#me submitting my post-episode shower thoughts to peer-review before noticing the dozen essays already written on the subject

[babygray]

They say Gintoki has a terrible memory, but he was the one who remembered Kurokono Tasuke, a man with so little presence he was nearly invisible.

Maybe the problem isn't that his memory is bad. Maybe it's just too good and he remembers everything much too well...

Gintama episode 272, "A Reunion Also Brings to the Surface Things You Don't Want to Remember"