Mandela effects and personal Mandela effects thread - Bernstein/Bernstain, Pikachu Tail, Mandela, now we got those out of the way.

after double-checking I realized I was just misremembering more than a Mandela thing, but I was a little surprised to realize that Ralph Wiggum never said "I'M HELPING!"
also I was here in the Bernstain universe way ahead of a lot of people, I def recall around 2000 or so helping at a relative's preschool and we had a rousing conversation of "what the fuck sort of name is 'Bernstain' anyway"
 
This is a bit of a ye ol reversal.
I used to play the crap out of this little gameboy game I had called...Nemesis. Its similar to the more well known R-Type. A classic space shooter.
Anyway, once I was like 13 or something I did something, or so I thought and jumped into some new level I had never seen before.
I was dead tired so I died pretty soon and went to bed.

Later on I tried to recreate that, and no matter what I did I couldnt get back into it. I tried crashing into walls, pressing button combinations etc. As time went on I started thinking that the level was a dream, that i had dreamt about the game and played it in my head while sleeping.

Only like 7+ years later did I realize, while reading some article about the game that it had a secret level with a semi complicated location/button combination or something.
For so long I thought this had been a Mandela effect or a dream but it turned out to be real.


 
I thought that was from Sealab 2021, the Bizarro episode.
after double-checking I realized I was just misremembering more than a Mandela thing, but I was a little surprised to realize that Ralph Wiggum never said "I'M HELPING!"
also I was here in the Bernstain universe way ahead of a lot of people, I def recall around 2000 or so helping at a relative's preschool and we had a rousing conversation of "what the fuck sort of name is 'Bernstain' anyway"
 
Someone could make a 15-minute clickbait YouTube video out of this and here you are, providing us with this caliber of journalism for free.
Whang! would definitely milk it out for the full 15 minutes for sure, making sure to plug Raid Shadow Legends™️ while he was at it.

The Berenstain bears Mandela effect never got me, because I distinctly remember as a little kid in Kindergarten or maybe first grade, thinking how weird it was that their last name ended with "stain", and how bizarre that people remembered it differently years later.

I was also confused about the Sinbad/Shazam memory that people have, because I remember the Shaq movie Kazaam that people often confused it for. To add to the confusion, Sinbad even got in on the meme a few years ago and make a fake Shazam movie trailer parodying it, and they made the actual Shazam! D.C. superhero movie a couple of years ago.

That fucking Fruit of the Loom logo gets me though! 😅
 
Instead of thinking that someone died when they didn't, I always forget that John Hurt died and then being sad when I remember that he did :(
 
I was absolutely convinced George takei had died and he hadn’t. Don’t even like the man but I was sure I’d seen an obituary then I saw him being an arse somewhere and was surprised he was alive . The pikachu tail and cornucopia ones I’ve had as well.
 
Six years ago, I thought that Willie Nelson had died.
I had even imagined there were tributes in the
media about it.

He's apparently still alive.
This absolutely happened, I remember it too. There have been quite a few celebrities incorrectly reported dead (most famously Abe Vigoda on multiple occasions) and media NPCs jump on the "thoughts and prayers" tribute train before anyone bothers to contact the person and find out they're actually still alive.. I recall during Facebook's heyday it seemed to happen a lot, someone would just post "Morgan Freeman has died, RIP" and all of a sudden mainstream news were running their prepared obituaries
 
That fucking Fruit of the Loom logo gets me though! 😅

Me too, it's such a weird topic though because mostly everyone remembers there being a cornucopia even making references in south park and an album cover of Frank Wess' Flute of the loom. What is more weird though is that, who the fuck owns a cornucopia? why would it be associated with fruit of the loom if it was never there?
 
I got cranked by a bunch lately. The Eurythmics song sweet dreams are made of these is now "made of this". Franklin Delanor Roosevelt is now Delano (wtf) I don't remember it from the spelling but hearing it a million times. Airliner engines are now literally in front of the wing, they used to be mostly underneath.

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When there's a Mandela effect the original and photos of the original change but references to and art of the original may not change. It's almost like a computer update that can't cover the derivative of the original. The bottom is a model from GTA and how I and I think most people remember planes.
 
Airliner engines are now literally in front of the wing, they used to be mostly underneath.
That's not any sort of mandela effect; that's just the way aircraft engine design has progressed over the years. The engines under the wings were low bypass turbojets:

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These have mostly been replaced with high-bypass turbofans, which have a much larger nacelle. The plane in the picture you posted is also a 737, which has the nacelles mounted much higher than typical in order to avoid extending the landing gear. Ther 737-max has even larger nacelles and longer landing gear, but it still has the engines mounted high and also further forward (which is why they jiggered with the flight control software, to try and balance it so they didn't have to register the plane as a new type).
 
