# The Mandela Effect and Geena Davis in a Green Bikini **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179 "2020-03-24T14:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/1 "2020-03-24T14:54:37Z")
So late one night over the past weekend I was looking for something fluffy and innocuous to watch to take my mind off current events, and Amazon Prime had “Earth Girls are Easy” in their recommended movies. I’ve been on a bit of a nostalgic 80’s movie watching kick lately, so I thought, perfect. I had seen it back in the day, probably on VHS rented from Blockbuster Video, probably watched with my girlfriend at the time. I didn’t remember too much about it but I distinctly remembered Geena Davis spending a fair amount of the movie in a skimpy **GREEN bikini. Like, I could picture the image in my mind. But it turned out to be a skimpy PINK** bikini. Whoa, total [Mandela Effect](https://mandelaeffect.com/). For the record, I’m from a universe where it was always BerenSTAIN Bears, and Nelson Mandela never died in a South African jail. Anybody else have a “Mandela Effect” moment lately? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/2 "2020-03-24T15:07:22Z")
A few years ago, I started a thread on this board, asking to ID a show I had seen when I was a kid. It turned out to be an episode of _Outer Limits_. _Outer Limits_ was a black-and-white show. I had remembered the scenes in color. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/3 "2020-03-24T15:56:25Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > _Outer Limits_ was a black-and-white show. I had remembered the scenes in color. Good thing you stayed away from the _brown_ Capri Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/4 "2020-03-24T16:08:06Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > A few years ago, I started a thread on this board, asking to ID a show I had seen when I was a kid. It turned out to be an episode of _Outer Limits_. > > _Outer Limits_ was a black-and-white show. I had remembered the scenes in color. There was a reboot of the show in 1995 that was in color. Is that what you remember? ---
**Author:** ![MDfive21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@MDfive21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MDfive21)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/5 "2020-03-24T16:10:37Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > A few years ago, I started a thread on this board, asking to ID a show I had seen when I was a kid. It turned out to be an episode of _Outer Limits_. > > _Outer Limits_ was a black-and-white show. I had remembered the scenes in color. it was in both B&W and color. the original series from 1963 was in B&W, but there was a reboot from 1995 - 2002 in color. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/6 "2020-03-24T16:30:06Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Good thing you stayed away from the _brown_ Capri Sun. Wait, is that something from THIS timeline? Please? (Oh, that’s something we do; “Please” with a cocked head means “I don’t understand, can you go on?”) sorry, just a tourist here… ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/7 "2020-03-24T16:51:46Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Good thing you stayed away from the _brown_ Capri Sun. I was wondering about this myself. A reference to the advice to stay away from the brown acid at Woodstock? Then I check the quote and it turns out it was not spoken by Wavy Gravy, as many had thought (including me), but possibly someone named Chip Monk. [Urban Dictionary: brown acid](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown%20acid) So, maybe a clever Mandela Effect ref? Not sure about the Capri Sun part though. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/8 "2020-03-24T17:47:24Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > There was a reboot of the show in 1995 that was in color. Is that what you remember? > [@MDfive21](#): > > it was in both B&W and color. the original series from 1963 was in B&W, but there was a reboot from 1995 - 2002 in color. Nope. I was remembering an episode from the original show. It was broadcast in B&W. But, decades later, my brain colorized it. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/9 "2020-03-24T19:24:23Z")
Not recently but Ann Jillian definitely died of breast cancer which is why she fell off the face of the earth …but now she’s alive and well ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/10 "2020-03-24T20:25:13Z")
weird that people thought Mandela died in the 80s in prison since when he was released in 1990 that was a very big story . And then when he was elected president in 1994 that was also a big story. I guess people did not hear about those 2 events? Probably better called the Abe Vigoda effect since the media reported twice he was dead when he was not. He finally died in 2016 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/11 "2020-03-24T20:53:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I was wondering about this myself. A reference to the advice to stay away from the brown acid at Woodstock? Then I check the quote and it turns out it was not spoken by Wavy Gravy, as many had thought (including me), but possibly someone named Chip Monk. [Urban Dictionary: brown acid](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown%20acid) > > So, maybe a clever Mandela Effect ref? Not sure about the Capri Sun part though. I was just trying to replace the acid with something more appropriate to a child — especially one (I’m guessing) in the 1980-2000 timeframe — but I didn’t want to use Kool-Aid (due to its associations with cyanide/suicide). No, I won’t quit my day job… ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/12 "2020-03-24T22:27:44Z")
One person misremembering a thing isn’t the Mandela Effect. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/13 "2020-03-24T23:29:28Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > One person misremembering a thing isn’t the Mandela Effect. Aha! You failed the Voight-Kampff-Hanks test: 97% of people from your timeline say that exact thing! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/14 "2020-03-25T00:24:40Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > weird that people thought Mandela died in the 80s in prison since when he was released in 1990 that was a very big story . And then when he was elected president in 1994 that was also a big story. I guess people did not hear about those 2 events? > > Probably better called the Abe Vigoda effect since the media reported twice he was dead when he was not. He finally died in 2016 Are you Suuuuuuure? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/15 "2020-03-25T01:39:58Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > One person misremembering a thing isn’t the Mandela Effect. Agreed. The Mandela Effect is when a number of people all misremember an event in the similar way. The OP isn’t describing an example of the Mandela Effect unless he can show that other people also remember Geena Davis’ bikini being green. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/16 "2020-03-25T01:47:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The OP isn’t describing an example of the Mandela Effect unless he can show that other people also remember Geena Davis’ bikini being green. Of course he is now planting a memory of Geena Davis in that movie in a green bikini in more minds than his own. Some might forget the bit about it being wrong and just remember the green bikini. We might be witnessing the birth of a Mandela Effect example. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/17 "2020-03-25T01:56:14Z")
I’ve lived through: “All the planets are aligning” (on the same side as the sun) a couple of times. Also, St. Patty’s day is supposed to be on the 16th. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/18 "2020-03-25T02:34:22Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Of course he is now planting a memory of Geena Davis in that movie in a green bikini in more minds than his own. Some might forget the bit about it being wrong and just remember the green bikini. > > We might be witnessing the birth of a Mandela Effect example. Well, what if I say that I remember a \*topless \*Geena Davis in “Earth Girls”? Was it because of looser German morals in the 80s? 😉 (I keed, I keed!) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/19 "2020-03-25T12:06:11Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Of course he is now planting a memory of Geena Davis in that movie in a green bikini in more minds than his own. Some might forget the bit about it being wrong and just remember the green bikini. > > We might be witnessing the birth of a Mandela Effect example. Curses, you uncovered my secret evil plan 😉 > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Well, what if I say that I remember a \*topless \*Geena Davis in “Earth Girls”? Was it because of looser German morals in the 80s? 😉 > > (I keed, I keed!) Maybe that’s the European cut ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/20 "2020-03-25T14:10:47Z")
I refuse to believe that Ed McMahon didn’t carry big checks to peoples houses, nor did he work for Publisher’s Clearinghouse. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179.md?page=2)