A U, gimme back my gold watch
Earlier tonight Lee and I were watching Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?. I am so not smarter than a fifth grader. You will never see me on that show. I have no desire to look like a total dumb ass on national television, thank you very much.
Tonight one of the questions was “On the periodic table what element is NA?” I had no clue. The guy said “Sodium” which is the correct answer. I told Lee the only ‘weird’ element I remember on the periodic table is that AU is gold because of Diff’rent Stroke.
Lee looked at me like I was crazy. “Diff’rent Strokes taught you that AU is gold?”
“Yeah, didn’t you see that episode where Arnold was learning about the periodic table? He remembered AU as ‘A U, gimme back my gold watch.’”
Lee goes, “Is that like ‘hey, that’s nacho cheese.’” [As in, 'not your cheese.']
Please tell me we aren’t the only geeks who remember these stupid bits of 80s pop culture?
OMG
Ok, let me try that again. Carolyn and I were just talking about that. But I thought it was Tootie from Facts of Life.
I’m pretty sure it was Diff’rent Strokes. But The Facts of Life was a spin-off of Diff’rent Strokes and Mrs. Garrett was the housekeeper on Diff’rent Strokes, so it could be confusing it because of that. I’m sure without watching all the old episodes we’ll never know for sure. I’m sure the episodes are on DVD now, but I have no desire to watch years of either program, even though I totally LOVED The Facts of Life as a kid.
Yup, you’re the only geeks in the house
I actually caught just that scene while flipping channels and I yelled out nitrous oxide - LOL!
You’re not the only ones. My husband and I have this weird, goofy thing where one of us will say something like, “Oh, for Pete’s sake!” Then the other says, “Who’s Pete?” Or, my favorite, “Surely this can’t be all we have left!” “Who’s Shirley?”
It was Tootie from The Facts of Life. Carolyn was able to find it in a Google search. What would we do without Google?