I know that being primed to notice something creates confirmation bias in favor of noticing it but to quote Q: how much before it is mathematically impossible?

One would obviously expect some numbers to occur more frequently than others, numbers like 1-2-3-5-10-50 etc. but once you get outside of that the occurrence of any number will pretty much only be mentioned as frequently as its use to define someones age would suggest.

Now there is the number 17, a fairly random number and aside from age mentions about as likely to be mentioned as any other number that doesn't fit in the group of most frequently used numbers.

And the use of that number is so frequent in comparison to any other number as to simply be mathematically impossible to ascribe to random chance, just by random number use alone(locker 17 in a morgue for instance or as a door/street number). then there are the mentions where it is more significant than that(like section 17 being where the culling of people is set on the station in the series 'The 100'

It is SO FREQUENT that you can't dismiss this as simple confirmation bias, as far as random numbers mentioned/used in TV series it is BY FAR the most used number, I mean any other number isn't even close to the frequency 17 is used/mentioned.

Start noticing number mentions/use in ways that are significant and things start getting silly real quick as it's placing is obviously to be noticed, 17.000 lines of code(consciousness code in 'Humans'), it is in some significant way used in at least half of all major series and not even close to any other number used in frequency.

It is literally used in every other TV series in some significant and very noticeable way...

So chime in, where have any of you recently noticed this number in a TV series?

I can pretty much guarantee that it will be used in some significant way in 1 or more series made in the last decade or two that anyone have watched.