I swear the version of ST:TMP I saw had the figures in the transporter accident merging with each other in addition to the cluster fuck we see.
I’m still amazed to learn (after several decades) that this was not a drug induced hallucination after all (even though I did not do hallucinogens).
There’s this scene I remember clearly from the It mini-series, and actually it’s probably the scene I remembered most clearly from seeing it on TV as a teenager: shortly after Stan kills himself, Ben is in the library and a red balloon floats by, with a message attached to it. The message says “I’m Sorry” and Ben realize that it’s from Stan.
But I rewatched the mini-series for the first time last year, and this scene doesn’t exist.
Since we’re also just discussing movie/TV stuff we really remember, but can’t fine, I’ll add one of those.
I remember very distinctly a sci-fi TV show episode where there is this kid who is bullied at school. I remember him always being picked last at basketball, and being laughed at by girls. Then one day he’s in gym again, and he makes some sarcastic remark, and everyone just does what he says, literally. Later, he’s at his house, and the girl who made fun of him appears, wrapped only in a towel or cloak, and exposes herself (as the camera cuts so we don’t see anything, of course). He asks why or something, and she she reveals everyone is there, wearing a robe, and are there to do his bidding.
After we come back from break, I’m nearly certain it turns out to be part of this show called Painkiller Jane on the Sci-fi channel. And this kid is a “Neuro,” someone who had this experimental chip implanted in his brain that gives people weird powers. The main character and crew go out to find him, and find a town taken over, with him getting to their head. And there’s a whole lot of trying to keep people from being affected by the Neuro, but our main character is never affected.
(And, yes, I know this is starting to sound like a certain Marvel TV show, but I’ve been looking for this since before that show, and I’ve never read the comics.)
But when I go to the show’s page on Wikipedia, I can’t find this episode. Episode 12 is the only one that sounds close, but I skimmed the entire episode and the opening scene stuff, which is burnt into my brain, in it, even elsewhere. And the bad guy of the week is not this kid.
I do wonder if I conflated two shows, but that opening scene has to be out there, somewhere. If anyone is interested in the puzzle, I’ll also add that I often misremember the name of the show as “Firestarter,” which might be relevant.
All the stories about the Mandela Effect are nonsense, of course.
Except for the movie* Interview with A Vampire.* It was always titled Interview with A Vampire! The whole* Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles* is a gigantic hoax the whole internet is playing on me. Admit it. ADMIT IT!!
I get that one; I didn’t know it was one having not made the mistake myself, but I get it: “with” gets run into “the” so “with a” and “with the” sound almost the same. Like when people say “Brussel sprouts” (or “skim milk”, I guess). But it’s always been “the”, I’m afraid!
I’d say that, if this was an actual memory error instead of a giant conspiracy, which is not, but if it was, the problem would be that the movie shows several vampires, not just “the” one, and therefore the title makes no sense.
If I was ‘the boy’, then I’d probably think of my encounter with Louis as interviewing “the” vampire, as there’s only one of them actually there in that part of the story - the others are the focus of the interview. You’re right, it could be “a” Vampire, but “the” is a bit more striking and intriguing, a bit less obvious a use of language. There’s one vampire present, the vampire is interviewed. I don’t think that can really be said to make no sense…
I gotta wake my kid up for school damnit! I don’t have time to sit here saying “skimilk”, or “brussullsprouts” over and over again.
6,500 is the figure I remember from watching CNN nine hours after the attack.
I have a couple of these; one involving Mission Impossible (The TV Series), and the other involving Starsky and Hutch.
I have a very clear memory of watching MI as a kid and seeing an episode where they infiltrated the office of a despot of some small European country on the pretext of painting his portrait. They got an actual artist to paint the portrait, and then covered it with a white coating, and then disguised solvent as paint, so that someone could pretend to paint the portrait, and the solvent would dissolve the white coating and reveal the already finished portrait underneath. Now, in my memory, Barney (Greg Morris) was the pretend painter, but, after Steven Hill died, his obituary said that he was on Mission Impossible. My initial reaction was, “I don’t remember him on Mission Impossible.” My local library actually had DVD’s of the first season of MI, so I borrowed them specifically to look for Steven Hill. Not only was he in every episode of season 1, but, he was the pretend artist, not Barney (fun fact: Carrol O’Conner played the despot). I have several other memories from season one, but that’s the only one that specifically has something that Dan Briggs (Steven Hill’s character) did that got translated into something that one of the other characters did. I can only assume that, since Steven Hill was replaced by Peter Graves in the second season, that I mentally rewrote that one scene with a character that I remembered better (because Barney was in every season?).
