Damn you Burt Reynolds!!!

So, it appears that there is a broken part of my brain...and that is the part that remembers the differences between certain celebrities...particularly troublesome seem to be Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck...

I wrote that guest post on The X Files and said, confidently, that Tom Selleck was a featured guest star...I didn't even look it up because I knew...I KNEW that I always get Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck mixed up, and therefore I have looked it up a million different times...and I swear I always started out thinking it was Burt Reynolds but that's always wrong so I knew for a fact it was Tom Seleck because that was not my first instinct...well it turns out it actually IS Burt Reynolds!

SO then I write a comment giving the correction and try to make a little joke about how I must be watching too many old Celebrity Jeopardy clips from SNL back when Norm MacDonald would play Tom Selleck and change his name to Turd Ferguson and menace Alex Trebek before Sean Connery took over that role...but then it turns out that that was actually Burt Reynolds too!!!

This happens with other celebrities though too...for instance, there is a clear difference between Jack Hanna and Alan Alda, however, I cannot ever ever ever remember what Jack Hanna actually looks like..I ALWAYS picture him as Alan Alda...which is just bizarre because they have absolutely nothing to do with each other and don't even look that much alike...even when Jack Hanna was recently on the news when all those animals were loose I looked at him and thought, "Why do I always picture the guy from M*A*S*H?"

Also, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino...this one's a little bit more understandable than Alda/Hanna...they're at least both actors and share a general face shape and play similar roles...the big thing with these two those is that I can think of one of their names and then get a mental block for the other one...and that's always the one I'm actually trying to talk about...