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

[Broseph]

I swear to god I remember seeing "Ghostbusters III" on the shelf at Blockbuster Video when I was a kid. This happened in the late 90's when I was still in elementary school, I walked into the store with my mom and sister and over by the N64 games they had this endcap thing set up on the shelf with a bunch of "retro" movies and one of them was Ghostbusters III. At first I just glanced at it and thought "Huh that's weird, I never knew they made a third one" and didn't think much of it until years later when I learned that they never made a third movie until Ghostbusters Afterlife came out (if that one even really counts as "Ghostbusters III").

I remember the VHS cover was black like the first movie but the ghost was holding up three fingers with the "Ghostbusters III" logo underneath him.

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

It's not real but I still believe in the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. It was there! I remember it! Everyone remembers it! How would anyone imagine a cornucopia? No one knows what a cornucopia is... EXCEPT FOR THAT THING IN THE FRUIT OF THE LOOM LOGO. I swear this is some mass psy-op. This will be the thing that sends me over the edge into a tinfoil hat wearing nutter.

A reverse mandela:
Way back in the day I saw a Wacky Races game for the Dreamcast in Blockbuster. I had never seen it before, but it wasn't available to rent so I didn't get it. The next week I go with my brother to show him the game and rent it but it was gone. I checked all over the store and it was nowhere to be found. I asked the guy at the register and he said they didn't have that game.

A few weeks later I go to Electronics Boutique at the mall and look for the game. Wasn't there. Ask the guy at the register, he hadn't heard of it. He even checked in "The System" and found no matches. The game didn't exist.

For years my brother would mock me whenever I said something and he didn't believe me. "Yeah, that's about as real as that Wacky Races game". Then one day, years and years after the incident and years after my brother had forgotten about it, I see something strange while browsing a retro game forum..
Wacky motherfuckin Races, for the Sega fuckmotherin Dreamcast. I had shifted back into my original timeline. I was home. Then I showed my brother and had the longest "I told you so" ever.

To the EB employee who supposedly looked it up in the system: Wacky race these nuts.

The cornucopia thing still fucks with me, though.

 

[Fukase]

I think most of these examples are people being retarded. I clearly remember Pikachu because I was a Pokemon ar/utist as a kid and could draw him by memory, and knew the bottom of his tail was brown but he didn't have a black tip. Same thing with Berenstain Bears, I read them as a child and it was always Berenstain. In fact I remember noticing this and thinking it was weird for NOT being "stein" because most names are spelled that way.

The only one of these that DOES throw me off is that damn Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I thought this whole "Mandela conspiracy" was bullshit until I found out about this one. I remember it. Everyone I've asked remembers it. Remembering a cornucopia isn't a logical conclusion from the brain filling in memory gaps, like seeing Pikachu's black ear tips and assuming the tail has it too. Most kids don't know what a cornucopia is and when they do they see it associated with Thanksgiving vegetables, not fruit. I'm pretty sure there's some explanation for it, but it's still strange.

 

[Puff]

Me and several of my friends all very clearly remember the 9/11 attack happening in 2002. Like we know what year it was, but the events took place in classrooms we would be in during the 2002-2003 school year. This is with people from different schools, so it's not us playing off each other...
The best I can come up with is that we're remembering the anniversary news coverage as the real thing and we were so young that the actual events were kept quiet until after classes and parents got to deal with it.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

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

I've heard "Thomas the Train" in an American context, so I assumed it was a "Sorceror's Stone" type of situation (American publisher believes Americans are too dumb to understand British book, so changes things around in an unhelpful way). However, the American TV series is called "Thomas & Friends". I suppose this makes "Thomas the Train" a fan nickname instead.

 

[Pissmaster]

It's not real but I still believe in the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. It was there! I remember it! Everyone remembers it! How would anyone imagine a cornucopia? No one knows what a cornucopia is... EXCEPT FOR THAT THING IN THE FRUIT OF THE LOOM LOGO. I swear this is some mass psy-op. This will be the thing that sends me over the edge into a tinfoil hat wearing nutter.

I looked into it at one point and posted an effortpost that nobody read in another thread. I reverse image searched that logo with the cornucopia, and found a few foreign sites that use it.

 

[The Last Stand]

I thought she just said: I'm ready for my closeup, DeMille.

 

[regginknurd]

This is noodley but I always remembered the Deftones album "Around the Fur" as "Beneath the Fur." I know (now) I just misremembered, but for nearly almost 2 and a half decades no one corrected me. I said Beneath the Fur way too many times and I even have the CD in my collection.

Another one, also involving music (which has a real explanation): Metallica's S&M. I always remembered it being one disc (CD) that ended with "Bleeding Me." Turns out, there are ten more tracks. I didn't know this because I bought a booked copy froma record store missing the second dics. I went my whole adult life thinking they just did 11 songs with the Sanfran orchestra.

