junior high flashback

i was flipping through the channels on the television (here in spain, no less) back and forth, back and forth, hoping for something interesting to happen. it was then that something caught my eye. it was an old episode of "medium," the show with the psychic woman that uses her powers to solve crimes, dubbed in spanish. what caught my eye was a familiar face, one i hadn't seen in years. it was an old classmate from junior high, named charlie. he came on the screen just as i was about to change the channel. i was even more shocked to find that in the episode, he played a character named charlie. what the hell?