he must leave immediately to fetch his custom saddle; right in the middle of an extremely boring party. The other characters lampshade this a bit, none of them have ever heard him mention riding before, but tease each person who learns about it after them for not knowing that ''of course'' the captain (like any serious rider) has his own saddle. In this case however it was at least part an effort on Picard's part to escape conversation with a notoriously dull fellow officer.