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Goldberg paused when she told interview guest Sen. Elizabeth Warren that her colleague — whose name escaped her in the moment — had a question.

Like the ocean of water that once vacated its containing vessel and spilled out onto the Hot Topics table amid The Great View Flood of 2023, longtime talk show panelist Sara Haines’ name escaped moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s consciousness for a brief, hilarious moment Thursday on the air.

Though Haines’ name was burned into the mind of producer Brian Teta after he cringed over the cohost calling her dad “hot” four times during a recent episode, the same couldn’t be said for Goldberg, who has appeared as a permanent fixture on the show alongside Haines for seven seasons.

There’s so much happening in Washington, D.C. that we have a lot to talk about with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who’s joining us right now from our nation’s capital right now because she can’t go anywhere,” the Oscar-winning Ghost actress said as she introduced the first interview of the morning, laughing before she paused to pass things off to the unknown woman sitting next to her.

Goldberg said the show’s personalities “always love” when Warren stops by. She then turned toward the mystery coworker to her left: “So, uh,” Goldberg continued, looking down as she paused while the audience chuckled at Haines picking up the slack by reminding her, “I’m Sara.”

Joy Behar, also one of Goldberg’s longtime colleagues, joked that Goldberg should “never forget What’s-Her-Name,” with regard to Haines.

Haines isn’t the only person a View cohost has failed to properly identify. In a 2023 interview on the show’s Behind the Table podcast, Behar admitted that she had no idea who Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner was as the panel broke down the star’s divorce from pop star Joe Jonas during the day’s Hot Topics discussion hours earlier.

“I wasn’t that interested in the specific celebrity thing that was going on,” Behar told Teta on the episode. “I don’t even really know who Sophie Turner is.”

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.