No bug, just operating as designed. @Ernie_C answer looks like the correct one to me.
If a particular episode matches the SL criteria and isn't available to record, then a VOD bookmark is the intended behaviour.
If you don't want this to happen, change your SL settings to include "Recordings only"
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