We’re still working our way through series 2 of the Sopranos. Uncle Junior’s doctor shows up.
Me: God, that doctor looks really familiar, was he in something else?
Him: Yeah, he looks familiar to me too, I can’t think where I know him from.
Me: The hair…
Him: And that patrician thing. Hang on, what’s his name? George Bush’s opponent?
Me: Oh yes, the swift boat veterans for truth guy.
Him: Wait, wait.
Me: I know it, I know it.
In unison: John Kerry.
I only realised last week that Hugh Laurie’s sidekick in ‘House’ (the doctor who works with the kiddies and tries to get Dr House to behave himself) is Nelix from Startrek Voyager. He looks different without an orange mohawk. And tufty sideburns. And all those patterns on his face.