Movie: Wishbone The PBS children's series Wishbone provides a brilliant example of the ancient concept/literary term anagnorisis, a 'recognition', usually a sudden one. Though this is most often linked by Aristotle with recognitions in tragedy, recognitions occur with great frequency in the Odyssey as well: they are in fact a type of leit-motif, a narrative device interwoven throughout the text. Odysseus, the man of noos, always tests others' brains: if they can recognize him, they have passed a 'test' and may resume their rightful place as one of Odysseus' philoi, his 'nearest and dearest.' In this sense, the recognition scenes work both ways: at the same that Odysseus forces others to recognize him, he is in fact 're-constituting' himself as someone capable of being recognized -- no small feat for one presumed dead (both literally and poetically) for years. Recognition scenes can even stretch the bounds of plausibility if narrated correctly -- here, Telemakhos recognizes his father Odysseus even though Odysseus is played by a very fuzzy dog.