I know it's been a long time, but I remember seeing another oddity in my childhood: Around the mid-to-late 2000's, I remember seeing a few Nickelodeon idents on TV where an off-screen man (only his hands are shown) was preparing a dish on a plate. I might've been confusing those idents with either the Where's Lunch logo from "Everybody Loves Raymond", the 2005 Nickelodeon "Toast" ident, or one of those "Nick Extra" intestitials from the mid-to-late 2000's. I never saw nor heard of them again after they ended thier run.
Last Edit: Dec 12, 2021 5:13:30 GMT by doraemon2000
i'm really interested in the Mandela Effect as well. Here is 4 I remember:
1. Back in the 90s, I used to watch CITV in UK and one show they aired was The Riddlers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddlers and for years I remembered an episode that didn't exist. Basically in my memory, one of the main characters, Mr Grimley, brought around a computer with a CRT, typical baige computer from the mid 90s and shows it to Marjorie and the Riddlers. They are outside during the day beside the greenhouse when he shows them this.
Mr Grimley plugs in the computer and turns it on. At some point on the computer screen has an image of a mans face along with a swirly colored background. I don't quite remember what I thought the mans face looked like, but he may have had a moustache. Anyway, the man starts talking to them and says something along the lines of he is going to get them. Feeling a bit uneasy with what is on the computer screen, they turn off the computer only to have the image on the screen not go away and the man saying something like they can't get rid of him so easily and I was freaked out by this. They go and hide and in the end they throw the computer in a metallic bin with no lid so the corner of the CRT sticks out inside the trash.
I am thinking I somehow got part of the memory from the intro of The Demon Headmaster and the man on the computer probably was the demon headmasters face in the intro (although I don't remember the face on the computer screen looking much like him) as well as the wavy background:
It is the best guess I have. I watched The Demon Headmaster at the time but I still can't figure out the computer as I don't think there was a computer shown in the Riddlers, unless I am mistaken.
2. When Pokemon Sapphire came out for the GBA. I distinctly remember playing it and putting two Pokemon in the daycare that couldn't breed and getting the message from the daycare man "The two prefer to play with other Pokémon more than with each other." so 0% chance of getting an egg from them, but I still got an egg from them.
3. In the 90s as a kid I was really into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Back then, I asked my parents to get me all four action figures of all the turtles. I think this was probably 1996-1998 or so. I no longer have the action figures but I have a distinct memory that the TMNT action figures I had, which were official and not knock offs, all the turtles were wearing white robes and their belts had the same color as their masks but looking up the action figures, I can't find any that came wearing white robes unless someone here knows any different, so I can't really say for sure this is the Mandela effect or not until I get any confirmation either way on this.
4. When Avril Lavigne released her first album "Let Go", I liked her music then. One day I listened to some of her other tracks not on her main albums such as her B-Sides like "Temple of Life" "Touch The Sky" "Falling Down" "Two Rivers" "Kiss Me" "Headset" "You Were Mine" "Why" etc... and I always could have sworn she released another single not on her main albums, a song titled "Under The Maples" but I can't find any evidence she ever released a song with that title. There is a book titled Under the Maples by John Burroughs but back then I had never heard of the book so I have no idea where I got that song title from.
Post by theCarbonFreeze on Jan 4, 2022 8:03:47 GMT
I could swear I remember that the mirrors on cars said "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" even though it doesn't make sense for them to have that extra "may" in there. (They'd just test whether they're closer or not instead of writing a confusing message.)
The topic of the "Mandela Effect" has honestly always been one that's interested me for the longest time. Human memory can be very faulty, leading to entire groups of people misremembering the smallest detail from one piece of media (or on a character) and being confused as all Hell when they found out their memories were wrong. I think the most fun part of the Mandela Effect is the initial "oh fuck, I was wrong" moment, where you are just stunned and confused.
This thread is mostly for your own mandela effect escapades, or things you vividly remember being there but they never actually were there. I have on example myself. In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "As Seen On TV," for years, I remember Krabs saying "Please tell me that's your nose" after SpongeBob sticks his nose out the ground... But, he never says that, and never HAS said that ever. The misconception most likely came from some shitty meme from years ago, that implanted it into my brain, even though it never happens ever and never did.
I feel like ive also seen that but in a video called something like "subliminal messages in spongebob"
I'm sorry for the constant replies, but now I think I remember another oddity, this time it was kind of recent and didn't take place in my childhood: I was watching Cartoon Network at my grandparents' house one day (possibly around 2019 or 2020), and I ended up seeing a promo of the Canadian cartoon series "Total Dramarama" (the spin-off where the "Total Drama" contestants were preschoolers in a daycare), and I could've sworn that kid Duncan was voiced by an actual young boy instead of an adult. When I ended up seeing the show itself, Duncan was voiced by an adult man while Cody was voiced by an actual young boy. I'm not sure if that was a "The Other Marty" (a trope from TV Tropes where a character was recast by a different actor/voice actor during production) situation (like that lost "Casey" dub of the "Pokemon" anime where Ash was voiced by a young boy before he was replaced by Veronica Taylor) or I might've been misremembering things.
