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

[NoReturn]

@skykiii i can't quote but I ain't ever heard of "Battler Dunbine" in my life but I DO remember the sparkly running ending you describe. I even looked up. The Dunbine ending to make sure it wasn't a misplaced memory of something I might have seen in passing and the colors are completely different.

And there being solid evidence that the city of Quito in Ecuador predated the Incan Empire.

There isn't?! I remember this too! Even the people who live there said some civilization was there before.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

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".

I almost agree, but that's not the rhyme scheme:

Sweet dreams are made of this.
Who am I to disagree?
I've travelled the world and the seven seas.
Everybody's looking for something,

"This" is supposedly rhyming with "seas" in the third line. The other two lines don't rhyme at all, giving an ABAC rhyme scheme.

 

[StanleyYelnats]

One mandella effect that I obsessed over was the ever so popular Looney Tunes vs Looney Toons. Until it occurred to me why.

Spoiler: Quick sperg

Tiny Toons was added to the cartoon line up during the week. And often they would air Looney Tunes followed by Tiny Toons

However what keeps me hooked is that damn Genie movie with a blue Sinbad appears to have vanished.

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

I could swear The Statue of Liberty was on Liberty Island, it's on Ellis Island.

 

[skykiii]

I could swear The Statue of Liberty was on Liberty Island, it's on Ellis Island.

Proof positive that Lindsay Ellis is an evil witch.

@NoReturn okay, so that reignites that particular mystery. Truth be told yeah I distinctly remember the sparkly run as well. the closest thing to it is that Chibi-usa does a solo henshin in the second SuperS episode and during it she kinda strikes a running pose, which is the thing I think I'm thinking of. but I also do distinctly remember her running in the credits and others remembered her hugging Pegasus at the end.

 

[melty]

I really thought that the balloon boy incident happened in 2012, but apparently it was 2009? Like I remember following that shit on fark.com all day at a job I definitely didn't have in 2009. Then the last psychiatrist wrote an article about the media response to it pretty soon after, and I don't remember reading that blog at all in 2009...

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I really thought that the balloon boy incident happened in 2012, but apparently it was 2009? Like I remember following that shit on fark.com all day at a job I definitely didn't have in 2009. Then the last psychiatrist wrote an article about the media response to it pretty soon after, and I don't remember reading that blog at all in 2009...

No fucking way it happened in 2009, I was definitely out of college by the time this story happened.

 

[skykiii]

So I have a few more.

This one may not be a mandela as much as regional differences, but these days I always hear "Reuters" pronounced as "Roy-ters" when I swear most of my life its been "Rooters."

And there's another one that's been bothering me but its one I feel embarrassed about, and it... has to do with female anatomy, which guarantees an "autistic" ranking because nobody likes talking about it. So I'm putting it behind a spoiler:

Spoiler: You've been warned

Essentially, every time I see a naked woman now... I feel like her privates are in the wrong place. Like they're always really far down and almost meeting the ass now, but I recall as little as ten years ago I saw naked women and the you-know-what was more clearly in front. I'm gonna stop here because discussing this feels really uncomfortable.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about just a single woman either.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

About the Mandela one - people just got their niggers confused. There was a well-known Black Nationalist, Steve Biko, who died in prison in apartheid South Africa, and a film Cry Freedom was made about it, and was the role that got Denzel Washington his first Oscar nomination. Remember that Nelson Mandela appeared briefly at the end of the film Malcolm X after he was released.
These people probably don't have enough space in their brain to keep two Xhosa Black Nationalists in Denzel Washington movies separate, so they have coalesced them into one person, even though this results in the inconsistency that "Nelson Mandela" was both the first black president of South Africa and died in prison.
It's not unlike how the older generation thinks every black comedian is Eddie Murphy.

Thank you. Good analysis of this retarded non issue people won’t shut up about.

 

[skykiii]

Thank you. Good analysis of this retarded non issue people won’t shut up about.

To be honest, I think there's two reasons people won't shut up about it.

One is, its fun.

And two is I think a lot of people want it to be true for a lot of reasons. Like the Pikachu's tail thing for example, I'm almost sure that was born out of people with minor artistic inclinations looking at the plain yellow thing we got and thinking that looks like a mistake and that it would honestly look better if it had a black tip, so suggesting that maybe that's how it was in an alternate universe is like a roundabout way of saying it should be changed.

I remember when James Rolfe talked about it, one thing he specifically mentioned is that the Mandela version in his head (notably for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) was better than the actual movie.

And I mean, its ultimately kinda harmless. I doubt society is gonna collapse because a bunch of people remember the Fruit of the Loom logo having a cornucopia in it (which it totally used to, by the by).

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I don't even know how I'd know what a cornucopia is without it being in the fruit of the loom logo tbqh

 

[Hogscraper]

apparently Ed McMahon never worked for Publishers Clearing House

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

apparently Ed McMahon never worked for Publishers Clearing House

Bullshit

That's the only thing I know him from!

 

[Hogscraper]

Bullshit

That's the only thing I know him from!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ed-mcmahon-publishers-clearing-house/

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

There is this weird scene in Scary Movie 2 where the creepy butler with the deformed hand called Hanson (Chris Elliot) is trying to help the wheelchair guy (David Cross) who is dangling from a lamp post right outside the window by offering him his "little hand" but the wheelchair dude refuses and falls down. I specifically remember him saying "No take my strong hand!" but instead he says "No my other hand isn't strong enough!". It's very weird because I remember my sister and my friends would quote this line all the time back then.

Scary Movie 2 - Take My Strong Hand

www.youtube.com

I remember this too, but I never saw the movie, just commercials for it, I remember laughing about with a friend. It may actually have been in the commercials, but changed in the movie.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

Thomas the Tank Engine.

He was Thomas the Train. I swear it. Unless its a recent change.

 

[skykiii]

Thomas the Tank Engine.

He was Thomas the Train. I swear it. Unless its a recent change.

I recall reading his series was a spinoff of some other book series, the Something Railways? Maybe he was called Thomas the Train in those?

Of course in some parts of the internet he's called by his real name, Thomas the Tankin' Dankin'.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Thomas the Tank Engine.

He was Thomas the Train. I swear it. Unless its a recent change.

Nah, he was always Thomas the Tank Engine, all the way back to the rev w awdry books from the 40s.

 

[Johnny Salami]

In my Original Universe Null is the VP of the privacy, safety, and suicude prevention at Google, with three trans children. I'm surprised how different he is in this one

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

Nah, he was always Thomas the Tank Engine, all the way back to the rev w awdry books from the 40s.

Maybe my parents just referred to him as train because they knew I was a dumbass?