I also remember seeing an episode of Starsky and Hutch that, it seems to me, was a cliff-hanger episode at the end of their last season, but, since it ended up being the last season, it never got resolved. It seemed really odd to me that they never arrested the criminal mastermind… The episode was about a sniper who killed some important government official from across the street, but the heroes were able to arrest him before he got away. When they tried to determine motive, though, the guy claimed complete innocence (fingerprints on the gun, GSR on his hands, etc., notwithstanding). His fingerprints didn’t match anything in police or military records. The apartment building he claimed to live in had just been finished and hadn’t opened for business yet. Eventually, they came to the conclusion that someone had picked this guy out, wiped his mind, set him up to be the assassin, and also left a post-hypnotic suggestion to forget all of it after the deed was done. In other words, he’s not the bad guy (even though he pulled the trigger), he’s just a puppet. Feeling a little reminiscent, recently, (perhaps because of watching the entire first season of Mission Impossible) I was able to borrow the DVD’s for the first two seasons of Simon & Simon. I was very surprised to find that exact plot-line in one of the season two episodes. Then I read the plot summary of the last episode of Starsky and Hutch on IMDB; not even close. I went back through the last season; nope, nothing like that. Apparently my mind translated the plotline from one show to another, simply because they both had “and” in the middle of the title.
I saw the movie 36 Hours when I was in fifth or sixth grade, and for years I remembered Arthur Hill (the guy who played “Owen Marshall, Attorney at Law”) as the head Nazi who messes with James Garner’s mind.
Imagine my amazement watching the movie for the first time in almost 50 years to find he was actually played by Rod Taylor! :eek: :smack:
I shot him dancing with a few other dancers in 2002 on an episode of “Rosie”.
I’m a huge fan, and as I was packing up he walked by and I engaged him. A lovely gentle fellow, I asked him how he was feeling. He told me about his near-death accidents.
He was hit by a car while walking at night on the PCH. As he was working on building his strength up after recovering from the many broken bones, he was riding his bicycle. And was struck by a car.
He said that getting up and dancing every single day was the thing that was keeping him alive.
I’ve met and spoken with a shitload of “celebrities”. This encounter is wayyy up there.
Me and my father were both convinced that at the end of The Godfather Part 2 a certain somebody dies when he goes out fishing and his boat explodes from a pre-planted bomb. Upon rewatching the movie today I saw he simply gets shot but if you had asked me yesterday I would have said he exploded and I’ve seen that movie about 20 times in my life.
Any child of the Seventies knows that in a certain Life cereal commercial the little boys were arguing “I’m not going to try it…*You *try it!”
Then one boy said “Let’s get Mikey…he’ll eat anything”
Except, when you view the YouTube videos of the same commercial today it’s clear that the boy says “he hates everything”
Clearly there is a conspiracy going on, and they have already doctored that video on YouTube 
But everybody knows that Mikey died from mixing pop rocks with Coke
I’m a child of the 80s, but I remember the commercial. That “he hates everything” was the whole point!
Both make sense–“give it to him because he hates everything, so if it’s good enough for him to actually like it then we will love it” and “give it to him because he will eat anything without putting up a fuss, then we can ask how it tastes”
I can’t dispute that he really did say “he hates everything” but it is sure amazing how many people from the Seventies remember the wrong phrase just like me.
As an aside, the other day I caught my daughter saying we ought to buy some Jiffy peanut butter–there is no such thing, but just like the Mikey thing there is a huge segment of the American population who believe Jiffy exists (Jif and Skippy do, but not Jiffy).
A weirdly compounded glitch in The Matrix: in the final episode of seminal 90s British 20-something drama This Life, Warren walks in to the wedding reception, sees the fight in progress, raises a glass and says “Outstanding.” Brilliantly judged comic nonchalance. “Outstanding,” thus delivered, became my little catchphrase. Still is.
I watched it again, years later, and was horrified to realise he actually said “Tremendous”. It was so jarring…it was like hearing “To go or not to go” or “Jeff, Jeff, wherefore art thou Jeff?” How could this be?! I remember being stunned by it. Being disappointed. “Tremendous” started to worm its way in where I used to say “outstanding”.
YouTubed it a few minutes back: he says “Outstanding.” Where the hell did I get “tremendous”?!
That’s your Quantum Leap moment.