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Post by surrealkangaroo on Jan 23, 2022 22:28:57 GMT
I stumbled across another Mandela effect: what color was Donald Duck’s bow tie in the classic cartoons? If you said “red” you’d be wrong. It was black. Apparently he never had a red tie until Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas in 1999, and is generally shown in red since then. Interestingly he is normally seen with a red tie in merchandise, toys, comics, etc. even well before 1999.
In a more personal note I have a plushie of Scrooge McDuck I got at Disneyland in 1994 that I could of swore had a cane. I saw a picture of a Scrooge plushie on eBay and thought “hey, that looks like mine only mine had a cane”. I found my old toy in my parents closet and nope, no cane. I think I might be confusing it with a Jiminy Cricket plush that had an umbrella.
Here is another Mandela effect that I remember. Back in the mid 90s, as a child, I was into Football and I was a fan of Manchester United FC. This was when brothers Gary and Philip Neville played for the team. For years I could have sworn their names were Gary Neville and Philip Nevultie and I had no idea they were actually both brothers and their surname was Neville. I really have no idea why I remembered Philip's last name as Nevultie either. Strange.
I recently posted about a "lost" Cartoon Network trivia book from the late 90s/early 00s and now I'm wondering if it WAS a Goldenbooks thing, and that for some reason I am "misremembering" it as a black and white chapter book (I want to say it had a blue cover). I can "see" it clearly in my mind, with NO Goldenbooks logo but now I just don't know!
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I remembered another, my brother even remember this too. So around 2017 the local DVD rental place (that also has games) had WWE 2K17. Since that was the newest game at the time we decided to rent it to a few days. We played a few matches but the Royal Rumble is the only one that matters, we'll get to that later. A few months after that, we actually purchased the game and the whole car ride home me and my brother are planning our matches and we both agree how excited we are to play as Shinsuke Nakamura. He entered our RR but we didn't know who he was at the time so he didn't care that he was on the game. Finally we got home, busted the game open and prepared our match but there was one slight problem. Shinsuke Nakamura is NOT on the game. Ask me or my brother and we can tell you that he 100% entered our Royal Rumble match
I have another I remembered. Growing up, I lived on a large country estate since my dad got a job as a farmer there. For some reason I often remembered seeing a large water tower there once, but searching for it may times, even with my dad, through forests and fields, I never found it. On a large hill on the estate (which incidentally from a distance looks very like the Windows XP Bliss background) there was a large, wide, cylindrical concrete water tank just over 6ft tall in the middle of the field at the top of the hill there. I think that is what I remembered seeing from a distance through the trees in the forest nearby. I didn't see the tank up close for a long time so I think that is what I was mistaking for a larger water tower since there never actually was a large water tower on the estate when I lived there, just the water tank.
Post by zurgtheemperor on Feb 12, 2022 20:35:33 GMT
In Space Jam (the original one) I remembered there being a scene where Bugs and the others discuss what they're going to call their basketball team, where one of them comes up with the name Tune Squad. So when I saw the film for the first time in years, I was surprised the scene wasn't there.
When I was a little kid, I read a comic strip adaptation of Space Jam that was serialised in the Young Telegraph, a kids supplement with the newspaper "The Telegraph" before I saw the film (I didn't see it until years later), where the Toons do discuss what to name the team, so I think I just got muddled between the film and the comic.
I remember the scene involved Porky suggesting the name "The Wild Pigs" and Duffy suggesting something like "The Ducks". IIRC, Bugs made his jab at Disney's The Mighty Ducks here as well, instead of at Michael Jordan's house (Michael Jordan was the only human character to appear in the strip from what I saw). IIRC, it was Lola who came up with the name Tune Squad.
I got another that happened to me today. So I'm currently watching The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy (great show so far) and I remember during the first handful of episodes that I watched, which took place about 4 weeks ago, I remember seeing one that has the part which originated the "nobody is born cool" meme and thinking 'oh that's where that meme is from' but just today I was watching an episode which I'd never seen before (I'm watching them in order) and saw that part, in a different episode. I was confused so I looked it up to see if it was some sort of joke that happens throughout multiple episodes but nothing came up and I know I didn't watch the episode twice, HBO Max does have some episodes mixed up so I wouldn't be surprised if they accidentally placed the same episode in 2 seasons but I didn't recognize any other elements of the episode or the segment before it. Idk man I'm so confused right now
One that has haunted me my entire life was the changing of the name from totinos pizza bites to totinos pizza rolls. I swear this one is legit. Yet when i look it up, it always has been pizza rolls. NO IT HASNT. I literally remember seeing commercials on TV from totinos saying "we are changing to pizza rolls" and then seeing the new branding in stores. I vividly remember saying to myself that i didnt like the change. I even remember the logo and can provide a render.
Post by surrealkangaroo on Apr 9, 2022 3:42:47 GMT
I could of swore there was a Looney Tunes cartoon about Bugs being the conductor of an orchestra of the other characters. There was a running joke of Daffy trying to leave and Bugs hold him at gunpoint. I know this is the plot of a Disney cartoon (just swap Bugs and Daffy for Mickey and Donald) but I thought it was such a thing as one was a parody of the other, or Disney and WB teamed up to make a cartoon with the same plot.