Block
Block verb - Be unable to remember.
Usage example: You are blocking the name of your first wife!
Call back
Call back verb - Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
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- Call Back: The Doctor says that Zhe trained in block-transfer computation on Logopolis, and later says that he only encountered autonomously sentient block-transfer constructs once before.
Source: Comic Book / Doctor Who (Titan) -
Call Back: In Skylands, the trio do an episode explaining that the reason they didn't use Alsmiffy vision at the time is because he's hallucinating monsters and fire all the time; at one point in the Sky Block series, Smith randomly asks the others if they saw endless fire like he did.
Source: Lets Play / HAT Films -
A 30-second bumper from I Am Weasel has Weasel chastising Baboon for copying his butt, only to get tempted into doing himself when his boss, the Red Guy, catches him.note Possibly as a Call Back, the intro for Cartoon Network's Fridays block features a shot of Baboon copying his butt at the studio
Source: Cheek Copy
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