I notice the most random shit when watching tv.

It's as addictive as pinterest.

Yes! It is! I look up everyone on the earth on IMDB. I thought it was just me! I do this all the time. Like every night I have to have it open to look someone up I saw in a movie, wrote a song, preformed in Vegas or did ballet. It is as addictive as Pinterest, but more so for me. I am so interested it's terrible! I want to know everyone's nickname or real name or birthdate or what have you. It's a guilty pleasure.

I notice the tiny details. And sometimes not so tiny. There is that commercial with 3 or 4 women playing a card game, and I think they are playing spoons, but they are holding too many cards. And you would never have snacks on the table. The game is way too aggressive. Or maybe not everyone plays spoons aggressively.

Just saw it again. There are 3 women,with 3 spoons! It should be two spoons. Unless they aren't playing spoons. If not, does anyone know what game it is? It's a Ritz cracker commercial.

I IMDB all the time. DH and I guess what show or movie we have seen someone from and then have to check it out on IMDB.

We (my son and I) had this very conversation last night. 

All the time!

But my little thing on TV pet peeve - makes me crazy - is when a character is holding a coffee cup that's empty and pretending to drink out of it. You hold an empty coffee cup differently than a full one. At least put water in it. I hate characters holding coffee cups for this reason. I find it very distracting.

This is my mom and sister. I hate watching shows with them because my sister will point out someone who was in some other show or movie and mom would be like who? I had to teach them to use imdb.

I notice people from different shows and movies all the time. But trying to punt that out to dh is maddening sometimes. There are a lot of movies and shows he never saw!

I am so glad we are not the only ones who IDMB everything we watch.

I was watching something recently (The Middle, maybe?) and one character's voice sounded so familiar. I said, "She did the voice for Sadness on 'Inside Out'!"  Checked IMBD, and sure enough, that's who it was. DD's boyfriend was impressed.

We watch "Artful Detective" ("Murdoch Mysteries, to you Canadians) and often look up different names or historical facts mentioned on the show. Even the episode where Thomas Edison's son changed his name. That really happened!

I've even checked wikipedia on a movie I'm watching if it's hard to follow or if I miss something- Soylent Green (read the whole synopsis first to see if I wanted to spend time watching it), Psycho (I was on the treadmil for the first few minutes and missed some important info), Vertigo (was that for real, or was he just imagining that?), etc. 

And now DH notices that Vanessa in "Last Mand Standing" drinks wine an awful lot, since I mentioned it a few weeks ago.

Did you notice the parents in Life in Pieces were the parents in Tina Fey & Amy Poehlar's Sisters movie? I loved that!!! And the character Greg is played by Tom Hank's son. I think his name is Collin. Once we discovered that we couldn't quit noticing how much he looks and sounds like his dad!

Did you do the test? I'm horrible with faces and i got 10/14, so I'm curious how you did :-)

I sent it to dh, he can recognize someone and say, that girl at the restaurant plays tinkerbell at the parade. I can't even recognize people I've just met 10 min ago, eg a coworker's wife.

Oh that bothers me too! And other things as well- carrying moving boxes or grocery bags that are obviously filled with styrofoam food or are just empty... Real boxes or groceries would be awkward to carry but the actors just handle them like they're light as a feather. Drives me crazy!

School would have been so much more interesting if we could have done that when I was a kid. I love the simplicity of looking something up, even on phone, to see the painting or remember the event being referenced.