I was thinking about this thread, and poof it appeared! In a MPSIMS thread, I replied to someone’s “I have this memory, but found out it’s not true” post… well, here’s my whole reply, because it does apply to the latest “I vividly remember it happening”:
I saw the alternate ending to Big. Once. For 20 minutes. In 1960.
And yet the Mandels Effect crowd chooses to base their belief on someone who possibly thought Nelson Mandela was dead sometime in the 90s.
Whoa, I could have sworn it was called the “Mandela Effect”. Trippy…
Lines like this is why I’m glad they’ve never closed this thread. Well, that and the occasional drive-by who’s sure he saw the elusive “Kuala Lumpur Drive-In Theater Release” ending.
Besides, you’re thinking of the Mandelbaum Effect…
Clearly a tour bus of time-travelers went to the Big filming location and someone got out and accidentally changed the past.
We know which people were on the tour bus. They’re the ones who remember Big the way it was before the past got changed.
Sorry, typo, I meant the Howie Mandel effect.
Ah, ok. I thought you might have meant the Mandelbrot Effect, where you zoom in and see something that’s very similar to what you saw previously, but slightly different.
Do you know what the B. stands for in Benoit B. Mandelbrot? Benoit B. Mandelbrot…
He’s thefractals guy…
(in this timeline)
So, I ask David Moscow (Instagram) if there was an alternate ending, ando the answer is NO, this broke my heart, i was convinced that I ser that ending, I can ser in my head right now :’(
Welcome to the Straight Dope. So after 18 years sounds like we have the answer?
YES!!! I was waiting for this thread to be resurrected on our new board! Yes!!!
Hey, can you link us to the exchange? Or screenshot it and post it for us?
Oh, we’ve had the answer. Just nice to hear from someone in the movie, though.
Various people both in front of and behind the camera have talked about this, as has been mentioned here(and other threads on this subject).
But I’m sure the ending exists - David Moscow is probably suffering from reverse recovered memory syndrome. QAnon will get to the bottom of this, just you wait.
Maybe there never was an ending to Big and each of us has created memories of the ending in our minds.
I can’t upload images because im a New user, followme on Twitter and DMme so I send you the screenshots @P1nch3W3ba5
Yes, but not directly to us, which is nice. I’m aware as I have created both often-resurrected threads on this topic.
I’m pretty sure they are both sick of talking about it, and being accused of lying about it or misremembering it when they do so.
Please don’t upload pictures to the Straightdope. What we typically do is host elsewhere and just link to the hosted location. You can do that now in fact.
Who? Tom Hanks and David Moscow?
When has Tom Hanks been asked and answered about it? Penny Marshall discussed it once. Who else in the movie has?