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Some Test series are so mundane you can forget all about them surprisingly quickly. Others are so overflowing with drama, that moments that would be talked about for decades fall completely by the wayside before stumps.
It's fair to say there was a bit on in the 2023 men's Ashes.
Bazball and Jonny Bairstow's stumping took up so much of the oxygen around the series that the other sparks struggled to burst into fully-fledged flames.
So it's understandable that the third season of The Test on Prime Video barely mentions things like Harry Brook's electric 75 off 93 that set up England's first win by just three wickets in the tense third Test of the series.
After all, with a grand total of 69 runs separating the teams across the five games, every match came down to the final day. As did the series.
With Australia having weathered its first collapse on day five at The Oval, Steve Smith and Travis Head had the team back on track but still 150 runs shy of its unlikely victory target of 384.
Then, in the final over before lunch, Moeen Ali found Smith's glove, the ball ballooned up to leg slip where Ben Stokes leapt to take a one-handed catch high above his head.
But as he came down, the ball popped out of his hand. He'd hit it on his thigh as he tried to throw the ball up to celebrate the catch.
After a long conference with his teammates, during which Stokes made clear he knew he hadn't completed the catch, he chose to review it.
"I feel like Ben knew that he dropped it. It was pretty [chaotic]," Head says on the third and final episode of The Test, which premieres on March 24.
"There was blokes yelling everywhere."
The third umpire of course upheld the on-field decision of not out and the England captain remonstrated with umpires and the Australian batters after the decision, and in The Test, we catch a glimpse of the Aussie mindset after another controversial moment.
"Bad luck," a giddy David Warner says up in the pavilion.
"Karma gets ya. Karma gets ya. Mother Cricket doesn't lie. Can't complain now, Spirit of Cricket."
Once he reached the sheds, Smith explained Stokes had been complaining that England should not have lost the review, despite getting it wrong.
"I was like, 'That's fair enough, I agree, you shouldn't lose your review.' I'm saying they shouldn't be penalised for the review," Smith tells his teammates to very limited support.
"Whose team are we on here?" Marnus Labuschagne asks, bemused.
Warner continued in that vain and Pat Cummins stood in the middle of the room, drawing a clear comparison to the Bairstow incident from three Tests earlier, when Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum kicked off a seemingly never-ending debate about the amorphous and vibes-based "Spirit of Cricket".
"It was so obvious that was not out," Cummins says of Stokes's dropped catch.
"That's why Stokesy didn't go up [to appeal]," Smith says
"And then I asked him, 'There's your chance buddy, spirit of cricket.' And he's like, 'I've told them it's the third umpire's decision.' So if he gave me out I was out."
Usman Khawaja chimes in from across the room to query how that is any different from what they had done at Lord's.
"Smudgey, we did the exact same thing with Jonny," he says.
"We left it up to the third umpire, right?"
Smith was resolute in his stance that England should have kept its review but resigned to the fact his teammates would never agree with him.
As the day wore on and the Aussies collapsed to lose the Test, tie the series and retain the trophy, Stokes's pre-lunch antics were all but forgotten.
With so much fanfare around England seamer Stuart Broad after his retirement announcement, controversy about the new ball, and the general closeness of Australia's run chase bringing to an end a unique and tumultuous quintet of Tests, there was no time left for yet another argument about where the mythical, "uncrossable line" was.
And almost a year later, it's clear not even the Australians could agree on that day.
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