"Gee Brain, whatdya wanna do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night Pinky, disassemble the DVD player!"
As a college student in the mid-90's, I became a huge fan of The Animaniacs - an animated comedy variety show featuring "the Warner brothers and the Warner sister, Dot" who just for fun "run around the Warner movie lot" and are "zany to the max." While Yacko, Wacko, and Dot were the stars, there were various other characters who each had their own sketches and stories which were only minimally connected to the stars. One such story arc was about genetically enhanced lab rats by the names of Pinky and The Brain.
Now. I tell you all that to tell you this, my wife and I were big fans of Pinky and The Brain sketches and we actually own box sets of their shows. Unfortunately, we lost one of those DVD's a couple of years ago while visiting family in another state.
We spent a lot of time trying to find the wayward DVD but to no avail, eventually giving up. However, while visiting the same out-of-state family this week, I happen to see the front cover of their DVD player had broken off, leaving the disc tray exposed. On a whim, I asked my wife to get her phone flashlight and see if she could see anything inside the DVD player.
The picture is what she saw.
Apparently, the DVD had managed to flip out of the disc tray while loading or unloading. The missing disc had been inside the DVD player for two years - not interfering with its operation at all - and no one had noticed.
Quite an interesting story.
