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Wit & Attitude Quote by Arsenio Hall

"You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!"

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Arsenio Hall’s joke runs on a brutally familiar rhythm: nostalgia seduces first, reality lands second. The setup is pure rom-com bait - the ex looks incredible, the old spark flickers, you start rewriting history in real time. Then Hall snaps the fantasy like a rubber band. “Boy, now I remember” is the sound of a man re-entering the past and immediately checking the emergency exits. The punchline isn’t that the woman changed; it’s that the narrator’s amnesia did.

The intent is to mock the way attraction can launder memory. We don’t miss the relationship, we miss the highlight reel: the way she looked walking into a room, the social proof, the ego boost of being seen with her. Hall’s trick is to let the audience luxuriate in that shallow, visual rush - “so damn good” - before revealing the hidden invoice. Whatever made him leave (annoying habits, mismatched values, emotional exhaustion) doesn’t show up in the lighting. It shows up five minutes into conversation, when the old patterns reassert themselves and the body remembers what the eyes forgot.

Context matters: Hall’s comedic persona is blunt, conversational, built for late-night storytelling where the laugh comes from shared embarrassment, not lofty observation. This is relationship comedy as self-exposure: the speaker admits he’s easily dazzled, easily fooled by his own longing, and grateful for the moment the spell breaks. The cynicism is casual, not cruel - a warning delivered as a confession.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hall, Arsenio. (2026, January 17). You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-go-out-with-a-girl-you-used-to-date-she-looks-35335/

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Hall, Arsenio. "You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!" FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-go-out-with-a-girl-you-used-to-date-she-looks-35335/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!" FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-go-out-with-a-girl-you-used-to-date-she-looks-35335/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Arsenio Hall (born February 12, 1955) is a Comedian from USA.

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