# Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864 "2002-04-16T02:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 54
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1061 "2026-02-11T01:40:33Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There are a vast number of parallel universes, so in one of them _Big_ ends with Josh and Susan dying when a meteor smashes into them. Maybe, but no one here claims to have seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1062 "2026-02-11T01:47:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Maybe, but no one here claims to have seen it. Because in that universe Josh and Susan were dinosaurs and the movie was about the end of their species. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1063 "2026-02-11T02:21:13Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > in that universe Josh and Susan were dinosaurs The movie was called _Really, Really Big_. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1064 "2026-02-11T19:13:05Z")
We really are in the worst timeline. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1065 "2026-02-11T20:06:06Z")
Ever since the last election, I’ve been saying “I’m going to move… to the timeline that has the other ending to _Big._ I’ll bet there, the Bernie/Kamala Administration has fixed a lot of things.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1066 "2026-02-11T20:08:34Z")
Then you’ll have the Mandala Effect to deal with. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1067 "2026-02-11T20:21:03Z")
Where people swear there was only ever one ending to Big ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1068 "2026-02-11T22:52:43Z")
And we’ll still be at war with Eastasia. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1069 "2026-07-28T01:12:53Z")
I just saw this earlier today: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iAG2rS4FPCQ/maxresdefault.jpg "🤯 BRAND NEW MANDELA EFFECT... #mandelaeffect ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAG2rS4FPCQ) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1070 "2026-07-28T04:21:08Z")
The Backwards Ball Cap Guy has such a hard time believing that a half dozen people could be remembering something the wrong way. “But why does _everyone_ remember the nose ring?” he marvels, as he points to a whole FOUR people who said “Yes”. (And not even four experts, or historians… four people who chose to spend their free time chronicling their opinions on Reddit.) ps: the [Elmer’s Glue bull](https://www.google.com/search?q=elmer+the+glue+bull&num=10&newwindow=1&sca_esv=ff6ec8740fc8fc3e&udm=2&biw=955&bih=612&sxsrf=APpeQnsgcx9ki1Dc0nO5WmnQOKy6eAxTsg%3A1785212856347&ei=uC9oap_qFKeOruEPx5zRuAs&ved=0ahUKEwifppqRxPSVAxUnhysGHUdOFLcQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=elmer+the+glue+bull&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyITZWxtZXIgdGhlIGdsdWUgYnVsbDIIEAAYCBgeGApIhRVQwghYkhFwAXgAkAEAmAFOoAHRAqoBATW4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgagAvACwgIFEAAYgATCAgYQABgHGB7CAgQQABgewgIGEAAYHhgKwgIGEAAYCBgewgIKEAAYCBgHGB4YCpgDAIgGAZIHATagB58DsgcBNbgH5gLCBwUwLjUuMcgHEoAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-img) has a nose ring… (I just did more research in 30 seconds than that guy did) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864.md?page=53)