Maybe he really did, but his memory of their true first encounter was “whitened out”, hence the episode title?
I wouldn’t be surprised. The exact same thing happened with Megara and Hercules in the tv series. They met, and at the end of the episode they both lost their memory so as to not contridict them meeting for the first time on the actual movie.
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