I considered these mandela effects until I realized my brain is weak, broken flesh that I've abused with drugs and alcohol.

 

[DDR Yoga]

A reverse mandela:
Way back in the day I saw a Wacky Races game for the Dreamcast in Blockbuster. I had never seen it before, but it wasn't available to rent so I didn't get it. The next week I go with my brother to show him the game and rent it but it was gone. I checked all over the store and it was nowhere to be found. I asked the guy at the register and he said they didn't have that game.

On the topic of Wacky Races, there was an episode where Dick wins and then gets disqualified for having pressed a button that stretched the front of his car out, te in another episode Peter Perfect wins by exactly the same means but does not get disqualified. Still bugs me. Dastardly was alright.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Thanks to faded memory, I swore in the Charlotte's Web movie when Farmer Arable grabbed baby Wilbur that he was about to behead him on a tree stump, then Fern stops him from killing Wilbur. I rewatched the movie a year ago and I see it never happened that way. Weird how memories work.

 

[spastic_bag]

My brain keeps faceswapping Marlon Wayans' face onto Shawn Wayans' roles in my memories to the point it's all Marlon all the time for me. I could be watching Scary Movie, White Chicks, Don't be a Menace, Little Man, and see them both on screen and think, "yes, Shawn is this one and Marlon is that one, it checks out", but later when I try to conjure up a memory of a scene, it's all Marlon.

 

[GrammaNazi]

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

Ellis Island is where the dirty immigrants were catalogued and inspected for diseases. Liberty Island is indeed where the statue is located.

Spoiler: 2 Islands & a Shitstain

 

[Aunt Carol]

I could swear that Lantus (insulin glargine) was available in the US in the late 1990s, but the FDA says 4/2000.

 

[StanleyYelnats]

Richard Pryor. I swear he died in 1986 from crack. But he actually died in 2005. Anyone out there recall?

Eta. Thanks @XYZpdq Jr. and @Dambusters' Dog II. For clarifying.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

I've been debating about posting this in the dedicated Red Letter Media thread, but it fits this one too well.

A long time ago on a Best of the Worst they watched a movie called The Christmas Light, a crappy 3D animated movie. This movie has a sequel called The Christmas Brigade... and for some reason I swore they included it in an episode. I scrubbed through the Christmas episodes and searched online for the title only to find I am either completely wrong or I didn't look hard enough. I feel like I must have manufactured this out of perhaps watching some other video on it... but it feels weird.

 

[Anonitolia]

For the longest time I thought the Barenaked Ladies was the "Bearnaked Ladies" because most of their songs that I'd heard had to do with nature in some way. Therefore, my brain somehow decided this meant it was a hoo-ha's jamboree-style band of furries who sung about geese and loud sounds. I realized the latter wasn't the case pretty quickly, but I thought there was no way I was wrong on the "Bearnaked" Ladies because there was no way someone would make a spelling error for the name of a music band.

I then went on to afflict both my parents and my schoolmates with this Bearnaked affliction, and to this day I still have to take a pause when it's spelled "Barenaked Ladies".

I was also a Bernstein believer, but that's mostly because I had an actual Bernstein in my school. I thought it was funny to constantly tell said Bernstein about the books and pretend they chronicled his life as if that was somehow informative. No fucking clue why I found that so hilarious.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Richard Pryor. I swear he died in 1986 from crack. But he actually died in 2005. Anyone out there recall?




ETA. Nike man logo has been wearing sweatpants not basketball shorts?! I need clarification please.

I think Pryor had a bunch of heart attacks and set himself on fire and shit then basically dropped out of the public eye?

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

Richard Pryor. I swear he died in 1986 from crack.

I think Pryor had a bunch of heart attacks and set himself on fire and shit then basically dropped out of the public eye?

He set himself on fire trying to freebase cocaine in 1980. Crack was a later improvement of the same idea as freebasing (the underlying chemical is the same). He did talk about his fire accident in his stand up (in particular how much it hurt when the burns were healing). But it didn't coincide with him leaving public life, he appeared in Superman III after the fire incident. The thing that happened in 1986 was that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is what eventually killed him. When I first heard of him in the 90s, I just assumed he was dead, and was surprised to hear later that he approved of Dave Chappelle, so must still be alive.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

He set himself on fire trying to freebase cocaine in 1980. Crack was a later improvement of the same idea as freebasing (the underlying chemical is the same). He did talk about his fire accident in his stand up (in particular how much it hurt when the burns were healing). But it didn't coincide with him leaving public life, he appeared in Superman III after the fire incident. The thing that happened in 1986 was that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is what eventually killed him. When I first heard of him in the 90s, I just assumed he was dead, and was surprised to hear later that he approved of Dave Chappelle, so must still be alive.

That sounds good. I think I recall him doing some material about heart attacks?
tbh there's a lot of stand-up guys from the past who I don't think about if they're dead or not.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]