I want to know what the term is for this.

Every time I eat a pear I think of Seth Plate in City of Angels. Seth asks Maggie what a Pear tastes like. He wants to know what it tastes like to her. She describes the way it feels to eat a Pear. Now whenever I eat a pear I think of City of Angels.

In the movie The Birdcage there is a scene where Robin Williams is trying to look not gay and uses the old show an interest in sports routine and throws out the line "How bout them Dolphins?" A friend uses that line at interesting points in typical dinner parties. Now whenever I see The Birdcage when scanning the cable channels, which is pretty much every week it seems, I think about that friend.