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

Let me be more specific about something I posted on the first page. In the Arthur episode "Bleep", instead of Mary Moo Cow jumping over the moon towards the camera and cracking an egg, I thought that she, or a different cow, jumped in a different direction, and that this was followed by an anthropomorphic chicken appearing, looking around in confusion, and cracking an egg.

Now, here are some more false memories I had about this episode:

After the first time I watched it, where I didn't catch onto the plot or the meaning of bleeps at all, I thought that D.W. imagined everything breaking for no reason. Because of this, I falsely remembered Nadine saying, "What if…" with the rest being inaudible as the fantasy sequence began. After I knew what the bleeps were for, I thought D.W. did a much louder inhale with no pause between that and the bleeped word.

At the end of the episode, a couple lines are, "Well? Did you say it to 'em?" and "What in [BLEEP] did they do when you did?" But I falsely remembered them as, "So, did you [BLEEP] tell them?" and "What happened [BLEEP] when you did?", respectively.

After the first time I saw the cold opening, I remembered the scene with The Altos as having them making noises of disgust with the guy pushing the bleep button to tell them to stop. I thought this happened twice in a row, which made me think that the bleep sound served a similar function as a director shouting "Cut!". After I caught on to what bleeps mean, I thought that the following scene had more than one character saying bleeped words in anger. In the actual episode, it's only Francine, and she's not even swearing.

Near the end of the opening, Arthur says, "And best of all, the bleep could be used when your mom and dad are going to visit your school, and…", only to be interrupted by a long bleep. I misremembered this line as, "And, it could also be used when your parents are coming home from work and…"

I misremembered the bleeped word that D.W. learns as having three syllables instead of two. I also thought the teenager and his mom were having an Argument of Contradictions, which made me think that the bleeped, one-word sentence was a synonym for whatever short sentence I thought the teen had already said. These two things, along with the second misremembered line at the end of the episode, gave me weird perceptions of swearing for years to come.

I also thought that the bleep itself was the normal 1000 Hz tone. It is actually a lower pitch. In fact, it's the same pitch that was used for "A Boy Named Sue".

I misremembered this Frozen (2013) fanfic as having a Flashback scene where a one-year-old Anna calls a four-year-old Elsa "Elsie". IDK why I thought that, since there was no such scene at all!

So I had a vivid memory of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, and I swear the beginning starts with Mike waking up in the morning, but when I got the DVD release nearly a decade later, it turns out it starts with him running on that giant hamster-wheel thing.

A few weeks ago, my dad misremembered the album cover of Polka Party! by "Weird Al" Yankovic as being an illustration as opposed to a photograph (worth a mention that he vaguely remembered what the album cover looked like, such as the fact that Al is wearing lederhosen, just that he was picturing an illustrated version of the cover instead). He might have been thinking of the cover of Al's self-titled album, which is a drawing.

I misremembered the "You Make Me Stab" song parody in "Everyday Routine" as being far more insulting to Engineer, such as calling him an "incompetent coward," along with the song having a speed and style similar to that of the Improbability song from Phineas and Ferb. I also remembered the Engineer killing the Spy afterwards, rather than the latter being crushed by a telephone pole like in the actual video.

My mom's effect was from Ghostbusters (1984) when the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man shows up, she thought one of the 'busters said "Okay, who thought of the marshmallow man?!"

So in the Arthur episode "Arthur's Baby", Arthur has a dream where he impulsively lapses into Baby Talk (which Francine claims will happen to him when Baby Kate is born) after getting hurt in the middle of a school football game and everybody laughs at him.

For some reason I always remembered what Arthur said that caused everybody to laugh at him as a calmly spoken "Uh...I think I have a boo-boo" instead of the more goofily delivered "Got an ouchie-boo-boo!".

^^ Maybe someone from The Real Spoofbusters said that.

I could have sworn that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom took place in South America instead of India. I've never watched the full movie, but I watched part of it about 10 years ago or so.

I thought they were called the Hapsburgs, not the Habsburgs.

I remembered listening to Britney Spears' "Lucky" as a kid and thinking the first verse went like this:

Early morning, she wakes up

(With a) Knock, knock, knock on the door

It took me a long time to realize there was no "With a" at the second line.

I thought for years that the first Haruhi Suzumiya novel was from late 2005, like a year before the anime adaptation began.

I realized it was way older than that when I was rereading my old anime magazines from when I was a middle schooler and I found the cover art from the first novel, completely out of context, smack dab in the middle of the mail section of a random issue. There was no explanation of who that girl was, she was just there to tell me "yes, the first Haruhi novel came out in 2003".

I keep having to remind myself that Bill Murray did not play William Riker, and that Leonard Nimoy did not direct Caddyshack.

Edited by Unicorndance on Mar 17th 2024 at 10:29:53 PM

Similar to what I mentioned here earlier about thinking there were Animated Outtakes for movies that don't actually have them, I thought there were more Pixar movies with outtakes than there really were. I didn't think all of their movies had outtakes, but I thought it was more than just A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc. that had them.

Some possible explanations for this:

• I may have been thinking of other instances of Animated Outtakes which weren't actually done by Pixar.
• I thought parts from teaser trailers, deleted scenes, and/or the Creative Closing Credits were outtakes, for whatever reason.
• Toy Story and The Incredibles really did have a few of their animation errors as DVD extras, though those weren't exactly "outtakes" in the typical sense.
• Just plain wishful thinking, even.

I thought until very recently that the backpack from Dora the Explorer was never referred to as a backpack, but rather a rucksack.

I remember an angry priest in Slash'EM summoning giant crabs.

I swear I watched an episode of children's TV show Numberjacks where the numberjacks find out there are an even number of people who need their hope so they just completely destroy those people (just like a poof of smoke and they're gone from existence). I was genuinely disturbed by that as a child, but looking back I probably either misremembered or just didn't fully realise what was happening. Or that show is just fucked up.

I've seen all the episodes and I don't recall that happening.

I misremembered Eda Clawthorne's first name being short for Edith, when it's actually short for Edalyn.

It might have something to do with her sister being named Lilith, but I also have a feeling that it was simply because Edith is just a more common name. Or maybe it's both.

In the Young Sheldon episode "An Entrepeneurist And A Swat On The Bottom" after Sheldon gets spanked and Mary says she's going to call Meemaw to discuss it, I thought Missy had said "You're not going to give her a standing ovation?" She actually says "You're not going to thank her in person?"

Nintendo Power ran for 285 issues. I thought it was less than that.

Issue 250 was the first one I ever got. If there were 35 more issues, then that means the magazine ran for almost three more years. I thought I remembered it being shorter than that. Maybe we cancelled my subscription at some point before then.

In Beauty and the Beast, I aways thought the Bimbettes' line about Gaston in "Belle (Little Town)" was "He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome prince!" (the actual word is "brute").

I thought Art Lean from the Mortal Kombat movie was also named Johnny Cage.

I keep having to remind myself that the girl from Charlotte's Web is named Fern, not Lisa.

I swear I remember Garfield's teddy bear being named Pookins, not Pooky.