It sounds like "Sweet dreams are made of these", and she says "this" like "theeee-is", to get it to rhyme with "dreams". That's one of those lyrics that I just disagree with, even if it's officially "this".
Yeah, I'm am 80's kid, it was always these. I agree it's very well could of always been that way because it's very subtle, except it wasn't imo.

The argument really is "was it always that way and people's memory is off or is the whole reality changing, which is more reasonable? And I'd agree the latter. Until you have one that breaks the camel's back so to speak.
 
Several personal examples.

Mega Man - the explanation for Rush's name. For those who don't know, in Mega Man most characters have music-themed names. Mega Man's real name is Rock, his sister is Roll, his brother is Blues, he has pets named Tango and Beat...

Rush is the odd one out though.

Thing is, I recall back on the old internet actually reading an explanation, an explanation involving it actually being a musical term--IIRC it describes when music suddenly goes faster or increases the number of beats for a segment or something--but now when I ask music experts, nobody has ever heard the term "rush" before, and Mega Man fans are nowadays confused about Rush's name and only have speculation (the most persistent theory I hear in current timeline is that he's named after the band).

Mahou Sensei Negima -- the "green-haired Negi" OVA. Pretty simple.... okay, I remember there specifically being an anime version of Negima where the main character had green hair. Additionally, two girls known as the Fuka twins had wild anime hair colors (one was pink, the other was green).

I remember having discussions with a former girlfriend where she complained about this. I recall seeing DVDs of this at a local video store, holding it in my hand, reading the back of the case (yes this was a US release), and almost bought it just to see whether it was really that bad... but didn't.

A month later I could find no info on it.

This is also one of those annoying cases where when I bring it up, people try to "explain" that I'm actually getting it confused with Yu-Gi-Oh. Which just makes me wonder if the people I'm talking to are simply retarded themselves, or if they think I am. Because I mean, the whole "I held a DVD of it in my hand" part should rule out any possibility that I somehow actually saw Yu-Gi-Oh's season zero (which never had a DVD release, anywhere in the world).

Detective Conan -- minor one regarding an early end-credits song. This is a basic one, and it involves this ending song and its English dub version. It's also entirely possible that the thing I'm about to describe was specific to a certain portion of the Funimation DVDs (I used to have the one that specifically had the episodes "Game Gone Bad," "Train Trick" and... the one with the fish-eye vans).

It's basically this... you see how in those versions, the lyrics start as soon as the video does? When I had those DVDs I remember this WASN'T the case for the Japanese track specifically, but rather there were no lyrics until it showed Shinichi walking... then the singing would begin.

The weird thing is I recall looking this up later and then it was the English version delayed the lyrics until you see Shinichi.... but now I look it up and neither version has that moment of only-instrumental during the cityscape shot.

It's entirely possible that maybe the song was like that specifically on this era of DVD releases though.

Titus the Fox -- missing version. Titus the Fox is a forgotten mascot platformer. And yes, he's the mascot for the company Titus... the guys behind Superman 64.

Anyway, I was watching a review of the MS-DOS version and the reviewer mentioned other platforms the game was on... but he never said SNES. So I commented about that, it led to a debate and it turned out... Titus the Fox never came out for the SNES. I swear I recall reading about it in Nintendo Power (and the only time I would've read that magazine is from mid-SNES to early-N64 days, so I couldn't have been reading about the Gameboy Color version).

Dude suggested I could be getting it mixed up with something else, but... well just look at my posting history: I have a stupidly eidetic memory for shit that doesn't matter. The worst suggestion someone made is I was actually thinking of Bubsy. Thing is, as a kid I was actually a fan of Bubsy, and Titus the Fox's visual stylings are very different... so that's a little like saying I confused your mom's sex toys for a Gameboy Advance.

Sailor Moon Super S's end credits sequence. Okay, so first time I saw the Super S season (via the Pioneer DVDs), I recall the end credits sequence showing Chibiusa running slow-mo and "naked" across the screen (I say "naked" because she's all sparkly like how the senshi are during the transformation sequence--you can't see anything). But now every time I see Sailor Moon Super S, the end sequence just shows her sitting on a cliff.

Funny thing is I posted about this on the Sailor Moon subreddit a long time ago and a bunch of other people also remember this.

The only credible theory anyone proposed was that we were actually thinking of the end credits sequence for Aura Battler Dunbine.

EDIT like a tard I almost forgot one that came up recently.

Danganronpa V3's changed joke. This involves a major spoiler for the finale of the game, so:

Okay, Danganronpa V3 near the end reveals that "Danganronpa" is actually a TV show that has run for 53 seasons so far. And when this revelation comes, you get a graphic showing logos the first nine or ten seasons have had... the first three use the ones for the actual games/anime but with four they start using ones that are anime title parodies. Season 9 was called "Monokuma's Counterattack" (using a logo very similar to the Mobile Suit Gundam movie Char's Counterattack).

.... Except now I watched a video and that joke has changed, that season is now called Despair's Counterattack.

............Aaaaaand that's all for now.
 
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