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I watched the movie Spy Kids 3D back when it came out since I enjoyed the first two, and yeah the third movie was pretty "meh" (though Pyrocynical brought it back into memory thanks to the "somebody ring the Dinkster?" meme). One oddly specific thing I remember from the movie though was this one part when the main characters went into a level of the virtual reality game they were playing that was a "lava level," and there was a conversation between two other characters going something like:

"Why is it every game has a lava level?"
"Well actually Halo didn't have a lava level, and in Metroid Prime it was plasma."

And then when I saw the movie on TV a couple of years later I noticed that line was blanked out, probably so that the TV network didn't have to worry about Microsoft and Nintendo asking for royalty fees or something. I find it odd that this is probably the one thing in that movie I remember so vividly.

My weirdly specific thing is wrestlers' billed weights and hometowns as announced by the ring announcers (my grandfather was boxing ring announcer, which you might think would have something to do with it, though I actually didn't discover this 'til a couple of years ago).

Ask me virtually any wrestler from 1997-onwards and I can give you their hometown and billed weight.

Austin was billed at 252lbs and from Victoria, TX.
Rock was 275lbs and from Miami, FL.
Kane was 326, though it later dropped to 323 (for some reason), and is not billed from any hometown (wrestlers like this are referred to as coming from "Parts Unknown" in official media).
Triple H varied but it was 260 when I started watching, and from Greenwich, CT.
Rob Van Dam was 237 and from the wonderfully-named Battle Creek, MI.
Undertaker's an interesting case because his billed weight has decreased dramatically over the years: 328 > 305 > as low as 299.

So yeah, that in general is the weirdly specific thing that I can remember.

I can remember the days Super Bowls were played on and the score summary of the Super Bowl from four years ago but I can't remember how to factor binomials or some important things I should know in school atm.