How to Remember That Thing You Can't Remember

Back when I worked for Disney, a coworker came up and said, “There are eight Disney animated films whose titles are just the main character’s name. Can you name them all?”

I spent like a half hour wracking my brain, but I stalled at five. Finally, I gave up and told him to go ahead and tell me the ones I’d missed.

He said, “I don’t know. Someone else asked me to name them all. I couldn’t and it was driving me nuts, so I thought I’d see if you could.”

You just don’t do that! To ask someone a brain teaser like that when you don’t have the answer and can’t end their suffering is cruel! That was one of the two times I’ve ever been angry enough to denounced a coworker as an idiot at work, to their face.

The other was a guy who misidentified the theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark as the theme from Superman.

There’s a list of animated Disney films at this page. Feel free to count them if you wish. There are more than eight.

List of Disney theatrical animated feature films - Wikipedia

Note from Missy: I'm gonna try to do this before I look at the Wikipedia page Scott linked.

Cinderella, Mulan, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Peter Pan ... hmm. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs includes others. Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and The Great Mouse Detective are all descriptors, not names. (Aurora, Ariel, and Basil ... if you're wondering.)

Yeah, I got stuck at 5 as well! (Checks Wiki) Now how on earth did I forget some of those??

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