You might have seen the episode of South Park “Crack Baby Athletic Association”, in which at one point Cartman dresses as a Southern plantation owner and tries to get advice from the University of Colorado on how to avoid having to pay compensation to “slaves”.
Here’s the thing- I would have bet a small expendable body part that Cartman said something similar to the following: “Evah since the War of Northern Aggression, we have fallen upon hard times sir; hard times”. Yet the YouTube clips of that scene have no such dialog. Have the clips been edited, was it someone else somewhere else who said something similar, or have I completely imagined the whole thing? Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
Well, it does sound like something Cartman would say if he was pretending to be some sort of ex-Confederate.
Googling doesn’t come up with anything for that- even searching for “since the war of northern agression we have fallen upon hard times” only comes up with your post.
I got another one. I watched The Cube (original film) on cable, late 90’s. Most of it remains pretty memorable, if silly in the end analysis. I clearly recall the guy who played Nick Knight in Forever Knight as the cop who goes insane and starts trying to kill everybody, Geraint Wyn Davies.
I idly surf to the Wikipedia page for the film today, casually look down the list of characters-and he is nowhere to be found. Instead there is a guy who looks nothing like him in the role that until now I don’t recall seeing in anything, Maurice Dean Wint. Note today is the first time I recall seeing his name, so my apparent confusion has nothing to do with the fact that both have 3 word names, and one of the names for each are kind of similar. Kicker is that it was an all-Canadian cast, and Davies is indeed Canadian. I do clearly recall Nicole DeBoer note.
I just had something like this happen to me the other day.
I distinctly remember the song “Gaston” from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast included the lines: No one drinks like Gaston No one thinks like Gaston And no one incredibly stinks like Gaston
(Or something along those lines)
It hit me that the last line is probably a reference to the old stereotype that French people don’t bathe, and I was getting ready to post that in the “Obvious things about a creative work you just realized” thread. But when I tried to search for the exact lyrics to make sure I got them right, none of the lyric sites, nor any of the clips I could find on YouTube, included those lines.
And I found references online to other people remembering those lines, so it’s not just me misremembering.
I’m not entirely sure if this is a case of the Mandela Effect, or a case of Disney editing the movie for later releases. I could imagine that Disney might have decided that they didn’t want a reference to drinking in the song, or a reference to an offensive stereotype about French people, for that matter.
Or, it could be one of the many joke versions of that song floating around
That sounds suspiciously familiar, and I have never watched South Park. My mind wants to say that it’s from Carol Burnett’s “Gone With the Wind” satire.
Got one today…the video of Robert Palmer’s “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On”, a cover of Stephanie Mills original version…featured him just walking through a party looking cool and maybe a tad sheepish.
Nope…Cherelle did the original version and I cant find a video other then a version similar to Addicted to Love and Simply Irresistable.
Now, Cherrelle I’m willing to chalk up to misremembering, but I KNOW there was a version of the video I remember.
Those lines seemed really familiar. I was wracking my brain trying to remember where. Then I got it: “There is Nothing Like a Dame”, from South Pacific:
“There are no books like a dame
And nothin’ looks like a dame.
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothin’ thinks like a dame.
Nothin’ acts like a dame
Or attracts like a dame.”
Ah, the Mandela effect, or as I call it, the Steve Biko effect.
Most of these are misremembered lyrics and quotes from movies and songs because over the years parodies have contextualised quotes and the parodies are long lost (“Luke, I am your father” works in a parody much better than “No, I am your father” because otherwise you have to explain that it is Darth Vadar saying it). Then, as usual, a piece of internet whimsy is weaponised by the insane.
