What are your personal Mandela Effects? (or similar false memories?)

Kind of a minor one, but I remembered playing Road Runner's Death Valley Rally both on the SNES and on a port for the Gameboy. The latter never existed.

In RoboCop 2, I remember Murphy saying "Isn't this a school day?" when he walks into the arcade and sees a bunch of children, but the line is actually "Isn't this a school night?" Which, like, kinda makes less sense.

I somehow misremembered "Weird Al" Yankovic's name being spelled without the quotation marks. This is despite the fact that his name, with the quotation marks, is clearly displayed on all of his album covers... so I'm not really sure where I got that.

Looking at the list of DreamWorks Animation films and I was surprised to see they made the Trolls movies. Weirdly, I know I've known before that they were a DreamWorks property, but I guess I'd forgotten that fact so hard I began unconsciously assuming they were from one of the other big non-Disney American animation companies, like Illumination Entertainment or Sony Pictures Animation.

Speaking of Illumination, It always throws me off to remember the first Despicable Me came out in 2010 and not 2008. Why 2008 specifically I don't know, but there was a gap between it coming out (I never saw it in theaters) and my fifth grade class getting to watch it on DVD, which would have only been early 2011 at the latest; maybe my childhood perception of time made it feel like the gap was longer?

I thought the Madonna song "Into The Groove" was from 2000, but it's actually one of her 80s songs! It's probably because I used to hear that song in the car all the time on the way to my swim lessons in late 2000.

I thought "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez was from 2006 or 2007. It's actually from 2000!

I vaguely remember hearing "Hey Mama" by Black Eyed Peas on the school bus around June 2000. The song didn't come out until 2004! Either I'm confusing it for another song or just got the year mixed up.

Edited by AdventurousYak9234 on Nov 12th 2023 at 5:41:20 AM

I keep remembering entries of tropes that are similar and are examples in the wrong tropes so I keep thinking there is an entry that is missing from the wiki.

Like this entry.

• Kate Di Camillo's children's novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane was elevated to bestseller status in South Korea. This elevation was helped by the K-drama My Love From Another Star, in which an ageless Human Alien identifies with the book's protagonist.

I thought this was from Colbert Bump but its on Germans Love David Hasselhoff.

Thanks to Svengoolie, I'm finally seeing Empire of the Ants again since I was a kid. I remember in that one part, where the people were getting sprayed by the queen ant's pheromones, one of the main characters talked to the others in an eerie calm and hypnotized-sounding voice. For some reason, when I was a kid, I thought she said something to the others in a very bizarre and alien-sounding voice. And then when they were shocked by her sudden change, she crossly said to them "Hey, don't give me that stupid look just because I'm talking like an ant."

Edited by Demetrios on Nov 19th 2023 at 2:35:29 PM

I saw the above post and went "Great! Another troper aside from Demetrios that likes Svengoolie!" LOL!

I remembered Jack Frost driving off the edge of a cliff instead of crashing into a tree.

I could have sworn we already had The Shameless, which was apparently created yesterday, for a while.

Edited by StewieGriffin34 on Nov 29th 2023 at 1:28:28 PM

I misremembered the line "But I knew he was sad" from "Leader of the Pack" as "But I knew he was rad."

There's a whole thread on Gamefaqs right now about whether you can get hit by the Rose Town arrows in Super Mario RPG, as opposed to in the forest or the factory. False memories abound.

I thought that "Phi Slama Jama", the nickname for the 80s University of Houston basketball team that included among others Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, was spelled with two Ms in "Slama" (i.e. I thought it was "Phi Slamma Jama")

I could have sworn that Nightmare/eNeMe had a really high pitched, raspy voice in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. His voice actually sounds surprisingly like a normal person.

Not me, but my dad: he thinks there's a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in which Q tells Picard he's "acting like a counsellor" and then turns him into Deanna Troi.

I have clear memories of a scene in Catching Fire where Katniss is plotting her uprising and wonders if she should be designing a flag. But I just re-read those chapters and no such scene existed, unless I somehow missed it.

One of my mom's friends has a lot of these, typically relating to thinking that a song was by a different artist than it really was or thinking that a scene from one work was actually in a different work.

Today he told me about a scene he was sure happened in Deadpool about a boat that used to be a plane, but decided to become a boat after accidentally killing his pilot. This is actually from The Tick (2001), apparently.

I swear that I once saw a Warner Bros.-related cartoon (either an episode of Animaniacs or an old Looney Tunes short starring Pepe Le Pew) where, as a Freeze-Frame Bonus, the background briefly shows a store named "Daffy and Tweety's Bakery". Except there's no trace of it anywhere.

In the teaser trailer for 102 Dalmatians, I thought that the singers sang Cruella de Vil's name when she appeared. Nope, it's just more of "Atomic Dog". I must have stopped watching my VHS of The Tigger Movie very soon after I found out her name from my mom. (In fact, I know that I stopped watching it before I watched Toy Story 2, because if I didn't, I would have remembered more about the TV spot for the movie than just Woody falling off of Bullseye.)

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Jan 3rd 2024 at 2:20:04 AM

A Misattributed Song example from my mom's friend: He thought that the song "Fish Heads" was by Frank Zappa, and misremembered owning a Zappa album that had the song on it. It's actually by Barnes & Barnes.

In his defense, Zappa made a lot of novelty songs and other songs with absurd lyrics, so I can understand where he's coming from.

Related to Chicken Run, I "remembered" that Mrs. Tweedy was ground up by her own machine. Thus, when my older brother and I saw a compilation of DreamWorks Animation villain defeats, I was surprised to see her surviving.

I hadn't heard of that book until now. That said, it's possible that a scene from Dog's Life may have been responsible, since I had heard of that (never played it though)

Edited by KingofNightmares on Jan 4th 2024 at 2:53:42 AM

Maybe you're confusing it with the ending of Ratburger?

I for the longest time remembered Peppy's last name being "O'Hare" rather than just "Hare". I was probably thinking of the airport in Chicago and subconsciously connecting it with the idea of flying a spacecraft.

I keep thinking there's a sixth member of Mystery Inc that we've all collectively banished from our memory.

Maybe I'm thinking of the Mystery Machine. Or, for that matter, Scrappy.

I thought a friend loved Gengar so I started liking him and then found out he didnt love him like I thought he it.